Much has been written about GMOs. Negative and positive. But I was touched by this phrase, read on the Internet: “There are no reliable methods for determining the consequences of the spread of GMOs and their products for nature and humans. Many of the negative effects of GMOs will only show up over generations.” This is a quote from a report that was written for Vladimir Putin four years ago. It was prepared by the committee of the Federation Council on agrarian and food policy.

So...

The impact on plant genetics is the same impact on nature, only more profound than the impact on the environment.
The use of such products in food cannot carry an improvement in the genetics of the consumer of this product. Simply because the current knowledge of genetics is only destructive, like that of small children who love to poke around in complex toys. As a small child can take apart an alarm clock and “study” it with interest, but assemble, and even more so improve, he can only “put it in a bag” with such an alarm clock.
The idea of ​​the danger of GMOs by ordinary citizens is blunted. Most people do not think about it at all: some due to lack of attention to this topic, and some due to poor awareness.
It is important to understand that for those people who think about their descendants, it is useful to exclude all GMO products from the diet ... out of harm's way ... Take care of your children.
I think today it is no longer a secret to anyone that genetically modified foods are dangerous to the health of people and all living organisms on the planet. They have a particularly negative effect on the immune and genitourinary systems. The immune system is responsible for resistance to pathogenic bacteria and viruses, and the genitourinary system is responsible for the continuation of the Exclamation genus.
The influence of GMOs has not yet been fully studied, but there is a danger that they can lead to the complete death of all living organisms on the planet.
Alien DNA, entering the human body with food, is absorbed from the intestines into the blood, and from there it is able to penetrate into any cell of the body and change (mutate) its DNA. In addition, according to research data, the transgene has a strong resistance to antibiotics.

GMO - genetically modified foods:

List of genetically modified foods:

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being developed as biological weapons, a means of curbing population growth, and a means of undermining the food security of nations.

So first on the list:

Lipton tea

Nescafe coffee

modified coffee now actively grown by the Nescafe company. So far, vast plantations of such coffee are grown only in Vietnam.

List of GMOs:

Manufacturing company Unilever

Lipton(tea)

Brooke Bond(tea)

Conversation(tea)

Calve(mayonnaise, ketchup)

Rama(butter)

donut(margarine)

Delmi(mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine)

Algida(ice cream)

Knorr(seasoning)

Manufacturing company Nestle

Nescafe(coffee and milk)

Maggie(soups, broths, mayonnaise, seasonings, mashed potatoes)

Nestle(chocolate)

Nestea(tea)

Nesquik(cocoa)

Manufacturing company Kellogg's

Corn Flakes (flakes)

Frosted Flakes (flakes)

Rice Krispies (cereal)

Corn Pops (flakes)

Smacks (flakes)

Froot Loops (colored flakes)

Apple Jacks (apple flavored cereal rings)

All-bran Apple Cinnamon/ Blueberry

Chocolate Chip ( chocolate chips)

Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors)

Nutri-grain (filled toast, all types)

Crispix (cookies)

Smart Start (flakes)

All-Bran (cereal)

Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal)

Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (flakes)

Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal)

Cracklin' Oat Bran (cereal)

Manufacturing company Hershey's

Toblerone (chocolate, all kinds)

Mini Kisses (candy)

kit-kat(chocolate bar)

Kisses (candy)

Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies)

Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies)

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter)

Special Dark (dark chocolate)

Milk Chocolate (milk chocolate)

Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Strawberry Syrop (strawberry syrup)

Manufacturing company Mars

Snickers

milky way

Crunch(chocolate rice cereal)

Milk Chocolate Nestle(chocolate)

Nesquik(chocolate drink)

Cadbury(Cadbury/Hersey's)

Fruit & Nut

Company - manufacturer Heinz

Ketchup (regular & no salt) (ketchup)

Chili Sauce (Chili sauce)

Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (meat sauce)

Manufacturing company Hellman's

Real Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Light Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Low-Fat Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Manufacturing company Coca Cola

Coca Cola

Cherry Coca

Minute Maid Orange

Minute Maid Grape

Manufacturing company PepsiCo

Pepsi Cherries

Mountain Dew

Frito-Lay/ PepsiCo (GM components may be present in oil and other ingredients)

Lays Potato Chips (all)(chips )

Cheetos(all) (chips)

Manufacturing company Cadbury/Schweppes

Dr. Pepper

Pringles Manufacturing Company (Procter & Gamble)

Pringles(flavored chips Original, Low Fat, Pizza-licious, Sour Cream & Onion, Salt & Vinegar, Cheezeums)

Honeycan be collected from genetically modified plants.

There is a high frequency of information that bees cannot pollinate genetically modified buckwheat. So, there is one.

Rice.In general, it is better to buy non-anonymous varieties herbal products but quite specific. For example, Basmati rice. There is a high probability that in this case the product will not be GMO.

Anonymous rice, as well as Chinese or Taiwanese, is most likely transgenic.

Russia is one of the main importers of this product from China. However, according to environmentalists, the Chinese have been producing GM rice unofficially and exporting it for two years now.

The fact that genetically modified rice is illegally grown in China was reported by environmentalists in April. “In the spring of 2005, Greenpeace took samples of rice obtained from Chinese suppliers, farmers and millers for genetic testing at the German Genescan laboratory,” Greenpeace Russia spokeswoman Maya Kolikova told NI. – It turned out that more than 2/3 of the samples (19 out of 25) were genetically modified.

When interviewing farmers and grain suppliers from China, we found out that for more than two years, transgenic rice has been illegally grown and actively sold both domestically and abroad.”

The situation, according to environmentalists, is aggravated by the fact that the Chinese government is considering the possibility of legalizing the industrial production of GM rice. The Greens believe that the Russians will suffer the most from the actions of the Chinese authorities - deliveries of the product from this country account for more than 60% of all our rice imports.

However, in this case there are not only minuses, but also pluses. Indeed, until now, rice supplied to Russia was formally considered unmodified, and no checks were made for the content of GMI in it. Therefore, no one can say how many transgenes we have already eaten and will eat again. If the consumer has information about where the rice comes from, he will be able to decide for himself whether to buy this product or not.

Ecologists, however, see the problem not so much in the cereal itself, which can really be abandoned, but in the distribution of products with additives. rice flour, including many children's - milk mixtures and cereals, noodles, semi-finished products. Manufacturers, as a rule, do not indicate the country where the ingredients come from.

I would like to point out that "Indica", a term found on rice packs, is not original title any sort. It just means long grain rice. It may also be from China.

Attention! Signs of transgenic fruits and vegetables.

Is it possible to distinguish modified fruits and vegetables from natural ones?

Too clean, little different from each other potato tubers or perfectly shaped tomatoes - a reason to think. After all, a sure sign of natural natural products is the presence in the total mass of “eaten” by insects and rotten specimens. GM foods are never eaten by insects! If you cut a natural tomato or strawberry, they will immediately give juice, unnatural ones retain their shape.

The most famous products containing GM ingredients:

(according to Greenpeace)

1. Snickers chocolate bars

2. Pepsi

3. Maggi spices

4 Pringles

Vegetable stalls are littered"Volgograd" tomatoesorami like twins similar to Turkish ones. It turns out that in Volgograd for several years only imported "plastic" varieties without taste and smell have been grown on a mass scale.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they turn out to be GMOs. I stopped buying tomatoes of these varieties, and I rarely bought them before.

From the article by E. Yakusheva “What are transgenic products?”:

Now 90% of transgenic food exports are corn and soy. Popcorn, which is sold everywhere on the streets, is 100% made from GM corn, and is still not labeled accordingly. Soy products from North America or Argentina are 80% GM products.

GM foods are attractive to retailers. For example, genetically modified vegetables and fruits are 4-5 times cheaper than their natural counterparts.

From the book of Liniza Zhuvanovna Zhalpanova:

"Foods That Are Killing You":

Transgenic products are purchased by Russia in other countries with the permission of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. According to statistics, about 70% of imported products are made from genetically modified raw materials. Such products include: soy products, flour, chocolate, chocolate bars, wine, baby food, milk powder, milk, kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese, carbonated drinks, canned corn and tomatoes, corn oil, cookies, starch, soy protein, soy oil, soy sauce, lecithin, cottonseed oil, syrups, tomato sauces, coffee and coffee drinks, popcorn, ready-made breakfasts, etc.

It is assumed that part of imported beer also contains genetically modified molecules taken over by the modified yeast drink.

According to the data National Association genetic safety, about 1/3 of all products on the Russian market contain genetically modified components.

Greenpeace handbook "How to avoid the use of products with genetically modified ingredients (GM products)?"

You can from here, from the Greenpeace website

The directory contains lists of food enterprises divided into three categories (green, orange and red lists) according to the criterion of the presence of GM components in products.

IN new year menu often include canned store-bought vegetables. But canned corn and green pea highly undesirable. They are GMO.

