\r\nThe report also clarifies that these GMOs are quite different than\r\ntraditional hybrids.\r\nRoundup-Ready GMOs have had a specific bacterial gene inserted\r\nthat itself produces a toxin and makes the plant less susceptible\r\nto the toxins then poured on it.\r\n
\r\n\r\nAlthough wheat has been hybridized over the years, it is not a\r\ngenetically modified organism (GMO), which can only be created by a\r\nlaboratory process that inserts genetic material into plant DNA.\r\nThere are nine GMO food crops currently being grown for commercial\r\nuse: soy, corn, cotton (oil), canola (oil), sugar from sugar beets,\r\nzucchini, yellow squash, Hawaiian papaya, and alfalfa.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nMost GMOs are engineered to tolerate a weed killer called glyphosate\r\n(Roundup\u00ae). They contain high levels of this toxin at harvest. Corn\r\nand cotton varieties are also engineered to produce an insecticide\r\ncalled Bt-toxin. The report focuses primarily on the effects of\r\nthese two toxins.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nExecutive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology,\r\nJeffrey Smith, explains, “The Bt-toxin in corn is designed to\r\npuncture holes in insect cells, but studies show it does the same in\r\nhuman cells. Bt-toxin may be linked to leaky gut, which physicians\r\nconsistently see in gluten-sensitive patients.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\nSo, which would you rather have?\r\nIncreased risk of at least five medical conditions,\r\nor food that tastes better, is healthier in general,\r\nand doesn’t give you those conditions?\r\n
\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Likely effects of dousing 90+% of all corn, soybeans, peanuts, and cotton grown in Georgia (and elsewhere) in Roundup and other toxic chemicals, often drifting onto other people’s land, schools, shops, and churches. It’s not that hard to grow the same crops without those poisons and without the toxic seeds that require them; not that […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,88,9,13],"tags":[2762,1000,2465,2464,2463,93,515,3,2462,2763,902,2467,1786,179,2767,1536,2466,723],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrochemicals","category-corn","category-glysophate","category-soybeans","tag-agrochemicals","tag-alfalfa","tag-beets","tag-canola","tag-celiac-disease","tag-corn-2","tag-cotton","tag-georgia","tag-gluten","tag-glysophate","tag-gmo","tag-hawaiian-papaya","tag-oil","tag-roundup","tag-soybeans","tag-sugar","tag-yellow-swuash","tag-zucchini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\r\nThe IRT release also indicated that glyphosate, a weed killer sold\r\nunder the brand name ‘Roundup’ was also found to have a negative\r\neffect on intestinal bacteria. GMO crops contain high levels of the\r\ntoxin at harvest.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
![](\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/16\/Jeffrey_Smith_2013.jpg\/220px-Jeffrey_Smith_2013.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\n“Gluten sensitivity can range in severity from mild\r\ndiscomfort, such as gas and bloating, to celiac disease, a serious\r\nautoimmune condition that can, if undiagnosed, result in a 4-fold\r\nincrease in death,” said Jeffrey M. Smith, executive director\r\nof IRT in a statement released on their website.\r\n<\/p>\r\n