{"id":382,"date":"2024-03-11T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:53:27","slug":"gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html","title":{"rendered":"GMOs AND FRANKENFOODS: GOD MOVE OVER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">This article introduces my readers to the health and safety risks that GMO foods, or Genetically Modified Organisms, pose for the food consumer, the natural ecosystem and for the whole planet.\u00a0 It also advocates for a return to natural, organic foods as the best way to protect one\u2019s health.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey 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9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#Introduction_The_Biggest_Philosophical_Problem_of_All\" >Introduction: The Biggest Philosophical Problem of All<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#The_Creation_Account_of_Genesis_Revisited\" >The Creation Account of Genesis Revisited<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#What_Is_Genetic_Engineering_and_What_Are_Genetically_Modified_Organisms_or_GMOs\" >What Is Genetic Engineering, and What Are Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs?\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#Genetic_Engineering_and_GMO_foods_Pro_and_Con\" >Genetic Engineering and GMO foods, Pro and Con<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#GMO_Foods_and_Your_Health_The_Epidemiological_Evidence\" >GMO Foods and Your Health: The Epidemiological Evidence<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#GMOs_and_the_Need_for_Food_Transparency\" >GMOs and the Need for Food Transparency<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#GMOs_and_the_Environment\" >GMOs and the Environment<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#Foods_Medicines_and_the_Natural_Order\" >Foods, Medicines and the Natural Order<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#Organic_Agriculture_versus_GMOs_Power_to_the_People\" >Organic Agriculture versus GMOs: Power to the People!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/gmos-and-frankenfoods-god-move-over.html\/#Seeds_of_Deception_Exposing_the_Health_Risks_and_Dangers_of_GMO_Foods\" >Seeds of Deception: Exposing the Health Risks and Dangers of GMO Foods<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction_The_Biggest_Philosophical_Problem_of_All\"><\/span><strong>Introduction: The Biggest Philosophical Problem of All<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>In my previous blog posting, I covered various perplexing philosophical problems posed by modern agribusiness and factory farming in connection with our food.\u00a0 I thought I would have the space to devote to the problem of GMOs, or Genetically Modified Organisms, in the last blog posting, but it soon became clear to me that GMOs pose such a huge problem, in so many different ways, for the health, safety and integrity of our food supply, and of our whole planet, that it really deserved a blog posting of its own.\u00a0 Indeed, the potential ramifications of modern GMO or gene splicing technology are many and varied, and affect not only one\u2019s personal health and wellbeing, but also the health and sustainability of modern agriculture and the very natural environment itself.\u00a0 To put things in a nutshell, the core philosophical problem posed by GMOs and genetic engineering technology is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do big agribusiness and biotech corporations have the right to play God with the food we eat?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the corporations themselves would answer that question in the affirmative, but really \u2013 do they have the requisite wisdom and unlimited creative intelligence to do so?<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Creation_Account_of_Genesis_Revisited\"><\/span><strong>The Creation Account of Genesis Revisited<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>An old friend of mine who is also the owner of a health food store once told me a joke:\u00a0 What does GMO stand for?\u00a0 Although the usual answer is Genetically Modified Organism, the joke\u2019s answer is \u201cGod Move Over\u201d.\u00a0 And this is quite revealing about the motives and psychology of the big agribusiness and biotech corporations who are into genetic engineering \u2013 basically, they want to play God, and replace the natural foods that God created with their own artificial concoctions.<\/p>\n<p>If one reads the creation account in Genesis, at the end of each day of creation, God looks upon what He has just created and sees that it is good.\u00a0 This simple, unadorned use of the word \u201cgood\u201d, without any other caveats, qualifications or modifiers, carries the implicit meaning that what God created was for the best and highest good of all concerned, or the whole world.\u00a0 The big question is:\u00a0 Do the giant biotech corporations who create genetically modified foods really have the wisdom, creative intelligence and moral stature of God?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 While God has created the foods we eat to serve the whole of Creation or the natural order, genetic engineering corporations like Monsanto create their GMO wonders for much more base and self-serving motives \u2013 to boost crop and livestock yields and production in order to maximize the profit bottom line in their marketing of their GMO foods to you, the consumer.