For part 1 of this article ‘Selective Breeding vs Genetic modification Part 1:- Selective Breeding’, click here.
Genetic Modification
Genetic modification (GM) is designed to produce desired characteristics in a plant or animal by splicing a gene that has the desired characteristic directly into the genetic code of that plant or animal. It is much faster than selective breeding.
Problems with Genetic Modification
If there wasn’t a lot of money, power, and prestige to be gained from genetic modification, then genetic modification would be confined to the lab. Major problems so far identified include:
- GM crops marketed as ‘high yielding’ producing less than their non-GM predecessors
- Insufficient testing for toxins resulting in people getting sick
- People suffering new allergies to these crops
- Insecticide producing crops designed to kill insect pests also killing beneficial insects
- Weedicide tolerant crops invaded by ‘super weeds’ that evolved from the weeds that the weedicide was designed to eradicate
- GM corporation tactics resulting in many farmer suicides in India
- Contamination of regular crops by pollen from GM crops
- Legal action taken by GM corporations against farmers whose crops have been contaminated by pollen from GM crops for growing crops containing genetic material owned and patented by the GM corporations
- Contamination of organic crops by GM pollen, rendering them non-organic
- Rogue genes from the food people eat can enter their own genetic material effectively turning these people into genetically modified organisms
If this last one doesn’t scare you into taking action, what will?
But if there were problems with GM, I would have read about it in the newspapers
You here this from Americans. People in the rest of the world often see newspaper articles about toxins in GM foods that had been inadequately tested in the US. The GM corporations and their pharmaceutical corporation parents effectively control the newspapers in the US by having big advertising budgets that can be withdrawn if they get adverse publicity. You are unlikely to read about many problems with GM food there.
Put your trust in the GM companies?
I hear people say, ‘You can trust the GM corporations, they wouldn’t do anything to cause harm’. The biggest GM corporation in the world today is also responsible for putting cocaine into Coca Cola, and the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam that poisoned millions of people and caused a multitude of birth defects, and DDT that almost wiped out the greatest living symbol of the United States of America, the Bald Eagle. I also hear people saying, ‘But the Government will stop them’. These corporations don’t totally run the government yet, but they have been known to get their own people installed into high positions of power within the Government, and they exert strong influence with their billions of dollars of money for marketing and lobbying. If people knew all this do you think they would trust the corporations?
It’s worth the risk?
Scientists say about Genetic Modification, ‘It’s worth the risk’. What they don’t tell you is that the risk is the destruction of all life on Earth as we currently know it. Now that you know this, what do you think? Is Genetic Modification really worth the risk?
It’s about power and greed
There’s a lot of money to be made out of Genetic Modification, end of story. 
It’s a power and greed thing, like the King Charles Spaniel breeders (see part 1 of this article). If you consider that most of the GM corporations are owned by Pharmaceutical Corporations, then you are talking about a big winner. If people get sick from eating GM food then the Pharmaceutical Corporations can make billions selling their drug remedies. It is likely to become a trillion dollar rort. Trust them? Don’t forget the words of the Council of Europe meeting in January 2010 about swine flu, who accused the pharmaceutical corporations of staging a faked pandemic, causing Europe to waste over 10 billion dollars on vaccines.
Selective Breeding vs Genetic Modification
Selective Breeding is a proven science that has many benefits for us all. 
Genetic Modification, on the other hand, is a science that should be kept in the laboratory, or, better still, abandoned altogether. GM toxins will affect everyone who consumes them and they won’t forgive ignorance. Don’t be fooled by the smooth, multi-million dollar advertising campaigns. They are all deceptive. So far as benefiting humanity, GM is a fraud, a fake, an opportunity for money worshiping snake-oil salesmen to use clever marketing methods to fleece the world of our honest, hard earned money, without regard to the damage it does to life on this planet. ‘Clever marketing methods’? Yes, they must have spent billions researching how to manipulate politicians and programming the mass populace into thinking that GM is good. As they say, ‘turning peoples into sheeples’.