According to a month and a half study, our food is simply crammed genetically modified organisms. Moreover, the food is the most popular in our area - sausages, dumplings, dry soups, canned vegetables, chocolates.

Ecologists (Greenpeace and the All-Ukrainian Ecological League) categorically include products of the most famous brands in this list - Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, Gallina Blanka, Knorr, Lipton, Bonduel. FROM complete list companies that have confirmed that their products may contain GM ingredients or have not denied their use can be found at .

“The results of the study showed that 18 out of 42 randomly selected foods contained genetically modified soybeans exceeded 3 percent,” said Mikhail Mukharovskiy, General Director of Ukrmetrteststandart. “Nine of them didn’t list the presence of soy protein at all.”

bonduel, thus blacklisted!

I understand that the accuracy of what is included in the list is not guaranteed, as the sources of information may be questionable. But otherwise, I have practically no way to keep such a list at all.

Orchard Puree Rich- Genetically modified foods.

By the way, the very first genetically modified product on the market is food banana, and any (to increase productivity, it has, roughly speaking, a duplicated set of chromosomes).

If about banana: artificially induced polyploidy is also a form of genetic modification (because the chromosome set becomes larger compared to the original organism), most importantly, cheap and angry. But journalists have not yet learned how to scare people with it.

Firm "Mistral", probably deliberately does not mark on the packs the country of growth of those cereals and legumes that are packaged in them. The fact is that she "lit up" in the sale of American crops, which, most likely, are genetically modified. Not labeled "Basmati Rice" either. Unfortunately, as I only found out today, it could be transgenic with a high degree of probability. From the book Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Underlying of Genetic Manipulation, by William F. Engdahl:

RiceTech, a Texas biotechnology company, has decided that it will receive payments for a patent for basmati rice, a variation that has been a staple for millennia daily nutrition in India, Pakistan and Asia. In 1998, RiceTech patented GM Basmati Rice, and thanks to US laws against genetic labeling, RiceTech was able to sell it legally, labeling it as regular rice"Basmati". RiceTech was found to have taken possession of precious Basmati seeds through dubious means, which had been deposited with the Rockefeller Foundation's International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines (IRRI). (10)

In the name of "security," IRRI duplicated a priceless collection of rice seeds from the Philippines and stored it in a seed bank in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a very dubious promise that the seeds would be stored as a safe seed stock for rice farmers. The IRRI convinced the farmers that it would serve their own security to provide their priceless finds in rice seed varieties to the IRRI.

In Colorado, far from the Philippines, MNIIR donated valuable seeds (without which RiceTech might not have made its patented genetic modifications) to RiceTech researchers, who immediately patented everything that was possible. They knew it was highly illegal: Even in Texas, rice researchers know that Basmati rice doesn't usually grow in the dusty plains around Texas' Crawford. (eleven)

RiceTek, in collusion with MNIIR, stole the seeds for its patent. In addition, according to the carefully crafted rules set by the Rockefeller Foundation's IRRI, although genebank seeds cannot be patented, any man-made improved variation based on them can be patented.

Variety "Jasmine" also has a GM modification.

From the article “Transgenic Senior Tomato and Dolly the Sheep…”:

You can delay the ripening of already harvested fruits by placing them in special conditions. With the help of carbon dioxide, the action of ethylene released by the fruits is blocked. These properties are manipulated by merchants carrying bananas, citrus fruits, and vegetables- and tomatoes and in particular. They are harvested green, and on the way they are treated with ethylene, which causes artificial maturation. Such fruits and vegetables lose their taste qualities, ripen unevenly. And it's easy to verify this. For example, the tomatoes we buy on the market are red on the outside, but white on the inside. The delay in ripening is also connected with the fact that basically those tomatoes that we sell are imported from Turkey, and they are all transgenic. Even on the boxes in which they are packed, it is written: TRANSGEN.

Excerpts from the book of Mikhail Efremov: “Caution! Harmful products!

Additives with a high degree of probability of containing GI components:

E-153 - Vegetable Carbon (vegetable coal);

E-160d - Annatto, Bixin, Norbixin (annatto, bixin, norbixin);

E-161c - Paprika extract, Capsanthin, Capsorubin (paprika extract, capsanthin, capsorubin);

E-308 - Synthetic Gamma-tocopherol (synthetic y-tocopherol);

E-309 - Synthetic Delta-tocopherol (synthetic d-tocopherol);

E -471 – Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids ( mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids);

E-472a Acetic Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids ( esters of mono - and diglycerides of acetic fatty acids);

E -473 - Sucrose Esters of Fatty Acids ( esters of sucrose and fatty acids);

E -475 – Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids ( esters of polyglycerides and fatty acids);

E -476 - Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate ( polyglycerol polyglycerinoleates);

E -477 - Propane-1, 2-diol Esters of Fatty Acids ( propane -1, 2-diol esters of fatty acids);

E -479b – Thermally Oxideized Soya Bean Oll Interacted with Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids ( thermally oxidized soybean and bean oil with mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids);

E -570 - Fatty Acids (fatty acids);

E-951 - Aspartame (aspartame, or nutrosvit).

Additives based on GM components:

Riboflavin (B2)otherwise known as E 101 and E 101A, made from GM microorganisms, approved for sale in a number of countries. It is added in cereals, soft drinks, baby food and weight loss products.Caramel(E 150) and xanthan (E 415) can be made from grain.

Lecithin (E 322) is made from soythat can be genetically modified. Such soy uses, in particular, company Nesltein your chocolate baby food and other products.Other additives that may contain GM components: E 153, E 160 d, E 161 c, E 308-9, E-471, E 472a, E 473, E 475, E 476 b, E 477, E479 a, E 570, E 572, E 573, E 620, E 621, E 622, E 633, E 624, E 625.

I emphasize that food additives for any purpose (technological, to “improve” consumer qualities) can be included, among other things, in dietary supplement. Therefore, it is important to know which food additives prohibited or dangerous.

I saw how it works dairy production. Only milk after that is not very desirable to drink.

And only raw cow's milk can be consumed. You can make yogurt from the store, and not from anyone, but preferably from the one on which it is written that it is made from natural (whole) cow's milk(its fat content is usually listed as 3.4-6%). Drinking such milk in its pure form is not worth it, because it is pasteurized and if you drink it regularly, your joints will start to hurt after a while - most likely due to the deposition of inorganic calcium in them, which appears during pasteurization (passes from an organically bound form to an inorganic one). But you can make yogurt out of it - it turns out quite well and does not cause problems.

But any milk normalized for fat content is a real poison. And even yogurt from such milk turns out to be unimportant, except that from milk with a fat content of no more than 1% - lactobacilli at the very least cope with such concentrations of modified milk fat.

GMO - manufacturing company :

Catbury

Mars

Snickers

Twix

Milky Way

Uncle Bans

Coca Cola

Sprite

7 up

pepsi

Nestle

Knorr

Lipton

Parmalat (cookies)

Similak (baby food)

Potato (from Monsant USA)

LIST OF INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURERS NOTICED TO USE GMOS:

