by Dee McLachlan
I remember a discussion I had with a scientist researching corn species in the US. He said the GMO corn fields were devoid of insects or bird life. They seemed dead.
And while Bayer (having recently taken over Monsanto) is pumping billions of dollars into its new American GMO division, 500 council workers in Sydney walked off the job because of concerns over the use of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup.
Monsanto’s Weed Killer
One of our Sydney contributors alerted us to the use of Monsanto’s Roundup week killer back in 2015. On 2 June 2019 we covered the Sydney Morning Herald, (SMH) article entitled: “Sydney councils move to ban Roundup weedkiller over cancer fears.”
Then on 4 July 2019, the SMH reported
“…that staff at “Blacktown City Council last month refused to continue using glyphosate sprays, urging management to follow the lead of other local councils which have banned the product and begun trialing safer alternatives.
“The United Services Union (USU) said the “dispute escalated” on Wednesday after management ordered six staff to either use the product or be forced into alternative jobs…”
It seems the council was doing trial with some workers allocated to spraying Roundup, while others were using organic alternatives. It seems no one wanted to use Monsanto’s product, even though the council claimed it was guided by Australia’s pesticides authority. The council stated that no regulatory agency in the world considers Roundup to be a carcinogen that, and that glyphosate is safe for humans, the environment, and animals.
But animals don’t agree.
They have walked away from Monsanto a long time ago.
Farmer’s Experiment Using GMO and Non-GMO Corn.
A farmer, a friend of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) founder and best-selling author Jeffrey M. Smith, left two bags of corn, one GMO and one non-GMO, in a work room.
Well, mice broke into both bags. They chomped into the non-GMO corn, but quickly stopped eating the GMO corn after taking a few bites. Mr Smith said, “They just took a nibble from one of the kernels of this and never came back to eat it… They devoured the non-GMO corn.”
Althealthworks reports:
“According to Smith, many different animals including squirrels, geese, elk, deer, raccoons, mice, rats, buffalo and chickens have all been observed avoiding GMO corn in the past.
“It’s a trend that Bayer, Monsanto and the GMO industry have done their best to avoid discussing, but many farmers, including Iowa pig farmer Jerry Rosman, have noticed that animals forced to eat GMO corn and soy have suffered abnormalities, including serious reproductive issues.
“What is it about this corn that would make them not want to eat it?” Smith asks, “Well if it’s genetically engineered as most corn is, it produces an insecticide called Bt toxin which can poke holes in an insects guts to kill them,” he continued. “And it was found to cause damage in mice and rats and also human cells.”
Smith’s full presentation on the experiment below:
A French study supposedly showed that mice who ate genetically modified corn sprayed with weed killer were more likely to develop tumors, organ damage and die early.
I used a mixed grain/seed mix to feed my chickens. The only seed they refused to eat was the wheat grain. They knew something about that wheat that I didn’t. I figure it might have been GMO wheat sprayed with Roundup.
It caused me some concern about eating anything using wheat in Australia and I now tend to avoid wheat products – on the advice of my chickens.
Well done. I used to think people with gluten allergies had a weak system, now I know they’re canaries in the coalmine. I don’t eat any grains anymore.
The agenda is 500 million people .
“A man without a government is like a fish without a bicycle .”
Alvaro Koplovich
As kangaroos, chooks, ducks, & sheep are a keen monitor re soil quality, i. e. they have a distinct preference for anything grown on high nutrient dirt, the disdain for GM produce certainly adds up.
The most disturbing thing about the experiment is that the human organism is vastly more complex than any other form of life on the planet, as exemplified by the need for food & water hygiene. The effect of GM food is therefore bound to have a much greater repercussions than that observed re mere animals
Please, God, don’t take away my shortbread cookies.
As the root of the words “modesty” & “modification” is modificāre (to measure, limit), calling genetic corruption “modification”has always struck me as being blatantly euphemistic.
But lo and behold, most on-line dictionaries are now telling me that the latter ALSO means “to change in form or character; alter”.
Talk about a classic example of Newspeak!
Berry, on Dec 27, 2014 Gumshoe republished Dr Richard Day’s 1969 speech in full. Here is a part of it:
“in addition to changing the Bible he said that the classics in Literature would be changed. I seem to recall Mark Twain’s writings was given as one example. But he said that the casual reader reading a revised version of a classic would never even suspect that there was any change.
“Somebody would have to go through word by word to even recognise that any change was made in these classics, the changes would be so subtle. But the changes would be such as to promote the acceptability of the new system.”
Changing the Bible eh?
They’d be hard pressed to come up with a genetically modified version of Isaiah 5:20:
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
They might substitute “butter” for “bitter.”
Berry, I have wondered if the very generous presenttions and concordances of the Bible online are part of this. They make us (well, me, anyway) reach for a website instead of reaching for the Good Book per se, to look up a quote.
Shifting sands…
I have posted how the words “Nationalism” “Racism” and “Patriotic” have been redefined to be more extremist in their meaning, and this was in a dictionary dated 2002.
As the term “Newspeak” was coined by George Orwell in 1949 it would appear that such corruption has been on the move for a fair while
If our Federal Government doesn’t do a better job of controlling agriculture safety than it does controlling bank fraud and robbery by the Banksters, there will be no need of banks, as all our wheat & other grain sales to our trading partners will dry up.
It wont take Russia, China, and Iran long to wise up. Bang there goes one of our main export incomes.
But then again, do politicians really care about anything Australian apart from their ability to feed at the trough?
Good on the NSW council workers for standing up for their health and the health safety of others. Now we need the same action as regard the 5G “killer” program.
I strongly urger readers to visit GlobalResearch.com and become peppercorn members, thus entitling them to a hared-copy version of Seeds of Destruction, in which rats fed UK GM potaroes suffer organ damage. It took nine hours for Monsanto to tell Blair to sack the researcher.
Tony, assuming you mean William Engdahl’s book Seeds of Destruction, it is valuable in every way, especially explaining terminator seeds.
Not that reading it is enough. We must act. The patent law should not allow anyone to patent Nature.