What can I do?
GM can and will destroy us if we let it. I encourage you to support the return to exclusive selective breeding as a means of improving plants and animals. Reject Genetic Modification and GM products in every way you can, at the supermarket and politically. We have been told that the use of Celestial Words of Power to raise the level of human evolution can help to alleviate the non-beneficial effects of GM food consumption. To find out more about how you can use Celestial Words of Power, click here.
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Genetic Modification has always scared me just look at all the things these Companies have told us in the past take the Cigarette for instance when we were younger we were told it was safe.
James Hardy hid from us the the horror of their product. so Why would anyone believe them about GM foods
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You are smart, Rita. Most people welcome GM, like Germany welcomed Hitler.
Organic vs Non-Organic Food
Over the past two decades the world has become increasingly health and environmentally conscious. The world of social activism is no longer confined to protest marches and leaflet campaigns. Today, consumers realize that they have the power to evoke change by voting with the most important tool at their disposal, their wallets. Today, it is a well known fact that if you want a cleaner environment and healthier food you should choose organic products.
What makes food organic? In strictly scientific terms, organic substances contain carbon, the building block of life. By this definition, everything that we eat is technically organic. However, agricultural parlance has changed the definition of organic when it relates to food and other consumables. Inorganic food encompasses everything that organic food is not.
Organic food must be free from all synthetic chemicals.
This starts at the ground level when a farmer prepares his field. He cannot use any petroleum-based fertilizer or chemically altered material in his soil. Manure and compost are acceptable natural products; Miracle Gro is not.
Chemicals are also not allowed for pest or disease control. A farmer can treat his crops with insecticidal soap or neem oil, but cannot use store-bought sprays unless they are certified organic.
Organic food cannot be genetically altered in any way.
Traditionally, changes to plants and livestock were accomplished through selective breeding techniques and hand pollination. These techniques are still certified organic.
Genetically modified food, or GM food, has been tampered with at the genetic level. Sometimes varieties of plants have been cross-bred to create hardier or tastier strains. GM seeds can be drought resistant or have higher yields. Purists feel GM technology tampers with the work of Mother Nature and is therefore inorganic.
Organic food cannot come in contact with inorganic food.
In order to ensure that pesticides or other chemical treatments don’t rub off on organic produce, it must be packaged and shipped separately from conventionally farmed food.
Proponents of organic food say that the products are healthier than conventional produce. Fewer chemicals mean fewer carcinogens. They also say that the food just tastes better. At the same time, organic soil may still produce run-off, but it isn’t toxic run-off that will permanently damage the water table. Animals that are fed exclusively on organic products, such as free-range chickens or grass-fed beef are generally believed to be treated more humanely, though this isn’t always the case.
Summary:
1. Organic and inorganic foods are differentiated by their farming processes, not their chemical makeup.
2. Organic food is chemical free, GM free, and free from contact with inorganic food while inorganic food is anything that doesn’t meet those strict guidelines.
3. Many consumers believe that organic food is healthier, tastes better, and is better for the environment than inorganic food.
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Wow! Roger! Great information. Your comment is like a post. I do welcome guest bloggers and invite you to submit copy to me so long as it is original content (ie not subject to being red-flagged by google’s duplicate content identifier).
