Genetically Modified Food is Wicked and Dangerous In All Respects

[chlamor]

Hope all who enter into this thread will take the time to research this. The first question you might consider is how much energy goes into this process? The next question could be who is involved in this? The next question might be how much pollution has occurred from the Green Revolution which GMO's is merely an extension? Another question might be what is the viral promoter used to 'splice genes'?

So here we go I will post for the next few hours and hope to put this to rest. The essence of GMO's is toxic and life denying.

GM greatly increases the scope and speed of horizontal gene transfer Horizontal gene transfer happens when foreign genetic material jumps into genomes, creating new combinations (recombination) of genes, or new genomes. Horizontal gene transfer and recombination go hand in hand. In nature, that's how, once in a while, new viruses and bacteria that cause disease epidemics are generated, and how antibiotic and drug resistance spread to the disease agents, making infections much more difficult to treat.

Genetic modification is essentially horizontal gene transfer and recombination, speeded up enormously, and totally unlimited in the source of genetic material recombined to make the GMDNA that's inserted into the genomes plants, animals and livestock to create genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

By enhancing both the rate and scope of horizontal gene transfer and recombination, GM has also increased the chance of generating new disease-causing viruses and bacteria. (It is like increasing the odds of getting the right combination of numbers to win a lottery by betting on many different combinations at the same time.) That's not all. Studies on the GM process have shown that the foreign gene inserts invariably damages the genome, scrambling and rearranging DNA sequences, resulting in inappropriate gene expression that can trigger cancer.

The problem with the GM inserts is that they could transfer again into other genomes with all the attendant risks mentioned. There are reasons to believe GM inserts are more likely to undergo horizontal transfer and recombination than natural DNA, chief among which is that the GM inserts (and the GM varieties resulting from them) are structurally unstable, and often contain recombination hotspots (such as the borders of the inserts).

http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/dangerous062204.cfm