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>Monsanto plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood

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> aka Sonatadude on February 8, 2010 at 12:02pm

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>Monsanto's GMO perversion of food

>Byron J Richards

>NewsWithViews.com -

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>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 U.S. soy crop and 85% 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.

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>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 America.

>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.

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>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.

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>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.

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>For more information on the devastating health

>consequences of consuming GMO foods read Jeffrey

>Smith’s books, Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette.”

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>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

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>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.

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>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.Org website. In fact,

>rushing GMO foods to market also represents a

>serious breach of scientific integrity by the overall research community.

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>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.

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>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

>Clinton in 1996. His main responsibility during

>this time was gaining regulatory approval of

>Monsanto’s genetically modified cancer-causing bovine growth hormone (rBGH).

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>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 Africa, working closely with the Bill

>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.

>Hamburg, M.D., said in announcing Taylor’s

>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.

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>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 Union of

>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.

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>Take Back Our Food – Join the Fight

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>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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