GMOs and Health.

GMOs and Health.
Genetically Modified (Chimera) Organisms.
Human Engineered Genetically Mutated Combination Incomplete Lifeform - HEGMIL.

INDEX
INTRODUCTION: Mutated Combination Incomplete Lifeforms.

Resource: DVD - Genetic Roulette.
Resource: Listing of Books.
Resource: Listing of DVD's & CDs.
Resource: IFRT - Institute for Responsible Tech.
Resource: Poster on GMO Health Dangers.
Resource: Health Risks brochure.

OnePage : Patient INTRO from Doctors.
Sensitive: GMOs and Gluten Sensitivity.
-Changes-: GMOs Contaminate Foods.
.Internet.: Links to IFRT pages.
.Internet.: Links to Infusions pages.

Report : Damaging Effects of ROUNDUP.
Report : AUTISM & GMO foods.
Booklet: AUTISM & GMO foods.
-Notes- : .
Science : Position on GMO Foods.
Shopping: Finding Non-GMO foods.
Brochure: Baby Food Campaign.

Probiotics: Benefit/Cure, Insurance, Relevancy.

AFTERWORD: What is BEST for YOU, personally, to eat .. depends upon ...

-Focus-: Monographs on Toxins and Enhancers.

COMPANION RESOURCES:
IDENTITY : Becoming a Chimera. --- HEALTH : Living with & Beyond Mutation.
HOSTS : What is being/has been altered. --- MODIFIERS : What is/has been used to Mutate.

INTRODUCTION: Mutated Combination Incomplete Lifeforms. INDEX

If you undertake to read the following and make an effort to integrate it such that you can interpret and identify what is RELEVANT for YOU, and perhaps other humans, in general, you will be best to resist attraction to fear, anxiety, paranoia, and hysterics ... which is encouraged by exposure to realities which we are systematically held apart from by the structure of our cultural authority infrastructures including educational, media, news, political, medical, and, pseudo-science boundaries.
That is, if our leaders had expressed a historical optimism in the self-directedness of their membership, and, a humility in their ignorance .. they would NOT have constructed and followed strategies to maintain their membership/voters as dependent, underinformed mental slaves willingly giving over their freedom of health and lifestyle Choices to SYMBOLIC human gods, generally known as experts, scientists, managers, leaders, and, corporations. Your leaders benefit from your accepting their offer of respecting you, as a CHILD, pressed into Dependency, and, without the knowledge to hold them accountable for their many and frequent errors. Allowing them to be irresponsible, while deceiving you with insincere promises and poorly founded good intentions provides them with the Confidence of the authority you sanction in them. Resist the temptation to REACT to sudden awareness with self-terror, and, with the Grace of God, allow the fog of your confusion to drift away and bring you to a discernment of Reality from which you can exercise self-directness.

GMO's are Human Engineered Genetically Mutated Combination Incomplete Lifeforms.
They have genes extracted from other lifeforms added into their own.
This process often excludes, rejects, extracts or otherwise nullifies some of the original genes.
The result is an organism which mainly has the characteristics of the original host, yet, and often not in an obvious appearance characteristic, also has and expresses biological characteristics of another lifeform. These combinations may be made up of genes from any 2 or more of the following: bacteria, fungi, virus, plant, mammal (including human), reptile, others. The host becomes LESS than a representative of its own species, and, much LESS than a representative of another one or more species. Frequently, it may come alive as infertile, and, its life dynamics may threaten its own Quality of Life as well as that of different and same lifeforms around it.
GMO's are NEVER what they appear to be.
Their non-normal behavior can be considered a benefit by the engineer, or, useless, or, a danger.
The engineer is often a representative of a CORPORATION, which is a symbolic organism brought to life by humans intent upon taking RISKS in the service of elevated PROFITS while being Legally (institutionally, academically, secularly) protected from Responsibility. The Corporation is given, by its Charter, a Purpose/Motivation of increasing its Capital Resources by the greatest SELF-Benefit. In a competitive economy, an ATTITUDE of "by any means" becomes accepted as an operational/administrative protocol. Representatives who challenge this Moral evaluation of decisions are released from their employment and replaced with others desperate for income, acceptance, power, privilege.

The POLITICAL context of the Corporation is that it IS a Robot to whom representatives of its creators elect to enslave themselves. Presently, 2015, its SOCIAL and ENVIRONMENTAL influences cannot be limited, regulated, or, stopped. The DENIAL afforded to humans by their immature (self-obsessed) Consciousness continues to provide the self deception that humans can harness their Symbolic God. Reality has repeatedly demonstrated for the past 187 years that this MASTER has, and will continue to destroy the balance of the ecology of land and sea lifeforms, the health of humans, the harmony of human political and religious organizations (promoting conflicts, wars, and terrorist abuses), and the biological life ENERGIES of the universe. GMO's are but ONE tool which Corporations are using to ELIMINATE humans.
If one attempts to understand the influence, dangers, and presence of GMOs as a complete lifeform, the human consciousness will succeed in distorting awareness in one direction, then another ... seeking to project conclusions from other lifeforms and the fundamental principles of biology. GMOs represent an ever growing multitude of differing lifeforms, which my their genetic integration with a host, will take on both a PERSONAL ecology dynamic, and, propagate potentially new and individualized strains of incomplete species. These, unlike the clear boundary and genetically complete lifeforms represented by humans, plants, bacteria, birds, reptiles, and fungi ... may continue to be ACTIVE/alive after they have been harvested and eaten. They share more of a reality of life-death transitional presence with viruses, prions, and cancerous entities than they do with the clear boundary species with their predictable behaviors.

Autopsy: Internal Exam - Impacted Waste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3d7p2Fu6M

Resource: DVD - Genetic Roulette. INDEX
(The Gamble of our Lives.)
A film by .. author Jeffery M. Smith
Narrated by Lisa Oz.
Library: 3 3132 03286 8947 -- DVD 664 GEN
-- Included Non-GMO Shopping Guide, and,
---- Seeds of Freedom, second DVD.
US $19.95 -- 2012 -- 60 + 28 min
Institute for Responsible Technology (IFRT)
LINK: Genetic Roulette Movie
LINK: Non-GMO Shopping Guide
LINK: Institute for Responsible Technology.

Resource: Listing of Books. INDEX
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Resource: Listing of DVD's & CDs. INDEX
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Don't Put That in Your Mouth (Audio CD), $1.20
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Genetic Roulette Movie, $19.95
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Silent Forest (DVD), $24.95
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The Corporation (DVD), $28.95
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Genetic Roulette Movie (Pack of 6), $75.00
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GMO Trilogy , 3-disc Set, $14.95
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Scientists Under Attack (DVD), $20.00
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Resource: IFRT - Institute for Responsible Tech. INDEX
http://www.responsibletechnology.org

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The Institute for Responsible Technology is a world leader in educating policy makers and the public about genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. We investigate and report their risks and impact on health, environment, the economy, and agriculture, as well as the problems associated with current research, regulation, corporate practices, and reporting.
Founded in 2003 by international best selling author and GMO expert Jeffrey Smith, IRT has worked in nearly 40 countries on 6 continents, and is credited with improving government policies and influencing consumer-buying habits.

IRT's work comes from a dedicated team of subject experts, consultants and staff who generously donate their time and experience. In addition, IRT employs media experts, social network campaigners, writers, graphic designers, communications specialists, fundraisers, outreach professionals and support staff, who operate both at our headquarters in Iowa, and from virtual offices in the US.
IRT's Campaign for Healthier Eating in America mobilizes citizens, organizations, businesses, healthcare professionals, and the media, to achieve the tipping point of consumer rejection of GM foods.
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Resource: Poster on GMO Health Dangers. INDEX
http://responsibletechnology.org/mm_gmos_poster.pdf ---1.3 MB
This has identical content and display to that of OnePage : Patient INTRO from Doctors, see below.

Resource: Health Risks brochure. INDEX
http://responsibletechnology.org/IRT-Health-RisksBrochure-2014-web%282%29.pdf -- 3.6MB
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DOCTORS' HEALTH WARNING:
Avoid Genetically Modified Foods
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) urges physicians to advise all patients to avoid genetically modified (GM) food. They state, "Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food." These include:

Infertility
Immune problems
Accelerated aging
Faulty insulin regulation
Changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system.

Since 1996, GM plants such as soybeans and corn have had genes from bacteria and viruses forced into their DNA. Most Americans don't realize that GM ingredients are in an estimated 70% or more of all processed foods.
Learn the risks and start protecting yourself and your family today!

Is the FDA protecting us? No
The Food and Drug Administration policy on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), released in 1992, falsely claims that the agency had no information showing that GM foods are substantially different. Thousands of secret memos later made public by a lawsuit reveal just the opposite. FDA scientists repeatedly warned of possible allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems; they urged long-term safety studies. But the FDA official in charge of policy was Michael Taylor, Monsanto's former attorney, later their vice president, and now the US Food Safety Czar.
The FDA ignored their scientists, and doesn't require a single safety test.
Instead, companies such as Monsanto, which have been found guilty of hiding toxic effects of their other products, get to decide if their GMOs are safe for us to eat. And the superficial studies they do conduct are widely criticized as rigged to avoid finding problems.

GMOs: unnatural, imprecise, prone to side-effects.
Gene insertion into plants is done by shooting cells with a "gene gun" or using bacteria to infect the cells. Then the cells are cloned into plants. These laboratory techniques are imprecise and bear no resemblance to natural breeding. The technology is based on outdated scientific assumptions and can lead to massive collateral damage in the plant. The DNA of GMOs, for example, can have hundreds or thousands of mutations, and the activity of up to 5% of their natural genes can be significantly changed. Even the inserted gene can be damaged or rearranged, creating proteins that trigger allergies or promote disease.

GM foods on the market.
The six major GMO crops are soy, corn, canola, cotton, sugar beets, and alfalfa.
Each has added bacterial genes, allowing plants to survive an otherwise deadly dose of weed killer such as Roundup. Farmers use considerably more herbicide on these crops, causing higher herbicide residues in our food.
The second most popular trait is a built-in pesticide, found in GM corn and cotton.
An inserted gene from soil bacteria called Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) secretes the insect-killing Bt-toxin in every cell.
The other GM crops are Hawaiian papaya and a small amount of zucchini and yellow crookneck squash, which are engineered to resist a plant virus.

Growing Evidence of Harm from GMOs
GMOs and allergic reactions

Soy allergies skyrocketed by 50% in the UK, soon after GM soy was introduced.
Cooked GM soy contains as much as 7 times the amount of a known soy allergen.
GM corn contains an allergen not found in natural varieties.
GM soy also has an allergen not found in wild soy, and some people react in a skin prick allergy test to the GM variety, but not the wild type.

