Thierry Vrain retired 10 years ago after a long career as a soil biologist and ended head of a department of molecular biology running his own research program to engineer nematode resistance genes in crops. In his retirement career as a gardener he learned five or six years ago how the soil ecosystem really functions and has been preaching ever since. He finds himself with a good knowledge of genetic engineering technologies surrounded by people in fear of being hurt by the food they eat. He found that he cannot ignore them anymore and has joined the campaign to educate consumers about the potential health problems reported in the recent scientific literature.
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I have been a gardener all my life thanks to my mother and grandmother. In the early 90’s I decided to go back to school and get a Biology/Botany degree. Ironically, it was the last year the school gave a degree in Botany. The total number of us in a student population of 36,000 was less than 30 and that includes Doctoral candidates. I was almost 50 then.
Flash forward 20 years to the present and I find the health and good sense of our country being compromised by companies that are concerned only with power, control and dollars. Genetics is a new science. Toxins have always existed. The problem is a rush to man-made miracles that overlooks the long-term consequences of combinging the two under the banner of one giant corporation. As a child, it was a privilege to spray my grandmother’s roses with DDT. We know how that worked. It should have been taken as one of the first warnings to keep food and toxins.
The obvious overweight, diabetic population in the US where fast foods, sugar and sweet substitutes are encouraged and promoted, as are the drugs that supposedly designed to fix those and many other physical problems.
The toxicity and organ damage to many life forms and the resistance of invasives just encourage the chemical companies to produce more of the same unless they are regulated and monitored for a very long time. But today it requires homework, and extreme caution to feed onesself or others without exacerbating this problem.
Watched this video and Thierry Vain and was very impressed by what he had to say. I am familiar with the research on the finding of antibiotic resistant bacteria in all of China’s major rivers and that genes can move horizontally. There are so many reasons why we should put a ban on GMO food that are physical reasons for the good of human beings, but there is also the reason that our crops will not be able to be traded because we are so stupid and dogmatic about this. We are trying to force our will on other countries as regards GMO food and trying to make them take it with threats. Thank goodness there are countries that are smarter than the USA right now in this regard.