\u00a0 And once those foods wind up on your dinner plate, these same corporations couldn\u2019t care less about the finer qualitative issues and problems they pose for your personal health and safety, or that of the natural environment or ecosystem either.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be an atheist or one who doesn\u2019t believe in God, you could substitute the phrase \u201cthe Natural Order\u201d for God.\u00a0 In other words, over the course of millions of years, the Natural Order gradually evolved into a state of marvelous balance, harmony and equilibrium \u2013 so much so that believers in God have attributed this Natural Order to divine creative intelligence.\u00a0 But whether you happen to believe in God or not, you gotta admit that these big GMO giants have quite a God complex.\u00a0 To give you some concrete illustration of just how insidious and perverse this God complex is, GMO seeds can\u2019t reproduce by themselves, because the corporations that created them have spliced a special \u201csuicide gene\u201d into their DNA; in other words, the seeds produced by GMO crops are sterile. The biotech corporations that produce GMO seeds call this \u201cterminator technology\u201d \u2013 apologies to Arnold Schwarzenegger! \u2013 1.\u00a0 In some kind of twisted Jesus number, the GMO plant grown from the GMO seed winds up sacrificing itself to the Great Corporation in the Sky.\u00a0 No offense to you Christians out there, but the Jesus metaphor was the best one I could find!\u00a0 Poor family farmers in India who assumed that they would be able to plant the next year\u2019s crop from the seeds of the first year\u2019s crop find out, to their great chagrin, that they have to go back to the seed producing GMO corporation to buy some more seeds \u2013 which aren\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Is_Genetic_Engineering_and_What_Are_Genetically_Modified_Organisms_or_GMOs\"><\/span><strong>What Is Genetic Engineering, and What Are Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs?\u00a0 <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Prior to the advent of GMO or gene splicing technology, new varieties of the fruits and vegetables we eat were produced via selective cross-breeding, or hybridization \u2013 that is, pre-existing species, strains and varieties that were closely related botanically were selectively cross bred for the various desirable traits they possessed until a final hybrid was produced that manifested all the traits the breeders sought.\u00a0 In order to be selectively cross-bred, the pre-existing varieties that were selected to be cross-bred had to be closely related enough to be genetically compatible, or to share a sufficient amount of genetic material in common \u2013 like within the same genus, or within the same phylum, or larger family at the most distant.\u00a0 Nevertheless, this traditional method of selective cross-breeding was quite successful at producing an amazing variety of fruits and vegetables for man\u2019s consumption, as well as an amazing variety of cats, dogs, horses, cattle and other domesticated animals to be man\u2019s companions and helpers.<\/p>\n<p>Gene splicing, or genetic engineering, is something that is totally different.\u00a0 Genetic engineers aren\u2019t limited by considerations of genetic closeness when they splice genes from one living organism into another.\u00a0 A gene from a bacterium can be spliced into corn, or a gene from a fish, like a salmon, can be spliced into a tomato, for example.\u00a0 And the traits that are deemed most desirable to the gene splicers aren\u2019t necessarily those that are sought by the end consumer; they can be ones that benefit the profit incentive of the growers, or the GMO producing corporation itself <em>at the expense of, <\/em>or to the detriment of, the farmer, who also has his own balance sheet of profit and loss, and the end consumer, who not only has economic factors but also health and wellness factors to consider as well.\u00a0 And GMO traits that benefit the GMO corporation at the expense of, or to the detriment of, the natural environment or ecosystem put the whole human race, and the whole planet, at risk.\u00a0 And the difficult, thorny and perplexing moral and ethical problems posed by GMO technology are dark and disturbing indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing an allusion to Mary Shelley\u2019s horror novel about Dr. Frankenstein and the patchwork monster he created, GMO foods are often called Frankenfoods.\u00a0 This pretty much sums up the basic plot of horror stories involving the typical mad scientist and his monstrous creation, like the giant blob that ate a whole city before it could finally be stopped, and so on.\u00a0 As long as the monster is contained within the lab, everything is OK, and there is a lid on the situation, but once the monster escapes and is let loose on the world at large, watch out!\u00a0 I believe that the first message that was sent over telegraph wires was, \u201cWhat hath God wrought?\u201d\u00a0 Perhaps the word \u201cman\u201d could be substituted for \u201cGod\u201d as we ponder the huge health and environmental implications and consequences of GMO foods.