Eating These American Foods Can Kill Your Stomach

Good digestive health starts at the kitchen table. What you put into your body can either positively or negatively affect your digestive and overall health.

By now, we all know that GMOs are extremely bad, not only for humans, but for the environment as well. Monsanto has spent billions of dollar lobbying against scientists and the government to prove that GMOs are not bad and will not harm humans, only insects.

But recently, the one thing that Monsanto claimed wouldn’t take place has happened:

Pests have developed immunity to GMO corn.

The point of most genetically modified food in the first place was to create a chemical pesticide built into the food source.

Monsanto Was Warned and Didn’t Listen

The NPR, formerly the National Public Radio, had this to say in a recent press release:

“The scientists who called for caution now are saying ‘I told you so,’ because there are signs that a new strain of resistant rootworms is emerging…[A] committee of experts at the EPA is now recommending that biotech companies put into action, for the first time, a ‘remedial action plan’ aimed at stopping the spread of such resistant insects…”

These insects are root-eating larvae found to immune to Monsanto’s Bt corn, which is specifically the type of pest these GMOs were supposed to repel.

Bt corn makes up for 80% of corn sold in American, and if these pests have developed a resistance to the chemicals, what exactly is it doing to humans?

Scientists Have That Answer

Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec, Canada studied the blood of many test subjects and found that the Bt-toxin used on Bt corn was present in:

- 93% of pregnant women

- 80% of umbilical blood from their babies

- 67% of non-pregnant women

The toxin is thought to have come from different sources than just the corn itself, as corn syrup is used in thousands of products and processed foods.

Animals fed with Bt corn, as most livestock confined to factory farms are, also have the chemical present even after human consumption.

But That’s Not the Worst

Scientists are frightened by these results and have hypothesized that eating Bt corn may actually ruin your intestinal flora and turn it into a “living pesticide factory” by producing Bt-toxin inside your digestive system.

If this is right, there could be serious consequences to human digestive health. The toxin was initially made to rupture insect stomachs and kill them. If the toxin is producing inside our own digestive tracts, could the same not happen to humans?

Peer-reviewed research has already shown that Bt-toxins bind to the small intestines in mice and in intestinal tissue in rhesus monkeys.

Monsanto’s Solution?

Make more genetically modified foods! They are in the process of creating a new chemical to combat the resistant pests.

“But if one of those genes is already compromised… such a high percentage of Bt corn could rapidly produce insects that are resistant to the second one, too,” says the NPR.

Source:

http://www.realfarmacy.com/eating-turn-gut-living-pesticide-factory/

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