everything you have to know about dangerous gen ethically modified foods by international best selling author and filmmaker jeffrey m smith mr smith is the executive director of the institute for responsible technology and the leading spokesperson on the health dangers of genetically modified organisms his first book seeds of deception became the world's best selling and number one rated book on g m o foods and genetic roulette is the authoritative work that present irrefutable evidence that genetically modified foods are harmful former u k environment minister michael meacher says the revelations in genetic rillette may change the global course of events this century and he describes jeffrey smith as one of the great campaigners of our age mr smith has counseled world leaders from every continent and has been quoted by hundreds of media outlets including the new york times washington post b b c world service by fifty percent at no follow up study was done in a small study with skin protests they found one person had a positive reaction to g m so i but not to know g m so i'm suggesting a unique  profile actually there are many reasons why g m soy might be more allergenic first of all it has more herbicide residues they may cause problems second there's a known allergen in so i called trips an inhibitor all study conveniently left out of the publication but discovered later and cooked g m soy it was as much as seven times higher than non g m's in another study they looked to mice and the enzymes in the pancreas were suppressed by as much as seventy seven percent now if your diet protein digesting enzymes are not functioning properly you leave more time in the digestive system for protein to hang out and cause trouble and cause allergic reactions so eating genetically engineered soy might increase allergic reactions to a wide variety of foods in addition they looked inside the g m soil they found a new protein that was never intended probably the result of the massive collateral damage that occurs during the process of creating a g m and this protein was able to bind with i antibodies meaning it was probably an allergy or possibly analogy and as i mentioned the protein itself the rounder pretty protein has properties of a dust mite allergy so it itself might be an allergen and it may be continuously produced inside of us if the gene transfers so all of those are reasons why g m soy might be crossing allergies to soil or other problems or other allergies in mice and rats mice and rabbits were fed around a pretty soil they had altered cells enzymes or gene expression and livers kidneys pancreas and hearts here's my slivers that's nuclei you'll see on the right the membrane around the nuclei is more rough not as smooth inside the nuclei as the new clear lines see differences there as well in the g m fed group on the right rat livers for mice that were fed g m soy there was damage and changes in the young sperm cells then they looked at the young embryos from those mice and they found that there was a temporary decrease in gene expression in the embryos when the parents were fed g m soy compared to when they were fed none gee i'm sorry now these rats this picture was given to me by dr rena rakova a senior scientist of the russian national academy of sciences she and i were member of a panel that presented at the e u parliament last year so these rats are russian speaking rats and they volunteered for a soiling experiment and they were they were fed g m soy starting two weeks before they conceived and more than half of their offspring died within three weeks when the nut went compared to about one in ten for the mothers that were fed non g m soy here's a picture of one day's death rate and notice that the g m so i group was smaller they also had a different look to them that is the g m slow group on the bottom here's a comparison of two rats the same age nineteen days the smaller one is from the g m group they tried to mate the offspring of the g m group but they could not conceive now this is preliminary evidence it was reported in a  conference in october two thousand and five and dr ermac over basically said this is astounding research i've repeated three times i have frozen my samples of tissues i have no more money please repeat the study please offer money for us we can evaluate it to see if g m soy is causing these problems well as you probably guessed that has never been repeated she's been vilified she's been taken off of any m research in fact she told me and while we had lunch at the european parliament building she said one of her colleagues tried to console her because she'd been pressured by her director who was pressured by his director so they could do any more g m research so the college consultants that were maybe the g m so i will solve the overpopulation problem now in the attacks on her there is one valid point that's that i have to bring up it's very clear it was a mistake in the study i think and that is that she never did a bio chemical analysis of the feed because it's possible that there might have been some toxins in the soil flour that she used that was the cause of these astounding results now after doing it three times with the same feed and interesting coincidence happened the feed that they were using as the rat chow for all the rats in the facility changed to be g soy based so she couldn't do any more studies because she had no more control but after two months of all of the rats eating g m soy she asked her colleagues what is the mortality rate of the rats you're using in your to over fifty five percent suggesting that it is not a particular toxin in her batch but they did it is a generic problem that might be affecting the human population now if g m crops are so bad why don't we see more problems we can take a lesson from electric to fed l trip to produced by genetically engineered bacteria in the one nine hundred eighty s was responsible for a deadly epidemic that killed about one hundred americans and caused five to ten thousand to fall sick only the brand that was genetically engineered was responsible for the deadly epidemic it took about four years for them to identify that there was even an epidemic taking place and they almost missed it the only reason they found it was because the disease had three simultaneous characteristics the first was that it was new symptoms it stood out completely new disease the second was that the symptoms were acute forcing people to go to hospitals and to doctors and the doctor said it was the worst pain they had ever seen in their careers and third it came on quickly now what if all three characteristics had not been in place what if it was not new what if there was heart disease or diabetes or cancer or autism who would still be on the market what if it was not a cute what if it was frequent colds or memory loss or memory loss it might still be on the market what if it didn't come on quickly what if it took twenty years to show up what if it took the next generation so it begs the question