Frito-Lay corporation, owned by PepsiCo, has been selling deadly processed food products that contain both genetically modified (GM), pesticide-producing “corn” and Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (glyphosate), which is scientifically linked to causing a variety of health problems including hormone disruption and kidney failure.

Glyphosate is linked to damaging the endocrine (hormone) system, and triggering major damage to the kidneys and other vital organs. 

Glyphosate residues “enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal body functions and induce disease.” Interestingly, your gut bacteria are a key component of glyphosate’s primary mechanism of harm.

The bacteria in your body outnumber your cells by 10 to one. For every cell in your body, you have 10 microbes of various kinds, and all of them have the shikimate pathway, so they will all respond to the presence of glyphosate!

Glyphosate causes extreme disruption of the microbe’s function and lifecycle. What’s worse,  glyphosate preferentially affects beneficial bacteria, allowing pathogens to overgrow and take over, including the highly toxic Clostridium botulinum. 

Glyphosate May Cause Cancer Even at Extremely Low Doses.  In a study published last year, researchers concluded that glyphosate is a xenoestrogen that is functionally similar to estradiol, the most potent human estrogen, and concentrations in the parts-per-trillion range had carcinogenic effects.

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FRITO LAY’S SUNCHIPS TESTED

“The quantitative PCR test verified, by DNA analysis, that 100% of the corn in the SunChips was GMO, containing DNA sequences known to be present in insecticide-producing Bt and Roundup Ready corn,” reports GMO-Free USA. “The test [also] documented the presence of glyphosate in SunChips at a level of 0.14 ppm, or 0.14 mg/kg.”

SunChips are marketed as a healthy, whole grain snack food because they claim to be “low in saturated fat and cholesterol”. In fact, saturated fat and cholesterol are important nutrients required for health.  SunChips pushing the idea that they are an Earth-based food is nothing short of criminal false advertising.

Frito-Lay’s SunChips product was recently tested and it revealed the presence of GM Bt-corn, which comprised 100% of the corn used in the product. Bt-corn is a type of genetically modified organism, termed GMO. A GMO is a plant or animal that has been genetically modified through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.

Bt-corn creates its own insecticide inside every cell of the plant, which can’t be washed off and is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency—in other words, Bt-corn isn’t food.

Feeding studies on mammals have found that Bt-corn causes significant changes in blood cells, and indications of both liver and kidney diseases. Rats fed GMO corn varieties for 90 days showed altered functions in the kidneys and liver – the two organs used by mammals to detoxify food. Other negative effects were also seen on the heart, blood cells, spleen and adrenal glands.

In long-term reproductive study, rats were consistently fed GMO corn and over time the animals became increasingly infertile. They were having less offspring and these were of significantly lower weight. Additionally the test animals’ genes that control protein synthesis, cholesterol synthesis, insulin regulation, and cell communication were not functioning normally.

Both male and female rats fed with a genetically modified herbicide-resistant corn variety (NK 603) for two years developed mammary gland tumors. The negative effect was attributed to the transgene that gave the corn variety its herbicide-resistant trait as well as the presence of herbicide residue.

Proteins from Bt-corn, which supposedly break down in the digestive tract, have also been found circulating in the blood of both pregnant and non-pregnant women.

Also found in SunChips were dangerously high levels of glyphosate, the primary active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. Using Specific LC/MS/MS testing methods, the consumer advocacy group GMO-Free USA observed levels of glyphosate in SunChips averaging 0.14 parts per million (ppm), or 0.14 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg).

And this is hardly a shock, considering Frito-Lay’s parent company, PepsiCo, spent more than $13 million fighting against mandatory GMO labeling. Both PepsiCo and Frito-Lay are major purveyors of GMO junk foods, many of which are marketed directly to children, and which we now know are loaded with chemical poisons in the form of pesticide and herbicide residues.

You can view the duly shocking test results of Kellogg’s Froot Loops breakfast cereal, which also contains unbelievably high levels of both GMOs and glyphosate herbicide, here: GMOFreeUSA.org.

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“PEPSICO, the owner of Frito-Lay, has been one of the biggest financial contributors to the fight against consumers’ need to know if they’re eating GMOs,” reports GMO Free USA.

“Pepsi contributed over $8.1 million to defeat citizens’ ballot initiatives in California ($2,485,400), Washington ($1,620,899), Colorado ($1,650,000) and Oregon ($2,350,000), and spent an additional $5.06 million on lobbying in 2013 ($2,720,000) and 2014 (first 2 quarters of 2014: $2,340,000).”

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