Bt corn and cotton linked to allergies
Natural Bt bacteria has been used in spray-form by farmers for years, although it biodegrades quickly. The Bt in GM crops is designed to be more toxic than the natural spray, is thousands of times more concentrated, and doesn't biodegrade.
Hundreds of people exposed to natural Bt spray had allergic symptoms, and mice fed natural Bt-toxin had damaged intestines and powerful immune responses. Now mice and rats fed Bt corn show immune responses, and people exposed to Bt cotton are getting the allergic reactions.
A study in Canada found Bt-toxin and herbicide residues from GM crops in the blood of women and fetuses.
Thousands of Indian farm workers get rashes and reactions from Bt cotton.

GMOs fail allergy tests
No tests can guarantee that a GMO will not cause allergies.
Although the World Health Organization recommends a screening protocol, the GM soy, corn, and papaya in our food supply fail those tests -- because their GM proteins have properties of known allergens.

GMOs may make you allergic to non-GM foods

GM soy drastically reduces digestive enzymes in mice.
If it also impairs your digestion, you may become sensitive and allergic to a variety of foods.
Mice fed Bt-toxin started having immune reactions to formerly harmless foods.
Mice fed experimental GM peas also started reacting to a range of other foods.
(The peas had already passed the allergy tests normally done before a GMO gets on the market. Only this advanced test, which is never used on the GMOs we eat, revealed that the peas might actually be deadly.)
The livers of rats fed GM soy show significant changes. Also, rats fed GM potatoes had smaller, partially atrophied livers; also, GM canola were 12-16% heavier; and the liver cells of mice fed GM soy appeared to suffer from a toxic insult.

GMOs, reproductive problems, and infant mortality

More than half the babies of mother rats fed GM soy died within three weeks.
Rodents fed GM soy had changes in their ovaries, uterus, or testicles, including altered young sperm cells.
The DNA of mouse embryos functioned differently when the parents ate GM soy.
Mice fed GM corn had fertility problems and smaller babies.
By the third generation, most hamsters fed GM soy were unable to have babies and suffered high infant mortality; some had hair growing in their mouths.

Bt crops linked to sterility, disease, and death.
Thousands of Indian buffalo, sheep, and goats died after grazing on Bt cotton plants after harvest. Others suffered poor health and reproductive problems.

Farmers in Europe and Asia say that cows, water buffaloes, chickens, and horses died from eating Bt corn varieties.
About two dozen US farmers report that Bt corn varieties caused widespread sterility in pigs or cows.
Filipinos in at least five villages fell sick when a nearby Bt corn variety was pollinating.

Functioning GM genes remain inside you.
The only published human feeding experiment on GMOs revealed that the genetic material inserted into GM soy transfers into bacteria living inside our intestines and continues to function. This means that long after we stop eating GM foods, we may still have their GM proteins produced continuously inside us.

If the antibiotic gene inserted into most GM crops were to transfer, it could create super diseases, resistant to antibiotics.
If the gene that creates Bt-toxin in GM corn were to transfer, it might turn our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories.
Animal studies show that DNA in food can travel into organs throughout the body, even into the fetus.

GM food supplement caused deadly epidemic.
In the 1980s, a contaminated brand of a food supplement called L-tryptophan killed about 100 Americans and caused sickness and disability in another 5,000-10,000 people. The source of contaminants was almost certainly the genetic engineering process used in its production. The disease was only identified because the symptoms had three simultaneous characteristics: they were unique, acute, and fast-acting. If GM foods on the market cause common diseases, mild symptoms, or have long-term impacts, we may never know. There's no monitoring, and hardly any long-term animal studies. So we can't say for sure if GMOs contribute to the recent rise in chronic illness, food allergies, reproductive and digestive problems, autism, and other disorders. But medical organizations like the AAEM say we shouldn't keep eating GMOs while waiting for more studies.

References for the above material are found at ResponsibleTechnology.org/health-risks.

OnePage : Patient INTRO from Doctors. INDEX
http://responsibletechnology.org/mm_onepage.pdf --- 1.3 MG

Knowledgeable Physicians Tell Patients:
Don't Eat GMOs!
Still eating Genetically Modified Organisms?
Do your colors.

There are a number of Charts around the edge of the poster, including these:
Hospital Discharge Diagnoses (any) of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Deaths Due to Intestinal Infection
Hospital Discharge (any) of Peritonitis
Hospital Diagnosis (any) for Functional Bowel Disorder (Irritable Bowel)
Thyroid Cancer Incident Rate
Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer Incidence
Obesity in U.S. Population (percent)
Number of Children (6-21 yrs old) with Autism served by IDEA
Percentage of Adults with High Blood Pressure
Deaths Due to Hypertension (per 100,000)
Deaths from Senile Dementia
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
End Stage Renal Disease Death Rates
Number of Hospitalizations for Acute Kidney Injury
Acute Renal (Kidney) Failure Death Rates
Number of New Cases of Diabetes Diagnosed Annually (incidence)

LAB ANIMALS SUFFER FROM GMOS
When the American Academy of Environmental Medicine reviewed GMO studies, animals fed genetically engineered (GE) food suffered from gastrointestinal disorders, immune problems, liver and kidney damage, accelerated aging, insulin problems and reproductive issues. Recent research adds tumors and premature death to the list.
PEOPLE RECOVER AFTER REMOVING GMOS
Millions of people are seeking non-GMO foods.
When they switch, many report significant health improvements in weight loss, digestive issues, allergies and asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, autistic symptoms , fatigue, skin rashes, depression, headaches, infertility, etc.

LIVESTOCK ALSO RECOVER
When farmers and vets replace GE soy and corn with non-GE feed, they report improvements in livestock's immune, gastrointestinal, and reproductive health, lower death rates, fewer birth defects, and "happier" animals.
GMOs CONTAIN TOXIC HERBICIDES
Most GMOs are soaked with toxic weed killers such as Roundup (active ingredient glyphosate), which studies link to cancer, birth defects, endocrine disruption, digestive disorders, liver and kidney damage, pre-mature death, nutritional deficiencies, and immune problems (via gut bacterial disruption).
GMO CORN PRODUCES TOXIC INSECTICIDE CALLED BT-TOXIN
Some GE corn varieties produce an insecticide that provokes immune responses and can damage cell walls -- possibly causing digestive disorders and permeable intestines.

To learn how to avoid GMOs, visit NonGMOShoppingGuide.com
or download the free iPhone app, ShopNoGMO.
For more information, including references and a free
newsletter, visit responsibletechnology.org.

Sensitive: GMOs and Gluten Sensitivity. 13 pg pdf INDEX
http://www.GlutenandGMOs.com

Wheat is not a genetically modified organism (GMO).
But evidence suggests that genetically modified foods, such as soy and corn, may help explain the recent explosion of gluten-related disorders, which now affect up to 18 million Americans.
Experts agree that the recent increase in gluten-related disorders cannot be explained by genetics alone and that there must be some environmental trigger. In this video, Jeffrey Smith, internationally recognized expert on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and Tom Malterre, expert in clinical nutrition and a gluten-free lifestyle, simplify and clarify the potential connection between GMOs and gluten sensitivity.
By Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Technology
Research support by Sayer Ji, author and founder of GreenMedInfo.com, the most widely referenced natural medicine database. greenmedinfo.com | Dr. Tom O'Bryan, thedr.com/ | Tom Malterre, MS CN, author, and physician educator. nourishingmeals.com | Stephanie Seneff, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, MIT. people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/
Copyright � 2006-2014

"Based on my clinical experience, when I remove genetically modified foods as part of the treatment for gluten sensitivity, recovery is faster and more complete. I believe that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our diet contribute to the rise in gluten sensitivity in the U.S. population."
-- Emily Lindner, MD, Internist

The explosion of awareness about gluten sensitivity is hard to miss these days.
Whether walking down supermarket aisles or ordering in restaurants, "gluten-free" proclamations call out in ever-increasing numbers. Pizza crust, hotdog buns, and cookies are offered with rice flour, corn meal, anything but wheat and its close relatives, like rye, barley and spelt, that contain the dreaded gluten.
Technically, gluten refers to any of the more than 23,000 distinct proteins in wheat, and the term "gluten related disorders" describes a wide spectrum of problems associated with its consumption. 1 Wheat is not the only grain of concern, as there are gluten-like proteins known as gliadins and glutenins found in most other cereal grains (see chart below). Only some of these, however, are linked to reactions. The most well known conditions linked to gluten sensitivity are celiac disease and wheat allergy, in part because they are both specific immune responses that can be unequivocally confirmed through modern diagnostic techniques. Celiac disease, which may be called an extreme sensitivity, is quite dangerous. Those with celiac disease can experience adverse effects when exposed to gluten in the parts-per-million range levels and research shows that when it goes undiagnosed, it is associated with a nearly four-fold increased risk of death from all causes.
Unfortunately, celiac disease and other forms of gluten related disorders are often overlooked or misdiagnosed, because the symptoms are so varied. They can affect cardiovascular, neurological, and skeletal systems, to name but a few3; in fact, there are over 300 health conditions and/or symptoms linked to gluten sensitivity, as confirmed by peer-reviewed studies.

Why is Wheat Now Dangerous for So Many?
Celiac disease prevalence in Finland doubled in the last two decades, even when ruling out confounding factors such as better detection rate. The growth in the U.S. is even worse. According to one 2009 study, celiac disease has increased more than four-fold in the United States during the past 50 years. 5 A 2010 study pushed that figure to a five-fold increase in celiac disease prevalence just since 1974.
The same study found the dramatic uptick was "due to an increasing number of subjects that lost the immunological tolerance to gluten in their adulthood." Clearly, there is an environmental component to this trend. It is important to clarify that wheat is not a genetically modified organism (GMO). The process of genetic modification involves the transfer of DNA from one species, such as a bacteria, virus, or fish, into that of another, such as corn, soy, or tomatoes. With genetic modification, scientists can breech species barriers to create a new organism that could never be produced in nature. This process is very different than traditional breeding practices such as hybridization. Wheat has been hybridized over the years. Some experts blame the hybridization of wheat for the increase in gluten sensitivity:
One theory popularized by the 2011 publication of Dr. William Davis' New York Times best-selling book Wheat Belly, is that the increase in the incidence of celiac disease might be attributable to an increase in the gluten content of wheat resulting from wheat breeding. This view was echoed in a 2012 study published in the journal BMC Medicine 7:
"One possible explanation is that the selection of wheat varieties with higher gluten content has been a continuous process during the last 10,000 years, with changes dictated more by technological rather than nutritional reasons."

A 2013 review of historical data commissioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, however, found no clear evidence of an increase in the gluten content of wheat in the United States during the 20th century, and only a slight change in the 21st century. They did concede that an increase in the per capita consumption of wheat and gluten might play a role. Additional environmental factors studied to play a role include: timing of gluten exposure, breast-feeding duration, the composition of the intestinal microbiota, 11 and cesarean birth.

