Coincidence or not??? - Page 1

The US leads the world in developed country civilian mass murders.  The US is also the only developed country which produces and promotes consumption of GMO foods.  Perhaps there is a coorelation with the aberant behavior ongoing in the country and GMO.  

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Are Genetically Engineered Foods Promoting Autism?

 
 

 

 

 Bestselling author and filmmaker Jeffrey M. Smith is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology www.ResponsibleTechnology.org and a leading spokesperson on the health dangers of GMOs. His books include Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette, and his films include Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals, Your Milk on Drugs—Just Say No!. For a list of thousands of products that have been verified as non-GMO, go to www.NonGMOShoppingGuide.com, or download the iPhone app ShopNoGMO. 

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The Autism booklet can be read below, followed by full references: 
Are Genetically Engineered Foods Promoting Autism? 

“It appears there is a direct correlation between GMOs and autism.” --Arden Anderson, MD, PhD, MPH 

Physician Jennifer Armstrong admits, “Twenty years ago, I didn’t even know what the word autism meant. It was rare.” But then something shifted. Whether it was the food, medicine, environment, or some combination, by 2008, an astounding 1 in 54 boys suffered from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the US ^[1]. What is it that is damaging the health and well-being of so many of our children? Don Huber, PhD, professor emeritus from Purdue University, has an idea.

In October 2011, Dr. Huber gave a talk in Germany about the physiological, neurological, and behavioral symptoms of pigs, cows, and rats fed genetically modified (GM) feed. After his lecture, a physician and autism specialist approached him and said, “The symptoms you describe are exactly what we are finding in our autistic children.”

The animals in those studies were fed the same GM soy and corn eaten by children and adults in the US. Both crops are outfitted with bacterial genes that allow them to survive being sprayed with herbicide, which kills plants. As a result, higher residues of toxic weed killer end up inside our food. In addition, some GM corn varieties have an even more unsettling characteristic: their inserted genes produce an insect-killing poison called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin in every cell—and in every bite. Although the biotech seed companies like Monsanto claim that their genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are harmless, that’s not what the independent scientists are finding.

Agitated, antisocial animals

When Dr. Huber visited an ongoing research project utilizing rats, he said those animals fed non-GMO feed were “as passive as can be. You can take them out. You can put them on your lap. Treat them almost like a pet cat.” Not so with the rats eating genetically engineered food: “You can hardly catch the rats that have received the GMO feed for a month and a half to two months,” he said. “They go off by themselves. They’re irritated. Crawl up the cage. . . . [They] don’t get along with each other.”

Farmers are reporting the same thing with pigs raised on GMO corn. According to Dr. Huber, a farmer told him that “his pigs just seem to be always irritated. They can’t get along with the other pigs.” Veterinarian Don Skow described similar odd behavior in the pigs of his client. “They would get cannibalistic. They would consume each other—ear biting and tail biting.” And when put in nurseries after weaning, he says, some “would get a condition like Alzheimer’s. They would lose the ability to know where the feed was. A lot of them would die.” Although many of these odd behaviors had been dismissed as normal stress responses for confined animals, when farmers switched to non-GMO feed and the problems went away, the real cause became obvious.

Similar antisocial patterns that Huber described were observed by a Dutch college student more than a decade ago when comparing mice fed GMO or non-GMO soy and corn. He wrote, “The mice fed on GM food seemed less active while in their cages. The differences in activity between the two cages grew as the experiment progressed.” The differences were most striking when he moved the mice to weigh them: “The mice from the GM cage were noticeably more distressed by the occurrence than the other mice. Many were running round and round the basket, scrabbling desperately in the sawdust, and even frantically jumping up the sides, something I’d never seen before. They were clearly more nervous. . . . For me this was the most disconcerting evidence that GM food is not quite normal.”^[2]

Dr. Irina Ermakova, PhD, a senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported to the European Congress of Psychiatry in March 2006 that male rats fed GM soy exhibited anxiety and aggression, while those fed non-GMO soy did not ^[3]. Ermakova reported the same behavior in GM soy-fed female rats and their offspring in her study published in Ecosinform. The animals “attacked and bit each other and the worker."^[4]

(Far more shocking, however, was that more than 50% of the offspring from the GMO-fed group died within three weeks when compared with a 10% death rate among the group fed natural soy. The GM group also had high rates of infertility and had smaller members.

 

The US leads the world in developed country civilian mass murders.

I disagree....

But yeah GMO's are everywhere now, and it's all bad.

I'm not talking about politically or religiously motivated genocides, I'm talking about crazies walking into a school or restaurant and killing occupants. Name one other country that is worse than the US...and not drug battles. Europe and Russia among others have banned gmo. 

Joan,

I think your theory could have significance if one applies it with the epigenetics theory, too. I am fairly certain autism research is discovering genetic markers. There are simple blood tests being developed to determine these, if I remember correctly. Yet, there is such a variance in capabilities within the autism spectrum. Why? Well, maybe GMO's and epigenetic tags respond to each other in ways unimagined, and we notice it as autism spectrum disorders. Could be.

