A LONG-STANDING project of the US Government has been to perfect a genetically-modified variety of corn, the diet staple in Mexico and many other Latin American countries. The field-testing of the corn has been financed by the US Department of Agriculture along with a small California bio-tech company named Epicyte.
The Epicyte scientists went one step further and created the ultimate GM crop—‘contraceptive corn’—after researchers discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm. By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives.
“Spermicides in your food! What’s the worst that could happen..?”
Announcing his success at a 2001 press conference, the president of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, pointing to his GMO corn plants and announced, “We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies.”
HEIN EXPLAINED that they had taken antibodies from women with a rare condition known as immune infertility, isolated the genes that regulated the manufacture of those infertility antibodies, and, using genetic engineering techniques, had inserted the genes into ordinary corn seeds. In this manner they have produced a hidden contraceptive embedded in corn meant for human consumption.
“If the men eat the epicyte gene they produce antibodies to
their own sperm, rendering them irreversibly sterile.”
“Essentially, the antibodies are attracted to surface receptors on the sperm,” said Hein. “They latch on and make each sperm so heavy it cannot move forward. It just shakes about as if it was doing the lambada.” Hein claimed it was a possible solution to world “over-population.”
The moral and ethical issues of feeding it to humans in poor Third World countries without their knowledge or consent, he left out of his remarks.
Spermicides hidden in GMO corn provided to starving Third World populations through the generosity of the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Kofi Annan’s AGRA or vaccines that contain undisclosed sterilization agents are just two documented cases of using vaccines or GMO seeds to “reduce population.”
