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this picture is from Séralini, Gilles-Eric study

Imagine yourself opening your fridge pulling out a piece of cardboard or plastic and eating it.  delicious! May seem extreme to compare GM Foods to eating cardboard and plastic but maybe it’s not such a farfetched comparison. As a Nutritional value component may be filling but useless causes damage to our bodies system our bodies don't understand how to process it. GM food was given the okay to use a chemical called agent orange I am sure you have all heard of round up it contains agent orange as well but for GM food of course the makeup cocktail is different still they do not discount it may cause cancer. The half-life breakdown is different for each toxin. I am not sure if you guys are aware of a company called Asplundh but they use toxic chemicals for plant control they have such a long half-life breakdown it can end up in our water supply. combine those chemicals with what we are putting in our bodies via GM foods and with an up to ten half-life and we may be exterminating our own planet from inside out.

The effect GMO's have on Bees. In a study done Global Research posted an article saying that The genetic modification of the plant leads to the concurrent genetic modification of the flower pollen. When the flower pollen becomes genetically modified or sterile, the bees will potentially go malnourished and die of illness due to the lack of nutrients and the interruption of the digestive capacity of what they feed on through the summer and over the winter hibernation process. 
But its not just bees 
Gilles-Eric Séralini did a two year study on the effects of GMO's on rats. "Seralini" study shown that Biochemical analyses confirmed very significant chronic kidney deficiencies, for all treatments and both sexes; 76% of the altered parameters were kidney-related. In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5 to 5.5 times higher.Marked and severe nephropathies were also generally 1.3 to 2.3 times greater. In females, all treatment groups showed a two- to threefold increase in mortality, and deaths were earlier. This difference was also evident in three male groups fed with GM maize. All results were hormone- and sex-dependent, and the pathological profiles were comparable. Females developed large mammary tumors more frequently and before controls; the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by consumption of GM maize and Roundup treatments. Males presented up to four times more large palpable tumors starting 600 days earlier than in the control group, in which only one tumor was noted. These results may be explained by not only the non-linear endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup but also by the overexpression of the EPSPS transgene or other mutational effects in the GM maize and their metabolic consequences.

Jeffrey Smith documentary "Genetic Roulette" examined the blood of 30 pregnant women and 39 non-pregnant. looked for glyphosate; gluphosinate, an active ingredient in various broad-spectrum herbicides; Cry1Ab, the Bt toxin of gluphosinate; and several metabolites of both glyphosate and gluphosinate. Upon observation, they noticed that the non-pregnant women all had high levels of both glyphosate and gluphosinate in their blood, while none of the pregnant women had either of the two chemicals in their blood, illustrating that some type of metabolic change takes place when women become pregnant. As far as the other chemicals were concerned; however, 100 percent of the pregnant women and their unborn babies tested positive for 3-methylphosphinico propionic acid (3-MMPA), a metabolite of gluphosinate, while 93 percent of maternal blood and 80 percent of fetal cord blood tested positive for the Bt toxin Cry1Ab.This is highly concerning, as it shows not only that these two untested chemicals are effectively bypassing the digestive systems of pregnant women, but that they are also persisting in their bloodstreams for an untold amount of time, where they proceed to infect the bloodstreams of unborn children. The long-term health effects of such exposure are largely unknown, as few formative safety studies have ever been conducted on either Bt toxin or the pesticide and herbicide chemicals used on GMO crops.



38 countries have banned GMO's for health and cross pollination concerns why does the U.S still allow GMO's? The idea of GMO's is great being able to feed the starving people and  resistance to rot and disease.




Amos, Brit. “Death of the Bees. Genetically Modified Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America.” Death of the Bees. Genetically Modified Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America, Globalresearch.org, 9 Aug. 2011, www.globalresearch.ca/death-of-the-bees-genetically-modified-crops-and-the-decline-of-bee-colonies-in-north-america/25950. Accessed 10 Apr. 2017.
Séralini, Gilles-Eric, et al. “Republished Study: Long-Term Toxicity of a Roundup Herbicide and a Roundup-Tolerantgenetically Modified Maize.” Environmental Sciences Europe, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 24 June 2014, enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-014-0014-5. Accessed 13 Apr. 2017.
Wright, Carolanne. “‘Genetic Roulette’ Documentary Shatters the Myth of GMO Safety -- for a Few Days Only, Watch It for Free.” NaturalNews, Naturalnews, 21 Sept. 2012, www.naturalnews.com/037272_Genetic_Roulette_movie_GMO.html. Accessed 10 Apr. 2017.



    

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  1. I thought your paragraph on bees was very interesting. I knew the chemicals used were not helping the bees out, but I did not realize that GMO may make it worse. Do you lean more toward blaming the negative effects of chemicals or more the plant itself? I believe that GMO has the potential to improve the world if we would use them more efficiently. Unfortunately, these seeds being in the hand of gigantic corporations does not give me much hope that we can use this tool wisely. The rat research is interesting and deserves to be taken seriously, although the conditions for those rats are so stressful nothing would surprise me. Even though I support labeling and persuing more detailed data, I just don't see how me may go back from here. With our population getting so far out of hand, we may have no other choice but to accept the GMO.

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