GMO Food Poison Handbook: 'Genetically-Modified' Agriculture and Animals Paperback – May 21, 2014

This is an important book. It is not a comforting read. This is not about the gradual natural, 'Mendelian' genetic selection practiced in agriculture by our great grandparents and their forerunners in many civilizations around the World for millennia. The subject goes to the very foundation of the lucrative and increasingly common practice of development, production and use of genetically modified plants and animals, which form a ever-widening foundation of big agricultural and animal husbandry companies.The author, Charles Sutherland, does a great service to us all by systemically and logically reviewing the myriad of serious health implications of GMO products for our people and planet in ways both large and small. The author has a bias to be sure, but it is an informed and educated bias: he is uncompromising in his advocacy for healthy food products for consumption by people and in expressing his concern for the serious potential risks and hazards to the environment occasioned by use genetically modified plants and animals. This book too is a jeremiad, but one which cannot be dismissed. Mr. Sutherland has painstakingly collected and summarized world class research from inside and outside of the United States. His compendium reminds us that many ethical and brilliant persons around the world have serious, scientifically well founded concerns and reservations about the real and potential inherent dangers to human health and to the environment from the proliferation of genetically modified plants and animals. After reading large portions of this valuable reference, I disagree somewhat with the author, but only to the extent that I would conclude that there is not a substantive body of scientific literature - yet - which clearly demonstrates concrete causal links between actual, direct harms to human health and GMO's. But while there is not a substantive body of research in regard to actual harms to human health in my judgment, there is a substantive body of research which the author presents, which gives one great cause to be concerned about the potential risks and harms to human health associated from proliferation of GMO crops and animals. Indeed, as Mr. Sutherland points out, the environmental harms directly related to increasing use of GMOs are already manifesting in ways large and small that are bad for our environment, bad for animals and overall toxic for the environment (with ominous negative implications for human health!). One need read no further than the portions of the GMO Food Poison Handbook dealing with the deleterious environmental effects of the chemical "glyphosate," which is used in increasingly heavy concentrations sprayed on crops genetically modified to survive the herbicide "Roundup." Even incredibly miniscule trace amounts of this chemical have been shown to have negative effects on animals in studies, with the implications for human health being frightening (but uncertain only in just how bad it will prove to be). Then there is the manifestation of increasingly pesticide resistant insects and herbicide resistant weeds, with ominous implications for farmers and with demonstrated harm to the environment... well, read this book and you will understand better.I am now convinced by Charles Sutherland that the case is well made and the evidence is in for a moratorium on GMO's; and for honest, government mandated labeling; and for systemic, publicly funded studies of a broad and longitudinal nature to better understand the actual and potential harms and risks to our food supply and environment. Public awareness is the only avenue that seems successful in slowing down the proliferation of GMO'. We can no longer afford to ignore the real and potential consequences of the effect these decisions have on us now and twenty years from now. This a great reference tool and informative. I almost wish I hadn't read it, but the evidence presented and questions raised can't be ignored.

At last, a reference guide on GMO for the concerned consumer who at a minimum has become cautious about eating foods derived from genetically modified organisms. This GMO Food Poison Handbook was compiled by Charles Sutherland and establishes a marker in an area where the breadth of the research does not reflect the importance of the issue -- food and environmental quality and the health and survival of all living things.Mr. Sutherland has done the best job of anyone to date in providing us with a guide to the known and potential dangers from GMO agricultural practices and GMO foods. This was clearly a labor of love by the author/compiler.From the outset the now multi-billion dollar GMO industry had major investors and benefactors. Ever since the Rockefeller Foundation and Monsanto joined together to launch research trials of genetically modified organisms in order to 'feed the world,' and then brought in US AID as the US government partner, there has been a certain inevitability that GMO agriculture will advance. Agchem and biotech companies were already wealthy and powerful at the time they told their shareholders that future profits needing the laboratory development of seeds and control of the world's food supply with new seeds that they could patent. The Handbook gives us the data on just how much profit Monsanto and others are making from food they created in the laboratory.The GMO Food Poison Handbook's reference material awakens us to the disdain the profiteers of the GMO industry have for the well-being of anyone except, well, themselves. A reader has only to open up to a page and read any passage to realize that this little handbook is very important, because it is essential to be informed. For example, "EPA standards allow glyphosate in America's water levels to be 7,000 times greater than what European tests show is even safe for animals to consume without causing liver damage...let alone humans."Mr. Sutherland's gem will be my Christmas gift to a number of people I care the most about, starting with my children, the key consuming age group of today and tomorrow. The defense against The USDA and US FDA's untenable policy to keep the public ignorantly eating poisons and increase ag bio-chemical industry profits is with our food choices, our wallets, our knowledge, and then grassroots political action.Mr. Sutherland has made an important contribution to the movement for healthy food and the decrease in GMO ag and company profits by putting needed information and resources in our hands. The nationwide pro-food, anti-GMO movement underway state by state to require that the GMO foods we are being sold are labeled as GMO is benefiting from the information in the Handbook.

Plenty of facts about the poison we’re being fed.

Mary Leone KottkeUniversity research studies in the US now reveal that Ethanol is a more dangerous pollutant to the air we breathe than gasoline! Why? Because the corn used to produce Ethanol contains all the poisonous GMO toxins.Medical research now reveals that once you eat GMO produced foods the poisonous proteins they contain remain inside of your body - and grow and multiply!These are some of the disturbing revelations in this book. This explosive book documents agreement by research scientists and medical doctors from around the world that GMO crops poison us from the cradle to the grave. Worse! They poison us BEFORE the cradle! Canadian scientists have revealed that GMO toxins in pregnant mothers are in the fetal cords and in the embryos!As the author explains, "GMO crops were scientifically created to be poisonous and to absorb poison." The purpose is to kill the pests that eat the crops. But now we, and the farm animals, eat these poison-filled crops. This explains why Monsanto and the other GMO companies have spent millions of dollars to try to prevent state and local governments from labeling the contents of their "food."If this book were a sci-fi novel, it would not be believable. But now scientists across the globe...including leading scientists in the US...tell us this incredible nightmare is true.Every mother should have this book. And, as the author says, "If you eat, you will want to read this book." Take my word for it, you should!