“A growing number of researchers believe that genetically modified (GM) foods may be causing the allergy epidemic. These foods have been altered by technologies that insert foreign genes from other species into the DNA of the target species. The addition of these new genes causes the food plant or animal in question to produce new substances or behave in certain ways that offer benefits to farmers. A GM food may have been altered, for example, to resist a particular disease or pest, withstand applications of an otherwise harmful pesticide, stay fresh longer, or behave in a new way during processing.
Because the new genes in GM foods sometimes come from species to which people are commonly allergic or cause their new hosts to produce proteins similar to those to which many people are sensitive, scientists have been aware that GM foods could provoke allergies. And lately the evidence that they’re doing just that has been accumulating: Learn more from the Non-Toxic Times!
Until more is known, the Precautionary Principle clearly dictates that concerned consumers avoid GM foods. The best and indeed only way to do that is to eat organic foods as often as possible. By law, organic foods cannot be genetically modified nor contain GM ingredients.”
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