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Episode 3: Franken-Foods & Cancer Causers
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Ty: Welcome back! Thanks for tuning in tonight. I hope you
enjoyed last night’s show where we talked about the immune
system. We talked about the way that sugar compromises
immunity and a whole host of other things that hit that immune
system knocking it down a notch so that you’re not able to protect
yourself. So today, we’re going to learn some heavy stuff. We’re
going to learn about heavy metals, the effect they have on the
immune system. We’re going to talk a lot about genetically
modified organisms, learn about dental toxins, and a whole host of
other environmental toxins, toxins on our food, that compromise
that immune system. You’re going to learn a lot from tonight’s
show. I’m glad you’re listening, glad you’re watching, enjoy the
show.
Ty: What are GMOs
Jeffrey Smith: Genetically modified organisms—you take genes from
one species and force it into the DNA of other species. Now the GM
crops on the market, there’s nine of them, and the primary traits are
either herbicide tolerance or pesticide production. So herbicide
tolerance, round-up ready is the most popular, Round-Up ready soy,
corn, cotton, canola, sugar beets, and alfalfa. They’re engineered with
genes from bacteria and pieces of virus, etc. not to die, the plant doesn’t
die when it’s sprayed with Round-Up herbicide which normally kills
plants. So it makes weeding easier for farmers. They can simply spray
over the crops and kill all the weeds but not the Round-Up ready crops.
And the other genetically modified trait that’s popular is pesticide
production. They take a gene from bacteria in the soil called the bacillus
thuringiensis or BT for short. And take that gene which produces a
known insecticide and put it into corn and cotton. So when a bug,
certain types of bugs, eat or try to bite the plant the toxin gets released
and then it breaks open little holes in their stomach walls and they die.
So now we eat that insecticide and we also eat the Round-Up laden
crops. So we’re eating two types of poisons in these GM crops.
Ty: So what are the effects on humans of eating BT toxin and
Round Up pesticide
Jeffrey Smith: Well, it was promised to us up and down that BT toxin
was safe because it only affected certain insects. That turned out to be
not true. The BT toxin in its natural form, which is used as a spray or
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