Adverse Health Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods

"The mysterious illness has sickened its victims with flu-like symptoms, including a shortness of breath, fever, and coughing. Of the seven people who were hospitalized with the new disease, two have died,"

Reports of mild to severe allergic reactions started coming from all over the world where Genetically Engineered seeds were planted. Reactions like skin eruption and choking were reported almost ten years ago. Indonesian farmer reported of severe allergic reactions. Doctors felt that GE plantings can cause untreatable illnesses.

Sheep grazing on harvested cotton fields have died. IN Andhra buffaloes died too. Autopsy showed up death by toxins. A German farmer lost all his 70 cows that were fed GE fodder.

Thus, it has been known that Genetically Engineered crops can cause serious health problems. Yet the USDA, USAID and the US Government have been forcing GE seeds for both food and non food crops around the world.  

"In less than an hour, Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University and USDA senior scientist (see Box) delivered to the UK Houses of Parliament a damning indictment of glyphosate agriculture as a most serious threat to the environment, livestock, and human health"

This is a longish, technical article but must read this. Dr Don Huber is a scientist who has studied the multi-system adverse impact of Genetically engineered seeds and plant system 

Quote: "The scientists already knew that Bt toxin was very toxic and potentially deadly at levels above 270 milligrams per kilogram (basically ppm), so they instead tested levels ranging from 27mg/kg, 136mg/kg, and 270mg/kg for one to seven days (each of the Cry toxins were separated out and tested individually to maximize accuracy and total info). It was quite clear right off the bat that these Cry toxins were quite hemotoxic even at the lowest level of 27mg/kg administered only one time and one day as they clearly had damaged the blood, particularly in reference to red blood cells. The quantity and size of the erythrocytes (RBCs) were both significantly reduced, as was the overall levels of hemoglobin for which oxygen to attach to." Unquote.

And they wage wars by deception. 

Exempting GM seeds producers, Monsanto and other, from any legal action against their weaponized seeds and foods.

This war by other means; use of food as weapons of mass killing and mass destruction. Since seeds are now a strategic weapon in the hands of a handful of corporations working closely with Military establishment of the USA, all hurdles in its use are being removed. 

To some extent we are ourselves to blame. Just as politicians have been targeting us for votes, same way corporations are for profiteering and the two are closely allied. Corporations just can't do things unless the people's representatives are colluding with them. 

No matter how big these corporations think they are and powerful the politicians think they are, both can be finished off with the knowledge and information we have out in the open world. The enemy is within us and, far more importantly, our enemies are the so-called NGOs, the media, the religious bodies.........and the global civil society leaders.

The nexus is getting deeper and spreading its tentacles. It has spread across all aspects of our life. There is no option but to retaliate and "kill" these anti-people institutions and 'hang" them publicly. Do it by any means, it does not matter...every Constitution gives us all the RIGHT TO LIFE and RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES.  

Some years ago Dr. Don Huber had written to the US Government that Genetically Engineered plants have poor nutrient intake because their root system prevents nutrient uptake. Now studies are being carried out to determine the relative nutrition in genetically engineered foods. Just three comparative values as reported by Dr Mercola should terrify you. 

Note that your body needs calcium to keep your bones healthy. Calcium can't be absorbed unless sufficient quantity of magnesium is also available to human body. The availability of nutrition in our food plants depends upon the availability of nutrients in the soil. Glyphosate, the pesticide that is used in combination with Genetically Engineered seeds, destroys soil nutrient buffer and actually prevents plants from taking nutrients whatever is left. 

Now, this is a hard evidence that multinational corporations are deliberately poisoning our foods and the natural resource base which ensures food security on the planet. 

The long term studies on rats clearly [Seralini study] show how GE foods slowly destroy all vital organs and trigger cancers and vital organ failure. 

This phenomenon was reported by Dr Irina Ermakova many years before the Seralini study came out but the Russian Academy of Sciences silenced Dr. Ermakova. 

Yet another study shows that Monsanto's Glyphosate based pesticide is an agent of homicide. .

Quotes:

"Are these latest incidents a sign that the Chinese government is beginning to take more seriously the health threats associated with the consumption of genetically modified food? According to the GMWatch.org report's primary informant, who for purposes of anonymity goes by the pseudonym "Mr. Li":

"[T]he new government's decisive move to destroy the illegal GMOs "progressive, encouraging, and satisfying". He regards it as a sign that it is keeping its promise to work for the people and the nation.
Mr Li said: "The deeply pro-GMO old government would not have made such a thing public. It would have secretly returned the shipments, or in most cases it would not even have inspected shipments that could contain GM ingredients."

The Chinese Government has reviewed its safety testing procedures and most likely they will ban all GM grains, and seeds originating from the USA because of their lax and irresponsible safety testing. Recall that about six or seven years ago, a consignment of rice was also seized in Rotterdam and destroyed. Russia has consistently opposed import of any GM food or seed.

