Important Information About Your Child’s FoodOne of our most basic human rights is to know what is in our food and what is in the food that we are feeding our children.
Unfortunately, big food corporations have done a great job at keeping this secret! And in the cases where it is illegal to hide the toxic items they put in our food, they do their best to confuse you with difficult looking words, hard to read chemicals, and invisible GMOs (genetically modified organisms) like cyclodextrin, cystein, dextrin, dextrose, diacetyl, diglyceride, glutamate, cycerin, glycerol, glycerol monooleate, inositol, inversol, lecithin, leucine, lysine, malitol, methylcellulose, monosodium glutamate (MSG), stearic acid, threonine, or xanthan gum just to name a few!
If you’re not buying organic, then most likely all of these items in your food are GMOs.
In 2012, the first-ever lifetime feeding study evaluating the health risks of GM (genetically modified) foods was published. It found that rats fed a type of GM corn that is prevalent in the US food supply for two years developed massive mammary tumors, kidney, and liver damage, and other serious health problems.
For years, GM crops have dominated U.S. farmers’ landscape due to a company called Monsanto, who owns patents on food seeds that have been genetically modified. Monsanto is the largest supplier of food seeds in the world.
Historically, Monsanto is a chemical company best known for inventing chemicals like Agent Orange (used in Vietnam War), DDT (pesticide banned in the U.S. in 1972), recombinant bovine somatotropin (a.k.a. bovine growth hormone), and the weed killer Round Up. Roundup is the world’s leading weed killer used on millions of acres of food crops each year.
The main ingredient in Roundup is a chemical called Glyphosate, which may be linked to a rise in childhood and adult illnesses.
Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), says glyphosate is possibly “the most important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions that have become prevalent in Westernized societies,” including but not limited to:
Autism, allergies, cancer, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular disease, infertility, multiple sclerosis, obesity, depression, Alzheimer’s, ALS, and more.
A recent study even discovered glyphosate in the breast milk of lactating mothers! Weed killer in breast milk!
Grab a packaged or boxed food that your child eats and look for some of the above words on the label.
You’ll probably see many more not listed in the opening of this article!
This doesn’t even account for the amounts of artificial food dyes loaded in the foods we feed our children. Several studies have demonstrated that these food dyes can affect the behavior of children. As a matter of fact, in 2014 a study by the University of Purdue looked at the amounts of synthetic food dyes in popular foods (food companies are required to list the names of food dyes on their labels, but don’t have to put an amount of each dye contained).
Up until this study, nobody ever researched the amount of artificial dyes in these popular foods.
The results were shocking!
General Mills’ Trix cereal lists Yellow 6, Blue 1, and Red 40 on its ingredients, but until now no one would have known that it had 36.4 mg of those chemicals! Fruity Cheerios had 31 mg of food dyes. Skittles and M&M’s had 33.3 mg per serving and 29.5 mg per serving respectively.
In the last couple of years alone, the major food corporations have spent more than $20 million to fight mandatory product labeling of GMOs in several states. Why would they spend millions trying to hide what is in our food?
Do we NOT have a basic human right to KNOW what we are eating and feeding our families?
The one entity that you would hope is looking out for us is our own government, however, they have failed this issue big time and their judgment has been clouded from filling their donation coffers with the profits of big food corporations.
Here at DailyHealthAlerts.com we ask you to join us… to join the cause against the deceit, lies, and poisoning of our children.
We are all busy and sometimes it can feel overwhelming to try to feed our kids better choices. Begin to educate yourself a little at a time and we are confident that you will find it maddening the farther down the rabbit hole you go.
As parents, we would never give our children a pack of cigarettes to smoke, however, many of us are unknowingly participating in the poisoning of our children by feeding them the very foods that we’ve trusted for years.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/21/0009922814530803.abstract
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/06/09/monsanto-roundup-herbicide.aspx
http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/glyphosate_testing_results
http://www.enveurope.com/content/26/1/14
