the-truth-about-cancer

Episode 3: Franken-Foods & Cancer Causers
Ty: Let me ask you this, one of the common arguments that you
get from those that are producing the GMO crops is that we need
this to feed the world.
Jeffrey Smith: No, no, they need it to pay their salaries. GMOs are so
inept at feeding the world that the biggest paper in the world, the biggest
study, more than 400 scientists sponsored by the UN and signed on by
more than 58 countries concluded that the current generation of GMOs
has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world, eradicating poverty, or
creating sustainable agriculture. That’s the ISTAD report. In fact, the
Union of Concerned Scientists study showed that it actually doesn’t
increase yields and the USDA recent study verified that GMOs do not
increase yields, and in many cases, reduce yields. Now not only do they
not increase yields but they concentrate the ownership of agriculture.
They bind farmers in a cycle of dependence on agricultural inputs like
Round-Up. They also disallow farmers from saving seeds year after
year. And by spraying the Round-Up on the Round-Up ready crops it
kills all the other plant bio diversity. We call it weeds in this country.
They call it food in the developing country because they eat a lot of
those greens as part of their biodiversity so it’s not designed properly for
feeding the hungry world. And it’s really an accident prone, very
dangerous technology, which we think by it’s very nature is linked to
diseases.
The process of genetic engineering—you take a gene from one species.
You make millions of copies, put it into a gene gun, shoot that gun into a
plate of millions of cells and clone the cell into a plant. So now every
single cell of that plant has that gene in it but also it’s caused massive
collateral damage, two to four percent of the DNA is different mostly
mutated. So you could have hundreds or thousands of mutations up and
down the DNA. Now that means that you can turn on genes, shut off
genes, or change the levels of gene expression. Now that can be
extremely dangerous for diseases and disorders, allergens, etc.,
because you can have toxins go up, allergens go up, Monsanto’s corn
has a gene that was switched on that produces an allergen. Monsanto’s
soy has as much as seven times the amount of a known soy allergen.
You can end up switching on an oncogene causing a carcinogen to
flourish or an increased level of a cancer causing compound. You can
also change all of the secondary metabolites or the natural produced by
the plant which we’re now discovering today can fight cancer. But we
know like just a handful of them. But even before we understand them
and catalog them we’re changing all that with genetic engineering
because when you change it at the DNA level you change all these
different expressions at that higher level.
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