Why/How Genetic-modification

FREE showing of movie THE FUTURE OF FOOD

This limited time-frame (18th of October) should be enough time for most of us to get the idea of the reality behind this terrible “HOAX” under which we have been forced to live out our lives — without truthful information upon which we could otherwise make different choices which would automatically improve our lives and health and that of our future generations.  I am grateful that we have someone like Dr Joseph Mercola who is always out there, digging to acquire the necessary news,  scientific developments and able to share them with everyone.  Grateful that he puts his resources to such good use.  Thank you for this Dr Mercola, once again.  

 

Every Time You Eat This, You’re Engaging in a Risky DNA Experiment
It’s perhaps the biggest biological experiment humanity has ever seen, and the effects are complex and unpredictable, with pieces of DNA interact with each other in unexpected and potentially dangerous ways. Be careful: here are some of the side effects.

Jan’s musings. .  .   .    .    

 .  .    .   most of us attribute ‘life force’ and our lives to nature — designed by GOD.   .  .  give thanks with gratitude for this gift.  It seems to run on  ‘electrical energy’ and of course the dynamics of a magnetic equilibrium held in place by our celestial SUN which also gives  life and warms us all and enables thriving on our planet.   We live in an electrical world.  Our bodies are balanced and utilize an electrical energy as well.  Perhaps most of us can never really understand how all this came to be, how it was done all those millions of years ago.   But it has worked very well. . . it is good.   Without the force of ‘opposition,’  always present, we couldn’t know the meaning of harmony. . . and continue to strive for it.   So it is a given there are great forces known and unknown ever at work.   Live and learn.

Lately, we are learning that many are attempting to alter nature to a detrimental effect — — through the use of “Chemicals.”    More and more chemicals are impacting and changing our lives. . . not just here, but the world over and the consequences are not good, evidently as we can tell by the results.   While we as a species, were mostly born and lived healthy in our electrical world, as we become more chemicalized our problems have mounted and are not only impacting our individual lives and abilities, but polluting the earth, air and waters of our world so that our entire planet and all the species herein are in jeopardy.  

We must become more aware and start taking responsibility.  .   .    just sayin,’  .  .  Jan

 

GMO’s, the lies we live with

Consumers can’t find GMOs on food labels

    So To Speak   Joe Blundo

         The Columbus Dispatch

   Food manufacturers don’t want you to know what you’re eating.   How 19th-century of them.  

Consumer Reports magazine   — which looks out for the public because our political system is too corrupt to do so   — released a study this week on which foods contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.  

The answer: A lot of them.  

The magazine says it found GMOs in packaged foods such as Kellogg’s Froot Loops, General Mills Corn Chex, Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix and Boca Original Vegan Veggie Burgers.  

• Products labeled “natural” have them. So do infant formulas.  

Food manufacturers want to keep the information a secret, and no regulations require them to disclose it on labels.   You can find out to the gram how much sodium you are consuming but not anything on the presence of GMOs.  

GMOs refer to plants and animals that have been genetically engineered.  

The genes of corn and soybeans, for example, are manipulated to withstand the herbicides that kill weeds.   As noted by Consumers Union, the policy division of   Consumer Reports, the same type of engineering has also involved moving “arctic-flounder genes into tomatoes, human genes into rice and spider silk genes into goats.”  

That doesn’t sound natural to me.  

Food-industry experts say their research shows that GMOs are safe to eat.  

Our government basically takes their word for it. It does no independent testing — unlike some other countries, where both testing and labeling are routine.  

Some studies have raised health concerns about GMOs, but the findings are disputed.  

• Not in dispute is that people absolutely want to know what they’re eating. A survey by   Consumer Reports found that 92 percent of Americans think foods containing GMOs should be labeled as such.  

So why no labeling? Because the food and agriculture industries have enormous political influence, and you don’t.  

Those industries know that consumers are suspicious of GMOs, so they spend lavishly to elect compliant legislators and fight labeling laws. They spent millions of dollars (to be fair, so did labeling proponents) to defeat ballot initiatives in California and Washington that would have required the disclosure of GMOs. They’re doing the same this fall to stop labeling in Oregon.  

