I received free access to watch Genetic Roulette as a member of the Bookieboo Blogger Network. The opinions expressed are 100% my own.
After seeing this movie, I just want to say that I too, am tired of being a science experiment. This movie is a documentary on genetically modified food and the increased prevalence of disease in the U.S., like allergies, gastrointestinal disorders (leaky gut syndrome and others), infertility, and more.
Jeffrey Smith is the director and Genetic Roulette is narrated by Lisa Oz, Dr. Oz’s wife. Mr. Smith is the founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology. He has also written several best-selling books on this issue.
I did not realize genetically modified foods could have such an enormous potential in regards to creating disease. I feel we should at least be informed on product labels if the product contains genetically modified ingredients and be able to select if our families should or should not consume them.
Did you know that usually to create a genetically modified plant, genes from a virus, bacteria, or other animal source is used for modification? No wonder our bodies react so negatively to these food sources with inflammation and sometimes leading to disease. It’s also crazy to think about the applications of genetically modified foods, like spider genes being injected into goats to create proteins in the milk that will be used to create bullet proof vests or human genes injected into corn and creating spermicide. That’s weird and a bit creepy to me.
From Genetic Roulette:
“It’s the most dangerous thing facing human beings in our generation.” Elaine Ingham, PhD, Soil Microbiologist, Chief Scientist at Rodale University.
Corn, soybeans, and sugar beets are at the top of the genetically modified crops list. Think of how many products in your grocery store contain JUST corn – be it whole corn, cornmeal, corn syrup, cornstarch, and others. Beyond food, corn is used in many other ways too – many medications and vitamins contain sources of corn. They use cornstarch to thicken and bind and also corn is high in vitamin C so it is used often to source the vitamin. It’s in an enormous number of products we consume every day – as oral consumables and beyond.
My family and I try to produce quite a bit for ourselves, but I still buy things from the grocery store. I want to be an informed consumer and know if the foods I consume have the potential to cause harm to me and especially to my children. Children are most susceptible with a faster metabolism and being smaller in size so it takes less to cause effect. I also think about pets and how commercial diets often use corn as a primary food source and sometimes soy. I think it would be important to know if their food is genetically modified too.
President Obama signed what has been referred to as “the Monsanto Protection Act” earlier this year to protect biotechnology in the spending bill, HR 933. This bill was voted for to prevent government shutdown. Many members of Congress were supposedly unaware that the provision to protect genetically modified seeds from litigation in regard to health risks was included in this bill.
I had seen Food, Inc. a few years ago and it opened my eyes to the production of many foods we consume. It introduced me to the gloomy power of Monsanto on farmers, scholars, members of bodies that are supposed to be there to protect us, like the FDA, and in effect, us, the consumer. Family and organic farmers via Food Democracy Now and Organic Consumers Association are now in court with Monsanto to try to protect our food system. Information can be found here, http://www.fooddemocracynow.
If you would like to learn more about GMO food and its adverse affects, Genetic Roulette is a must to rent or buy. It is very factual so it may seem a bit dry at times, but the information provided is an eye opener. This movie is 1 hr 25 mn in length.
