Tests on GMO corn do show it’s different – and not in a nice way
A new study has just blown the lid off of GMO crops.
It turns out that despite what we’ve been told year after year by the FDA and its cohorts in the biotech industry, these genetically-altered foods are not the same as ones that haven’t been tampered with.
It’s not even close.
In fact, when you hear what this new research discovered about a type of GMO corn, you may just go to your kitchen and trash everything that contains even the tiniest tidbit of it.
Because calling them “Frankenfoods” appears to have much more of a meaning than you ever would have suspected.
The smell of death
If you think terms such as “cadaverine” and “putrescine” have a rather unpleasant ring to them, you’re exactly right.
Both are names attached to foul-smelling compounds associated with decay. Cadaverine is produced by rotting proteins and animal tissue — which is why it has the word “cadaver” in it.
And both of those disgusting (and, at a certain level, toxic) substances have been found in a type of GMO corn known as NK603. Like other GMO crops, the corn is designed to survive being sprayed with glyphosate, the widely used weed killer contained in Monsanto’s Roundup.
What Dr. Michael Antoniou at King’s College London discovered, and published in the scientific journal Nature, proves that the FDA’s guarantee — that GMO crops are the “substantial equivalent” of conventional ones — is the lie of the century.
Dr. Antoniou’s said that his research “clearly shows” how the “GM transformation process” produces profound differences in the NK603 corn his team studied.
And it goes way beyond just being disgusting.
The substantial increases in putrescine and (especially) cadaverine is very concerning, he said, since both are potentially toxic and can enhance the effects of histamine, which may cause a rise in allergic reactions. Those compounds have also been implicated in the formation of cancer-causing nitrosamines.
In addition, the researchers discovered many other changes in the corn — more evidence which makes that “substantial equivalent” claim even more meaningless.
And that’s only one GMO crop in a whole field of them.
Practically all U.S.-grown nonorganic soy, canola, sugar beets, and cotton (where cottonseed oil comes from — something that’s used in many processed foods) are genetically modified.
Along with this new shocking and revolting finding, these Frankenfoods are also saturated with glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup), which has now been classified as a “probable human carcinogen” by the World Health Organization’s expert cancer panel.
I’m sure that the FDA isn’t about to reverse its policy based on this alarming study. Heck, I’m not even sure they intend to read it!
So what this research gives us is another reason why you need to eliminate as much GMO food from your diet as you possibly can.
The top three ways to do that include:
#1: Only use corn, soy and canola that’s organic or certified to be GMO-free.
#2: Steer clear of beet sugar, something that’s almost always GMO. To do that look for “cane” or organic sugar on ingredient lists.
#3: Look for the “Non-GMO Project Verified” label that’s now on thousands of food products.
Also, watch out for the most commonly used GMO ingredient of all, high fructose corn syrup.
“Why you should really think twice about eating GMO corn” Sustainable Pulse, December 28, 2016, Alternet, alternet.org
