Whatever You Think About Monsanto & Friends, it’s Worse — GMO’s are an Attack on Life Itself!

Glyphosate is also patented as an antibiotic—and a very effective one at that— against a large number of beneficial organisms. Unfortunately, like all antibiotics, it also kills vitally important beneficial soil bacteria and human gut bacteria.

“Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Enterococcus faecalis—these are organisms that keep you healthy either by providing accessibility to the minerals in your food or producing many of the vitamins that you need for life. They’re also the natural biological defenses to keep Clostridium, Salmonella, and E.coli from developing in your system,” — Dr. Don Huber

Glyphosate was originally patented as a chelator in 1964 by Stauffer Chemical Co. Monsanto introduced as an herbicide in 1974. In 1996, Roundup Ready crops were introduced creating a sharp increase in Roundup use since it can be applied several times without damaging a crop. Then, to put the final nail in your coffin, Monsanto started using glyphosate as a ripening agent applied just before a harvest to ripen the crops — even for non-GMO crops!

Despite all the documented health risks, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is regularly approached by biotech companies asking for higher limits of this toxic chemical in your food.

GMO’s — an Attack on Life Itself.

GMO’s cannot coexist with conventional crops. All this is connected to the relationships between genes and their environment. When you disrupt these relationships you end up with a variety of effects that have never been studied at all. We actually don’t even know all the effects of this attack on life itself!

“We know how to get these genes in; we don’t know how to remove them…. If you have a gene that is spread by pollen, like Roundup Ready alfalfa, it’s just a matter of time before bees or the wind is going to transfer that particular pollen to every alfalfa crop that you’re going to grow…. for every one of those successful expressions that you get from genetic engineering, you have over a million other things that take place that are negative…. One of the things that we do know is that the genes that are being inserted are extremely promiscuous. They’re not stable.” — Dr. Don Huber.

Research has shown that human cells are able to transfer GMO genes, actually adversely affecting the human genome — that’s you and me! University of Canterbury Professor Jack Heinemann released results from genetic research on GMO wheat that showed that molecules created in the wheat, designed to change its carbohydrate content, can potentially silence human genes, as well.

“If this silences the same gene in us that it silences in the wheat — well, children who are born with this enzyme not working tend to die by the age of about five.” – Judy Carman in Digital Journal:⁶

Heinemann’s research showed over several hundred pages of possible matches between GMO genes in the wheat with the human genome. Over a dozen of these were “extensive and identical and sufficient to cause silencing in experimental systems.” According to experts, this could create dangerous changes in the way glucose and carbohydrates are stored in our bodies.

Bee Die-Offs

According to Dr. Huber, there are several characteristics of bee colony collapse disorder that suggests glyphosate may be at least partly responsible:

1. The bees are deficient in minerals, especially in micronutrients.
2. There’s plenty of food but the bees are not able to use or digest it.
3. The dead bees have no Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium, essential components of their digestive systems.

When exposed to glyphosate, bees become disoriented, suggesting endocrine hormone disruption. Neonicotinoid insecticides are endocrine hormone disruptors that have also been shown to make bees disoriented. According to Dr. Huber, a study on glyphosate commonly found in U.S. drinking water systems showed a 30% mortality rate for bees.

So today there is no way to truly know which foods contain GMO’s tainted with high levels of Roundup or glyphosate. Labeling would help and give you the opportunity to choose a different product.

“When the EPA employed the term ‘substantially equivalent,’ it gave the chemical companies essentially a waiver on doing any of the safety tests. The only thing that they’ve ever tested for is acute toxicity. Well, we know that glyphosate, for instance, isn’t an acute toxin. It’s a serious chronic toxin. That’s been well-established in peer-reviewed scientific articles. We have more of those coming along all the time. There is no question that it’s a chronic toxin.” — Dr. Don Huber

According to Dr. Huber, 0.5 ppm of glyphosate is toxic to your endocrine system. 10 ppm is cytotoxic to kidney cells. Just 1 ppm is toxic to your liver. And a  mere 0.1-10 ppm is toxic to a whole range of human cellular functions. Think about that — and remember that we currently use nearly a BILLION pounds of glyphosate annually on crops worldwide. A study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that glyphosate is probably the most harmful chronic toxin we’ve ever had to deal with!

The USDA is Ignoring this Major Threat to Your Health

In 2011, Dr. Huber wrote a letter to the head of the USDA about safety concerns for GMO crops. He also warned them about a new microscopic organism associated with Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in soy found in livestock feed, that causes spontaneous abortions and infertility. Needless to say, his warnings were ignored. Why would the USDA completely ignore warnings from a scientist with 50 years of experience with plant pathology, soil-borne diseases, microbial ecology and host-parasite relationships?

“the USDA scientists, who have a tremendous amount of knowledge on the impact of glyphosate, have all been muzzled. They’re not permitted to say anything about it.” — Dr. Huber

GMOs are Not a Solution to Feed the World

There’s is no doubt that GMO’s are NOT a solution to feed the world. On the contrary, GMO’s are an attack on life itself, impairing a crop’s natural immune response — all while actually reducing crop yields. Despite everything Monsanto & Friends like to claim, there’s never been a GMO crop that increases the yield of any crops at all. Farmers actually can improve crop yields significantly using a variety of traditional breeding programs that promote improved gene expression.

We can increase all of the nutrient density with traditional breeding. In fact, the Brazilians are doing that. They’ve just released new varieties of soybean with higher vitamin A, and corn with higher vitamin A and vitamin C. We can do all of that with traditional breeding. We’ve been doing it for years. You don’t need to disrupt the genetic integrity and introduce all the collateral damage with its long-term effects.” — Dr. Huber

According to John Kempf, a leader in the field of high-performance agriculture, farmers harvest only about 10-15% of the genetic capacity of any crop. The true foundation of health, whether it’s plants, soils, animals,or people boils down to adequate mineral nutrition and a strong soil biology.

GMO’s Turn Your Food into a Poison

What the Monsanto & Friends in the biotech industry have actually accomplished is to turn your food into a toxic poison — making this an attack on life itself. In fact, it’s not really food at all. It’s not nourishing to living animals or people. It causes disease rather than nurtures healthy lives. It’s actually more like something cooked, microwaved, mixed with plastics then molded into something that resembles actual food. Biochemically, however, it is not really what most people think of when we go to the market at all.

Glyphosate alone, regardless of other GMO toxins, has several nasty biological effects. In fact, it may be the single most important factor contributing of a wide range of today’s “diseases of civilization.” These toxic effects include:

How to Protect Yourself from GMO’s

Glyphosate sprayed on conventional GMO crops actually becomes systemic throughout the plant and cannot be washed off. GMO corn, for example, has 13 ppm of glyphosate — compared to NONE in non-GMO corn. That’s 18 times more glyphosate than safe levels set by the EPA. The only way that you currently can safely avoid GMO’s is to make whole, fresh organic foods the majority of your diet — preferably raw foods!

Don’t confuse the “natural” label with “organic.” There is no clear legal definition of the word “natural.” Corporations use that word to sell you anything at all. To label something as “organic,” producers must prove that they’ve grown and processed their crops using well-established organic farming methods that recycle, promote biodiversity, don’t use pesticides, don’t use GMO’s, and never use fertilizers based on petroleum products or sewage.