Al G Smith

God knows that we have to hope that human beings are not like rats, and not just for the reasons that may spring immediately to mind! But what is certain is that we have all been treated like guinea-pigs, in a global laboratory experiment that has already been running for most of the last decade… genetic modification and genetic engineering of currently widely consumed food crops!

This interview (videos below) with Dr. Arpad Pusztai makes it clear that we can only hope that we are not as susceptible as rats seem to be to what is termed ‘proliferative growth’ in the small intestine when we consume Genetically Modified foods. It is apparent that products such as the ‘Flavr Savr’ tomato (an early gentically modified — GM — product to be found on the supermarket shelves) which apparently caused pin-point bleeding in the rats’ bowel, and GM poatoes (experimental work on which became Dr. Pusztai’s widely media covered ‘downfall’, when he happened to utter a few words of true scientific concern about potential problems with GM food much to the discontent of powerful corporate concerns that wield international political power!) which may also cause abnormalities in the gut and/or liver (in rats!).

Additionally, more recent studies (as referred to by Pusztai) have also indicated similar concerns.

The problem being that unlike MOST prior scinetific work, that has to be done on innovative products with intense scrutiny BEFORE they get anywhere near the public-cosumption stage — this work has been done in ‘reverse order. WE have been eating GM for years — and well before exhaustive tests have been run, and in continued defiance of the negative evidence that work like Pusztai’s and others have provided!

Sources suggest that perhaps 70 to 80 percent of products on the typical US supermarket shelves now contains one or more GM ingredient.

It has been widely suggested that almost all soya and corn (maize) and related derivatves and ingredients are contaminated with GM strains (if not wholly and deliberately manufactured from such agricultural sources).

Genetically Modified Organisms are simply a spuriously justified, unnatural initiative, that has been pushed forward by corporate concerns looking to make huge profits. In effect companies such as Monsanto (amongst others) are manoeuvering themselves into a position to ‘own the food chain’ by exploiting GM related trademarked crops. They have callously destroyed small farmers who have not ‘trodden their path’, enabled to do this thanks to shocking legislation, enacted by former employes of the ‘concerned parties’ who have been awarded critical political positions in the legal system in the US. Such legislation protects the GM producers whilst demanding the impossible of the small farmer who is determined to farm in natural way — i.e. avoiding the use of GM seed crops, and employing seed saving methods that have been the tradition of real farming for thousands of years.

As humans seem to suffer ever more from strange and essentially ‘inexplicable’ ailments, according to ‘medical science’ — and in light of the observation of the Russian Nobel Laureate, Dr. Elie Metchnikoff, in the early 1900’s, that ‘death begins in the colon‘ — it seems likely that we will begin to reap a truly bitter GM harvest in years to come…

From beneficial insects (such as ladybirds/ladybugs — the digsetive deterioration of which creatures is identified by Dr Pusztai as the ‘canary in the coalmine’ that awakened his own suspicions about the problems of GM potatoes), through honey bees, dying off in their millions to God alone knows what ultimate disastrous natural effect (some sources suggesting that it is the self-same detrimental effect of GM on their digestive tract that is responsibile for this species declne), through to laboratory rats… and potentially humans, too… The travesty of GM, backed by the billions of the greed-driven corporates, is that it CANNOT coexist with the ‘natural option’… Due to Nature itself, GM crops WILL cross-pollinate, unnatural genetics WILL find their way into the natural crops… And as Pusztai implies… even watering down the ‘Frankenstien genetics’ may well NOT reduce their potential for health-impugning impact!

It may take a few generations for the human race to become evidently and widely affected by the impact of GM on the digestive tract… By which time it will be too late to stop the rot! As billions die early from genetically induced digestive, hepatic or as yet un-expected disease — from ‘proliferative growth’ in the intestines or perhaps in the liver, maybe elsewhere — then those that were responsible will all have passed on (hopefully to the place they deserve!)… Leaving our future generations to watch our species decline… and wonder if the issues (which by then will have probably have inflitrated all food crops and animals globally, as they almost have already!) can ever be resolved?

If one was of a ‘conspiratorial bent’ then one might suggest that this is all part of the widely-suspected ‘grand plot’ to reduce the human population by substantial numbers… The problem with such a suggestion, naturally being, that those who perpetrate this crime against Nature, and Humanity, will also have to ‘eat from the same pot’ — so they will be killing their own families too!… But then, perhaps they don’t really care about this, as long as they all make a ‘buck’ today!! When will we stand up to to this type of exploitation?

When will we stop listening to the media clap-trap about positive reasons for meddling with genetics and for pursuing the spurious and dangerous GM agenda? I am guessing — if ever — it will be when it is too late to stop the problem from becoming yet another of the ’sins of the Fathers’ that our children, grand-children and beyond will have to TRY and deal with!

