easy to how to avoid g m o and three how to stop g m o there was a study in canada where they found that ninety three percent of pregnant women had bt toxin in their blood bt talks in may have come into these people's bodies through milk and meat from animals for g m corn we don't know so if you want to avoid that that's a big deal because what are your three options as organic wild caught it's both fish and game and one hundred percent grass fed hoping that they haven't been fed g m alfalfa and if you have any other  then it's likely to have been for g m including farmed fish they feed g m soybeans so this is all of the decision stage where do we want to the cows would also be eating g m o foods and there's more plus in the milk more antibiotics more bovine growth hormone and more i g f one which is linked to cancer now think about it milk contains i g f one when we drink milk r i g f one increases that's regular milk there was about a ten percent increase in i g f one and one study a longitudinal study with two different groups if i recall correctly and i  high concentrations in premenopausal women is linked with a seven fold increase in the risk of breast cancer and high concentration in premenopausal women and i concentrations in men it's linked to a four fold increase in prostate cancer we were guess that there's only about twelve percent of the cows in the united states that are being injected with boba growth hormone of the dairy cows so it's not in huge concentrations but it does have a significant increase in i g f one so it may be ok for you not to worry about a little increase in the hormone if you don't drink a lot of it because if you're drinking regular milk that doesn't even have bovine growth hormone you drinking a lot of that you may get a bigger dose of i g f one and if you drink a small amount of care of milk from cows injected with bovine with on so that's an example you have to decide if that makes sense for you i don't actually know the numbers in terms of how much idea of one is out there because it ranges you know for months and the study said no nothing maybe eighty percent more but nothing and another one is like up to forty four increase we don't really know or twenty fold increase all right so now let's one more thing in terms of the animals that are  which is the active ingredient for rounder it makes nutrients unavailable to the plants and most of the animals that are fed in the united states eat roundup crops oil corn cut meal canola meal sugar but su the nutrients are deprived of those crops because that's what healthy that's what round up does it makes the nutrients unavailable so the animals are eating these nutrient deprived food they're deprived of nutrients with veterinarian sending the organs of these animals find the universal lack for example of manganese in some cases no detectable manganese these are important for metabolic processes when you end up starving an animal of these nutrients they get disorders of disease or you may be eating animals or have disorders of disease in the maybe raising feed ts which is another issue all right so that's some of the things you have to think about i think we've covered that enough let's talk about how what we actually do so the first line of defense is to buy organic now organic is always going to trust it always is for those of us seeking non g m o foods but it's never one hundred percent guarantee if it contains an ev risk and really because pollen does not read the signs so if you have eight organic corn chips it may contain a certain amount of g m corn it would probably be a tiny amount if something is labeled not g m o same thing you can't guarantee zero percent corn it's g m o in a corn brian in a corn chip so if you want to be i know someone who will not eat anything from corn because he doesn't want to anything in his body you have to decide what's what you're comfortable with but we say one of the ways to avoid g m o's is to buy organic now organic does not require testing for the presence of g m o so you can buy seed that says or again a call you don't have to always buy or get exceed if it's not available in your region for your product or your area you can buy non organic seed some of it will be contaminated most of the harvest it and put it into a seed storage and a seed storage unit you're supposed to make sure it's completely clean and document that maybe there was a mixing so anywhere along the line there might be some contamination you're not allowed to intentionally use occasionally it's tested in the fine contamination straus dairy found six percent of one of his feed suppliers corn was genetically engineered six percent which is quite high the others were not the others becoming so we got rid of that want to switched over and usually it's less than six percent of his contamination now they're getting standards were not made with g m o's in mind because g m o's have not been on the scene yet so it doesn't really address them in a way that's reflective of the commitment of organics to avoid g m o there is now a second verification program that's called the non g m o project how many people have heard of it on g m a project most people actually thirty five percent of the nodule project came in at a time to say ok we're going to have a universal standard for making non g m o claims up until that point you can find on jim up labels all over the place i think there's about twelve hundred claims other than the non human project in products sold  n whole foods twelve hundred different products it's a non g m o to some extent now what does it mean on g m o that's the question doesn't mean to the same doesn't mean the same thing from one company the next  m o fund and they don't ask any more questions some will do tests but the test will be very different they will have a test where the they will not allow anything above two percent contamination whereas someone else will be point one per contamination that's twenty four difference so it really has no uniformity and it doesn't give us a lot of confidence but it's the best that we had and so our recommendation was for years by products that say non g m o