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Food Health
which is a bacteria found biotech companies, created the
in algae, the stomachs of Transgenic Terminator gene
caterpillars, animal feces and a of Genetic Use Restriction
number of other sources. This Technology (GURT) to make
bacteria produces a crystal the GMO plants sterile after
which when ingested can you plant them for the first
destroy the stomach lining of season.
pests like aphids, worms, moths This ensures that the GMO
and mosquitos, which results in seed produces once and
their death by malnutrition. thereafter becomes sterile and
cannot be reproduce again so
On discovering this crystal, that the farmer is forced to go
#Monsanto genetically back and rebuy seeds every
engineered the genes of the season.
Bacterium Thurgiensis into
maize, cotton and soya to The second thing is in the
enable them to produce this first season, the GMO plant
crystal (pesticide) that kills produces pollen which can
pests that feed on them. drift through the air to cross-
pollinate other GMOs or
As a consequence, today nonGMO crops in a radius of
we now have BT maize, BT up to 60km. Those pollinated
cotton and BT soya owned crops will then flower and
by Monsanto and the BT produce fruit which then turns
abbreviation represents the into GMO seeds if the fruit
Bacterium Thurgiensis now is not harvested. That seed in
found in the plant. turn inherits the characteristics
of the more dominant GMO
Rutendo Matinyarare, Founder mother plant to include the
of Frontline Strat Marketing To protect these DNA
Consultancy. improvements from being terminator gene which makes it
reproduced and benefiting sterile.
farmers for a lift-time without
people’s bodies to produce coming back to rebuy the This way, as intended by Henry
spike proteins to activate their seeds, and to advance U.S. Kissinger and other American
immunity to fight COVID. scientists, the GMO crops can
government’s strategy of
controlling global food. be used to destroy other nations
The most common food The U.S. Department of nonGMO seed-stock through
genetic modification comes Agriculture, Agriculture cross-pollination, the moment
from Bacterium Thuringiensis, they grow these GMOs in their
Research Service and some
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