Jeffrey M. Smith
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Elle Russ chats with Jeffrey M. Smith - the leading consumer advocate promoting healthier non-GMO choices. For more than two decades, his research has exposed how biotech companies mislead policy makers and the public, and put the health of society and environment at risk. In 2018, he and Amy Hart released Secret Ingredients, a documentary that highlights numerous individuals and families that healed from serious conditions after switching to an organic diet.
Mr. Smith’s books include: Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods. They expertly demonstrate why the safety assessments by the FDA and regulators worldwide are based on outdated science and false assumptions, and why genetically engineered foods must urgently become our top food safety priority.
Jeffrey is the founding executive director of The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), a leading source of GMO health risk information for consumers, policy makers, and healthcare professionals. Mr. Smith resides in California, as well as Iowa, surrounded by genetically modified soybeans and corn.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh |
| 0:07.1 | content to help you live awesome. Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social |
| 0:13.9 | media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com. |
| 0:21.9 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | Today we have Jeffrey Smith. |
| 0:26.0 | He is a leading consumer advocate, and he promotes healthier non-GMO choices. |
| 0:30.7 | For more than two decades, his research has exposed how biotech companies mislead |
| 0:34.7 | policymakers and the public and put the health of society and |
| 0:38.2 | environment at risk. He has a feature-length documentary called Genetic Rulette, The Gamble of |
| 0:43.5 | Our Lives, and that links genetically engineered food to toxic and allergic reactions, |
| 0:48.4 | infertility, digestive orders, and numerous other problems that have been on the rise in the U.S. |
| 0:52.9 | population since genetically |
| 0:54.7 | modified organisms or GMOs were introduced. Welcome to the show, Jeffrey. Thank you, and I have to |
| 1:00.9 | append your introduction because now we have a new film, which is available for free for everyone, |
| 1:07.6 | May 15th to 22nd, called Secret Ingredients, which takes off where genetic roulette left off. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, so that is coming up really soon for everyone to get on, and that's why we're doing this |
| 1:18.6 | podcast today to get into this topic. This is something we all need to know about, and I have a |
| 1:22.9 | personal experience with this, but let's just start from how did you even get involved in learning about |
| 1:29.4 | GMOs or, you know, what led you down this path? Well, in 1996, I went to a lecture by a genetic |
| 1:35.4 | engineer who blew the whistle. He basically said the technology is not ready for prime time. |
| 1:40.2 | It's very dangerous. It could lead to allergens and toxins and new diseases and nutritional problems in the food. |
| 1:46.5 | It can create self-propagating genetic pollution in the gene pool. And that was the year that GMOs were about to be widely commercialized in the United States. |
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