By Dr. Bruce Grandstaff of Ideal Health
GMOs stand for Genetically Modified (Engineered) Organisms.
How are they made?
They are created by transferring genes of one species and forcing them into the DNA of another like corn or soybeans with gene guns. 1. They literally put millions of the desired gene into a gun that coats tungsten or gold particles. Then they blast those into a plate of cells hoping that some of those genes make it into the DNA of some of those cells. Then they clone those cells so that each and every cell of that crop contains the altered gene. 2. They use bacteria to infect the cell, carrying the gene with it.
Or with gene editing equipment which rearranges genes in the sequence, takes genes out, etc. It’s all artificial changes in the DNA done in a laboratory. All of it produces massive collateral damage in the DNA.
Why were they created?
First of all you need to understand who is making these technologies and the food that is a product of this technology. The corporate giants are Monsanto, Bayer (a pharmaceutical giant who bought Monsanto), Syngenta, Dow, and Dupont. All are chemical companies that are in charge of most of our food supply! According to the Manufacturers Association (GMA) 80 percent of the foods on your grocery store’s shelves contain GMOs (now referred to as GEs by the FDA) but virtually none of them are labeled.
As concern about pesticides toxicity and other potential health hazards associated with GE foods grow, more and more people want to know what’s in the food they buy. According to a December 2015 poll, 9 out of 10 Americans now want mandatory labeling for GE (GMOs) foods.
What Motivates These People?
So, what was the motivation to corrupt our food supply through this technology.
Monsanto is a big GMO producer, and they sell Roundup herbicide. They had a patent on glyphosate-the chief poison (but not the most dangerous ingredient) in Roundup- that was expiring in the year 2000. So, they genetically engineered crops to withstand the herbicide Roundup. These are called Roundup-ready crops, and they comprise 80% of all GMOs. They are engineered so that farmers can spray Roundup over the top of the field of corn or soy, and it will kill the weeds but not the crops. Normally the Roundup would kill those crops, but the Roundup-ready crops survive.
Are they safe?
In 2015, dozens of food, farming, and environmental justice groups announced they will put Monsanto on trial for “crimes against nature and humanity” on October 16, 2016 (World Food Day) in the Hague, Netherlands, found Monsanto guilty. As noted by Andre Leu, president of the International Foundation for Organic Agriculture (IFOAM), “Monsanto is able to ignore the human and environmental damage caused by its products, and maintain its devastating activities through a strategy of systemic concealment: By lobbying regulatory agencies and governments, by resorting to lying and corruption, by financing fraudulent scientific studies, by pressuring independent scientists and by manipulating the press and media.
Monsanto’s history reads like a text-book case of impunity, benefitting transnational corporations and their executives, whose activities contribute to climate and biosphere crises and threaten the safety of the planet.”
Who oversees the safety studies?
According to Jeffrey Smith author of the world’s bestselling book on GMOS, Seeds of Deception, and founder of Institute for Responsible Technology “Monsanto and the FDA have been covering up the health dangers of GMOs for years. Their fraud has been the basis of allowing this catastrophe to take place in our food supply and our environment, The person in charge of policy at the FDA that gave GMOs a free pass was Michael Taylor, a former attorney to Monsanto and later Monsanto’s vice president. He said “We don’t see any significant differences between GMOs and non-GMOs.” Therefore, no testing is necessary, no labeling is necessary, and companies like Monsanto can determine on their own if their GMOs are safe, and even tell the FDA if they want to put it on the market. He’d been given a job in the FDA created for him after the first Bush Administration White House instructed the FDA to promote GMO’s. Everyone in government and everyone that listens to the FDA says “GMOs are no different.
They’re the same.” When you look at the documents that were actually circulating among the scientists and leaders of the FDA at the time, it turns out the overwhelming consensus among the scientists working at the agency was exactly the opposite. That GMOs were different, dangerous, could lead to allergens, toxins, new diseases, nutritional problems, and that they deserve in-depth studies, including human toxicological studies, that were never done and never required.”
Are there health risks to eating GMOs?
In the next installment on this topic, I will go into the numerous and devastating health effects of consuming GMO products and eating animals that were fed these products.
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