What is a consumer to do?   Consumer Reports found the “organic” label to be a reliable indicator of an absence of GMOs.   Where does that leave people who can’t afford to buy organic food?   Without a simple way to determine exactly what they’re eating.   Sound unfair?   That’s just the way the food industry wants it.

(My comment:

Joe Blundo tells it like it is,  there would be few if any who could tell it simpler and get the job done.   Jan) 

 

1st Baby / transplanted-womb

Transplant

Donated-womb baby is only the first

By Maria Cheng ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEN JARY ASSOCIATED PRESS   His mom says Vincent, the first baby born after a womb transplant, makes sounds more like a kitten.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The world’s first baby born from a transplanted womb will have company soon.

Two more women who became pregnant after having womb transplants are due to deliver in the next few weeks — and that could be the start of a wave of babies born this way, say the Swedish doctors who pioneered the technique.

“It means a lot to me that we are able to help patients who have tried for so long to have families,” said Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Gothenburg, who led the project that brought about last month’s pioneering birth. “This is the last piece of the puzzle in finding a treatment for all women with infertility problems.”

Brannstrom predicted that there soon would be many more babies born to women who have received donated wombs in countries where doctors are studying the technique, including the United States, Australia, Britain, China and Japan.

Brannstrom said he also has started work on trying to grow a womb in the lab. That involves taking a womb from a deceased donor, stripping it of its DNA, then using cells from the recipient to line the structure. He has started preliminary tests in animals and estimated that it would be five years before the technique could be tried on people.

While that might sound like science fiction, the techniques that led to the birth announced last week also sounded outlandish just years ago. “It makes what was formerly impossible possible,” said Dr. Nannette Santoro, chairwoman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado. She was not involved in Brannstrom’s research.

The happy couple in Sweden named their son Vincent — which means to conquer — to celebrate a victory over their difficult journey to parenthood.
Welcoming a reporter into her home, the mother cradled her sleeping baby in a stylish kitchen where an errant pacifier on the counter was one of the only clues that a newborn was around.

She said she still could not believe she is a mother, after discovering at 15 that she had no womb and being told that she would never carry her own children. Now 36, she was one of nine women to receive a transplanted womb last year in a groundbreaking trial led by Brannstrom.   The mother spoke on condition that the exact location of her home not be revealed;  and said she never thought she might be the first to deliver a baby from a transplanted womb.

Her husband said the couple will be forever grateful to the 61-year-old woman who donated her uterus, the mother of one of his best friends. The woman — now the boy’s godmother — made the offer after hearing about the difficulties the young couple was having in starting a family.    “What she did for us was so amazing and selfless that the words thank you don’t seem like enough,” the father said.

These days, the new parents are busy marveling at their baby’s expressive face and remarkably calm nature.   “He doesn’t really scream but he makes these funny little sounds,” the mother said, comparing him to a kitten. Although his crib has a welcoming teddy bear and blankets, she said her son prefers to sleep between his parents in their bed.

She and her husband said they haven’t quite figured out how they will tell their son that he made medical history.   “We will show him all the articles that were written and tell him everything we went through to get him,” she said. “Maybe he will be inspired to become a doctor.”

(My Comment:  

This is so remarkable. . .and so difficult to wrap my mind around.   Also, the concept of being born without a uterus – – how does this happen?  Can’t even imagine living with that!   I had longed for the day that I could have a child since I was quite young,  but after 7 years, I had kinda accepted that it wasn’t going to happen.   We had been through it all and nothing was wrong with either one of us we were told.  We had a good life and were happy, fully engaged, but for me, this longing, the void. . . didn’t go away.  

Was busy showing my Silky Terrier “Marko” to championship, first west of the Rockies and third in country  (having emerged from the Miscellaneous category), so I was happy, busy and excited (never done such a thing before). . .so not having a baby wasn’t on my mind.  When I began to feel funny, my doctor took a look at me  and then rang me up a few days later with the news that I was in fact on target for a child. . . at last.    Other than morning sickness which lasted all day til almost dinner time for months, it was a great pregnancy without a problem, but of course I didn’t eat much and was on fire with activity.  Had to put together my new life for a baby, and I did it all like some kind of mad woman. . . .what fun it was. . . .    .     .  so long ago.     Jan