MSM Downplaying Real GMO Danger

New book says Illuminati seek to poison us.

The renewed vogue of “organic” foods may be due to
public unease about GMO foods. According to Steven Druker,
the apprehension is justified.  Scientific findings confirm
that GMO foods are poisonous. But scientists who
reveal this are being fired, and the mass media is
suppressing the truth.

Review by DC Dave Martin
The Frightening GMO Food Fraud
(abridged by henrymakow.com)

I would encourage everyone to read Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public just on the basis of power of the logic and the clarity of the writing… Author Steven M. Druker, a public interest lawyer, builds his case… systematically until he has constructed an edifice of persuasion as solid as an Egyptian pyramid.

The nub of his argument is that genetically engineered (GE) food products are on the market illegally because American law requires that such new products be extensively tested before they can be sold. To do the required testing over the extended time period required, however, would make the whole GE venture uneconomic, so the law has been skirted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The skirting has been done by treating GE foods (now “genetically modified organisms” or GMOs, because it sounded better than “engineered”) in the same way as we treat foods that have stood the test of time and are simply “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS).

Not only are GMOs NOT GRAS, but…Druker learned that FDA administrators overruled their own scientific experts in declaring them GRAS. That is to say, GMOs have been treated as though they were no different from new plant varieties created by traditional methods when it is not true and the decision-makers at the FDA have known all along that it is not true. They are not recognized as safe even within the FDA, itself.

The big problem, according to Druker, is that in its early development stage in the 1980s, bioengineering was seen by the Reagan administration as the next big technological wave … that would help keep the country in the world economic forefront.

With this business booster mindset, political leaders, in league with companies like Monsanto, have allowed politics and greed to trump science….Furthermore, blinkered members of the science community, who have apparently put their wetted fingers to the wind and have gone along enthusiastically with what can only be characterized as massive scientific fraud….

One can hear a good summary of Druker’s book in the excellent interview with the author by George Noory on the latter’s Coast to Coast AM program.

DISTURBING FINDINGS

Male rats fed a variety of Bt maize developed by Monsanto for the Egyptian market differed from those fed the non-GE control maize in organ and body weights and in blood chemistry, despite the fact the control plants were the parental variety and were grown next to their engineered relatives. The differences were detected after 45 days and after 91 days, several toxic effects were measured, including abnormalities in liver cells, excessive growth of intestinal membranes, congested blood vessels in the kidneys, and damage to cells that are essential to sperm production.

Feeding another type of Bt maize to both young and old mice was associated with a marked disturbance of the immune system and of biochemical activity.

When mice were fed for five consecutive generations on GE triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye) their lymph nodes enlarged and the number of some important immune system cells significantly decreased.

Rabbits that consumed GE soybeans had adverse changes in enzyme function in their hearts and kidneys.

Mice that ate GE soybeans for two years displayed indications of acute liver aging in comparison to those fed on non-GE soy. *

More information on this subject can be found here.

Druker has many examples of the nasty attacks that been made upon scientists who have come up with such disturbing findings. One such example can be found online in the case of world-renowned expert on food safety, Dr. Arpad Pusztai. In Britain, where Dr. Pusztai lives and works, the authorities are as much under the thrall of the biotech promoters as they are in the U.S. The British version of GRAS is the principle of substantial equivalence, which is invoked for GMO foods there and gives them a pass from long-term testing before they are allowed on the market. Dr. Pusztai was suspended from his position at the prestigious Rowett Institute for objecting to that policy on national television because of what he had found with his own tests.

Druker now regards the call for GMO labeling as an unacceptable half-measure for dealing with the problem. Though he agrees that the various state campaigns for labeling have performed an important educational function, “…labeling is technically appropriate,” he writes, “for foods that are legitimately on the market, and if a group of foods are instead being marketed illegally, the proper remedy is not to label them but to remove them. In fact, placing the emphasis on labeling implies that the foods are on the market legally and obscures the reality that they’re being sold in violation of the law.”

THE CENTRAL ROLE OF THE MASS MEDIA IN PROMOTING GMO’S Continue

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