The threat of genetically modified organisms (Part 2 of 2): Corporations Risk Irreversible Damage to Health (Ours).

FIFTH: Intoxication by poisons synthesized from transgenic plants.

Chronic poisoning of foods caused by the toxic substances in insecticides which are used on plants to make them resistant to parasites as Bacillus touringiensis, with the consequent increase in cancer, miscarriages, genetic mutations in descendants, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, degenerative diseases and diseases caused by toxic substances, etc.

SIXTH: The danger of world-wide famine due to Terminator technology.

Here we are referring to the transfer through cross pollination between natural indigenous species--wheat, rice, corn, potatoes and legumes--of the inability to reproduce normally due to terminator technology. This loss is irreversible also in natural plants used for human nutrition, since they will be contaminated by transgenic genes from agricultural areas cultivated with GMO Terminator seeds. Hence the potential menace of future uncontrollable global famine due to insufficient supplies of natural varieties--that is non Terminator--of wheat, rice, maize, and legumes.

SEVENTH: The irreversible disappearance of natural plants.

The gradual and irreversible disappearance of biological diversity, that is of normal, natural flora. Transgenic cultivation will pose a serious threat to those areas which are rich in biodiversity (natural genomes); the transgenic flow which will go from modified plants to natural plants will be inevitable when the numerical ratio between areas cultivated with artificial plants exceeds the areas of natural plants, thus causing the irreversible loss of a great part of the natural genetic patrimony of all the plants existing in the world: at present there are about 442,000 species already classified out of an estimated total of 600,000-800,000 species.

To summarize:

Numerous plants have already disappeared during the last few years because farmers have abandoned natural plants in favor of artificial, that is, genetically modified plants, for their genomic uniformity and high production (poor in vitamins). They are intrinsically sick (because they are incapable of surviving without pesticides), they are made sterile for economic reasons, and finally they are genetically manipulated to make them resistant to insects and other animals because they themselves are capable of producing poisons, that is, toxic substances that are then eaten by farmyard animals and so passed on to man.

Even in the forests genetic variety is threatened today by the loss of habitat, not only caused by incorrect deforestation practices, but also by the contamination of the genetic patrimony (which has adapted to local situations) by hybrids created by large seed companies producing GMOs.

An extensive bibliography is available on request from the Gerson Institute, though it was far too lengthy to publish in the Newsletter at this time.

FIFTH: Intoxication by poisons synthesized from transgenic plants.

Chronic poisoning of foods caused by the toxic substances in insecticides which are used on plants to make them resistant to parasites as Bacillus touringiensis, with the consequent increase in cancer, miscarriages, genetic mutations in descendants, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, degenerative diseases and diseases caused by toxic substances, etc.

SIXTH: The danger of world-wide famine due to Terminator technology.

Here we are referring to the transfer through cross pollination between natural indigenous species--wheat, rice, corn, potatoes and legumes - of the inability to reproduce normally due to terminator technology. This loss is irreversible also in natural plants used for human nutrition, since they will be contaminated by transgenic genes from agricultural areas cultivated with GMO Terminator seeds. Hence the potential menace of future uncontrollable global famine due to insufficient supplies of natural varieties--that is non Terminator--of wheat, rice, maize, and legumes.

SEVENTH: The irreversible disappearance of natural plants.

The gradual and irreversible disappearance of biological diversity, that is of normal, natural flora. Transgenic cultivation will pose a serious threat to those areas which are rich in biodiversity (natural genomes); the transgenic flow which will go from modified plants to natural plants will be inevitable when the numerical ratio between areas cultivated with artificial plants exceeds the areas of natural plants, thus causing the irreversible loss of a great part of the natural genetic patrimony of all the plants existing in the world: at present there are about 442,000 species already classified out of an estimated total of 600,000-800,000 species.

To summarize:

Numerous plants have already disappeared during the last few years because farmers have abandoned natural plants in favor of artificial, that is, genetically modified plants, for their genomic uniformity and high production (poor in vitamins). They are intrinsically sick (because they are incapable of surviving without pesticides), they are made sterile for economic reasons, and finally they are genetically manipulated to make them resistant to insects and other animals because they themselves are capable of producing poisons, that is, toxic substances that are then eaten by farmyard animals and so passed on to man.

Even in the forests genetic variety is threatened today by the loss of habitat, not only caused by incorrect deforestation practices, but also by the contamination of the genetic patrimony (which has adapted to local situations) by hybrids created by large seed companies producing GMOs.

An extensive bibliography is available on request from the Gerson Institute, though it was far too lengthy to publish in the Newsletter at this time.

The first part of this article appeared in The Gerson Healing Newsletter, Vol. 21, No. 3, May/June 2006.