(07-10-12) Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may DIE before age five, warn scientists

by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM)
wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that
some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human
liver. A recent report compiled by several acclaimed experts in the field of
genetics says that children born to parents who consume this GM wheat variety
could actually end up dying before they reach the age of five.

This shocking revelation comes at the same time as CSIRO has announced that
Australia's Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) has granted the
group approval for two field trials of both wheat and barley that have been
modified in this untested way. Since the technology directly inhibits an enzyme
in wheat that is very closely linked to glycogen, a polysaccharide produced in
the liver, consuming wheat or barley that contains these genetic alterations
will very likely lead to liver failure, and eventually death.

"If this (technology) silences the same sort of gene in us -- as it silences
in the wheat -- then, well, children who are born with this enzyme not working
tend to die by the age of about five," says Professor Judy Carman, a biochemist
and director of the IHER, Flinders University, who helped compile the report.
"And adults with this problem, just kind of get more and more sick, and more
and more tired, until they get very, very ill indeed."

Australian regulatory authorities approved field trials of deadly GM wheat
without any evidence of safety
Carman worked with both Michael Antoniou, a molecular genetics expert from
Kings College in London, and Prof. Jack Heinemann, a Lecturer in Genetics at
the University of Canterbury, to compile and present these very serious
concerns about the safety of CSIRO's GM wheat for public and expert review.
According to Heinemann, there is no evidence that CSIRO even considered the
fact that its GM wheat could obstruct glycogen production, and OGTR was
apparently unconcerned about this very serious possibility when it freely
granted the group approval for field trials.

"What we found is that the molecules created in this wheat, intended to
silence wheat genes, can match human genes," said Heinemann during a recent
press conference hosted by the Safe Food Foundation. "And through ingestion,
these molecules can enter human beings and potentially silence our genes."

You can watch that press conference here:
http://youtu.be/FI7n_caiTvE

Currently, CSIRO's GM wheat has not been approved for commercial use, which
means it is not being used in the food supply at this time. But since
Australian authorities so easily approved field trials for the "Frankenwheat"
without demanding so much as a shred of evidence that it is safe for human
consumption illustrates just how easily this genetic poison will also likely be
foisted on the public without such evidence in the very near future.

"If CSIRO cannot provide immediate and adequate responses to these issues, we
call on them to cease all field trials currently underway, stop all plans for
human feeding trials, and agree to undertake the recommended safety testing,"
says Scott Kinnear, Director of the Safe Food Foundation.

Sources for this article include:

http://au.news.yahoo.com

http://gmwatch.org

http://www.naturalnews.com/037170_GM_wheat_liver_failure_GMO.html

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