{"id":2992,"date":"2017-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/professor-don-huber-the-facts-on-genetically-modified-organisms-gmos-and-the-glyphosate-trojan-horse\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:15:30","slug":"professor-don-huber-the-facts-on-genetically-modified-organisms-gmos-and-the-glyphosate-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/professor-don-huber-the-facts-on-genetically-modified-organisms-gmos-and-the-glyphosate-trojan-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Don Huber: The facts on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO\u2019s) and the Glyphosate \u2018Trojan Horse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Emeritus Don Huber, formerly of Purdue University states that there are three facts that everyone needs to understand about GE or GMOs<\/b>:\n <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. despite what the media and so-called \u201cexperts\u201d proclaim, there are NO peer-reviewed scientific papers establishing the safety of GMO crops<\/li>\n
  2. epidemiological patterns show there\u2019s an identical rise in over 30 human diseases correlated with our increased usage of glyphosate and the increased
    \n prevalence of genetically engineered proteins in our food, and<\/li>\n
  3. genetically engineered foods, as well as conventional crops that are heavily sprayed with glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s herbicide
    \n Roundup), have lower nutrient density than organic foods.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Don Huber who spoke with me at the PlanetFM studios two months ago, here in Auckland opens with the statement that NZ farmland is still basically free
    \n of GE and GMO\u2019s and relatively unpolluted with its attendant spray - glyphosate, however he states we need to make sure GMO\u2019s don\u2019t breach our borders,
    \n and that we need to keep NZ - GE Free and to make every effort to scale back our use of glyphosate - urgently. <\/p>\n

    Soil is a living entity<\/h3>\n

    The soil is a living entity in its own right - it\u2019s not just dirt. Every time you step on an acre of soil you\u2019re stepping on up to 10 or 20 tonnes of living
    \n matter. Bacteria and fungi and the micro organisms of life. (just like the trillions of microorganisms in our intestines keep us healthy too) <\/p>\n

    A Cleaner Greener New Zealand<\/h3>\n

    Don says that NZ can still be an answer to the world - because we have not contaminated a lot of our soil- yet he admits that we have some excessive chemical
    \n use in some areas - he sees that clearly and also the lack of knowledge of what these chemicals are doing. That their use makes life easier in some
    \n respects - but when farmers look at the long term process, the impact that it has on the individual, the family and the society does not actually make
    \n life easier. He says we still have an opportunity to have a working relationship with the soil, and capitalise by offering up quality organics with
    \n nutrient dense food that the rest of the world needs. <\/p>\n

    Control of World Food by Vested Interests<\/h3>\n

    He states that there is an overt attempt in many areas of the world to destroy this opportunity. The desire of vested interests for monopoly, control and
    \n power without regard for the overall consequences of these practices needs to be recognised. That we are seeing our increased vulnerability - and a
    \n lot of it is because people have forgotten - he says that where we once had simple land practices - modern day scientific farming has brought us inflammatory
    \n bowel disease , end stages kidney disease and diabetes plus the extreme epidemics that we are seeing in the US and other industrialised countries.\n <\/p>\n

    He states we have not had to experience these because we have maintained high nutrient dense food products for our animals - grass fed and not necessarily
    \n corn fed animals etc. Stating that this is the message and the information that the world needs.<\/p>\n

    Taking Traditional Breeding to a New Level<\/h3>\n

    The message that Don Huber is sharing is that we are only harvesting 25 - 30% of the genetic potential of our best crops - and he said if we took the time
    \n and energy (it does not come free) we can develop \u2018that expression\u2019 of that genetic material and do it by a traditional breeding manner, rather than
    \n the virus type of approach that we see with genetic engineering. Because we have no idea what the unintended consequences that can occur with that
    \n - are. He says we have all the systems in place to be able to do it this traditional breeding program properly. The constant looking for a \u2018silver
    \n bullet\u2019 is a mistake and it takes us further away from the natural harmony that we have been embedded in for centuries and millennia. <\/p>\n

    Impacts on Farming Communities<\/h3>\n

    Sociological impacts of small farms being bought out and amalgamated into large corporate farms is depleting the rural sector of families as people sell-out
    \n and leave the district. This is affecting farming communities across the board in NZ, the US and Australia. That the model which is growth and bigger
    \n and larger farms is not human or community friendly. The bigger the farm, the less time the farmer has to interact with one\u2019s neighbours and the community
    \n loses out. Because you are not able to spend enough time to really get to know each other and interact as neighbours.<\/p>\n

    Harmony of the Land and Community<\/h3>\n

    Being able to manage the ecology and living in harmony is an imperative. He talks of community and also that not only do crops grow but everything grows
    \n including the community in a magnitude that meets the needs of a society and the individual - so that vegetables and animals plus families can all
    \n grow together. <\/p>\n

