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Consumers hold the ultimate power by how they spend their dollars at the grocery store. As consumers become better informed, they demand better foods higher in nutrition, free of pesticides and genetically modified components. This improved demand forces producers to eventually supply what the consumer is demanding. The increase in CSA’s, farmer’s markets and Whole Foods stores is a testament to the purchasing power of the consumer. Due to consumer pressure, Whole Foods now labels what items they sell to be non-GMO.Food is supposed to be life giving. It is supposed to be “our daily bread”. Sadly, modern farming practice has converted food production into a cesspool of poison and genetically engineered “franken-foods” scientifically proven to cause human suffering including cancer, bowel, liver and kidney disease, infertility environmental pollution and resistant strains of infections, weeds and insect pests.  From A1 milk to farm-raised fish, artificial hormones to antibiotics and pesticides in the feed, “modern farming” has created the Food Plague. We have the technology to solve all these problems and feed many times the world population. Farmers could increase yields 5 to 6 times using present day non-GMO seed and appropriate nutrition technology, without ANY of the toxic side effects while sequestering carbon and regenerating the soil. This book gives the consumer and the physician the basic facts about food quality, nutrient value and genetic engineering. Food Plague additionally covers many peripheral topics regarding food quality including farm raised fish, A1 v. A2 milk, grass-fed beef and dairy, pesticides, antibiotics and endocrine disruptors, organic v. not organic and many other issues critical for informed consumers. Food Plague concludes with the positives on how to select better food, how grow your own and what can be done to solve all these problems of modern agriculture and the consequent human suffering.ContentsCover Title Page CopyrightAcknowledgements About the author Table of Contents ForewordIntroductionHealth, Pre-Disease and Disease Nature Knows Best Genetic EngineeringGenetic Roulette Science proves GMO’s to be toxicThe Human ConnectionHorizontal Gene Transfer and Viral WildcatsThe GMO TrendThe Deadly Bedfellow of GM Crops An Emerging Disease AgentThe Modern Agricultural Complex Concocter of the Green Revolution Food Quality and Brix …and The rest of the Story It’s in the waterAntibiotics and growth hormonesEnvironmental consequences and SustainabilityOrganic v. Not OrganicGrass-fed v. Grain-fedWild v. Farm Raised FishA1 v. A2 MilkPesticides and endocrine disruptors Sanitation, Pathogens and Parasites RecommendationsThe Solutions The Kitchen GardenerThe Food We EatAPPENDIXPublication Date: April 28, 2013Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLCLanguage: EnglishASIN: B00CKEZ1SU