OT- Fwd: Dr Mannion's Internet Article - GMO - Decreased Fertility, Allergies & More

[Guest guest]

If after reading this article, you still continue to buy conventional

processed foods because 'organic is too expensive', you need to have a

good strong look at your budget and figure out what really matters in

your lives and the lives of your children. Organic is not too

expensive - in fact, you can't afford NOT to eat organic food as

exclusively as you can. In addition, we all need to be putting

pressure on our respective governments to require labelling of any

foods that contain GMO ingredients and while we are at it - foods and

other products that use nanotechnology. Both of these 'sciences' have

the ability to destroy living species including man in a very short

time period. The English had the right idea when they went into the

fields that were growing GM produce and burnt them. GMOs were banned

by major supermarket chains in the UK within a very short time of

those acts. Where has direct action gone? Why are we so accepting and

apathetic when it comes to our own lives and the lives of our children?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: drm1983@...

> Date: 19 December 2008 9:51:48 PM

> DRM1983@...

> Subject: Dr Mannion's Internet Article - GMO - Decreased Fertility,

> Allergies & More

>

> Hi,

>

> If you had attended the seminar that we had scheduled on Genetically

> Modified Foods (GMO) you would have heard about this information

> contained in this article. Don't be frightened by the big words,

> you'll get the gist of what he is saying.

>

> DRM

>

> ARTICLE 12/20/08

> Latest GMO Research: Decreased Fertility, Immunological Alterations

> and Allergies

>

> by Dr. Damato, Ph.D.

>

> (NaturalNews) Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are created

> through an inexact science of shooting genes spliced from bacteria,

> viruses, insects, animals or humans with a .22 caliber pistol into

> the DNA of plants or animals laced with a metal such as tungsten.

> This unsafe science ostensibly supplants millions of years of

> evolution with little or no scientific justification. In fact,

> recent research on GMO crops have reported yields to be between 4 to

> 20 percent less than conventional crops [1-6].

>

> In the 1970's when genetic engineered was pioneered, scientists

> believed the genome was static and genes could be altered in a

> uniform manner with the organism only expressing the one intended

> modification. As research progressed in the 1980's, scientists

> scrapped the idea of the static genome and moved towards a dynamic

> genomic belief model. This came about from the realization that by

> inserting a new gene into a plant, a cascade of unintended

> consequences arose. Scientists found that there was no possible way

> to introduce a new gene into an organism and only get one intended

> result. The genes quickly changed based on a myriad of unknown

> circumstances that sometimes could not be repeated in the lab even

> though the exact same procedures were used. The levels of

> instability from these newly created organisms were overwhelming,

> but many scientists were silenced.

>

> Safety has always been the number one priority of consumers when it

> comes to GMOs; antithetically, the seed companies' only priority has

> been to increase profits at any expense. Therefore, it is no

> surprise that objective and unbiased researchers have recently added

> to the growing knowledge of the realities of the increased

> instability and unintended consequences regarding the long-term

> safety of GMOs. These researchers recently found clear lin ks among

> the consumption of GM-corn and decreased fertility, immunological

> alterations in the gut and the exacerbation and creation of allergies.

>

> Fertility in GM-Fed Mice

> Scientists in Austria recently conducted the first ever long-term

> multi-generational feeding study of Monsanto's genetically modified

> (GM) corn (NK 603 x MON 810) in mice [7]. The study consisted of two

> groups: an experimental group, which was fed a 33% GM corn (maize)

> feed, and a control group, which was fed an equivalent non-GM corn

> feed. The mice were allowed to live a natural life and were

> monitored for four generations. Scientists recorded organ weight,

> gene expression, body mass, metabolism, life span and number of

> offspring of both groups of mice. The scientists found that mice fe

> d GM corn had significantly less pups per litter than the control

> group on the third and fourth generation. Furthermore, pups whose

> parents were fed GM-feed weighed less at birth and at weaning and

> experienced significantly higher mortality rates than those fed non-

> GM corn. Lead author of the study Professor Zentek reported that

> there was a direct link between the decrease in fertility and the GM

> diet and mice fed non-GM corn reproduced more efficiently.

