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the intended removal of personal exemp- people aware of the dangers of GMOs Organic Center revealed “GE [geneti-
tions from the vaccination requirements than the dangers of vaccines. At a re- cally engineered] crops have increased
for attending public schools. cent march against GMOs, I talked to overall pesticide use by 318.4 million
A main reason for our being in- participants who were pro-vaccine and pounds over the first thirteen years of
volved is the experience of our grand- completely unaware that many vaccines commercial use” (livinghistoryfarm.
daughter who lives in California. She are actually genetically modified. (Since org/farminginthe70s/pests_08.html). In
experienced a severe adverse reaction 1991, the Hep B shot, given within the same way, vaccines were introduced
to an MMR vaccination earlier this twenty-four hours of birth, is genetically under the guise of reducing the need
year. This adverse reaction has been modified—the Hep B virus is combined for medical care because the recipients
documented and reported to the CDC with yeast). wouldn’t get the diseases the shots al-
by our granddaughter’s pediatrician. Scientists at the University of Ge- leged to prevent. As the years go by, we
We also followed the April 15th neva (1971) discovered that biological have more and more chronic childhood
hearing of the California Senate Educa- substances entering directly into the illness and adult autoimmune disorders
tion Committee on SB277 via livestream blood stream can become a part of us requiring more and more treatment.
and were gratified that several of the and even a part of our genetic material. This is a critical time; our right to
hundreds of persons speaking up against “The Geneva scientists are convinced control what is and isn’t injected into
the proposed bill mentioned their as- that normal animal and plant cells also our bodies is at great risk. To maintain
sociation with the Weston A. Price shed DNA and that this DNA is also that right, we must enlist support from
Foundation. taken up by other cells in the organism. everyone. I see how passionate the anti-
Hans Diessel If they are right, the consequences to GMO activists are at marches and other
Davidson, North Carolina virtually every aspect of a cell’s me- gatherings. It is my hope that once they
tabolism would be considerable. The see that they, too, have been genetically
VACCINES AND GMOs growth and development, diseases, and modified through vaccination, we can
I’m struggling to see how vaccines even the evolution of an organism would all join together to take on this very
are that different from food that’s altered be affected” (vaccinechoicecanada.com/ dangerous myth of vaccine safety.
through genetic modification. The intent doctors-speak/vaccines-and-genetic- Lisa A. Middlecamp-Lowder, PhD
may be different, but the final result is mutation/). Chapter Leader, Muskegon, Michigan
similar. If a GMO is the result of genes Verschaeve, L., and others (Envi-
from the DNA of one species artificially ronmental Research, “Genetic Dam- VACCINATIONS AND IMMUNITY
forced into the genes of an unrelated age Induced by Occupationally Low I live in New Jersey and while all
plant or animal, how far is this from the Mercury Exposure,” 12:306) found a my children have been vaccinated, I do
process of vaccination in humans? “significant correlation between the not want to continue. My son would like
Vaccines contain the DNA of patho- amount of mercury in the body and to do an EMT course this summer and
genic viruses grown on cell cultures of the number of DNA aberrations.” This he would need to get a flu shot in order
humans, chickens, monkeys and cows. also supports the idea in my mind that to take the class. If the state gets rid of
This DNA and foreign cells are injected vaccines cause humans to be GMOs as the religious exemption, I will not allow
directly into the blood stream of the genes are being modified by at least one him to take this course.
vaccine recipient, bypassing any innate of the preservatives used in vaccines. I did not know anything about the
protection the body has. Logic tells me The process is a bit different, but the anti-vaccine side of the argument be-
that is very similar to how GMOs are end result is unnatural changes to the cause I was getting all my information
created. And just as in GMO food, the genome. from the New York Times, WNYC and
blood has never before been exposed to When GMO crops were introduced, NPR, until it became very clear that
this DNA in the natural environment. we were told they would reduce the need those media outlets were not giving me
From what I’ve seen there are more for pesticides. In 2009, however, the all the information. I finally found Dr.
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