GMO Sweet Corn - Buyers Beware!
Monsanto and the EPA swore that the genetically engineered
corn would only harm insects. The Bt-toxin produced inside the plant would be
completely destroyed in the human digestive system and would not have any
impact at all on consumers, they claimed. Alas, they’ve been proven wrong on
that account as well, because not only is Bt corn producing resistant
“super-pests,” researchers have also found that the Bt-toxin can indeed wreak
havoc on human health.
Bt-Toxin Now Found in Many People’s Blood!
Last year, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in
Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of:
• 93% of pregnant women tested
• 80% of umbilical blood in their babies, and
• 67% of non-pregnant women
The study authors speculate that the Bt toxin was likely
consumed in the normal diet of the Canadian middle class—which makes sense when
you consider that genetically engineered corn is present in the vast majority
of all processed foods and drinks in the form of high fructose corn syrup. They
also suggest that the toxin may have come from eating meat from animals fed Bt
corn, which most livestock raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFO,
or so-called “factory farms”) are.
These shocking results raise the frightening possibility
that eating Bt corn might actually turn your intestinal flora into a sort of
“living pesticide factory”… essentially manufacturing Bt-toxin from within your
digestive system on a continuing basis.
If this hypothesis is correct, is it then also possible that
the Bt-toxin might damage the integrity of your digestive tract in the same way
it damages insects? Remember, the toxin actually ruptures the stomach of
insects, causing them to die. The biotech industry has insisted that the
Bt-toxin doesn’t bind or interact with the intestinal walls of mammals (which
would include humans). But again, there are peer-reviewed published research
showing that Bt-toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal
tissue from rhesus monkeys.
Bt-Toxin Linked to Allergies, Auto-Immune Disease, and More
If Bt genes are indeed capable of colonizing the bacteria
living in the human digestive tract, scientists believe it could reasonably
result in:
• Gastrointestinal problems
• Autoimmune diseases
• Food allergies
• Childhood learning disorders
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