- The American Academy of Environmental Medicine urges doctors to prescribe non GMO diets for all patients.
- They cite animal studies showing organ damage gastrointestinal and immune system disorders, accelerated aging, and infertility.
- Human studies show how genetically modified food can leave material behind inside your body possibly causing long-term problems.
- GM crops and their associated herbicides can harm birds, insects, amphibians, marine ecosystems, and soil organisms. They reduce biodiversity and are unsustainable.
- For example gm crops are eliminating habitat for monarch butterflies populations are down 50% in the US. Roundup herbicide has been shown to cause birth defects in amphibians.
- GM canola has been found growing wild in North Dakota and California threatening to pass on its herbicide tolerant genes on to weeds.