Frankenfood Grains & Infertility

Frankenfood 
& 
Infertility

America's Food & Drug Administration. which gave the world Thalidomide and Aspartame, has granted GMO-agriculture carte blanche. The FDA does not require labeling of Frankenfood ingredients.  

Caveat emptor. Here's a brochure to help you out:
http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/download.html

That cozy corporate/government deal may not stand. The damage to livestock and humankind is reaching critical data-mass. 

Also, outrage is mounting regarding the wanton destruction of heirloom seed stocks and destruction of farmers whose fields are contaminated by neighbors' GMO crops. The Monsanto corporation is bent on litigating non-compliant farmers into penury and bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, in the pantheon of heroes, an emeritus professor at Purdue University, Don M. Huber, has issued a warning regarding a NEW micro-pathogen found in high concentrations in GMO Roundup-ready corn and soy, causing spontaneous abortions in farm animals, and so much more.  Farmers are already alarmed and aware.

In a letter to the US Secretary of Agriculture, Dr. Horner urges an immediate GMO moratorium. Dr. Horner has both cred and expertise. Kudos to him for also having cajones. This may finally draw the line, in what's left of AgriBiz soil. 

Professor Horner:

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"For the past 40 years, I have been a scientist in the professional and military agencies that evaluate and prepare for natural and manmade biological threats, including germ warfare and disease outbreaks. Based on this experience, I believe the threat we are facing from this pathogen is unique and of a high risk status. In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.
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"This is highly sensitive information that could result in a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant disruption of domestic food and feed supplies. On the other hand, this new organism may already be responsible for significant harm (see below). My colleagues and I are therefore moving our investigation forward with speed and discretion, and seek assistance from the USDA and other entities to identify the pathogen’s source, prevalence, implications, and remedies.
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"Unique Physical Properties

"This previously unknown organism is only visible under an electron microscope (36,000X), with an approximate size range equal to a medium size virus. It is able to reproduce and appears to be a micro-fungal-like organism. If so, it would be the first such micro-fungus ever identified. There is strong evidence that this infectious agent promotes diseases of both plants and mammals, which is very rare.

"Pathogen Location and Concentration

"It is found in high concentrations in Roundup Ready soybean meal and corn, distillers meal, fermentation feed products, pig stomach contents, and pig and cattle placentas.

"Linked with Outbreaks of Plant Disease

"The organism is prolific in plants infected with two pervasive diseases that are driving down yields and farmer income—sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soy, and Goss’ wilt in corn. The pathogen is also found in the fungal causative agent of SDS (Fusarium solani fsp glycines).

"Implicated in Animal Reproductive Failure

"Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of this organism in a wide variety of livestock that have experienced spontaneous abortions and infertility. Preliminary results from ongoing research have also been able to reproduce abortions in a clinical setting.

"The pathogen may explain the escalating frequency of infertility and spontaneous abortions over the past few years in US cattle, dairy, swine, and horse operations. These include recent reports of infertility rates in dairy heifers of over 20%, and spontaneous abortions in cattle as high as 45%.

"For example, 450 of 1,000 pregnant heifers fed wheatlege experienced spontaneous abortions. Over the same period, another 1,000 heifers from the same herd that were raised on hay had no abortions. High concentrations of the pathogen were confirmed on the wheatlege, which likely had been under weed management using glyphosate.

"Recommendations

"In summary, because of the high titer of this new animal pathogen in Roundup Ready crops, and its association with plant and animal diseases that are reaching epidemic proportions, we request USDA’s participation in a multi-agency investigation, and an immediate moratorium on the deregulation of RR crops until the causal/predisposing relationship with glyphosate and/or RR plants can be ruled out as a threat to crop and animal production and human health.

"It is urgent to examine whether the side-effects of glyphosate use may have facilitated the growth of this pathogen, or allowed it to cause greater harm to weakened plant and animal hosts. It is well-documented that glyphosate promotes soil pathogens and is already implicated with the increase of more than 40 plant diseases; it dismantles plant defenses by chelating vital nutrients; and it reduces the bioavailability of nutrients in feed, which in turn can cause animal disorders. To properly evaluate these factors, we request access to the relevant USDA data.

"I have studied plant pathogens for more than 50 years. We are now seeing an unprecedented trend of increasing plant and animal diseases and disorders. This pathogen may be instrumental to understanding and solving this problem. It deserves immediate attention with significant resources to avoid a general collapse of our critical agricultural infrastructure."


Thanks to George Ure of urbansurvival.com for sleuthing the link: http://farmandranchfreedom.org/gmo-miscarriages 

Photo courtesy of a UK site: 
http://dotconnectoruk.blogspot.com/2010/08/kelloggs-loves-their-frankenfood.html

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