New GE/GM foods book: Jeffrey Smith's Genetic Roulette

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Spilling the Beans, March

2007

 

 

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Composite Book Review

 

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of

Genetically Engineered Foods

 

Author: Jeffrey M. Smith

 

Publisher: Yes! Books, www.GeneticRoulette.com;

hardcover; 336 pages; $27.95

 

In his foreword to Genetic Roulette, former UK government

environment minister Michael Meacher says, "This is the

authentic book on genetic modification that the world has been waiting

for. . . . The case presented is absolutely a smoking shotgun that

should stop in its tracks any dabbling with GM foods, whether by

individual families, food companies, or indeed nations."

Best-selling author John Robbins says, "Genetic Roulette is

dynamite. It totally explodes the complacency and apathy that has been

allowing genetically engineered foods to creep into our food supply."

And GMO experts Arpad Pusztai and Susan Bardocz write, "Jeffrey

Smith's Genetic Roulette destroys the myth that genetically

modified organisms are safe and will give sleepless nights to

uncritical supporters of GMOs. . . . It is a real treasure and the

most important GMO source book for policy makers, scientists, and the

public."

 

According to Molecules of Emotion author Candace Pert,

PhD, Genetic Roulette's author "Jeffrey Smith is the

leading world expert in the understanding and communication of the

health issues surrounding genetically modified foods." Indeed, his

first book Seeds of Deception became the #1 rated and

best-selling book on GMOs. Seeds made a huge impact and is

credited with influencing legislation and changing the global debate

on the subject. Now, in Genetic Roulette, Smith has answered

the human health risk question as he calls for an immediate ban on GM

product by consumers and governments.

 

65 dangers at a glance read easily across two-page spreads

 

Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life and professor

emeritus of Nutrition and Education at Columbia University, says

Genetic Roulette is "remarkably thorough, well-written,

brilliantly designed, and deeply disturbing." She urges people to,

"Read this book, or skim it-a feat the author has enabled with a

format that allows for scanning or thorough reading." The format

Gussow describes consists of 65 two-page spreads, each dedicated to a

different adverse finding or theoretical risk of GM foods. The left

side's executive summary offers knowledge at a glance. Flip through

the pages in a few minutes and you will be struck by reports of

hundreds of people with toxic or allergic reactions, thousands of

sick, sterile or dead animals, and countless ways in which GM foods

are inherently dangerous and virtually untested.

 

Read the detailed explanations on the right side, to learn that

lab animals fed GM soy had altered sperm cells and embryos, and a

five-fold increase in infant mortality, or that genes might transfer

from GM corn to turn your intestinal bacteria into living pesticide

factories-for the long-term. These and other meticulously documented

revelations shred the baseless arguments used by the biotech industry

to defend their products.

 

Masterful recipe for decision-making

 

Cancer Prevention Coalition chairman Samuel Epstein, MD,

describes the book as "The most comprehensive, well-documented and

highly readable exposé on the serious health dangers of GM foods."

Meacher says, "What has long been needed is not more polemic, but

the facts, the unvarnished detail that provides the evidence on which

people can make up their own minds. This book is it." In fact, it

presents a masterful recipe for decision-making; the 65 two-page

spreads offer a kind of safety checklist-risks and findings that

must be responded to. Pediatrician and author Alan Greene of

DrGreene.com says, "We ought either to satisfy ourselves with solid

scientific answers to the concerns clearly laid out in Genetic

Roulette-or we should change the way we eat."

 

The book sounds the alarm with parents and schools

 

The book explains why children and newborns are most at risk from

potential allergens, toxins, and nutritional problems associated with

GM foods. Jordan Rubin, best-selling author of The Maker's

Diet, says, "As a health educator and parent of a young child, I

will do everything within my power to keep these dangerous genetically

modified foods out of the cupboards and refrigerators and off of the

kitchen tables of those I care about. The best way I can do that is to

strongly recommend the book." Robyn O'Brien, founder of

AllergyKids and mother of four, says "The health risks associated

with these new foods have the potential to impact every child in

America-not just those with food allergies." She says the book is

a "must read" for parents. And Dr. Richard Beall, director of the

Carolina International School, says, "I urge school administrators

to read Genetic Roulette and take preventive action to protect

the long-term health of your students."

 

Genetic Roulette hits mainstream influence and

may force GM food bans

 

Beginning in April 2007, organizations around the world will

present Genetic Roulette to government officials as evidence

that GM foods are unsafe and need to be banned immediately. The

prominence of U.S. Senator Jon Tester's supporting quote on the back

cover indicates that Smith is aiming for decision makers at the

highest level. Meacher says, "I believe it will inspire

leaders in many different arenas to take action."

 

Officials can't simply use the excuse that their national

regulatory agencies ensure GM food safety, because part two of

Genetic Roulette shows just the opposite. Government assessments

are not competent to even identify most of the potential health

problems. Furthermore, part 3 exposes in great detail how GM food

producers rig their studies in order to avoid showing problems. And

part four dismantles the "feed the world' argument as baseless PR

hype.

 

Frances Moore Lappé, author of Democracy's Edge and

Diet for a Small Planet, says thanks to Smith's "tireless

investigations, we need wonder no longer why corporations spreading

GMOs are so secretive, why they've spent hundreds of millions to

keep us from even knowing which foods contain GMOs. They don't want

us to examine the shoddy science, the suppressed evidence, and, most

of all, the real health risks that GMOs present."

 

Meacher writes, "Jeffrey Smith is one of the great campaigners

of our age, a relentless pursuer of the truth, a fearless advocate in

the corporate world of secret influence, and a ceaseless promoter of

the public interest across the world. He is the modern David against

the GM Goliath. This book may well provide the slingshot to change the

global course of events this century."

 

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"I used to test for soy allergies all the time, but now that

soy is genetically engineered, it is so dangerous that I tell people

never to eat it-unless it says organic. Genetic Roulette

tells you why you must avoid genetically engineered foods to stay

healthy."

 

-John H. Boyles, MD, ear, nose, and throat, and

allergy specialist

 

"When I worked at Monsanto, I warned both scientists and

executives that our GM foods may cause disease, but no one was even

willing to listen, let alone investigate the unpredicted side effects.

For them, it was all about profit. Now our whole population is

threatened by the serious dangers described in Genetic

Roulette."

 

-Kirk J. Azevedo, DC

 

Genetic Roulette will be available starting in April 2007.

Pre-orders placed in March at www.GeneticRoulette.com will

have free shipping. The official publication of the book will take

place in June, in conjunction with a major consumer education campaign

to be announced shortly.

 

 

Spilling the Beans is a monthly column available at www.responsibletechnology.org. The website also

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The Institute for Responsible Technology is working to end the

genetic engineering of our food supply and the outdoor release of GM

crops. We warmly welcome your donations and support.

 

Go to www.responsibletechnology.org or click here if you'd like to make a

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(see www.GMOTrilogy.com).

 

 

© copyright Jeffrey M. Smith 2007

 

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