Farmer Says GM Feed Causes Pigs Diarrhea, Deformations, and Loss of Appetite

If you want to know what will happen to animals gastrointestinal by feeding them livestock genetically modified crops. A Danish farmer turned anti-GMO activist, Ib Borup Pedersen. He watched pigs how they got diarrhea after eating genetically modified feed.

Farmer Pederson says, “It shocks me that the industry does not take the evidence of Roundup’s and glyphosate’s harmful effects more seriously than it does.” The farmer only feeds his pigs with non-GM feed, and believes all genetically modified food should be banned.

Soy is normally used crops in livestock feed which is sprayed with glyphosate. Due to the toxic chemicals used GM soy should not be considered as food.

Judy Carman, MPH, PhD Flinders University says:

“The pesticide ‘Roundup’ works by inhibiting an enzyme that is necessary for the plant to synthesise certain aromatic amino acids, killing the plant. The targeted enzyme is called

killing the plant. The targeted enzyme is called phosphate synthetase, or EPSPS. The genetic modification in Roundup Ready soybeans involves incorporating a bacterial version of this enzyme, (from Agrobacterium species, strain CP4) into the soybean plant, giving the soybean protection from Roundup.

Because of the way that this gene was incorporated into soybeans, several other genes are also present. They are: the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter, the EPSPS chloroplast transit protein (CTP) sequence from petunias and the 3′ untranslated region of the nopaline synthetase gene (NOS3′). The ANZFA document completely omits discussion of the first and last of these genes and their proteins.

For the petunia CTP, the applicant document states: ‘…it is generally accepted that the chloroplast transit peptides are rapidly degraded after cleavage in vivo by cellular proteases.’ That is, results from other general experiments are relied-upon and no evidence is provided that they have measured this to be the case in Roundup Ready soybeans.”

The Dutch farmer finds out that pigs eating GMO feed get gastrointestinal, deformed pigs, reproductive problems, and piglet diarrhea. Humans could get autism, chronic diseases and gut disorder.

By changing pig’s feed to non-GMO they got liter sizes grow 1.8%, higher milk yields, lower incidence of ulcers and deformed piglets. When he run out of his food he had to buy GM feed for his pigs and discovered that all his pigs got sick. Pederson blames the chemical industry.

“We’ve never been told the truth about the dark side of the chemical agents. We only heard about the production advantages,” he said. Pederson and other farmers they got lied to, therefore if they boycott the use of GM feed, they could put biotech giants out of business for good.