Often, I write that we live in a world of poisons. Some, if not all, of the foods we eat have naturally occurring poisons in them. These are defence mechanisms through which the plants and food crops protect themselves against pests and other environmental hazards. Today, I feel urged to write that we live in a poisoned world, that mankind has willfully added dangerous poisons and toxins to the food we eat, air we breathe and the water we drink. We encounter them everyday in pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides, among others. Now, new brands of food poisons are coming to our dining tables through genetically modified foods. If you doubt that man has poisoned his world and food, and that almost everything we now call food is heavily laden with rat poison type chemicals, please ask Koffi Bartel and Maria Okon. They are programmes presenters on Nigeria Info 90.3 FM radio station in Lagos. Recently, and on separated programmes, they interviewed Dr. Segun Adebayo, a natural food advocate , and, literally speaking, the air waves were filled with Worms!
Dr. Adeyemo is a champion of growing efforts to protect Nigeria against the invasion of GMO foods, to which some government officials are yielding. He revealed in that interview that the Director-General of NAFDAC (National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control), Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, described GMO foods as hardly better than pesticides or rat killers. At that time, her counterpart at the NDLEA, (National Drug Law Enforcement Agency), debunked NAFDACâs arguments that GMO foods were unsafe. That meant two federal agencies which decided the safety of whatever went into our mouths did not know what to tell us to make of GMO foods. Such differences are not unique to Nigeria. Globally, there are protagonists and antagonists of any new cause. Did we not witness this with COVID-19 vaccination? Both sides of the divide in any encounter bring up scientific evidence to push their agenda. In such a battle situation, I âborrow myself senseâ, as we say in Nigeria, by avoiding the bone of contention. As a student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1977, I stopped eating white flour bread after I read the 196-page 90 days to a better heart, by John X Loughran which I bought from the universityâs library. It was the story of hypertension, high blood cholesterol, damaged blood vessels, low stamina, weak heart etc reportedly caused by white flour to make bread from which Lecithin,Vitamin E and Chromium, among other food nutrients, had been removed. It was the story, also, of regeneration to health through the replacement of white flour bread with whole wheat bread. In the 1980s, I became one of the faithful patrons of a Lagos food facility which made wheat bread and in which a younger Mrs. Florence Fusi was a baker. We would lose touch later for about 30 years during which I had also abandoned whole wheat bread after the news broke out that wheat had been genetically modified and had become dangerous to human health. Providentially, Florence Fusi and I would meet again through the auspices of Simeon Ekor over an ailment probably related to flour foods and baking which, by her admission, may have set the stage for her departure from the flesh. Fleeing from white flour and GMO wheat is simple. Who can flee from the whole gamut of tomato, potato, rice, yam, beans, cassava etc?
That was why I found interesting, if not worrisome, the diametrically opposite positions of NAFDAC and NDLEA on the influx today of GMO foods into Nigeria which the likes of Dr. Segun Adeyemo are challenging. The worse case scenario could be that NDLEA could clear them for importation and NAFDAC could impound them and prosecute the importers for trying to imperil public health. Thankfully or regretably, the Ministry of Finance, which supervises both agencies, unified their positions in NDLEA favour, and NAFDAC withdrew into its shell. I accept the NAFDAC position that GMO foods could be germicides, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and rodenticides.
I moved forward from there to suggest that they are even more dangerous to human health because the radiations they generate are not in harmony with human radiations. This is speaking from the realms of the knowledge that everything which exists is radiation at the immaterial level, and that radiation may be friendly, upbuilding or antagonistic, disintegrating of one another and, therefore, annihilating. I have written here several times about radiations. Now, I will be brief. As an animal farmer, I learned to not pick the kittens of cats, the bunnies of rabbits and the piglets of pigs with naked human hands because their mothers would reject them upon smelling human hand (radiation on them). Farmers prevent this by wearing hand gloves. A house uninhabited for long deteriorates and may collapse in the absence of human radiation to maintain it. Anyone who doubts the existence of radiation or the fact that everything which exists announces its existence to others may wish to revisit the Chernobyl nuclear plant reactor leakage on 26 April 1986 in Ukraine, a member state of the then Soviet Union. In THE PSYCHIC GARDEN of Nellie Uyldert, we learn of friendly plants and of unfriendly plants, just as there are friendly humans and unfriendly humans. Friendly plants grow well when they are planted together because their radiations further one another. Unfriendly plants do not do well when grown together because their radiations are inhibitive or disintegrative. Tomatoes and basil grow well together. Basil repels pests such as white flies and aphids which target tomatoes. Marigold, too, repels nematodes and other pests harmful to tomatoes. Beans, corn and squash do well together. Beans climb the corn stalk. Squash shades the soil preventing moisture loss and preventing weed growth. Onions and carrots are friendly. Onion keeps carrot flies away from carrots. On the other side, tomatoes and potatoes are unfriendly. They have common enemies such as late blight disease which grows wings in the absence of a plant to inhibit it. Onions may stunt the growth of beans.
