Flock of Cows ate Genetically Mutated Corn and died –
2/3 of what USA eats is GM FOOD!
Public Enquiry is needed IMMEDIATELY
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/GMODangers/index.cfm
Cows ate GM maize and died – Public enquiry needed
Could this
be the “three mile island” or the “thalidomide” of GM: the clinching evidence
that there is something seriously wrong with most if not all GM food and feed? Twelve
dairy cows died in Hesse, Germany after being fed Syngenta’s Bt176 GM
maize; and other cows had to be slaughtered due to mysterious illnesses.
Protestors in front of the Robert Koch Institute suspect a cover-up. But is
there a news blackout as well?
There
has been no coverage in the mainstream media; not even after ISIS circulated a
detail report, showing how Bt176 has the worst of features common to
practically all commercially approved GM crops. Not only is Bt176 unstable like
all GM varieties analysed so far, it is also non-uniform, so that different
samples of the variety gave different results. Either of those features would
make the GM variety illegal under European law.
The dead cows in Hesse are not an isolated case. In 1999, Pusztai
and colleagues reported that GM potato engineered with the snowdrop lectin
adversely affected every organ system of young rats, in particular, it made
their stomach lining twice as thick. Scientists in Egypt found similar effects
in mice fed a Bt potato. Several years earlier, the US Food and Drug
Administration already had data showing that rats fed a GM tomato with an
antisense gene to delay ripening developed holes in their stomach. Add to that
the report from Aventis (now Bayer) which showed that glufosinate-tolerant T25
GM maize (about to be approved for growing by the Blair government) killed twice
as many broiler chickens compared to non-GM maize, and a host of anecdotal
evidence that livestock, wildlife and lab animals avoid GM feed when given the
choice, and failed to thrive or died when forced to eat it.
There must now be a public enquiry, not only into the safety of GM
food and feed, but especially on why this and other evidence have been
systematically misrepresented, suppressed, ignored and denied in the rush to
commercialise GM crops and GM food and feed. It amounts to a serious abuse of science
and scientific evidence, and our governments’ scientific advisors must be
called into proper account.
Britain’s pro-GM scientific establishment appears to have entered
into an elicit relationship, willingly or otherwise, with a gang of biotech
corporate warriors – remarkably metamorphosed from their previous Marxist
tendencies - who promote their agenda by infiltrating the establishment and
using smear tactics borrowed from America’s far-right to discredit critics.
Read the evidence and judge for yourselves. There’s plenty more:
US Department of Agriculture’s own data showing that GM crops increased
pesticide and herbicide use by more than 50 million pounds between 1996 and
2003; Roundup Ready herbicide linked to sudden death of GM soya and fusarium
head blight in wheat; and the regulatory sham surrounding Bt crops that’s
allowing synthetic, altered toxins of both known and unknown toxicities to
enter our ecosystems and food web.
Send a copy of this issue to your government representatives
demanding a public enquiry. (Contact sam@I-sis.org.uk
for bulk purchase at cost.)
Nanotech & nanotox
Another
area where science and technology have gone way ahead of safety considerations
is nanotechnology, in particular, nanoparticles and nanotubes.
The
science is fascinating, and the possibilities enormous, but that’s precisely
why it raises a host of new safety concerns. It seems that all kinds of
substances acquire entirely new properties when shrunk to the nanoscale (about
a billionth of a metre). They become super-efficient catalysts, they
concentrate light energy enormously, acquire new electrical properties, and so
on.
But the first evidence of the hazards has already
emerged.Nanotubes could be worse than asbestos, and both nanotube and other
nanoparticles can accumulate in organs and tissues.
Fortunately, at least some scientists involved in developing the
technology are much more willing to consider and discuss the safety concerns
openly and engage in real dialogue with the public; in contrast to those
scientists involved in exploiting GM.
Biology’s theory of everything and the obesity epidemic
When the
“Living energies” series was circulated, we received an unprecedented number of
positive responses from people who know too well that the secret of life is not
to be found in genomes and genes or other molecular nuts and bolts.
