ILL-EDUCATED

Genetically modified (GM) crops or biotech crops are plants, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering techniques. In most cases the aim is to introduce a new trait to the plant which does not occur naturally in the species. Examples include resistance to certain pests, diseases, or environmental conditions, or resistance to chemical treatments or the production of a certain nutrient or pharmaceutical agent. Genetic engineering techniques are much more precise than mutagenesis where an organism is exposed to radiation or chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change, but is still very damaging to the health of human beings. For example, food allergies affect approximately 5 percent of children and 2 percent of adults in the U.S. and are a significant public health threat.
       Allergic reactions in humans occur when a normally harmless protein enters the body and stimulates an immune response. If the novel protein in a GM food comes from a source that is known to cause allergies in humans or a source that has never been consumed as human food, the concern is that the protein could elicit an immune response in humans. Although no allergic reactions to GM food by consumers have been confirmed, in vitro evidence suggesting that some GM products could cause an allergic reaction has motivated biotechnology companies to discontinue their development. This is just one of the effects of GM foods. GM food has also been proven to cause breast, colon, and prostate cancer, to damages organs, to cause infertility,  to increase toxicity, decrease nutritional value, and cause antibiotic resistance for the body. They have built an industrial model of agriculture that does not agree with nature. The biotech industry is changing nature to accommodate the industrial model, and that, my friend, is dangerous. The pharmaceutical industry does not want you healthy, because if you’re healthy they do not make money. The twist is that the pharmaceutical industry is the biotech industry.
      The FDA does not require a single safety study when it comes to Monsanto’s genetically modified foods. Phill Angell, Monsanto’s Director of Corporate Communications, was quoted in the New York Times, on October 25th in 1998, as saying “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech foods. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.” Monsanto is the only company that does not want people to know that their biotechnology is in the consumer’s product. Monsanto told us that PCBs and Agent Orange were safe and now they are in charge of our food— really?  Retired Plant Biochemist Arpad Pusztai was asked to do research for GMO products: his results were extraordinary. The mice that ate the GMO products had many significant health problems within 10 days of eating the product. Dr. Pusztai shared his concern with the media and was praised for his discovery, seeing as to how no human or animal safety tests had been done before. Pusztai himself vowed not to eat a single GMO product, and two days later he was fired and there was a campaign to discredit his work. It’s been proven that scientists who do research on GMO products and achieve negative results are defunded and harassed.
      Codex Alimentarius is a commission that was written in 1963 by World Trade Organizations (WTO) and Food Agriculture Organizations (FAO) to make guidelines for food standards.
Codex Alimentaius states that every dairy cow on the planet must be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (AKA steroids). The Monsanto company is the one who manufactures it. Milk production will increase from 10-15 percent, but it will make the cow sick. The cow will produce milk with pus because its teats will be infected and then they have to give the cows antibiotics to help the cow recover from the injection of the hormone. The commission states that every animal must be treated with antibiotics and growth hormones. Including every animal we eat that is controlled by them (WTO, FAO). This commission also states that all food must be irradiated which means heating or exposing it to radiation. This is not the way God intended for us to eat.
      Roundup is a chemical sprayed on the GMO foods we eat. They use the bacteria found in  Roundup that was defying  Roundup’s ability to kill plants. The active ingredient in Roundup is Glyphosate. Glyphosate prevents important minerals from being accessed by the plant as well as destroys beneficial microorganisms in the soil that provide nutrients for the plant. This creates weaker plants and more robust diseases.  Roundup Ready crops are fed to our animals. We eat these animals that are eating nutrient-deficient foods. This can cause new diseases in humans. Plant and animal genes are being built on chemicals that can help them withstand more chemicals, in consequence of which our genes are being changed by consuming them. The government does not want to label items that contain GMOs. They say it makes no difference, but, really, if it were no different than organic food, what is it being modified? The FDA needs to stand up to the oppressiveness and the bullying of GMOs and do the research, and we, the American people, need to be open-minded to the truth about the corruption in our government and our food supply. You would say that eating organic sounds like a solution. The problem with this solution is that nothing is one hundred percent organic. Things that are allowed to have the organic FDA seal are allowed to be 5 percent contaminated.
      I have animals myself, both chickens and hogs, and even though they are being grown and I control their diet,  do you think they are 100 percent GMO and hormone free? No.I can’t prevent 100 percent GMO free food for my animals. The reason being is that no matter if I feed them organic scratch or slop, it still has the potential of being 5 percent contaminated. Earlier in class we talked about the illusion of choice when it comes to the media. But does it really stop at media? I believe that we have an illusion of choice when it comes to anything. We are constantly being deceived into thinking that we have control over our lives. Corporate influence is constantly corrupting our rights such as, the right to free speech, press and now the right to exist. They are rapidly poisoning the human race and raping our right to know the truth. Educate yourself, because the government can only lie and deceive the ill-educated.