GM Food: Are we lambs for the slaughter?

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Dear Friends,

 

During a scientific conference at Bhubaneswar I was informed that

GM crops is the only solution to the food crisis looming ahead and

"minor genetic disturbances" should not force us to reject this

technology. I asked the esteemed scientist whether he had seen the way

cattle have died after feeding upon Bt Cotton. He said he had not. I

then narrated to him in detail what I had heard from veterinary

surgeons of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. The scientist was shocked and

admitted he did not know of this. I am sure that henceforth he would

not advocate the cause of GM so ardently.

 

Thus even while listening to scientists we must be aware that they

too are often not fully informed about GM food and its attendant

dangers.

 

Dr Gregory Damato, like many others before him, gives us an idea

about what GM food can do to us. Let us go through the article

carefully before we decide to feast on Bt Brinjal. Dr Damato points out

that the after effects become more and more severe with passing

generations. Just as GM crops show their true nature after 3 to 7 years

of cultivation.

 

Let us not destroy our food. Let us not destroy the future of the

coming generations. Let us not bow down to the diktats of any force,

however powerful that may be. A mother can confront a hungry lion when

it threatens her child. Let us learn from that mother. It is OUR

children, OUR future that is at stake here.

 

Dr Damanto points out that very recent scientific studies prove:

 

1. There is no increase in yield with GM

2. Gene insertion has unintended cascading effects

3. One gene insertion can have more than one uncontrolled effect

4. Decrease in fertility, very serious and deep rooted immunolgical changes, allergies are SOME of the effects

5. A single gene insertion caused uncontrolled changes in 1016 genes of mice under experimentation

6. The after effects were more pronounced in the third generation.

7. Emergence of newly expressed proteins with allergenic potential.

 

In short, death and destruction all around. As Dr Damanto rightly

comments in the end, those propagating GM crops and food will have a

hard time explaining their stance after the results of these government

sponsored studies have been published.

 

Unfortunately our Health Minister prefers to remain silent on the

issue though it has been brought to his notice by Indian doctors.

 

Are we lambs intended for slaughter? Only time will tell.

 

I would request each one of you to kindly impress upon Dr Ramadoss

the need to have our own sincere untampered unbiased and truthful

scientific studies in this very vital issue of food safety and

sovereignty.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Jagannath Chatterjee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Europe Health Analysis

GMO links to decreased fertility, immunological alterations and allergiesPosted: 12/06SourceThis unsafe science ostensibly supplants millions of years of evolution with little or no scientific justification.by Dr. Gregory Damato, Ph.D.(Natural News)Genetically

modified organisms (GMOs) are created through an inexact science of

shooting genes spliced from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or

humans with a .22 caliber pistol into the DNA of plants or animals

laced with a metal such as tungsten. This unsafe science ostensibly

supplants millions of years of evolution with little or no scientific

justification. In fact, recent research on GMO crops have reported yields to be between 4 to 20 percent less than conventional crops [1-6].In

the 1970's when genetic engineered was pioneered, scientists believed

the genome was static and genes could be altered in a uniform manner

with the organism only expressing the one intended modification. As

research progressed in the 1980's, scientists scrapped the idea of the

static genome and moved towards a dynamic genomic belief model. This

came about from the realization that by inserting a new gene into a plant, a cascade of unintended consequences arose.

Scientists found that there was no possible way to introduce a new gene

into an organism and only get one intended result. The genes quickly

changed based on a myriad of unknown circumstances that sometimes could

not be repeated in the lab even though the exact same procedures were

used. The levels of instability from these newly created organisms were

overwhelming, but many scientists were silenced.Safety

has always been the number one priority of consumers when it comes to

GMOs; antithetically, the seed companies' only priority has been to

increase profits at any expense. Therefore, it is no surprise that

objective and unbiased researchers have recently added to the growing

knowledge of the realities of the increased instability and unintended

consequences regarding the long-term safety of GMOs. These

researchers recently found clear links among the consumption of GM-corn

and decreased fertility, immunological alterations in the gut and the

exacerbation and creation of allergies.Fertility in GM-Fed MiceScientists

in Austria recently conducted the first ever long-term

multi-generational feeding study of Monsanto's genetically modified

(GM) corn (NK 603 x MON 810) in mice [7]. The study consisted of two

groups: an experimental group, which was fed a 33% GM corn (maize)

feed, and a control group, which was fed an equivalent non-GM corn

feed. The mice were allowed to live a natural life and were monitored

for four generations. Scientists recorded organ weight, gene

expression, body mass, metabolism, life span and number of offspring of

both groups of mice. The

scientists found that mice fed GM corn had significantly less pups per

litter than the control group on the third and fourth generation.

