Noooo, There's NO Genetically Engineered Ingredients in Our Product!!

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From: " Ian Shillington N.D. " <Dr.IanShillington@...>

> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:22:28 -0600

> Subject: [itheta-talk] A Bedtime Story

>

>

> Welllll, it's getting to be that time of day (night ) 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.

>

> 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. Penny, one of our long standing

> list members, had done some tremendous research on GE foods in

> general and her 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 these, 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

>

> Ian " Doc " Shillington N.D.

> 505-772-5889

> Dr.IanShillington@...