because they've designed their system to avoid g m o again they could have a tiny amount if something says not g m o project verified it's verified to meet the standard in the standard still has an action threshold of point nine percent for food and one point five percent for animal feed everyone's targeting zero but they can't say zero tolerance because it's not practical thirty three seed not g m o were tested thirty two of them had contamination small amounts but thirty two hundred thirty three so our shopping guide requires products to be enrolled in the non gmo project and you can find the products on our shopping guide on the nigel shopping guide dot com and the i phone application shop a new g m o you can find the company name and the products that have been unrolled and a little seal next to those that have been verified by the end of the year and we expect that to change so that those that have been enrolled but not verified the products will be listed just those that have been when i talk about the health dangers of g m o's i create a bit of a fanatic audience sometimes like as an all the time and not everyone's a fanatic but you know there's people who are what can i eat and so they'll pick up the shopping good which i don't have your you'll have a copy of it at the table at the end you pick up a shopping guide and i want to make sure that they can actually live with the food there is like yes you can eat two products enjoy both of them home  you can add water those are not g m o or you would cook up a different way know i had to be a little bit more than a little bit compassionate so our original shopping guide was the original shopper guide from greenpeace just asking companies do you avoid g m o's and so anyone that says they're void you mostly say fine you're in and then the project came and i said i cannot i cannot list all six of your products and that'll be it sorry you have to have more products on there because i don't want to freak people out and say fine here's your shopping list even foods that you know so when they had enough to actually be respectable we shifted over to the non g m o project and roll but most of them had been verified yet it was a new system now out of the fifty five hundred or more products that have been rolled there's about three thousand that have been verified so now there's enough for people to actually build a shopping list from so that's the second the second recommendation organic project verif and the third is just look at the shopping go the fourth is avoid the at risk and radiance and this is what i do all the time avoid the address can read it so if it's organic i don't worry about it personally but actually i don't want to be i don't want to hold myself up as a model tell you why it may be that tiny amounts of corn are deadly right so if you say oh jeffrey smith fine with eating little bit of organic a little bit of non organic corn it is organic stuff i mean i don't want to give you a recommendation to follow my advice in that sense but we do institutionally say buy organic so you have to make your own decision now in terms of organic get to be at risk and radiance of the minutemen eating out in restaurants and which restaurants are easy and what to say and what about the the blender and all that stuff there's four ways to find organic on a package and three of them are non g m o threw out the ingredients so it says one hundred percent organic on the front it's fine and organic on the front it means ninety five percent of the ingredients at least have to be organic but the other five percent have to be non g m o if it says made with organic soybeans are made with or again it can really and then at least seventy percent of the ingredients have to be organic but the all may be genetically modified because it's not the whole package which is bearing an organic label it's just that one item and you don't see the word organic anywhere else except in the ingredient list and so that word organic doesn't tell you about anything else in the list ok now there's another category which i don't talk about much and that is the and food processing components that maybe from genetically modified microorganisms kindness which is used in eighty percent of hard  comes is a genetically engineered and instead of using rennet which is from an animal now i chose not to focus on very consciously for a couple of reasons some of these products are not even listed on ingredient panels and they're very hard to identify which has and which doesn't and i have no idea of any information about the health dangers of these folks these little critters and i wanted to be practical for people to quit to eat and they created tipping point so my philosophy is inside back cover and not every single idea item in here always comes from a g m o cellulose i have no idea actually personally whether they always come from a g m o or occasionally and we've been wanting to get a food scientist to let us know but basically the easiest way to avoid g m o's is to buy less processed foods and that's when we go to what to do when going out to eat if you go to out to eat a new book you did a fast food restaurant and nearly everything you eat will be genetically modified except the lettuce and tomato ketchup will be genetically modified because it's all process and so you can end up with that same night a ten processed foods have some g m component maybe eighty to ninety percent is my guess so when you go out to eat you've got to go to place the cooked from scratch and you're aware that some crops or some things are visible and some things are cob it's not the same percentage it's genetically modified as all the field corn which is about eighty eight percent it's going to be a lot less and fact the cross pollination is per kernel so you can actually have a corn that comes from blended corn then it's certainly g m o you know corn syrup things like that so when you go to a restaurant you can avoid the visible at risk greetings just looking at the menu mostly can be g m o yellow quick squash can be g m o and papaya can be g m o if it's from hawaii but no other produce besides those three and the corn