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
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This study was done on 30 pregnant women and 30 non pregnant women and there was a significant difference in detectable levels of the Bt toxin in the two groups 93% vs 69 percent.
The levels of GM food in the general food supply for both groups would be similar if not identical so it’s pretty obvious that the pregnant women were making some different food choices than the non pregnant women.
What might that be, corn chips and soda pop or organic leafy greens?
Thanks for that info, and you make a point I was trying to get at as well.
Pesticides and herbicides should not be used even on the soil, because it becomes the plant. Plants don’t grow out of “nothing.” And as you mention, they are going further, putting the toxins INTO the good plant. Good post. This is scary how blind to science and common sense some of these corporations are, killing us with frankenfoods and neurotoxins. The only reason they get away with it is that people do not come down with Parkinsons and cancer and birth defects (including sexuality differences) THE DAY AFTER EATING the food. Because these illnesses take years to develop, they get away with this crap.
Yes, starving is always helpful.
Why do you assume organic leafy greens? Most leafy greens that are sold are not organically grown, but are grown with chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides and fungicides. And, again, Bt is used mostly on the cabbage family of vegetables. Non-organic growers are unlikely to use it on cabbage. They probably use Sevin, or something even stronger.
No there is not, one just speeds up the process, when you starting mooing from eating hamburger you would be correct.
That bears repeating. Try to avoid all processed foods, including fast foods and chain restaurants. When possible, eat organic produce.
To those who think there is nothing wrong with chowing down on neurotoxins (and the reason you guys think there is nothing wrong with it is because you don't vomit profusely that night from it -- you just store up neurotoxins that ruin your later years):
When you are older and suffering from cancer, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimers (or your beloved is), when your future kids have autism, or birth defects, remember that when you were young, you wanted to buy the CHEAPEST food you could find. THAT was your priority. Was it worth it???
That’s ok.
If I would have read yours first, I wouldn’t have posted it.
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Be it natural, or human induced - crossbreeding is genetic modification.
So true
Not eating GM foods, and eating organic, is hardly starving. Come on over; I just made lunch for my brood. We had a delicious frittata of organic veggies, turkey bacon, and pastured eggs (from chickens who roam around and eat only organic foods and bugs and stuff - yum, the best eggs ever - we can't keep chickens here so it's the next best thing!), plus a smoothie with frozen bananas and raspberries. No one is starving here.
I guess everyone is free to have their own personal vocabulary and set of definitions. But the reality is that an entire new set of terms and definitions has been developed to describe the genetic engineering that can only take place in a lab. And, for the rest of the world, it's genetic engineering, or modification, NOT crossbreeding.
It's a little different than crossing a Black Angus and a Hereford.
Are you saying there is no difference between selective breeding and the introduction of new DNA from another unrelated organism? Selective breeding does not introduce new genes from totally different species of organisms. The genes put into certain crops are not alwasy from related organisms. For instance, arctic fish genes when when put into tomatoes and strawberries gave them tolerance to frost, and human genes inserted into corn produced spermatocides.
Should we really be inserting genes from one organism into a totally different organism?
I’m not the obtuse one here... genetic modification is what it is - done in a lab, in controlled circumstance, or in nature - genes are altered, and when one controls what occurs naturally, it’s engineering - hybridized plants are engineered. Cross-breed animals are engineered - I get it.
“The only reason they get away with it is that people do not come down with Parkinsons and cancer and birth defects (including sexuality differences) THE DAY AFTER EATING the food. Because these illnesses take years to develop, they get away with this crap.”
That bears repeating.
Because pregnant women are told to eat extra servings of leafy greens for the folic acid and iron content.
Leafy greens are like the miracle pregnancy food, all the right nutrition, fiber for constipation (a chronic pregnancy issue), doesn’t make you fat and of course to avoid chemical pesticides, you need organic!
Nobody tells you to increase your soy, corn or wheat intake. Potatoes are out permanently as the skins can contain a naturally occurring bio-toxin that may cause spina bifada. Too much seafood - mercury poisoning, blah, blah, blah.
As a former frequently pregnant woman, I know exactly what they tell you and what we tell each other. Spinach, kale, collard, mustard, turnip greens, cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cooked, raw, chopped, with or with out low fat dressing.
Pregnant women are the ultimate foodies.
Something has to account for the large difference between pregnant and non pregnant women and it’s most likely going to be differences in diet.
“All carbon based life forms share how much common dna???? Your body does not consume dna, it goes out the back door.”
And you know that for a fact?
No, you don't get it. You apply your own self-serving, traditional terms to new lab procedures to which the rest of the world has chosen to apply a set of more descriptive and more accurate, new terms.
You are pretending things are the same which are not the same. And you have your reasons, I'd guess.
That could be, but my only point about the leafy greens is that most are not grown organically, and would not have been grown using Bt. So it's very unlikely more than a very few of the women in the test groups were eating organically grown greens. - They would not have ingested the Bt from the non-organic greens most would have eaten.
Unless Bt has replaced pesticides like Sevin for non-organic farming of greens, then the greens don't answer your question.
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