Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Ronnie Cummins who's been on this

our broadcast many times before because he is the executive director and the co-founder along with his wife Rose of the

Organic Consumers Association and he is on today to give us an update of what's happened in the last year as part of our

GMO awareness campaign. So welcome and thank you for joining this today Ronnie.

Good to be with you today. So welcome and thank you for joining this day, Ronnie.

Good to be with you today.

So why don't you give us an update?

It's been a year since we last discussed.

You were, I think you were in Chicago, unfortunately now I'm in Chicago and you're in Mexico which is a nice

nice place to be at this time of year. Yeah I'm enjoying the 70 degree

weather here this evening. Well, on the GMO front, we've got 457 million acres of GMO crops growing around the world

according to the genetic engineering industry.

They're probably exaggerating a bit.

But that's about 10% of all the crop land in the world.

There's about 4 billion acres of crop land.

And then there's about 8 billion acres of range land

and pasture land.

So it's a substantial amount of acreage,

but what's interesting is that the GMO acreage has been declining or staying flat for the last three

years. So that's that's that's the good news. What's happened is that consumers around the world are waking up to the hazards of

GMOs and the toxic chemicals that always accompany them.

And they are turning in increasing numbers

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