Dietary Allergens, Environmental Toxins, and GMOs
One of the most common explanations for the alarming increase in gluten-related health issues is both that detection of gluten problems has improved, and that more practitioners are looking for it; hence, the greater numbers. While better detection and the new "popularity" of the disorder are certainly contributing, there is an accumulating body of research indicating a third factor is at play, namely, the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental toxins and other food allergens whose combined influence is triggering the increase in the overall susceptibility to gluten. Support for this notion is found in the increased rates of related disorders over the past decade or two. These include autoimmune problems such as allergies and asthma, as well as gastrointestinal disorders such as Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and acid reflux (GERD).
Here, we will present evidence that strongly suggests that one significant addition to the American diet -- genetically modified (GM) food -- is a major contributor to gluten sensitivity reactions, and also interferes with complete and rapid recovery. Also called genetically modified organisms (GMOs), these are crops that have had foreign genes inserted into their DNA, usually from bacteria or viruses, to confer a particular trait. There are nine GM food crops currently being grown for commercial use; the six major ones are soy, corn, cotton (used for cooking oil), canola (also used for cooking oil), sugar beets (used for sugar production), and alfalfa (used as animal feed). All six are engineered to be herbicide tolerant, i.e. to survive spray applications of weed killer. They thus contain high residue levels of these extremely toxic, endocrine-disrupting and DNA-damaging agrichemicals. Some corn and cotton varieties are also equipped with genes that produce a toxic insecticide call Bt-toxin (from Bacillus thuringiensis soil bacteria). There are also zucchini, yellow squash, and papaya varieties that have viral genes designed to help them ward off certain viral infections.
Based on animal feeding research, case studies, and the properties of these crops, GMOs are linked with four types of disorders that are known to impact gluten reactions:
1. Leaky gut (aka 'intestinal permeability') 2. Impaired digestive capacity (reduced enzymes, damage to microvilli) 3. Gut bacteria dysbiosis (overgrowth of pathogenic microbes) 4. Immune/allergenic response

-Changes-: GMOs Contaminate Foods. INDEX
http://responsibletechnology.org/docs/gmos-inevitably-contaminate-and-persist.pdf
GMOs Inevitably Contaminate and Persist
GM crops are a source of self-propagating genetic and environmental pollution.
The experience over the last 15 years demonstrates that GMOs are uncontainable. They inevitably contaminate non-GM crops and sometimes wild relatives, and will persist in nature for many years.1 The industry idea that their crops can "coexistence" and remain segregated is short-sighted and ignores the impacts of wind, insects, floods, animals, theft, and human error. The entry of GM crops into a country generally removes choice, where everyone that type of species is gradually forced to grow GM crops or to have their non-GM crop contaminated. Those seeking to remain non-GMO are burdened with the costs of buffer zones, testing, segregated storage and shipping, and losses due to contamination.
The spread of GMOs takes place through cross pollination, seed movement, "volunteer" crops (growing from previous years' unharvested seeds), and accidents by seed companies and farmers. It occurs not only from commercialized GMOs, but also field trials of unapproved varieties. Contamination can impair the ability of organic and non-GMO farmers to receive premiums, create super weeds, permanently alter a species gene pool, and block export and specialty markets.

In 2006 GM rice grown for one year in field trials five years earlier was reported to have contaminated the US rice supply and seed stocks, and found in Africa, Europe, and Central America. US rice futures dropped immediately by $150 and exports dropped by about 20% from the previous year.3 The total cost could reach as high as $1.2 billion.
Contamination of US corn by StarLink in 2000 halted exports and cost about $1 billion in recalls, lost markets, price reductions, clean up, and lawsuits. Five years later, US corn exports again suffered additional losses when Bt10 -- not approved for commercialization -- contaminated US stocks.
US courts acknowledge that approval of GM alfalfa threatened the existence of non-GM alfalfa through cross-pollination.
Cross-pollination problems by Spain's GM corn production caused their organic corn production to drop significantly.
In 2009, the Canadian flax seed export market to Europe collapsed after widespread contamination with an unauthorized GM variety was discovered.
In 2007 alone, there were 39 new instances of GM contamination in 23 countries, and 216 incidents have been reported between 2005-2007.

Incompetent Regulation of Field Trials
Field trials are conducted without third party verification that contamination has not occurred.
Oftentimes, the government jurisdiction overseeing the site does not even have the capabilities of testing the crops. And the companies never provide insurance to cover the costs or clean up if contamination occurs.
"Illegal GM seeds are present in several provinces because of weak management."
--Chinese environment ministry official
A 2005 report by its Office of Inspector General, concluded that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) was not competently overseeing the nearly 50,000 field trials it had approved since 1986. It said, "current regulations, policies, and procedures do not go far enough to ensure the safe introduction of agricultural biotechnology." In addition, "at various stages of the field test process -- from approval of applications to inspection of fields -- weaknesses in APHIS [a USDA department's] regulations and internal management controls increase the risk that regulated genetically engineered organisms will inadvertently persist in the environment before they are deemed safe to grow without regulation."

Illegal GM rice has been spread for years in China, and was found in European food imports at least 115 times between 2006 and May 2011.
Field tests of Monsanto's GM bentgrass in 2003 contaminated natural grass at least 13 miles away. The contamination continues in the area.
Even a rumor that GM papaya was stolen from a Thailand field trial interrupted sales to European markets in 2004.
Canola seeds imported into Japan have spilled from trucks at the ports, causing contamination of illegal GM canola growing in that country.10 Now GM canola has crossed with indigenous Japanese weeds in the same area. Hundreds of GM plants were found along roadways in North Dakota, USA.11 GM canola spread from field trials in California and has been found growing wild alongside roads and highways. 12 And 32 of 33 bags of non-GMO canola seed in Canada were contaminated with GM varieties. Such contamination from GM canola has made it virtually impossible to cultivate organic, non- GM oilseed rape.

Internet: Links to IFRT pages. INDEX

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Report : Damaging Effects of ROUNDUP. INDEX
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Damaging Effects of Roundup (and its active ingredient glyphosate)
Glyphosate was patented by Monsanto as the active ingredient in their Roundup brand.
Monsanto also introduced genetically modified (GM) "Roundup Ready" (RR) soy, corn, cotton, canola, sugar beets, and alfalfa -- all designed to withstand Roundup's normally deadly effect.
Glyphosate by itself is only mildly toxic to plants and doesn't usually destroy weeds directly.
As a broad-spectrum chelator,1 it binds with nutrients, depriving plants of the minerals needed to help them defend against disease. At the same time, glyphosate can stimulate disease-creating organisms in the soil such as fusarium, which then wipe out the weakened plants. Glyphosate also remains in tact in the soil for months or years, and can even be found in the manure of chickens fed RR grains.

Glyphosate also changes soil microbiology in ways that can reduce plant nourishment and vitality, particularly nitrogen fixation; interferes with photosynthesis; reduces water use efficiency; lowers lignin content; damages and shortens root systems; causes plants to release important sugars; and changes soil pH -- all of which can negatively affect crop health.
Glyphosate also accumulates in the food portion of Roundup Ready plants, for which allowable residue herbicide thresholds have been increased by up to 200-fold. Glyphosate exposure has been linked to sterility, hormone disruption, abnormal and lower sperm counts, miscarriages, damaged human embryonic and placental cells, placental cell death, birth defects, and cancer. It is also toxic and lethal to amphibians.

GM crops increase Roundup use.
When Monsanto introduced Roundup Ready crops 1996, they boldly claimed that herbicide use would decrease as a result. It did -- slightly -- for three years. But over the next 10 years it grew considerably. Total herbicide use in the US jumped by 383 million pounds, or about 10%, in the 13 years after GMOs came on the scene. The primary reason for the increase is the accelerating spread of herbicide tolerant weeds. These were reported on 30,000 sites, affecting up to 11.4 million acres, up from 3,251 sites on 2.4 million acres in 2007. The cost for farmers is estimated almost $1 billion each year, or $10-20 per acre.
Farmers are applying significantly more Roundup.
Nearly half of the huge 13-year increase in herbicide use took place in just the last 2 years. Although the biotech industry points to a study claiming that GM crops reduce herbicide use, a careful analysis shows how unsupported assumptions and inappropriate methods were used to arrive at this conclusion.

Glyphosate:

Promotes more than 40 plant diseases, some of which also can produce toxins that are dangerous to animals and humans.

Removes essential nutrients from crops, which can result in deficiencies in livestock and possibly humans.

Can adversely affect future crops planted on the same field or treated with glyphosate-ridden manure.

Glyphosate chelates iron, zinc, copper, manganese, magnesium, calcium, boron, nickel and others, essentially removing them from the pool of nutrients available for plants, animals, and humans.
Glyphosate-induced mineral deficiencies can easily go unidentified and untreated.
Laboratory tests can sometimes detect adequate minerals, but miss the fact that glyphosate has rendered them unusable.

Roundup persists in the environment Monsanto used to boast that Roundup is biodegradable, claiming that it breaks down quickly in the soil. But courts in the US and Europe disagreed and found them guilty of false advertising. Monsanto's own test data revealed that only 2% of the product broke down after 28 days.
The glyphosate concentration in the soil builds up season after season with each subsequent application.
It can also accumulate for 6-8 years inside perennial plants like alfalfa. Glyphosate residues in the soil that become bound can be reactivated by the application of phosphate fertilizers or other methods. US potato growers, for example, have experienced severe losses from glyphosate that has been reactivated.

(Many REFERENCES are noted at the end of the report.)

Report : AUTISM & GMO foods. INDEX
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By Jeffrey M. Smith
Are Genetically Engineered Foods Promoting Autism?
"It appears there is a direct correlation between GMOs and autism." --Arden Anderson, MD, PhD, MPH

Physician Jennifer Armstrong admits,
"Twenty years ago, I didn't even know what the word autism meant.
It was rare." But then something shifted. Whether it was the food, medicine, environment, or some combination, by 2008, an astounding 1 in 54 boys suffered from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the US. What is it that is damaging the health and well-being of so many of our children? Don Huber, PhD, professor emeritus from Purdue University, has an idea.

In October 2011, Dr. Huber gave a talk in Germany about the physiological, neurological, and behavioral symptoms of pigs, cows, and rats fed genetically modified (GM) feed. After his lecture, a physician and autism specialist approached him and said, "The symptoms you describe are exactly what we are finding in our autistic children."
The animals in those studies were fed the same GM soy and corn eaten by children and adults in the US.
Both crops are outfitted with bacterial genes that allow them to survive being sprayed with herbicide, which kills plants. As a result, higher residues of toxic weed killer end up inside our food. In addition, some GM corn varieties have an even more unsettling characteristic: their inserted genes produce an insect-killing poison called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin in every cell -- and in every bite. Although the biotech seed companies like Monsanto claim that their genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are harmless, that's not what the independent scientists are finding.

Agitated, antisocial animals.
When Dr. Huber visited an ongoing research project utilizing rats, he said those animals fed non-GMO feed were "as passive as can be. You can take them out. You can put them on your lap. Treat them almost like a pet cat." Not so with the rats eating genetically engineered food: "You can hardly catch the rats that have received the GMO feed for a month and a half to two months," he said. "They go off by themselves. They're irritated. Crawl up the cage. . . . [They] don't get along with each other."

