"Rudy Canoza" > wrote in message ...

> pearl wrote:

> > 'Dangers of Genetically Engineered Foods
> >
> > (Footnotes refer to pages in the book Seeds of Deception
> > by Jeffrey M. Smith.)
>
> Smith is a crackpot, and is not considered
> authoritative.

http://www.iol.ie/~creature/boiled%20ball.html .

> You can always find some published
> Luddite on this kind of thing; doesn't mean he's right.

'Review from Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts,
[- the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation]
December 2003
Review by Sally Fallon

"The Washington Post reported that mice, usually happy to munch on
tomatoes, turned their noses up at the genetically modified FlavrSavr
tomato that scientists were so anxious to test on them. . . . The mice
were eventually force-fed the tomato through gastric tubes and
stomach washes. Several developed stomach lesions; seven of forty
died within two weeks. The tomato was approved without further tests."

This is one of many reports admirably presented in Jeffrey Smith's
important book on genetically engineered organisms (GMOs), Seeds
of Deception.
.....'
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/util...e/?objectID=96

'Review from The Milkweed, September, 2003
(Dairy Industry Newspaper)
Book Review by Pete Hardin

In mid-August, Jeffrey M. Smith self-published a fact-packed new
book, Seeds of Deception, that lays bare the complex world of
genetically modified foods. In my opinion, Smith's book is the
next Silent Spring. The facts included in Seeds of Deception
devastate the vacuous arguments laid out by biotechnology industry
proponents, their hirelings, and government officials who supposedly
protect the safety of our nation's food supply.
.....'
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/util.../?objectID=101

'Foreword to UK Edition of Seeds of Deception, by Jeffrey Smith
By Michael Meacher

This is a brilliant book which combines shrewd dissection of the true
nature of GM technology, a devastating critique of the health and
environmental hazards of GM crops, and scarifying examples of the
manipulation of both science and the media by the biotech industry.

Despite the British Government's GM Nation Debate in mid-2003, the
level of understanding of GM remains alarmingly low in the UK. This
book should be compulsory reading, not only for the general public,
but for the decision-makers even more so who have never been
exposed to systematic analysis of the problems created by GM.
.....'
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/util...e/?objectID=11

'Good Enough To Eat? I Doubt It
Reviewed By John Newton, A Herald Food Writer.
Sydney Morning Herald
April 3, 2004 Pg. 12

Seeds Of Deception
By Jeffrey M. Smith
Scribe, 292 pp, $30
...
The scientific arguments around this topic are complex for the
non-scientist. Smith has managed to explain both argument and
process clearly.

Anybody with an interest in the safety and regulation of our food
supply anybody interested in what goes into their and their family's
mouths should read this book. Most especially our own Gene
Technology Regulator.

http://www.seedsofdeception.com/util...e/?objectID=48

'Review from GM Weekly, December 2003
From 12/5/03 GM Weekly watch number 50
Book of the Month
...
Jeffrey Smith, who used to work for a GM testing company, has
written the story of the GM foods scam in an account that is as
compelling as it is lucid. Once I'd started it, I couldn't put it down.
Smith has an extraordinary gift for writing about this complex and
highly technical subject in prose that romps along as effortlessly
as a railway station novelette -- but without compromising one
iota of journalistic integrity or scientific rigour.

Among the glowing commendations of the book is one by Arpad
Pusztai that pays tribute to Smith's presentation of the science:
"A particular strength of the book -- and this will be hated by the
pro-GM lobby -- is that it uses a very colourful but easily
understandable language to describe what is usually described as
'high' science. My greatest compliment is that even though I am
a scientist I got some special insights into the workings of the
recombinant DNA technology from Jeffrey Smith's enjoyable
presentation."
....
Now we know: it's no accident that supposedly balanced TV and
radio programmes about GM name all the scientific credentials of
the pro-GM spokespersons and show them looking important and
serious in their labs, whereas the anti-GM voices are worried
housewives and angry bearded greenies shown chopping veg in
their kitchens or ripping up crops in a field. References by anti-GM
spokespeople to scientific research are edited out; all that's left is
the 'emotive' element that the pro-GM lobby uses as a stick to beat
us with.

The biotech industry wants us to see and swallow such messages,
products of a spin machine they hope remains in the shadows.
Smith gives us a clear vision of what they don't want us to see: a
master plan by corporations to take over the control of the world's
food supply. At a 1999 industry conference, a consultant from
Arthur Anderson Consulting Group explained how he helped
Monsanto create that plan. He asked Monsanto to describe what
their ideal future looked like in 15-20 years. Monsanto executives
described a world in which 100% of all commercial seeds were
genetically modified and patented. Anderson worked backwards
from that goal and developed the tactics to achieve it. Those tactics
are laid bare in this book. Smith interviews courageous scientists
and officials who were expected to fall in with the plan but wouldn't
- and there are more of them than you might think -- often paying
with their reputations and careers.

Sprinkled between the big GM stories are fascinating anecdotes that
Smith has evidently picked up from his privileged position on the
fringes of the industry. We read of a biochemist's shocked response
at an industry conference to a company's vaunting of a GM tomato
that looks fresh 150 days after it's picked: "I have a problem. If this
doesn't rot or decay in 150 days, then what have you done with the
nutrient value?" The industry honcho refuses to answer in front of
the other delegates, but leads the biochemist outside the room and
says: "We're not interested in the nutritive value. What we're
interested in is if it's picked now, will a housewife buy it in 180 days?"

If such stories strike a chill into your heart, you can warm it up
again by reading the inspirational chapter on how former prisoners
and disruptive schoolchildren in Wisconsin turned their lives
around JUST by changing their diet. Out go the junk foods, in
come the fresh unprocessed foods. One judge even 'sentences'
new probationers to the healthy diet, warning them that if they
don't stick to it they'll be back in trouble, and then it'll be jail. One
previously violent school has seen no incidents of weapons, drugs,
suicides, dropouts or expulsions in the five years since it put its
students on the program. The story shows that the sort of people
we become and the sort of societies we inhabit depend heavily on
the quality of the food we eat. All the more reason for genetic
engineers and their friends in government to take responsibility
and end their insane acts of terror against our food.
....'
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/util...e/?objectID=95