\u00a0 On a somewhat lighter and more academic note, can someone who regularly eats genetically engineered tomatoes that have had a salmon gene spliced into them really call himself a vegetarian, even if he eats no meat?\u00a0 I\u2019ll leave that to you to ponder.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Genetic_Engineering_and_GMO_foods_Pro_and_Con\"><\/span><strong>Genetic Engineering and GMO foods, Pro and Con<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>As with other morally or ethically questionable forms of modern technology, genetic engineering, or GMO technology, is highly controversial, with its ardent proponents as well as its vocal critics or detractors.\u00a0 Perhaps the greatest argument put forth by genetic engineering proponents in favor of GMO products and foods is that, by boosting the yields of crops and livestock, they alone can solve the growing problem of world hunger and feeding a hungry planet.\u00a0 But the root cause of world hunger is unbridled or unchecked population growth, which could be called uncontrolled genes escaping from the jeans, I suppose \u2013 gotta put a lid on the human genetic impulse to procreate, or practice more birth control and family planning, it seems.\u00a0 Come to think of it, this argument of conquering world hunger and feeding a hungry planet may be the only argument in favor of GMOs; on the negative side of the ledger, there are all kinds of health, economic and environmental problems created by genetic engineering technology; at any rate, I can think of no other argument for GMOs that is more positive.\u00a0 And of course, GMO proponents are putting forth GMO technology as the <em>only <\/em>viable solution to the looming problem of world hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Even the argument of conquering world hunger via increased food production has its flaws, or its inevitable down side, it seems.\u00a0 As we saw in the previous installment with Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, or rBGH, injected into dairy cows to boost their milk production by twenty percent, the down side was that the frequency of udder infections, with increased pus in the milk and increased antibiotic use as well to treat those infections goes up, which can be seen as undesirable side effects.\u00a0 This suggests that Mother Nature designed the dairy cow to only be able to operate and produce milk within certain comfortable limits, and when those natural or comfortable limits are exceeded, the risk of problems and pathology increases as well.\u00a0 The benefits of higher crop yields are also alluring, and here the GMO corporations have sought to create crops that either have their own endogenous herbicides and\/or pesticides contained within them, or crops that can tolerate vastly increased amounts of these chemicals \u2013 which are also produced by the same GMO corporations that produce the crops and their seeds.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2013 the GMO corporations are able to entice farmers into buying their seeds, and growing their crops, by promising them higher crop yields via the drastic reduction of their natural pests, like insects and weeds. To achieve this end, the crop varieties they have created either contain their own endogenous pesticides and\/or herbicides, or they are designed to be virtually immune, even to huge amounts of pesticides and herbicides that are sprayed on them \u2013 which are usually made by the GMO companies themselves.\u00a0 So, the farmer wins, and his profits and crop yields are increased, but the GMO corporation that produces the seeds, and the pesticides and herbicides that go with them, profit and benefit a lot more \u2013 and this is the real \u201cGod\u201d that the GMO corporations serve.\u00a0 And when it comes to the end consumer, or those who actually eat the GMO foods, the GMO corporations, who are really running the show, couldn\u2019t care less.\u00a0 As a concrete example, Bt corn has been spliced with a gene from a bacteria, known as Bacillus Thuringensis, that kills insect pests by provoking massive gastrointestinal bleeding within their tiny bodies. \u2013 2.\u00a0 Now \u2013 if Bt corn can do this to an insect pest, then maybe \u2013 just maybe \u2013 it might be able to poke a few holes in your gut as well, leading to leaky gut syndrome and a whole host of food allergies and sensitivities that go along with it.\u00a0 In the face of such callous disregard for the health and wellbeing of the end consumer, the only advice that can be given is: <em>Caveat emptor \u2013 <\/em>buyer beware!\u00a0 <em>You <\/em>are the only one who can protect your health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GMO_Foods_and_Your_Health_The_Epidemiological_Evidence\"><\/span><strong>GMO Foods and Your Health: The Epidemiological Evidence<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Since Glyphosate (Roundup) and GMOs were first introduced in the early \u201890s, there has been a marked, almost exponential, increase in the incidence of many modern diseases that were not very frequent prior to their introduction.\u00a0 Animal studies have been done on the effects of Glyphosate and GMOs, and the pathologies they can cause, but what is probably the most revealing and convincing is the epidemiological evidence showing the rise of these modern diseases paralleling increases in the use of GMOs and Glyphosate quite closely.