Farmers are reporting the same thing with pigs raised on GMO corn.
According to Dr. Huber, a farmer told him that "his pigs just seem to be always irritated.
They can't get along with the other pigs." Veterinarian Don Skow described similar odd behavior in the pigs of his client. "They would get cannibalistic. They would consume each other -- ear biting and tail biting." And when put in nurseries after weaning, he says, some "would get a condition like Alzheimer's. They would lose the ability to know where the feed was. A lot of them would die." Although many of these odd behaviors had been dismissed as normal stress responses for confined animals, when farmers switched to non-GMO feed and the problems went away, the real cause became obvious.
Similar antisocial patterns that Huber described were observed by a Dutch college student more than a decade ago when comparing mice fed GMO or non-GMO soy and corn. He wrote, "The mice fed on GM food seemed less active while in their cages. The differences in activity between the two cages grew as the experiment progressed." The differences were most striking when he moved the mice to weigh them: "The mice from the GM cage were noticeably more distressed by the occurrence than the other mice. Many were running round and round the basket, scrambling desperately in the sawdust, and even frantically jumping up the sides, something I'd never seen before. They were clearly more nervous. . . . For me this was the most disconcerting evidence that GM food is not quite normal."

Dr. Irina Ermakova, PhD, a senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported to the European Congress of Psychiatry in March 2006 that male rats fed GM soy exhibited anxiety and aggression, while those fed non-GMO soy did not. Ermakova reported the same behavior in GM soy-fed female rats and their offspring in her study published in Ecosinform. The animals "attacked and bit each other and the worker."
(Far more shocking, however, was that more than 50% of the offspring from the GMO-fed group died within three weeks when compared with a 10% death rate among the group fed natural soy. The GM group also had high rates of infertility and had smaller members.

Autism and gastrointestinal problems.
A disproportionate number of autistic children have digestive ailments, suggesting that it plays a significant role in the disease. A Harvard study in 2010, for example, stated that "Gastrointestinal disorders and associated symptoms are commonly reported." An earlier Harvard and Mass General Hospital study found that most autistic children whom they examined had some type of GI symptom, food allergy, or absorption problem. A 2006 study found that "A history of GI symptoms was elicited in 70% of children with ASD compared with 28% of children with typical development."
The relationship between digestive health and autism is controversial.
What is undeniable, however, is that numerous healthcare practitioners report greater success when they address the gastrointestinal disorder as part of their autism treatment protocol. For some, gastrointestinal intervention is their primary intervention.

Distressed intestines.
The many GI disorders in autistic kids include inflammation, intestinal permeability, and imbalances in the intestinal bacteria. These also appear to plague animals fed GMOs. According to Dr. Huber, for example, "When you look at the intestine on those pigs fed the GMO feed, the lining is deteriorated and the critical microbial balance is drastically changed."
We'll first examine the damage to the gastrointestinal tract.
According to some butchers who've done the comparison, the small intestines in GMO-fed livestock are typically thin and can tear easily as they're removed from the carcass. The same organ from a non-GMO fed animal, they say, is much stronger. In fact, meat processors in the US typically import intestinal sausage casings from New Zealand, since the quality of the intestines in US livestock is too poor.

Dan Skow, who has treated farm animals for more than 40 years, confirms that after GMOs were introduced in the mid-1990s, he saw a much higher incidence of ileitis, which is inflammation or infection in the ileum (lower part of the small intestine). "Looking at microscopic slides of the intestinal tract," he says, "there's definitely something [that] has changed. Whether or not we can actually pinpoint that to the GMO grain thing, I personally think it is."
Howard Vlieger, an Iowa agricultural consultant, also discovered problems.
He asked a slaughterhouse to set aside the stomachs of two sets of pigs he sent for slaughter -- one group was fed GMOs and the other non-GMOs. The stomachs of the GMO-fed group were inflamed and ulcerated.
Danish farmer Ib Borup Pedersen also found dramatic changes in his 450-pig operation after switching from GMO soy to non-GMO soy in April 2011. In the previous two years, he had lost 36 sows from ulcers and bloat. Since non-GMO soy was introduced, he had no deaths from these digestive ailments. In the previous year, two pigs died of loss of appetite. None died since the change. And within two days of switching to non-GMO soy, his massive problems with diarrhea virtually disappeared. Both diarrhea and bloat are common symptoms of autistic children.
(In addition to improved digestion, the overall health of Pedersen's pigs improved, antibiotic use dropped by more than half, milk production increased, conception rate was significantly higher, and average litter size was up.)

One of the earliest indications that GMOs might cause GI tract distress was a 1999 study published in the Lancet. After rats were fed experimental GMO potatoes for just 10 days, the cells of the stomach lining and intestines were significantly altered.
When California pediatrician Michelle Perro reviewed the study in 2011 and saw the photos of the increased cellular growth and abnormal architecture, she thought to herself, "Uh oh -- we've got some problems." Based on her experience treating children for 30 years, she said, "You can extrapolate that the same thing may be occurring in babies clinically. They are not digesting their food. They are malabsorbing. . . . And I'm seeing that commonly now." Digestive issues are skyrocketing among her patients.

She's not alone. According to US hospital discharges and ambulatory admissions records data, inflammatory bowel disease in the US population skyrocketed by 40% since the introduction of GMOs. Dr. Perro strongly suspects that GMOs are a major contributor.
Family practitioner Myrto Ashe agrees:
"We know food allergies are on the rise and also diseases related to common foods, like celiac disease. Patients report that dairy products make them wheeze, or tomatoes give them joint pains. It's as though our food is harming us," she says. "Something is happening. And if the intestines are playing a big role, and I'm getting the sense they are, then any change in our diet becomes a suspect."

Holes in our gut.
A connection to GMOs became an increasing concern when Dr. Ashe was asked to give a presentation on the health risks of GMOs to a mothers' group in California. "To prepare for this," she said, "I reviewed a lot of literature and tried to see what mechanisms are supported by the most solid scientific research. And to me, it was this intestinal permeability."
Dr. Ashe explains:
"Once intestinal permeability increases, then it's possible for larger bits of food to go though -- bits that really should have been digested fully before getting assimilated. Once these go into the bloodstream, the body can react to them, and this reaction is an immune reaction. . . . I think anything that can increase intestinal permeability is a huge danger. The same diseases that research suggests are connected to intestinal permeability are the diseases that seem to be on the rise."

Numerous doctors point to holes in the gut walls as responsible for a long list of diseases and disorders.
Although this notion is not yet at the forefront of mainstream medical understanding for these diseases, there have been books, medical conferences, and professional practices all devoted to the concept.
Physician Gary Gordon puts it simply:
"If you buy a brand new car and it says that it's meant to run on gas and you go and put diesel in it, you could expect it won't go very far ... By making your intestine leaky, we are permitting building blocks to go into our body that are the wrong fuel."

Pesticide-producing corn may be the culprit.
When considering intestinal permeability, concern about the Bt-toxin in GMO crops looms large.
This poison is designed to create holes (pores) in the digestive tract of insects. That is how it kills them.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which labels Bt corn and Bt cotton plants as registered pesticides, insists that Bt-toxin will have absolutely no influence on human or mammalian cells. But research published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology this past February proves them wrong. Researchers "documented that modified Bt toxins [from GM plants] are not inert on human cells, but can exert toxicity." In high concentrations (generally higher than that produced in average Bt corn), Bt-toxin disrupts the membrane in just 24 hours, causing certain fluid to leak through the cell walls. The authors specifically note, "This may be due to pore formation like in insect cells." Thus, Bt-toxin may indeed create small holes in our intestines.

Dr. Gordon warns,
"If [Bt-toxin] is causing an increased propensity for our intestine to become permeable or leaky and for foods to be presented to our bloodstream in a premature fashion, the havoc that it will cause will be across the entire spectrum of disease, from premature aging and Alzheimer's to Parkinson's to autism to cancer to asthma."
Numerous professionals believe that Bt toxin produced in corn is already accelerating many diseases in the US. Arden Andersen, DO, PhD, MPH, believes Bt toxin is specifically implicated in the development of autism.

Compromised flora.
In addition to structural deformities in the digestive tract of autistic kids, many also point to intestinal flora that's gone wild. The bacteria living inside us play an important role in digestion, immunity, detoxification, and even the production of nutrients. In fact, the number of these bacterial cells in our digestive system is about 10 times the number of cells in our entire body. There's an emerging health field dedicated to restoring the proper balance of intestinal microorganisms.
There is also growing evidence that animals fed GMOs have an improper balance.
Dr. Huber says the pigs fed GMOs have a "very dramatic difference in the microflora."
He says it "has a terrible odor to it compared to the normal microflora because of that changed bio environment." Some farmers that butcher their own livestock also report that GMO-fed pigs and cows have a horrible stench and discolored organs.

Dan Skow says that the balance of the good bacteria inside livestock has been thrown way off.
"Now what set this off and why these disruptions of the balance to the microscopic flora in the intestinal tract?
I'm personally suspicious -- there's a lot of impact from the GMOs." Dr. Skow, like many others, is not willing to make an ironclad determination that GMOs are the causative factor. "There needs to be a lot more work to verify this," he says. But that hasn't stopped him from strongly urging his clients to switch to non-GMO animal feed. And when they do, he sees a difference in both the health and behavior of their livestock.
The German physician who approached Dr. Huber is also convinced enough to make changes in his autistic patients.
When he understood the connection with altered gut bacteria, he responded: "I now know exactly where I have to look, and why when I could modify the diet of an autistic child 10 years ago and have a very excellent response for remediation and recovery, why I'm not getting that response now. We are no longer able to change that microflora back -- because we're continuing to feed GMO-contaminated food to our children."

Botulism.
There are several ways that GMOs might be causing problems in our gut bacteria, all of which are unsettling.
The first is that most of the genetically engineered crops are "herbicide tolerant"; they end up with much higher levels of poisonous weed killer concentrated in the food portion of the plant. The two main weed killers, Roundup and Liberty, both have antibacterial properties. In other words, they can kill bacteria. According to Dr. Huber, the active ingredient in Roundup (glyphosate) is even patented as a microbiocide to kill intestinal microorganisms. This can have serious consequences.
Dr. Huber describes German research demonstrating that even tiny amounts of Roundup in a cow's diet can kill beneficial bacteria that normally control the growth of botulism. He and others believe that the overuse of Roundup, especially on Roundup Ready crops, is the likely reason for an apparent rise in botulism poisoning in livestock -- and possibly humans. (And low levels of botulism are also implicated as a possible contributor to sudden infant death syndrome.)

Dead sheep, buffalo, and cows.
A second reason why GMO crops may interfere with gut bacteria has been proposed by renowned Indian biologist P. M. Bhargava, PhD. In India, farmers allow sheep, goats, and buffalo to graze on cotton plants after harvest. While the animals had no negative reactions year after year, when genetically engineered Bt cotton was introduced into the country, the results were tragic. Thousands of animals died. Numerous others suffer from a variety of disorders.
These animals are called ruminants.
They all have a compartment in their digestive tract where specialized bacteria break down the cellulose before it travels on to be digested and assimilated.
Dr. Bhargava believes that the Bt-toxin produced in every cell of the cotton plant kills the cellulose-digesting bacteria normally found in the rumen. This would explain why autopsies of the dead sheep revealed shriveled intestines. According to Bhargava, since the cellulose was never broken down, the food never made it into the intestines.

