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A Bedtime Story (or) How I discovered a Frankenfood Monster

A Bedtime Story (or) How I discovered a Frankenfood Monster

Welllll, it's getting to be that time of day (night :o) when I get to feeling
I've had enough fun for one day and should be heading towards the ole sack, but
I thought I'd leave y'all with this little true story that happened to me a
couple of years ago having to do with Frankenfoods.

At one time I was a proponent of Soy Protein Powder as a source of protein
especially for some body builders I had as patients, and I was queried one day
by one of them as to whether or not it was Genetically Engineered or not. GE
had not been hit very hard up to that time and my knowledge was rather scarce
back then, but I thought I'd better investigate it. One of our list members,
had done some research on GE foods in general and the findings were shocking,
outrageous, and downright scary.

To be on the safe side, I then decided to investigate this source that all my
muscle builders were using, and proceeded to trace back the data trail as to
how pervasive this GE thing was and whether or not there was any risk to
my patients.

I went to our biggest local Healthfood Store in Clearwater called Nature's Food
Patch and asked the bulk food manager whether or not his Soy Protein Powder was
GE or not. He emphatically told me that the Food Patch did NOT sell anything
that was Genetically Engineered. Absolutely Not! I then asked him what the name
of the product was and who was his supplier. He told me that it was called
Supro 440 and that they got it from NOW Foods. Wellllllll, I thought this was a
good start, as I do business with NOW (still do) as I feel they have the best
Vitamin E and COQ10 on the planet at the best price (only a few of the products
made by someone else that I am willing to trust and endorse which is why they
are on my product and price list).

I then called Now Foods and asked one of the technical advisors there if the
Supro 440 that they were selling was Genetically Engineered. "Absolutely NOT!
No way in hell would they sell anything that was GE. Ridiculous!" Welllllll, OK
this sounded good so I asked him who the manufacturer was who supplied them
with the stuff. He told me it was a company called Protein Technologies and
readily gave me their number.

So, I'm feeling all right and making good headway here, so I next call up
Protein Technologies and asked to speak to a technical supervisor there as I
had some questions to put to him. I get him on the line and I ask, "Is your
Supro 440 a Genetically Engineered product?". ---- Long pregnant pause, and
then he returned with, "Well, what exactly do you mean by Genetically
Engineered?". All of a sudden, I wasn't having a good day and I was starting to
feel a little apprehensive. I returned with, "GE, you know, GMO, Genetically
Modified Organism???". He said, "One moment please, and I'll let you speak to
our Head Chemist". After a wait of about 30 seconds (my apprehension is now
building), the Lead Chemist from Protein Tech comes on the line and I ask my
question again. He tells me, "Wellllllll, yessss the Supro 440 is GE and most
of our soy products are". I'm feeling a little queasy at this stage and I ask,
do you have any Soy Protein Powder which is Organic and non-GMO. He then told
me that they did but he had to confess that they used the same machines to
process the Organic as they did the GE/GMO and that they did not clean the
machines after each usage.

The bottom of my stomach dropped about 40 feet but I had one more question, "Is
Protein Technologies a solely owned company or is it a subsidiary?"

He said, "The parent company is Dupont."!

I couldn't talk for a bit and slowly just hung up the phone, I don't even
remember saying "goodbye" to the man.

I called back NOW Foods, and to their credit, they had the product off the
shelf within a week. I then called back the Bulk Foods Manager at Nature's Food
Patch and told him the story. His response was, "Impossible, we sell NO GE/GMO
foods in this store". Ohhh welll, there are ostriches in this world but he
never would believe me or even call up and verify it one way or the other. I
then had the realization that one could lose freedoms through complacency

And the moral of this bed time story?

LOOK! DON'T LISTEN!!!!

Much love,

Doc

Copyright (C) 2002 by Ian Shillington. All rights reserved. No part of this
article may be reproduced in any fashion without prior written approval of the
copyright owner.

Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.
505-772-5889
Dr.IanShillington@GilaNet.com

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• A Bedtime Story (or) How I discovered a Frankenfood Monster (Archive.) Walt Stoll 07:37:04 3/09/03 (0)

In Reply to: A Bedtime Story (or) How I discovered a Frankenfood Monster posted by Ian Doc Shillington N.D. on March 08, 2003 at 13:39:19:

Thanks, Doc Ian.

I have been trying to tell people on this BB this concept for years.

It is impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. Let us hope our reckless pursuit of profit has not doomed the human species to extinction somewhere down the road. A pretty thin hope, I know.

None of these things have been tested over a lifetime which is the way it will affect us---AND THE REST OF OUR ECOLOGY.

Namaste`

Walt