Personal Injury Law

Global Food Supply Poses Serious Health Risks

Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, Esquire and Catherine Bertram, Esquire

Leading scientists at last week's Total Health Show 2009, held in Toronto, warned that changes to the global food supply are desperately needed to avoid serious health risks, according to a report in Medical News Today.  One world-known scientist--Dr. Shiv Chopra-- stated that the removal of "antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and pesticides, would transform the safety and sustainability of the food supply," notes the report. According to Dr. Chopra and others, the infusion of these unnecessary products is driven "less by need and more by the profit motives of major corporations." 

Genetically engineered foods are flooding the marketplace.  The worlds governments, with America as a leader, must take immediate steps to control the dangerous flow of unpredictable and harmful products into the food supply. Companies and governments need to put people over profits!

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Full post as published by DC Metro Area Personal Injury Law Blog on April 25, 2009 (boomark / email).