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Monsanto plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood
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Monsanto's GMO perversion of food
Byron J Richards
NewsWithViews.
>In the 2010 growing season Monsanto plans to
>unleash its latest Frankenfood experiment on the
>American and Canadian public, a new version of
>genetically mutated corn with eight abnormal
>gene traits called Genuity SmartStax corn. It is
>the culmination of an astonishing scandal that
>has been steadily building over the past decade.
>During this time Monsanto's mutated seeds have
>grown to 90% of the
>corn crop – and wheat is next on their agenda.
>Their efforts have been marked by corporate
>bullying and have drawn the attention of the
>Justice Department who is conducting an
>antitrust investigation. All the while they have
>been spending millions on lobbying to fast track
>their agenda before the American public even
>realizes what hit them. Monsanto is making an
>ominous power play to corner the worldwide
>market on food and seeds. In the process they
>are adversely altering the very nature of food itself.
>
>Few people would eat Monsanto's "food" if they
>understood what it was or knew that they were
>eating it. President Obama and his family won't
>eat it. Neither did the Bush family. Even a
>Monsanto employee cafeteria rejects it. This is
>no laughing matter. Your health and the health
>of your children and grandchildren are at stake.
>It seems more like a scene from a horror flick
>than something happening in modern day
>Imagine your digestive tract turned into a
>Roundup Ready herbicide factory and other warped
>genetic signals slowly and progressively rotting
>away your health. Unlike acute food poisoning
>from infectious E.coli, it is a slow and insidious poisoning.
>
>Why GMO Food is Dangerous
>
>Monsanto's GMO (genetically modified organism)
>technology inserts non-food genes, genes from
>other species, into the DNA of food, altering
>the very nature of food itself. In some cases
>these genes make the crops more tolerant to the
>Roundup Ready herbicide made by Monsanto and in
>other cases the genes abnormally cause the DNA
>of food cells to produce toxic proteins that act as pesticides.
>
>Most people are not comfortable with the concept
>of altering the nature of food in a grand
>genetic experiment with unknown consequences.
>The idea of food producing its own internal
>toxin is equally abhorrent. After all, who wants
>to eat toxic food? Even fewer trust this
>technology in the hands of Monsanto, a company
>with a history of blatant disregard for human
>health. It was Monsanto that knowingly poisoned the planet with toxic PCBs.
>
>The process of making GMO seeds also poses
>health risks. Viral promoter genes are used
>during this production process and become part
>of the DNA mix, posing a risk for new types of
>viral disease. An unintended side-effect of this
>production technology is chronic activation or
>suppression of normal genes in the modified
>plants. This alters the actual nutrient
>structure of food and the function of the
>proteins within that food – a very serious matter.
>
>The entire process of producing GMO seeds is
>also unpredictable. It creates multiple random
>genetic events in every food cell invaded by the
>mutant genes. Because each gene doesn't just do
>one thing and is highly interactive with other
>genes, the production of GMO food is not
>consistent and therefore safety cannot be
>guaranteed – especially when you understand that
>our scientific knowledge of gene interdependencies is in its infancy.
>
>Eating food that is mutated by other non-food
>species is a grand experiment to say the least.
>GMO mutants can transfer to the living bacteria
>in your digestive tract, as has been shown in
>animal experiments. This can adversely change
>the way your gut bacteria behave so that they
>create pesticides and become more resistant to
>your immune system and medical treatments. If
>the GMO mutants were to transfer to an existing
>infection in your digestive tract then it could create your own superbug.
>
>Because the proteins in GMO food are
>structurally different than normal food they
>significantly increase the risk for allergy.
>Allergy is one form of inflammation that is
>likely to result from GMO food, but there are
>many other potential sources. These include the
>mis-metabolism of the food, the inherent
>toxicity of the food, and the pesticide residues
>on the food. These inflammatory problems of GMO
>food will additively contribute to other forms
>of inflammation such as pollution and stress and
>add to the total inflammation burden sets the
>stage for many diseases. It is likely that GMO
>food will have a significant impact on pregnancy
>problems and developmental problems in children.
