Another Attempt to Keep Consumers in the DARK: Rep. Pompeo Reintroduces Bill to Preempt State GMO Labeling Laws

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Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo introduced H.R. 4432 last April. Advocates for the public’s right to know about foods containing GMOs call Pompeo’s bill “the Dark Act” — “Deny Americans the Right to Know Act” — because it would legalize the use of the word “natural” on products containing GMOs. It would also deny every state the choice to pass GMO labeling laws.
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Another Attempt to Keep Consumers in the DARK: Rep. Pompeo Reintroduces Bill to Preempt State GMO Labeling Laws

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Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo introduced H.R. 4432 last April. Advocates for the public’s right to know about foods containing GMOs call Pompeo’s bill “the Dark Act” — “Deny Americans the Right to Know Act” — because it would legalize the use of the word “natural” on products containing GMOs. It would also deny every state the choice to pass GMO labeling laws.
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For Immediate Release: March 25, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., is expected to file legislation in Congress to prevent states from giving their citizens the right to know whether the food they buy was made with genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs.

The Deny Americans the Right-to-Know or DARK Act, as it is called by opponents – would preempt current state laws and block future state action to require GMO labeling. The bill would also make it more difficult for the Food and Drug Administration to ever impose a national mandatory labeling system – something roughly 90 percent of Americans support, according to public opinion polling.

Over the past two years, 30 states have considered more than 70 GMO labeling bills and ballot initiatives. Connecticut, Maine and Vermont led the way, becoming the first states to enact mandatory labeling.

“In the absence of federal action, many states are listening to their citizens and pushing forward with laws to require clear, transparent labeling of GMO foods,” said Katrina Staves, campaign manager for Just Label It. “By reintroducing the DARK Act, Rep. Pompeo is undercutting the rights of states to give their citizens more information about the food they buy and effectively freezing the conversation at the federal level.”

In addition to preempting state action, the DARK Act would make the current, failed voluntary labeling system the “national solution” to labeling. This voluntary system has called for food companies to voluntarily disclose the presence of GMOs in their products since 2001, but to date none has done so.

“Around the world, 64 countries – including the likes of Russia and China – have figured out that labeling foods created in a lab instead of a field is a smart decision,” said Gary Hirshberg, board chairman of Just Label It. “Americans simply want to be afforded the same right – not this thinly veiled proposal that will ultimately provide no new information about how their food was produced. Rep. Pompeo’s so-called The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 is a smokescreen, because no company has ever voluntarily labeled the presence of genetically engineered ingredients, and none ever will.”

Nearly 1.5 million Americans have signed a petition to the FDA supporting mandatory GMO labeling, and more than 200 companies and other organizations signed a letter in early 2014 calling on President Obama to make good on his 2007 campaign pledge to require it.

Glyphosate, the main ingredient found in Monsanto’s Roundup, a popular herbicide for GMO crops, was on Friday found to be a probable human carcinogen. This designation by the World Health Organization only amplifies the need to label GMO foods that contain ingredients grown with the use of toxic herbicides, like glyphosate.

http://www.justlabelit.org/glyphosate-is-spreading-like-a-cancer-across-the-u-s/

Institute for Responsible Technology - Higher Risks for Children

Institute for Responsible Technolhttp://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/higher-risks-for-children

ogy - Higher Risks for ChildrenChildren face the greatest risk from the potential dangers of GM foods:

• Young, fast-developing bodies are influenced most
• Children are more susceptible to allergies
• Children are more susceptible to problems with milk
• Children are more susceptible to nutritional problems
• Children are in danger from antibiotic resistant diseases

Young, fast-developing bodies are influenced most

Children's bodies develop at a fast pace and are more likely to be influenced and show the effects of genetically modified (GM) foods. That is why independent scientists used young adolescent rats in their GM feeding studies. The rats showed significant health damage after only 10 days, including damaged immune systems and digestive function, smaller brains, livers, and testicles, partial atrophy of the liver, and potentially pre-cancerous cell growth in the intestines.http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/higher-risks-for-children

Autism Bomb: Bayer Herbicide Causes Autism, Even at Trace Levels

http://www.globalresearch.ca/autism-bomb-bayer-herbicide-causes-autism-even-at-trace-levels/5417852

Bayer’s Liberty Link GMO crops made to withstand glufosinate ammonium (GLA) herbicide are linked directly to autism-like symptoms, according to a new study. Even in low doses, both pre and post-natal exposure to GLA caused symptoms in laboratory mice.

Published in Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience, the study outlines how GLA, one of the most widely used herbicides in agriculture is harming neurological health.

Pointing to the findings of previous research linking herbicides and autism, as well as with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, the study explains that pesticide and herbicide exposure weakens the basic structure of the brain.

