There is an 85 % probability that if you are eating corn, or any food product that contains corn, that you are enjoying the benefits of Round Up weed killer and or BT in your body. How does this knowledge make you feel?Read your food labels and reject GMO food or you will continue to be unhealthy. Then call the food companies and tell them that you will no longer buy their food product.
If "Abundant Garden" Organic Fertilizer were used by farmers there would not be a need for insecticides because the crops would be healthy and no insects would bother them. FACT!
Bt crops linked to sterility, disease, and death
- Thousands of sheep, buffalo, and goats in India died after grazing on Bt cotton plants after harvest. Others suffered poor health and reproductive problems.[34]
- Farmers in Europe and Asia say that cows, water buffaloes, chickens, and horses died from eating Bt corn varieties.[35]
- About two dozen US farmers report that Bt corn varieties caused widespread sterility in pigs or cows.[36]
- Filipinos in at least five villages fell sick when a nearby Bt corn variety was pollinating.[37]
- The stomach lining of rats fed GM potatoes showed excessive cell growth, a condition that may lead to cancer. Rats also had damaged organs and immune systems.[38] (This information was taken for the Institute for responsible biotechnology web page: http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/health-risks
One of the first genetically modified organisms were transgenic crops containing a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a naturally occurring bacterial disease of insects. These bacteria are the active ingredient in some insecticides.) that coded for the protein crystals in Bt which are toxic to some insect larvae. The Bt gene was successfully inserted into the genome of several cash crops via a gene gun. The insertion of the Bt gene directly into the genome of crops allowed the crops to perpetually produce this Bt toxin in their own cells. Theoretically, this conferred constant insect resistance to transgenic Bt crops without the application of any pesticide dusts or sprays. Also, since Bt crops constantly produce Bt protein crystals in all tissues of the plant, Bt crops, unlike traditional Bt sprays and dusts, remain effective once the larvae have bored into the plant stalk (Levidow, 1999). Today, versions of Bt cotton, Bt corn, and Bt potatoes are being grown in the United States, Canada, Argentina, South Africa, France, and Spain. (information taken form web page that was created by Lane Estes and Graham Watson for Biology 361, an undergraduate course at Davidson College)
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