“Just over sixty-five years ago, over 40 percent of the protein in the American diet came from grain, bread and cereal. Now just 17 percent comes from the plant sources, while animal protein, which used to supply half of our protein intake, now supplies over two-thirds of all the protein we consume.”
Jeremy Rifkin, Economist, Social Critic, Author – The Third Revolution
Considering our current lifestyle, it is easy to forget that we are interdependent on the same natural ecosystems as many other species on Earth. Today, in the delicate ecological trinity of plant, honeybee and human has been breached and the weight of evidence is indicating genetically engineered, industrial agriculture is a major contributing factor.
For all the empty promises the bioseed corporations have made to try and convince consumers that GMO food is safe, a study from University of Sherbrooke, in Quebec, Canada is perhaps the most telling.
"There is more than a casual association between GM/GE foods and adverse health effects. There is causation, as defined by recognized scientific criteria."
American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM), May 2009
Factory Farms in USAIf you find this image disturbing as your heart goes out to the US citizens who live and work in these animal sweatshops, you may find it interesting that Canadians are really no better off. Canadian livestock produced approximately 164 billion kilograms of manure in 2001. That amount of manure would fill Toronto's Rogers Centre sky dome stadium 103 times per year.
"In the first time in our history we have created a self-reproducing biological system that we cannot control and whose consequences are uncertain, unpredictable and potentially dangerous."
Arpad Pusztai, Ph.D., FRSE, Biochemist and Nutritionist
