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The public relations arm of the biotech industry is pretty busy.

They promote the impression that the biotech industry has great technology and high precision.

But there’s a problem with the claim.

Few people realize how sloppy genetic engineering (GMO) actually is.

Nothing better illustrates the problems with GMO than the gene gun.

A gene gun is a device originally modified from a Crosman air rifle.

These shoot DNA-loaded tungsten particles into cells.

The inventor, John Sanford, calls this “biolistics.”

And it’s one way to get new DNA into cells.

But why is biotechnology bad?
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The facts against GMO’s tell us that the results are obviously unpredictable.

But biotech companies then select what they consider useful strains from this random process.

And not only do genetically-modified plants and cells contain new proteins, but they can produce novel chemicals as well.

These can be toxic, and many have been fatal.

During 1989, fifteen-thousand Americans consuming L-tryptophan supplements became extremely ill.

They had paralysis and at least 36 confirmed deaths.

They called the condition eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS).

People with the condition have extraordinarily high eosinophil blood counts and muscle pain.

I lost about 60 percent of my hair, had no energy, and was usually asleep.

They traced the issue back to one manufacturer and analyzed the pills.

Chemical analysis reveals the presence of chemicals not present in other tryptophan batches.

The genetically modified bacteria produced these new toxins.

And the toxins were killing and paralyzing people.

They traced the tainted tablets back to two strains, Strains IV and V.

Both strains came from one Japanese manufacturer, Showa Denko.

Chemists in Japan, Europe, and the United States then set about characterizing the new chemicals.

They found that the new chemicals made the cells go berzerk.

That’s the thing about GMOs, you can’t tell everything that it will do to a cell.

It was making tryptophan, but it was also making strange derivatives of tryptophan such as the beta-carbolines.

These can be psychedelic molecules and may explain some of the hallucinations.

[Harry Schulte (victim)] was sitting in front of his television when all of a sudden he heard what sounded like a shotgun go off in his head. ‘I thought I was going crazy,’ he recounted.

But after some animal testing and some chemical detective work, it became apparent what the most potent toxin was.

It’s called phenyl amino alanine (PAA).

And they found it present at only around 50 parts per million.

That’s an incredibly low number for the level of damage it caused.

It amounts to only about 25 micrograms per 500-milligram tablet on average.

The concentration of each peak obtained by UV detection was lower than 0.1%.

Epidemiologists also noted that EMS was very similar to the symptoms caused by Toxic Oil Poisoning.

Adding aniline to olive oil causes Toxic Oil Poisoning.

Unscrupulous manufacturers used it as a preservative in 1981.

It created a very similar chemical called PAP in the process.

And it caused similar eosinophilia, paralysis, and death at about 100 parts per million in oil.

Over three hundred people in Europe died from this oil, and it paralyzed many more.

Years later, researchers laid the case to rest with the discovery that the liver converts PAP to PAA.

This discovery explained which toxin caused both diseases.

And now there are other vitamins produced by the genetically modified bacteria method.

Vitamins such as riboflavin (B₂) and cyanocobalamin (B₁₂) both come from this process.

These are very complex vitamins — much more complex than tryptophan.

It may be difficult to get riboflavin or B12 that isn’t contaminated with who-knows-what.

So you can see the very serious health concerns of GMOs.

Worse, the FDA is industry’s friend, not the consumer’s.

You’re probably familiar with the FDA’s fight against the right of the consumer on this matter.

They fight the consumer’s right to be able to identify GMO-free products through an honest label.

The good news is that many manufacturers realize consumers want this information.

So they can set themselves apart by using the labeling voluntarily.

And I do see some vitamins advertised as such GMO-free online.

But mostly, you may be getting a mix of various chemicals and not the vitamin or amino acid you think you’re getting.

This is a good reason I try to eat the occasional calve’s liver.

And I try to avoid depending too much on supplements such as these.

Try to use real food and not supplements whenever possible.

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