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13. I seen a documentary just a week or so ago....
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 06:26 AM
Dec 2012

.... on FreeSpeech TV, with cattle and hog farmers (not the factory growing kind) that told of what happens when they changed their livestock to GMO feed. One cattle farmerx said he lost 90% of his herd. Other cattle owners, after loosing 2-3 cows, changed them off the GMO feed, back to their regular non-GMO feed and they stopped keeling over and dying. A hog farmer changed his hogs over to GMO food, and he said it changed their personalities from happy squealing/playful animals to lethargic/sick. After 3 days, he put them back on their regular non-GMO feed and the hogs perked back up and were their happy healthy selves again. (He didn't let it go until he found them dead.) And these weren't "experiments".

If it does this to livestock, doesn't it stand to reason that humans who consume GMO foods might have some kind of negative reaction to it too?

Does anyone remember that case back around about 8-10 years ago at Taco Bell restaurants? The corn that got into taco bell food was from corn that was meant for livestok feed, and it made people sick? They had to pull all of that corn product out before they could reopen the restaurants. My son was effected by it. Never had a sick day in his life, BUT, he loved tacos from taco bell. And all of a sudden he was having trouble breathing. Took him to ER and they gave him a couple hand inhalers and sent him home. It was the same week that all of this happened at Taco Bell. He didn't go back to Taco Bell anymore.

Shouldn't someone start calling Bill Maher a "purist"? AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #1
Yeah. Because it is such a rarity around here... geckosfeet Dec 2012 #6
Wow...the ignorance from Nick Gillespie is quite astounding... TruthBeTold65 Dec 2012 #2
I really think that's beside the point -- Even if it was safe as safe can be, we have a right to gateley Dec 2012 #4
I would add, why the Insurance capitalist companies would not 'pressure' the polititians they 'own' Amonester Dec 2012 #7
He said he wasnt afraid to eat it. I bet he wasnt afraid to smoke in the 50's either. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #9
You must not be familiar with Nick Gillespie if you're astounded by his ignorance FreeBC Dec 2012 #10
Monsanto Rules the Food Chain. unterrified democrat Dec 2012 #3
Here is one of several NON GMO, heirloom, respected seed sources: dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #17
I agree with Bill and Rachel here food should be labled jimlup Dec 2012 #5
Corps want to assume it's safe until proven unsafe. We should assume it's unsafe until proven safe. rhett o rick Dec 2012 #8
Why would anybody want to read rudycantfail Dec 2012 #11
Here's the thing adieu Dec 2012 #12
I seen a documentary just a week or so ago.... ReRe Dec 2012 #13
See also... Genetic Roulette, for further evidence of GMO's in our food chain MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #15
Everything is so politicized in this country.... ReRe Dec 2012 #16
Reagan also used to say... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #18
REALLY! I wonder if we sent little packages of ketchup to the needy here and abroad? ReRe Dec 2012 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author pathansen Dec 2012 #14
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