    As a Colonel in the US Army Reserves <\/h3>\n

    As an US Army Researcher (1957-1998) he also studied many aspects of bioterrorism. Mentioning what the military thought was a critical component of a good
    \n defence was diversity - that to make sure that all our crop species were not of the same genetic makeup, as in 1970 and 71, where 70% of American corn
    \n hybrids were attacked by a fungus that developed a mutation and all 70% of the hybrids were susceptible to that disease. Yet he carries on to say that
    \n 98% of soybeans, 70% of corn, 100% of sugar beet and cotton are all 1 green or 2 gene characteristics and those genes are all to promote disease susceptibility
    \n - not resistance - none of them are designed or engineered for greater disease resistance - everyone of them have to be more susceptible to the diseases
    \n so that you can get the expression of the genetic engineered trait - that the mode of action for some of the chemicals like glyphosate - its whole
    \n mode of action - is to give the plant a bad case of aids - then they are susceptible to all the soil born pathogens and that is how \u201cround up\u201d for
    \n instance works - it is to destroy the disease resistance of those plants that receive it that haven\u2019t been engineered with an alternative.<\/p>\n

    He states that all it would take is just one simple mutation to make cotton, alfalfa, corn, soybean and canola - all those with the \u2018roundup ready gene\u2019-
    \n to be totally susceptible to a very severe disease. There are now documented over 40 diseases that are much more intense when associated with the glyphosate
    \n herbicide - because of the increased disease susceptibility - which he says leaves the US extremely vulnerable from a bioterrorist event - or for a
    \n natural event as per the Northern corn leaf blight epidemic in 1970 and 71. - Listen to the full extent of this, it is very important <\/p>\n

    Threats of Legal Action<\/h3>\n

    He talks about GE crops being a Trojan Horse and that every farmer who sows GE seeds has to sign on the dotted line that they take full responsibility
    \n for any accident or cross contamination or anything relating to that crop. Letting the GE Corporation off, of being liable if anything does get out
    \n of control. Listen to the introduction in the very 1st minute of this program<\/p>\n

    Food Essential Human Right<\/h3>\n

    He talks about agriculture being the basics of human society and survival and that that humans have to have carbohydrates, proteins, fats, plus have minerals
    \n and vitamins - without these the individual does not exist - so that when they are patented and controlled by corporate interests in the power controlling
    \n manner that we are seeing - without any liability or restrictions or controls - it leads to the downfall of the society.<\/p>\n

    The Demise of the Precautionary Principle <\/h3>\n

    Don says the precautionary principle has been thrown out the window, when once it was a very valid and viable aspect in risk management - but today there
    \n is now no consideration for it at all.<\/p>\n

    The Escape of a GE experiment gone wrong in the USA - now entering the Pacific <\/h3>\n

    http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/business\/index.ssf\/2017\/01\/grass_seed_industry_fearful_ab.html<\/a> <\/p>\n

    Professor Huber mentions the escape of \u2018creeping bent grass\u2019 - \u2018roundup ready\u2019 - engineered used primarily for golf courses - that escaped field trials
    \n up in the US - and that these grasses are very promiscuous and move along with the wind and it hybridise with other grasses and now it can not be contained.
    \n It got loose from 2 small private research locations and now is endemic in Washington, Oregon and Idaho - it\u2019s now along the Snake River in Southern
    \n Idaho and Oregon into Washington and is now totally resistant to glyphosate - the rivers flows into the North Pacific and Don says the Pacific ocean
    \n will now take it far further into the Pacific basin and that it could even be a worldwide problem. Because it plugs up irrigations systems and drainage
    \n systems - ending up as an extremely invasive weed.<\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.bluemountaineagle.com\/Local_News\/20160628\/farmers-worry-who-will-control-escaped-genetically-engineered-bentgrass<\/a> <\/p>\n

    The company Scotts Miracle-Gro - who allowed this GE experiment to escape the laboratory has been unable to eradicate it and now that it has basically
    \n contaminated the above States, farmers who have been growing organic alfalfa for instance, and then exported it to China have had China reject and
    \n return it due to the GMO contamination and there is a total legal wrangle around this due to a corrupted agenda by the status quo not being upfront
    \n and honest in taking responsibility for this unpublicised continuous disaster that continues to this moment. <\/p>\n

    Innocent Organic Farmers are Being Affected <\/h3>\n

    This means that those who have a living and a livelihood around organics are being affected by this spread and that everyone who is finding their product
    \n contaminated with this GMO bent grass, are having to bear the loss of income and or OF their business. That those who have been negatively impacted
    \n by this, need to be compensated - and so this is where the battle lines are drawn on the lack of indemnification. This is also what MSM - mainstream
    \n media remains very hushed about and as a consequence middle society either in the US, Canada, Australia or NZ know nothing about. To our collective
    \n detriment.<\/p>\n

    Don calls these so called GMO - silver bullets - as time bombs waiting to go off.<\/p>\n

    He says we have had enough time to witness the destructive behaviour of the generic experiments that have been going on around the planet.<\/p>\n

    He sees them and the deterioration of the soil - and the increased diseased problems in our plants.<\/p>\n

    GE & GMO\u2019s a Coming Major Tsunami of Health Problems<\/h3>\n

    The deterioration in the health in our animals and in humans to the point that he says we are on the threshold of a major tsunami of health problems.<\/p>\n