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Original links in my earlier post:

My article: http://glutenfreerecipebox.com/gmo-causes-celiac-disease

Petition: (wording now changed to “linked to” versus “causes” disease: http://www.change.org/petitions/us-senate-and-congress-eliminate-gmo-which-is-linked-to-disease

My article was mainly based on this research article: http://www.soundhealthinc.com/pdf/gmo.pdf

Summary
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Corn gets all the flack because we know when it happened.  There was an interesting article on the hybridization of wheat when the man responsible for 'modern wheat' died.  I thought the obituary was interesting enough to put in a Newsletter [Milwaukee Celiac Sprue Crew], copy attached. [The attachment referred to the obituary of Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Norman Borlaug. See “Green Revolution” on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution.] All this fueled the onset of agribusiness, heat drying of grains that was faster than air drying, and increased use of chemical fertilizers. 

There's a new book coming out that might be of interest..."Wheat Belly" with a lot of other things after it...
(Google on amazon...) Author is a cardiologist calls wheat Frankenwheat, saying that is body to store fat & causes all kinds of things including, plaque in arteries. (I tried clarify this last sentence, but no response.)
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Although I am against the proliferation of GMOs and would like to see them banned from the food supply, celiac disease has been around for centuries, actually millennia,  centuries before GMOs were even though of. So any statistical correlation between GMOs and celiac is at best marginal and at worst entirely coincidental.

I would only sign your petition, if you first retracted the misleading, erroneous statement about any link between GMOs and celiac disease ... it flies in the face of solid science. European celiacs have just as much trouble with gluten as we do and anecdotal evidence to the contrary is akin to saying that laetril cures cancer.
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Thank you so much. I am so happy to know about your website. I am a professional homeopath working primarily with children on the autism spectrum. I speak to my clients regularly about gmos, etc. and many of the topics on your website. I am so glad to have the resource and will be referring them to your site and your many wonderful articles. I think so many folks on the celiac list or just in general people with celiac are so focused on gluten that they overlook the other factors that create ongoing inflammation and lead to celiac and all the host of inflammatory degenerative diseases. There are so many ... and anyone with celiac especially should be aware of these other factors, not just gluten ... THANK YOU for raising this point and for your wonderful website. I'm currently constructing a website ... yours is an inspiration to me!
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I will certainly read your article. Our celiac daughter has been gluten free for 9 yrs. She has always had problems with eating and digesting soy, corn, canola, dairy and now zucchini and yellow neck squash. Sugar beets are about to be allowed as gmo. I only recently found out all of these with the possible exception of dairy are heavily GMO crops. There are several good articles on the hazards of gmo at www.mercola.com She has a history of celiac, ulcerative colitis, reflux, breathing problems and now blood pressure problem. Interesting that all of this started around 2001 or so. I don't believe there were gmo crops before that or much before it. We have recently tried putting her on an all certified organic meats and vegetables diet (which precludes gmo or gmo  feed) and she is feeling quite a bit better in only about 2wks. It would make sense because these idiot scientists are putting genes (which 
are proteins) into plants where they don't belong. They even want to gmo salmon so they grow faster (its all over the internet). The immune system responds to proteins. Some of the genes like BT are for natural plant insecticides. These and insecticides or herbicides would foul up the flora in the gut allowing pathogenic organisms to grow. Having had many antibiotics, she is currently on nystatin since Dec 20 and takes alot of probiotics which also has been helping a lot. Does your post mentioning bread mean wheat is also GMO? I knew it was hybridized.
I look forward to reading your article. Thanks for posting!!!
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Whats GMO stand for? [included to give you the idea that not enough awareness has been raised on the subject of GMO]
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I think it's a stretch. My problems with wheat began some 45 years ago, and they didn't have GMO back then. Plus, there are a LOT of differences between American bread and European bread, beginning with the addition of bromine and dough enhancer (added gluten and transglutamase) and iron (a big time irritant that can act as a vaccine adjutant). 

I'm not sure celiac is really more prevalent either. I think it is true that celiac babies survive more, thanks to antibiotics. I would have died many times as a child, and my Mom barely made it. The death rate for babies and children used to be very high, and I'm betting many of those fatalities were celiac kids. They were typically described as "sickly children" with lots of tummy problems.

That said, I'd love to get all grains out of the food system, except maybe rice. The way grains are grown requires tons of pesticide, and is washing away the topsoil into the ocean, killing off sealife. Food grown in permaculture ... like chestnuts ... can actually grow more calories per acre AND is less work, and way easier on the land (birds and insects can live in a chestnut orchard, but not in a corn field). Rice grown in paddies, and arrowroot, can live with fish and shrimp and other wildlife.

Our goal is to grow more and more of our own foods, and use the more tubers and plants that are easy on the ground. The GMO issue is mainly an issue for people who depend on the "standard" food system, which is pretty much trashed on multiple levels.
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The incidence of celiac has been increasing rapidly over the past decades in many countries, including the US, yet there is no genetically modified wheat grown in the country. I have not read any plausible explanation for this increase. Please help me understand where you are getting your data from and the scientific rationale for your assertion. 

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