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also consider these factors:


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And that’s not the only potential superbug on the horizon. There’s also a new strain of E. coli floating around out there, and this one has some real bite. In fact, a new study in Clinical Infectious Disease finds that the strain, STS-131, is just one gene away from being untreatable.

Since E. coli is one of the bugs that can pick up the new resistance gene, let’s all hope that STS-131 never meets up with NDM-1.

But I suspect it’s only a matter of time.

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Many consumers don’t understand the process used to develop these GM foods that have been deemed “substantially equivalent” to other foods by executive order, and therefore bypassed with little regulation to the public without their knowledge or consent.

The process behind genetically modified food involves a careful re-configuration of genes combining e-coli bacteria, soil bacteria and the cauliflower mosaic virus that causes tumors in plants. They add an antibiotic and then artificially force it into plant cells with a gene invasion technique. (Watch the process below)[2]. All this is so farmers can douse nearly unlimited amounts of Roundup Herbicide on the crops and the plants won’t die.

They don’t even know how their practices will affect the environment. Out of eight hundred reviewed GE food applications submitted to the USDA, no environmental impact statements (EIS) were conducted. USDA just released a draft of its first EIS on December 14, 2009. A 60-day comment period is open until March 3, 2010. Their final decision will have broad implications for all GE crops[3].

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT!!!!