Health is the Tipping Point to Identify and Eliminate GMOs

Published on Saturday, March 13, 2010 by CommonDreams.org

by Olga Bonfiglio

 

Are Americans willing to jeopardize their health with GMO foods? 

Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You Are Eating (2003), is convinced that they are not, so he started the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, which calls for the elimination of GMO foods altogether.   

He spoke recently at the annual Michigan Organic Farm and Food Association conference held at Michigan State University and provided participants with resources and inspiration for joining the movement to eliminate genetically-engineered (GM) foods. 

Smith figures that it will take only 15 million Americans or 5 percent of the population, to pressure food companies not to use GMO ingredients or products and thus establish a tipping point for change.   
Potential target audiences receptive to his message include food co-ops, health-conscious shoppers, schools, parents of young children, medical practitioners, green groups, chefs, food service executives.  Meanwhile, physicians are already telling their patients to avoid GMOs and religious organizations are looking into the ethical and spiritual aspects of food production, he said.

"When people see what is going on, they realize that it's bad," said Smith.  "We want to take that energy and turn it into effective action instead of feeling like victims.  We want people to say to themselves:  ‘I determine what food I eat.'"  READ MORE