GMO Technology Myths | Alliance for Natural Health USA - Protecting Natural Health https://anh-usa.org ANH Protects Free Speech About Natural Health Modalities, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Homeopathy and Access To Natural Therapies. Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:36:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://anh-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-240215-ANH-new-logo-leaf-32x32.jpg GMO Technology Myths | Alliance for Natural Health USA - Protecting Natural Health https://anh-usa.org 32 32 Myth: It’s Too Late—GMOs are Here to Stay https://anh-usa.org/myth-its-too-late-gmos-are-here-to-stay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=myth-its-too-late-gmos-are-here-to-stay https://anh-usa.org/myth-its-too-late-gmos-are-here-to-stay/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:36:48 +0000 https://anh-usa.org/?p=13804 Biotech companies would have consumers believe that, like it or not, GMOs are a permanent fixture, and that our food system would simply not work without GMOs. This is nothing more than a myth spread by biotech companies to discourage consumer activists: over 60 countries currently ban the cultivation, importation, or sale of GMO products. […]

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]]> Biotech companies would have consumers believe that, like it or not, GMOs are a permanent fixture, and that our food system would simply not work without GMOs.
This is nothing more than a myth spread by biotech companies to discourage consumer activists: over 60 countries currently ban the cultivation, importation, or sale of GMO products. If industrialized countries like Switzerland and Japan can thrive without GMOs, American can too.
Unfortunately, biotech companies are also trying to sell these GMO-free countries on the “here to stay” myth: Japan is currently being pressured to accept the “inevitability” of GMO wheat by American, Canadian, and Australian trade groups.

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]]> https://anh-usa.org/myth-its-too-late-gmos-are-here-to-stay/feed/ 0 Myth: GMO Technology Results in Critical, Innovative Products https://anh-usa.org/myth-gmo-technology-results-in-critical-innovative-products/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=myth-gmo-technology-results-in-critical-innovative-products https://anh-usa.org/myth-gmo-technology-results-in-critical-innovative-products/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:35:59 +0000 https://anh-usa.org/?p=13802 GMO products aren’t as remarkable as biotech companies would have you believe: Biotech companies Monsanto and DuPont sell “trans fat-free” soybeans, an entirely superfluous invention with a “healthy” veneer. GMO Golden Rice is genetically engineered to contain beta-carotene, and is marketed as a way to save malnourished children in developing countries. However, beta-carotene needs to […]

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]]> GMO products aren’t as remarkable as biotech companies would have you believe:

  • Biotech companies Monsanto and DuPont sell “trans fat-free” soybeans, an entirely superfluous invention with a “healthy” veneer.
  • GMO Golden Rice is genetically engineered to contain beta-carotene, and is marketed as a way to save malnourished children in developing countries. However, beta-carotene needs to be converted into vitamin A by the body—and up to 45% of the population are unable to efficiently do so. Ways to do without GMO (biofortification does same thing without danger of GMO)
Monsanto and DuPont’s soybeans and the oils derived from them (DuPont makes a competing product called Plenish High Oleic Soybean Oil) are meant to appeal to consumers by giving them a “healthy” veneer since they are trans fat free. This move ignores the fact that since many processed foods and most whole foods are already free of trans fats, the new GMO soybeans are a superfluous “innovation.”
The biotech giants also fail to tell the public that conventional soybean oil, due both to its overuse in American foods and the way it is created, can be incredibly unhealthy. This is because the way nonorganic soybean oil—hydrogenated or not—is produced is inherently toxic:

  • Soybean, canola, corn, sunflower, and cottonseed oils are processed with hexane, a known neurotoxin. It’s the same substance that’s used to make gasoline.
  • It’s likely that trace amounts of hexane remain in the final oil, yet the FDA does not require testing and has not set a maximum residue level for hexane.
  • Soybean oil is also treated with sodium hydroxide and phosphoric acid; it’s then bleached with hydrochloric acid, which removes all vitamin A from the oil.
  • The “deodorizing” process (in its natural state, soybean oil can be smelly) strips the oil of vitamin E and phytosterols, completing its transition to “nutritionally void.”

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]]> https://anh-usa.org/myth-gmo-technology-results-in-critical-innovative-products/feed/ 0 Myth: GMO Technology is Natural, and Just Like Crossbreeding https://anh-usa.org/myth-gmo-technology-is-natural-and-just-like-crossbreeding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=myth-gmo-technology-is-natural-and-just-like-crossbreeding https://anh-usa.org/myth-gmo-technology-is-natural-and-just-like-crossbreeding/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:10:55 +0000 https://anh-usa.org/?p=13790 The biotech industry would have us believe that genetic modification is “natural,” and the same as crossbreeding (which farmers have undertaken for thousands of years). However: Natural breeding usually only takes place between closely related forms of life—mixing genetic material from different organisms is not “natural.” Take, for example, salmon with antifreeze DNA and tomatoes […]

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]]> The biotech industry would have us believe that genetic modification is “natural,” and the same as crossbreeding (which farmers have undertaken for thousands of years). However:

  • Natural breeding usually only takes place between closely related forms of life—mixing genetic material from different organisms is not “natural.” Take, for example, salmon with antifreeze DNA and tomatoes with fish genes (Flvr Savr).
  • The process of inserting GMO genes into plants can cause harmful DNA mutations.
  • Manipulating one or two genes does not just produce one or two desired traits—a single change at the level of DNA can give rise to mutations in hundreds or thousands of locations throughout the plant’s DNA and changes the DNA blueprint, which can be passed down over generations

These are known as pleiotropic effects. Natural genes can be deleted or permanently turned on or off, and hundreds may change their behavior. Even the inserted gene itself can be damaged or rearranged, and may create new proteins that can trigger allergies or promote disease.

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