USDA Received Pathogen Warning BEFORE Deregulating GM Alfalfa
Following a 6 year approval battle, the USDA fully deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa in January 2011. A week later, they partially deregulated GM sugar beets. This occurred despite Secretary of Agriculture's Tom Vilsack's knowledge of a stark warning letter by Dr. Don M. Huber, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology, Purdue University two weeks prior, who found a link between the modified organisms and the proliferation of the new pathogen. Huber knew about its presence in Roundup Ready soy and corn and sought to hold off the GE alfalfa calling the situation an "emergency."
Dr. Huber said (vid below) "we don't know what it is" - it's a new entity first noticed by veterinarians in the late '90s, new to science. It's not a virus, although similar, actually smaller in size and like a fungus that spreads like a virus. It's contained in Roundup Ready (RR) and Roundup sprayed plants and feed and bizarrely affects all farmland animals often with infertility and spontaneous abortions - an inter-species syndrome that could be the first of its kind.
So it's not just a side-effect of endocrine-disrupting pesticides or transmission of genetic material - it's a new pathogen the USDA ignored. There is increasing evidence it's already affecting humans with infertility and reproductive problems, but the USDA filed the warning in the garbage.
An excerpt from Huber's letter:
We are informing the USDA of our findings at this early stage, specifically due to your pending decision regarding approval of alfalfa. Naturally, if either the Roundup Ready gene or Roundup itself is a promoter or co-factor of this pathogen, then such approval could be a calamity.
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/usda-got-brand-new-pathogen-warning.html
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