The Ultimate Purpose of GMOs

GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) are a hot topic right now. All across America, from Hawaii to California to the Northeastern states like Vermont, the debate is raging over whether to label GM foods, and in many cases, whether to ban GM crops completely. Some counties (such as the Big Island County in Hawaii, and Jackson and Josephine Counties in Oregon) have passed local laws banning GM crop cultivation, and Vermont became the first state to do so. Additionally, as many as 60 countries have restricted or banned GM crops from being grown on their soil! Before we discuss the ultimate purpose of GMOs, let’s begin by defining what a GMO is.

What is a GMO?

A GMO is created when the DNA from one species (usually a plant) is crossed with the DNA from a completely different species (such as a virus, bacteria or animal). This is not the traditional crossbreeding that has been practiced for thousands of years by human famers, where different strains of plants are crossbred to produce hybrids. That is a natural process occurring in the fields over generations.

Genetic modification is the artificial injecting of the DNA of a completely different, random species into plant DNA. It’s been described as vertical rather than horizontal mixing. Such a mix never occurs in Nature, and thus, we have no idea of the long-term consequences of such a process. Genetic modification is carried out under the banner of biotechnology by big multinational corporations such as Bayer, BASF, Syngenta, Dow, Dupont Pioneer and the infamous Monsanto, which has been voted the world’s most hated corporation for a few years running. An entire day is devoted to the “March Against Monsanto” in over 50 countries every year!

Big Biotech

These businesses have rebranded themselves as Biotech companies, but they are essentially chemical and pharmaceutical companies – many with a very dark history. Bayer and BASF were part of the I.G. Farben conglomerate, producing chemical weapons for the Bush-Rockefeller-funded Nazis. When it comes to a dark past though, Monsanto takes the cake, having produced the carcinogens Agent Orange, DDT, Dioxin and Lasso. It also produced rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), a hormone given to cows which has made them sick, and made humans who consume their milk sick too. However, Monsanto bribed the FDA to the tune of $1-2 million to get it legalized.

Monsanto also took over the development of aspartame, an artificial sweetener with 92 reported health side effects, including irreversible brain damage and death. On top of all of that, it was Monsanto that produced PCBs (plastics classified as persistent organic pollutants) for over 50 years, which are now virtually omnipresent in the tissues of humans and wildlife around the globe.

GMOs Wreak Havoc on Human Health

Knowing all of this, it would be wise to look at GMOs with a healthy deal of skepticism, given that they’re being pushed by such corporations. Scientific studies are showing that skepticism to be well-founded. In the last few years, a large number of papers have shown that GMOs are extremely detrimental to human health. The French scientist Seralini showed that rats fed Monsanto’s GM maize developed severe liver and kidney damage, and developed malignant tumors, in just 4 months. Others have shown that GMOs are implicated in a staggering large number of ailments, including organ failure, autism, allergies, asthma, sterility, infant mortality, digestive disorders, bowel disease, Crohn’s, constipation, kidney disease, heart disease and more.

Why such horrible side effects? It’s because the GMOs are completely new organisms with never-before-seen DNA. The process of creating GMOs involves the random shooting or splicing of genes, and leads to gene mutations. When we ingest GM food, our body’s immune system treats it as a foreign entity, so it starts attacking it and your body gets inflamed. GMOs cause inflammation, the hidden source of many auto-immune diseases (e.g. arthritis, multiple sclerosis, etc.) and other illnesses like diabetes, Alzheimer’s and cancer.

Industrial Pesticides: RoundUp (Glyphosate)

Unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there. GMOs go hand-in-hand with industrial pesticides. In fact, Monsanto developed its GMOs as a way to sell more of its chemical pesticides and herbicides. The most notorious of these is RoundUp, whose active ingredient is glyphosate. Glyphosate is extremely toxic to virtually all forms of life, even at low levels. Whenever you eat Monsanto’s GM food, you are also getting a dose of glyphosate, which has been linked with chronic fatigue, birth defects and cancer…

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