If you are in California, please vote YES on 37. -Updated

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68. What your child drank was a preparation of B.t.

produced by the bacteria. The bacteria produces a protoxin that forms a crystal structure when fermented properly. The crystal will only dissolve into toxin if it is in an insect gut or a solution that has a pH over 10. Mammalian stomachs are typically acidic (less than ph7) and so the crystal does not dissolve. It biodegrades and that is why it is so safe. But at the fermentation facility a lot of testing goes on. Each batch is sent for mouse toxicity testing as living things can mutate.

What the genetic engineers did was insert the gene that codes for the actual toxin into the plants and did not test how the toxin biodegrades or even perform the simplest toxicity testing on it all the while making the claim that it was the same as the crystal toxin. It is not the same. They had no information on it. This was just one rash act by these so called scientists. Right now they are finding this toxin in blood of women and babies in Canada. Who knows what this means. Why weren't these things tested 30 years ago?!!!!!! Why aren't they being tested now? 30 years ago a whole group of scientists resigned from the EPA over this. I testified. They would listen to no reason. They seemed to be totally bought off. When I asked about testing seed lots for mammalian toxicity in case of mutation, as the fermented product is required by them to perform they looked at me and said "why would the gene mutate?" I was just speechless.

I do not like eating foods sprayed with glyphosate either as there were never any residue levels calculated for tolerance as no plant had ever survived round up before.

The industry will be destroyed unless they change, initiate testing and labeling.