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How can you eat only vegetables, without asking yourself if they’re GMOs or not, and in the same time think that you are saving the planet? You’re going against your own good intentions! If you think GMOs are good, you’re only reading the news, not the deep science of things. And again, you’re marching in the opposite direction of your intentions. When you fight for a cause, you cannot go against yourself. This is called self-destruction. In this article I will refer only to corn, as the GMO principles apply to all modified vegetable organisms in the same manner. Releasing GMO organisms into nature has a tremendous and accelerated negative impact as a whole, irreparably destabilising whole ecosystems in a matter of a few years/crops. The effects on the human body are even more severe. Here I’m debating vegan’s revolution to save the planet, or the uninformed and hypocritical movement that is called veganism. I’m not saying vegan is bad, but that being a healthy, responsible, and conscious vegan in the modern world is impossible.
The GMO science started in the late ‘70s and the early ‘80. One of the first and most successful GMO companies was Monsanto, an entity massively sponsored by none other than Bill Gates. It has been uncovered that this company was doing illegal GMO experiments in Dacia/Romania (a country with strict anti-GMO laws) in the ‘90s. Monsanto’s advances have been outstanding, and it planned to create a bank with all the natural seeds that humans use, and sell only their own GMO seeds, year after year. I strongly believe this project is still ongoing, as nowadays, silently, no one cares if it’s GMO or not. In the US producers don’t even have to put it down on the label that it’s GMO. Slowly, the regulators are letting it slide, while what was supposed to end world hunger (how GMOs were being advertised in the beginning), is creating more hunger and more diseases. Acceptance from the people has been achieved through strategic marketing and by hiding the real data. The healthcare is being forced to look the other way too. The latter is the scary part, when doctors are being told how to treat you by business people and marketers. At some point a company called Epicyte discovered a gene with the same name, that stimulates your body to produce antibodies against your own fertility. The gene is probably being put in all GMO products you eat. Epicyte company was acquired by Monsanto, and lastly, Monsanto has been acquired by the Big Pharma Corporation, Bayer! Practically now these GMO companies have unlimited funds for their research in creating stronger and more potent GMOs, in parallel with developing supporting medicine for each side effect. To give you some scary numbers, it has been uncovered that between 1950 and now, male fertility in the United States had dropped around 45%. Of course scientists are saying that it is a mystery why that happened. They also concluded that if it continues like this, it will drop to around zero percent by year 2050. A lot of old books were predicting some cataclysmic event around 2050, and by the looks of it, it has started already in 2020.
No one likes to be told they are wrong, and it hurts like a bitch when they also realise it after being scolded. Do you really think governments and the biggest companies would ever admit if their actions are destroying you and the world? Never! And that includes you too. Your idea of good is always better than mine, even though real, corruption-free science favours me. The big organisations will NEVER admit they’re wrong, until they are forced to admit it by a final court judgement. To give you an example, me and my brother had to go to court in London for our mother’s benefits and free medical care entitlement. The DWP were telling us that she didn’t qualify, even as a European citizen. We’re not the usual naive, uneducated and uninformed folk, and we won in the tribunal. The DWP were the outlaws. This is a case which proves that big entities will never admit if they are harming you. Even in a court of law. They will hire the best lawyers to thrash your case. Losing is not their game. Money should only be theirs. The GMO sector is a huge money making industry. You cannot patent a vegetable, but you can patent a gene you invented and have put in a tomato that is immortal in the face of pests and weeds. I mean, who wouldn’t buy into that, when the corn cob looks like Arnold in the good days… Farmers would be enthralled. The catch with that corn is that it’s sterile. Yes, it might feed you and your animals, but it won’t grow if you plant it yourself. The GMO industry is recurring business. During my last years of farming, GMO corn was making its appearance in the village. The farmers were impressed by the quality of the grain and its resistance, but when they tried to plant it they couldn’t understand what was happening. Nothing was sprouting. I’ve been inside GMO corn crops, and I can remember the silence of the field. No insects, or maybe a few confused insects, and no weeds on the ground. Just plain green corn stalks, each with one, two or even three cobs. This type of crops were slowly and silently being introduced to a country with strict laws against GMO crops. They were also guarded with surveillance systems. If you were to steal a few cobs, the police would’ve been there faster than to a murder scene. Your cinema popcorn is GMO too.
Why are GMOs bad?
We have developed together with the plants for millions of years, maybe even more. We are all a product of this organised chaos that is nature-earth-universe. When the pollen from one plant goes and fertilises another species, we can say that that is a genetic modification too. But a natural one, not artificial. As an example, if you plant fat peppers next to chilli peppers, the fat peppers will become a bit spicy. They’ve been genetically modified through natural processes. When your parents made love and created you, they have genetically modified the human genome by having you, another human with a unique genetic code. When the genetically modification is occurring naturally all the pieces are falling into place the right way, like in a puzzle. Nature will never create mutations that will go against itself.
With lab-made GMOs is different, highly different. Scientists are adding genes that go against nature. Insects and animals will not eat the crop, and the vegetable will resist powerful chemicals meant to kill the weeds. This means that the final product will not only contain dangerous genes to hurt your nutrition, but also a higher concentration of dangerous chemicals. Farmers know that you should never eat the vegetable that is not being eaten by insects and animals. An apple with a worm inside is a healthy apple. GMOs cause inflammation. This is your body’s natural response to chemicals and modifications in your food, that are not good for your body. They cannot be properly digested and absorbed, as your immune system is trying to take them out. What activates your immune system will eventually turn into waste, and put an immense pressure on the organs participating in immunity. You’re constantly bloated, with gut pains, rashes, and felling tired. Your body is creating immunity to your favourite food, and you don’t even know it. Doctors will never tell you it’s because of the GMO foods, they’re not allowed to say that. I’ve done farming as natural as it can get, no scientist can tell me that GMOs are as good as natural organisms. It’s the same with lactose. You get bad reactions from the milk due to the GMOs and hormones they give to cattle, which in turn will reflect in the milk you drink. This is how you ingest what the cow has ingested. In the farm we were drinking sheep milk, goats milk, and cow milk, and no one ever had any health problems. All was natural, GMO and chemical free. When coming back to the city, the digestion issues were aplenty.
Furthermore, GMOs are accelerating the destruction of the natural world. As a vegan, have you wondered what will happen with the animals and insects feeding with the non-GMO crops, that cannot eat GMO? Your own veganism is actually killing the world you’re trying to protect! They will either feed on another insect’s food, or they will perish. Birds that were feeding on those insects will disappear, and so on. There are extensive and worrying studies about releasing GMOs into nature. The results are terrifying. Being a vegan and consuming GMOs, you are destabilising the ecosystems exponentially faster than all the health-conscious omnivorous humans put together. You are also destroying your fertility. Keep this with you when you’re having the next corn-on-the-cob.
