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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-15-09 03:37 PM
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You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810.html


Jeffrey Smith


The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Here's the back story.

When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply -- the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods -- secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried "serious health hazards," and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.
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