Tifton-85 grass is not genetically engineered

Here's a summary of what I learned at the cyanide grass ranch in Elgin

Cyanide has been used in chemical fertilizers

Veterinarian says cyanide gas production from forage grass isn't uncommon

Possible theories on what's happening here

Conclusion

(NaturalNews) Today I visited the ranch of Jerry Abel in Elgin, Texas, site of the mysterious death of 15 cattle after exposure to cyanide gas spontaneously produced by hybridized Bermuda - Tifton-85 forage grasses. This is a story with nationwide interest, having also been covered by CBS News and others ( http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57459357... ).Along with Darrin McBreen from InfoWars.com, who was also present at the farm today, we spoke with Jerry and his wife about the bizarre events that have unfolded there.There are some mysterious facts surrounding this incident, including the sudden disappearance of a document by Dr. Larry Redmon, entitled, "Potential Toxicity Issues with Tifton 85 Bermuda grass." Earlier this morning, that document was suddenly pulled from the Hays County Agriculture & Natural Resources web page. It originally appeared here: http://haysagriculture.blogspot.com/2012/06/... As of this writing, that page now reads, "Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist."InfoWars researchers, however, were able to acquire this report from another source, and they provided it to NaturalNews. It states:Three things are important to note in this statement:1) This outbreak of cyanide gas producing grass has never been reported before. This is a first, at least in this report.2) The cyanide gas produced by the grass did, indeed, kill the cattle.3) This is happening onThis report quotes a farm in Bastrop, Texas. The ranch I visited where other cattle perished is in Elgin, Texas. In Elgin, the rancher there told me thattested positive for cyanide gas production.There is all sorts of misinformation on this point all across the internet, and I will no doubt be accused of being an alien lizard Illuminati priest for daring to say something is not GMO, but from all the experts I read on this issue,It is a hybridized grass, not genetically engineered. There's a huge difference in this. Hybridization means the grass was cross-bred with another grass to produce a sterile new strain with desired traits. Genetic engineering, on the other hand, means inserting genetic material into the DNA of the plant, often from an insect or animal, in order to generate a completely artificial phenotype expression, such as generating pesticides in a corn crop.I also posed this question to Jeffrey Smith: Is there any evidence that Tifton-85 grass is genetically engineered?He responded, "I have not heard of any commercialized GM grass. So I doubt it's a GMO ."Other evidence pointing to the non-GMO status of this grass is that the owner of the ranch in question, Jerry Abel, told me, and it's been baled every year since then, growing back on its own and basically just acting like a very boring field of forage for cattle.If this is true, 15 years ago there was no GMO forage grass, so that would exclude GMOs from the original grasses put into the field. This doesn't exclude possible GMO contamination from outside the field, but it is at least evidence that GMOs were not originally put into the field.Unless, of course, you believe Jerry Able is a secret government agent plotting to destroy the world with an experimental deadly gas crop. This idea is absurd, of course, and when I met Jerry Abel and his wife in person, they looked 100 percent like authentic Texas ranchers to me. No evidence of any cover-up, no conspiracy, no foul play whatsoever. Just an open field, some grass, a couple of ranchers, and a whole lot of grasshoppers.• The Tifton-85 grass was planted in those fields 15 - 18 years ago, long before the experimental phase of GMO grasses.• One of his fields tested negative for cyanide gas. Another field tested positive. Exact same grass, different results.• Jerry Abel says he did not add any seeds to the field at any time.• The only thing Mr. Abel added to the field -- and I believe this may be a possible answer to all this -- is. It is traditional in central Texas to spray chemical fertilizers on your hay fields once or twice a year.According to Will Allen, author ofThis company, Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers, producesin Australia: http://www.csbp.com.au/ In China, the Daesing Chemicals Co., Ltd. produces all the following:- Potassium Cyanide- Sodium Cyanide- Sulfuric Acid / Sulphuric Acid- Hyaluronic Acid- Potassium Chloride fertilizerSimilarly, the XiAn YaXin Chemical Co., Ltd. produces sodium cyanide with the following description:Molecular Formula: NaCNMolecular weight: 49.01Melting point: 563.7Item StandardNaCN - 98.0% minNaOH - 0.5% maxInfoWars.com investigators Darrin McBreen and Rob Jacobson met with Elgin veterinarian Gary Warner at the Elgin Veterinarian Hospital on Hwy 290 East. ( http://www.elginveterinaryhospital.com/bov_s... He told them that cyanide gas production from forage grasses is "nothing unusual," and he's heard many reports of other grasses over the years. However, he said that he had never heard of Bermuda grass producing cyanide gas, so that's a new one to him.InfoWars ( www.InfoWars.com ) is also working on a report on this subject and may have that posted shortly.After assessing the situation on site, talking to the rancher, reading up on these grasses and conducting additional research, I believe one possible explanation for these events is as follows:, labeled as "nitrogen."The plants simply metabolized and then off-gassed the cyanide. When consumed by the cows, it killed them.Another possible theory is that last year's drought turned into this year's cyanide poisoning. The University of Wyoming writes: ( http://www.uwyo.edu/ces/psas/smrr/prussic.ht... One more theory is that a GMO experiment on Bermuda grasses may have already caused genetic pollution that mutated the grass. This description of a GMO experiment that was ended in 2007 contains some interesting language: ( http://www.reeis.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpag... There is no evidence, however, that this experiment in Florida from 2007 has anything to do with Tifton-85 grass in Central Texas in 2012.I don't claim to have all the answers here, but what I saw with my own two eyes at this ranch in Elgin, Texas was nothing out of the ordinary, and the most likely explanation for all this seems that the fertilizer contained extra cyanide, or that this was the result of last year's extreme drought in the region.I know that some of the more imaginative readers on the 'net may have hoped that I would uncover some grand conspiracy behind the cyanide Tifton grass in Elgin, but as always, I can only report what I believe to be true and factual, and in this case there appears to be no GMO, no conspiracy, no secret experiments, and really nothing that amazing at all.Thank goodness, because for a while, I was concerned that this might spread and we would be dealing with a runaway epidemic of cyanide-producing grass... "The Happening," where nature fights back against humanity. Because imagine: What would we do if the grass and the trees really did start producing poison gas that killed humans? We'd all be gone within days.