I do not know how far Dr. Segun Adeyemo and his colleagues can go in their efforts to not only educate Nigerians about the health dangers of GMO foods streaming into Nigeria, and if they would be able to get the government to be on their side. The dangers of GMO foods to human radiations and health appear to be not yet well understood in Nigeria. Yet, it is as simple as ABC to the inwardly childlike person. We did not create ourselves. Nor did we create our world. The Bible teaches that the Creator knew us before he formed us in our motherâs wombs. Plants, food crops, fruits, seeds, nuts and herbs predated our arrival on earth. From the radiations of the sun and the stars they fruit and fructify through the auspices of chlorophyll and photosynthesis. That is why some plants are called sun plants, moon plants and star plants. Some absorb little bits of radiations from all of them. Certain constellations of stars give rise to certain plants. Certain plants nourish certain human organs best. According to the Chinese circadian rhythm, certain stars nourish certain organs when the body goes to rest through a process of radiation. This means such organs are best presented in those times to be best nourished by these radiations. Organs which are too busy to open themselves up for this nurture miss it and become radiation and vigour famished. It is reasonable, therefore, to say that it is not the solid in the food that we eat but the radiations within them which our bodies extract for nourishment of the organs in dietary nutrition. Therefore, a genetically modified food is not creation food based on the creation plan and must be deficient in its nurture of the human body because its creation plan radiation has been altered by man. Monsanto, an American company, genetically modified wheat in the early 2000s to make it resist weed killer glyphosate also known as round up ready wheat but withdrew it from the international market in 2004 due to widespread protests. Nevertheless, GM wheat contaminations were discovered over the years on many wheat farms in Europe and America. Argentina in 2020 became the first country to legally approve GM wheat for cultivation and consumption. The Argentine wheat, called HB 4 wheat, resisted drought and provided yield higher than natural wheat, and, in future, was to be grown on one third of the countryâs arable wheat land. This was a beginning of the global GM wheat scourge with exports to Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Nutritional and political controversies trail the exports. Protagonists of GM wheat consumption say it is safe. Antagonists say it is not. They say, for example, HB 4 uptakes and tolerates Glufosinate Ammonium, a herbicide which may cause âbrain damage, developmental disability and developmental defects, glycogen storage disease IV (which causes enlarged liver, cirrhosis, abnormal cell growth in the small intestine, gluten intolerance, bloating and gas, abdominal pain and cramping, diarrhoea and constipation or irritable bowel syndrome), fatigue and lethargy, headaches and migraines, joint pain and inflammation, skin rashes and itching, brain fog and difficulty concentrating etcâ. Monsanto, in which Bill and Melinda Gates hold 500,000 shares of stocks worth 23 million U.S dollars, is criticised as pushing GM wheat on poor nations through various means, including bribery of public health regulatory authorities.
I stopped eating whole wheat bread when this controversy began to rage. Some Nigerian doctors advised their patients with intestinal problems to discard wheat from their diet. There is no doubt that some persons can withstand the genetic alterations in wheat. There is evidence, also, that many persons cannot. It is all a question of antigenic reactions. I can eat a whole pot of fish and feel no exertion. I have a niece, the daughter of my cousin, Mrs Grace Olanrewaju, who can vomit her intestine if a drop of sauce in which fish was cooked touches her tongue, not to mention eating fish. I have friends who fall ill if they drink honey sweetened tea.
Another conquest in motion
Debates on genetic wheat are unending. Protagonists say antagonism is not evidence based. Thus, the NAFDAC/NDLEA positions are not unique to Nigeria. The debates also important to watch are claims of dispossession or disinheritance of seed crops inherited from our forebears in exchange for crop seeds which yield more crops bigger and faster but cannot reproduce themselves. There are allegations that the region of the earth which conquered other regions in multifarious ways is devising food conquest as yet another means to emasculate and absorb victim regions. The protagonists of this argument lead us back on the memory lane to the starting point of the African and Nigerian conquest: the gun boats came and took away the slaves. As we fought back and some of them found their deeds reprehensible, they abolished slave trade and encouraged religious evangelism. Then came colonisation and economic bondages. As political independence became the norm, mutual trade and import substitution and whatever else still favoured the conqueror. To worsen matters, the age of the internet has made the economies of poor nations worse tributaries of richer economies. Imagine , for example, how much foreign cash Nigeria expends everyday on FACEBOOK, WHATSAPP, TIK TOK and other social media platforms. Now, it would appear only natural food crops and a growing population are all we have left. Persons like Dr. Segun Adeyemo would tell you the devouring nations are coming for them as well.
