Genetic engineering of food is rapidly becoming an extremely lucrative business that is likely to place man’s global food production in the hands of a few powerful people or governments. Whoever controls global food production will also control the world. In the name of progress and improvement of food production, the plan is to make every nation dependent on using the genetically engineered seeds that the world’s leading food industries have produced and for which they own the patent rights. 

The agricultural products manufacturer Monsanto is doing exactly that. In January 2005, Monsanto announced it will buy the commercial fruit and vegetable seed company Seminis. The deal is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Once the majority of the world is using gene-manipulated seeds to grow their crops, the man-made Frankenstein foods will take their toll on human life. The aim of the wealthiest and most influential group of people in the world is to drastically reduce the size of the world’s population. Why? Because a smaller population and the world’s natural resources would be a lot easier to control than 8 billion people. Genetically engineered foods play a decisive role in this plan, and unless the rest of humanity wakes up to its responsibility as caretakers of Mother Earth, it is most likely going to succeed.

Monsanto, which also produced the poisonous sweetener aspartame, is inserting genes from plants of unrelated species into the soybean plant to make it resistant to the potent herbicide Roundup (glyphosate). The unsuspecting farmers would only welcome such a miracle plant, unless of course they see the risk involved. The Roundup resistant soybean seed can now be heavily sprayed with Roundup to kill weeds, but without causing damage to the soybean. No more problems with weeds suffocating the soybean plants, but bigger problems for the consumer! The new soybean is heavily contaminated with the toxic herbicide, Roundup.

Today, these genetically modified soybean products, which comprise about 80 percent of the beans available, have been found in most baby formulas including Carnation, Similac, Enfamil, Isomil, and Neocare as well as Doritos, Fritos, vegetable oils, soybean oil, margarine, and much more. With soy now being an ingredient of thousands of common food products, the masses are systematically poisoned with harmful herbicides.

One of the genes used in the new soybean is derived from the petunia plant, which is a nightshade variety. This is bad news for people with nightshade-induced arthritis. Suddenly, by inadvertently eating something that contains a soy product, they may end up becoming crippled with arthritis. They may have no problem with soy as such, but soy isn’t just soy anymore; it is now also a nightshade, at least on the genetic level.

The method of gene manipulation may even lead to more serious consequences than ‘just’ a painful joint disorder. When Monsanto inserted the Brazil nut gene into soy, people allergic to Brazil nuts suffered anaphylaxis from ingesting a soy product. Anaphylaxis is a serious, life threatening reaction where one is not able to breathe. Monsanto was ordered to remove the gene to avoid further complications of that nature.

The process of genetic engineering of food often involves the use of a live virus, small enough to enter cell nuclei and, thereby, infect other genetic material. Cancer in chickens often results from infection with the Rous Sarcoma virus. The chicken cancer virus is used as a carrier to implant the growth hormone gene into farmed fish so they will grow faster. Once the virus has infected the fish, it will likely end up on your dinner plate and also infect you. With the multitudes of genetically modified foods out there, our body will become a host for numerous viruses that normally would never be found in us.

Likewise, Leukemia virus in chicken has been used as a carrier to insert human genes into developing poultry. It gets better, or shall I say, worse. A retrovirus was used to insert human fetal cells in pigs in order to grow aortas for transplantation into humans. When the pig’s aorta was transplanted into the human body, it led to infections in humans with the pig’s retrovirus.

When these viruses are used as part of genetic engineering, they combine with one another to create new plant and animal diseases. By eating these new foods, foreign genetic material from these viruses can be absorbed through our intestines and become incorporated into our cells. Thanks to genetic research and food production, we are now on the verge of creating new diseases against which we have no natural or unnatural way of defending ourselves.

As more and more foods are grown that include foreign genes to make them resistant to certain pests, pesticides, herbicides or antibiotics, the more of these gene transporters or vectors will end up lodging in our intestinal tract, infecting the bacteria in our gut. The infected gut microbes will not only become antibiotic-resistant, but resistant to any kind of treatment.

Since the U.S. government doesn’t require any testing or proof of the safety of genetically engineered foods, the extremely well-paid genetic scientists basically have free and unrestricted reign over designing their sinister programs of gene engineering. As for now, new genes have already been planted in potatoes, corn, sugar beets, tomatoes, and cotton (used to make junk food oil found on roasted nuts given out on airplanes) to make the plants resistant to pesticides. Canola oil is also a genetically engineered product, poisonous for the body.

In 1994, the genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH, designed to increase milk production in cows, was approved for use in the U.S. About a third of U.S. farmers now use it to speed up milk production. The viruses used to make the growth hormone, of course, are in the milk. The prestigious medical journal, Lancet, reported in 1998 that breast cancer is seven times higher in women with tiny increases in the growth hormone, Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF-1), which comes from cows injected with rBGH. Two years before this report, the International Journal of Health Sciences stated that IGF-1 concentrations are ten times higher in rBGH milk and can be absorbed through our intestines, and increase our risk of cancer among other diseases.

With increasing usage of genetically engineered plants, we will be faced with the following global scenario:

·         Loss of thousands of species of plants

·         All small farmers have to give up their farming businesses

·         Creation of Frankenstein foods that our bodies won’t know how to handle

·         Super weeds resistant to all herbicides

·         Plants resistant to pesticides

·         New viruses and diseases for which there won’t be a cure

Already, 60 percent of processed foods now contain at least one genetically modified food item. Millions of people now consume chips with the firefly gene, potato chips with a chicken gene, or salsa with tomato containing a flounder gene. Cream of broccoli soup can have a bacteria gene in it, and salad dressing is most likely made with canola oil, vegetable oil or soybean oil (all genetically engineered). The tobacco gene is now used in lettuce and cucumbers and the petunia gene is used in soybeans and carrots. If you have celiac disease, you may need to avoid walnuts because they can have the barley gene in them. Even strawberries are not harmless anymore; they can now have ‘undisclosed genes’ in them, so you will never know what else you are getting when you treat yourself to this delicious fruit. Cheese contains genetically engineered bacterial rennet. Many brands of apple juice contain the silkworm gene, and grapes can contain a virus gene. Trout, salmon, catfish, bass and even shrimp, are also genetically ‘enriched’.

   Multinational corporations are rapidly changing our food and nobody seems to be able to stop them. They’re not accountable to anyone since they do not have to label their foods, and the government (at least in the U.S.) does not require them to do any safety testing. 

---------------------------

[This is an excerpt from my book TIMELESS SECRETS OF HEALTH AND REJUVENATION, available on http://www.ener-chi.com/book.htm