I
think it may well be in how organisms capture, store and transform energy.
Indeed, a universal metabolism appears to lie at the basis of all
life, which can explain its patterns of biodiversity and many other biological
phenomena. This brings together diverse fields that have hitherto developed
independently, such as bioenergetics, ecology, physiology and yes, even the new
field of food quality research, where it is found that animals do tend to
prefer organically produced food!
And, it could also enable us to better understand a range of
fundamental problems from sustainable systems to the obesity epidemic, and what
to do about it.
Biology is groping its way towards a theory of everything. Thank
goodness not all biology has been swallowed up by genomics and related research.
There are signs that the National Institutes of Health in the
United States, at least, have read the writing on the wall with regard to
genomics; and are actively inviting generous grant applications from scientists
(US citizens only) that can “change the current paradigms of medical research.”
All other governments should take heed.
More than two-thirds of conventional crops in the United States
are now contaminated with genetically modified material - dooming organic
agriculture and posing a severe future riskto health - a new report concludes.
The report - which comes as English ministers are on the verge of
approving the planting of Britain’s first GM crop, maize - concludes that
traditional varieties of seed are “pervasively contaminated” by genetically
engineered DNA. The US biotech industry says it is “not surprised” by the
findings.
Because of the contamination, the report says, farmers unwittingly
plant billions of GM seeds a year, spreading genetic modification throughout US
agriculture. This would be likely to lead to danger to health with the next
generation of GM crops, bred to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial
chemicals - delivering “drug-laced cornflakes” to the breakfast table.
The report comes at the worst possible time for the English
Government, which is trying to overcome strong resistance from the Scottish and
Welsh administrations to GM maize.
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee drew attention
to the problem in North America in a report published on Friday, and said the
Government had not paid enough attention to it. The MPs concluded: “No decision
to proceed with the commercial growing of GM crops [in Britain] should be made
until thorough research into the experience with GM crops in North America has
been completed and published”. It would be “irresponsible” for ministers to
give the green light to the maize without further tests.
Peter Ainsworth, the committee chairman, accuses the Cabinet of
“great discourtesy” to Parliament by making its decision on the maize last
Thursday, the day before the report came out, and plans to raise the issue with
the Speaker of the House.
This week’s statement by Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for
the Environment, is expected to fall short of authorising immediate planting of
the maize, and provide only a muted endorsement for the technology.She will
make it clear that the Government wants the GM industry to compensate farmers
whose crops are contaminated. This could make cultivation uncommercial. The US
study will increase the pressure on her to be tough.
Under the auspices of the green-tinged Union of Concerned
Scientists, two separate independent laboratories tested supposedly non-GM seeds
“representing a substantial proportion of the traditional seed supply” for
maize, soya and oilseed rape, the three crops whose modified equivalents are
grown widely in the United States.
The test found that at “the most conservative expression”, half
the maize and soyabeans and 83 per cent of the oilseed rape were contaminated
with GM genes - just eight years after the modified varieties were first
cultivated on a large scale in the US.
The degree of contamination is thought to be at a relatively low
level of about 0.5 to 1 per cent. The reports says that “contamination ... is
endemic to the system”. It adds: “Heedlessly allowing the contamination of
traditional plant varieties with genetically engineered sequences amounts to a
huge wager on our ability to understand a complicated technology that
manipulates life at the most elemental level.” There could be “serious risks to
health” if drugs and industrial chemicals from the next generation of GM crops
got into food.
Lisa Dry, of the US Biotechnology Industry Association, said that
the industry was “not surprised by this report, knowing that pollen travels and
commodity grains might co-mingle at various places. What can we infer? It is
time to shop at healthfood stores or grow our own.
Anita’s POME “ GM CHIPS “
Got poisoned by my fritos
they were made from gm corn
lab gave the stuff to animals
who this grain would quickly scorn.
and yet i ate them happily
not noting 8411 code
i'm burping GM particles
don't lite a match i might explode
SEE DR MERCOLA’s STATS on diseases produced by eating GM stuff even if unwittingly!
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