Does
Monsanto know what it is doing? Do, we, the public have all the facts? Is genetically
modified food safe? Are food products which contain it clearly labelled? Is
Monsanto, knowingly or unknowingly, destroying the biosphere? Is genetically
modified produce a health hazard? For those who do not wish to get scared,
please do not read on.
Monsanto.
Haven't we heard that name before? Yes, do you remember who created Agent
Orange? Do you remember who created DDT? Do you remember who created Aspartame?
If we are
what we eat, then we have a right to know the answers to these questions. And
there are more. Why are cancers of the digestive system rising exponentially?
Let us start with Monsanto's wonderful herbicide, Roundup.
The journal
Current Microbiology has just released a report (1) on a substance called
Glyphosate, created by Monsanto in the 1970s and used in Roundup. The report is
shocking. It reveals that studies prove that Glyphosate is altering and
destroying the micro-organisms in the soil, which has a potential effect upon
the health of crops growing in it.
So
devastating are the effects, according to the report, that some bacteria have
disappeared from certain areas where Roundup was used to spray vast areas of
land and apart from this, use of the product has spurred the appearance of
superweeds, meaning that in turn farmers have to use greater and greater
concentrations of the product. The soil is as a result being rendered barren
for future generations.
Far more
worrying are fears that the use of this herbicide is killing organisms whose
benefit on a planetary scale has not yet been fully investigated and whose
elimination from the ecological chain may have very serious consequences.
But this is
just the tip of the iceberg. What happens to Glyphosate? It works its way down
through the topsoil to the groundwater below and from there finds its way into
our water supply - underground water currents and springs. This is not
conjecture: virtually all rain samples tested in the USA contain Glyphosate.
What does
the US Department of Agriculture do? Why, nothing! And this, despite the fact
that other investigations have warned that Glyphosate can be carcinogenic,
reducing fertility and increasing risk of cancer because it is genotoxic,
damaging the DNA chain.
The problem
is not only restricted to the USA. Superweeds have lasting damaging effects
upon the soil and nowadays already cover millions of hectares in the USA,
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, the EU and South Africa.
Cancer,
infertility, barren land, destruction of DNA, destruction of micro-organisms
which may be crucial for the planet's ecosystem, superweeds...what else? Well
it appears we have been here before. In fact, Monsanto has just agreed to pay
out 93 million USD for the effects of an explosion at its plant in Nitro, West
Virginia involving the herbicide 2,4,5-T which contained the toxic agent
dioxin. But there are still 80,000 property damage claims against the firm.
In fact, an
investigation of the Nitro Residents v. Monsanto case reveals some horrific
allegations which involve contamination of the environment, cover-ups,
falsification of studies...you name it. But hey, as a government contractor,
Monsanto has always enjoyed government immunity in the USA.
And what
was that about Monsanto not serving Genetically Engineered (GE) food in its own
canteens? Well, when we take into consideration that Glyphosate destroys human
kidney cells at concentrations 450 times lower than the concentration used in
agricultural applications... and when we consider the very little information
available on the real potential dangers lurking behind GE foodstuffs, it is
hardly surprising.
What is
unacceptable is that while the long-term effects of consumption of GE food are
still not available, GE seeds are spreading round the planet on wind currents
and on aquifers. Remember the respected scientist Arpad Pusztai?
Arpad
Pusztai is an expert in biochemistry and nutrition who worked at the Rowett
Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. When he released information about
his discovery that Genetically Modified potatoes create severe damage to the
immune system and organs of rats, he was suspended, threatened with a lawsuit
and handed a gagging order, while his findings were denied or distorted. The
gagging order was later lifted and when he went public again there was a
massive recall of products. The US consumer was, of course, the last to know.
Before I
finish, a question: Why do mice, rats, geese, cows, pigs, elk and squirrels
avoid eating GM foods when given the choice?
Who would
like to be a Monsanto shareholder now? I sure as heck wouldn't.
(1) Effects
of Roundup® and Glyphosate on Three Food Microorganisms: Geotrichum candidum,
Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp.
bulgaricus
Sources:
Greenpeace; NaturalNews
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