The developmental impact of GLA was examined by exposing female mice to low dose GLA during both pre- and postnatal periods and analyzed potential developmental and behavioral changes of the offspring during infancy and adulthood.

A host of neurobehavioral tests revealed some unsettling results:

“. . .significant effects of GLA maternal exposure on early reflex development, pup communication, affiliative behaviors, and preference for social olfactory cues, but emotional reactivity and emotional memory remained unaltered. These behavioral alterations showed a striking resemblance to changes seen in animal models of Autistic Spectrum Disorders. At the brain level, GLA maternal exposure caused some increase in relative brain weight of the offspring. In addition, reduced expression of Pten and Peg3 – two genes implicated in autism-like deficits – was observed in the brain of GLA-exposed pups at postnatal day 15.

Our work thus provides new data on the link between pre- and postnatal exposure to the herbicide GLA and the onset of autism-like symptoms later in life. It also raises fundamental concerns about the ability of current safety testing to assess risks of pesticide exposure during critical developmental periods.”

Bayer Crop Science will tell you:

“High-performance LibertyLink traits are widely available across crops – canola, cotton, corn and soybeans – including leading brands such as FiberMax® and Stoneville® cotton, InVigor®canola and more than 100 brands of corn and soybeans, including HBK soybeans.”

Related: Cannabis Shows Promise in Treating Autism

This means that GLA is in use on thousands of acres of crops across the United States and in Canada.

The Institute for Responsible Technology has stated that:

“Twice the number of chickens died when fed Liberty Link corn. The death rate for chickens fed Chardon LL GM corn for 42 days was 7%, compared to 3.5% for controls. GM-fed chickens also had more erratic body weight and food intake, and less weight gain overall. But these results were dismissed without follow-up.”

Were the results of this study ignored like so many other GMO tests because the makers were already well aware that GLA was toxic and deathly?

Bayer is working to defeat GMO labeling as well.

How convenient for Bayer, since it makes pharmaceuticals which also ‘treat’ neurological impairment like Alzheimer’s disease. It’s also convenient for Titan pharmaceuticals, which makes drugs to treat Parkinson’s. A new appointee to the board at Titan includes one former Bayer executive. And of course, Bayer makes drugs like selective seratonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that ‘treat’ autism as well.

http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/10/27/do-gmo-foods-cause-autism-read-about-the-gmo-crops-autism-connection/

Do GMO Foods Cause Autism? Read About the GMO Crops Autism Connection

Posted by: TLB Staff

Published October 27, 2013, filed under HEALTH

By Caryn Talty, B.S.Ed., M.A.

Do GMO foods cause autism? Genetically modified organismsare in many processed foods Americans eat. Independent scientists believe there is a GMO crops autism connection. Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Technology, and author of a free electronic autism booklet entitled, “Are Genetically Engineered Foods Promoting Autism?” says the answer is a resounding yes.

“It appears there is a direct correlation between GMOs and autism.” stated Arden Anderson, DO, PhD, MPH,  an agronomist, medical doctor, and one of the world’s top consultants on advanced soil and crop management. Anderson believes that GMO foods cause autism in addition to other catalysts.

At the Center of the GMO Crops Autism Connection

Dr. Don Huber, PhD

Don Huber, PhD, professor emeritus from Purdue University, is at the front of the GMO crops autism connection. If he has a hunch GMO foods cause autism people need to listen to him; Huber has spent the past 50 years in plant science. He has studied the epidemiology and control of soil borne plant pathogens with an emphasis on microbial ecology, cultural and biological controls, and physiology of host parasite relationships.

Recently he was asked to give his position on whether or not GMO foods cause autism. Dr. Huber gave a talk in Germany in October 2011. He discussed the physiological, neurological, and behavioral symptoms of pigs, cows, and rats fed genetically modified feed. Afterward, a doctor specializing in autism spectrum disorders approached him and said, “The symptoms you describe are exactly what we are finding in our autistic children.” Now Huber and others have begun to wonder if in fact GMO foods cause autism, at least in part.

Why Might GMO Foods Cause Autism? What are They?

The antisocial lab animals in GMO crop studies were fed the same GMO corn and GMO soy eaten by people in the U.S. Both crops contain bacterial genes which allow them to survive being sprayed with herbicide. A herbicide is a weed control product designed to kill plants. When used, higher residues of toxic weed killer end up inside our foods.

In addition, some GMO corn crops have a more disturbing characteristic. GMO corn contains genes artificially inserted by scientists to produce an insect-killing poison called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin. It is in every cell of the GMO corn crop—and in every bite your child consumes. Common sense tells us GM food has to be harmful. Additional study might prove GMO foods cause autism, but funding is tough. Monsanto, the largest biotech seed company in the United States and Canada claims their GMO crops are harmless. They are deeply rooted in the farming industry in the U.S., and they’ve lobbied Congress for laws to protect their agri seed monopoly. But we are learning that their safety claims are false. Citizens need to get behind the scientists that want to expose the truth. We also need to actively boycott GMO foods.