However, autism spectrum disorders are so varied and often present with other disorders at the same time. I do not subscribe to the idea that seeing agitation present as an autism symptom, nor an Aperger's label, is sufficient in itself, as an indicator for mass, violent tendencies. 

I  agree with you, Bee, that autism doesn't mean one is going  become a mass killer. However, the appearant affects of gmo on behavior, I think, is significant...the occurrence of these mass killings is a relatively new  phenomenon,and gmo has been around within the time frame  the crazy killings became common. Psych drugs are a denomonator.. possibly correlating with effects of gmo.

Joanro, mass murder is not a new thing.  Down the road from where I used to live in Michigan is a small town called Bath.  In 1927, an elementary school in Bath was the site of a massive school murder.  A school board member named Andrew Kehoe was upset over property taxes that he felt were burdensome and his loss of election for township clerk.  He killed 38 elementary school children, 6 adults, and injured 58 others.  Kehoe first killed his wife then firebombed his farm.  He planted explosives at his farm and the elementary school over several months.  The explosives were dynamite and pyrotol.  After the detonation in the school, school officials discovered an additional 500 pounds of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol with timers.  He did NOT use guns, he used explosives and it is still considered the highest causalty rate of any mass murder by civilians, but you rarely have this included in the sensationalized headlines of school shootings.  Hmmmmmmmmm

 

And yes I do agree the poor food like substances we are now offered have a lot to do with mental health.  Too much sugar and enriched flour and irritate the GI tract causing a massive decrease in serotonin.  85% of the serotonin our brain uses is manufactured in our GI tract.  There was a study done years ago by a European psychiatrist that found food greatly impacts mental health.  Of course Monsanto and the like would never want you to know this......

Mindhunt, I know mass murders have happened prior to gmo, but certainly not to the extent it is happening now...and the reason the guy did it in '27  is frustration and disgruntled similar to one "going postal", if you know what I mean. But that is not the way the trend seems to be...young kids don't have financial pressures, etc.

Joanro, children and adults are placed on psychotropic medications, more than on medication many times, given no proper therapy, given poor food substitutes to eat, and we wonder why people snap?  Also mass shootings are not a new think, they have been happening for a while, just not in mainstream media because the shooters are generally stopped by legally armed citizens BEFORE finishing the mass shooting the perpetrators had planned.

Here are just a few.......

1991 - 2 men armed with stolen pistols entered a Shoney's restaurant in Anniston AL, herded all employees and patrons into cooler, one patron was hidden under a table, he was found by one of the gunmen who tried to shoot him.  The patron killed 1 gunman and critically wounded another stopping robbery and possible killing of those in the cooler.

1995 - Muskegon Michigan - Jewelry store owner shot 4 times by armed gunmen, he was able to crawl behind his bullet proof display case and return fire with his shotgun.  Perpetrators were later apprehended.

1997 - Pearl High School Shooting - Shooter killed his mother and two other students. Stopped by citizen with legally owned firearm

1998 - Parker Middle School Dance Shooting - 14 year old shooter killed a teacher, injured another teacher, and 2 students before he was stopped by citizen with legally owned firearm

2002 - Appalachian School of Law Shooting - 43 year old killed 3 people and wounded 3 other before being stopped by law enforcement officers Mikael Gross and Tracy Bridges who had to run back to their cars to get their guns that they (law officers) were not allowed to bring on campus. 

2007 - New Life Church Shooting - 24 year old killed 2. Shot himself after being shot by legally armed citizen who sustained multiple gun shot wounds herself.

2007 Trolley Square Shooting - Shooter began firing in a public square in Salt Lake City killing 5 people and wounding 4 others before being cornered by legally armed citizen

2009 - Golden Market Shooting - Shooter entered store firing on patrons, yelling he was going to kill them all, stopped by citizen with legally owned handgun.

2010 - New York Mills AT&T Store Shooting - 79 year old man entered with a "hit list" of employees, tried to line them up when he was shot and killed by legally armed man.

2012 - Clackamas Town Center Shooting - Shooter in mall killed 2 shoppers before being forced to retreat by citizen who drew his legally owned handgun (he did not fire for fear of striking another shopper).

2012 - Shooter began shooting into a China Garden restaurant and attached movie theater, he was stopped by woman with legally owned handgun

 

 

 

If your going to single out the United States then perhaps it has more to do with the consumption of information.

I still think your splitting hairs in your opening statement.

I think it's just a coincidence with GMO's, they are a great mistake and very harmful in many ways, but not the cause of mass murder.

Autism perhaps, but autism has nothing to do with mass murder either.

There is much more going on here than one simple answer can explain.

Except my theory is there is no longer a sense of future anymore, and it has been replaced with anger, add that to the programming and you have a real problem.

Young kids don't have pressure's?

I disagree completely.

 

 

Times have changed, when I was a kid you could buy dynamite for ten cents a stick, imagine what harm you could cause with that.

 

 

 

 

I didn't say gmos were causing mass killings, but I do think it has something to do with kids being prescribed psych drugs due to diagnosis  of adhd and everything else that gives an excuse to medicate (drug) them.

Moons, list all the other countries where kids are murdering bunches of people, which exceeds the US. Excluding drug trafficking or political motivation.