on the cob that's it the rest of the cotton see alfalfa which is used as hand sugar from sugar beet so what i do is i look for the two major invisibles the cooking oil and the salad dressing and again it's lower risk then the stuff that still has the d n a in the protein and you may choose not to touch not to worry about that because if you worry about that you can write off most chinese mexican in japanese restaurant india i'd say i can get away with about twenty maybe thirty percent of the indian food some of them used gave me one place i don't want to recently used olive oil in indian and sometimes you can go there and say can you cook mine from scratch now indian tends to prepare their sauces early in the day they cook them up and so sometimes you walk in and say sorry everything is pre prepared and so they or r b g h but still it's not the other one so it's an option for those that want so you have anything that you can cook in water or olive oil or no oil so when i go to the thai restaurants curries are usually cooked in coconut milk so they don't have any but some stir fry first so i would say twenty to thirty twenty percent of the thai places that i go to i can't eat anything so i don't go there because everything is add olive oil or butter if they want to do something now with olive oil if they say olive moralist makes mediterranean really easy you know the got the greek italian middle eastern turkish they love cooking in olive oil but some of them will cut the oil usually was canola once they saw it with soybean they'll cut the oil and so when they say we have all of the oil i always say is it pure or is it a blend because if they is that there is more olive oil sold in the world then produced and there's a lot of canola oil being imported into italy that we think goes out with the olive oil but the can all that goes into italy is probably monday i'm on because they don't grow g m canola oil in europe they grow cotton rapeseed and they grow it and they are of can own whatever but so it may not be pure olive oil it's probably not cut with g m canola but it could be and it's not all of it it's just a it's a pretty substantial fact that's known in the food industry that olive oil is and always pure organic will tend to be a lot more reliable and us makers of olive oil will tend to be very reliable according to my sources so the psychology is this it can be really a problem to give up favorite food to give a deep dish pizza when you visit your car when i found out by the way that the pizza places in new york some of them use olive oil in their dough and some of them you sort of you know i thought for years it was just going to be slaving over some of the news all of well so it's like wow i can get new york pizza again i grew up outside of new york it can be really psychologically challenging so first of all i don't think it's going to take longer for us to get rid of the g m o's in the united states so i would think just think in terms of a short amount of time for this and then think in terms of trying trying to go without g m o's for a certain period of time and see how you feel someone came up to me and said you know i switched to a non a diet last year for and for one year i lost thirty five pounds my husband was fifteen my two young kids lost five each i said well what do you do if nothing else they just switch to so i would say do it as an experiment and look forward to seeing the changes in if you have energy about getting rid of months sandra of energy energy getting rid of to the tipping point all that take that energy and turn it into empowerment for making this a valuable statement and some people like to do it because they wanted to be bigger than themselves we're doing this as a statement we're doing this you know for the world and of course if you have kids you're doing it for your kids or you're planning to have kids you can do if your kid now in the psyche also you have your waiter or waitress and you find out that the food has g m o's in it it's really easy to get angry or depressed  angry is a very dangerous emotion to throw it away to a waitress or even though the restaurant owner they have no idea and if you're angry at them you're in a much less powerful position to teach them because they don't want to pay attention to you anymore they want to get away from you so you may carry around the extra shopping guidance and give it to him and say i'm a boring g m o's and you may want to consider doing that you give the shopping guide you give the the brochure about the health risks and what can happen is potentially miraculous i went to a mexican restaurant in my town and i said i don't  what do you cook with and he said well we figured out that there was one entree and one side dish and three months later i hadn't been to the place again three months later i hear that he has switched to non  i show up and say what happened he says well you got me thinking about it my son's autistic and i started thinking about the food so i spent a month in the have with new suppliers and completely organic and nine g m o it was written all over his rest this was in fairfield iowa little town in iowa and the same town years ago i went to one of my favorite indian food restaurants and i said i don't e g most a lot of us don't need to most can you get rid of it and he said come back in the in and he switched i wrote it up in the local paper his foot traffic increased five more five more restaurants within two weeks said we also use organic it all of oil we also use this and they all switched and i never discussed the health dangers with any them it's economics so it's a very bad talk to i want to boulder and i had just come from a g m o meeting and we went to this place and it was a healthy you know crunchy boulder kind of i explained what i had to happen and she went she left and out comes the chef and he comes and says i have just heard the best dietary restriction i have ever heard and we spoke for ten minutes and by the time we were done he was going to change the restaurant staff and host meetings  i went to what is the symbol of like classic america epcot center and i went to i went to a