Do you ever stop to question what’s in the food you are eating or perhaps who is producing it? In my experience, the answer is more often than not a resounding no. Well, something to consider regarding this is that unless you eat organic foods all the time, most of what we eat comes out of a company that has been accused by many as being one of, if not the most, evil corporations on the planet. Does the name Monsanto ring a bell? If not then I urge you to read on and learn a little bit about what is lurking in your food pantry and why Monsanto is blamed for poisoning humans for over a century.

Origins of GMOs

Founded by Missouri Pharmacist John Francis Queeny in 1901, almost every non-organic food product available has a connection with Monsanto. GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, appear in 70% of all processed food products in America and are used on 80% of crops. According to Wikipedia, ”genetically modified organisms are an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. These techniques, generally known as recombinant DNA technology, use DNA molecules from different sources, which are combined into one molecule to create a new set of genes. This DNA is then transferred into an organism, giving it modified or novel genes.” So why were GMO’s created? Well, the official answer is for the purpose of prolonging the shelf life of produce and the production of herbicide resistant seeds which make crops pest and disease resistant.

Those two things may sound beneficial to farmers and to the public at first, but upon further investigation you can see that it’s actually quite the opposite. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine has warned that foods we consume that have been genetically modified, as opposed to organically grown from seeds found in nature, can be a serious threat to our health causing chronic diseases, cancers, and more recently new allergies. Not to mention being linked to thousands of sick, sterile, and dead livestock that consume these crops. If it isn’t safe for the animals, how could it possibly be safe for us humans to eat?

Roundup Herbicide Causes Liver Damage In Rats

These GMO seeds are used mostly to grow corn and soy beans as well as cotton. Monsanto also produces the herbicide called Roundup Ready to spray on crops and also sell seeds with the Roundup formula. The International Journal of Biological Studies states the effects of these ingredients: Monsanto Mon 863, Mon 810, Roundup-herbicide absorbing NK 603 in corn caused kidney and liver damage in rats as well as damage to the heart, spleen, adrenal glands, and blood of rats that consumed the corn. If you own a farm that is next to another farm that uses Monsanto seeds and those seeds migrate onto your land, you can be sued by them for royalties.

Adding to the list of atrocities committed by “MonSatan”, is the fact that they have put most small farmers out of business by lawsuits filed against them claiming violation of their seed patents. Monsanto is frequently described by farmers as being the “Gestapo” or “Mafia” by the way they bully farmers into taking settlements because they cannot afford time-consuming lawsuits, and the questionable means that they use to gather evidence for the supposed “patent infringements”. In the past decade there have been over 125,000 suicides by Indian farmers after using genetically modified seeds hoping to yield better results with their crops. Monsanto convinced them to stop using organic reuseable seeds for the genetically modified ones but when their harvests failed and the farmers went bankrupt. They started taking their lives by drinking Roundup Ready herbicides. Oh, the irony.

Originally a chemical company until the late 1990s, Monsanto was a much larger ‘lifesciences’ company whose business covered chemicals, polymers, food additives and pharmaceuticals, as well as agricultural products. Historically Monsanto has been involved with the production of PCBs, DDT, dioxins and the defoliant / chemical weapon ‘Agent Orange’ (sprayed on American troops and Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War). A suit was filed against Monsanto for the debilitating effects Agent Orange had on Vietnam veterans. Over 3,000,000 servicemen were contaminated by the chemical and 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to it causing over 400,000 deaths and disabilities and 500,000 children were born with birth defects. In recent news, Monsanto’s GMO foods have been proven in laboratory studies on rats and mammals including monkeys to cause new allergies, cancer, sterility, miscarriages, seizures, and even death. And now they are trying to genetically modify wheat.

Aspartame Causes Numbing Effect On Brain

After DDT and Agent Orange were outlawed following the Vietnam War, Monsanto developed a bovine growth hormone further poisoning the populace. Europe will not buy beef from the U.S. They also manufacture Aspartame, a neurotoxin sold to the public as an artificial sweetener used in diet sodas. It has been said that before taking off in flight, pilots in the war were not allowed to consume diet sodas due to the numbing effect it has on the brain slowing reaction time and critical thinking. Aspartame is also known to cause new allergies and hives by the reported cases of the FDA. So next time you think you’re doing yourself a favor by drinking diet, just know that it’s simply another way that evil corporations like this are fooling you.

So now you have to ask yourself how a company that has caused so much pain and developed many of the most harmful chemicals known to man can produce food that is safe to eat. Hopefully this has enlightened you about the dangers of consuming foods grown from seeds made by unnatural means and the devastating effects it can have on our biological bodies. Being slowly poisoned for decades, I’m not entirely surprised at how sickly people seem to be these days and the slew of new diseases that are bombarding our populace. Let’s all try to be a little more conscious of what we are putting in our bodies and now might be a good time to consider going organic. I know I will.

List of food that may contain GMO’s