Do GMO Foods Cause Autism? Read About the GMO Crops Autism Connection

Posted by: TLB Staff

Published October 27, 2013, filed under HEALTH

By Caryn Talty, B.S.Ed., M.A.

Do GMO foods cause autism? Genetically modified organismsare in many processed foods Americans eat. Independent scientists believe there is a GMO crops autism connection. Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Technology, and author of a free electronic autism booklet entitled, “Are Genetically Engineered Foods Promoting Autism?” says the answer is a resounding yes.

“It appears there is a direct correlation between GMOs and autism.” stated Arden Anderson, DO, PhD, MPH,  an agronomist, medical doctor, and one of the world’s top consultants on advanced soil and crop management. Anderson believes that GMO foods cause autism in addition to other catalysts.

At the Center of the GMO Crops Autism Connection

Dr. Don Huber, PhD

Don Huber, PhD, professor emeritus from Purdue University, is at the front of the GMO crops autism connection. If he has a hunch GMO foods cause autism people need to listen to him; Huber has spent the past 50 years in plant science. He has studied the epidemiology and control of soil borne plant pathogens with an emphasis on microbial ecology, cultural and biological controls, and physiology of host parasite relationships.

Recently he was asked to give his position on whether or not GMO foods cause autism. Dr. Huber gave a talk in Germany in October 2011. He discussed the physiological, neurological, and behavioral symptoms of pigs, cows, and rats fed genetically modified feed. Afterward, a doctor specializing in autism spectrum disorders approached him and said, “The symptoms you describe are exactly what we are finding in our autistic children.” Now Huber and others have begun to wonder if in fact GMO foods cause autism, at least in part.

Why Might GMO Foods Cause Autism? What are They?

The antisocial lab animals in GMO crop studies were fed the same GMO corn and GMO soy eaten by people in the U.S. Both crops contain bacterial genes which allow them to survive being sprayed with herbicide. A herbicide is a weed control product designed to kill plants. When used, higher residues of toxic weed killer end up inside our foods.

In addition, some GMO corn crops have a more disturbing characteristic. GMO corn contains genes artificially inserted by scientists to produce an insect-killing poison called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin. It is in every cell of the GMO corn crop—and in every bite your child consumes. Common sense tells us GM food has to be harmful. Additional study might prove GMO foods cause autism, but funding is tough. Monsanto, the largest biotech seed company in the United States and Canada claims their GMO crops are harmless. They are deeply rooted in the farming industry in the U.S., and they’ve lobbied Congress for laws to protect their agri seed monopoly. But we are learning that their safety claims are false. Citizens need to get behind the scientists that want to expose the truth. We also need to actively boycott GMO foods.

Where’s The Proof GMO Foods Cause Autism?

There is a marked correlation between increases in autism and increases in the amount of GMO foods entering our food supply, causing experts to question if digestive problems from eating GMO foods cause autism.

Some scientists think they see GMO foods cause autism like symptoms in lab animals. GMO fed animals and their offspring show marked differences in behavior to animals fed non-GMO feed. Some scientists say their antisocial behavior is similar to symptoms children diagnosed with autism exhibit. Scientists investigating this phenomena are also looking at long term correlations and statistical data worldwide to determine if GMO foods cause autism.

For example, some independent scientists are pointing to the dramatic increase in autism rates in the U.S. since the early 1990s, when GMO foods first hit the store shelves. Although the visualization is alarming, we also have to make sure the connection is truly there to prove GMO foods cause autism.

Still not convinced there’s a possibility GMO foods cause autism?

You are not alone. Eric Fombonne warns, “The (autism) rates were flat through the late ’80s, and then suddenly a massive rise happened at same time (in the 1990s).” Fombonne is a professor of psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal. He has led autism epidemiological studies in a half-dozen countries. Fombonne warns, “The rise is probably not due to a mysterious global environmental exposure. It’s more likely to reflect new concepts of autism worldwide.” He claims better awareness of the condition has caused the rise in diagnoses. He also says cultural differences play a role in whether or not a child with autism will be diagnosed.

Does this really disprove the claim that GMO foods cause autism?

Autism prevalence is not nearly at such alarming rates in Europe as it is in the U.S., a culture that does not place as much of stigma on diagnosis as other parts of the world do. A handful of small studies in France, for example, have found rates around 5 cases per 10,000 people. One study in Germany calculated it to be 1.9, and another in Portugal 16.7. Conversely, The European Union (EU) has possibly the most stringent GMO regulations in the world. What are autism rates in the U.S.? The latest study published by Reuters has autism rates at a new high for U.S. children. It is now 1 in 88! This gives credence to the theory that GMO foods cause autism rates to rise in certain populations.

