GM Bt toxin is immunogenic, allergenic, and causes pre-cancerous intestinal changes

GM Bt toxin is immunogenic, allergenic, and causes pre-cancerous intestinal changes

New study raises further safety concerns over GM Bt crops

GM Bt crops are engineered to express Bt toxins, insecticides that are intended to kill pests that feed on the crops. The GMO industry claims that its Bt toxins are safe for human and animal consumers – and all living organisms outside the narrow range of targeted pests.

But a new study (abstract below) casts these claims into doubt and raises new questions about the safety of GM Bt toxin.

The study performed in mice found that the GM Bt toxin Cry1Ac is immunogenic, allergenic, and able to induce anaphylaxis (a severe allergic response that can result in suffocation). The responses that Cry1Ac was found to produce in the mice included “mildly allergic manifestations” around the mouth, nose and ears, as well as wheezing, hair standing on end, and diarrhea.

The study also found that Cry1Ac provoked intestinal lymphoid hyperplasia, a condition marked by an increase in the number of cells contained in lymph nodes. The condition is associated with food allergy, inflammatory bowel disease, and colon cancer.

GM Bt crops likely to be more allergenic
The Bt toxin tested in the mouse study was a GM form isolated from E. coli bacteria. This is not the same form of the protein that is expressed in GM Bt crops. The difference lies in the fact that the Bt toxin engineered into GM Bt crops acquires alterations known as post-translational modifications (e.g. the addition of sugar-type molecular structures to the amino acid chain backbone of the protein – a modification known as “glycosylation”). These modifications are absent in the bacterially expressed Bt toxins because bacteria are unable to produce them.

Post-translational modifications are of interest because they can contribute to making a protein (Bt toxin in this case) immunogenic and allergenic and thus turn a previously safe food crop into one that can cause immunogenic or allergenic reactions in the consumer.

All this means that the Bt toxins expressed in GM Bt crops are even more likely to be immunogenic and/or allergenic than the bacterially expressed Bt toxins tested in this experiment.

Also, the GM Bt toxins that are tested and assessed for safety in regulatory authorisations are bacterially expressed and thus these tests are likely to underestimate the potential of a complete GM Bt crop plant to cause immune or allergic responses.

In addition to these inadequate tests, the EU currently insists on a 90-day animal feeding study with single-trait GMOs, which does test the GM plant for shorter-term effects. But pro-GMO scientists and lobbyists are attempting to persuade the EU to do away with this requirement altogether, meaning that GM Bt crops would be put onto the market with no testing in a living organism.

The GM Bt toxins tested in this experiment, as well as the GM Bt toxins expressed in GM Bt plants, are different from the natural Bt toxin spray used for decades by organic and conventional farmers, as explained in a recent analysis.

In the words of the GM Bt crop developer Monsanto, the GM Bt toxins in GM crops were especially engineered to be “super toxins” because they have “broad spectrum activity”. In contrast, natural Bt toxin affects only certain types of insect pests and degrades rapidly in daylight, so non-target organisms and human consumers are unlikely to be exposed.

https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18399-gm-bt-toxin-is-immunogenic-allergenic-and-causes-pre-cancerous-changes-in-the-colon

Coal And Gas Referendum

Coal And Gas Referendum

If we want to reduce pollution permanently and save water this summer, we’ve got to stop these damaging coal mines, and to do that, we need your backing in the People’s Referendum on Coal and Gas.

https://www.lockthegate.org.au/peoplesreferendum

Plants actually know when they are eaten and send distress signals

Plants actually know when they are eaten and send distress signals

Biologists have found out that if the leaf of a plant starts to get eaten it is able to give off a warning to other leaves. They do this by using similar signals to animals in distress. Biologists are continuing to study the mystery of how plants are able to take to each other. This is right. It was proven in the late 50s and written up in the press at that time!

https://www.disclose.tv/plants-actually-know-when-they-are-eaten-and-send-distress-signals-346410

Medicine Is Sick Care

Medicine Is Sick Care

This is spot on. And yet the vast majority of us have yet to adopt an operating basis based on this truth. We are under and misinformed and outright lied to about what is healthy and what is not and most of us consider ourselves too busy or not interested enough to take the time to educate ourselves on the subject of nutrition. Even most of the articles available online barely scratch the surface.

For instance if you look online using the search term “types of nutrients” and will read every article on the first page of search results (the vast majority of people don’t get past page one) all you get is protein, carbohydrates, fats and water. Some mention fiber. A few go to the micronutrients of vitamins and minerals. You have to dig deep to get to fulvic minerals. And not one mentioned the 40,000 phytonutrients or enzymes.

So save yourself potentially decades of misery and ill health, get a copy of How To Live The Healthiest Life and read just a page a day. Everyone can find the time to read a page a day. Even if you are super busy, pick the least productive thing you do and swap it out for reading a page of my book. At that rate it will take you more than two years to get through it but it is one of the best investments you can make in your future health!

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Vaccinegate – Zero Antigens, Tons of Toxins plus 65 Non-Recogisable Substances!

Vaccinegate

Not only vaccine antigens have been not detected, there were also 65 signs of chemical contaminants of which only 35% is known, there are among these various processing residues and cross-contaminations from other manufacturing lines, and their identification will be checked during the second level of the analytical study (i.e. with standard controls). 7 chemical toxins among these signals have also been identified, probably deriving from chemical contaminants of the manufacturing process or other manufacturing lines at the vaccine manufacturing site; these toxins have a structure that could probably be partially derived from the formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde and cyanogen bromide reaction with other chemical contaminants in the vaccine. We’d like to point out that the toxicity of many of these toxins have been confirmed and published in Pubchem or Toxnet and this poses important safety problems, issues and concerns.

https://www.corvelva.it/speciali-corvelva/analisi/vaccingate-initial-results-on-infanrix-hexa-chemical-composition.html