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Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods 6-8-8
Author: Jeffrey M. Smith
Publisher: Yes! Books, www.GeneticRoulette.com; hardcover; 336 pages; $27.95
In his foreword to Genetic Roulette, former UK government environment minister
Michael Meacher says, “This is the authentic book on genetic modification that
the world has been waiting for. . . . The case presented is absolutely a smoking
shotgun that should stop in its tracks any dabbling with GM foods, whether by
individual families, food companies, or indeed nations.” Best-selling author
John Robbins says, “Genetic Roulette is dynamite. It totally explodes the
complacency and apathy that has been allowing genetically engineered foods to
creep into our food supply.” And GMO experts Arpad Pusztai and Susan Bardocz
write, “Jeffrey Smith’s Genetic Roulette destroys the myth that genetically
modified organisms are safe and will give sleepless nights to uncritical
supporters of GMOs. . . . It is a real treasure and the most important GMO
source book for policy makers, scientists, and the public.”
According to Molecules of Emotion author Candace Pert, PhD, Genetic Roulette’s
author “Jeffrey Smith is the leading world expert in the understanding and
communication of the health issues surrounding genetically modified foods.”
Indeed, his first book Seeds of Deception became the #1 rated and best-selling
book on GMOs. Seeds made a huge impact and is credited with influencing
legislation and changing the global debate on the subject. Now, in Genetic
Roulette, Smith has answered the human health risk question as he calls for an
immediate ban on GM product by consumers and governments.
65 dangers at a glance read easily across two-page spreads
Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life and professor emeritus of Nutrition
and Education at Columbia University, says Genetic Roulette is “remarkably
thorough, well-written, brilliantly designed, and deeply disturbing.” She urges
people to, “Read this book, or skim it—a feat the author has enabled with a
format that allows for scanning or thorough reading.” The format Gussow
describes consists of 65 two-page spreads, each dedicated to a different adverse
finding or theoretical risk of GM foods. The left side’s executive summary
offers knowledge at a glance. Flip through the pages in a few minutes and you
will be struck by reports of hundreds of people with toxic or allergic
reactions, thousands of sick, sterile or dead animals, and countless ways in
which GM foods are inherently dangerous and virtually untested.
Read the detailed explanations on the right side, to learn that lab animals fed
GM soy had altered sperm cells and embryos, and a five-fold increase in infant
mortality, or that genes might transfer from GM corn to turn your intestinal
bacteria into living pesticide factories—for the long-term. These and other
meticulously documented revelations shred the baseless arguments used by the
biotech industry to defend their products.
Masterful recipe for decision-making
Cancer Prevention Coalition chairman Samuel Epstein, MD, describes the book as
“The most comprehensive, well-documented and highly readable exposé on the
serious health dangers of GM foods.” Meacher says, “What has long been needed is
not more polemic, but the facts, the unvarnished detail that provides the
evidence on which people can make up their own minds. This book is it.” In fact,
it presents a masterful recipe for decision-making; the 65 two-page spreads
offer a kind of safety checklist—risks and findings that must be responded to.
Pediatrician and author Alan Greene of DrGreene.com says, “We ought either to
satisfy ourselves with solid scientific answers to the concerns clearly laid out
in Genetic Roulette—or we should change the way we eat.”
The book sounds the alarm with parents and schools
The book explains why children and newborns are most at risk from potential
allergens, toxins, and nutritional problems associated with GM foods. Jordan
Rubin, best-selling author of The Maker’s Diet, says, “As a health educator and
parent of a young child, I will do everything within my power to keep these
dangerous genetically modified foods out of the cupboards and refrigerators and
off of the kitchen tables of those I care about. The best way I can do that is
to strongly recommend the book.” Robyn O’Brien, founder of AllergyKids and
mother of four, says “The health risks associated with these new foods have the
potential to impact every child in America—not just those with food allergies.”
She says the book is a “must read” for parents. And Dr. Richard Beall, director
of the Carolina International School, says, “I urge school administrators to
read Genetic Roulette and take preventive action to protect the long-term health
of your students.”
Genetic Roulette hits mainstream influence and may force GM food bans
Beginning in April 2007, organizations around the world will present Genetic
Roulette to government officials as evidence that GM foods are unsafe and need
to be banned immediately. The prominence of U.S. Senator Jon Tester’s supporting
quote on the back cover indicates that Smith is aiming for decision makers at
the highest level. Meacher says, “I believe it will inspire leaders in many
different arenas to take action.”
Officials can’t simply use the excuse that their national regulatory agencies
ensure GM food safety, because part two of Genetic Roulette shows just the
opposite. Government assessments are not competent to even identify most of the
potential health problems. Furthermore, part 3 exposes in great detail how GM
food producers rig their studies in order to avoid showing problems. And part
four dismantles the “feed the world’ argument as baseless PR hype.
Frances Moore Lappé, author of Democracy’s Edge and Diet for a Small Planet,
says thanks to Smith’s “tireless investigations, we need wonder no longer why
corporations spreading GMOs are so secretive, why they’ve spent hundreds of
millions to keep us from even knowing which foods contain GMOs. They don’t want
us to examine the shoddy science, the suppressed evidence, and, most of all, the
real health risks that GMOs present.”
Meacher writes, “Jeffrey Smith is one of the great campaigners of our age, a
relentless pursuer of the truth, a fearless advocate in the corporate world of
secret influence, and a ceaseless promoter of the public interest across the
world. He is the modern David against the GM Goliath. This book may well provide
the slingshot to change the global course of events this century.”
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“I used to test for soy allergies all the time, but now that soy is genetically
engineered, it is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it—unless it says
organic. Genetic Roulette tells you why you must avoid genetically engineered
foods to stay healthy.”
—John H. Boyles, MD, ear, nose, and throat, and allergy specialist
“When I worked at Monsanto, I warned both scientists and executives that our GM
foods may cause disease, but no one was even willing to listen, let alone
investigate the unpredicted side effects. For them, it was all about profit. Now
our whole population is threatened by the serious dangers described in Genetic
Roulette.”
—Kirk J. Azevedo, DC
Genetic Roulette will be available starting in April 2007. Pre-orders placed in
March at www.GeneticRoulette.com will have free shipping. The official
publication of the book will take place in June, in conjunction with a major
consumer education campaign to be announced shortly.
Spilling the Beans is a monthly column available at
www.responsibletechnology.org .
Permission is granted to publishers and webmasters to reproduce issues of
Spilling the Beans in whole or in part. Just email us at column@seedsofdeception.com
to let us know who you are and what your circulation is, so we can keep track.
The Institute for Responsible Technology is working to end the genetic
engineering of our food supply and the outdoor release of GM crops. We warmly
welcome your donations and support.
Go to www.responsibletechnology.org or c lick here if you'd like to make a
tax-deductible donation. Click here if you would like to become a member of the
Institute for Responsible Technology. Membership to the Institute for
Responsible Technology costs $25 per year. New members receive The GMO Trilogy,
a three-disc set produced by Jeffrey Smith (see www.GMOTrilogy.com ).
© copyright Jeffrey M. Smith 2007