Tell the FDA that the GMO Impossible Burger needs real safety tests before it's
sold to consumers.
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Dear Supporter,
Even if you prefer organic veggie burgers or grass-fed beef, even if you’d never
touch the genetically engineered Impossible Burger
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The future of food—and public health—is at stake.
TAKE ACTION BY SEPTEMBER 3: Tell the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to safety
test the GMO Impossible Burger— before the burger is sold to consumers!
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[[link removed]]The GMO Impossible Burger is so packed with poisons, that if eating it makes you
sick, you’ll never be able to figure out which ingredient to blame.
Mercola.com reports
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potentially be GMO and/or contaminated with glyphosate:
"… Soy Protein Concentrate … Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors … Potato Protein,
Methylcellulose (possibly from cotton), Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food
Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin … Soy Protein Isolate, Mixed Tocopherols
(Vitamin E) … Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C),
Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin
B12."
Impossible Foods, the Silicon Valley-based maker of the Impossible Burger,
admits that consumers could experience adverse reactions to its lab-grown
burger.
But in its warning to consumers
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In other words, don’t blame the GMO ingredients!
Impossible Burger’s main ingredient is GMO soy
[[link removed]] . While organic fermented soy products like tofu or miso are healthy foods, the
highly processed GMO soy in the burger is a nutritionally inferior junk food
ingredient.
GMO soy is genetically engineered to soak up glyphosate
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lymphoma as a result of using the weedkiller.
The other GMO ingredient in the Impossible Burger is soy leghemoglobin, or heme,
which gives the burger its color and makes it “bleed.”
Rather than getting the heme straight from soy, Impossible Foods makes it [[link removed]] by taking the genes that code for the soy leghemoglobin protein, inserting them
into a species of yeast called Pichia pastoris, then feeding the genetically
modified yeast sugar and minerals, to make it grow, replicate and manufacture
heme. Then the heme is extracted from the yeast.
So many things can go wrong with this process. And it would be very difficult to
detect contamination, before it was too late.
In 1989, a food supplement, L-tryptophan
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toxic. It killed 37 people and disabled more than1500 others.
In the L-tryptophan incident, the product was greater than 99 percent pure,
devoid of DNA, and the toxin was present in less than 0.1 percent of the final
marketed product. Still, it caused disease and death.
Dangers like this are why GMOs need to be safety tested.
The American Medical Association’s Council on Science and Public Health supports
mandatory safety assessments prior to release of genetically modified foods
because of “a small potential for adverse events . . . due mainly to horizontal
gene transfer, allergenicity and toxicity.”
The National Academy of Sciences concluded that genetic modification posed a
higher risk of introducing unintended changes into food than any other
crop-breeding method other than mutation breeding, a method in which plant
genomes are bombarded with radiation or chemicals to induce mutations.
The World Health Organization has stated: “Different GM organisms include
different genes inserted in different ways. This means that individual GM foods
and their safety should be assessed on a case-by-case basis and that it is not
possible to make general statements on the safety of all GM foods.”
The WHO recommends that “adequate post-market monitoring” is carried out to
ensure the safety of genetically modified foods. Yet such monitoring is not
carried out anywhere in the world.
That’s why nearly 300 independent scientists from around the world issued a public warning
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modified food, and that the risks, as demonstrated in independent research, gave
“serious cause for concern.”
The Impossible Burger is getting all kinds of media attention
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The final FDA comment period on GMO heme comes to a close on September 3. This
is your last chance to weigh in on the need for real regulation of GMOs.
TAKE ACTION BY SEPTEMBER 3: Tell the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to safety
test the GMO Impossible Burger— before the burger is sold to consumers!
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TAKE ACTION
[[link removed]]Thank you!
Alexis, for the OCA Team
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