GMO – Genetically Modified Organisms – Not a “NEW” Concern – But None The Less Troubling
Most of you know that genetically modified organisms have been around for a while. Did you know the science of directly altering the genetics of food was utilized to allow fruits/vegetables to withstand the direct use of pesticides and herbicides without dying? STOP!
So, with all that you know about how unhealthy pesticides and herbicides are to your health (your gut health and microbiome), are you comfortable eating foods that have been designed to not rot when sprayed with these same chemicals?
Did you know these chemicals penetrate deep through the skin of foods that you are consuming? YUCK!
We say this all the time: “herbicides/pesticides create a gut leak” which leads to inflammation and food sensitivities due to the seepage of bacteria/toxins/viruses and undigested proteins entering the blood stream.
Then, BOOM – overtime an auto-immune condition develops (often years later) that you didn’t contribute to the pesticides/herbicides consumed 20-30-40+ years prior. BTW, I could go down this rabbit hole for days.
As if this is not a big enough issue – the method to create GMO’s are getting more and more sophisticated. Scientists are finding different ways to alter the food genome for specific uses.
This is touted as an “amazing accomplishment”, which on the surface it may be. But the issue at hand is always the end effect on your health. What will the genomes of these new foods do over time, inside of you??
The Different Ways GMO’s are Used Against You
Have you heard of the newest GMO monstrosity? It is none other than the most sacred and organic food source produced and used by humans; breast milk. Just last year, a Durham based scientific group called BioMilq received $21-million in funding from the Bill Gates foundation.
Their mission: to genetically create human breast milk to combat the inequities of conventional formula and the shortage of breast milk.
Funny how this was last year, then last month there is a nation-wide formula shortage!! Perfect timing to come to the rescue with this new-found method of producing ‘GMO breast milk’ available to combat the shortage.
How would they do this, you might ask? The “plan” is to genetically alter female cows so that they will continually produce the altered modified human milk. So, there are two TERRIBLE things happening here.
First, the female cows are genetically altered (which takes decades) to make a milk different than their own and to produce it indefinitely (FYI: The average female cow produces milk for 10 months, the duration of time a baby calf nurses).
In theory, continuous milking would go way past this timeframe, possibly until the milk rate drops low enough that the dollar value of the cow isn’t worth it being used anymore.
Secondly, altering the genome of the cows to produce human milk instead of their own cow milk defies so many ethical standards, it’s downright disgusting. There are numerous companies looking to fill the “formula shortage” with synthetic human milk. Once this is in mass production, who knows how many other gene-altering doors this may open.
The next one is downright scary, if not demonic! Did you know that researchers have been trying to merge vaccines with vegetables for more than 2 decades??
The idea is to genetically modify vegetables to produce a a virus-like particle as it matures and ripens. Once that vegetable is consumed, you would produce an antibody in response to that virus-like peptide. This all began in 1997 and hundreds of attempts have happened since.
Most recently, the creation of the COVID vaccine created a resurgence of the possibility of putting a COVID vaccine in your salad!
How scary is that? Scientists in Mexico ran tests in 2020 looking to genetically alter tomato plants that would develop a COVID antigen.
Eating the tomato would then, in theory, confer some response against COVID. The one issue, of course is that the COVID vaccine itself doesn’t confer real immunity, even if it lessens the symptoms.
It’s not just COVID, GMO vegetable-vaccines have been tested for the flu, HIV, polio, Hepatitis B, rabies, Tuberculosis, malaria, and Ebola. What is interesting is that all of these “edible-vaccines” have been produced through a tobacco derivative, Nicotiana benthamiana.
This plant is easily cultivated and grown in the lab, and its proven to create a virus-like particle called a “multi-epitope” protein. Can you imagine unknowingly shopping and picking up a GMO vaccine carrying vegetable? Or even worse, picking out a seemingly harmless tomato, or at an Italian/pizza restaurant, and then being ‘vaccinated’ unknowingly.
Can you see the issue here?! Would companies that produce a vaccine-vegetable be required to label it as such? Is it possible you are already eating fruits/vegetables that have some type of modified virus-like protein in them?
The good news is that oral vegetable vaccines trials were suspended, despite many successful mice trials, but that doesn’t mean that the experiment was not carried out. It just means a major producer hasn’t jumped on this cash cow yet.
Proponents of GMO’s will constantly tout how anti-GMOers look to exploit your emotion and to try convince you that GMO’s are bad, even though the ‘science’ says otherwise.
Here at AskDrErnst / Cornerstone Health Center, as practitioners who are against modification of your original God created body, we know that GMO altered food is bad for your mind/body/spirit as it’s man’s way of tinkering with God’s creation.
What is the long-term effects on the microbiome?
What is the long-term effects on the nervous system?
What is the long-term effects on your own genome?
Consider your next grocery shopping trip – even though we are not at the point yet (that we know of) of purchasing GMO breast milk or edible vegetable vaccines, where does one draw the line? For us, zero modification of food is acceptable.
PRO TIP: Did you know you can spot a GMO food a mile away! If the number on the sticker starts with 8, its GMO! Organic always begins with a 9 whereas conventional begins with a 4.