Genetic Engineering: It's What's for Dinner Again

About twelve years ago I wrote about glyphosate: Genetic Engineering: It's what's for Dinner and Palin, Genetic Engineering, and Big Business.

As a result I avoid soybean oil (as well as its friends like Canola) like the plague that they are.

I also wrote: "Perhaps without full and complete understanding GM modifications like Roundup Ready could be dangerous in some unknown way.  (Given the large percentage of introns in genes relative to protein encoding I think makes this even more dangerous.)

Humanity as a whole has not done a very good job with that sort of thing, e.g., thalidomide, Celebrex and all the other wondrous creations withdrawn from market.  Weren't they all "approved" at some point only to later discover that the approval was perhaps granted to hastily?"

Hmmm, sound familiar Mr. FDA?  Like some recently pushed injectable products..?

Then there is The Soul of a New Disease I wrote around the same time:

And then we get to the money shot (from The Soul of a New Disease):

"In August of this year, an article in the British Medical Journal noted that in the wake of the new classification, prehypertension is emerging as a potential goldmine for drug companies [ emphasis mine ], and pointed out that many physicians who were members of the committee have disclosed financial relationships to industry.

One of the committee members named in the article is George Bakris, director of the Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago, who has disclosed consulting arrangements with several drug companies. Bakris, for his part, tells the Health Blog that the committee’s decision had nothing to do with drug-company interests, and was meant to educate and empower patients."

No, no, Tony, you're safe, nothing to see here...

And then today I came upon ‘Systemic Catastrophe:’ MIT Senior Researcher Warns Glyphosate is a Slow Kill over at Epoch Times.

The author, Dr. Stephanie Seneff, "... believes that the pervasive use of glyphosate in the United States and around the world in agriculture is the reason behind the dramatic increase in autism, diabetes, cancer, allergies, as well as many other chronic conditions."

Imagine that!

Some of Dr. Seneff's slides:

Same old tired paradigm of profit on death and disease.

Note that Dr. Seneff isn't a youngster.  No youngster (including their spouse, children, parents, and so on) hoping to ever have a job could publish something like this.

Why?

Retaliation.  She's old and probably actually cares about the truth rather than a job (I can hear the colleagues now: "Crazy old bat!" "Fool!" - all the while driving their little Suzy's and Johnny's to the Dr. for - wait for it - cancer, diabetes, allergies, and so on.) (Sorry Dr. Seneff!)

Then there's this: More Monsanto Roundup Problems: Its in Your Urine.

"Now, results from a German study shows that people who have no direct contact with agriculture have significant concentrations of glyphosate in their urine. It's becoming quite apparent that genetically engineered crops are a source of multiple toxins, in addition to having been found to contain far lower levels of nutrients. So much for saving the world from starvation. "

Safe and effective...  I wonder why they sold it to the Nazi's Bayer....?

Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps glyphosate is only a poison.

Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps it's both a poison and a genetically active in your body.

Oh well, gotta go, time to take little Suzy and Johnny to the allergist/cancer specialist/autism/diabetes specialist.