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That last one was hilarious any more rubbish you want to write? Seriously there is very little to worry about with GM, I mean selective breeding is essentially GM with the downside of selecting for genes that can have unknown effects(60% of collies suffer from hip dysplesixa) also GM is actually properly regulated unlike selective breeding. I’m a microbiologist with no connection to any GM company and I’m neither pro or con GM because it doesn’t effect me since im from Ireland, however for the love of god people any person who compares GM to Hitler shouldn’t be taken as a person who has evaluated the subject without a biased opinion. If we were to live in the dark all our lives then we would hve continued to make cheese like the romans did without actually knowing what was happening. Here’s a fact for you the question was posed that what if somehow antibiotic resistance genes from a GM were transfered from an organism to commensals in your gut and what if this transfer also somehow induced pathogenicity in your gut flora that would potentially lead to an antibiotic resistant pathogenic flora that could cause disease. Now if I leave you in the dark about that sentence GM looks very scary but watch me introduce facts rather than biased scare tactics- the fact is that modifications would be possible but only under a ridiculous amount of disasters in fact we it’s been calculated by a regulatory board that for such a modifiaction to take place it would be the same probability as winning the lotto 6 weeks in a row with the same set of numbers. As for the allergy situation the very few allergy reports have been associated soley with the food and not anything to do with some CRAZY genetic modification, in terms of these beneficial organism being killed from the likes of round-up ready crops, the last time i checked beneficial anything doesn’t eat the host and what’s even more hipcritical is the fact that non-GM pesticides kill everything! But hey I tell you what, go tell the 14 million people in asia who go blind from Vitamin A deficency and the families of the other 1 million people who die from VAD that GM “golden rice” ,which has increased vitamin A content, is BAD! Hey maybe we should go back to slaughtering pigs to keep insulin stocks for diabetics or to hell with all that actually sure who needs insulin anyways lets just go live in a cave somewhere and connect with our ancient anchestors thats where it all went wrong they should have never played with fire! As said before it makes no difference to me but ,as a microbiologist starting a medical degree in September, people should know that a little knowledge is dangerous! Be well informed, look at both sides from neutral sources, weigh up your options and then decided but don’t be led blindly by biased activists!
You are a scientist? Fantastic! A good scientist is a walking question mark who is skeptical and impartial. A microbiologist? Even better. As a microbiologist you can investigate the truths and falsehoods about biotech. As a skeptical microbiologist you can be skeptical of what I say and also what the Biotech Corporations say and investigate the truth for yourself. As a good microbiologist you can say ‘no’ to falsifying your research for a few million pounds reward. You are Irish? Better still. Some of the world’s greatest scientists have been Irish. Think of the discovery of the tangential effect of the moon on tides, for example. But if you become a biotech scientist, if you should one day discover that a certain GMO is dangerous, don’t expect to get your paper published anywhere soon. You may find the editorial staff of the publishing houses are regulated by the Biotech Corporations. You say ‘GM is actually properly regulated’. It might be regulated in Ireland but in the US, where most of the world’s GMO’s are currently used, the industry is regulated by the Biotech Corporations and they dictate to the US Government what to say and do in regards to biotech marketing and research. This is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house. In my opinion, the solution to the Vitamin A problem in Asia is to educate them about the benefits of including carrots and other vitamin A rich foods in their diet rather than risking a biotech solution. You mention diabetes. Rather than finding solutions to insulin production, it would be preferable to remove the cause so that people don’t get diabetes in the first place. Did you know that latest research is showing that vaccines are causing diabetes mellitus in children? In the US, the same people who control the Biotech Corporations control the Pharmaceutical Corporations. Your ‘biased activists’ accusation is without merit. Just because the evidence is not being published doesn’t mean there is no evidence. History shows us that where there is censorship there is a threat to freedom and personal liberty. Freedom isn’t free. You need to be prepared to take action to keep it.
As I said my career path is leading me into the medical field of being a doctor and I am impartial to the idea of GM, but you should know that there are a number of impossible alternatives to GM such as Golden Rice due to political powers. 1. Golden rice is not made by a multinational biotech company and is non-profit funded mainly by Bill Gates, this is the primary reason why it has experienced diffulculties in being put into practice. 2. The idea of educating farmers to produce a variety of crops is flawed because the only reason they grow rice solely is because its a cash crop and without continued growth these people will lose their houses, jobs, etc. 3. The underlying cause of diabetes has been discovered and is essentially a genetical disorder for Type 1(which can’t be treated unless you wish to change the persons genes which at this stage is both dangerous and unethical) and Type 2 results from over exposer of receptors to a continous stimuli (i.e. Insulin) therefore there is no alternative to treat these people and the advent of using yeast to produce insulin which is the exact same down to the very last amino acid as human produced insulin has saved countless lives. In my opinion you’re right freedom isn’t free so why should privileged, “educated”, first world countries hold the say on which way 14 million cases of blindness can be prevented each year or the 1 million kids who die?! Let’s ask them what they want to do! Because im 100% sure that if you had to watch your friends and family die around you while greenpeace debate about planting carrots your opinion would be alot different!