Similar evidence was found in a village near Warangal, India.
All 13 of their buffaloes died after grazing for just a single day on Bt cotton plants.
When I interviewed the villager who assisted with the autopsy of one of the animals, he reported that there was still undigested food in the rumen -- three to four days after consumption.
US agriculture consultant Marc Tainio reports another story that might be related.
His client was raising miniature cattle, only three feet high. When the client switched to GMO corn feed, the animals "weren't able to process the food correctly, and they would bloat up and die." The farmer quickly lost about 90% of his herd. He was able to save the rest by switching back to non-GMO corn.
If Bt-toxin kills rumen bacteria, it may not be a problem for us humans since we don't have rumens.
On the other hand, we do have gut bacteria, and the Bt toxin may interact with those bacteria in some way to cause harm. This appears to be the case in insects: a study demonstrated that Bt-toxin only killed certain insects when their gut bacteria were present. When the bacteria were removed by administering antibiotics, the toxin was no longer lethal. The authors suggest that Bt-toxin can cause "otherwise benign gut bacteria to exert pathogenic effects." The mechanics of how this happens, and whether it also impacts humans, is not known.

GMOs "stick to the ribs"
The only human GMO feeding study ever published does show interactions with our intestinal flora.
The implications of this research are quite serious. British scientists found that part of the DNA inserted into GMO crops can actually transfer into the DNA of our gut bacteria. Specifically, part of the Roundup Ready gene normally found in Monsanto's soybeans had taken up residence within the intestinal flora of three out of seven subjects tested. The transfer did not occur in the lab. It had apparently taken place after consuming GM soy in some previous meal(s). And these subjects lived in the UK, where the intake of GM soy is a small fraction of what is eaten in the US.
The study was published in Nature Biotechnology in 2004.
It was condensed from a larger, more detailed study. The published version left out a significant fact: the gut bacteria that contained part of the Roundup Ready gene was not killed when exposed to Roundup's active ingredient, glyphosate. These people had Roundup Ready gut bacteria! This suggests that the transferred genes may continue to function inside us. In other words, we may have GM proteins continuously produced inside our intestines long after we stop eating GMOs.
There are insufficient studies on the GMO soybeans' Roundup Ready protein to know what exactly its impacts might be on our health. One study, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of its recommended allergen screening protocol for GMOs, looks to see if any portion of the protein's amino acid sequence is similar to a sequence that is known to elicit an allergic response. Unfortunately, Roundup Ready soybeans fail the WHO* test. The protein has a section that is quite similar to that of a dust mite allergen. Therefore, if people who are allergic to dust are also reactive to the Roundup Ready protein, their immune system may be continuously triggered if that protein is produced within their intestines. *Since the WHO criteria were just suggestions, Monsanto chose not to remove their soy after this risk was discovered.

Living Pesticide Factories Inside Us
A more dangerous scenario would be if the Bt-gene produced in Monsanto's corn were to transfer to our gut bacteria.
If so, it might convert our intestinal flora into living pesticide factories. With the inside of our intestines continuously exposed, Bt-toxin might erode the integrity of our GI tract, leading to widespread gut permeability and dysfunction.
In addition, many studies implicate Bt-toxin as an allergen.
In its natural state derived from soil bacteria, Bt-toxin has triggered immune responses in farm workers and allergic- and flu-like symptoms in hundreds of exposed citizens. It also evoked immune responses (and intestinal tissue damage) in mice. Similarly, an Italian government study showed that mice fed Bt-corn had dramatic immune responses. And thousands of Indian farm workers who harvest Bt cotton are also experiencing allergic- and flu-like symptoms.
Thus, Bt-toxin production within our intestines might simultaneously trigger immune responses, compromise our digestive tract, and expose the blood to undigested food (which may further trigger immune responses). rat sizes

And now the bad news: a 2011 Canadian study conducted at Sherbrooke Hospital discovered that 93% of the pregnant women they tested had Bt-toxin from Monsanto's corn in their blood. And so did 80% of their unborn fetuses.
The toxin is likely to wash out of our blood fairly quickly.
If that is the case, how can we explain why more than 9 out of 10 women had it circulating?
It must be that the intake of Bt-toxin must be very frequent. But Canadians don't eat that many corn chips and tortillas. They do eat lots of corn derivatives like corn syrup, but these highly processed foods no longer have the Bt-toxin present. The authors of the study speculate that the source of the Bt-toxin in the blood must have been the meat and dairy of animals fed Bt corn. This assumes that the Bt-toxin protein remains intact through the animals' entire digestive process and then again through the humans' digestive process after they eat the meat or dairy.
A more plausible explanation may be that Bt-toxin genes transfer from corn chips or tortillas into our gut bacteria. The active genes then produce the poison on a continuous basis inside the intestinal tract, which then gets into our blood. And for pregnant mothers, the toxin then travels through the placenta into their fetuses.

Precaution
There are numerous theories about autism.
Many blame vaccines, others say it's genetic.
The theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive as autism may be caused by several factors.
The link between autism and GMO consumption is by no means verified.
Numerous studies would be required to confirm or disprove such a connection. But those won't happen anytime soon.

Scientists who discover adverse health dangers are routinely attacked and often gagged or fired.
The journal Nature describes these "strikes . . . launched from within the scientific community" as sometimes "emotional and personal," and which can even "accuse scientists of misconduct." And according to insiders around the world, they successfully suppress the much needed research.
But that hasn't stopped numerous healthcare professionals from prescribing non-GMO diets to their patients.
Indeed, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine urges all doctors to do so. And they also recommend that practitioners distribute educational materials that describe the risks and suggest ways to avoid GMOs.

The LIA (Lyme Induced Autism) Foundation, which looks at Lyme disease and autism, has similarly urged the elimination of 100% of all GMOs from the diets of those suffering from these diseases. Numerous autism education programs also caution against GMOs.
Whether or not GMOs are ultimately linked to autism, animal feeding studies already implicate them in numerous other disorders. Under the sway of the biotech industry, most governments ignore these findings. And no government yet monitors the health impacts of GMO consumption on the health of their citizens.

There are nine GM food crops: soy, corn, cotton (used for cottonseed oil), canola, sugar beets (used in most US sugar), Hawaiian and Chinese papaya, some zucchini and yellow crook neck squash, and alfalfa (used for hay). To make it easier to avoid GMOs, the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) offers a list of thousands of products that have been verified as non-GMO at www.NonGMOShoppingGuide.com or via a free iPhone app ShopNoGMO. To avoid GMOs, you can use the guide, look for non-GMO labels, buy organic products, or avoid any of the at-risk crops or their derivatives (which are also listed in the Guide).
To better understand the impacts of GMOs on health, the Institute is collecting case studies of humans, livestock, and pets taken off (or put on) a GMO diet. The stories collected so far are compelling. Please share yours by emailing healthy@responsibletechnology.org.
The first case study related to autism is summarized below, and it provides some good news. Safe eating.

Case Study
Laura's son Phillip is autistic.
And her experience tells her that dietary interventions -- including avoiding GMOs -- are the key to recovery.
She first noticed a huge improvement when she took her son off of gluten (a protein in wheat and other grains) and casein (a protein in milk). Then she started converting his diet to organic. "Once we moved to organics," she said, "I really believe that it helped him . . . it's like another layer was removed that prevented him from really being interested in other children and connecting with other children -- playing."
By introducing organic foods, not only did Laura start using foods that were free of synthetic chemicals, but organic producers are also prohibited from using GMOs. After switching to a mostly organic diet, she estimated that her son was 80% recovered.

"For the longest time, we were stuck in kind of a plateau," she said, "where he had about an 80 percent recovery." When people asked her what she did to bring that about, she would respond, "Well, he's gluten free, he's casein free, and we are 80 percent organic." After about the third or fourth time she used those same words, she made the connection. "I'm using the same number . . . like 80 percent recovered, 80 percent organic." At that point, she realized she needed to go 100% organic.
"It made a huge difference."
She said that in just six months "he has become much more social, much more caring, empathetic, [and] plays with other children." And his recovery rate? "We call it pretty darn close to 100%. ... We know that it has to do with what he is eating and what he is not eating." Laura is now careful to never feed him any GMOs. And she and her husband also follow a non-GMO diet.

Booklet: AUTISM & GMO foods. 24 pg INDEX
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/media/docs/autism_booklet.pdf
"Are Genetically Engineered Foods promoting Autism"
By Jeffrey M. Smith
Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Technology
www.ResponsibleTechnology.org
(much of the content mirrors that found in the pdf document detailed above)
... A disproportionate number of autistic children have digestive ailments, suggesting that it plays a significant role in the disease. A Harvard study in 2010, for example, stated that "Gastrointestinal disorders and associated symptoms are commonly reported."6 An earlier Harvard and MassGeneral Hospital study7 found that most autistic children whom they examined had some type of GI symptom, food allergy, or absorption problem. A 2006 study found that "A history of GI symptoms was elicited in 70% of children with ASD compared with 28% of children with typical development." ...
The many GI disorders in autistic kids9 include inflammation, intestinal permeability, and imbalances in the intestinal bacteria.11 These also appear to plague animals fed GMOs. According to Dr. Huber, for example, "When you look at the intestine on those pigs fed the GMO feed, the lining is deteriorated and the critical microbial balance is drastically changed." ...

One of the earliest indications that GMOs might cause GI tract distress was a 1999 study published in the Lancet. After rats were fed experimental GMO potatoes for just 10 days, the cells of the stomach lining and intestines were significantly altered. ...
Dr. Ashe explains: "Once intestinal permeability increases, then it's possible for larger bits of food to go though -- bits that really should have been digested fully before getting assimilated. Once these go into the bloodstream, the body can react to them, and this reaction is an immune reaction...I think anything that can increase intestinal permeability is a huge danger. The same diseases that research suggests are connected to intestinal permeability are the diseases that seem to be on the rise." Numerous doctors point to holes in the gut walls as responsible for a long list of diseases and disorders. ...

research published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology this past February proves them wrong.
Researchers "documented that modified Bt toxins [from GM plants] are not inert on human cells, but can exert toxicity." In high concentrations (generally higher than that produced in average Bt corn), Bt-toxin disrupts the membrane in just 24 hours, causing certain fluid to leak through the cell walls. The authors specifically note, "This may be due to pore formation like in insect cells." Thus, Bt-toxin may indeed create small holes in our intestines. ...
There is also growing evidence that animals fed GMOs have an improper balance. Dr. Huber says the pigs fed GMOs have a "very dramatic difference in the microflora." He says it "has a terrible odor to it compared to the normal microflora because of that changed bio environment." Some farmers that butcher their own livestock also report that GMO-fed pigs and cows have a horrible stench and discolored organs. ...