what about g m foods on the market might they be creating an epidemic today that's going on notice that might not have all three characteristics might be responsible for the doubling of food related illnesses the united states between one thousand nine hundred two thousand and one or all the random statistics we're seeing worsening and i'm states and canada that oversees we don't know because there's no post marketing surveillance the canadian f d a health canada said we're going to look at the health of canadians and see if g m o foods are positively or negatively affected and this was a two thousand to buy two thousand and three they gave up saying it's too difficult there's no human clinical trials no proper evaluation of all those potential changes approvals are based on assumptions which are largely disproved or untested or there based on industry funded studies wh designed so poorly these guys have bad science down to a si unlikely to rate yourself from one two hundred how vigilant you'll be next week rate yourself from one to one hundred out vigilant you'll be at avoiding bringing g m foods into your home one to twenty twenty to forty forty to sixty sixty to eighty eighty two one hundred now you may have noticed a change here this change is consistent when i speak to medical doctors food service directors farmers foodies parents it is easy it is easy to make changes in people's lifelong eating habits the spot which makes the elimination of g so easy you don't have to become a g m o expert and stand in front of a group and speak because i've got this record and i've got this in all these different variety of ways for the left brain or the right brain or the visual thinker the audio person the person with the i pod but we do need the network so how active do you plan to be in helping to stop this how do we stop but let's compare where we are today with the plans by month cent in a san francisco biotech conference not far from here in january of one nine hundred ninety nine monsanto's consultant arthur andersen consulting they were also enron's c birds of a feather they described how they worked with monsanto to develop their plans for g m o's they asked the executives to describe their ideal future in fifteen to twenty years the month said to executive describe a world in which one hundred percent of all commercial seeds in the world were genetically engineered and patented and andersen consulting work backwards from that goal to create the strategy and tactics to achieve it a few speakers later another biotech representative projected a ninety five percent takeover of all commercial seeds within five years by two thousand and four but within three weeks their ideal future crashed and here is where i will share with you the first page of seeds of deception and you're going to have to buy it to get the rest of lesson from overseas when susan answered the door she was startled to see several reporters standing in front of her more were running from their cars in her direction and she could see other cars and t v news vans parking a longer street but you all know we can't speak about what happened we would be sued it's ok now the reporter from channel four television interrupted waving a paper in front of her they've released your husband he can talk to us susan took the our pod computer she called her husband our pod poost tire distinguished looking man in his late sixty's was already on his way as his wife showed him the document the reporter slipped past them into the house but our pop didn't notice he was staring at the paper his wife had just handed clearly spelled out they had released their gag order he could speak the document was dated that same day february sixteenth one thousand nine hundred in fact less than twenty minutes before thirty reporters it sat in the relict press conference listening to its director professor philip james casually mention that the restriction on dr priest high speaking to the press had been lifted before james had finished his sentence the reporter's leap for the daughter they jumped into their cars headed straight to pews ties house on ashley park north and address most most were familiar with having virtually camped out there seven months earlier now those thirty reporters with t v cameras and tape recorders were piled into the police ties living room tired read the document twice as he looked up the reporter started to ask him questions all at once he smiled and breathe more easily than he had in a long time he had all but given up hope now we finally have the chance to share what he knew about the dangers of genetically engineered foods within one week one hundred fifty nine column feet of articles were written within a month seven hundred and fifty articles by manufacture they publicly committed to no longer use g m and gradients in their european brands within about three days so did everyone else that has limited the expansion of g not to ninety five percent of all commercial seeds but largely to four major crops with two major traits and six countries and in two point four percent of the agricultural land we need to create the tipping point in the united states to make g m o as a marketing liability now we can wait for the general population to get it we can ask oprah winfrey she could do in sixty minutes and i'm trying but we don't need to convince the average junkie eating couch potato person in the united states to change their diet and to consider for the first time that food might have an effect we have for our groups in the united states that are receptive to this knowledge they would take this information and act on it and each one of those four groups are large enough to create the tipping point all by themselves we have health conscious shoppers twenty eight million americans buy organic food regularly fifty four million americans less regularly now already more than half say they would avoid eating g m owes more than half the general population say they would eat avoiding g m o's if given a choice health conscious shoppers it's overwhelming so we know where they go to school we know where they eat we know what they read so we have commitments from magazines to run our two pit road is a two page spread version of our shopping guide in their magazines for free we have major websites we have list serves with millions of people ready to send out our shopping guide in the next few weeks we are going to give health conscious shoppers what they have wanted for twelve years clear non g m o choices and on top of that the good news is the entire natural food industry is finally getting behind a new non g m o standard just like an organic standard this is a third party verified non g m o standard and on the board of that standard are the leaders of the natural food industry whole so we're giving them information we're giving health conscious shoppers information we're giving ample supply of non g m and we're giving them choice health professionals i read a quote from john boyle's an m d i used to test