>>I think I'd like to see how much of this happens with non-GM-food too.<<
It can. That's one thing that makes leaky gut harmful. I'm not sure of the proportions. They may be the same -- or GE may be more prone to such, as hinted in some other articles where it's found to promote leaky gut.
>> Because honestly, I can't think of anything about GM DNA that would make it more likely to do this. If anything, it tends to be more fragile and liable to cleavage and digestion at the terminal ends.<<
The problem with gengineering is simply that it changes things. Those genetic differences can alter how people's bodies respond to the stuff. Wheat or corn that was acceptable before suddenly makes some people sick. Because it's not required to be labelled, those people are subjected to that new substance against their will, and their only way to avoid that is to restrict their own diet, which makes it harder to stay healthy -- especially with things like wheat and corn that not only appear as ingredients but also contaminate almost the entire foodstream.
But it gets worse. Many GE items are transgenic. That means they have genes from a whole different organism. Someone might not be allergic to the base creature but allergic to its added DNA. And what are they splicing in? Some of these patches contain DNA from shellfish or other major allergens. This is a problem.
It's a problem if it simply flails around the digestive system making people sick. But if it gets outside of that, it could do more harm. Some studies have implicated frankenfoods in systemic illnesses such as autoimmune diseases. It seems plausible that foreign DNA drifting around the body could contribute to that type of problem. So could unmodified DNA, but if GE makes this kind of leakage more common, that would correlate with the rising rate of autoimmune diseases that's happening.
It's not proof, quite. But it goes on the pile of reasons why I think GE everything should be labeled, and it's reason 1 zillion why people should not gengineer things whose genes can get loose like wind-pollinated crops.
I may not be a gengineer in this life, but I still remember the Do and Do Not list and why things are on which list. It's driving me batshit how careless people are on this planet. And I know all too well that it only takes one bad botch to wreak complete and utter havoc. Even if it's not a human disease -- even if all it does is wipe out one crop one season, that is still a tremendous amount of damage, which is totally preventable if people would just follow bioethics.
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Date: 2019-12-15 02:39 am (UTC)It can. That's one thing that makes leaky gut harmful. I'm not sure of the proportions. They may be the same -- or GE may be more prone to such, as hinted in some other articles where it's found to promote leaky gut.
>> Because honestly, I can't think of anything about GM DNA that would make it more likely to do this. If anything, it tends to be more fragile and liable to cleavage and digestion at the terminal ends.<<
The problem with gengineering is simply that it changes things. Those genetic differences can alter how people's bodies respond to the stuff. Wheat or corn that was acceptable before suddenly makes some people sick. Because it's not required to be labelled, those people are subjected to that new substance against their will, and their only way to avoid that is to restrict their own diet, which makes it harder to stay healthy -- especially with things like wheat and corn that not only appear as ingredients but also contaminate almost the entire foodstream.
But it gets worse. Many GE items are transgenic. That means they have genes from a whole different organism. Someone might not be allergic to the base creature but allergic to its added DNA. And what are they splicing in? Some of these patches contain DNA from shellfish or other major allergens. This is a problem.
It's a problem if it simply flails around the digestive system making people sick. But if it gets outside of that, it could do more harm. Some studies have implicated frankenfoods in systemic illnesses such as autoimmune diseases. It seems plausible that foreign DNA drifting around the body could contribute to that type of problem. So could unmodified DNA, but if GE makes this kind of leakage more common, that would correlate with the rising rate of autoimmune diseases that's happening.
It's not proof, quite. But it goes on the pile of reasons why I think GE everything should be labeled, and it's reason 1 zillion why people should not gengineer things whose genes can get loose like wind-pollinated crops.
I may not be a gengineer in this life, but I still remember the Do and Do Not list and why things are on which list. It's driving me batshit how careless people are on this planet. And I know all too well that it only takes one bad botch to wreak complete and utter havoc. Even if it's not a human disease -- even if all it does is wipe out one crop one season, that is still a tremendous amount of damage, which is totally preventable if people would just follow bioethics.