''Greenpeace'' has published a list of companies that use GMOs in their products. Interestingly, in different countries, these companies behave differently, depending on the legislation of a particular country.
In total, more than 120 names (brands) of products with GMOs are registered in Russia, according to the data of voluntary registration and a special register of products imported from abroad. Among the manufacturers whose products contain GMOs are:
OOO ''Daria - semi-finished products'', OOO ''Meat-packing plant Klinskiy'', MPZ ''Taganskiy'', MPZ ''KampoMos'', CJSC ''Vichiunay'', OOO ''MLM-RA'', OOO '' Talostoprodukty'', LLC ''Sausage plant'' Bogatyr'', LLC ''ROS Mari Ltf''.
Unilever manufacturing company: Lipton (tea), Brooke Bond (tea), ''Beseda'' (tea), Calve (mayonnaise, ketchup), Rama (butter), ''Pyshka'' (margarine), ''Delmi'' (mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine), ''Algida'' (ice cream), Knorr (seasonings); Nestle manufacturing company: Nescafe (coffee and milk), Maggi (soups, broths, mayonnaise, Nestle (chocolate), Nestea (tea), Neseiulk (cocoa);
Company manufacturer Kellog's: Corn Flakes (flakes), Frosted Flakes (flakes), Rice Krispies (flakes), Corn Pops (flakes), Smacks (flakes), Froot Loops (colored cereal rings), Apple Jacks (flake rings with apple flavor), Afl-bran Apple Cinnamon/Blueberry (bran with apple, cinnamon, blueberry flavors), Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips), Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors), Nulri grain (filled toast, all types) , Crispix (cookies), All-Bran (cereal), Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal), Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (cereal), Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal), Cracklin'Oat Bran (cereal);
Hershey's Manufacturing Company: Toblerone (chocolate, all types), Mini Kisses (candy), Kit-Kat (chocolate bar), Kisses (candy), Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies), Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies), Reese 's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter), Special Dark ( dark chocolate), Milk Chocolate), Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Setoawberry Syrup (strawberry syrup);
Mars Manufacturing Company: M&M'S, Snickers, Milky Way, Twix, Nestle, Crunch (chocolate rice cereal), Milk Chocolate Nestle (chocolate), Nesquik (chocolate drink), Cadbury (Cadbury/Hershey's), Fruit
Heinz manufacturing company: Ketchup (regular&no salt) (ketchup), Chili Sauce (Chili sauce), Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (sauce for meat);
Coca-Cola manufacturing company: Coca Cola, Sprite, Cherry Cola, Minute Maid Orange, Minute Maid Grape;
PepsiCo manufacturing company: Pepsi, Pepsi Cherry, Mountain Dew;
Frito-Lay / PepsiCo: (GM components may be contained in oil and other ingredients), Lays Potato Chips (all), Cheetos (all);
Manufacturing company Cadbury /Schweppes:7-Up, Dr. pepper;
Pringles Procter&Gamble: Pringles (Original, LowFat, Pizzalicious, Sour Cream&Onion, Salt&Vinegar, Cheezeums flavored chips).
1 Hershey's Cadbury Fruit&Nut chocolate products
2 Mars M&M
3 Snickers
4 Twix
5 Milky Way
6 Cadbury chocolate, cocoa
7 Ferrero
8 Nestle chocolate ''Nestle'', ''Russia''
9 Nestle Nesquik Chocolate Drink
10 Soft drink Sosa-Cola ‘‘Coca-Cola’’ Sosa-Cola
11 ‘‘Sprite’’, ’’Fanta’’, tonic ’’Kinley’’, ’’Fruittime’’
12 Pepci-Co Pepsi 13 ''7-Up'', ''Fiesta'', ''Mountain Dew''
14 Kellogg's breakfast cereal
15 Campbell Soups
16 Rice Uncle Bens Mars
17 Sauces Knorr
18 Lipton Tea
19 Parmalat cookies
20 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Hellman's sauces
21 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Heinz sauces
22 Nestle baby food
23 Hipp
24 Abbot Labs Similac
25 Yoghurts, kefir, cheese, baby food Danon
26 McDonald's (McDonald's) network of ''restaurants'' fast food
27 chocolate, chips, coffee, baby food Kraft (Kraft)
28 ketchups, sauces. Heinz Foods
29 baby food, products ''Delmi'' Unilever (Unilever)

Products in the preparation technology of which GMOs are used:

AOOT ''Nizhny Novgorod Oil and Fat Plant'' (mayonnaises ''Ryaba'', ''For the future'', etc.).
- Products ''Bonduelle'' (Hungary) - beans, corn, green peas.
- CJSC ''Baltimore-Neva'' (St. Petersburg) - ketchups.
- CJSC ''Mikoyanovsky Meat Processing Plant'' (Moscow) - pastes, minced meat.
- ZAO YUROP FOODS GB'' (Nizhny Novgorod region) - soups ''Galina Blanca''.
- Concern ''White Ocean'' (Moscow) - chips ''Russian Potato''.
- OJSC ''Lianozovsky Dairy Plant'' (Moscow) - yogurts, ''Miracle Milk'', ''Miracle Chocolate''.
- OJSC ''Cherkizovsky MPZ'' (Moscow) - frozen minced meat.
- LLC ''Campina'' (Moscow region) - yoghurts, baby food.
- LLC ''MK Gurman'' (Novosibirsk) - pastes.
- LLC ''Frito'' (Moscow region) - chips ''Layz''.
- OOO ''Ehrmann'' (Moscow region) - yoghurts.
- OOO ''Unilever CIS'' (Tula) - mayonnaise ''Calve''.
- Factory ''Bolshevik'' (Moscow) - biscuits 'Jubilee'.
- ''Nestle'' (Switzerland, Finland) - dry milk mixture ''Nestogen'', mashed potatoes ''Vegetables with beef''.

note how carefully products for children are screened out - everywhere there are GMOs, not there, and if your child does not eat yogurt, then he eats Nesquik or cereal or mashed potatoes. And one way or another, but GMO gets
into his body. In supermarkets, this is the situation now: absolutely all products are labeled ''GMO-free''. We read the composition on the label: modified soy, modified starch etc.

GMO, Genetically modified organism is a living organism whose genotype has been artificially altered using methods genetic engineering

It is widely known that many products may contain GM additives or be completely genetically modified. Apply this miracle modern science in order to qualitatively change the properties of a product. To do this, scientists introduce into the gene structure of a plant or animal the gene of another plant or animal. But the effect of the introduced gene has not yet been fully studied, so no one knows how useful or harmful products containing GM additives are for humans.

It is up to you and only you to decide whether or not to eat such foods, and if you are determined to eat natural products without GM additives, you need to learn to recognize such products.

If you decide to completely abandon genetically modified foods, then you just need to remember a few signs of GMOs.

Signs of GMOs in foods on your table

1. Gm products do not spoil for a long time, so if vegetables or fruits are perfectly shaped, have been in the store for a long time and do not change, most likely they are GMOs.

2. If the product Made in America or Asia and contains corn, potato starch, soy flour, then it's probably GMO.

3. If the product is manufactured in Europe and has the label "Does not contain GMO", it is most likely an environmentally friendly product. But believing the green circles on products that say "non-GMO" is somewhat difficult in this regard.

4. If sausage is cheap, then most likely soy concentrate is added to it, which may be a GM additive.

5. If you or your family have an allergy, perhaps this is the body's reaction to the use of GM foods.

GMOs cannot be distinguished from pure foods without laboratory testing, so your health and the health of your children depends only on you.

Genetically modified organisms are most often used in the production of food products, which include soy, rapeseed, corn and potatoes. And it can be: meat, bakery, fish and confectionery. Most often, these products contain vegetable proteins based on soy. In addition, there are a large number of different GMO food supplements.

Nutritionists, doctors and psychologists advise getting rid of the phobia of genetically modified foods, and worrying more about the right, balanced diet. Less frequent visits to fast food places like McDonald's, eat less Snickers and drink Coca-Cola.

It is also useful to remember the names of some companies that, according to the state register, supply GM raw materials to their customers in Russia or are themselves producers:

Central Soya Protein Group, Denmark;
. OOO "BIOSTAR TRADE", St. Petersburg;
. CJSC "Universal", Nizhny Novgorod;
. Monsanto Co., USA;
. Protein Technologies International Moscow, Moscow;
. Agenda LLC, Moscow;
. ZAO ADM-Food Products, Moscow;
. JSC "GALA", Moscow;
. CJSC Belok, Moscow;
. Dera Food Technology N.V., Moscow;
. Herbalife International of America, USA;
. OY FINNSOYPRO LTD, Finland;
. Salon Sport-Service LLC, Moscow;
. Intersoy, Moscow.

Most products based on soy not produced in the US, but outside of Russia, can also be transgenic. If the label proudly says “vegetable protein”, it is most likely soy and very likely transgenic.

Often GMOs can be hidden behind E indices. However, this does not mean that all E supplements contain GMOs or are transgenic. You just need to know which E can, in principle, contain GMOs or their derivatives.

It is primarily soy lecithin or E 322 lecithin: binds water and fat together and is used as a fat element in formula milks, biscuits, chocolate, riboflavin (B2) otherwise known as E 101 and E 101A, can be produced from GM microorganisms. It is added to cereals, soft drinks, baby food and weight loss products. Caramel (E 150) and xanthan (E 415) can also be produced from GM grain.

Other additives that may contain GM components: E 153, E 160d, E 161c, E 308-9, E-471, E 472a, E 473, E 475, E 476b, E 477, E479a, E 570, E 572, E 573, E 620, E 621, E 622, E 633, E 624, E 625, E951.

Sometimes on the labels the names of additives are indicated only in words, they also need to be able to navigate. Let's take a look at the most common components.

Soybean Oil: Used in sauces, spreads, cakes and well-done foods in the form of fat to add extra flavor and quality. vegetable oil or vegetable fats: most commonly found in biscuits, deep fried foods such as chips. Maltodextrin: A type of starch that acts as a "master agent" used in baby food, powdered soups, and powdered desserts.
Glucose or glucose syrup: a sugar that can be made from cornstarch, used as a sweetener. Found in drinks, desserts and foods fast food.
Dextrose: Like glucose, it can be made from cornstarch. Used in cakes, chips and cookies to achieve brown color. Also used as a sweetener in high energy sports drinks.
Aspartame, Aspasvit, Aspamix: A sweetener that can be produced using a GM bacterium is restricted in several countries and is reported to have received a lot of complaints, mainly related to fainting syndrome, from consumers in the United States. Aspartame is found in carbonated water, diet sodas, chewing gum, ketchups, etc.

