Why post this crap?
Posted on 03/29/2010 5:32:00 AM PDT by truthfinder9
He started his exploration after his diagnoses, based on his research that indicated higher cancer rates after WWII and diet alteration after WWII.
Why post this crap?
Glyphosate tolerant crops enable farmers to raise food without intensive tillage, leaving the top soil, and its chemical components, in the field rather than the water supply.
then some Canadian scientists began fooling around with the genetics and the damage was done...
“Not with weed killer - they didn’t combine plants with weed killer.”
They engineered the plants to be RESISTANT to weed killer, not to produce it. They replaced the gene for an enzyme inactivated by the herbicide with a resistant one. It doesnt modify the herbicide or break it down, so any residue or metabolites present would be there without the modification.
The nice thing about genetically engineered modifications is that you know EXACTLY what changes are made to the organism, right down to the gene sequence, expression levels, as well as the impact on upstream and downstream genes. With natural selection methods you know NOTHING about the changes made.
My mother was extremely ill with an allergic reaction, which traced back to a brand of taco shells contaminated with Starlink corn (which were pulled from the market). Her physician asked if she had been using pesticides, and she had not.
The new study from France concludes that the public is consuming modified corn varieties which “contain novel pesticide residues” that may pose grave health risks.
Keep in mind that some people can eat almost anything, but peanuts will kill them.
The difference is that corn (especially corn syrup) is in dangnear everything.
Antibiotics.
The starlink trait was not for herbicide resistance, but modified a protein for corn borer resistance. The modified protein was alleged to be difficult to digest.
I went organic in the last month because of these MSG foods...AND I feel a big time difference. You can’t get completely away from MSG foods, but I do see the difference in how I feel and so does my family. People say it costs more but actually I’m saving money. I purchased a whole chicken and roasted it.and was able to get 2 meals out of it for 5 people because there was soooo much meat. I purchased a huge bag of organic lettuce, still good after 3 weeks. Reports I have read people are getting sick off these foods, cancer, heart disease and respiratory illnesses. It is worth it just for the taste of organic meat and vegs and fruits...big difference.
The “Won” appoints Monsanto fox to guard food safety hen house—
Former Monsanto vice president Michael Taylor.
(after K.(fisting) Jennings was appointed “safe school” czar and many other ridiculous appointments....this kinda gives me pause...)
“This is weed killer. This is a new thing in the world.”
Well no it isn’t new at all. Roundup is Monsanto’s weed killer and the generic form has been used around the would for years. What Monsanto did was make their seeds resistant to Roundup so farmers don’t need to use as much and get bigger yields.
GM seeds are all about productivity. I’m sure if they looked they’d find the same herbicides and pesticides in non-GM plants and maybe more of them.
GM is a good thing for feeding the world in varying climates too. Rice has been modified to grow in normally inhospitable regions, for example.
This is another example the Luddite attitude of the Green leftists. Reduce food and you reduce population. It’s people the greenies really don’t like.
I wish I had the book with me but I loaned it to my mom. Cancer can become more prominent as we live longer. The longer we feed ourselves unhealthy things, the higher our chances are for cancer later in life.
Most importantly, younger people are getting cancer. There is quite an increase (again I don’t have the book to quote the source) in younger people being diagnosed with cancer. I know several people under 50 who have been diagnosed. It is no longer just a disease that strikes the elderly.
“My mother was extremely ill with an allergic reaction, which traced back to a brand of taco shells contaminated with Starlink corn (which were pulled from the market).”
I looked up Starlink corn and it was modified to produce a pesticide. Concern over potential allergenic reactions caused it to be approved for animal feed only but there was at least one incident where it was blended with human food. As you point out, allergic reactions are common even with unmodified foods so I dont see this as a reason to be especially concerned over GM crops.
“The new study from France concludes that the public is consuming modified corn varieties which “contain novel pesticide residues” that may pose grave health risks.”
Like global warming the “grave health risks” are always just around the corner. How about the grave risks from starvation? Besides, you would be surprised at the really nasty chemicals plants make naturally to protect themselves from insects.
My mother is no corn borer, but she did have a severe (ER time) allergic reaction. Considering she lives 25 miles from the nearest hospital, a trip to the ER is not something done for trivial matters.
BTW, the Japanese refused an entire freighter full of corn contaminated with Starlink as well.
My big beef with GM crops is that farmers have been sued when the GM crop is cross polinated with adjacent fields for patent infringement, even when the contamination of the adjacent crops was undesireable for the farmer.
What this does is open the entire operation to being taken over by Monsanto because natural processes carried the pollen elsewhere.
You might say the farmer adjacent to the GM crop should not plant something susceptible to cross polination, but such crop changes in this area can require a million dollar investment in equipment to plant and harvest another crop.
Planting next to a farmer could be used to sieze land through litigation, or drive the farmer out of business through settlement judgements which would require expensive changes.
Either way, and the control of the US food supply (and a part of the globe as well) ends up in the hands of just a couple corporations.
I don't find that to be a comforting concept.
See post 19. My husband and I decided to make the switch. Regardless of other FReepers calling me a greenie-weenie and telling me there is no difference, we do feel a difference. Plus most organic foods don’t have hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils in them. Cancerous tumors feed on these oils. I don’t like the idea of encouraging tumor growth.
MSG is terrible for you. My dad ended up in the ER about a year ago. Turns out the MSG on the Chinese food he had for dinner caused his heart to go into A-fib. That was enough proof for my family to make some changes.
“I went organic in the last month because of these MSG foods...AND I feel a big time difference.”
That’s great. I have no objection to people going organic if that is what they want.
“I have read Reports people are getting sick off these foods, cancer, heart disease and respiratory illnesses.”
Be careful of anecdotal reports like those. People can convince themselves of anything. Like with the silicone breast implant hysteria.
Corn has been resistant to weed killers for, well, nearly forever. 2-4-D is an example of that.
What the scientists did was add one more weed killer to that long line of weed killers that corn is resistant to.
Are you a blonde?
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