We are no longer able to change that microflora back -- because we're continuing to feed GMO-contaminated food to our children. ...
Dr. Huber describes German research demonstrating that even tiny amounts of Roundup in a cow's diet can kill beneficial bacteria that normally control the growth of botulism. He and others believe that the overuse of Roundup, especially on Roundup Ready crops, is the likely reason for an apparent rise in botulism poisoning in livestock -- and possibly humans. (And low levels of botulism are also implicated as a possible contributor to sudden infant death syndrome.) ...

Dr. Bhargava believes that the Bt-toxin produced in every cell of the cotton plant kills the cellulose-digesting bacteria normally found in the rumen. ...
Bt-toxin only killed certain insects when their gut bacteria were present.
When the bacteria were removed by administering antibiotics, the toxin was no longer lethal.
The authors suggest that Bt-toxin can cause "otherwise benign gut bacteria to exert pathogenic effects." ...
... the gut bacteria that contained part of the Roundup Ready gene was not killed when exposed to Roundup's active ingredient, glyphosate. These people had Roundup Ready gut bacteria! This suggests that the transferred genes may continue to function inside us. In other words, we may have GM proteins continuously produced inside our intestines long after we stop eating GMOs. ...
if people who are allergic to dust are also reactive to the Roundup Ready protein, their immune system may be continuously triggered if that protein is produced within their intestines. ...

... a 2011 Canadian study conducted at Sherbrooke Hospital discovered that 93% of the pregnant women they tested had Bt-toxin from Monsanto's corn in their blood. And so did 80% of their unborn fetuses. ...
The authors of the study speculate that the source of the Bt-toxin in the blood must have been the meat and dairy of animals fed Bt corn. This assumes that the Bt-toxin protein remains intact through the animals' entire digestive process and then again through the humans' digestive process after they eat the meat or dairy. ...

There are nine GM food crops: soy, corn, cotton (used for cottonseed oil), canola, sugar beets (used in most US sugar), Hawaiian and Chinese papaya, some zucchini and yellow crook neck squash, and alfalfa (used for hay). ...
(After switching to non-GMO foods)
"It made a huge difference." She said that in just six months
"he has become much more social, much more caring, empathetic, [and] plays with other children."
And his recovery rate? "We call it pretty darn close to 100%...

-Notes-: Seeds of Deception. INDEX
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Science: Position on GMO Foods. INDEX
http://responsibletechnology.org/docs/145.pdf -- 24 pgs
We all know stories of tobacco, asbestos, and DDT.
Originally declared safe, they caused widespread death and disease.
Although their impact was vast, most of the population was spared.
The same cannot be said for sweeping changes in the food supply.
Everyone eats; everyone is affected. The increase in several diseases in North America may be due to the profound changes in our diet. The most radical change occurred a little over a decade ago when genetically modified (GM) crops were introduced. ...
GM foods were made possible by a technology developed in the 1970s whereby genes from one species are forced into the DNA of other species. Genes produce proteins, which in turn can generate characteristics or traits. The promised traits associated with GMOs have been sky high -- vegetables growing in the desert, vitamin fortified grains, and highly productive crops feeding the starving millions. None of these are available. In fact, the only two traits that are found in nearly all commercialized GM plants are herbicide tolerance and/or pesticide production.
Herbicide tolerant soy, corn, cotton, and canola plants are engineered with bacterial genes that allow them to survive otherwise deadly doses of herbicides. This gives farmers more flexibility in weeding and gives the GM seed company lots more profit. When farmers buy GM seeds, they sign a contract to buy only that seed producer's brand of herbicide. Herbicide tolerant crops comprise about 80% of all GM plants. The other 20% are corn and cotton varieties that produce a pesticide in every cell. This is accomplished due to a gene from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt, which produces a natural insect-killing poison called Bt-toxin. In addition to these two traits, there are also disease resistant GM Hawaiian papaya, zucchini and crook neck squash, which comprise well under 1% of GMO acreage. ...

THE FDA' S "NON - REGULATION" OF GM FOODS
Rhetoric from the United States government since the early 1990s proclaims that GM foods are no different from their natural counterparts that have existed for centuries. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has labeled them "Generally Recognized as Safe," or GRAS. This status allows a product to be commercialized without any additional testing. According to US law, to be considered GRAS the substance must be the subject of a substantial amount of peer-reviewed published studies (or equivalent) and there must be overwhelming consensus among the scientific community that the product is safe. GM foods had neither. Nonetheless, in a precedent-setting move in 1992 that some experts contend was illegal, the FDA declared that GM crops are GRAS as long as their producers say they are. Thus, the FDA does not require any safety evaluations or labeling of GMOs. A company can even introduce a GM food to the market without telling the agency. ...
Such a lenient approach was largely the result of the influence of large agricultural corporations.
According to Henry Miller, who had a leading role in biotechnology issues at the FDA from 1979 to 1994, "In this area, the US government agencies have done exactly what big agribusiness has asked them to do and told them to do." The Ag biotech company with the greatest influence was clearly Monsanto. According to the New York Times, "What Monsanto wished for from Washington, Monsanto and, by extension, the biotechnology industry got. ... When the company abruptly decided that it needed to throw off the regulations and speed its foods to market, the White House quickly ushered through an unusually generous policy of self-policing."
This policy was heralded by Vice President Dan Quayle on May 26, 1992.
He chaired the Council on Competitiveness, which had identified GM crops as an industry that could boost US exports. To take advantage, Quayle announced "reforms" to "speed up and simplify the process of bringing" GM products to market without "being hampered by unnecessary regulation." Three days later, the FDA policy on non-regulation was unveiled. The person who oversaw its development was the FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Michael Taylor, whose position had been created especially for him in 1991. Prior to that, Taylor was an outside attorney for both Monsanto and the Food Biotechnology Council. After working at the FDA, he became Monsanto's vice president. The Obama administration has put Talyor back into the FDA as the US Food Safety Czar.

THE FDA COVERS UP HEALTH RISKS
Taylor's GMO policy needed to create the impression that unintended effects from GM crops were not an issue.
Otherwise their GRAS status would be undermined and they would need the extensive testing and labels that are normally required for food additives. But internal memos made public from a lawsuit showed that the overwhelming consensus among the agency scientists was that GM crops can have unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects. Various departments and experts spelled these out in detail, listing allergies, toxins, nutritional effects, and new diseases as potential dangers. They urged superiors to require long-term safety studies. In spite of the warnings, according to public interest attorney Steven Druker who studied the FDA's internal files, "References to the unintended negative effects of bioengineering were progressively deleted from drafts of the policy statement (over the protests of agency scientists)."
FDA microbiologist Louis Pribyl, PhD, wrote about the policy, "What has happened to the scientific elements of this document? Without a sound scientific base to rest on, this becomes a broad, general, -- What do I have to do to avoid trouble'-type document. ... It will look like and probably be just a political document. ... It reads very pro-industry, especially in the area of unintended effects." The scientists' concerns were not only ignored, their very existence was denied. The official FDA policy stated, "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 sharp contrast, an internal FDA report stated, "The processes of genetic engineering and traditional breeding are different and according to the technical experts in the agency, they lead to different risks." The FDA's deceptive notion of no difference was coined "substantial equivalence" and formed the basis of the US government position on GMOs. Many scientists and organizations have criticized the US position. The National Academy of Sciences and even the pro-GM Royal Society of London8 describe the US system as inadequate and flawed. The editor of the prestigious journal Lancet said, "It is astounding that the US Food and Drug Administration has not changed their stance on genetically modified food adopted in 1992. ... The policy is that genetically modified crops will receive the same consideration for potential health risks as any other new crop plant. This stance is taken despite good reasons to believe that specific risks may exist. ... Governments should never have allowed these products into the food chain without insisting on rigorous testing for effects on health." The Royal Society of Canada described substantial equivalence as "scientifically unjustifiable and inconsistent with precautionary regulation of the technology."

GMO S ARE INHERENTLY UNSAFE
There are several reasons why GM plants present unique dangers.
The first is that the process of genetic engineering itself creates unpredicted alterations, irrespective of which gene is transferred. The gene insertion process, for example, is accomplished by either shooting genes from a "gene gun" into a plate of cells, or using bacteria to infect the cell with foreign DNA. Both create mutations in and around the insertion site and elsewhere. The "transformed" cell is then cloned into a plant through a process called tissue culture, which results in additional hundreds or thousands of mutations throughout the plants' genome. In the end, the GM plant's DNA can be a staggering 2-4% different from its natural parent. Native genes can be mutated, deleted, or permanently turned on or off. In addition, the insertion process causes holistic and not-well-understood changes among large numbers of native genes. One study revealed that up to 5% of the natural genes altered their levels of protein expression as a result of a single insertion.
The Royal Society of Canada acknowledged that "the default prediction" for GM crops would include "a range of collateral changes in expression of other genes, changes in the pattern of proteins produced and/or changes in metabolic activities." Although the FDA scientists evaluating GMOs in 1992 were unaware of the extent to which GM DNA is damaged or changed, they too described the potential consequences. They reported, "The possibility of unexpected, accidental changes in genetically engineered plants" might produce "unexpected high concentrations of plant toxicants." GM crops, they said, might have "increased levels of known naturally occurring toxins," and the "appearance of new, not previously identified" toxins. The same mechanism can also produce allergens, carcinogens, or substances that inhibit assimilation of nutrients.

Most of these problems would pass unnoticed through safety assessments on GM foods, which are largely designed on the false premise that genes are like Legos that cleanly snap into place. But even if we disregard unexpected changes in the DNA for the moment, a proper functioning inserted gene still carries significant risk. Its newly created GM protein, such as the Bt-toxin, may be dangerous for human health (see below). Moreover, even if that protein is safe in its natural organism, once it is transferred into a new species it may be processed differently. A harmless protein may be transformed into a dangerous or deadly version. This happened with at least one GM food crop under development, GM peas, which were destroyed before being commercialized.
FDA scientists were also quite concerned about the possibility of inserted genes spontaneously transferring into the DNA of bacteria inside our digestive tract. They were particularly alarmed at the possibility of antibiotic resistant marker (ARM) genes transferring. ARM genes are employed during gene insertion to help scientists identify which cells successfully integrated the foreign gene. These ARM genes, however, remain in the cell and are cloned into the DNA of all the GM plants produced from that cell. One FDA report wrote in all capital letters that ARM genes would be "A SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARD," due to the possibility of that they might transfer to bacteria and create super diseases, untreatable with antibiotics.
Although the biotech industry confidently asserted that gene transfer from GM foods was not possible, the only human feeding study on GM foods later proved that it does take place. The genetic material in soybeans that make them herbicide tolerant transferred into the DNA of human gut bacteria and continued to function. That means that long after we stop eating a GM crop, its foreign GM proteins may be produced inside our intestines. It is also possible that the foreign genes might end up inside our own DNA, within the cells of our own organs and tissues.

