Posts Tagged ‘genetically modified crops’

A majority of people know that medicinal compounds found in plants find their way to pharmaceutical labs. Plants are what makes and shapes the pharmaceutical industry. To restructure plant compounds into more effective drugs is enabling the drug companies to expand.

The demand for new and better drugs is at the center of this search. For a long time humans have used a variety of plants for medicinal purposes. The difference now is that chemists have found new ways to expand plants pharmaceutical value through genetic engineering.

Pharmacology

Pharmacology tries to improve the original structure. They have seen glimmers of hope by doing this. The real breakthroughs is not in capturing some variation, but in the shrinking our reliance on modifying through technology. Turning a plant into something different and expecting it to exceed its already majestic properties is the wrong focus.

What we really need is the soil quality that was present before we depleted the mineral quality. Genetic manipulation doesn’t offer benefits and will challenge the future of our food supply. All the public can do is wait, wonder and worry if there will be unintended consequences.

Natures Healing

This is a way to take natures powerful healing plants and turn them into cash cows. So what they have are literally doing is crossing a cash cow and a natural resource. Turning plants into a more bankable substance may not be real progress. Science may be taking natures powerful healing ability and changing it into an unnatural compound.

Engineering new genes into plants has been going on for awhile. Scientists developed corn that could produce and insecticide, which comes from a bacterial gene. Corn which was altered to produce an insecticide is polluting the water and streams near the corn fields. Bloomberg reports that 85% of the corn grown in the U.S. is genetically modified. This toxic corn is feed to livestock.

If plants are the way to treat disease, why haven’t we utilized the healing properties by consuming them as a diet staple, and ensuring that they grow in nutrient rich soil? Plants are already nutritionally potent and complete concentrated sources of healing compounds. They can protect, stimulate, regenerate cells and are easy-to-assimilate. They come as a balanced formula.

Science

While science spends so much time to see that we have a diet of engineered foods that devours our nutrients, they are looking to fix the health problems that are produced by bombarding our systems with prescription drugs. Now, they will take the foods that heal and turn them into pills, and powders that are easy and convenient t to take. They have restructured a fresh whole food, shrinking its nutritional value, and inflating its monetary worth.

We live in a genetic modified world. The majority of processed foods contain derivatives from genetically modified crops.

If you weren’t afraid of the dark, you will be. The world community is in the dark about long term consequences of genetically engineered plants.

Fear Factor 

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) is an artificially inserted foreign “gene” that was developed in the laboratory and then injected into the DNA of a plant. The reason is to make them tolerant to their brand of herbicide. Now the plants can survive a deadly dose of pesticides. The question is can you also survive. These plants now have a much higher residue of toxic herbicides.

The vast majority of processed foods contain derivatives from the four major GM crops: soy, corn, cottonseed and canola. Currently Commercialized GM Crops grown in the U.S. are Soy, Cotton, Canola, Corn, and papaya.

This is the food that is being fed to the livestock, and it is almost all packaged food. Another feature of GMO’s is that a gene from the soil bacterium is inserted into corn and cotton’s DNA. There it secretes the insect pesticide Bt-toxin in every cell. About 19% and counting Genetically Modified crops produce their own pesticide. I am thinking toxic overload.

According to Responsible Technology, Animals fed on GMO in labs and farms around the world, have exhibited symptoms related to the growing list of diseases in the U.S. population. Various feeding studies in animals have resulted in potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, damaged immune systems, smaller brains, livers and testicles, partial atrophy, odd shaped cell nuclei and other unexplained anomalies besides false pregnancies and higher death rates.

EU Parliament wants labeling of meats raised on GM Feed March 29, 2009 – In the session of the European Parliament, MEP voted on the report by Euro-MP Kartika Liotard on Novel Foods. And for the first time the parliament supported a call for the labeling of products from animals fed with GMO. The biotech industry knows that consumers will not buy products labeled as derived from GM animal feed. And GM animal feed is the biotech industry’s lifeline. Stop GM animal feed and we stop the GM industry in its tracks.                                          

Reassuring

At this time, the FDA does not regulate or test GMO products and there’s NO labeling to tell U.S. consumers that they’re eating GM foods.

These GMO seeds have patents because of the product being thought of as unique. These same companies or company that applied for patents have stated that there is no reason to test the products. They claim the genetically modified plant is substantially equivalent to the natural one.

That is like having your cake and eating it. It will eventually dawn on everyone that this is a battle for the Earth’s resources. This is a power grab redefined, the conquering and taking siege of the land. History is not a mystery there are the conquerors and the conquered.

Anyone wanting to research the effects of GMO and these crops has to license the rights from the company that’s holding the patent on the seeds. With the blow of the wind, cross-pollination of GMO crops from neighboring acres can insert itself into a natural crop. The farmer on that land can be sued for having a GM crop that’s not licensed. The farmer now has contaminated natural crops and has no recourse. These companies can sue him for not paying for the seeds. There are cases going on that have these companies looking for compensation from land owners who have had this happen.

Ka-Ching

I would think we are dealing with grand theft. Genetically engineered foods have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves over the past decade with corn and canola in an estimated 60 percent of all processed foods.

This is twisted logic that is producing tomorrow’s world. These companies are not just breaking the rules, they are making the rules.

These aren’t alien forces that are claiming the Earth’s natural resources. There may be no going back as these seeds pollinate the land and bankroll an industry.