Furthermore, pups whose parents were fed GM-feed weighed less at birth

and at weaning and experienced significantly higher mortality rates

than those fed non-GM corn. Lead author of the study Professor Zentek

reported that there was a direct link between the decrease in fertility

and the GM diet and mice fed non-GM corn reproduced more efficiently.Gene

Expression in GM-Fed MiceUsing a microarray analysis, the scientists reported that 1016 genes had been differentially expressed in the mice fed GM corn with most being up-regulated.

Essentially, the GM-fed mice had hundreds of their proteins, which are

encoded by genes, expressed in an increased or decreased quantity,

which as a corollary altered certain biological processes in their

bodies. For example, sensory

perception, ion transport and the ability to breakdown proteins

(proteolysis) were down-regulated or under-expressed, while the ability

of the mice to regulate T-cells (a primary immunological response

especially in fighting cancer), circadian rhythm regulation and the FAS

signalling pathway (which is a major pathway for cell apoptosis and is

important in the elimination of cancers) were over-expressed.

This study elucidates the fact that biologic damage from GMOs may not

manifest until the third generation and details strong evidence for the

mandatory labelling, and even more so for the mass extinction, of these

highly dangerous and unnecessary foods.Immunological Reactions in GM Fed MiceItalian

researchers at the National Institute of Nutrition in Rome, Italy,

recently published a study examining the effects of a 50 percent

GM-corn (maize) diet on the intestinal immune response of mice [8]. The

GM-corn was known as Monsanto's transgenic MON810 and was created using

an inserted foreign DNA sequence from the bacteria, Bacillus

thuringiensis (BT) designed to protect against a fungus known as the

Fusarium species. The study was conducted over 30 and 90-day periods

respectively, with mice from two groups, weaning age (mean of 21 days)

and old age (mean of 15 months). The study evaluated the peripheral and

intestinal immune response to long-term GM-corn and non-GM corn

consumption of each group across the two periods. The young and old

mice were used because of the lack of research on these subsets as well

as their potential susceptibility to immunological changes, more so

than non-aged adult animals.The

results of the long-term study revealed significant changes in the

immunophenotype of the gut, spleen, circulating lymphocytes and the

level of serum cytokines of the mice fed GM-corn.

Immunophenotyping essentially determines the expression of proteins by

the cells. Any differences in the expression of proteins between the

control and the experimental groups would be attributable to the GM

diet. Specifically, the researchers found an increased presence of

several cytokines in the GM fed mice, which are specifically involved

in inflammatory and allergic responses by the body. The researchers

also found an increase in the protein expression of lymphocytes (TCRγδ+

population). Within this population, the γδT cells reside in the gut

and are associated with regulatory elements of the immune response,

specific to infectious agents [9-11]. Elevated amounts γδT cells have

been found in asthmatics, children suffering from food allergies,

gastrointestinal symptoms and juvenile arthritis [12]. The GM-fed mice

also exhibited significant alterations in the number of T and B cells,

indicating a significantly abnormal immune response to the genetically

altered feed. Furthermore, other researchers have found a newly

expressed protein from the consumption of GM corn (50 kDa γ-zein),

which is a widely known allergenic protein [13]. In conclusion, from

the newly presented research it is apparent that ingesting genetically

engineered BT corn not only invokes an anaphylaxis (allergenic)

response within the body, it also deregulates several proteins,

inhibits fertility and alters the overall immunological response by the

body. Clearly, Monsanto whose sole goal is to control the world through

food, has a lot of explaining to do.References1.

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