Another worry expressed by FDA scientists was that GM plants might gather "toxic substances from the environment" such as "pesticides or heavy metals," or that toxic substances in GM animal feed might bioaccumulate into milk and meat products. While no studies have looked at the bioaccumulation issue, herbicide tolerant crops certainly have higher levels of herbicide residues. In fact, many countries had to increase their legally allowable levels -- by up to 50 times -- in order to accommodate the introduction of GM crops. The overuse of the herbicides due to GM crops has resulted in the development of herbicide resistant weeds.
USDA statistics show that herbicide use is rapidly accelerating.
Its use was up by 383 million pounds in the first 13 years of GM crops. But the rate of application is accelerating due in large part to the emergence of herbicide tolerant weeds. According to a study by Charles Benbrook, "Crop years 2007 and 2008 accounted for 46% of the increase in herbicide use over 13 years across the three HT [herbicide tolerant] crops. Herbicide use on HT crops rose a remarkable 31.4% from 2007 to 2008." And as Roundup becomes less effective, farmers are now using more toxic herbicides, such as 2-4D, which increased by 237% from 2004 to 2006. All of the above risks associated with GM foods are magnified for high-risk groups, such as pregnant women, children, the sick, and the elderly. The following section highlights some of the problems that have been identified.

GM DIET SHOWS TOXIC REACTIONS IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
The very first crop submitted to the FDA's voluntary consultation process, the FlavrSavr tomato, showed evidence of toxins. Out of 20 female rats fed the GM tomato, 7 developed stomach lesions. The director of FDA's Office of Special Research Skills wrote that the tomatoes did not demonstrate a "reasonable certainty of no harm," which is their normal standard of safety. The Additives Evaluation Branch agreed that "unresolved questions still remain." The political appointees, however, did not require that the tomato be withdrawn.
According to Arpad Pusztai, PhD, one of the world's leading experts in GM food safety assessments, the type of stomach lesions linked to the tomatoes "could lead to life-endangering hemorrhage, particularly in the elderly who use aspirin to prevent [blood clots]." Dr. Pusztai believes that the digestive tract, which is the first and largest point of contact with foods, can reveal various reactions to toxins and should be the first target of GM food risk assessment. He was alarmed, however, to discover that studies on the FlavrSavr never looked passed the stomach to the intestines. Other studies that did look found problems.
Mice fed potatoes engineered to produce the Bt-toxin developed abnormal and damaged cells, as well as proliferative cell growth in the lower part of their small intestines (ileum). Rats fed potatoes engineered to produce a different type of insecticide (GNA lectin from the snowdrop plant) also showed proliferative cell growth in both the stomach and intestinal walls (see photos). Although the guts of rats fed GM peas were not examined for cell growth, the intestines were mysteriously heavier; possibly as a result of such growth. Cell proliferation can be a precursor to cancer and is of special concern.

GM DIETS CAUSE LIVER DAMAGE
The state of the liver -- a main detoxifier for the body -- is another indicator of toxins.

Rats fed the GNA lectin potatoes described above had smaller and partially atrophied livers.
Rats fed Monsanto's Mon 863 corn, engineered to produce Bt-toxin, had liver lesions and other indications of toxicity.
Rabbits fed GM soy showed altered enzyme production in their livers as well as higher metabolic activity.
The livers of rats fed Roundup Ready canola were 12% - 16% heavier, possibly due to liver disease or inflammation.
Microscopic analysis of the livers of mice fed Roundup Ready soybeans revealed altered gene expression and structural and functional changes (see photos). Many of these changes reversed after the mice diet was switched to non-GM soy, indicating that GM soy was the culprit. The findings, according to molecular geneticist Michael Antoniou, PhD, "are not random and must reflect some -- insult -- on the liver by the GM soy." Antoniou, who does human gene therapy research in King's College London, said that although the long-term consequences of the GM soy diet are not known, it "could lead to liver damage and consequently general toxemia."
Rats fed Roundup Ready soybeans also showed structural changes in their livers.

GM FED ANIMALS HAD HIGHER DEATH RATES AND ORGAN DAMAGE
In the FlavrSavr tomato study, a note in the appendix indicated that 7 of 40 rats died within two weeks and were replaced. In another study, chickens fed the herbicide tolerant "Liberty Link" corn died at twice the rate of those fed natural corn. But in these two industry-funded studies, the deaths were dismissed without adequate explanation or follow-up. In addition, the cells in the pancreas of mice fed Roundup Ready soy had profound changes and produced significantly less digestive enzymes; in rats fed a GM potato, the pancreas was enlarged. In various analyses of kidneys, GM-fed animals showed lesions, toxicity, altered enzyme production or inflammation. Enzyme production in the hearts of mice was altered by GM soy. And GM potatoes caused slower growth in the brain of rats. A team of independent scientists re-analyzed the raw data in three Monsanto 90-day rat feeding studies and saw signs of toxicity in the liver and kidneys, as well as effects in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen, and blood.

WE'RE THE GUINEA PIGS
Since GM foods are not properly tested before they enter the market, consumers are the guinea pigs.
But this doesn't even qualify as an experiment. There are no controls and no monitoring. Given the mounting of evidence of harm, it is likely that GM foods are contributing to the deterioration of health in the United States, Canada, and other countries where it is consumed. But without post-marketing surveillance, the chances of tracing health problems to GM food are low. The incidence of a disease would have to increase dramatically before it was noticed, meaning that millions may have to get sick before a change is investigated. Tracking the impact of GM foods is even more difficult in North America, where the foods are not labeled.
Regulators at Health Canada announced in 2002 that they would monitor Canadians for health problems from eating GM foods. A spokesperson said, "I think it's just prudent and what the public expects, that we will keep a careful eye on the health of Canadians." But according to CBC TV news, Health Canada "abandoned that research less than a year later saying it was -- too difficult to put an effective surveillance system in place." The news anchor added, "So at this point, there is little research into the health effects of genetically modified food. So will we ever know for sure if it's safe?"
Not with the biotech companies in charge.
Consider the following statement in a report submitted to county officials in California by pro-GM members of a task force. "[It is] generally agreed that long-term monitoring of the human health risks of GM food through epidemiological studies is not necessary because there is no scientific evidence suggesting any long-term harm from these foods." Note the circular logic: Because no long-term epidemiological studies are in place, we have no evidence showing long-term harm. And since we don't have any evidence of long-term harm, we don't need studies to look for it.

What are these people thinking?
Insight into the pro-GM mindset was provided by Dan Glickman, the US Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton. "What I saw generically on the pro-biotech side was the attitude that the technology was good, and that it was almost immoral to say that it wasn't good, because it was going to solve the problems of the human race and feed the hungry and clothe the naked. ... And there was a lot of money that had been invested in this, and if you're against it, you're Luddites, you're stupid. That, frankly, was the side our government was on. Without thinking, we had basically taken this issue as a trade issue and they, whoever "they" were, wanted to keep our product out of their market. And they were foolish, or stupid, and didn't have an effective regulatory system. There was rhetoric like that even here in this department. You felt like you were almost an alien, disloyal, by trying to present an open-minded view on some of the issues being raised. So I pretty much spouted the rhetoric that everybody else around here spouted; it was written into my speeches."
Fortunately, not everyone feels that questioning GM foods is disloyal.
On the contrary, millions of people around the world are unwilling to participate in this uncontrolled experiment. They refuse to eat GM foods. Manufacturers in Europe and Japan have committed to avoid using GM ingredients. And the US natural foods industry, not waiting for the government to test or label GMOs, is now engaged in removing all remaining GM ingredients from their sector using a third party verification system. The Campaign for Healthier Eating in America will circulate non-GMO shopping guides in stores nationwide so that consumers have clear, healthy non-GMO choices. With no governmental regulation of biotech corporations, it is left to consumers to protect ourselves.

Manufacturers in Europe and Japan have committed to avoid using GM ingredients. And the US natural foods industry, not waiting for the government to test or label GMOs, is now engaged in removing all remaining GM ingredients from their sector using a third party verification system. The Campaign for Healthier Eating in America will circulate non-GMO shopping guides in stores nationwide so that consumers have clear, healthy non-GMO choices. With no governmental regulation of biotech corporations, it is left to consumers to protect ourselves.

Shopping: Finding Non-GMO foods. INDEX
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TIPS TO AVOID GMOS

Tip #1: Buy Organic.
Certified organic products cannot intentionally include any GMO ingredients.
Buy products labeled "100% organic", "organic" or "made with organic ingredients".
You can be doubly sure if the product also has a "Non-GMO Project Verified" Seal.
Tip #2: Look for Non-GMO Project Seals.
This guide features brands with products verified by the Non-GMO Project, a non-profit organization committed to providing consumers with clearly labeled and independently verified non-GMO choices, including testing of at-risk ingredients. The Non-GMO Project verifies per individual product, not for an entire brand. Some of the brands listed in this guide offer both GMO and non-GMO items. Visit NonGMOProject.org for more information on the third-party product verification program.
Tip #3: Avoid At-Risk Ingredients.
If it's not labeled organic or verified non-GMO, avoid products made with ingredients that might be derived from GMOs. The eight GM food crops are corn, soybeans, canola, cottonseed, sugar beets, papaya from China or Hawaii (most), and a small amount of zucchini and yellow squash. GM alfalfa is also fed to livestock.
Sugar: If a non-organic product made in North America lists "sugar" as an ingredient (and NOT pure cane sugar), then it is almost certainly a combination of sugar from both sugar cane and GM sugar beets. Dairy products may be from cows injected with GM bovine growth hormone. If it's not labeled Organic, or Non-GMO Project Verified, look for labels stating No rbGH, rbST, or artificial hormones.
Tip #4: Use the Non-GMO Shopping Guide.
Visit NonGMOShoppingGuide.com to see a complete list of Non-GMO products available from each brand in this guide or use the ShopNoGMO App on your iPhone -- available for free at the iTunes store.

Invisible GM Ingredients. Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients that may be made from GMOs:

Aspartame (also called AminoSweet �, NutraSweet �, Equal Spoonful �, Canderel �, BeneVia �, E951 �) baking powder canola oil (rapeseed oil) caramel color cellulose citric acid cobalamin (vit B12) colorose condensed milk confectioners sugar corn flour corn masa corn meal corn oil corn sugar corn syrup cornstarch cottonseed oil cyclodextrin cystein dextrin dextrose diacetyl

diglyceride erythritol Equal � food starch fructose (any form) glucose glutamate glutamic acid glycerides glycerin glycerol glycerol monooleate glycine hemicellulose high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) hydrogenated starch hydrolyzed vegetable protein inositol inverse syrup inversol invert sugar isoflavones lactic acid lecithin
leucine lysine malitol malt malt syrup malt extract maltodextrin maltose mannitol methylcellulose milk powder milo starch modified food starch modified starch mono and diglycerides monosodium glutamate (MSG) Nutrasweet � oleic acid Phenylalanine phytic acid protein isolate shoyu sorbitol soy flour soy isolates soy lecithin soy milk
soy oil soy protein soy protein isolate soy sauce starch stearic acid sugar (unless cane sugar) tamari tempeh teriyaki marinades textured vegetable protein threonine tocopherols (vit E) tofu trehalose triglyceride vegetable fat vegetable oil vitamin B12 vitamin E whey whey powder xanthan gum

Brochure: Baby Food Campaign. INDEX
http://responsibletechnology.org/docs/BabyFoodCampaignBroch.pdf
FDA scientists repeatedly warned that genetically modified (GM) foods could cause serious health problems, but political appointees at the agency -- under instructions from the White House -- fast-tracked GMOs without required safety tests. Since their introduction in the mid-1990s, there has been a sharp increase in childhood disorders -- including those also suffered by lab animals fed GMOs. Numerous doctors and medical organizations say, "Stop eating GMOs, and especially stop feeding them to children, who are most at risk." ...

