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To: NorthstarMom
It's very hard to avoid GMO. Around 85% of corn grown today, genetically modified by Monsanto, has been engineered to literally produce its own pesticides.So, to be clear, eating GMO corn products can cause your gut (which is primarily responsible for keeping you healthy) to turn into a breeding ground for tiny little pesticide factories inside your body, actively creating toxins which are designed to kill living things.

It's even worse than being sprayed. It's being genetically modified to produce the toxins (pesticides).

Not one GMO crop has been modified for higher yield or gain. They have only been modified for getting rid of pests and weed control to ave on labor costs. It's a common misconception that they are being engineered to "feed the world".

Additionally, there have been very few studies of the effects of GMOs on humans. No one is studying what’s actually happening to us while we serve as Monsanto’s guinea pigs eating up their “safe” poisons.

24 posted on 03/21/2015 10:43:30 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: riri
So, to be clear, eating GMO corn products can cause your gut (which is primarily responsible for keeping you healthy) to turn into a breeding ground for tiny little pesticide factories inside your body, actively creating toxins which are designed to kill living things.

Can you support this claim?

27 posted on 03/21/2015 11:01:09 AM PDT by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: riri

Thanks for the info. After seeing how Monsanto has sued farmers who never bought their seed, but had fields that were inadvertently pollinated by their neighbor’s Monsanto crops, I promptly became anti-Monsanto and pro-small farmer.

Learning how it effects our bodies has made me an even stronger opponent to GMO foods. Your info has further steeled my reserve to try to keep corn and soy out of my kids’ diet. Is sweet corn also GMO or is it mainly feed corn?

Buying meat that has not been fed GMO corn or soy is not in the realm of possibility for me. My kids need to eat.

Yesterday I got test results back that show I have Graves Disease. Explains why I have felt so awful for so long. It is an autoimmune disease, my gut/immune system is out of whack. Obviously, there is no way of knowing whether a diet high in GMO foods affected me this way, but if it affects your gut then it could be a contributor.


28 posted on 03/21/2015 11:02:42 AM PDT by NorthstarMom
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To: riri

“So, to be clear, eating GMO corn products can cause your gut (which is primarily responsible for keeping you healthy) to turn into a breeding ground for tiny little pesticide factories inside your body, actively creating toxins which are designed to kill living things. “

Garbage. The bT will not even harm a fly ...


29 posted on 03/21/2015 11:09:17 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: riri

Thanks for the info.


35 posted on 03/21/2015 12:06:09 PM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: riri

We aren’t the only ones eating the corn. The meat we eat probably has lots of crud in it.

year 1900 cancer DEATH rate = 64/100k
year 2000 “ “ rate = 203.2/100k
year 2011 “ “ rate = 185.4/100k

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/a0922292.html

This is deaths not diagnosis. I want to know how many are being diagnosed today. My brother, sister-in-law, and aunt have all had it and are not included. A discussion of the stats is here.

http://preventcancer.com/losing/nci/manipulates.htm

Environmentalists are not all wrong.


41 posted on 03/21/2015 3:29:09 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: riri
It's even worse than being sprayed. It's being genetically modified to produce the toxins (pesticides).

Um,where the heck did you get this info? Source?

The crops are NOT genetically modified to produce pesticides, they are genetically modified to be resistant to glycophospate. That way, when the glycoposhate is used, it only kill the weeds and leaves the crop alone.

78 posted on 03/22/2015 11:52:14 AM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: riri

Thank you.


171 posted on 03/23/2015 9:00:02 PM PDT by Yaelle
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