GMOs –
“These organisms are created by scientists, by taking genes from one species and force them into the DNA od a different species in order to transfer a trait.”
A few examples -
Spiders + goats – milk contains spider web protein to create bullet proof vests.
Jellyfish + pigs – for glow in the dark noses.
Pesticide producing genes from bacteria in corn and cotton, such that every cell of the crop produces a toxic pesticide.
80% of GMO crops are designed to take higher and higher dosages of herbicide without dying and to produce their own pesticide.
The farmers and food crisis:
These companies have now come up with some called the “terminator technology” which openly targets the 1.4 billion farmers. They consider these farmer criminals for saving the seeds to replant them. So now, the seeds from these crops with the “terminator seeds” will be sterile and implantable – the aim being to force these farmers to keep coming back to companies time after time to but the seeds.
But what then happens is all the diversity in the seed bank is going to plummet. SO the quality and the quantity of the different crops will shrink even more – making us more susceptible to food crisis during draughts and floods. Ironically these GMOs are out feed the world hunger.
Bio diversity ensure that when there is a disease or pest outbreak only a certain variety of crops will be affected by this and the rest will still thrive, but with these companies trying to patent these practices and seed hybrids that these farmers have developed over centuries can be counted as bio piracy. Already, from having 1000’s of varieties of rice within India we now only have 40.
So we are now being fed by a narrow variety of foods being produced by the GM companies.
What’s so wrong about that?
GMO’s work on the simplistic and false notion that genes are like LEGOs that can be snapped from one place and put in another. And they expect the results to be as predictable. But with that one change they mess up the entire DNA structure to the point of mutation.
There is thus, complete change in 100’s of naturally functioning genes. For example – 5% of gene change and 1000s of mutations across its DNA.
We don’t need it – its not precise. Most of the experiments they conduct are in vain. It’s a product of a nascent science that is out to feed the billions across the world. Maybe someday we will be familiar enough with this science to produce something truly constructive, just not today.
What about the test and studies food has to pass before it reaches our mouth? Won’t they ensure its safe?
- The quality and quantity of safety studies of any sorts of food are insufficient.
- GMO companies control their testings and work on very aggressive lobby of disinformation campaign.
They threaten scientists who do test these food to come up with true results which clearly show aggravation in allergies and toxins, new diseases and nutritional problem, terming them inherently unsafe. The few scientists who have publicized these papers have been discredited by these companies, fired by the universities and publicly tarnished. However
Test studies have shown that animals firstly, refuse to eat GM produced crop. When they were force fed these crops more than half their half springs were born dead, there were mutations within the embryos and a massive change in sperm count.
In the markets –
The one study that the FDA in the USA got their hands on –
Killer tomatoes – The animals that these were tested on developed stomach lesion. These products had been in the market already before these tests were leaked.
These were taken off the shelves in the US immediately. However, no one knows which other GM products are present in our markets as they are not required to be labeled.
We do know however, Soy and Corn however is available in almost ALL the processed food that we eat. Not to mention that is what most of the poultry and cattle are being fed as well. And now they are trying to introduce GM sugarcane, so all our sugar is going to be genetically modified as well.
The Bio tech companies have designed their tests such that there is no possibility of finding any problems, having bad science down to a science. They really do believe this is the future, where ALL the food we eat has been genetically modified and the clothes we wear have GMO raw materials as well.
GM food produces something called the bt toxin to protect itself against disease. When farmers were sprayed with these they developed allergies.
Cotton pickers in India – developed allergies and flus simply picking at these crops. Their sheep died grazing on the same. People living around these farms developed skin allergies and intestinal problems simply by breathing in the pollen from these crops.
There was also noted rise in sterility in males and females as well.
The only test ever done on a human being showed that on consumption of GM soy, the gene from the pesticide producing bacteria transferred its characteristics in to the stomach bacteria, where they remained functional and developed a pesticide producing factory with the intestines.
The pollution create by genetic engineering today is self propagating and its effects irreversible and today India contemplates putting the entire population up for a large scale experiment with these foods.
We are looking at the most serious environmental and health risks that we have ever faced and unfortunately most of the experts who do know the truth remain in silence. The media such as the FOX news have been threatened with lawsuits and forced to cancel any main stream media coverage of studies and incidents revealing such findings and writers have been forced to shred their studies and views on this field.
Today, we are the caged chickens and lab rats. Our money, their golden egg.
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