>

> Gene Expression in GM-Fed Mice

> Using a microarray analysis, the scientists reported that 1016 genes

> had been differentially expressed in the mice fed GM corn with most

> being up-regulated. Essentially, the GM-fed mice had hundreds of

> their proteins, which are encoded by genes, expressed in an

> increased or decreased quantity, which as a corollary altered

> certain biological processes in their bodies. For example, sensory

> perception, ion transport and the ability to breakdown proteins

> (proteolysis) were down-regulated or under-expressed, while the

> ability of the mice to regulate T-cells (a primary immunological

> response especially in fighting cancer), circadian rhythm regulation

> and the FAS signalling pathway (which is a major pathway for cell

> apoptosis and is important in the elimination of cancers) were over-

> expressed. This study elucidates the fact that biologic damage from

> GMOs may not manifest until the third generation and details strong

> evidence for the mandatory label ing, and even more so for the mass

> extinction, of these highly dangerous and unnecessary foods.

>

> Immunological Reactions in GM Fed Mice

> Italian researchers at the National Institute of Nutrition in Rome,

> Italy, recently published a study examining the effects of a 50

> percent GM-corn (maize) diet on the intestinal immune response of

> mice [8]. The GM-corn was known as Monsanto's transgenic MON810 and

> was created using an inserted foreign DNA sequence from the

> bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) designed to protect against a

> fungus known as the Fusarium species. The study was conducted over

> 30 and 90-day periods respectively, with mice from two groups,

> weaning age (mean of 21 days) and old age (mean of 15 months). The

> study evaluated the peripheral and intestinal immune response to

> long-term GM-corn and non-GM corn consumption of each group across

> the two periods. The young and old mice were used because of the

> lack of res earch on these subsets as well as their potential

> susceptibility to immunological changes, more so than non-aged adult

> animals.

>

> The results of the long-term study revealed significant changes in

> the immunophenotype of the gut, spleen, circulating lymphocytes and

> the level of serum cytokines of the mice fed GM-corn.

> Immunophenotyping essentially determines the expression of proteins

> by the cells. Any differences in the expression of proteins between

> the control and the experimental groups would be attributable to the

> GM diet. Specifically, the researchers found an increased presence

> of several cytokines in the GM fed mice, which are specifically

> involved in inflammatory and allergic responses by the body. The

> researchers also found an increase in the protein expression of

> lymphocytes (TCRγδ+ population). Within this population, the γδT

> cells reside in the gut and are associated with regulatory elements

> of the immune response, specific to infectious agents [9-11].

> Elevated amounts γδT cells have been found in asthmatics, children

> suffering from food allergies, gastrointestinal symptoms and

> juvenile arthritis [12]. The GM-fed mice also exhibited significant

> alterations in the number of T and B cells, indicating a

> significantly abnormal immune response to the genetically altered

> feed. Furthermore, other researchers have found a newly expressed

> protein from the consumption of GM corn (50 kDa γ-zein), which is a

> widely known allergenic protein [13]. In conclusion, from the newly

> presented research it is apparent that ingesting genetically

> engineered BT corn not only invokes an anaphylaxis (allergenic)

> response within the body, it also deregulates several proteins,

> inhibits fertility and alters the overall immunological response by

> the body. Clearly, Monsanto whose sole goal is to control the world

> through food, has a lot of explaining to do.

>

> References

>

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> of the Roundup Ready soybean yield drag from university-based

> varietal trials in 1998. Ag BioTech InfoNet Technical Paper Number

> 1, www.biotech-info.net/RR_yield_drag_98.pdf

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> mediated allergy to corn: a 50 kDa protein, belonging to the reduced

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>

> COMMENTS:

>

> I was at first hesitant about sending this out because if you don't

> have a working knowledge of what Genetic Modification is it may

> sound overwhelming at first. But if you just read it through you

> will get the point.

>

> In synopsis he is saying that Genetic Modification is not an exact

> science and as more information comes out it shows that it is

> actually a game of Russian Roulette. There have been some biased

> short term studies and those that weren't biased have been

> suppressed. The recent r esearch by independent (the key word)

> researchers show many hazards especially over the long term and

> carried across the generations. This being most likely because it is

> actually changing our own genetic code.

>

> Genetic modification is a crime against humanity and should be taken

> seriously by every one of us. We should question what we are

> consuming and demand labeling of anything genetically modified.

>

> And remember genetic modification is going beyond the foods we eat.

> I have written in the past that the Hepatitis B vaccine is made up

> of genetically modified material.

>

> Always being wary of anything genetically modified,

>

> DRM

>

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