11 Steps for GMO Eradication: Help Grow the “GEM”
11th March 2012
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
Dear Fellow Sane Human Beings,
Greetings. It’s a pleasure to write to you again.
By now you likely have plenty of information and encouragement for why not to purchase GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). What we need now is to band together and take action. So below I have outlined “How” to do this.
If you need more information on GMOs or GM Foods, please search this site for “GMO” or see my articles.
GEM stands for “GMO Eradication Movement.” It of course also refers to our beautiful planet. So to “Grow the GEM” means eradicating GMOs to beautify our world. The 11 Steps for Growing the GEM are divided among three levels of participation. An overview of the three levels for being a GEM (GMO Eradication Mover) are:
Level I: Learning how to identify GMO products and not to buy them.
Level II: Includes Level I knowledge and action and shares it with others: friends, businesses, restaurants, grocery stores, etc.
Level III: Includes Level I & II, and implements public outreach to masses of people, and puts their hands in the soil.
I have also set up a GEM Facebook Page. This will be a crucial resource for us as we go forward, and your participation will help us all. So please join us here to meet and join forces.
As we learn more, the list below will be amended and updated. Please help us “Grow the GEM” by passing on this information. We absolutely need all of us now workingtogether. Time is urgent. We cannot procrastinate.
Feel free to copy and share the 11 Steps and please cite the source provided at the end of the list.
These Steps are the heart of GMO Eradication. Please consider them carefully and implement them as soon as possible. We all have to get down to business and be disciplined about this if we hope to win this thing. We have to do it together; please be a leader.
LEVEL I (ELIMINATE)
1) Learn which foods are GMO and do not buy them (unless organic). The current GM food crops are:
- Corn (includes “sweet corn”)
- Soy (includes lecithin)
- Sugar beets
- Honey (via GMO crops’ pollen)
- Cotton (including cottonseed oil)
- Canola (including canola oil)
- Alfalfa
- Hawaiian papaya
- Tobacco
- Yellow crookneck and zucchini squash,
- Dairy Products (tainted with rBGH and from animals fed GM food)
- Meat (all kinds, from animals fed GM food)
- Salmon (the actual animal is slated to be GMO)
- (Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein), TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein), xanthan gum, vanillin, sucrose, lactose, dextrose, lactic acid, maltodextrin, Vitamins A, B2, B6, B12, C, D, E, K may be from GMO.
2) Print out the list and carry it with you; memorize it if you can.
3) Check food labels for GMO ingredients; if they are not listed as organic, they are likely GMO. Don’t buy it. Exceptions are products that bear the “NON GMO Project” label.
a) Example 1: Canola is a GMO crop. If a product contains canola oil and does not specify it is organic, it is likely GMO. Don’t buy it.
b) Example 2: Soy is a GMO crop. Tofu, tempeh, and soy yogurt are all made from soy. Also check for soy in veggie burgers and veggie sausages. If it is not organic don’t buy it.
4) Buy as little commercially farmed processed food and as much organic food as possible. Processed foods are more likely to have GMOs as well as hidden GMO ingredients.
a) Example 1: Corn is a GMO crop. Corn syrup, vitamin E, citric acid, polysorbate 80 and sodium citrate all can be derived from corn, and likely from GMO corn.
b) Example 2: Commercial beef, chicken, and turkey are almost always fed GM food. Only buy organic meat. “Free Range” meat is not necessarily organic.
5) Avoid commercial restaurants. Restaurants that are not specifically organic (far and few between), often use cheap food, which is often GMO and non-organic.
LEVEL II (OUTREACH)
6) Share information about the dangers of GMO foods with everyone you can. Share with them any of myarticles, Jeffrey Smith’s video(s), or just Google it.
7) Ask grocery stores and restaurants, family and friends, not to deal in GM foods. Talk to your children’s’ food director/organizer at school. Everywhere you go, let food-related organizations and people know: NO GMO.
8.) Call or email food companies that do not specify suspect ingredients as GMO and ask if they are GMO.
a) Example 1: Soy lecithin is often GMO. Call companies that make foods with soy lecithin and ask if it is from GMO soybeans. As them to send you verification in writing by email.
b) Example 2: If a label says “sugar” it may come from sugar beets, which are a GMO crop. Call the label’s company and proceed as with lecithin example.
c) Example 3: I recently called Twinlab, Kal, and Lessaffre (makers of Red Star Yeast) companies, all manufacturers of nutritional yeast products. Only one, Kal Brand, told me they guarantee both the yeast and the culture medium for the yeast (often corn and beet, both GMO crops) to be non-GMO. I told the others I would not buy their products until they guarantee non-GMO on the label.
9) Encourage anyone you know not to use Roundup because it is integral to GM food production, much more toxic than once suspected, and buying it supports Monsanto
LEVEL III (COMMUNITY)
10) Organize rallies, protests, donate to and support organic groups, create and circulate petitions, set up information booths, and begin a public outreach to masses of people to denounce GMOs and support organics.
Additional actions: pass out GMO warning flyers, write articles, post notes at work, go to protests, Google GMO articles and videos. Host movie nights.
11) Plant that organic garden already! And get your family and community involved.
Source: GMO Eradication Movement – GEM (Facebook Page)
EXTRA TIPS/REMINDERS
In sum, the overall safest, healthiest, and most economical way to empower our GMO Eradication Movement is to buy whole organic foods, grow you own, prepare your own meals, and buy from as many local organic farmers as possible.
If a food is organic it is not GMO. Knowing GM food crops will tell you which foods to look out for in their non-organic form. If not organic, a food may still be non-GMO, but this is becoming more and more unlikely. For example, sugar beets come organic, GMO, and conventionally grown (often grown with pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, but not necessarily GMO). Organic sugar beets are non-GMO. Conventionally grown sugar beets might be GMO (you have to ask), but best to avoid because they are likely laden with pesticides.
If a food ingredient contains “sugar,” it is likely GMO because a lot of sugar comes from GMO sugar beets! If the label reads “cane sugar” it likely has pesticide residues but at this point in time is not GMO. Health tip: stay away from “sugar” for good physical and emotional health and to be a GEM!
VITAMIN SURPRISES:
* Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can be made from GMO corn
* Vitamin D and vitamin K may have “carriers” derived from GMO corn (such as glucose, sugar, starch, and maltodextrin)
* Vitamin E is often made from soy
* Vitamins A, B2, B6, and B12 may be derived from GMO sources
Remember “All Natural” and “Natural” labels don’t mean squat. These foods can still be GMO.
Thank you for becoming a GEM, not a GMO! The 11 Steps can be downloaded here on one convenient page, though without the “examples” mentioned in the 11 steps above. Please share the 11 Steps everywhere you can and join us on Facebook.
In Solidarity,
Jack
from: http://wakeup-world.com/2012/03/11/11-steps-for-gmo-eradication-help-grow-the-gem/