The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) issued a statement on Genetically Modified Foods. ?GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.? Because GM foods pose a serious health risk the AAEM calls for a moratorium on all genetically modified foods.
What are the facts? The Non-GMO Shopping Guide has put together a list of FAQs, frequently asked questions and the answers to those questions, based on information in the AAEM statement. There has been no testing for safety of GMOs in the human diet. Testing and observation of animals fed GMOs reveal serious health problems including ?infertility, immune dysregulation, accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis, insulin regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gastrointestinal system.? The AAEM cites the studies and calls for a GMO food moratorium.
1. What is a GMO?
According to the World Health Organization, Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs) are ?organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in such a way that does not occur naturally.?
? A GMO (genetically modified organism) is the end product of a fusion of genes from different species to create one or more desired traits or features.
? The process is also known as Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM).
2. What is a gene?
? All living organisms are made up of cells.
? Each cell has a centre called a nucleus.