"Genetically engineered foods contain new proteins that children have not been previously exposed to. I believe this may be responsible in part for the profound increase in allergies and immune dysfunction that I am witnessing."
Michelle Perro, M.D. Pediatrics, one of America's Top Physicians 5 consecutive years.

A GMO is the result of a laboratory process where genes from one species -- including bacteria, viruses, insects, animals, or humans -- are forced into the DNA of unrelated plants or animals. This process is fraught with dangerous side effects.
There are two main types of GMO crops.
The herbicide tolerant varieties are engineered to withstand high doses of toxic weed killers.
These toxins, which are linked to birth defects, cancer, and hormone disruption, end up inside our food.
Other plants, like corn, are designed to produce their own poisonous insecticide in every cell.
The insecticide, called Bt-toxin, breaks open the stomach of certain insects to kill them. Recent evidence shows that Bt-toxin can also break the walls of human cells. Bt-toxin from GM corn was found in the blood of 93% of pregnant women and 80% of their unborn fetuses.

According to the physicians' group, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM), lab animals fed GMOs suffered from reproductive disorders, immune dysfunction, signs of premature aging, gastrointestinal problems, organ damage, and insulin and cholesterol issues.

Some dairies still inject genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST) into their cows. This controversial drug, which is banned in Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan, and condemned by the American Public Health Association, produces high levels of the cancer-promoting hormone, IGF-1, in the milk.

The sweetener aspartame (also known as Nutrisweet and Equal) is derived from genetically engineered organisms. Numerous studies and thousands of consumer complaints link it with disorders ranging from seizures to tumors.

Children are More Vulnerable to the Dangers of GMOs

Infants and young children are more sensitive to chemicals or toxins.
Their immune systems and blood brain barriers are not fully developed.
They eat more and metabolize their food at higher rates.
Infants are three to four times more prone to food allergens, even tiny amounts.

GMOs are in Infant Formula.
Independent laboratory tests found significant amounts of genetically engineered soy in four popular soy-based infant formulas.
In addition, these brands almost certainly contain derivatives from GM corn and milk from cows treated with GM bovine growth hormone. The government's WIC program, which distributes free infant formula to more than 2 million moms in all 50 states, only offers GMO brands. Note: The only commercial non-GMO infant formulas that we have identified thus far are the organic brands.

In spite of hype by the biotech industry, experts and independent studies confirm that the current GMOs are not a viable way to feed the growing population, do not increase yields, do not reduce herbicide use, and have not been proven safe. ...

Probiotics: Benefit/Cure, Insurance, Relevancy. INDEX
Discerned from the symptoms, behaviors, research, and experience of GMO's, by Spiritual Guidance.
GMO's are Human Engineered Genetically Mutated Combination Incomplete Lifeforms.
They are both STRONGER/more resistant and persistent, and, WEAKER/less responsive and cable of adaptation .. than other lifeforms. The principal form of DEPENDABLE protection is to AVOID the use of and contact with such products, and, those who have been exposed to same. In mid-2015, this strategy is nearly impossible for most humans. GMO crops can contaminate neighboring non-GMO crops. Most humans depend upon foodstuffs grown by a minority of economic contributors who often participate in a desperate market of competition. Majority producers are often legally and politically structured as Corporations who define their growth/supply operations as mass (numerical) production procedures. Most have chosen to "manufacture" what will become their "refined/processed" goods packaged and transported to urban sales depots.
Probiotics can and have been an assimilation and digestive facilitator for humans who eat raw foods deficient in enzymes, meats high in fats, and, refined highly processed starches. From the GMO perspective, probiotics are full integrity microbes whose digestion of the above mentioned foods produces an easier-to-assimilate foodstuff for humans. The alive probiotics themselves, are both non-toxic to humans, and, provide a unique form of nutrition to humans. Rather than being digested in the human gut, they may populate the gut and remain to support later arriving dead foodstuffs. Their ability to digest GMO's is limited, or negated, by the biological markers (genes) of the mutated GMO lifeform. If the GMO's are detected by the probiotics as healthy living animals, the probiotics will not be attracted to them and will NOT interact with them. The benefit of probiotics depends entirely on their ability to interact and influence changes which are positive to the host.

Consciousness Blocking.
Specific sensory nerve pathways fail to convey the normally activating conditions which maintain a balance of assimilation and elimination. Both the toxins produced by the stool waste and the biochemicals produced by the GMO's subtly and persistently ooze into the bloodstream and to other body organs including the brain. An anesthetic-like haze envelops one's consciousness such that one does NOT detect feelings of fullness, as when one has eaten ENOUGH, nor pains and anxieties of discomfort from overeating. Toxification of the brain and other organs very gently increases the reality of physical weakness, conscious motivation to effect change, and, a rational awareness of the necessity to healthfully defecate ... even though one is NOT experiencing any of the usual indicator sensations or reactions which make such a response almost automatic.
Endocrine Gland Synthesis.

Self Obsession Stimulus.
The loss of certain bodily functions which appear, medically, and from self awareness, to have NO causative origin, yet strongly and negatively influence one's Intimate and Social Identity encourage most persons to Emotionally react with Spiritually destructive and weakening attitudes and behaviors. Any person with a non-Aggressive personality and lacking in Ego/SuperEgo maturity (sense of responsibility and well defined personal boundaries), and, possessing Energy Blocks and/or carrying Abandonment/Acceptance imprinting, and, having a motivational focus on the Physical to the large exclusion of the Spiritual values ... is susceptible to this redirection into self obsession. The sexually active person who loses their libido, as if they never had it, may seek to re-energize it through acts of desperation and obsessive excess which almost always involve the abuse of self and others ... a focus on Performance/Control rather than on Participation/Respect. The previously very physically active, in work or socially, person may now, in increasing weakness, push themselves to participate beyond both a healthy and safe level of involvement and expose themselves and others to an increasing potential for injury by accident, over-dramatization, and, obsession.
Viral Behavior.

Digestive System Dysfunction.
The presence of some kinds of GMO in the intestines have a capability to change the genetic structure of those tissue cells to harmonize with their own. In this case, the GMO's and their cloned relatives in the host's intestines effect a response to foods as an "immunity barrier." That is, the function of the cells to assimilate continues, yet, the function of the cells to eliminate .. by stimulating peristaltic action, is depressed until it is non-functional. The resulting pool of stool continues to accumulate. The nerves which would healthfully stimulate peristaltic action to eliminate the nutrition spent content are anesthetized catatonically. ALL of these acts of partial performance are further consciously assisted by the lack of feelings of pain, tension, bloating in the abdominal region in addition to an absence of any urge to defecate.

AFTERWORD: INDEX
Survival no longer depends upon IF you eat; Quality-of-Life no longer depends upon WHAT you eat.
What is BEST for YOU, personally, to eat .. depends upon WHAT is in YOU, and, WHAT is in your food.
With the Original Addiction imposed on humans by well intentioned entities who were NOT spiritually gifted and NOT aware of the significance of RELEVANCY, humans have focused their efforts on Behaviors of overpopulation, overdemand, and, overactivity by way of Attitudes of reactions to Abandonment, and, Reactions to unconscious Guilt. With a distracted and self-sabotaging Consciousness, they have furthered their presence by Imposing brute force on themselves and others, and, corrupting the ecosystem which supports their existence.
At each of many thresholds of Attention stimulating challenges and events, the consistent REACTION has been Denial through the Distraction that they can successfully play the role of god-as-a-controller over EVERYTHING. Each step has resulted in the timely collapse of a civilization, or, a short-term desperate improvement-by-enslavement ... before yet again, another and larger challenge. Enslavement has taken many forms ranging from authority, routine, restriction, obligation, depression, and, fantasy (distraction). Technology has been employed to expand boundaries where self-restraint was denied. It has provided emotional distance and distortion where enemies were invited as distractions and promises of freedom and peace from the anxieties and fears generated from the internal source of a corrupted genetic structure.
Human Engineered Genetically Mutated Combination Incomplete Lifeforms (Chimeras, GMOs) is but one of the latest attempts by humans to continue to do what has constantly led to longer-term disaster and loss by repeating the ATTITUDE: "If I do more, I will reach a point of Enough." The reality is that with the losses sustained by such LUST, the requirements for what COULD be Enough continue to be INCREASED, and, as an Addiction ... an Awareness of "Enough" is impossible to reach. Without external assistance, the species will continue to raise the stakes of Risk until not only a civilization collapse will occur, but a species extinction.

Currently, in mid-2015, the ingestion of as little as ONE meal of a GMO can result in the transformation of healthy gut tissue into a dysfunctional digestive and elimination process which will slowly and quietly result in the death of its host. And, in most cases, neither the medical or educational infrastructure will assert any realization of or responsibility for epidemic until the threshold of species recovery is well exceeded.
I began this research to discern an understanding of a physical dysfunction which I had made adjustments to daily in order to remain active, alert, and, alive. I discovered that what I had arose from both singular and multiple exposures to different GMO foods. The process had begun earlier than I suspected and developed through 3 distinct sets of symptom dynamics rather than only the one which had been the more dramatic, and the latter. The side effects, because I was able to adjust to them with self-direction and Spiritual Guidance, afforded me abilities which enabled me to accomplish more during a period of 22 months, towards the facilitation of longer-term human recovery from disastrous bio-engineering, and, increase the positive energy dynamic contribution to the universe which humanity was capable of, and had much earlier provided. I had done my part, and it was now time for me to regain a greater Reality of Balance within my personal life.
What I was Spiritually Guided to and discovered, and you may benefit from, is on these pages.
One must be quite HEALTHY in order to acquire the full impact of GMO genetic transmutation which influenced me. One must have an overall ALKALINE pH to their system. 96% of humans no longer have such. Chronic LOW blood pressure would also provide an enhanced capability to counter the destructive influences of the work I was engaged in together with the life and physical challenges I encountered. A life long low BP status I have had, unlike 98% of other humans. To enable me to sanely uncover the realities involved with my "International Diplomacy" work, and, a discernment of the influences on my health, as well as the reverence and humility to remain CALM with the experience of the Identity challenges which most other humans would encounter with the "Symptoms" and react to with much negativity ... brought many revelations to me.

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