Thanks for your informative comments, Level-headed. As a teenager it was my passion to study science and learn about the Universe and its laws and I read science books and magazines voraciously. I have always been a skeptic, not wanting to believe anything unless I can prove it to myself that it is so. As a young adult my friends used to laugh at my science experiments that I carried out in my living room; wires emerging from and disappearing into objects, and so on.
Then one day I woke up with an inner knowing about the meaning of quantum theory, that the Universe is not only without, it is also within, and that a study of the Universe can not be complete without studying the Self, and there is much more to be said on this.
And so began many years of introspection and enlightenment, many amazing experiences that would severely challenge a skeptic who had not had such experiences, but all of which has been leading me to an understanding and experience of the unity of oneness of all that is.
Within the Self I find the Life Force. As I view the future timeline of the Earth from the vantage point of the Life Force I see numerous probabilities, one being the destruction by GM organisms of all life, as we know it, on the planet. I can imagine this means 9 billion or so people dying agonizing deaths.
This is empowering information for those who are ready.
I will stop this narrative here until you are ready for more.
Seriously dude….the life force?
Are you luke!? Where is my father!?
Too many lessons with Yoda i’d say, because last time i checked there was less the 7 billion people on this earth, not unless your counting all the GMO’s.
Thanks for your insulting comments.
If the world’s population were to die today there would be 6.916165 billion dead (according to Wikipedia).
I expect that there will be several billion more by the time such an event would unfold, but let’s hope the world wakes up to the danger in time so it doesn’t occur.
To me you seem to have a very tunnel viewed vision of what GMO’s are, where did you get your information from Wikipedia? I know of no studies that show that vaccines cause diabetes, this kind of scare tactic can lead to the death of innocent people because of someone like you saying something that is not plausable with no referance of it ever happening.
You cannot say things like this unless you are willing to refute them and back them up. making cold statments on GMO’ s to the public like this is clearly negligable of you, if your aim is to inform people then maybe you should give then the advantages as well, because there are advantages, you just choose to focus on the negative.
Clearly you think that your government plays no role in the regulation of these foods, the GMO’s do not get sent straight from the field to the supermarket they undergo rigorous testing to ensure that they are fit for human consumption. This happens especially in todays society where there is more red tape for health and safety the there is for anything else.
Finally the fact that you lack the capacity to cite your information tells me that the information if not worth page it was typed on. It also leads me to believe the closet you have ever come to a GMO is a beef-eater tomato at you local farmers market.
You will find a study linking 6 vaccines to diabetes here
My purpose is to get people thinking about this subject and to spark debate, which clearly I have done.
Biotech Corporations, Chemical Corporations and Pharmaceutical Corporations have huge marketing budgets that they use to research how to get doctors and scientists to believe what they say. If governments don’t toe the line they put their own people in charge of the government departments.
Look at aspartame, for instance. Several decades ago, when the FDA rejected it, Donald Rumsfeld, who was then Chairman of G D Searle (later a Monsanto = biotech owned company) put pressure on the head of the FDA, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr, who changed the decision and had aspartame declared safe. Hayes left the FDA after being investigated for impropriety and later accepted a high level position in Monsanto.
These underhanded methods of theirs work. They have the formula for corrupting the system down pat. Don’t believe me but certainly don’t believe them.
Rigorous testing? The US Government has given full responsibility for testing GMO’s to the Biotech Corporations!!! Like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.