GMO Sell-out? Bill Nye "Science Guy" EXPOSED
“..butterflies aren’t the only creatures at risk. As I’ve written before, in people, exposure to glyphosate, the main chemical ingredient in Roundup, doubles the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer.” (see below)
[See also link to the "Just Label It!" web page at the bottom of this article, for labeling GMOs]
What Bill Nye Got Right About GMOs
Twitter was buzzing this week that Bill Nye the Science Guy – every elementary school’s favorite scientist – has changed his mind about GMOs.
Perhaps not surprisingly, this change of heart happened after the Science Guy made a visit to agribusiness giant Monsanto. Afterward, he said in a widely shared video that he plans to revise a chapter of his year-old book, “Undeniable:”
It’s about genetically modified food. I went to Monsanto and I spent a lot of time with the scientists there and I have revised my outlook and I’m very excited about telling the world.
Here’s what he wrote in “Undeniable” about the effects of GMOs – specifically about corn that has been genetically modified to resist Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide:
Monarch butterflies make an extraordinary four-thousand-kilometer trip from Canada to Mexico every year. When they emerge as caterpillars they feed on milkweed leaves. The herbicide Roundup, used by corn farmers to improve productivity by killing weeds, also kills milkweed plants. Genetically modified corn that resists Roundup has also been developed, which enables corn farmers to use more of the herbicide instead of tilling their fields. That practice seems to be inadvertently eliminating large areas of potential Monarch butterfly breeding habitats.
Bill Nye had that right. Several peer-reviewed studies have documented the link between increased cultivation of genetically engineered corn and declines in monarch populations. Professor Karen Oberhauser, a leading ecologist at the University of Minnesota, recently made the alarming discovery that monarch populations in Mexico hit an all-time low in 2014.
“Tragically, much of their breeding habitat in this region has been lost to changing agricultural practices, primarily the exploding adoption of genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant crops in the late 20th and early 21st centuries,” Oberhauser said at a January press conference in Mexico.
The decline in the monarch population is so dire that several environmental organizations are pushing to put monarchs on the federal Endangered Species list.
But butterflies aren’t the only creatures at risk.
As I’ve written before, in people, exposure to glyphosate, the main chemical ingredient in Roundup, doubles the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer.
Herbicide-tolerant corn and soybeans, which account for 80 percent of the farm acreage devoted to growing GMOs, have led to a 20 percent increase in the use of glyphosate. This, in turn, has resulted in the appearance of “superweeds” that are resistant to the Monsanto product.
In an effort to manage the glyphosate-resistant “superweeds,” industry is now genetically engineering new crops to withstand herbicides that are even more toxic, posing new environmental and human health threats to farms and their surroundings.
Bill Nye was right when he pointed out the environmental damage that genetically modified corn and soy have done to the landscape.
Monsanto may have wooed him into changing his mind, but the reality that genetically modified corn and soy are bad for the environment and bad for human health is undeniable.
Visit EWG’s GMO webpage or Just Label It to read more about GMO food labeling.
Nothing has changed just because Science Guy decided after a visit with the Wizard of Monsanto that GMOs are now dandy. 1 in 50 children still has autism. Half of all adults still has a chronic illness. What will it take for people to connect the dots? When more than half our children are sick? Well, we’re getting there.
The reason Monsanto developed their utility proprietary line of GMO seeds to coexist with the synthetic herbicide glyphosate is for money…not for consumer health, not to improve soil biology health, and not for environmental health. Government health testing oversight of these GMOs and their food products which are in 90% of processed foods in the US doesn’t exist because these transgenic GMOs with a bacterial herbicide (BT) are ruled by our government as a herbicide, so they are under the jurisdiction of the EPA not the FDA. The USDA ARS reports glyphosate harms soil biology which make you wonder what the glyphosate residues consumers absorb into their bodies biology is doing….something I hope Bill Nye remembers
Visit EWG’s GMO webpage or Just Label It to read more about GMO food labeling.
Monsanto also told us DDT was safe, and it’s herbicide, later known as Agent Orange was safe. Medical professionals denied approval to Aspartame/Nutrasweet for 10 years and denied approval until Reagan came to office, and Donald Rumsfeld offered to CEO GW Searle and get FDA approval, which he did and Monsanto made billions for 20 years before selling that division. They only recently became a seed company, and got it’s own former lead counsel and VP, Michael Taylor to become an Exec for the FDA and wrote the law saying no testing was necessary since it was GRAS. Numerous peer reviewed studies have shown a direct link to Roundup/glyphosate disrupting the endocrine and microbiome in humans as well as devastating effects to farm animals. Along with [Monsanto's] growth hormone for cows, RBGH/RBST which was even recently banned by of all companies McDonalds in the next 2 years.
Visit EWG’s GMO webpage or Just Label It to read more about GMO food labeling.
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