Posted on 05/26/2011 9:56:32 AM PDT by bronxville
GM firms claimed toxins were destroyed in the gut
Study: Mothers to be were tested Toxins implanted into GM food crops to kill pests are reaching the bloodstreams of women and unborn babies, alarming research has revealed.
A landmark study found 93 per cent of blood samples taken from pregnant women and 80 per cent from umbilical cords tested positive for traces of the chemicals. Millions of acres in North and South America are planted with GM corn containing the toxins, which is fed in vast quantities to farm livestock around the world – including Britain.
However, it is now clear the toxins designed to kill crop pests are reaching humans and babies in the womb – apparently through food.
It is not known what, if any, harm this causes but there is speculation it could lead to allergies, miscarriage, abnormalities or even cancer.
To date the industry has always argued that if these toxins were eaten by animals or humans they would be destroyed in the gut and pass out of the body, thus causing no harm. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1388888/GM-food-toxins-blood-93-unborn-babies.html#ixzz1NTfM2jJj
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>>>These people have so much cognitive dissonance in their heads it’s a wonder they don’t explode like chinese watermelons.
How true. :)
Words of sanity. It depends on the levels. I REALLY wish those had been published. That and the actual toxin.
That said, it is a bit disconcerting.
It’s also possible that in this particular study done in Montreal on pregnant women that they eat a high percentage of organic fruits and vegetables, thus the detectable levels of Bt toxin. Are they able to distinguish the source of the Bt toxin detected?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The Monarch butterfly experiment is not what you are claiming I believe I have read differently. It has been exploited to cause hysteria among those who haven't read the studies. Second, bees make honey, not from corn, which is wind polinated, but from flowers, which are not. So you aren't eating honey from corn pollen collected by bees.
Looks like it’s not just the senior citizens that are going to be eliminated in this country. Now all food is going to be taken away from us by the government since it may make us sick. They’re going to have that budget balanced sooner than we thought.
“I get a kick out of the Darwinists especially when they squeal about GM foods and DNA.” “These people have so much cognitive dissonance in their heads it’s a wonder they don’t explode like chinese watermelons.”
Eugenics was practiced in the US in the past and accepted by the a majority until Hitler copied the same practice. How do you know if this isn’t a more subtle way especially since Monsanto is buying the right for every single non-modified seed globally. Will people become sterile? That’s yet to be seen as we haven’t reached that point in testing yet. You may be right in all you say but let people check it out for themselves. The information pro and con is out there...
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Careful reading will reveal the toxin was Bt toxin which is an organic pesticide so may also be found on organic fruits and veggies. No mention of whether they are able to distinguish the source as being from organic food vs GM food.
Like the people that said we were going to run out of oil by the year 2000 and that oceans would rise 20 feat by the year 2010, there will always be someone trying to sell the end of the world because it's a really good business model (if you can handle the morality of creating fear and then living off of it). It's been happening since recorded history. The truth of the matter is that we are all going to die, and while we should be good stewards of the earth, we don't need to develop a phobia about it. The earth will keep spinning, dumb people will be dumb, smart people will be smart, and the rest will muddle along like always.
Baltimore doctor helps the ill commit suicide...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2725491/posts
Practically zero chance of that since organic foods are significantly more expensive and used by only a small percentage of any population. They'd have to seek out women who used organic produce to have such a study group. And Bt is probably not used on fruit and most vegetables other than the cabbage family. It's used mostly against leaf chewing insects that attack the cabbage family of vegetables.
“There is absolutely no evidence of over population.”
Agree, but it suits them for some reason, to believe otherwise.
It's chock-full of liberals.
The idea that a corporation is naturally evil simply because it makes a profit is one of the head exploding cognitive dissonances I referenced earlier.
Monsanto is in the business of selling food and food seeds. Killing customers is generally not a good business plan.
Corporations run by evil megalomaniacs without regard for human life (or future business success) are a figment of Hollywood’s and liberal imagination.
Count the number of people deliberately murdered by governments compared to the number murdered by corporations and tell which one is larger.
Well...we know what that reason is. It’s the same reason all doomsellers have.
Ok...you’ve got me there. What shall we do?
You ever been to Montreal or been a pregnant woman? I’ve done both. I can tell you right now that pregnant women are the population most likely to choose perceived quality and safety over cost considerations (and their perceptions will not necessarily be rational).
I can also tell you that Montreal is a liberal greenie enclave full of birkenstock types that think like pregnant women.
And your contention is nonsense. The crossbreeding that takes place in nature, and the crossbreeding man can accomplish by basic breeding or fertilization methods, and gene combinations that can only be achieved in a lab, and could never happen in nature, are entirely different things.
Just why do you think we have the new terms of genetic engineering and genetic modification, if it's all the same?
“The idea that a corporation is naturally evil simply because it makes a profit is one of the head exploding cognitive dissonances I referenced earlier.”
That’s not what anyone is saying...it’s to do with mamoth companies with close ties to government...who would control all food products AND seeds. I personally believe it’s too much control. They’re also trying to buy up water rights. I’m a pragmatic individual who seeks truth with reason. There’s a reasonable doubt here so am keeping a wary eye - we all should but that’s for the individual to decide.
“Well...we know what that reason is. It’s the same reason all doomsellers have.”
I think they’re Darwinists (Spencerists-Galwonists) who are into “survival of the fittest”. This government-controlled healthplan is quite telling and will tell us more as time goes on...
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