Insecticides lead to reduced intelligence

To the editor:

What could be more brilliant than going to the silent source of order, the blueprint, the DNA within the plant, to create positive advances in agriculture and medicine? Imprecision has created unintended consequences. For example, a corrective gene may miss its target, the defective gene, and hit an essential gene, mutating it (Fagan 1995).

From Iowa State University, research finds the corn borer has become resistant to Cry3Bb1 protein in GE corn (Gassman 2011). Thus the corn borer may eat up the roots of the genetically engineered corn in critical ag states.

Rigorous statistical analysis of Monsanto?s own research finds critical flaws. For example, by measuring one variable, ?mouse,? instead of two variables, ?female mouse? and ?male mouse,? Monsanto completely missed that MON 810 with Cry1Ab causes severe liver damage to the male mouse, but not to the female mouse (de Vendômois 2009).

Glyphosate causes embryonic malformations in chickens and amphibians (Paganelli 2010), similar to that found in human mothers exposed to Roundup (glyphosate) spraying.

Reproductive Toxicology (Aris 2011) proves the resilient Cry1Ab protein insecticide has worked its way through the food chain into the blood of pregnant women, and is passing through the fetal cord to the fetus. Prenatal exposure to insecticides is a common cause of loss of IQ.

Glyphosate has wiped out 90 percent of the Midwest?s milkweed, devastating the Midwest monarch butterfly population (Brower 2011).

Sixty percent of U.S. Midwest rain and air samples contain significant amounts of glyphosate (Capel 2011).

Shanghai students have the highest scores in the international PISA math science test. The U.S. has nearly bottomed out, except in isolated schools like MSAE.

The 1995 World Food Prize Foundation Award, administered in Des Moines, Iowa, was presented to internationally renowned Swiss scientist, Dr. Hans Herren.

In Africa, Dr. Hans Herren has successfully integrated perimeter zone plants with natural aromas that repel maize insect pests. Also a compatible low growing plant with deep growing roots is planted with the maize, to prevent soil erosion, and to replenish vital micro-nutrients in the soil, which are depleted in American soils. Dr. Herron also introduced a natural pest, an endoparasitic wasp, which killed off the African mealybug which threatened to destroy the food staple (the cassava root) of 200 million Africans.

But please have mercy on champion American farmers who can?t break out of their contracts with Monsanto.

Eighth graders can learn the genetic probability (4x4) matrix (Backofen 2000) by using a four season playoff between the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies, and White Sox to represent thymine, adenine, guanine, and cytosine. With Babe Rube playing for the Yankees, we could have P = 6/8 = 60/80 = 600/800, or six wins out of eight games against the Red Sox. This bacterial DNA strand will have a 6/8 ratio of thymine/adenine sequence pairs.

Thirty-two eighth grade Indian classical flute players can compose the musical signature of the bacterial DNA strand made of 64 DNA triplets which creates protein insecticide Cry1Ab. On the Indian flute, the left fingers can represent thymine / thymine / thymine and the right fingers, adenine / adenine / adenine, for example.

The champion U.S. Monarch, the U.S. student can perhaps inspire the solutions, with the grace of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Monarch.

? Will M. Davis, Fairfield