Thursday, August 30, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Scary...
This was a very unsettling article I recently read via the Organic Consumers Association.
Stop Syngenta's Insecticidal 'Bt' Genetically Engineered Corn
Four Reasons to Avoid Non-Organic
Corn and Processed Foods Containing Corn or Corn-Sweeteners:
1. GMO "Bt" corn produces its own
insecticide. It kills bugs, bad bugs and good bugs alike,
including beneficial insects like honeybees, ladybugs and butterflies.
2. Inhaled Bt has caused severe allergies in
farmworkers while GMO Bt corn pollen has reportedly killed peasants in the
Philippines. Besides setting off serious allergies in
farmworkers inhaling Bt, in 2003, five people living around Bt corn fields in
the Philippines died and dozens became ill with fever and respiratory,
intestinal and skin problems. Subsequently, 38 individuals had their blood
analyzed and all were positive for antibodies specific to Cry1Ab, suggesting an
immune reaction to genetically engineered Bt toxins.
3. GMO Bt corn livestock feed kills animals.
In 1996, Syngenta abruptly terminated a US Bt corn feeding study after four
cows died in two days. Later, Syngenta paid a German farmer 40,000 euros in
partial compensation for dead cows, decreased milk yields, and vet costs
incurred during authorized field tests from 1997 to 2002.
4. More than 80% of women and their unborn children
have GMO Bt toxins in their blood! Most Americans probably have
no idea how much corn they're eating, but with all the high-fructose corn
syrup, corn oil, and food from animals raised on corn, it's little wonder that
so many of us have GMO Bt toxins coursing through our blood.
Please, encourage everyone you know
to stop eating non-organic corn and help get this stuff banned - or at least
labeled!
There are already 16 different GMO Bt
varieties of corn cultivated in this country - even though many other countries
ban Bt crops. Now, Syngenta wants another approved.
Stop Syngenta's Insecticidal
Genetically Engineered Corn!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)