{"id":18848,"date":"2018-07-01T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T13:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T02:03:16","slug":"poison-on-your-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18848","title":{"rendered":"Poison On Your Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Poison_On_Your_Plate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18849\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Poison_On_Your_Plate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Poison On Your Plate\" width=\"776\" height=\"517\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Peril on Your Plate film explores the human health effects of genetic engineering and chemical agriculture<br \/>\nAfter being told by her doctor that genetically engineered (GE) food and pesticides could be responsible for her son\u2019s food allergies, Ekaterina Yakovleva set out to investigate. Her quest for answers was captured by the Russian Times in the featured film, \u201cThe Peril on Your Plate: Genetic Engineering and Chemical Agriculture.\u201d<br \/>\nThe film shows Yakovleva and her team traveling the world to meet \u201cthe people who lift the lid on the perils of GMOs and the chemicals used in the industry,\u201d as well as proponents of GMOs who argue that genetic engineering is a \u201chigh-tech\u201d solution to feeding the world\u2019s growing population. Advocates for genetic engineering tell Yakovleva that the technology is beneficial to farmers in that it increases resistance to pests and disease, as well as produces higher yields. But Yakovleva isn\u2019t convinced.<br \/>\nShe learns nothing could be further from the truth after witnessing the devastation caused by mass farmer suicides in India as a result of the failure of Monsanto\u2019s Bt cotton. Yakovleva visits the U.K. where she meets Lady Margaret, Countess of Mar, a member of the House of Lords and a former farmer who suffered from chemical use, and then to the U.S. where she meets with Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America about the link between GMOs, pesticides and chronic disease in humans.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/the-peril-on-your-plate-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/the-peril-on-your-plate-video\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peril on Your Plate film explores the human health effects of genetic engineering and chemical agriculture After being told by her doctor that genetically engineered (GE) food and pesticides could be responsible for her son\u2019s food allergies, Ekaterina Yakovleva set out to investigate. Her quest for answers was captured by the Russian Times in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poison On Your Plate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51314,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions\/51314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}