\u00a0 Of course, the ability of Glyphosate to cause various kinds of tumors in mice and other lab animals has been documented (see article cited below), but beyond cancer and tumors, the increase in GMO agriculture has closely paralleled the rise of many modern diseases that are now causing widespread concern \u2013 diseases like celiac disease and gluten intolerance, autism, disruptions in the gut biome and intestinal infections, type 2 diabetes, obesity, hormonal abnormalities and kidney failure.\u00a0 Another disorder that has become very frequent and widespread in recent years, whose rise seems to parallel the rise in GMO agriculture, is infertility.\u00a0 When I graduated from acupuncture school back in the 1980\u2019s, before the introduction of GMOs, infertility cases were very rare; now they are so common that many acupuncturists devote their whole practice to treating infertility alone.<\/p>\n<p>After a little google searching on the internet, I was finally able to find an article, a research paper, that correlated the rising frequency of many of these modern diseases with the rise in GMOs and Glyphosate use, showing many graphs.\u00a0 I think you will find this article \/ research paper to be very eye opening:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/regenerationinternational.org\/2023\/02\/19\/the-science-based-evidence-to-ban-glyphosate-and-gmos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Science-based Evidence to Ban Glyphosate and GMOs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GMO crops and foods are very, very controversial, and the debate and polemic rages back and forth about them, both pro and con.\u00a0 In addition, the big biotech corporations that produce the GMOs have virtually unlimited sums of money, and are able to hire the best lawyers and PR people, many of whom Socrates would have called sophists, to make their case not only to the public and the concerned consumer, but also to the regulatory agencies that are charged with reviewing, testing and approving their GMO products.\u00a0 And of course, these same corporations have been very successful at corrupting and buying off these regulatory agencies and their officials, as the book <u>Seeds of Deception<\/u> chronicles and reveals so well.\u00a0 But at the end of the day, regardless of which side wins the polemical battles, there is quite solid epidemiological evidence linking the rise of GMO foods and agriculture quite closely with the astounding rise in the chronic and degenerative modern diseases I have enumerated above.\u00a0 In other words, Mother Nature doesn\u2019t lie, or even twist or distort the truth, and the bodies of those who have regularly consumed GMO foods tell the true story in the diseases and pathologies they develop and manifest over time.<\/p>\n<p>As a case in point, take the case of Bt corn, which I discussed above \u2013 OK, from reading my discussion of it, you can probably guess that I am in the anti-GMO camp, and that\u2019s true.\u00a0 In their efforts to convince and assure potential consumers of their product, the producers of Bt corn state that the toxic protein produced by Bt corn as a result of the Bacillus Thuringensis gene that has been spliced into it only targets a very specific family of insects of the family <em>Lepidopterae, <\/em>which includes corn\u2019s chief insect adversary, the European Corn Borer. \u2013 3. \u00a0The producers assure us that this same toxic crystalline protein, which has such a devastating effect on this family of insects, passes through the GI tracts of humans who eat the corn without causing any damage, since humans do not have the receptor sites for this particular toxic protein.\u00a0 But the astounding rise in leaky gut syndrome and all the intestinal disorders and food allergies \/ sensitivities that arise from it, since the introduction of GMO crops, of which Bt corn is probably the most common, strongly contradicts this assertion of the producers, indicating that the GI tracts of humans do not emerge from their encounter with Bt corn totally unscathed.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GMOs_and_the_Need_for_Food_Transparency\"><\/span><strong>GMOs and the Need for Food Transparency<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>If you go online and google up the extent to which crops today are genetically engineered, you will find that some crops, like corn, soybeans and cotton, are around 90 percent genetically engineered, or GMO.\u00a0 Yet you go into the supermarkets and the health food stores and you find just about all the corn chips and soy products, like tofu, labeled either \u201corganic\u201d or \u201cnon-GMO\u201d; it seems like the phrase \u201cnon-GMO\u201d is probably the most popular phrase in food labeling today, after the word, \u201corganic\u201d.\u00a0 This clearly shows that, when it comes to the food they eat, the consumer has caught on to the fact that GMOs are not that good for one\u2019s health \u2013 and that may be putting things mildly.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I have ever been in a supermarket, much less a health food store, where I encountered a food product that was proudly labeled \u201cGMO\u201d \u2013 if you should ever run across such a label, please tell me!