Many people think that the label "modified starch" on a product means that the product contains GMOs. This even led to the fact that in 2002 the Legislative Assembly of the Perm region at its meeting included yoghurts with modified starch in the list of GM products illegally distributed in the region. In fact, modified starch is obtained chemically without the use of genetic engineering. But starch itself can have a genetically engineered origin if it was obtained from GM corn, GM potatoes.

During the test, the highest percentage of GM soybeans was found in the Veal Traditional boiled sausage produced by the Cherkizovsky plant. GMIs were most often found in the products of the same manufacturer, as well as in the products of the D.E.C. V.S. company (trademark "Rollton").

Among the manufacturers whose products contain GMOs, there were also:

LLC "Daria - semi-finished products";
. OOO Meat Processing Plant Klinskiy;
. MPZ "Tagansky";
. MPZ "Kampomos";
. CJSC "Vichunai";
. LLC "MLM-RA";
. Tolsto-products LLC;
. Ostankino MPK;
. LLC “Sausage plant “Bogatyr””;
. LLC Rose Marie Ltf;
. ML "Mikoyanovsky";
. JSC "Tsaritsyno";
. JSC "Lianozovsky sausage factory"

Our favorite dumplings also turned out to be genetically modified, namely: “Dumplings without haste, pork and beef”, “Daria classic dumplings”, GMOs were found in “Vkusnye” beef steaks.

GMOs - genetically modified foods:

List of genetically modified foods:

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being developed as biological weapons, a means of curbing population growth, and a means of undermining the food security of nations.

So first on the list:

Lipton tea

Nescafe coffee

Modified coffee is now actively grown by Nescafe. So far, vast plantations of such coffee are grown only in Vietnam.

List of GMOs:

Manufacturing company Unilever

Brooke Bond (tea)

Conversation (tea)

Calve (mayonnaise, ketchup)

Rama (oil)

Pyshka (margarine)

Delmi (mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine)

Algida (ice cream)

Knorr (seasoning)

Nestle manufacturing company

Nescafe (coffee and milk)

Maggi (soups, broths, mayonnaise, seasonings, mashed potatoes)

Nestle (chocolate)

Nesquik (cocoa)

Kellog's manufacturing company

Corn Flakes (flakes)

Frosted Flakes (flakes)

Rice Krispies (cereal)

Corn Pops (cereals)

Smacks (cereals)

Froot Loops (colored flakes)

Apple Jacks (apple flavored cereal rings)

All-bran Apple Cinnamon/ Blueberry

Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips)

Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors)

Nutri-grain (filled toast, all types)

Crispix (cookies)

Smart Start (flakes)

All-Bran (cereal)

Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal)

Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (flakes)

Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal)

Cracklin' Oat Bran (cereal)

Hershey's manufacturing company

Toblerone (chocolate, all kinds)

Mini Kisses (candy)

Kit-Kat (chocolate bar)

Kisses (candy)

Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies)

Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies)

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter)

Special Dark (dark chocolate)

Milk Chocolate (milk chocolate)

Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Strawberry Syrop (strawberry syrup)

Mars manufacturing company

Crunch (chocolate rice cereal)

Milk Chocolate Nestle (chocolate)

Nesquik (chocolate drink)

Cadbury (Cadbury/Hershey's)

Heinz manufacturing company

Ketchup (regular & no salt) (ketchup)

Chili Sauce (Chili sauce)

Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (meat sauce)

Hellman's manufacturing company

Real Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Light Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Low-Fat Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Coca-Cola manufacturing company

Minute Maid Orange

Minute Maid Grape

PepsiCo manufacturing company

Frito-Lay/ PepsiCo (GM components may be present in oil and other ingredients)

Lays Potato Chips (all) (chips)

Cheetos (all) (chips)

Manufacturing company Cadbury/Schweppes

Pringles Manufacturing Company (Procter & Gamble)

Pringles (Original, Low Fat, Pizza-licious, Sour Cream & Onion, Salt & Vinegar, Cheezeums flavored chips)

Honey can be harvested from genetically modified plants.

There is a high frequency of information that bees cannot pollinate genetically modified buckwheat. So, there is one.

Rice. In general, it is better to buy not anonymous varieties of plant products, but quite specific ones. For example, Basmati rice. There is a high probability that in this case the product will not be GMO.

Anonymous rice, as well as Chinese or Taiwanese, is most likely transgenic.

Russia is one of the main importers of this product from China. However, according to environmentalists, the Chinese have been producing GM rice unofficially and exporting it for two years now.

The fact that genetically modified rice is illegally grown in China was reported by environmentalists in April. “In the spring of 2005, Greenpeace took samples of rice obtained from Chinese suppliers, farmers and millers for genetic testing at the German Genescan laboratory,” Greenpeace Russia spokeswoman Maya Kolikova told NI. - It turned out that more than 2/3 of the samples (19 out of 25) were genetically modified.

When interviewing farmers and grain suppliers from China, we found out that for more than two years, transgenic rice has been illegally grown and actively sold both domestically and abroad.”

The situation, according to environmentalists, is aggravated by the fact that the Chinese government is considering the possibility of legalizing the industrial production of GM rice. The Greens believe that the Russians will suffer the most from the actions of the Chinese authorities - deliveries of the product from this country account for more than 60% of all our rice imports.

However, in this case there are not only minuses, but also pluses. Indeed, until now, rice supplied to Russia was formally considered unmodified, and no checks were made for the content of GMI in it. Therefore, no one can say how many transgenes we have already eaten and will eat again. If the consumer has information about where the rice comes from, he will be able to decide for himself whether to buy this product or not.

Ecologists, however, see the problem not so much in the cereal itself, which can really be abandoned, but in the distribution of products with the addition of rice flour, including many children's products - milk formulas and cereals, noodles, semi-finished products. Manufacturers, as a rule, do not indicate the country where the ingredients come from.

I would like to point out that "Indica", a term found on rice packs, is not the original name of any variety. It just means long grain rice. It may also be from China.

Attention! Signs of transgenic fruits and vegetables.

Is it possible to distinguish modified fruits and vegetables from natural ones?

Too clean, slightly different from each other potato tubers or perfectly shaped tomatoes - a reason to think. After all, a sure sign of natural natural products is the presence in the total mass of “eaten” by insects and rotten specimens. GM foods are never eaten by insects! If you cut a natural tomato or strawberry, they will immediately give juice, unnatural ones retain their shape.

The most famous products containing GM ingredients:

(according to Greenpeace)

1. Snickers chocolate bars

3. Maggi spices

4 Pringles

Vegetable counters are littered with "Volgograd" tomatoes, like twins similar to Turkish ones. It turns out that in Volgograd for several years only imported "plastic" varieties without taste and smell have been grown on a mass scale.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they turn out to be GMOs. I stopped buying tomatoes of these varieties, and I rarely bought them before.

From the article by E. Yakusheva “What are transgenic products?”:

Now 90% of transgenic food exports are corn and soybeans. Popcorn, which is sold everywhere on the streets, is 100% made from GM corn, and is still not labeled accordingly. Soy products from North America or Argentina are 80% GM products.

GM foods are attractive to retailers. For example, genetically modified vegetables and fruits are 4-5 times cheaper than their natural counterparts.

From the book of Liniza Zhuvanovna Zhalpanova:

"Foods That Are Killing You":

Transgenic products are purchased by Russia in other countries with the permission of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. According to statistics, about 70% of imported products are made from genetically modified raw materials. Such products include: soy products, flour, chocolate, chocolate bars, wine, baby food, milk powder, milk, kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese, carbonated drinks, canned corn and tomatoes, corn oil, biscuits, starch, soy protein, soy oil, soy sauce, lecithin, cottonseed oil, syrups, tomato sauces, coffee and coffee drinks, popcorn, breakfast cereals, etc.

Some of the imported beer is also believed to contain genetically modified molecules taken over by the beer from the modified yeast.

According to the National Association for Genetic Safety, about 1/3 of all products on the Russian market contain genetically modified components.

Greenpeace handbook "How to avoid the use of products with genetically modified ingredients (GM products)?"

You can from here, from the Greenpeace website

The directory contains lists of food enterprises divided into three categories (green, orange and red lists) according to the criterion of the presence of GM components in products.

The New Year's menu often includes canned store-bought vegetables. But canned corn and green peas are highly undesirable. They are GMO.

According to a month and a half study, our food is simply crammed with genetically modified organisms. Moreover, the food is the most popular in our area - sausages, dumplings, dry soups, canned vegetables, chocolates.

Ecologists (Greenpeace and the All-Ukrainian Ecological League) categorically include in this list products of the most famous brands - Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, Gallina Blanka, Knorr, Lipton, Bonduel. For a complete list of companies that have confirmed that their products may contain GM ingredients or have not denied their use, see www.ecoleague.net.

