Carcinogen found in soy should trash bogus GMO safety standard
You won’t find it on any of the food labels in your kitchen cabinets or refrigerator.
But that doesn’t mean this toxic ingredient isn’t there.
Every time you take a bite of breakfast cereal – or that microwaveable TV dinner – you might be getting a mouthful of formaldehyde.
The same formaldehyde used by funeral homes to preserve dead bodies. The one that’s been known for years to cause cancer.
A shocking new study claims that we’re being poisoned by genetically modified (GMO) foods. And one of the most popular GMOs on the market may be soaked in dangerous levels of poisonous formaldehyde that could leave you sick – or worse.
They even sold that tall tale to our government. Years ago the FDA ruled that GMO crops were “substantially equivalent” to non-GMOs, even though there’d never been any safety testing.
Of course, getting one of Monsanto’s lawyers appointed to a key FDA post probably helped.
But the more research that pours in on these GMO Frankenfoods we’re all eating, the more concerned we all need to be.
In a study just published in Agricultural Sciences, MIT-trained biologist Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai found smoking-gun proof that dangerous levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde are building up in GMO soy.
And that’s a major health problem, because 94 percent of the soy grown in the United States is GMO (I’ll show you how to avoid it in a moment). It’s used in baby formula and is added as a cheap filler to literally hundreds of processed food products sitting in your supermarket or kitchen right now.
Using a new technology that analyzed 6,497 laboratory experiments done at 184 scientific institutions all over the world, Dr. Ayyadurai found that genetic engineering seems to interfere with the soy plant’s natural stress response.
That causes formaldehyde to build up – all while the plant becomes depleted in glutathione, a healthy antioxidant that your body uses to fight disease.
“Formaldehyde is a known class 1 carcinogen,” said Dr. Ray Seidler, a former senior scientist with the EPA. “It’s elevated presence in [GMO] soybeans… deserves immediate attention and action from the FDA and the Obama administration.”
Well, good luck getting Obama to do anything when it comes to GMOs.
As I’ve told you before, the World Health Organization recently declared that the weed killer Roundup used on GMO crops like soy probably causes cancer.
Our government hasn’t done a darned thing to protect us since. And the House just passed a bill – nicknamed the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act – that could prevent GMO labeling forever.
Even though they’re now under attack from GMO giants and their media friends, scientists like Seidler and Ayyadurai say this latest study shows why it’s important for all of us to know what we’re eating. And it calls into question the whole process the FDA uses to declare GMOs “substantially equivalent” to non-GMO foods.
That’s because the FDA is using criteria like how the food looks and smells, but isn’t testing for harmful chemicals like formaldehyde that could kill you.
It’s a standard that feels a lot more like it was written by Monsanto – and not by concerned government scientists trying to protect our health.
Fortunately, there are a few simple ways you can try to keep this GMO soy off your plate. You can either:
- Buy only certified organic products.
- Check for the Non-GMO Project seal on the label. You can click here to search for a list of non-GMO foods.
- Check the ingredients on any food you buy to make sure a product contains no soy. Keep in mind that if the food is not organic and doesn’t carry the Non-GMO Project seal, you can practically guarantee the soy on the label is GMO.
Sources:
“Systems Biology Group, International Center for Integrative Systems: GMO Soy Accumulates Formaldehyde & Disrupts Plant Metabolism, Suggests Peer-Reviewed Study, Calling For 21st Century Safety Standards” Systems Biology Group, July 14, 2015, prnewswire.com
“New study: GMO soy accumulates cancerous formaldehyde” Christina Sarich, July 17, 2015, The Natural Society, naturalsociety.com