\u00a0 From this situation, two things are clear: First, that the advent of GMO technology has placed the GMO and agribusiness corporations that produce GMO crops and foods into an adversarial relationship with the food consumer; and secondly, that the GMO and agribusiness corporations don\u2019t want you to know that you\u2019re eating GMO foods and food ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>This situation also pinpoints a very urgent need to do one\u2019s own research and homework if one truly wants to eat organic and natural, and avoid consuming GMO foods.\u00a0 In all probability, if you read the statistics online and realize the sheer prevalence of GMO foods today, and you see all the \u201corganic\u201d and \u201cnon-GMO\u201d labels on the foods in the supermarkets and health food stores, then somebody, somewhere, must be lying, or misrepresenting what they\u2019re selling.\u00a0 Some good investigative reporter needs to go under cover and find out what the CEOs of the GMO corporations themselves are eating, and if it turns out that they\u2019re avoiding their own \u201cFrankenfood\u201d creations like the plague, then that\u2019s a flagrant violation of the Golden Rule on their part.\u00a0 Understandably, in recent years, there have been political movements among food consumers to get GMO foods labeled, but this has been fought tooth and nail by the GMO corporations, and to date, as far as I know, the GMO corporations have been successful in their fight against GMO labeling and food transparency.\u00a0 Talk and lip service are cheap, and it seems like any food producer can slap an \u201corganic\u201d or \u201cnon-GMO\u201d label on their food products as a marketing ploy \u2013 and so, you really need to do your homework to find food producers who are really committed to organic or non-GMO agriculture \u2013 ones who really \u201cwalk the walk\u201d, and not just \u201ctalk the talk\u201d, as they say.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GMOs_and_the_Environment\"><\/span><strong>GMOs and the Environment<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>One of the most disturbing things about GMO foods, crops and GMO technology in general is the sheer complexity of the many problems posed by it, and the sheer number of forces and factors in our natural world that are thrown out of whack by our tampering with the genetic code of Life.\u00a0 Because all of these forces and factors are intertwined and inter-related, it seems like whatever approach we take to the problem of genetically modified foods must be holistic and broad in scope.\u00a0 To return to the creation account in Genesis, the solutions we should adopt must be good for the entire Natural Order \u2013 in other words, for the whole natural environment or ecosystem.\u00a0 Although this blog posting focuses mainly on the health problems posed by GMO foods, there are many ramifications of GMO technology indeed, and the environmental effects and consequences it engenders are a large and significant part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Take the case of Bt corn, once again.\u00a0 Most of the articles regarding the health and safety aspects of Bt corn for human consumption were generally positive and reassuring \u2013 and I wondered whether or not those who wrote the articles were in the pockets of the GMO and biotech corporations.\u00a0 But another common type of article that came up repeatedly in the results of my google search on \u201cthe case against Bt corn\u201d focused on the problem of the European Corn Borer, which is the chief target of the spliced Bt gene, and its increasing resistance to the Bt toxin. &#8211; 4. Since insects reproduce much more quickly than humans, they can develop resistance or immunity to various toxic or noxious substances in their environment much more quickly than humans can.\u00a0 It\u2019s the old adage, \u201cWhat does not kill me will make me stronger\u201d.\u00a0 The emergence of new \u201csuperbugs\u201d or resistant insect pests seems to parallel the rise of microbial \u201csuperbugs\u201d in response to the increased use of antibiotics in factory farming.<\/p>\n<p>Another unintended consequence of the creation of Bt corn was the unexpected vulnerability of the Monarch Butterfly to the effects of the Bt toxin, which is detailed in the book <u>Seeds of Deception<\/u>.\u00a0 Oh no \u2013 not the beautiful and beloved Monarch Butterfly!\u00a0 This was terrible news for the producers of Bt corn, and in a jiffy, all the PR experts on the corporation\u2019s payroll were scrambling around in damage control mode.\u00a0 And of course, the Monarch Butterfly is a member of the same <em>Lepidopterae <\/em>family of insects that the Bt toxin targets.\u00a0 New resistant \u201csuperbugs\u201d arise, while other beautiful and beloved members of the insect kingdom are unexpectedly harmed.\u00a0 All the while, the pesticides and herbicides that are such a large part of GMO agriculture are having the net effect of greatly reducing the biodiversity of insect and plant life, say the environmentalists that are fighting against the large biotech corporations and their GMO crops and foods \u2013 5. .\u00a0 The moral of this story is that, to really play God, we must be able to take a broad, integral and holistic view of all Life, and I don\u2019t think that the GMO corporations are really up to the task.\u00a0 As Chief Seattle said, we did not weave the web of life \u2013 we are merely strands within it.