GM Files: When Will They Ever Learn?

GM Files: When Will They Ever Learn?
Bill Haymin
March 27, 2008
Natural Solutions Foundation

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=580

The Natural Solutions Foundation, the leading Global Health Freedom organization, is proud to present this information to you. We protect your right to know about - and to use - natural ways to maintain and regain your health, no matter where in the world you live. Among your freedoms is the right to clean, unadulterated food free of genetic manipulation, pesticides, heavy metals or other contaminants and access to herbs, supplements, frequency devices and other means as therapies that may benefit or to protect your well-being without drugs and other dangerous interventions, if you choose.

Genetically Modified (GM) foods, crops and animals are one of those items you must be able to chose to put in your body (and your environment) or not. Because the US refuses to label GM knowing that consumers will refuse to eat it, they FORBID the labeling of such "FrankenFoods". But it is not just food. Cotton is a GM crop mutated to kill a major pest. Supposedly, GM plants will never have their pests become immune to their changes because…. well, because the Biotech Industry says so.

But Mother Nature says differently. Read the article below and then recall that the biotech pollen blows wild and we are seeing super pests and super weeds evolve because of them. Now what? More pesticides? More mutated DNA? More mutated bacteria and genes to serve the short term, and very short sighted, biotech transformation of Nature into commodity for the benefit of global corporations and the detriment of us all? Remember, these products undergo biotech pollen blows wild and we are seeing super pests and super weeds evolve.

Remember, too, that although cotton is a non-food crop, cotton seed oil is a cheap food oil which is heavily used in our food supply. There is no limit to the amount of pesticide which can be used on cotton. There is no assurance that the mutated proteins and other products (including viruses and drug-resistant genes as well as proteins that have never, NEVER, been produced on earth before) are not present in that cheap oil. There is also every assurance that horrific pesticides ARE at fantastic levels can be, may be, are present in that oil and hence in you and everyone else who eats the food made with the oil treated with the pesticides and mutated for profit.

Organic is not perfect, but it is the only assurance that you have that the food that you are eating does not contain more than 10% of these contaminants. "10 %?", you may ask. "Isn´t that an awful lot of contamination by GM foods in organic food, for which I am paying a hefty premium?" You bet it is. That is what the US Government allows for organic food to still be called "Organic". Most other countries in the developed world set a limit of 0.09%. Quite a difference.

Do we need reform in this area? You bet. But "Organic" is still a great deal better than conventional, pesticided, GM ridden, trans fat laden, pesticide laced "food". This investment in health is cheap at twice the price. After all, how expensive is cancer?

Recall that Codex Alimentarius allows a wide range of fearsome pesticides at horrifyingly high levels. And then recall that many of these biological disasters are permitted with no upper limits. Recall, too, that Codex, following the guiding hand of the US, with a Monsanto representative sitting on the delegation, is trying to force the rest of the world to agree that any food already on the market (i.e., GM food) is "safe" and does not require labeling.

There will be a meeting in April, 2008, of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling at which the friends of declaratory GM labeling with face down the US as they successfully began to do at the meeting on this topic in Africa last month. The battle continues.

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PEST RESISTANCE TO GM COTTON AND MAIZE

An insect that is supposed to be killed by a genetically modified (GM)

cotton crop with an in-built poison gene (the plant is the insecticide) has

developed resistance and is beginning to spread in parts of the United

States of America, a scientific study has found. A study by the Agricultural

Research Council (ARC) has found similar results for Bt GM maize in South

Africa.

Bt GM plants are developed by inserting a gene into the plant that is

normally found in a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). The

bacterial gene produces a protein poison that kills certain insects but is

normally harmless to others.

In South Africa the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) has published trial

results that indicate stalk-borer larvae have developed the ability to

survive the Bt poison contained in GM maize plants.

Researchers in the ARC study collected larvae from Bt maize fields in

Christiana in the North West and Ventersdorp, about 320 km away, where Bt

maize was not being grown.

Their field and greenhouse trials showed the same results. Most of the

bollworm larvae collected from non-Bt crops survived only to the eighth day

of the trial (which involved being exposed to Bt maize). But a substantial

number of larvae collected from Bt maize survived over the whole trial

period.

In the USA, a study from the University of Arizona, to be published in

Nature Biotechnology, focused on Bt cotton. This study found that the

bollworm insect developed resistance because of the huge area of land in the

USA - and elsewhere - under Bt GM crop cultivation.

According to the study, the land area under Bt GM cultivation has generated

one of the largest forces of natural selection for insect resistance that

the world has ever known.

The resistant form of bollworm larvae was found in fields in the southern

states of Mississippi and Arkansas between 2003 and 2006, when the surveys

were conducted.

Other major pests attacking Bt crops had not evolved resistance, the

researchers said. The bollworm is a major pest in south-eastern USA and

Texas.

(sources: Farmer´s Weekly 7 March 2008, GMWatch 4 Februa

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