THINKING (about causality)

What diseases have been emerging as GMOs have become more prevalent in grocery stores? Increase in Food Allergies While there have been no direct studies of the relationship between GMO crops and allergies, it is significant to note the sudden rise in food allergies during the same time period that GMO crops’ ingredients have become widely used in the majority of our food. (According to a 2005 estimate by the Grocery Manufacturers of America, 75% of all processed foods in the U.S. contain at least one genetically modified ingredient.)

The statistics began mounting in the late 1990s—again, right at the time when GMOs became mainstream in processed and fast food: the majority of children in the US now have life-threatening allergies to corn, milk, peanuts or other related GM foods; peanut allergies alone doubled from 1997 to 2002: 1 out of every 50 children is allergic to peanuts in the United States. Over the last 10 years (during which GMOs have become widespread in the U.S.), 1 out of every 17 children in the U.S. developed a food allergy, and hospital emergency rooms across the nation experienced a 265% increase in food allergy emergencies.

Increasing asthma (& increasing GMO consumption)

Increasing AUTISM & increasing GMO consumption

Increasing AUTISM & increasing organic food consumption

Decreasing number of pirates & increase in global temperature

Reduction in Cervical Cancer (PAP Smear introduced in 1950s)

Lukas Kambic, U Hawaii student “My mom ate organic food exclusively and did yoga all the time, and she died of a brain aneurysm,” 1. yoga caused her death 2. organic food caused her death 3. Yoga AND organic food caused her death 4. other:

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