by Melissa Diane Smith

Growing and eating genetically modified foods simply isn’t sustainable for us or for life on this planet. I’m happy to report that many sustainably oriented businesses and organizations in Tucson have reached the same conclusion and have joined with me and the GMO Free Project of Tucson for a joint public education effort in Tucson during October.

Protecting our health and the planet’s health, and overcoming both the increase in numerous chronic illnesses since the mid-1990s and how corporations are controlling more and more of our seed and food these days, are key topics that will be addressed in a coordinated campaign of GMO education events by the GMO Free Project of Tucson, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture, the Envision Tucson Sustainable Festival, and Tucson Food Day, during the month of October, which is Non-GMO Month. Local Tucson businesses including Wellness First, New Life Health Centers, The Tasteful Kitchen, and Native Seeds/SEARCH are sponsors. As Director of Education and Speaker for the GMO Free Project of Tucson, I will be involved in and speaking at each of the following events.

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by Melissa Diane Smith

If you’ve ever wondered why a whole series of chronic illnesses have increased over the past twenty years, or why you or your kids have allergies, inflammatory diseases, or gastrointestinal problems that your parents and grandparents didn’t have, don’t miss Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, a just-released, groundbreaking documentary on the drastic yet largely unknown change that has occurred in our food: the introduction and pervasive spread of genetically engineered (also known as genetically modified) foods.

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by Melissa Diane Smith

Three years ago when Dr. Rodney Ford, who has 35 years of experience working with children with food allergy and intolerances and is known as “Dr. Gluten,” came to Tucson and visited with me, I knew we were on the same page and spoke the same language.

I had the opportunity to speak to Dr. Ford again just recently about his new book Gluten: ZERO Global that warns that gluten causes universal harm, and again, I had the same feeling. It’s so great to talk with not only a good friend, but a like-minded practitioner who cares more about helping his patients than maintaining the status quo in medicine. Dr. Ford also is an insightful researcher and has pulled together an incredible amount of research that led him to his breakthrough conclusion that gluten is bad for us all.

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by Melissa Diane Smith

Ready for groundbreaking information on the adverse health effects of gluten? Look no further than my like-minded colleague and good friend, Dr. Rodney Ford, a prolific author and recognized gluten-sensitivity expert from New Zealand, who is on a speaking tour in the United States right now and has authored a new book, Gluten: ZERO Global, explaining reasons why he believes gluten is harmful to everyone on the planet in the long run, even people who do not think they are gluten sensitive.

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