\u00a0 As the source \/ cited article above states, natural ecosystems are incredibly complex, and the introduction, or re-introduction of certain species, which also includes new GMO crop varieties, can have far reaching and often unforeseen consequences. Considering this environmental truth, are the GMO producers, with their narrow, profit driven motives, really up to the task of playing God?<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Foods_Medicines_and_the_Natural_Order\"><\/span><strong>Foods, Medicines and the Natural Order<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Way back in ancient times, Hippocrates could tell us to let our food be our medicine, and our medicine be our food with absolute confidence because the natural foods he recommended were the same ones that God created; in other words, they were the same natural foods and substances that mankind had been co-evolving with for millions of years as part of the Natural Order.\u00a0 In other words, our bodies had become naturally acclimatized to these natural substances, some of which were used for food and others which were used for medicine, for hundreds, thousands, even millions of years of our shared evolutionary history.\u00a0 But over the last century or two of human history, especially the last century, man has created a whole host of new\u00a0 substances and chemicals that are not found in Nature, and these have provoked unnatural or pathological reactions in many sensitive or vulnerable individuals.\u00a0 Many have multiple chemical sensitivities.\u00a0 Many, if not most, of the pharmaceutical drugs we take have serious negative side effects.\u00a0 And now, GMO foods, which have altered or tampered with the very genetic code of Life itself, may be provoking abnormalities and pathological changes in we, the consumers, that are becoming more and more apparent as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Another great thing about the herbs and other natural medicinal substances that are used in the world\u2019s great traditional healing systems is that traditional healers have had centuries, even millennia, of clinical experience using them, and everything about these natural substances and their effects on the human body is thoroughly known.\u00a0 The same can\u2019t be said of the new medicines that are being created by the pharmaceutical companies that are not found in Nature.\u00a0 New pharmaceutical drugs have to go through an intensive and extremely expensive testing and approval process, but even so, in far too many cases, significant and even debilitating negative long term effects manage to slip through the testing and approval process unnoticed.\u00a0 However, these more subtle and insidious negative effects usually show up later, after the drug has been on the market for a decade or two in most cases.\u00a0 And so, if you are to use or take a pharmaceutical drug, it is best to take one that has been on the market for at least twenty years or so.\u00a0 I remember our professor of Western Medicine in acupuncture school, who was a Naturopathic Doctor, tell us that 80 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs then in use were not in use twenty years previously, and this is due to these subtle or insidious negative side effects that aren\u2019t initially discovered in the testing and approval process.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing could be said about GMO foods as another artificial or unnatural product that is created in the laboratory.\u00a0 GMOs were first introduced in the early 1990s, and at that time, they appeared to be safe \u2013 and by that I mean that nobody who ate them was immediately falling sick, developing any symptoms or obvious negative reactions to them, or keeling over.\u00a0 But as time has gone on, the subtler, long term negative effects of GMO foods on our health have become more and more evident, and the food consumer has caught on.\u00a0 As I mentioned earlier, certain bacterial genes spliced into staple crops to serve as endogenous pesticides are probably poking holes in our guts, leading to leaky gut syndrome and a whole host of food allergies and inflammatory reactions.\u00a0 Glyphosate or Roundup, an herbicide and biocide used in great quantities to spray on GMO crops, does not harm or kill any cell inside out bodies, but it has been shown to have very destructive effects on the beneficial probiotic bacteria in our gut microbiome. \u2013 6.\u00a0 Although, strictly speaking, these beneficial bacteria are not \u201cus\u201d, or part of our own bodies, scientists estimate that these beneficial probiotic bacteria comprise about 80 percent of our immune systems.\u00a0 Is it any wonder that many digestive and intestinal disorders have gotten far more common since GMO agriculture was first introduced?<\/p>\n<p>And on a deeper, systemic level, it now appears, as the above article \/ research paper has shown, that various neurological disorders like autism, as well as hormonal and endocrine disorders like diabetes and obesity, and even reproductive disorders like infertility, have been epidemiologically linked to the rise in GMO foods and agriculture.\u00a0 These systems \u2013 the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems \u2013 can be seen as meta-systems that link or weave the whole organism together.