“The results of the study showed that in 18 out of 42 randomly selected food products, the content of genetically modified soybeans exceeded 3 percent,” said Mikhail Mukharovskiy, General Director of Ukrmetrteststandart. “Nine of them didn’t list the presence of soy protein at all.”

Bonduel is thus blacklisted!

I understand that the accuracy of what is included in the list is not guaranteed, as the sources of information may be questionable. But otherwise, I have practically no way to keep such a list at all.

Orchard, Rich puree - genetically modified products.

By the way, the very first genetically modified product on the market is a food banana, and any one (to increase productivity, it has, roughly speaking, a duplicated set of chromosomes).

If about a banana: artificially induced polyploidy is also a form of genetic modification (because the chromosome set becomes larger compared to the original organism), most importantly, cheap and angry. But journalists have not yet learned how to scare people with it.

The Mistral company, probably, deliberately does not mark on the packs the country of growth of those cereals and legumes that are packed in them. The fact is that she "lit up" in the sale of American crops, which, most likely, are genetically modified. Not labeled "Basmati Rice" either. Unfortunately, as I only found out today, it could be transgenic with a high degree of probability. From the book Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Underlying of Genetic Manipulation, by William F. Engdahl:

RiceTech, a Texas biotech company, has decided that it will receive patent payments for Basmati rice, a variation that has been a daily staple in India, Pakistan and Asia for thousands of years. In 1998, RiceTech patented genetically modified Basmati rice, and thanks to US laws against labeling genetic products, RiceTech was able to sell it legally, labeling it as regular Basmati rice. RiceTech was found to have taken possession of precious Basmati seeds through dubious means, which had been deposited with the Rockefeller Foundation's International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines (IRRI). (10)

In the name of "security," IRRI duplicated a priceless collection of rice seeds from the Philippines and stored it in a seed bank in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a very dubious promise that the seeds would be stored as a safe seed stock for rice farmers. The IRRI convinced the farmers that it would serve their own security to provide their priceless finds in rice seed varieties to the IRRI.

In Colorado, far from the Philippines, MNIIR donated valuable seeds (without which RiceTech might not have made its patented genetic modifications) to RiceTech researchers, who immediately patented everything that was possible. They knew it was highly illegal: Even in Texas, rice researchers know that Basmati rice doesn't usually grow in the dusty plains around Texas' Crawford. (eleven)

RiceTek, in collusion with MNIIR, stole the seeds for its patent. In addition, according to the carefully crafted rules set by the Rockefeller Foundation's IRRI, although genebank seeds cannot be patented, any man-made improved variation based on them can be patented.

Variety "Jasmine" also has a GM modification.

From the article “Transgenic Senior Tomato and Dolly the Sheep…”:

You can delay the ripening of already harvested fruits by placing them in special conditions. With the help of carbon dioxide, the action of ethylene released by the fruits is blocked. These properties are manipulated by merchants carrying bananas, citrus fruits, and vegetables - and tomatoes in particular. They are harvested green, and on the way they are treated with ethylene, which causes artificial maturation. Such fruits and vegetables lose their taste, ripen unevenly. And it's easy to verify this. For example, the tomatoes that we buy on the market are red on the outside, but white on the inside. The delay in ripening is also connected with the fact that basically those tomatoes that we sell are imported from Turkey, and they are all transgenic. Even on the boxes in which they are packed, it is written: TRANSGEN.

Excerpts from the book of Mikhail Efremov: “Caution! Harmful products!

Additives with a high degree of probability of containing GI components:

E-153 - Vegetable Carbon (vegetable coal);

E-160d - Annatto, Bixin, Norbixin (annatto, bixin, norbixin);

E-161c - Paprika extract, Capsanthin, Capsorubin (paprika extract, capsanthin, capsorubin);

E-308 - Synthetic Gamma-tocopherol (synthetic y-tocopherol);

E-309 - Synthetic Delta-tocopherol (synthetic d-tocopherol);

E-471 - Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids);

E-472a - Acetic Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids;

E-473 - Sucrose Esters of Fatty Acids (esters of sucrose and fatty acids);

E-475 - Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids (esters of polyglycerides and fatty acids);

E-476 - Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate (polyglycerol polyglycerinoleates);

E-477 - Propane-1, 2-diol Esters of Fatty Acids (propane-1, 2-diol esters of fatty acids);

E-479b - Thermally Oxideized Soya Bean Oll Interacted with Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids

E-570 - Fatty Acids (fatty acids);

E-951 - Aspartame (aspartame, or nutrosvit).

Additives based on GM components:

Riboflavin (B2) otherwise known as E 101 and E 101A, made from GM microorganisms, is approved for sale in a number of countries. It is added to cereals, soft drinks, baby food and weight loss products. Caramel (E 150) and xanthan (E 415) can be made from grain.

Lecithin (E 322) is produced from soy, which can be genetically modified. Such soy is used, in particular, by the Neslte company in its chocolate, baby food and other products. Other additives that may contain GM components: E 153, E 160 d, E 161 c, E 308-9, E-471, E 472a, E 473, E 475, E 476 b, E 477, E479 a, E 570, E 572, E 573, E 620, E 621, E 622, E 633, E 624, E 625.

I emphasize that food additives for any purpose (technological, to “improve” consumer qualities) can be included in dietary supplements as well. Therefore, it is important to know which of the food additives are prohibited or dangerous.

I saw how dairy production works. Only milk after that is not very desirable to drink.

And only raw cow's milk can be consumed. You can make yogurt from the store, and not from anyone, but preferably from the one on which it is written that it is made from natural (whole) cow's milk (its fat content is usually indicated as 3.4-6%). Drinking such milk in its pure form is not worth it, because it is pasteurized and if you drink it regularly, your joints will start to hurt after a while - most likely due to the deposition of inorganic calcium in them, which appears during pasteurization (passes from an organically bound form to an inorganic one). But you can make yogurt out of it - it turns out quite well and does not cause problems.

But any milk normalized for fat content is a real poison. And even yogurt from such milk turns out to be unimportant, except that from milk with a fat content of no more than 1% - lactobacilli at the very least cope with such concentrations of modified milk fat.

GMO - manufacturing company:

Milky Way

Uncle Bans

Coca Cola

Parmalat (cookies)

Similak (baby food)

Potato (from Monsant USA)

LIST OF INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURERS NOTICED TO USE GMOS:

''Greenpeace'' has published a list of companies that use GMOs in their products. Interestingly, in different countries, these companies behave differently, depending on the legislation of a particular country.
In total, more than 120 names (brands) of products with GMOs are registered in Russia, according to the data of voluntary registration and a special register of products imported from abroad. Among the manufacturers whose products contain GMOs are:
OOO ''Daria - semi-finished products'', OOO ''Meat-packing plant Klinskiy'', MPZ ''Taganskiy'', MPZ ''KampoMos'', CJSC ''Vichiunay'', OOO ''MLM-RA'', OOO '' Talostoprodukty'', LLC ''Sausage plant'' Bogatyr'', LLC ''ROS Mari Ltf''.
Unilever manufacturing company: Lipton (tea), Brooke Bond (tea), ''Beseda'' (tea), Calve (mayonnaise, ketchup), Rama (butter), ''Pyshka'' (margarine), ''Delmi'' (mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine), ''Algida'' (ice cream), Knorr (seasonings); Nestle manufacturing company: Nescafe (coffee and milk), Maggi (soups, broths, mayonnaise, Nestle (chocolate), Nestea (tea), Neseiulk (cocoa);
Company manufacturer Kellog's: Corn Flakes (flakes), Frosted Flakes (flakes), Rice Krispies (flakes), Corn Pops (flakes), Smacks (flakes), Froot Loops (colored cereal rings), Apple Jacks (flake rings with apple flavor), Afl-bran Apple Cinnamon/Blueberry (bran with apple, cinnamon, blueberry flavors), Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips), Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors), Nulri grain (filled toast, all types) , Crispix (cookies), All-Bran (cereal), Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal), Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (cereal), Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal), Cracklin'Oat Bran (cereal);
Hershey's Manufacturing Company: Toblerone (chocolate, all types), Mini Kisses (candy), Kit-Kat (chocolate bar), Kisses (candy), Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies), Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies), Reese 's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter), Special Dark (dark chocolate), Milk Chocolate milk chocolate), Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Setoawberry Syrup (strawberry syrup);
Mars Manufacturing Company: M&M'S, Snickers, Milky Way, Twix, Nestle, Crunch (chocolate rice cereal), Milk Chocolate Nestle (chocolate), Nesquik (chocolate drink), Cadbury (Cadbury/Hershey's), Fruit
Heinz manufacturing company: Ketchup (regular&no salt) (ketchup), Chili Sauce (Chili sauce), Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (sauce for meat);
Coca-Cola manufacturing company: Coca Cola, Sprite, Cherry Cola, Minute Maid Orange, Minute Maid Grape;
PepsiCo manufacturing company: Pepsi, Pepsi Cherry, Mountain Dew;
Frito-Lay / PepsiCo: (GM components may be contained in oil and other ingredients), Lays Potato Chips (all), Cheetos (all);
Manufacturing company Cadbury /Schweppes:7-Up, Dr. pepper;
Pringles Procter&Gamble: Pringles (Original, LowFat, Pizzalicious, Sour Cream&Onion, Salt&Vinegar, Cheezeums flavored chips).
1 Hershey's Cadbury Fruit&Nut chocolate products
2 Mars M&M
3 Snickers
4 Twix
5 Milky Way
6 Cadbury chocolate, cocoa
7 Ferrero
8 Nestle chocolate ''Nestle'', ''Russia''
9 Nestle Nesquik Chocolate Drink
10 Soft drink Sosa-Cola ‘‘Coca-Cola’’ Sosa-Cola
11 ‘‘Sprite’’, ’’Fanta’’, tonic ’’Kinley’’, ’’Fruittime’’
12 Pepci-Co Pepsi 13 ''7-Up'', ''Fiesta'', ''Mountain Dew''
14 Kellogg's breakfast cereal
15 Campbell Soups
16 Rice Uncle Bens Mars
17 Sauces Knorr
18 Lipton Tea
19 Parmalat cookies
20 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Hellman's sauces
21 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Heinz sauces
22 Nestle baby food
23 Hipp
24 Abbot Labs Similac
25 Yoghurts, kefir, cheese, baby food Danon
26 McDonald's (McDonald's) fast food restaurant chain
27 chocolate, chips, coffee, baby food Kraft (Kraft)
28 ketchups, sauces. Heinz Foods
29 baby food, products ''Delmi'' Unilever (Unilever)

