Unlike hybrid seeds, GMO GMO seed varieties are created in a lab using high-tech and sophisticated techniques like gene-splicing.
hybrids naturally cross similar plants. GMO goes far beyond the bounds of nature, crossing different biological kingdoms — like a bacteria with a plant.
For example, Monsanto has crossed genetic material from a bacteria known as Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) with corn. The goal was to create a pest-resistant plant. This means that any pests attempting to eat the corn plant will die since the pesticide is part of every cell of the plant.
The resultant GMO plant, known as Bt Corn, is itself registered as a pesticide with the EPA, along with other GMO Bt crops. In other words, if you feed this corn to your cattle, your chickens, or yourself, you’ll be feeding them an actual pesticide — not just a smidgeon of pesticide residue.
Sounds scary. What does Bt toxin do to your cattle, your chickens, or yourself?
The results are still the same even though modern methods of genetic engineering allow us to get exactly what we want, in a much shorter amount of time, than the random mixing of genes and hoping for the best that comes from hybridization.
GMO goes far beyond the bounds of nature, crossing different biological kingdoms — like a bacteria with a plant.
This is nonsense. Living organisms have had their DNA manipulated since forever. Every plant and animal contains bacterial DNA in their cells. Bacteria and viruses have been moving DNA across species in nature for millions of years. Why some people think it's ok for nature to this, but not humans, is a mystery. Every method of genetic modification used in the lab first existed in nature. Nature taught us everything we know about the methods we use today.
For example, Monsanto has crossed genetic material from a bacteria known as Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) with corn. The goal was to create a pest-resistant plant. This means that any pests attempting to eat the corn plant will die since the pesticide is part of every cell of the plant.
And thank goodness they did this. Bt-corn contains, on average, 900% less cancer causing mycotoxins than the non-GM corn the anti-GMO crowd claims to prefer. Anyone who isn't aware of this should spend some time learning about fusarium molds and the cancers they are known to cause. Death and illness from mycotoxins in non-GMO corn is real. Death or illness from Bt corn is not.
You've been eating Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) since you first started on solid food. It is a fairly common bacterium found in soil that is present in all sorts of foods. The organic industry uses it as an approved pesticide. Organic apostles eat it all the time on their food and it isn't a problem. Why is it suddenly a problem when we place a single protein from this bacterium in corn when you and your family have been eating the bacterium all your lives?