Hey Niecy - thanks for posting that article. It certainly seems to be a pretty good probability that Morgellons could be related to GM crops and foods and more and more articles are making the connection.
Here's an article regarding
the die off of honeybees worldwide and according to the article, much of the problem may be due to a pesticide from the German chemical company Bayer. The pesticide is not an organophosphate but was created with the intent of replacing organophosphates with something "safer".
The pesticide noted in the article is nicotine based and I also notice that the crops mentioned in conjunction with its use are corn and rapeseed (rapeseed is used to make canola oil). Both of these crops have been genetically modified with a pretty high (and growing) percentage of these total crops worldwide now being cultivated using GM seed. Additionally,
this pesticide is intended to end up throughout the entire tissue of plants cultivated with seed that have been treated with it with the expectation that the neurotoxins contained in the plant tissue will kill insects. I'm curious to know how much testing was done to see what effects these neurotoxins might have on humans that eat food crops from seed treated with it (by being in all the plant tissue, it is certain that we would be ingesting it from any plants treated with it). It certainly seems logical that this nicotine based pesticide could be having a negative impact human health (if not causing Morgellons, it sure seems a fair possibility that it could cause other illnesses). I also wonder about the impact of mixing this pesticide with foreign proteins already contained in GM foods - is the combination of them more dangerous than either of them by themselves? Somehow I'm betting that there have been no valid studies done to see. Here's the link with a few brief excerpts:
Bayer Pesticide Chemicals Linked to Devastating Collapse of Honeybee Populations German government researchers have concluded that a bestselling Bayer pesticide is responsible for the recent massive die-off of honeybees across the country's Baden-Württemberg region. In response, the government has banned an entire family of pesticides, fueling accusations that pesticides may be responsible for the current worldwide epidemic of honeybee die-offs.
Researchers found buildup of the pesticide clothianidin in the tissues of 99 percent of dead bees in Baden-Württemberg state. The German Research Center for Cultivated Plants concluded that nearly 97 percent of honeybee deaths had been caused directly by contact with the insecticide.
"It can unequivocally be concluded that a poisoning of the bees is due to the rub-off of the pesticide ingredient clothianidin from corn seeds," said the federal agricultural research agency, the Julius Kuehn Institute.
Clothianidin, marketed in Europe under the brand name Poncho, is a widely used insecticide in the neonicotinoid family. Like all neonicotinoids, it is a systemic pesticide that is applied to the seeds of plants and then spreads itself throughout all plant tissues. Based on nicotine, the neonicotinoids function as neurotoxins that attack the nervous systems of insects such as honeybees.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified clothianidin as "highly toxic" to honeybees. The chemical was approved for U.S. use in 2003 and German use in 2004.