>At this time nobody can rule out GMO as a
>possible causative factor in Autism, as the
>rates of both have risen together. A recent
>re-evaluation of data provided by Monsanto
>showed that various types of GMO corn caused
>significant inflammatory organ damage to rats.
>
>It has now been shown that the health
>consequence of eating high amounts of Roundup
>Ready residue that is being sprayed in
>ever-higher amounts on GMO crops is the
>disruption of your endocrine system. A recent
>study shows that these residues of Roundup Ready
>are highly interactive with sex hormones and
>significantly disrupt their function.
>
>A 2008 Austrian government study showed that
>feeding GMO corn to mice for multiple
>generations resulted in fertility issues and
>weakened kidneys, as well as changes in
>metabolic pathways involved with inflammation,
>cholesterol, and protein. Here is a link to the 105 page report.
>
>GMO crops are also drastically and adversely
>altering soil quality. In fact, soil animals
>such as earthworms are now found to have
>incorporated GMO mutant corn genes into their
>cells. This finding is of extreme importance to
>potential human health problems. There is
>certainly nothing preventing this from happening to humans.
>
>For more information on the devastating health
>consequences of consuming GMO foods read Jeffrey
>Smith's books, Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette."
>
>You may be wondering the obvious; if GMOs are so
>dangerous to eat then why are they allowed in the food supply?
>
>Corporate Cronyism - A Corrupt FDA Places the Public in Danger
>
>We now know that FDA scientists originally
>working on the issue of the safety of GMO food
>had considerable concerns that included
>allergies, toxins, adverse nutritional effects,
>and new diseases. They urged long-term studies
>but were ignored by FDA management who instead
>decided that GMO food was "substantially
>equivalent" to normal food. In 1992 these
>managers issued the following policy statement
>in the Federal Register, "The agency is not
>aware of any information showing that foods
>derived by these new methods differ from other
>foods in any meaningful or uniform way." In
>retrospect, that policy, which stands to this
>day, was a flat out lie and a treasonous betrayal of the public trust.
>
>Court cases have forced into public view the
>documents expressing the concerns of the FDA
>scientists. You can read them all at this link
>to the BioIntegrity.
>rushing GMO foods to market also represents a
>serious breach of scientific integrity by the overall research community.
>
>Today, the FDA is a world leader in proteomic
>technology, the advanced analysis of protein
>structure and function. Italian researchers
>using proteomics have already proven beyond any
>question that GMO food is so genetically
>different from normal food that it cannot
>possibly be considered substantially equivalent.
>Certainly the FDA could discover this fact for
>themselves in a matter of hours. Why are FDA
>scientists in handcuffs and not taking action?
>
>Part of the FDA management team's culture of
>corruption is a revolving door with the various
>companies they are supposed to be regulating,
>the very definition of corporate cronyism. These
>shenanigans have had the net effect of the FDA
>acting primarily as a police force bully
>representing various powerful lobbies that buy
>protection and marketing favors, while stomping
>on the rights of the little guys like organic
>family farms and consumers. In the case of food,
>Monsanto wins the gold medal for influence
>pedaling at the expense of human health.
>
>One of the more egregious examples of cronyism
>is Michael Taylor. He was an FDA staff lawyer
>and Executive Assistant to the FDA Commissioner
>from 1976 to 1981. From 1981 to 1991 he worked
>at the law firm of King and Spaulding, acting as
>Monsanto's lawyer and lobbyist. He was a major
>proponent for overturning the Delaney Clause, a
>1958 law prohibiting the introduction of known
>carcinogens to processed foods, a law Monsanto
>hated and which was eventually overturned by
>
>this time was gaining regulatory approval of
>Monsanto's genetically modified cancer-causing bovine growth hormone (rBGH).
>
>To complete his efforts on the bovine growth
>hormone issue Taylor went back to work for the
>FDA in 1991 with the title Deputy Commissioner
>for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration.
