Based on what little scientifically determined information is available at this point regarding some of the physical anomalies of Morgellons, it seems to me that it is reasonable to suspect that Genetically Modified (GM) foods and organisms (GMO) as well as organophosphates could potentially be a direct cause of or at least a contributing factor to Morgellons as well as many other diseases and conditions that are prevalent today (including autoimmune disorders like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis as well as multi-symptom, chronic conditions like CFS, fibromyalgia, etc.). Based on recent information the potential link between GMOs, organophosphates and Morgellons becomes more and more plausible. Here are a couple of these developments:
o The presence of agrobacterium in the skin of Morgellons patients. Agrobacterium is used as the “vehicle” for transferring foreign genes into “target” plants and organisms for producing genetically modified plants and organisms. There is a good deal of evidence that agrobacterium can be left-over in the modified plants, sometimes even intentionally it appears (contrary to what we are being told by some scientists).
o Raman spectroscopy of Morgellons samples has indicated that some of the hexagonal structures from lesions are organophosphorus compounds and / or acetate. Organophosphorus compounds are used in pesticides, herbicides and fungicides as well as many other things and they are widely used on food crops and residues can be found on many foods we eat. Acetate is a chemical name for a “salt” or ester of acetic acid (acetic acid is used in the body for the production of cholesterol in the liver and is also the active ingredient in vinegar). Some GM plants have been modified to genetically produce organophosphate compounds as part of the plant tissue.
o Raman spectroscopy has also identified keratin in the lesions along with other “normal” skin proteins. Keratins are proteins that can be in the form of fibers or liquid in the human body and “keratinized” cells make up the surface of the skin and are a major part of the layers of the skin (hair and nails are also keratin for the most part). Some GM plants have also been modified to produce keratins while other plants have been modified to produce more sulfur (which is a major ingredient in producing keratins in the bodies of animals). Additionally, some plants have also been modified to produce collagens which is a similar protein to keratin and is the most prevalent protein in the human body.
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r. Wymore has identified some of the fibers associated with Morgellons as being keratin and / or having sulfur as a component. This could be somewhat natural given that skin is largely made of keratin, but based on some of the GMOs now, this could also occur from unnatural keratins that are contained in some GM crops.
While these things don’t prove that organophosphates or GM foods are a cause of Morgellons (or necessarily even related), there is a potential link between all of this that certainly should justify further research I think. While developing this theory will take a lot of time and effort, I think it is worth it and this scenario is very plausible based on many things including:
o The similar time lines and geographic similarities of the development and proliferation of GM foods versus the occurrence of Morgellons. According to some estimates, GM products are present in up to 75% of the foods available in the average grocery store in the US and they are also becoming more and more prevalent in Canada, the UK, other European countries and Australia. Maybe not so coincidentally, Morgellons is being reported by more and more people in these same places as the percentage of GM crops and foods grows as well.
o The lack of a meaningful standard for safety of GM foods allows these products to be placed into the food supply with ab-solutely NO actual testing for safety. The international “standard” (and that of the FDA) is that if these products are deemed to be “sub-stantially equivalent” with the natural version of the product, the GM products are considered to inherently safe for consumption as food (based on metabolite, protein and other “profiles” that are often performed by the companies seeking approval for their products – the FDA “trusts” them). Unquestionably this is an incredibly risky and irresponsible method (and often a very clear conflict of interest) to determine any potential negative impacts these untested foods may have on public health. While this doesn’t prove that GM foods are harmful, the real problem is that we truly have NO idea whether they are or not before they are allowed into the food supply – guessing that these modified crops are “sub-stantially equivalent” to the natural version is not my idea of insuring safety of the food supply.
o The legal prohibition on any labeling on GM foods versus truly natural foods makes it impossible for anyone to know how much of the food they consume is genetically modified and what types of modifications are present in them. The FDA and companies like Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer that produce these “foods” are very fond of saying that “there is no evidence that these products aren’t safe”. Obviously there never will be any evidence that they aren’t safe when no testing is done before they are allowed into the food supply along with dozens of other GM foods that were never tested either – there is no way to know if or which GM foods could be negatively impacting human health. It seems pretty obvious that this was at least part of the intent of making it illegal to label foods based on whether they have GM products in them – it is also illegal for companies to state on labels that the food does not contain any GM products. Thus it is near impossible to determine the actual safety of any of these GM products since there is no way for anyone to tell if or how much GM foods (or what types) they actually consume.
o There are many cases where experimental seed plots of genetically modified plants have infected surrounding natural plants through pollenization and other means. This has occurred with experimental strains of food crops that contaminated most of the food supply for that type of crop here in the US even. Much of this has occurred through sheer carelessness and neglect of the federal regulatory agencies that are supposed to be overseeing this activity and there is no reason to believe that the companies producing these products are any less careless today (or that the federal government is doing any better in monitoring). Although GM foods weren’t officially allowed into the human food supply until 1994 in the US, they were being used as animal feed long before that so no one truly knows how long or how much the food supply was contaminated with GMOs prior to that time. There truly is no way to even guess exactly what we are eating today without DNA testing on every meal we eat.
I’ll add more specific information to this thread as time allows and hopefully many people will be able to contribute to it. Here are some links from the forum that discuss some parts of this theory for those that might be interested.
Mark Darrah (Stonybrook) - initial Research findings Morgellons Article on World Net Daily Why Wymore may be dissing Morgellons Food Connection
And, for anyone interested in how strange some of these genetic modifications can be, here is a link to a cactus that was genetically modified with keratin genes to grow human hair instead of spines (and there are several other cases where keratin genes have been added to GM plants that I’ll post on later) – scroll down to the bottom of the page for a photo of the cactus with “human” hair:
c-lab | THE CACTUS PROJECT
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