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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Genetic Engineering Gone Mad | Glyphosate: not JUST a carcinogen

[URL's for Davies and EWG]

Environmental Working Group made a video that was aired on PBS TV tonight. It included a lecture by the author of Wheat Belly. He explained that the New Wheat (GMO) is nothing like what we grew up with. Some amino acid (a word similar to gluten) was altered and emulates opioids (or is an opioid) so the unsuspecting junk food eater gets hooked and becomes obese. It takes 5 days of withdrawal symptoms to be done with it. Those not aware of the effect will get and stay fat. He recommends a wheat free diet to avoid diabetes and heart problems related to high triglyceride levels in the blood. Three cheers for good TV for a change thanks to EWG a Sanet-MG member for many years and Turner Broadcasting for funding. Finally, the truth about GMO wheat is in the news.

Here are links:

Dr. William Davis
Glyphosate: not JUST a carcinogen
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2015/10/glyphosate-not-just-a-carcinogen/
Sample:
"There is growing suspicion that glyphosate can act as an antimicrobial or antibiotic. (Monsanto even has a patent for glyphosate as an antimicrobial.) Animal model data demonstrate that glyphosate selectively kills beneficial bacteria, such as Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Bacillus badius, Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Lactobacillus species, while allowing the proliferation of undesirable, even disease-causing, species such as Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella gallinarum, Salmonella typhimurium, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium botulinum.

Lactic acid producing bacteria that have beneficial effects, such as lactobacilli, lactococci, and enterococci, generate bacteriocins, or factors that suppress growth of undesirable bacterial species. Specifically, the bacteriocins produced by lactic acid producing bacteria help keep Clostridium species at bay, such as C. difficile that often emerges after antibiotics are prescribed. (Farmers in Europe are even seeing an increase in botulism in livestock due to emergence of Clostridium botulinum that is suspected to be due to glyphosate.) This selective effect of glyphosate, killing off lactic acid producing bacteria while leaving undesirable species untouched, may be one of the ways by which humans develop dysbiosis, or disordered growth of bowel flora, that can cause abdominal distress, irritable bowel syndrome, the intestinal “leakiness” that adds to risk for autuoimmune diseases, and other conditions."
His home page, the book Wheat Belly, wheat free diet advice and more:
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/

Environmental Working Group
Video page:
http://www.ewg.org/issue/genetically-engineered-food/videos
The video "10 Americans" by EWG
http://www.ewg.org/news/videos/10-americans

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Kris Johnson RR <cjohnson143@woh.rr.com> wrote:

OMG, I just read the interview in the latest AcresUSA magazine with Jim Thomas of the ETC group - http://etcgroup.org/
It made my stomach turn just reading about what these guys are working on - nanotechnology, gene editing, CRISPR, gene drives, geoengineering - it is most definitely scary! There's more info here http://etcgroup.org/issues/synthetic-biology

Two other sites for more info
http://www.synbiowatch.org/

http://geoengineeringmonitor.org/  not currently available, but I saw a Goggle cache of the home page, so hope it will be back soon.
A page that is available http://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/resistance/


Kris
www.MercyViewMeadow.org

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