>He was directly responsible for writing the FDA
>policy on "substantial equivalence" which
>initially ushered in the rBGH era and to this
>day enables Monsanto to market its GMO mutated
>food with no appropriate oversight by the FDA as
>to safety. He also formulated policy that
>prevented milk producers from informing
>consumers that their milk was free of bovine
>growth hormone – intentionally preventing
>consumers from being able to tell what was in
>the milk product they were consuming.
>
>After accomplishing his dirty work, he left the
>FDA in 1994 and went to work for Monsanto as
>Vice President for Public Policy, working on
>Monsanto's long range plans. More recently, he
>became a Senior Fellow at Resources for the
>Future (RFF) and Director of the Risk, Resources
>and Environmental Management division. In this
>role, he strategized how to get Monsanto's GMO
>crops into
>and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller
>Foundation. He also worked closely with the Bush
>Administration, and is the point man in helping
>an elite agenda to spread GMO seeds and biotech dependence around the world.
>
>You guessed it – now he is back at the FDA in a
>new position the Obama Administration created –
>Senior Advisor to the Commissioner, working
>primarily on issues of food safety! "I am
>pleased to welcome Mike Taylor back to the FDA,"
>Commissioner of Food and Drugs Margaret A.
>
>appointment. "His expertise and leadership on
>food safety issues will help the agency to
>develop and implement the prevention based
>strategy we need to ensure the safety of the food we eat."
>
>As Monsanto, in anti-competitive collusion with
>Dow, takes their new GMO toxic and mutated corn
>to market, stacked with eight genes, it should
>come as no surprise that absolutely no safety
>testing is being required by the FDA. Never
>before have there been eight genes altered
>simultaneously within the cells of food. One
>gene is bad enough. Three is horrendous. But eight?
>
>The fact that the FDA is not requiring extensive
>safety testing by independent sources of this
>highly unpredictable and dangerous technology is
>unthinkable. It is a grim day when the fox is in charge of the henhouse.
>
>There Is No Good Reason for Monsanto's GMOs
>
>If you listen to Monsanto and their business
>cohorts such as Cargill, they state they are
>trying to feed the world. In reality, the world
>could eliminate Monsanto's mutated food tomorrow
>and it would be a better place. It could also do
>without Cargill acting as an unregulated food
>banker, profiting on the manipulation of food
>sales at the expense of farmers in a way that is
>every bit as bad as the worst of Wall Street.
>There is no need for Monsanto's GMO mutated
>seeds. They offer no advantages. It is an
>industry being propped up by unelected
>bureaucrats and elected officials on the
>receiving end of Monsanto's multi-million dollar lobbying operation.
>
>Michael Taylor is one example of corporate crony
>influence, there are many others. The USDA is
>profiting from Monsanto's seeds that cannot be
>used the next growing season (the Terminator
>aspect of the problem). The EPA's failure to
>regulate the amounts of Roundup Ready used on
>food is yet another scandal. It's all about
>profits and control – while undermining the
>world's farmers and the biodiversity and sustainability of crops.
>
>Contrary to the Monsanto and Cargill propaganda,
>GMO technology does not increase crop yields, as
>has been fully documented in the
>Concerned Scientists report titled Failure to
>Yield. And GMO crops are very bad for the carbon footprint.
>
>The fact that the Obama administration is
>actively forwarding Monsanto's efforts should be
>a grave concern to every American. Of course,
>the last 16 years of Clinton and Bush also did
>everything in their power to help Monsanto. No
>wonder Americans are fed up. Politicians in both
>parties are beholden to the golden idol, not the
>best health interests of its citizens.
>
>Take Back Our Food – Join the Fight
>
>We the people can have a huge impact and we can
>change this serious threat to human health.
>Don't buy GMOs food. GMOs permeate corn and soy
>products, beet sugar is now mutated, and wheat
>is next in line. If you aren't sure how to avoid
>GMO foods and brands then follow the advice
>given on Jeffrey Smith's Non-GMO shopping guide.
>Demand from your political representatives that
>all GMO food be labeled as containing GMOs. This
>isn't just a political issue – this is about
>your personal health and the future of food.
>
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