Fw: GM & Drugged Bananas

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Please forward this to everyone you know:A customer I know personally, wrote to

Power Bar inquiring if their health food product contained organic soy or

Genetically Modified (GM) soy. They markettheir product as a health food, yet

read their reply:Dear sir,Thank you for contacting PowerBar on the Internet. We

welcomequestions and comments from consumers and appreciate your

inquiryregarding genetically modified ingredients.PowerBar uses ingredients

that meet our high quality standards andare in full compliance with U.S.

government regulations. Geneticallymodified (GM) crops grown in the US have

been reviewed extensively bythe FDA, USDA and EPA, who have determined that GM

crops are as safeas their conventional counterparts. Because the use of GM

crops doesnot affect the safety or quality of the ingredients made from them,we

do not require that our suppliers specify the origin of the cropsthey use.Thank

you again for contacting us. We appreciate your use of ourproducts and hope

that you visit our web site often.Sincerely,PowerBar Consumer

Relations<<Hogwash. Read the other side of the story, and feel free to

distribute this entire email to all you know and care about "I seem to have

discovered the reason for there being 'no data to suggest that GM foods may be

dangerous' - the reason is that there is no data. fullstop! " Read the rest of

this story at: http://www.rense.com/general3/crops.htm"The alleged benefits of

GM crops are not based on independent studies and there is hardly any research

on the long-term environmental risks." Read

story:http://www.rense.com/general6/gmunknown.htm"From pizza to chips, soda to

infant formula, ice cream to cookies, vitamins to candies, genetically

engineered organisms are in the foods we feed our kids every day. Virtually

every food you can think of is in the genetically engineered pipeline. And

coming soon . . . rat genes in your lettuce, cows that make human milk, and

bananas with vaccines." -- Dr. John Hagelin"

See:http://www.rense.com/general6/gmperild.htm"Biotechnology industry

consultant Chris Klose says the big biotechnology companies are not treating

consumer concerns about genetic modification seriously enough.' SEE

http://www.rense.com/general5/exp.htm"The Kellogg Co. has been forced to shut

down production at one plant because the company could not find corn guaranteed

to be free of a genetically modified grain approved only for animal consumption,

food industry sources said yesterday. The shutdown was the most visible evidence

of the problems that have been confronting the U.S. food industry since

officials discovered that the genetically engineered corn had been widely

distributed throughout the country, industry officials said." SEE:

http://www.rense.com/general4/kel.htm"Up to now, this has not been a problem,

because almost all modifiedplants on the market have been food crops. But the

next generation ofmodified crops is going to be different. Biotech companies

dream of creating plants that produce everything from drugs and plastics to

biofuels. The predicament facing the food industry is that a banana containing

a potent drug is likely to look the same as the banana in your packed lunch"

SEE:http://www.rense.com/general4/taco.htmAND a friend who responded to this

information told me the following:"Important fact about genetically altered

food is that they get their genes from any source. You may thing you are eating

lettuce, but genes to prevent root rot nematodes may have come from an ABORTED

FETUS.Sad, but true, everything in this age is severely

polluted."MORE:http://www.rense.com/general4/taco.htmhttp://www.rense.com/general3/hepp.htmhttp://www.rense.com/general3/vird.htmhttp://www.rense.com/general/gmout.htm