GMOs
Tell Sec. Kennedy: GMOs Should Not Be GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe)
On March 10, 2025, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., promised to close the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loophole that allows dangerous food additives to enter the marketplace without premarket safety testing. This could mean GMOs, given a blanket GRAS exemption in 1992, might finally be safety tested as food additives!
Genetically modified foods should have been regulated under Congress’s 1958 Food Additives law. This would have required each new GMO to go through a rigorous premarket review to be approved or rejected based on scientific evidence, but in 1992, the George H.W. Bush Administration’s Food & Drug Administration exempted GMOs from the law by declaring them “generally recognized as safe.” GRAS was meant for common, pre-1958 processed food ingredients like sugar and gelatin. It should never have been used to give a free pass to a new technology that would put things in our food we’d never eaten before.
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be highlighting each of the genetically engineered, synthetic, nanotech, and synbio Frankenfoods that entered our food supply through the GRAS loophole and demanding that Sec. Kennedy take these substances off the market unless and until they successfully complete the food additive review.
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This Week’s GRAS Action: Tell Sec. Kennedy to Ban Roundup Ready Crops
ROUNDUP READY CROPS – Engineered to withstand the direct application of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup, these were the first GMO crops. In 1996, Roundup Ready soy was planted; in 1997, cotton; in 1998, corn and canola; in 2008, sugar beets; and in 2011, alfalfa. When farmers didn’t rush to buy the expensive, patented seeds, Monsanto‘s seed monopoly allowed it to force them to by taking all the non-GMO seeds off the market. Its devious plot to increase its pesticide sales worked. Roundup quickly became the most-used agricultural chemical of all time, one of the health consequences being an explosion in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among pesticide applicators and farmers.
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready GMOs clearly should have been treated as food additives. If they were, Monsanto would have had to prove that no harm would result from their use, through extensive toxicity and feeding studies. Instead, home gardeners, pesticide applicators and farmers have been the guinea pigs. The data from this unethical human field trial is overwhelming. Roundup’s main ingredient glyphosate causes cancer, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It can cross the blood-brain barrier, making it a contributing factor in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
People exposed to Roundup are at a higher risk of infertility. In women, glyphosate may be causing polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis, due to its endocrine-disrupting capabilities and reproductive toxicity. In men, glyphosate can negatively impact sperm quality and reduce sperm counts, while decreasing testosterone in male offspring. Mothers’ glyphosate exposure during pregnancy increases their children’s risk of abnormal brain development and poor functioning, including increasing the risks of autism spectrum disorder.
To learn more about the systemic effects of Roundup Ready crops, watch the documentary Into the Weeds that follows groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson’s fight for justice against Monsanto (now Bayer) while suffering a debilitating and terminal illness.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Sec. Kennedy to Ban Roundup Ready Crops!
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