ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Jeffrey Smith, the leading spokesperson concerning the dangers of genetically engineered food and microbes, is interviewed by Claude Mayers.
GMO = Genetically Modified Organism
Your 'foods' can be killing you! Synthetic foods produced in labs using the latest imprecise technology of gene-editing is discussed -- which Mr. Smith calls “GMO 2.0.” Resulting mutant microbes and toxic foods can threaten our health and that of the planet. Cancer-causing chemical poison glyphosate (main ingredient in “Roundup”), sprayed a few days pre-harvest on currently non-GMO wheat, oats, garbanzo beans, etc., without any labelling/indication for the consumer, in addition to being sprayed on GMO “Roundup Ready” crops like corn, canola, soy, cottonseed (many of you eat cottonseed as an oil that is part of your baked products; check your ingredients), sugar beets (~55% of USA sugar comes from GMO sugar beets), & zucchini, is revealed. The benefits of organic food to avoid these dangers, and heal those adversely afflicted by their GMO-laden diet, are offered. The cheap availability of gene-editing kits like CRISPR costing as little as $169 for home use, or in high school science classes -- then the resulting microbes randomly produced, being flushed down the drain to disperse into our water, soil, and air -- is also revealed.
Mr. Smith lists diseases of the gut, nervous system, immune system as possibly being caused by a diet contaminated with GMOs and herbicides/pesticides, like glyphosate. This includes intestinal disorders, cancers, autism, brain fog, hypertension. His movie “Secret Ingredients” follows the DiChiare family, where marathon runner mother Kathleen becomes unable to walk, three children develop autism, but all are improved to near normal levels with a strict organic diet, avoiding toxic chemicals like glyphosate whenever possible.
Also discussed is Europe's media reporting the scandal around the firing of chief researcher Arpad Pusztai of Scotland’s Rowett Institute, resulting in Europe essentially keeping grocery shelves free of GMOs, in contrast to the USA. In Europe, if any food has more than 1% GMO ingredients, then the food must be labelled GMO. In essence, the USA has no labelling requirements for GMOs. Americans are generally ignorant about the dangers of GMOs, in comparison to our more scientifically informed European brethren.
Microbes and our microbiome being adversely affected by the newest processes of gene-editing are discussed. Mr. Smith quotes Nature magazine stating such gene-editing can cause “chromosomal mayhem.” Kiran Krishnan, microbiologist, is quoted as saying “80 percent of human diseases have their source in imbalance in our microbiome.” The microbiome, the unique personal population of cells and microbes that are part of each of us, that total 10 times more cells than the number of cells of our body, is related to illness and health. “We didn’t need a pandemic to tell us microbes can travel, mutate, swap genes with other microbes.” Bacteria in close proximity exchange genes; have what Mr. Smith calls “bacterial sex.” Imagine what could happen if some pathologic microbes are produced, and infiltrate nature’s sacred realm, which could rapidly happen worldwide, as what happened with COVID-19.
FYI: approximately 95 percent of all corn, canola, soybeans, and cottonseed, in the USA and Canada are GMO. Approximately 55 percent of sugar comes from GMO sugar beets. None of these have to be labelled, as they would have to be if offered in Europe. Wheat, oats, citrus, most other foods and crops other than the above have not become GMO . . . yet. The answer to avoid these basic but GMO versions of these foods: is to eat them in organic form. Raise your own crops in your own healthy garden or on your precious plot of land.