Products in the preparation technology of which GMOs are used:

— AOOT ''Nizhny Novgorod Oil and Fat Plant'' (mayonnaises ''Ryaba'', ''For the future'', etc.).
- Products ''Bonduelle'' (Hungary) - beans, corn, green peas.
- CJSC ''Baltimore-Neva'' (St. Petersburg) - ketchups.
- CJSC ''Mikoyanovsky Meat Processing Plant'' (Moscow) - pastes, minced meat.
- CJSC EUROP FOODS GB '' (Nizhny Novgorod region) - soups ''Galina Blanca''.
- Concern ''White Ocean'' (Moscow) - chips ''Russian Potato''.
- OJSC ''Lianozovsky Dairy Plant'' (Moscow) - yoghurts, ''Miracle Milk'', ''Miracle Chocolate''.
- OJSC ''Cherkizovsky MPZ'' (Moscow) - frozen minced meat.
- LLC ''Campina'' (Moscow region) - yoghurts, baby food.
- LLC ''MK Gurman'' (Novosibirsk) - pastes.
- OOO ''Frito'' (Moscow region) - chips ''Layz''.
- LLC ''Ermann'' (Moscow region) - yogurts.
- OOO ''Unilever CIS'' (Tula) - mayonnaise ''Calve''.
- Factory ''Bolshevik'' (Moscow) - cookies 'Jubilee'.
- ''Nestlé'' (Switzerland, Finland) - dry milk mixture ''Nestogen'', mashed potatoes ''Vegetables with beef''.

Pay attention to how carefully the products for children are screened out - everywhere there are GMOs, not here and there, and if your child does not eat yogurt, then he eats Nesquik or cereal or mashed potatoes. And one way or another, but GMO gets into his body. In supermarkets, this is the situation now: absolutely all products are labeled ''GMO-free''. We read the composition on the label: modified soy, modified starch, and so on.

Update: October 2018

To date, in many countries (including Russia), the concept of GMOs has been turned into practically equivalent to the concepts of "products that cause mutations and tumors." GMOs are being slandered from all sides and for a variety of reasons: unsafe, tasteless, threatening the country's food independence. Are these same GMOs so terrible, and what is it really, let's try to figure it out.

GMO - deciphering the concept

Genetically modified organisms are living organisms modified by genetic engineering. In a narrow sense, the concept applies to plants. Previously, breeders like Michurin had to achieve certain useful (from a human point of view) properties in plants using various tricks: grafting cuttings of one tree onto another or selecting plants with certain qualities for sowing seeds, and then long and hard to wait for results that persisted only after a couple of generations of plants. Today you can move the right gene to the right place and get what you want.

Thus, GMOs are the acceleration of evolution and its direction in the right direction.

How are GMOs created?

Several techniques can be used to create a GMO plant. Today, the most popular method is transgenes. To do this, the desired gene (for example, drought resistance) is isolated from the DNA chain in its pure form, and then it is introduced into the DNA of the modified plant.

Genes can be taken from related species, and then the process is called cisgenesis. When a gene is taken from species that are far from the given organism, they speak of transgenesis.

There are horror stories about transgenesis. Having learned that now there is wheat with the scorpion gene, many begin to fantasize about whether those who eat it will now grow a tail and claws and whether poison will appear in saliva. Numerous illiterate publications on websites and forums, where the topic of GMOs is actively discussed, add fuel to the fire.

This is not the only thing that scares potential consumers of GMO products by “specialists” who are little familiar with biology and biochemistry.

Products containing GMOs

GMO products today have agreed to call everything that is genetically modified organisms or all products that contain components of such organisms. That is, not only genetically modified corn or potatoes will be GMO food, but also sausages, in which, in addition to sodium nitrate, toilet paper and liver, GMO soy will be added. But the meat of a cow fed with GMO wheat will not be a GMO product. And that's why.

Do GMOs fit into our cells?

Journalists who did not read any normal physiology and biochemistry, understanding the relevance and relevance of the GMO topic, but too lazy to seriously study the issue, launched a “duck” to the masses that the cells of GMO products, getting into our stomach and intestines, are absorbed into the bloodstream and spread throughout organs and tissues, where they cause mutations and cancerous tumors.

It is with great regret that this fantasy plot is untenable. Any food in the stomach and intestines breaks down into its constituent parts under the action of gastric juice, pancreatic secretion and intestinal enzymes. And these constituent parts are by no means genes and not even proteins, but:

Then, in different parts of the gastrointestinal tract, all this beauty is absorbed into the bloodstream and consumed either for:

• getting energy (sugar)
• either for its reserves (fats)
• or as a building material of human own proteins (amino acids)

And if, for example, we take a certain genetically modified organism (say, an ugly apple that looks more like a cucumber), then it will be calmly chewed, swallowed and decomposed into its component parts just like any other that has not undergone genetic modification. Let's give another somewhat strange / creepy example, but which will explain in a more popular way that genes are not integrated anywhere when digested in the gastrointestinal tract: if a crocodile (or cannibal) eats a child with Down syndrome and eats a healthy child, both of them will be digested equally and by no one way will not affect the crocodile or cannibal.

Other GMO horror stories

The second, no less chilling, tale concerns the fact that transgenes are integrated into the human genome and lead to, God knows what, terrible consequences, such as the same cancers and infertility.

Risk of cancer: The French first wrote about cancer in mice fed with genetically modified grain in 2012. In fact, the leader of the experiment, Gilles-Eric Séralini (Institute of Biology, University of Caen, France), made a sample of 200 Sprague-Dawley rats, a third of which were fed genetically modified corn grain, a third - genetically modified herbicide-treated corn, and a third - conventional corn grains. As a result, those female rats that ate GMO within two years in 80% gave the growth of tumors. Males, on such a diet, developed liver and kidney pathologies. Characteristically, a third of the rats on a normal diet also died from tumors of various organs, and in general this line of rats is prone to the spontaneous appearance of tumors, regardless of the nature of the diet. So the purity of the experiment is doubtful, and it was declared unscientific and untenable.

Previously, similar surveys were carried out in 2005 by the biologist Ermakova (Russia). She made a report at a conference in Germany on high mortality mice fed genetically modified soybeans. After that, this statement, as confirmed in a scientific experiment, went for a walk around the cities and villages, bringing young mothers to hysteria, forced to feed their children with artificial mixtures, in which this GMO soybeans are simply heaps. Subsequently, five Nature Biotechnology experts agreed on the ambiguity of the Russian experiment and did not recognize its reliability.

In conclusion of this section, I would like to write that even if some piece of foreign DNA (as some sources write about) gets into the human bloodstream, then this genetic information will not be integrated anywhere and will not lead to anything. Yes, in nature there are cases of embedding pieces of the genome into a foreign one. For example, some bacteria spoil the genetics of flies in this way. But in higher animals such phenomena are not described. In addition, there is more than enough different genetic information in all other products without any GMOs. And if until now they are not built into our genetic material, then you can continue to safely eat everything that the body can digest and assimilate.

