Hey Hilly (and everyone else) – thanks for posting that article. It’s encouraging to see that Prince Charles is using his position to fight against GMOs over there – hopefully it will eventually have some impact here in the states as well as in the UK. Maybe he can help expose and publicize some of the obvious problems and dangers of these monstrosities and also expose the FACT that pure greed is the actual factor driving the spread of these mutant creations being masqueraded as “biotechnology”. I’ve been continuing research on this subject and have a bit more information to present on this thread that I think illustrates
the lies the public is being told by our own governments and the companies producing these GMOs in order to line their own pockets with money at the expense of public health. According to the companies producing this garbage, GM crops were supposed to increase yields and result in less pesticide and herbicide applications. However, this is not the reality of GM crops as noted in much research.
The article in the link below notes that GM crop yields are significantly lower than traditional crop yields and also notes that GM crops increasingly require much higher applications of different pesticides because “secondary” plant predators have become a much more widespread problem (the Bt cotton and other crops can kill some of the primary insects, but this has only opened the way for other insects to feed on these crops, so other insecticides have to be used in an attempt to kill of these secondary predators).
GM yields not improved
New Soil Association report shows GM crops do not yield more - sometimes less « Food Democracy
Another problem that is being created by Roundup Ready (RR) crops is that the genetically modified crops have apparently pollinated with several varieties of weeds and transferred the genetic modifications that make them resistant to glyphosate (roundup). Many of these weeds have historically been a problem for these crops and now are becoming a bigger problem because they are more difficult than ever to kill (and they were already notoriously difficult to kill to begin with). Thus,
farmers are now faced with weeds that roundup won’t readily kill and they either have to greatly increase the application of roundup or use other methods including different herbicides or plowing the weeds under. All of these methods greatly increase expense to the farmers, and plowing the weeds under is practically impossible once the cotton starts to increase in height (and the extra tilling of the soil can lead to increased soil erosion). Here’s an article that discusses this in detail:
Glyphosate-resistant weeds burden growers’ pocketbooks
The following information specifically points to more potential connections between Morgellons and GMOs in my opinion. One of the other things I’ve been wondering about lately is the introduction of animal proteins like keratin into genetically modified cotton.
Some strains of cotton have been genetically modified with rabbit DNA to produce keratin fibers as part of the cotton (like the fur of rabbits, which is supposed to make the cotton softer and also add properties like wrinkle resistance). The next link notes that China started a large program to grow this genetically modified cotton in 1999, so there is likely a lot of this cotton in the clothes we wear today (and there apparently is no viable way for consumers to tell what products do or don’t contain this GM cotton).
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China It seems quite logical to me that having rabbit keratin in GM cotton could readily attract rabbit mites to infest the cotton as well as any products made from this GM cotton. Thus, it seems like a very reasonable possibility that the cotton clothes we wear could be attracting parasites to our bodies that normal cotton wouldn’t attract (and these mites could just make themselves at home feeding on human keratins, some of which are similar to rabbit keratins – the human body has at least 26 known types of keratins). Rabbit mites feed on the fur of rabbits which is made of keratin and the same keratins that rabbit fur is made of is now part of this genetically modified cotton.
Many mites of all types feed on keratin (bird mites feed on feathers which are keratin – and human hair and the surface of human skin are made of keratin as well). I think it is quite conceivable that the keratin in this GM cotton could be a vehicle for mites to transfer to humans more readily – they may be attracted to the rabbit “fur-like” keratin in the cotton and because the cotton is worn next to our skin, the mites may see our skin as a natural extension (like the skin of rabbits they would normally infest). The next link discusses rabbit mites and notes that some of these mites can infest humans as well (and there are numerous sites discussing how rabbit mites and other mites feed on keratin).
Fur Mites in Rabbits
The next link is to a book that discusses human parasites and this link specifically notes that
many human parasites feed on keratin in the human body. The Parasites of Homo Sapiens: An ... - Google Book Search Aside from the problems mites themselves can create for humans, it is also well established that mites often carry fungal spores and bacteria as well. Here are a couple of links documenting that mites can transfer these pathogens to humans and animals. The first link is to an abstract that notes that mites carry all kinds of bacteria, fungi, etc. that could potentially effect human hosts.
PARASITES AND PATHOGENS OF MITES - Annual Review of Entomology, 43(1):449 - Abstract
The next link discusses tularemia (rabbit fever) and notes that it can be spread by mites, ticks etc. Tularemia is caused by a bacterium that can be carried by mites (obviously there are all kinds of bacteria and other pathogens that can be carried by mites). Apparently medical science has not spent a lot of effort researching how many different types of bacteria / fungi / viruses can be carried by mites based on the little information that seems to be available, but I would think mites could logically be a source for Lyme spirochetes or similar types of bacteria and blood borne parasites as well.
DNR - Tularemia
I haven’t been able to locate any specific information that rabbit mites are actually attracted to cotton that has been genetically modified with the genes to produce rabbit keratin, but it seems quite logical to me that this could occur (I’m also guessing that scientists never considered this possibility (or even wanted to consider it) before putting these products on the market either). And science still doesn’t have much of an understanding of bacterial / viral / fungal infections and how insects and other parasites including mites can be the vectors for human infection with many of these pathogens.
Much less does science have any understanding of the actual impacts of these GMOs on normal insects and parasites, and how these things can ultimately effect humans.
My guess is that this is yet another case where “scientists” failed to consider the potential problems that could result from these careless genetic manipulations. That’s the real problem I see with so much of the GMOs – the people doing these modifications truly have no idea of and very little concern for any of the potential impacts these mutant organisms could have on humans and the overall balance of nature. And the government agencies that are charged with regulating this type of thing to protect the public have literally sold out the public they are supposed to be protecting.