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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 123
When illegal drug manufactures produce designer recreational drugs the effects are unknown
even though they may alter only one molecule in a drug. The resultant drug may be deadly. In
nature we see that the DNA of a human and Chimpanzee differ by less than 2 percent. The DNA
of polio and influenza differ by less than 1 percent.
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Therefore, when you alter the DNA of
wheat, corn, soybeans, tomatoes or any food, there is no telling what the results will be or the
long term effects of consumption.
When Monsanto genetically modified soybeans to be resistant to its herbicide (weed-
killer) Roundup it informed regulators that one single new strand of DNA had been inserted in
the soybeans. Seven years later, in 2000, it announced that research had discovered that two
additional strands of DNA had been unknowingly inserted in the genetically modified soybeans.
Dr. Sue Mayer, director of an independent research group by the name of Genewatch, made the
following statements as a result of Monsanto’s discovery:
These results demonstrate that genetic modification is a clumsy process,
not precise as is often claimed,… There is no control over how many genes, in
what order, or where they are inserted.
It has taken Monsanto almost a decade to provide what they now say is an
accurate analysis of the DNA in Roundup Ready soybean. Additional copies or
fragments of genes may affect the operation of the other inserted genes, which
could have consequences for the performance and composition of the plant. This
may have implications for human and environmental safety.
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Professor Sebastian Pinheiro of the Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil is another
scientist who is very alarmed. He believes that genetically modified foods put the survival of
humanity at risk. He states: “Genetically-modified crops represent an economic threat to
agriculture and put humanity's survival at risk.… Transnational companies such as Monsanto and
Dupont are not worried by world hunger or the quality of life of the rest of humanity. They want
power, to dominate the politics of food and are merely driven by commercial interests...”
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The concern is not merely with the safety of genetically modified food but with the
potential that genetically modified crops could pollute existing natural species. This could
threaten natural varieties, which have already declined as much as 80 percent. The New
Scientists magazine reported that the earth’s entire ecosystem is at risk:
Look at the landscape. There will be plants over millions of acres
producing biodegradable plastics, chemicals and vaccines, all encoding for
specific genes that can jump and fix for herbicide, pesticide and viral
resistance in weedy relatives. I don't think you even have to be an alarmist. If
just a small fraction of these introductions turn out to be long-term pests, then we
have irreversible damage to ecosystems. It could be devastating.
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(Emphasis
added)
Two internationally recognized soil scientists from New Zeland’s Massey University
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