Warfare in the soil
How possible is this? Simple, they say. In the soil, there are naturally occurring bacteria which protect planted seeds and seed crops against the ravages of devouring bacteria. WARFARE IN NATURE is a natural phenomenon. When you desire to do something, an antagonist force opposes you. This on its own is not evil as many persons superficially assume. Rather, it is a mere obstacle which is meant to be overcome to make the struggling person stronger when he overcomes. That is why, against the force of gravity, the planted seed sprouts, to germinate, pushing soil and stones apart, to reach top soil, seek the sunâs energy and, through photosynthesis, flower and fruit, fructifying its natural abilities. Mothers do this with babies who are learning to crawl. They place a toy as a goal before these babies. As the babies attain the goals, the toys positions are shifted. Babies who do not give up, that is overcome, are able to crawl in periods commensurate with their efforts.
One adamantine law rules the universe. As in the human baby or adult, there resides in the seed and seed crop natural abilities for struggle towards fructification and for self-defence in the process. When I am dealing with bacteria (such as staphylococcus aureus or the Helicobacter pylori of stomach and intestinal ulcers) or even fungi, and viruses and parasites in the human body, I do not ignore the Amazon brand of herbal medicines.
Amazon A-F
It is a combination of several herbs which have exhibited very serious abilities to protect themselves against bacteria and fungi. Amazon A-V warehouses plant abilities against some viruses while Amazon A-P does the same against parasites. In the soil, bacteria friendly with certain plants mediate these abilities to them for their protection against unfriendly microforms and even pests.
What genetic re-configuration or modulation of plants and seed crops is all about is the infusion of certain anti-microbials or anti-pest genes or gene extracts in friendly bacteria into a seed. With the genetic order or command of a seed altered, it becomes a different entity within but, outwardly, its good, old self. And since it is the life within which governs the exterior, the transformed seed crop can no longer perform the natural function for which it was created. It becomes like a DISTORTED HUMAN SOUL who is male or female in the kernel but the opposite gender in bone and flesh, a potential candidate for surgical sex change, and in terms of his or her usefulness in Creation a complete misnormer and a totally useless being. In the seed crop, genetic modification is a matter of the transformation of its RADIATIONS. Thus, genetically modified seeds and their plants and crops are often better looking, bigger, more resistant to draught and other adverse conditions which threaten their existence, repel adversary pests and have bigger yields per acrage. However, they have a grave disability which makes them enemies of poor peoples worldwide. They cannot reproduce themselves!. This means the recepient nations will become enslaved for seed crops to supplier nations and become food dependent, their political independence also thereby enchained. If such poor nations politically derail from the tracks of supplier nations, they may be denied seed crops, become hungry and starve. Nigeriaâs debaters on both sides of the divide may wish to evaluate yet unclarified claims that Monsanto may have been sponsoring a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) to surreptitiously fund Boko Haram activities against about 40,000 farmers with a view to creating food shortage and introducing faster growing and bigger yielding seeds to fill the food shortage gap.
In Akwa Ibom, natural cassava seed crops are almost going into extinction. The GM cassava seedling grows wide and deep in the soil and is, accordingly, named GIVE ME CHANCE cassava because it pushes all else aside to grow and matures in about six months, about half the tenure of natural cassava. GIVE ME CHANCE is also called FOLLOW ME TRAIN MY CHILDREN because it brings bigger harvest and money for school fees. I was shocked when, at the training of ANCHOR BORROWERâS maize farmers, I learned that ears of corn were treated with AFLASAVE to protect them against rodents and fungi. Tomato, pawpaw, cotton, potato, 94 per cent of the soybeans eaten in the United States and 92 per cent of maize in the U.S are genetically modified. They are fed to cattle and poultry, the by-products of which may end up in Nigeria. Some fish are GM. Nigerians consume a lot of imported fish. Studies are ongoing to genetically modify many farm products including yam, peanuts, cabbage, coconuts. Many more GM foods may be on the way. Sooner than later, man may discard the CREATION ORDER for the nurture of his body. Will the radiations from these foods be able to maintain the radiations of his body? Already, LEAKY GUT SYNDROME has been linked to GM foods and is linked to such diseases as those of the prostate gland, immune system disorder, depression, nerve damage and many more including all sorts of cancers. As NAFDAC says, as Dr. Segun Adeyemo affirms, and as I believe, the meal on the Nigerian dining table today could be a load of rat poisons in small dosages, though, for the large kilogram weight of the human body but, nevertheless, dangerous and poisonous when they accumulate in the tissues everyday. This is a consequence of the world of poisons in which we live or, better still, the world poisoned by man.