GMOs: harm or benefit

The American company Monsanto introduced genetically modified cotton and soybeans to the market already in 1982. They also own the authorship of the herbicide Roundup, which kills all vegetation, except GMO-modified.

In 1996, when Monssanto's GMO products were thrown onto the market, competing corporations, saving their income, launched a large-scale campaign to limit the circulation of products containing GMOs. The first in the persecution of GMOs was the British scientist Arpad Pusztai, who fed rats with GMO potatoes. True, later experts smashed all the calculations of the scientist to smithereens.

Potential harm from GMO products for Russians

• No one hides the fact that on the lands sown with GMO grains, nothing will ever grow again, except for themselves. This is due to the fact that herbicide-resistant varieties of soybean or cotton are not washed with herbicide, which can be sprayed in any quantity, achieving the total extinction of other vegetation.
• The most commonly used herbicide is glyphosate.. In fact, it is sprayed even before the ripeness of what gets into food, quickly decomposes in plants and does not persist in the soil. But resistant GMO plants allow you to spray it very, very much, which increases the risks of its accumulation in GMO vegetation. Glyphosate is also known to cause obesity and overgrowth. bone tissue. And in the US and Latin America, there are too many overweight people.
• Many GMO seeds are designed for only one sowing. That is, what grows out of them will no longer give offspring. This is more of a commercial ploy, as it increases the sales of GMO seeds. There are excellent GMO plants that produce excellent next generations.
• Allergization. Since some artificial genetic mutations (for example, in potatoes or soybeans) can increase its allergenic properties, they say that all GMOs are powerful allergens. But some varieties of peanuts, devoid of their usual proteins, do not cause allergies even in those who previously suffered from it on this particular product.
• GMO plants can outcompete other varieties of their own species. Due to the characteristics of pollination, they can reduce the number of other varieties of their species. That is, if two plots are planted side by side with GMO wheat and ordinary wheat, there is a risk that the GMO will displace the usual one, pollinating it. Who would let her grow up next to her.
• Dependence on firms-holders of the seed fund. Having abandoned its own seed funds and switching only to GMO seeds, especially disposable ones, the state will sooner or later become food dependent on the holders of the seed fund of GMO plants.

The answer to the aspirations of the people

After repeated replication in all the media of tales and horror stories about GMO products, the vector of wide public outcry turned against the intrigues of imperialism, completely denying the possibility of expensive Russians eating harmful and unsafe products containing GMOs or their traces.

Rospotrebnadzor, meeting the wishes of compatriots, participated in numerous conferences on this issue. In March 2014, at a conference in Italy, a Rospotrebnadzor delegation took part in technical consultations on the low content of GMOs in food products and the low content of GMO products themselves in Russia's trade turnover. Thus, today a course has been adopted to almost completely exclude GMO products from the Russian food market and the use of GMO plants in agriculture has been delayed, although in 2013 it was planned to start using GMO seeds (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 23, 2013).

The Ministry of Education and Science went even further and, taking into account popular aspirations, proposed instead of the “non-GMO” mark to use a barcode that would contain all the information about the genetic modification of this product or its absence. The beginning is good, but it will be impossible to read the barcode without a special device.

CONCLUSION: the GMO issue is clearly overblown, the real consequences of long-term consumption of GMO foods are unknown, authoritative scientific experiments to date, no action has been taken on this issue.

For those who are still afraid of eating GMO foods, here is a partial list of foods containing GMOs.

List of GMO food manufacturers

The same product manufacturing company can produce three categories of the same product:

• the first - for domestic consumption (in industrialized countries)
• the second - for export to other developed countries
• the third - for export to developing countries

The third category includes about 80% of food, beverages, tobacco products exported from the US and Western Europe. According to the UN Food Commission, some Western firms are expanding the export of goods not only environmentally hazardous, but also prohibited in developed countries.

Meanwhile, more than two hundred types of food additives are not allowed for use in Russia due to the incompleteness of the testing complex. Listing them would take too much space.

Let's name only preservatives and emulsifiers that are completely prohibited and definitely harmful to humans:

And in conclusion, I would like to name some dangerous preservatives and emulsifiers that can negatively affect your health. As a rule, labeling with their name is given on product packaging.

• E121 - citrus red dye
• E123 - red amaranth
• E240 - formaldehyde preservative
• suspicious: E-104, E-122, E-141, E-150, E-171, E-173, E-180, E-241, E-477
• prohibited: E-103, E-105, E-111, E-125, E-126, E-130, E-152
• dangerous: E-102, E-110, E-120, E-124, E-127
• contribute to the development of oncology: E-131, E-142, E-210, E-211, E-212, E-213, E-215, E-216, G: 217, E-240, E-330
• harmful to the skin: E-230, E-231, E-232, E-238
• contribute to the occurrence of a rash: E-311, E-312 and E-313
• cause intestinal disorders: E-221, E-222, E-223, E-224 and E-226
• indigestion: E-322, E-338, E-339, E-340, E-311, E-407, E-450, E-461, E-462, E-463, E-465, E-466
• increase pressure: E-250 and E-251
• increase cholesterol: E-320 and E-321

Last fall, the Cabinet of Ministers canceled the decision on mandatory labeling of food products containing genetically modified components. There are double standards in the world: what is exported to Europe notifies the consumer about the share of GM components with inscriptions on the package, and for Ukraine they stamp separate jars and packages on which there are no such inscriptions.

Our legislators say that they decided to abolish the marking because it is one of the conditions for joining the WTO. However, in reality there is no such requirement. All countries in Europe have adopted the label and our image in front of the EU suffers greatly. In Ukraine, even before the abolition of labeling, complete chaos reigned in this area. And now the turnover of GMO products will not be controlled by anyone. It will be possible to import any products into our country, and thereby increase toxic and allergenic risks. Moreover, we will not even be able to calculate the proportion of GMOs on the shelves. There are only 3 laboratories in Ukraine, and they obviously will not be able to cope with this task, at least 10 are needed.

According to unofficial information, almost half of the country's sown area is occupied by genetically modified soybeans and corn. And as a result: according to a study by Gospotrebstandart, half of our shelves are occupied by mutant products. grocery stores. For example, the results of an experiment conducted in different supermarkets in Kiev, which are part of the network throughout the country, showed that 18 out of 42 randomly selected food products, the content of genetically modified soybeans exceeded 3% (0.9% is considered a safe norm). At the same time, 9 of them did not indicate the presence of soy protein at all.

Genetically modified - plants first appeared in Canada in 1996. In 1997 Four GM crops were allowed to be used: cotton, corn, canola and soybeans. Then the farmers were told - using such seeds, you will get more yield and use less chemicals. But in the end, everything turned out the other way around - the use of chemicals increased 15 times.

From the history of the issue. The experience of using GMOs in Canada has shown that economic, legal, environmental and ethical problems have been exposed. The sharply increased need for chemicals can be attributed to economic ones - their doses have increased by more than 15 times. This is because the plant is getting used to the chemical. In addition, due to pollination, several mutations occur in plants, and therefore the need for processing increases - the consumption of chemicals increases significantly. That is, so-called "super-resistant" weeds appear. One can only guess how many chemicals end up in food products.

The Colorado potato beetle has been known to become paralyzed when it eats. genetically modified potatoes. In another study, ladybugs were fed aphids that were bred on genetically modified potatoes. Their life span was shortened and pathological changes were found in their organs. In another experiment, a genetically modified pollen. The larvae have died.

The list of genetically modified foods includes the most popular food in our area: sausages, dumplings, instant cereals, sausages, dry soups, canned vegetables, chocolate. Ecologists from Greenpeace and the All-Ukrainian Ecological League include products of the most famous brands in this list. Genetically modified foods are often found in canned food. Corn - 80% of genetically modified varieties. Studies have confirmed that corn, peas, and beans most often carry foreign genes. A whole bunch of genetically modified products can be used in mayonnaise, sauces, dry soups, seasonings. Here and soy, and starch, and vegetable oils. Chips and other processed potato products are all made from varieties of specially genetically modified potatoes. "From ordinary potato it is simply impossible to make chips,” say experts.

Children also eat GMO foods. soy flour is part of bakery products, in many varieties of sweets and chocolate. Famous carbonated drinks contain caffeine. The grains from which it is produced can also be genetically modified. However, the main danger is synthetic dyes and flavor enhancers contained in these drinks. Without soybean oil, the production of cheese, cottage cheese, and fermented milk products is indispensable. Soybean oil is widely used in baby food.

With all the negative research, the harm of GMO products is not obvious and has not been fully proven. Not only that, they also have supporters. They say that natural products are not able to feed the entire population of the planet. In addition, due to climate change, many fruits and cereals produce too small yields, but GMOs are not sensitive to climate change. One of the main arguments in favor of GMOs is their low cost compared to natural products. Yet none of these arguments is worth a person's health. Moreover, we are talking about changing our genotype.

