The article implies that corn only recently developed a cob due to modern geneticists’ intervention but in fact corn’s been continually selected for traits and modified for centuries.
Potatoes, likewise.
Corn and potatoes already had hundreds of varieties developed by native cultures before a single western geneticist ever took a look at them.
Animals can modify plant species too, it’s not just people. Animal spread seed of the plants that please the animals the most. The plants whose fruit is the most delectable will have their seed dispersed more widely to new and sometimes even better habitat for their growth that the original plant had at its disposal.
And even viruses and fungi can alter a plant species that hosts them.
Sounds like the author is terrified of evolution.
The author is terrified of his own shadow.
Then why do SO many people have terrible health problems these days, that get better when they go off grains? I love grains, I love bread, cakes, oatmeal,pancakes, biscuits with butter and jam. I would never stop eating those things to jump on a silly bandwagon. But I have all kinds of autoimmune problems that get really awful when I eat grains, and start clearing up when I stop. It is heartbreaking to me to not be able to eat what I want and I definitely wouldnt be on a restrictive diet if I was trying to follow some fad or something. It’s just an unfortunate fact of life for millions of Americans these days. There may have been hundreds of variations but something definitely changed in corn and wheat in the last 40-50 years.
Bt-Toxin Now Found in Many People’s Blood!
Last year, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of:
93 percent of pregnant women tested
80 percent of umbilical blood in their babies, and
67 percent of non-pregnant women
The study authors speculate that the Bt-toxin was likely consumed in the normal diet of the Canadian middle class—which makes sense when you consider that genetically engineered corn is present in the vast majority of all processed foods and drinks in the form of high fructose corn syrup. They also suggest that the toxin may have come from eating meat from animals fed Bt corn, which most livestock raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFO, or so-called “factory farms”) are.
These shocking results raise the frightening possibility that eating Bt corn might actually turn your intestinal flora into a sort of “living pesticide factory”… essentially manufacturing Bt-toxin from within your digestive system on a continuing basis.
If this hypothesis is correct, is it then also possible that the Bt-toxin might damage the integrity of your digestive tract in the same way it damages insects? Remember, the toxin actually ruptures the stomach of insects, causing them to die. The biotech industry has insisted that the Bt-toxin doesn’t bind or interact with the intestinal walls of mammals (which would include humans). But again, there are peer-reviewed published research showing that Bt-toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/29/genetically-modified-crops-insects-emerged.aspx