Similar Digestive Disorders are found in both GMO Fed Livestock and Autistic Children

About 70% of children diagnosed with autism are found to have digestive disorders. Symptoms include inflammation, intestinal permeability, and imbalances in the intestinal flora (bacterial makeup). These same symptoms also appear in animals fed GMO feed. If GMO foods cause an imbalance in gut flora and this leads to neurological problems, then it is likely GMO foods cause autism, too.

One of the earliest indications that GMOs might cause problems in the small intestine was a 1999 study published in the Lancet entitled: “Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine.” After rats were fed GMO potatoes for 10 days, their stomach lining cells and intestines were significantly altered.

In Smith’s white paper about the GMO crops autism connection he writes, “When California pediatrician Michelle Perro reviewed the study in 2011 and saw the photos of the increased cellular growth and abnormal architecture, she thought to herself, “Uh oh – we’ve got some problems.” Based on her experience treating children for 30 years, she said, “You can extrapolate that the same thing may be occurring in babies clinically. They are not digesting their food. They are malabsorbing…And I’m seeing that commonly now.”

Smith reports that according to Dr. Perro, digestive issues are skyrocketing among her patients. More parents are finding they have ababy allergic to all formulas on the market and they are starting to question GMO corn and soy as culprits. This is a trend that unfortunately needs to stop.

Watch Parent Testimonials about the GMO crops Autism Connection from Genetic Roulette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzHXuMIsZTA

Correlations can be Drawn between Behavioral Changes in Animals Tested and Behaviors Exhibited by Children with Autism

Some scientists who work with GMO fed animals are seeing similar behavioral changes in their subjects as pediatricians might notice in their patients who develop autism. Is this a coincidence, or the result of eating GMO foods that damage the gastrointestinal tract? The connection is tenuous and more study is needed, but a growing number of professionals are demanding answers.

When Dr. Huber visited an ongoing research project using rats he noticed that animals fed non-GMO feed were passive and behaved as pets. Dr. Huber said the behaviors of the GMO fed rats was in stark contrast. “You can hardly catch the rats that have received the GMO feed for a month and a half to two months. They go off by themselves. They’re irritated. (They) crawl up the cage.” Then he added after a long pause, “[They] don’t get along with each other.”

Do GMO Foods Cause Autism? The Caveat:

I believe the causes of autism are multifaceted. It was once explained to me through the analogy of the bucket theory. Everyone is exposed to toxins. Environmental and genetic factors create variable limits for exposure. Some children have bigger buckets than others, and some are exposed to more toxins, viruses, bacteria, and fungi. When a child’s bucket is filled and begins to overflow we see the result in a diseased state.  Many people blame vaccines. Some believe it’s genetic. I personally believe there are a combination of factors. But the evidence against GMO foods is overwhelming, as far as I’m concerned. As for me and my family, we are going to avoid GMO crops. The link between autism and GMO food is just a theory right now, but the circumstantial evidence is strong. Further study will likely confirm the initial hunch of a handful of independent scientists. I don’t think I will wait until the verdict comes in to avoid GMO foods, especially genetically modified corn. I hope you feel the same way too. Want to know more about me? Read our personal story of healing called: Scientists Discover Celiac Disease can be the Root Cause of Most Neurological Disorders.

According to Dr. Huber, “When you look at the intestine on those pigs fed the GMO feed, the lining is deteriorated and the critical microbial balance is drastically changed.”

Dr. Arden Anderson, a staunch opponent of GMO crops, has written a book to help patients regain health through diet.

Dr. Anderson tells his patients, “Avoid genetically engineered foods like the plague.  In my opinion, they are the plague of the millennium, worse than any plague before in human history.”  Dr. Anderson believes independent scientific studies on GMO crops all point to serious inflammatory responses in people. He says genetically engineered food can be tied to lower birth weights, digestive disorders, infertility issues, autoimmune disease, and premature death.  Corn, soy, canola, and cotton are the most common genetically modified crops in our food supply.  Consumers need to demand labeling of GMO foods. Dr. Anderson says, “GMO’s are not going to save the world, feed the starving, raise yields, reduce pesticide use, avoid droughts, circumvent disease and insects.  That is all the ‘Hollywood Con.’  It is business, pure and simple. Wild animals, given the choice, will avoid genetically engineered crops until they are near starving.”

For more complete information please read Smith’s white paper on the subject: Are Genetically Engineered Foods Promoting Autism? It is free to download as a pdf.