Experiments on mice and rats, which are said to be able to survive even after a nuclear explosion, have shown that those animals that are fed genetically modified products, females give a smaller offspring, body and brain weight decreases.

The use of GMOs, according to experts of Gospotrebstandart, can cause metabolic disorders, human resistance to antibiotics. Of the most serious consequences - congenital malformation in infants. Recent studies by Russian specialists have confirmed the conclusions of their foreign colleagues: the more a person consumes GMO products, the greater the risk of malignant changes in the blood, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, the higher the likelihood of obstruction blood vessels, allergic diseases.

Foods that often turn out to be genetically modified:

• Soybeans, soy milk, soy sauce.
• Corn and products of its processing: frozen and canned, popcorn, corn chips and flakes.
• Rape.
• Rice and its products.
• Potatoes and products from it: chips, starch.
• Tomatoes, plus: tomato pastes, puree, sauce, ketchup, juice.
• Instant soups and cereals.
• Canned meat and vegetable, fish and vegetable.
• Confectionery, chocolate.
• Flour confectionery: cookies, biscuits, gingerbread, waffles, crackers, cakes, pastries and muffins.
• Zucchini, eggplant, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, onions, peas, peppers.
• Sugar beet.
• Sausages and sausage products.
• Meat semi-finished products.
• Olives, olives.
• Apples, pears, quince, cherries, apricots, sweet cherries, peaches, nectarines, plums, melons.
• Baby food: formulas for feeding, cereals, purees, canned food.

The artificial addition of foreign genes grossly disrupts the finely tuned genetic control of a normal cell. At present, this young science is technically imperfect. Knowledge about the molecule of heredity - DNA - is very incomplete. As a result of the artificial addition of a foreign gene, dangerous substances can unexpectedly be formed. In the worst case, these are toxins or allergens. New dangerous viruses may emerge. Knowledge about the impact on the environment of organisms modified by genetic engineering is completely insufficient. Ecologists have made assumptions about various possible environmental complications.
For example, uncontrolled transfer of genes to bacteria and viruses is quite possible. Changes in the environment will be unrepairable, as once released genes cannot be taken back.

GMOs have already firmly entered our lives.

What products are useful for modern people?

In light of the completely uncontrollable advance of GMOs, we are increasingly asking ourselves: how to defend ourselves?

Firstly, we do not know exactly how many GMOs in each particular day and hour of our lives, we must protect ourselves.

Secondly, the issue with the benefit-harm ratio of GMOs has not yet been fully resolved. The theoretical messages of supporters and opponents of GMOs so far inspire confidence in the only conclusion: it is not clear. We listen to the pros and cons more closely, simply because the potential harm to health deserves more attention than glib reports of economic benefits. Thus, the argument of the opponents of GMOs “the transfer of genes from GMOs to human microflora is PROBABLE”, activates the search for high-quality and useful microflora that can be introduced into your body.

So, if we accept the thesis “it is unknown, but you need to defend yourself” as a basis, then:

1. What to protect yourself from?
2. By what means?
3. How long to take protective equipment?

We will immediately answer the last question - how long. Can you tell yourself for sure: I didn't eat any GMOs today? If you answered yes to yourself, then protection today is, as it were, not needed.

But here's another question: if you defend yourself with natural remedies, then you need to take into account some inertia in the assimilation of natural remedies. For example, if you decide to protect yourself with live beneficial bacteria with natural genes, then give these bacteria a certain margin of time so that they can assimilate in the system digestion, settle down and begin to benefit. Hence the obvious conclusion: pre-provision, i.e. providing yourself with protective equipment in advance is the most reliable way for natural protection.

The answer to question number 1: what are we protecting ourselves from? From the clogging of our organisms with microflora, the genes of which have "crossed" with the genes of GMO products.

We must also anticipate the most common risks attributed to GMOs: metabolic disorders, risk of cancer, allergies, and immune failure.

Tsipriyan V.I., "Health and Diet Nutrition"

Prevention of dysbacteriosis is an extremely important point in maintaining health. Assistance in putting things in order with the microflora is provided by genetically and environmentally friendly products rich in natural substances: Loklo , Garlic , Liquid Chlorophyll , Bifidophilus Flora Force .

Consumer ABC: GMOs are genetically modified organisms, GMPs are genetically modified products.

At a press conference on world day Food, Greenpeace named the names of major Russian food manufacturers that mislead consumers by claiming that they do not use genetically modified ingredients (GMI). In addition, the leading researcher of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, I. Ermakova presented new evidence of the dangers of products with GMI.

BLACK LIST OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS:

Pay attention to how many products for children!

1 Snickers
2 Campbell Soups
3 Rice Uncle Bens Mars
4 Lipton Tea
5 Mars M&M
6 Twix
7 Milky Way
8 Cadbury chocolate, cocoa
9 Ferrero
10 Nestle chocolate "Nestle", "Russia"
11 Nestle Nesquik Chocolate Drink
12 Soft drink Coca-Cola Coca-Cola Coca-Cola
13 Sprite, Fanta, Kinley Tonic, Fruittime
14 Pepci-Co Pepsi
15 7-Up, Fiesta, Mountain Dew
16 Kellogg's Breakfast Cereals
17 Sauces Knorr
18 Parmalat cookies
19 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Hellman’s sauces
20 Seasonings, mayonnaise, Heinz sauces
21 Baby food Nestle
22 hipp
23 Abbot Labs Similac
24 Yoghurts, kefir, cheese, baby food Denon
25 McDonald's (McDonald's) a chain of "restaurants" fast food
26 chocolate, chips, coffee, baby food Kraft (Kraft)
27 ketchups, sauces. Heinz Foods
28 baby food, Delmi Unilever products (Unilever)

Do we want to use products with transgenics?
The companies OJSC Darya Semi-finished Products (trademark Darya), MPZ Kampomos, PC CJSC Korona, ML Mikoyanovsky, OJSC Chelny Kholod, OJSC Tsaritsino, OJSC Lianozovsky Sausage Plant, that they do not use GMI. However, random checks by Greenpeace and the Centers for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (TSGSEN) showed that this is not true.

The highest percentage of GM soybeans was found in the Veal Traditional boiled sausage produced by the Cherkizovsky plant. GMIs were most often found in the products of the same manufacturer, as well as in the products of the company D.E.C. V.S. (trademark Rolton).

Meanwhile, the problem of using GMI looks more and more serious against the background of new data obtained by scientists. So at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, GMO safety studies are being conducted. According to Irina Ermakova, in rats fed with GMI, the mortality rate of offspring increased. Moreover, developmental anomalies were noted in animals, such as low weight, excessive aggressiveness, both offspring and lactating females - they stopped taking care of their offspring.

“The reasons for such anomalies are in the GM feed,” said Irina Ermakova. - At the end of the experiment, the morphologists of the institute examined internal organs rats. They had changes in the liver and testicles. Note that in their morphology and biochemistry, rats are very similar to humans. That is why these animals are often used in laboratory experiments.”

“Until the safety of GMI products is proven, their widespread production and sale is essentially a global experiment on the population of the entire country. At least now it is necessary to introduce a single label on food products with GMI and prohibit their use in baby food, - said Natalya Olefirenko, coordinator of the Greenpeace genetic program. “We are also preparing the publication of a special directory of baby food manufacturers.”

7 companies that did not keep their promises to consumers not to use GMI were included in the "Black" list of manufacturers. In addition, Greenpeace has compiled an "Orange" list of companies that have not provided evidence that they have taken all measures to exclude the further use of GMIs, as well as those in whose products GMIs were found before they confirmed in writing their refusal to use them. There is also a "Green" list of companies declaring that they do not use transgenes. All of these lists of manufacturers will be included in the 3rd edition of the Greenpeace consumer guide, which is in press and will be released in the next few days.

“Until Russia has adopted a single label for products containing GMI, and companies are deceiving their consumers, the surest way to choose products without transgenes is to focus on information from the Greenpeace directory,” added Natalia Olefirenko.

Greenpeace Russia surveyed more than 1,000 food companies in Russia, and selective inspections of manufacturers were also carried out by the Centers for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance and Greenpeace experts. All this data is included in the 3rd edition of the consumer guide, which is being prepared for publication.

A public opinion poll conducted by VTsIOM showed that more than 95% of Russians prefer not to use transgenic products. This will only be possible if the labeling rules introduced in January 2005, which require that all products containing transgenes must be labelled, are followed. However, inspection data showed that not a single GM product was labelled.

The Russian Soy Union has officially called for a moratorium on the cultivation of transgenic soybeans in Russia. Union President Anatoly Ustyuzhanin noted: “Currently, there is no commercial production of genetically modified soybeans on the territory of Russia. The Soybean Union is fighting for the development of food production from domestic raw materials of non-genetically modified plants.”
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