China's decision to destroy US shipment of GM corn will bolster the global anti-GMO movement.   

This is a vital discussion that adds to our understanding of the nature of Genetically Engineered seeds and plants.

It is vital to view soil health, plant health and human health as a continuum. One can't isolate one to achieve human and environmental health. Modern agriculture science has done just that, and so has modern medicine.

My friend Dr Prabhakaran Nair, an eminent scientist, understood this intrinsic relationship and presented his research paper in an international gathering of scientists in France in 1984. He said "Soil is the soul of life" and I have quoted him in my last article here:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/india-genetically-modified-seeds-agricultural-productivity-and-political-fraud/5328227

Dr Elaine Ingham, formerly of the Oregon University, now with the research group of Rodale Farm [Rodale have done many pioneering studies] actually showed how genetically engineered seeds and plants destroy the living soil.

Please read this article and understand the science behind it; and you and I ...and we all must take direct action to prevent the franckenfoods from further destroying our living planet.  

Thierry Vrain says,"The Bt corn   and soya plants that are now everywhere in our environment are   registered as insecticides. But are these insecticidal plants regulated   and have their proteins been tested for safety? Not by the federal   departments in charge of food safety, not in Canada and not in the U.S." NOTE: GM FOODS ARE REGISTERED AS PESTICIDES.

Now, last year Dr. Seralini completed his two-year long feeding studies and the findings are terrifying. All animals fed GM foods died of vital organ failure and cancers. The industry fraudsters had normally confined their studies to 90 days; Dr Seralini wanted it done over the life cycle of 760+days. He found that major symptoms of lethal diseases appeared from 120th day onward, that is on completion of 15% of the normal life span.

A human can be assumed to live around 80 years; so, the harmful effects of Genetically Engineered foods should appear after about 12th year of ingestion.

Now, since 70% of super market foods in the US are genetically engineered, and these foods were introduced in 1993 without biosafety tests, the fear is not unfounded that majority of Americans are very, very sick, especially the poor.

As far as India is concerned: PM Man Mohan Singh and Ag-Minister Sharad Pawar want Indians to eat GM foods. Many years ago I had written that the Parliament's canteen should serve only GM foods for five years. If the MPs survive, we have no problem; if they are all dead good riddance for promoting a dangerous technology, essentially forcing upon us foods that are registered as pesticides.

The article is based on the findings of the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro and one of the things that attracted my attention was that Glyphosate chelates mnerals. Consequently, the root uptake of crucial nutrients is immobilised. I had written about this process by which all Genetically Engineered foods are rendered nutrition deficient. AND, simultaneously, poisonous.

I will post the full report.  

Here's a sensible report on the dangers of agriculture biotechnology based food and fiber crops and it exposes the harmful effect of cauliflower mosaic gene or CaMV Gene. Some years ago [Latham and Wilson, 2008] there was a fear that CaMV could induce immune deficiency syndrome but a flurry of "scientific" reports denied that. They concluded that "because many viral genes function to disable their host in order to facilitate pathogen invasion and that "this is achieved by incapacitating specific anti-pathogen defenses. Incorporating such genes could clearly lead to undesirable and unexpected outcomes."

The recent study by Podevin and du Jardin [2012] and Seralini et al [2012] that "there are clear indications that this viral gene (called Gene VI) might not be safe for human consumption. It also may disturb the normal functioning of crops, including their natural pest resistance." 

The European regulators should have accepted this findings and recalled all GM crops. They did not do this. Instead they have issued a vague warning. They could at least have ordered more rigorous lediul and long term testing which they have not done.

In India, despite a comprehensive assessment by Parliament's Standing Committee on Agriculture and recommendation to the Government to perform the required biosafety tests, Man Mohan Singh has not taken any step as suggested. Not only that this mad prime minister and his equally mad Agriculture Minister are actively promoting agriculture biotechnology.  

In August 2012, the Standing Committee on Agriculture recommended to the two houses that GM seeds should not be introduced in India until proper biosafety studies have been completed. Their report is available of many websites.

A month later the Supreme Court of India refused to ban field trials of GM seeds despite the fact that hard evidences have been submitted and some of the world's leading scientists have informed the Supreme Court what the Parliamentary Standing Committee submitted in August.

The previous CJ had also refused; instead he had actually diluted the provisions of the ban imposed in 2006 by CJ Sabharwal. WTF is going on?

I have just one problem with this article. The writer says that Monsanto and Dow are in competition. Perhaps. But according my researches, the competition in global control over seeds in a matrix form. You can list rows of crops and columns of region. Not one is really competing directly. That is why they have a quasi monopoly over seeds....and foods. 

However, these firms are hell bent on destroying natural seeds. They also know that contaminated seeds can be decontaminated. But first they want to kill as many around the world as planned.