for soil a g s all the time but now that soyuz genetically engineered it is so dangerous that i tell people never to eat never to eat it unless it says organic when kellogg's realizes that doctors are prescribing to parents not to feed their kids kellogg's cornflakes because it's g m o when the food companies realize that got jurors are prescribing not g m diets it's all school meals and the parents associated with the schools school meals are under intense scrutiny because of the incredible epidemic going on with our kids so they have changes going on they're making changes there in the process of making changes now is the perfect time to get them our information so the g m o's are added to the do not eat category so we have a grassroots program with a sixty page manual and a video called hidden dangers  kids meals it's like instant activism just add d v d and sister short to a group and you see how many people want to work on a g m free school campaign that hands go up and we can create that in communities all over the country religious groups think about if they even jellicoe christians for example believe that g m o meant god move over large religious groups do not actually have to circulate the non g m o shopping guide they just have to threaten to do so and jimbo's are taken out so these are the four demographic groups that we are focusing on here's what we got we got a ton of stuff on our website responsible technology don't know argy you can when you have a powerpoint presentation there we have all we have the hidden dangers and kids meals video we have amid new wii and called your milk on drugs just say no thanks for doctors we have about forty articles that you can take and put on your own website to distribute we have a monthly e newsletter now i gotta tell you about this new video i got a call a few years ago from a woman friends who turned out it had known she was an award winning author and filmmaker and she was doing a film on monsanto and i had i think by that time thirteen film crews come to my little town in iowa and i've interviewed many dozen or two times elsewhere and so i was very comfortable talking to filmmakers and giving them the whole background about who to interview and what the angles were she knew it all and she was traveling all over the world to people i had written about she had gone over my book meticulously and written notes and got and then follow through with each of these people so she was incredibly well informed so i knew that her still was going to be a blockbuster so when i was in europe i went to paris and looked at the at the early versions of the film and worked for a year to get distribution rights of the film it's now out it's called the world according to months at a hundred people have seen it it is so devastating the thirty minutes after seeing this film are like the most motivate someone is in their life to stop g m o's so i say we have a program for retail stores and the natural food industry they put up the  centers they distribute the non g m o shopping guides they host free public showings of the world according to month's santa we have a list of the materials downloadable on our website you can do this too we have handouts handouts that can convert that energy into effective community action but if you show this alone and you don't have any discussion afterwards it can be very depressing we have a three minute video in here called what we can do it introduces the campaign for all three in america it introduces the tipping point i gave a talk in kansas city two weeks ago and they had shown the world according to monsanto two weeks before that and they didn't have any discussion about activism they didn't convert the energy they didn't rather run the three minute video and someone came up to me before the thing and burst into tears and said is there any hope and i said oh yes there is hope you just watch this is a book i was wanting around the world giving seeds of deception a way to senior political leaders and you know when i handed this thick book to the politicians or realize they're never going to read it they hardly do in vermont we got lucky but i realized i have embed the information about the health dangers into stories about scientists that were fired about regulatory agencies that were hijacked about scientists that were threatened and i realized that it's not the it's not the book i needed but if they give it to their staff the staff of the scientists they need textbooks so i had an idea the idea was to do a two page split and this side the executive summary is for the attention deficit politician and this side is for their staff and this site is for the patient this size for the doctor decides for it's basically sixty five health risks of irrefutable overwhelming evidence of harm and when i give this to presidents and cabinet ministers and politicians around the world i say use this as a checklist the sixty five health risks demand from the biotech industry that they counter each of those risks with rigorous independent data if they can i have no health argument but if they can't they have no justification for putting the foods on the market and i have a place on my website with all of the left pages and i say please respond challenge and i describe in the book please biotech industry respond to challenge but i also say they won't because they lose the argument on the level of details and science so what they do is they dismiss they attack but they don't depict i had to write part two which shows how the current safety assessments by governments around the world are incompetent to even identify most of the risks and part three how industry funded studies are designed to avoid finding the risks and part for why g m o's are not designed to feed the world their average one reduces yield it's the worst possible thing it takes money away from more appropriate technologies and it causes things like suicides etc we've got a lot of different package materials that we've put together and we are ready we are really ready for this campaign i've been working for twelve years please don't wait please take this message we don't have the time the luxury of the time while they're polluting our gene pool while they're introducing new products while they're possibly colonizing our gut bacteria we don't have time but we have tremendous power we just have to share these main points give people a choice nine out of ten americans want you most labeled more than half would avoid them if they were labeled were not the minority in this case we're not unique in this case we're no weird think about it we're not weird it sounds kind of strange but as far as being against g m o as we are the vast majority so let's make it happen everything you have to know about dangerous genetically modified foods international best selling author and filmmaker jeffrey m smith mr smith is the executive director of the institute for responsible technology and a leading spokesperson on the health dangers of genetically modified organi