Correlation between GMOs and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

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Correlation between GMOs and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

_http://www.healthy-humans.co.za/gmo-multi-drug-resistant-tuberculosis.html_

(http://www.healthy-humans.co.za/gmo-multi-drug-resistant-tuberculosis.html)

 

 

 

" Instead of blaming multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis on patients and their

alleged non-adherence to the prescribed drug regime, it would be prudent to

investigate and eradicate the underlying cause for multi-drug-resistant

tuberculosis and other drug and antibiotic resistant infectious diseases first

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namely commercial gene technology!

 

The disaster unfolding on a global scale is exactly the reason why the first

genetic engineers called for a moratorium in the Asilomar Declaration of

1975. For decades, reputable and ethical scientists such as Dr. Mae Wan Ho and

Prof. Joe Cummins have warned -substantiated by scientific evidence - that

horizontal gene transfer, i.e. the transfer of genes by vectors (viruses and

other infectious agents)designed to cross species barriers and thus enhancing

the potential for creating new viral and bacterial pathogens, will result in

the creation of superbugs and multi-drug resistant diseases. According to these

eminent genetic researchers, strains of bacteria " crippled " in the

laboratory can survive in the environment and exchange genes with other

organisms. DNA

from dead and living cells persists in the environment and transfers to

other organisms. Naked viral DNA (virus without its viral coat)is even more

infectious and may well be taken up by mammalian cells including our own! In

addition, viral DNA has shown to resist digestion in the gut of mice, enters

the

blood stream to infect white blood cells, spleen and liver cells. One such

virus most commonly used as a promoter in genetic engineering is the

cauliflower

mosaic virus (CaMV)which, due to its recombination hotspot, is prone to

break and join with other DNA to integrate into the cell's genome, which could

activate host genes and lead to cancer. In addition, CaMV is closely related to

the Hepatitis B and HIV virus and due to its ability to propagate in plant

and insect hosts after recombination may also recombine with related Hepatitis

B and HIV to create a most powerful disease in a large number of people

consuming large numbers of virus genes incorporated into crop plants.

 

In the South African setting, the number of people at risk could not get any

larger, since our government unilaterally decided without the peoples'

knowledge and above all prior CONSENT, to grow our staple food (white maize) in

genetically modified form without adhering to the precautionary principle, thus

violating our constitutional rights to a healthy environment and healthy

food. For the reasons described above it is therefore imperative to demand

immediate implementation of mandatory labeling of genetically modified food

products in compliance with our constitutional rights of informed choice and

consent, participation in decision-making processes and above all the

individual's

right to bodily integrity, the latter being the most significant provision of

the Nuremberg Code, which sets forth the legal requirements for human

experimentation, i.e. " voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely

essential " . Likewise, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares

bodily integrity central to both human rights and human dignity and the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights unmistakably declares that

" no one

shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific

experimentation " . By deliberately ignoring the precautionary principle and

refusing

to implement mandatory labeling of GM products, this government allows its

citizens to be used as guinea pigs, sacrificing the nation's health for

corporate greed.

 

There is no such thing as " substantial equivalence " . This phrase was coined

by scientifically illiterate lawyers of the biotech industry and in 1992

written into law by H.W. Bush, who proclaimed GM plants to be " substantially

equivalent " to their traditional counterparts and therefore did not need any

special health safety study or testing. Ethical scientists and researchers

consider this the biggest farce and fraud ever committed in the science field.

Contrary to what the corporate yarn spinners of biotech companies want the

public to believe, not one single human safety study has ever been conducted!

 

One does not need a PhD in genetics to see the correlation between GMOs and

the sharp rise in HIV infections and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and

other diseases.The decision-makers who keep violating our human right to bodily

integrity by unleashing these toxins into our environment and food chain

without our knowledge and consent must be held accountable.

 

Ms Blank / South Africa