\u00a0 And regarding infertility, it seems like, if we tamper with or denature the genetic code of the food we eat, we wind up getting our own genetic code tampered with as well; in other words, through eating GMO foods, the karmic boomerang has come around to bite us in the butt.\u00a0 I know this sounds rather vague, nebulous and unscientific, but the sad truth is that much more scientific research needs to be done to elucidate the direct, physical cause and effect relationships between the consumption of GMO foods and what they are doing to our bodies.\u00a0 Since the big agribusiness and biotech companies have virtually unlimited funding, and there is tremendous financial pressure and incentive directed towards getting their GMO foods and products approved, the lion\u2019s share of scientific research has been directed mainly towards this end.\u00a0 This is the agribusiness version of the Golden Rule \u2013 he who has the gold makes the rules.\u00a0 The consumer, unfortunately, winds up at the bottom of the totem pole.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Organic_Agriculture_versus_GMOs_Power_to_the_People\"><\/span><strong>Organic Agriculture versus GMOs: Power to the People!<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Another troubling thing about the rise of GMO agriculture is that it is being used as a tool for corporate dominance and hegemony over our lives.\u00a0 The old ways of natural and organic agriculture are slated for extinction, argue the big agribusiness and biotech giants who are aggressively promoting GMO foods as <em>the <\/em>solution to world hunger, and the agricultural way of the future.\u00a0 They are making it seem as if there is no viable alternative to the GMO \u201csolutions\u201d they are proposing, but certain activists have arisen who are countering these corporate claims and championing a return to more traditional and natural forms of agriculture.\u00a0 Perhaps the most famous and controversial of these is Dr. Vandana Shiva in India, who seems to be styling herself after the much beloved Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian independence as the champion of the poor family farmers of India. Indeed, all over the world, people are returning to organic agriculture as the insidious health risks of GMO foods become increasingly clearer.\u00a0 I leave you with this short video clip of Dr. Vandana Shiva:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What&#039;s wrong with the myth of progress? | Vandana Shiva\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tg9IWrIOmhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Seeds_of_Deception_Exposing_the_Health_Risks_and_Dangers_of_GMO_Foods\"><\/span><strong>Seeds of Deception: Exposing the Health Risks and Dangers of GMO Foods<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>I will leave you with the link to the Amazon.com page for the book, <u>Seeds of Deception: Exposing the Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You\u2019re Eating<\/u> by Jeffrey M. Smith.\u00a0 It reads like a murder mystery or detective novel and exposes massive corruption and collusion between the GMO corporations and government agencies that are charged with regulating them.\u00a0 I have personally read this book, and give it glowing recommendations for those who want to educate themselves on what is really going on with GMO foods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seeds-Deception-Government-Genetically-Engineered\/dp\/0972966587\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seeds-Deception-Government-Genetically-Engineered\/dp\/0972966587<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cban.ca\/gmos\/issues\/terminator-technology\/#:~:text=What%20is%20Terminator%3F,buy%20seed%20each%20season%20instead.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terminator Technology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.ucsd.edu\/how_bt_work.html\">Bacillus tburingiensis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/entomology.ca.uky.edu\/ef130#:~:text=In%20the%20case%20of%20Bt,called%20the%20Bt%20delta%20endotoxin.\">Bt-Corn: What It Is and How It Works<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topcropmanager.com\/insect-resistance-to-bt-corn\/\">Insect resistance to BT corn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nongmoproject.org\/blog\/how-do-gmos-affect-biodiversity\/\">How Do GMOs Affect Biodiversity?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-82552-2\">Low-dose exposure of glyphosate-based herbicides disrupt the urine metabolome and its interaction with gut microbiota<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article introduces my readers to the health and safety risks that GMO foods, or Genetically Modified Organisms, pose for the food consumer, the natural ecosystem and for the whole planet.\u00a0 It also advocates for a return to natural, organic foods as the best way to protect one\u2019s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[408,406,407,410,403,402,404,401,393,44,409,392,405,411],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herbs","tag-biotech","tag-bt-corn","tag-dr-vandana-shiva","tag-european-corn-borer","tag-frankenfoods","tag-genetically-modified-organism","tag-glyphosate","tag-gmo","tag-gmos","tag-hippocrates","tag-monarch-butterfly","tag-monsanto","tag-roundup","tag-seeds-of-deception"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GMOs AND FRANKENFOODS: GOD MOVE OVER! 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