Banning the pursuance of the development and use of ALL GM seed crops and livestock is an immediate requirement. It may already be too late to pull-back from the brink of what is potentially the foundation of an unimaginable natural calamity… But it is past time that more people woke-up and stopped allowing themselves and their families to be pushed around, exploited for gain, and ultimately probably physically harmed by being ‘unknowing’ guinea-pigs… not to mention the harm already visited upon the Earth and innumerable other species — even the laboratory rats!

A recent Yahoo Answers submission about constipation and IBS that we posted. This is a health issue that affect millions in the ‘developed world’ — so perhaps a good one to start with:

How do I help my niece? (I am her guardian.) She has recently been diagnosed with severe and permanent irritable bowel syndrome. This means that often she has diarrhea or constipation. She is eight years old so she is perfectly potty trained. When she is constipated, the doctor told me to help her by “forcing” her bowels to work without medicine or laxatives or any sort or adding more fiber to her diet, because her condition is not dietary. I have been told that this can be done by pushing on her feet or having her poop in a hole, where she can squat. How can I help her?

Simply can’t believe that for a youngster they (the medical profession, that is!) haven’t come up with something better! The ’system’ (well, modern medicine in general!) is terrible when it comes to such diagnoses — I went through YEARS of tests, more tests, & even more tests…only to get the same IBS ‘umbrella every time…Which of course means “don’t really know what the problem is” diagnosis in the end…

In fact I now know through my only research and resolutions of most of my problems that there were probably several causative factors…

For starters: MOST folks on a typical Western Diet end up with a chronically impaired digestive system.

Getting your ‘gut health’ right is a key step towards seeing improvements in IBS symptoms (as well as in general health and wellbeing) for many people. If stats are to be believed up to 80% of all folks consuming a typical Western diet (that’s most of us in the UK and the US for starters!) are likely to have compromised intestinal health. This is for many reasons, mostly to do with lifestyle, food choices, and eating habits.

We can therefore end up with 80% ‘bad’ bacteria/20% ‘good’ (helpful/needed) bacteria in the gut — whereas the opposite proportions are said to be necessary for good digestion, and consequent better health.

One way to start moving things in a positive direction is to try and introduce some ‘good’ bacteria into the diet by using a probiotic supplement. My personal favorite is an all-naturally produced probiotic product that is grown from organic plant sources (NOT fecal matter like some products use!). It contains the whole range of lactic acid bacteria, reckoned to be the most effective and appropriate micro-organisms tough enough to get through the stomach acids to where they are needed in the intestines. You can read more at the link below — and there are useful articles on site too. Works out to cost about £1 a day (so not exactly cheap…BUT I can say hand-on-heart it seems to have made a radical difference not only for me but many others with long tern so called ‘permanent’ IBS). Also once things get better you may just supplement the diet say every two or three days:
https://saferalternative.mionegroup.com/

Further explanation about probiotics and details about need for probiotic support here:
http://www.gonando.com/probiotics.html
and here
http://www.gonando.com/super-supplements

The other things to consider is trying to move anyone, child or adult, with problems like this onto a more ‘alkaline diet’. This may be difficult depending on how much of a fussy eater a child (or indeed an adult) is. But the pay-off can be well worth it in terms of impact on long term health. It would take too long to explain how and why this has proven so good for so many — including many children — but the video (split into 7 easily manageable chunks! ;-)) of a presentation by world-leading expert, and proponent of alkalization, Dr Robert O Young, is here, along with a helpful list of alkaline foods: http://www.gonando.com/alkaline-foods.html

With full details in his book here:
http://astore.amazon.com/usastore1-20/

I’d really like to know how you/she gets on — if you try any of these ideas. I also really hope it helps. I cannot tell you how much these strategies have improved a situation for myself that I had thought was a life sentence! Hope they may help your niece too.
(N.B. - I should mention that the problem of alternate constipation/diarrhea can actually turn out to be ‘one’ issue — constipation. Odd though it seems, the apparent diarrhea can simply be a symptom suffering that stems from from retention of impacted faeces, and consequent evacuation of only the liquid part of the stool. The hard, impacted mass can remain for ages in the gut, when it suffers low motility, and this process only makes matters worse. The probiotic should gradually work its magic, as gut flora improves. But it is good NOT to use laxatives as this causes unnatural evacuation that can end up with a see-saw effect and making constipation worse overall. Plus it IS important that she is well hydrated, which means encouraging her to drink plenty of good, clean water, every day (preferably mineral water, or even home distilled water). BUT Avoid pop/colas, tea, coffee (guess she doesn’t do these anyway, but the diuretic effect due to caffeine can encourage dehydration). Good hydration is important to properly formed/textured stools. A moist stool is easier to pass than a hard compacted one.
Just wanted to add those thoughts. Good luck.)

More Yahoo Answers posts will be added here from time to time, as and when considered relevant to the topics of family health or mind, body and spirit, in order to try and make sure these ‘nuggets’ of wisdom don’t simply get compacted in Yahoo’s virtual ‘pipes’!