Shedding Light on GE Food awarded Outstanding Book of Year; What are GMOs and risks?

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 29, 2008 -- Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food by Beth H. Harrison, PhD awarded 2008 “Outstanding Book of the Year—Most Progressive Health Book”

Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards honor the year's best independently published titles; this year's contest attracted 3,175 entries. Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food was awarded the gold medal winner of "Outstanding Book of the Year—Most Progressive Health Book," exhibiting "the courage and creativity necessary to take chances and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to society…" This book also won an Eric Hoffer Award in health and two Next Generation Indie Awards in health/wellness and current events categories.

Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food delves into how some of the top corporations that control your food have repeatedly done business at the expense of public health. These are some of the same companies that brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, and DDT. For more than a decade, they have been reprogramming, patenting, and owning an increasing amount of the world’s food supply—without public debate.

Biotechnology scientists are changing the most fundamental characteristics of the food we eat without knowing what it will do to people who eat it. As far as US regulatory agencies are concerned, if a biotech company SAYS its products are safe, that is enough for approval.

An estimated 70-75% of processed foods on supermarket shelves—from soda to soup, snack food, cereals to microwave food, even baby food and infant formula—contain unlabeled GE ingredients. Yet GE foods have never been proven safe for human consumption. In fact, nearly every independent laboratory animal feeding study on GE food shows adverse or unexplained effects. According to independent scientists, human health effects of consuming GE food can include toxic and allergic reactions, antibiotic resistance, immune suppression, and other serious illnesses.

“We just haven't seen outward physical effects of GE food yet,” says Harrison. “It could well be that we've got a ticking time bomb in our systems.”

When GE food was introduced, it was promoted as a solution to some of the world’s food problems; however, these crops do not benefit consumers, do not feed the world or make food prices cheaper, and do not help the environment. Multinational corporations engineer seeds for food crops to own and control the world's food supply and to sell their chemicals that are engineered to use with their proprietary GE seeds.

Find out why and how you have been kept in the dark about GE foods and the risks, why these foods continue to go unlabeled, what foods to avoid, and how to take action.

Please visit www.TheTruthAboutGMOs.com for more information.

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