March 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| There's a movie by M. Night Shyamalan called The Happening. | |
| And in that movie, nature fights back against humanity by releasing toxic poison gas that kills people. | |
| It's depicted as a way of nature rebalancing life on the planet after humanity has destroyed, invaded, and attempted to dominate nature through so many methods, chemicals, GMOs, you name it. | |
| Well now, it looks like this may be actually coming true. | |
| This is Mike Adams, the health ranger reporting for naturalnews.com on site in Elgin, Texas, the site of the cyanide Tifton 85 hybridized grass that has now killed cattle on a ranch right here in Elgin. | |
| It's this grass that appears to have somehow attained the property of producing cyanide gas. | |
| And that gas has confirmed killed many cattle of the rancher who owns this 80 acres here. | |
| Some of the theories that may explain this behavior of the cyanide gas grass, the Tifton 85 F1 hybrid grass, include the possibility of it being genetically contaminated with other genetically engineered crops that may be grown in this area. | |
| For example, the USDA has approved the open production of GM alfalfa, genetically engineered alfalfa, which could cause genetic pollution. | |
| And that pollution could theoretically, it is a plausible theory, somehow interact genetically. | |
| and allow these other grasses to mutate into the strains that we're seeing here that produce cyanide gas. | |
| To investigate this issue, we are here on site in Elgin, Texas with the InfoWars team. | |
| We'll be speaking with Darren McBreen shortly. | |
| I was also given information from the InfoWars investigative team and I want to thank them for that information from the University of Florida showing that there was a special grant Allowed to the university to experiment with a transgenic Bermuda grass strain. | |
| Let me read you from that document. | |
| It is permission to generate, quote, transgenic Bermuda grass and seashore paspalum with stable expression of a, quote, synthetic bacillus thuringiensis, BT. That's the same as BT corn, and pardon me if my pronunciation is not exactly right on all this. | |
| It is an endotoxin gene, and this right here, this is the university, see if I can show you some of this, this is just a university special grant. | |
| Project status is now terminated. | |
| The project end date was September 14, 2007, and the title of it is Molecular Improvement for Insect Resistance in Turf and Forage Grasses. | |
| So what does this mean? | |
| Well, we're not claiming that this experimental genetically engineered grass was planted on this farm here in Elgin, Texas, but we are seeing evidence that there may be experiments in GE grasses for forage and turf, as is explained here, and that those experiments may be going on across the country with unforeseen results. | |
| That's the big question here, everybody. | |
| If we roll the dice with these experiments in nature and we unleash genetic pollution across the planet through our crops and right out in the open, the wind is blowing out here, insects are spreading seeds everywhere. | |
| This is not contained. | |
| This is not done in a lab somewhere with a level of containment or safety or anything. | |
| This is done right out in the open. | |
| What will be the impact of this long term? | |
| Could it be a seasonal effect? | |
| Could cyanide come out every spring, every early summer in some areas because of this mutation? | |
| Or is this just a one-time freak of nature that's going to go away and never bother us again? | |
| These are the questions that remain as we continue to investigate here in Elgin, Texas. | |
| Alright, so, and by the way, I'm not wearing this hat as a costume. | |
| It's freaking hot out here. | |
| This is welcome to Texas time. | |
| Hayes County Agriculture and Natural Resources published an interesting article on this subject. | |
| And I've got a copy of it right here, thanks to Infowars. | |
| They deserve a lot of credit for doing some of the research on this. | |
| Now, this is called, the title is called, The Potential Toxicity Issues with Tifton 85 Bermuda Grass. | |
| Interesting title, huh? | |
| And it's from Dr. | |
| Larry Redman, the Extension Forage Specialist. | |
| Not sure where he's from. | |
| Oh, Texas A&M. Yeah, Texas A&M. I wanted to read you some of this, but as you listen to this, keep in mind, this article was pulled off the website this morning. | |
| It's gone. | |
| We're not sure why. | |
| It's a page not found. | |
| Well, no, it's actually not a page not found. | |
| It still has the masthead and the skeleton on the page, but the article's not there anymore, so it's as if the content was deliberately removed. | |
| Not saying there's a conspiracy behind that, but why would that happen? | |
| I don't know. | |
| But let's take a look at this. | |
| He reports, Dr. | |
| Larry Redmond, That 15 head of roping calves died as a result of prussic acid poisoning. | |
| That becomes cyanide gas in bass drop cattle in a clean field of Tifton-85 Bermuda grass. | |
| While this has never been reported before, results of analyses of rumen contents, that's what the cattle were eating, and the fresh forage confirmed that death was due to prussic acid poisoning. | |
| Forage specialists and researchers here and the vet diagnostic lab at first denied the possibility of this, he says. | |
| Even the researchers and breeders at USDA ARS, that's the Agricultural Research Branch of the USDA, Tifton, Georgia, doubted the findings, but after multiple site visits, multiple forage analyses, and DNA analysis of plants from several fields from several environments across Texas, we can come to only one conclusion, he says. | |
| The death of the cattle was indeed due to prussic acid poisoning, cyanide gas. | |
| All right, here to help investigate this issue of the cyanide grass in Elgin, Texas, is Darren McBreen, investigative reporter for InfoWars.com. | |
| How you doing, Darren? | |
| Not bad, not bad. | |
| It's a little warm out here, but it's a mystery. | |
| You know, we've got to figure this out. | |
| We're not the only ones out here, but this is also a federal investigation. | |
| So when the USDA has been out here, can we trust what the USDA tells us? | |
| I'm not sure, but... | |
| Regardless, you know, it's not every day that a mass herd of cattle just die off by simply eating grass, and it's not every day that grass turns into cyanide. | |
| Coming out here and being here in person, unfortunately, hasn't given either one of us really any additional answers. | |
| No, in fact, there's more questions. | |
| We did learn that the grass is sterile. | |
| But, you know, what does that mean? | |
| This grass has been here, according to the ranchers, for 15 years, and nothing has changed. | |
| But our question is, could another rancher nearby have bought some genetically modified grass? | |
| You know, the BT strain, for example, that was tested in Florida, you know, we're still investigating that. | |
| So who knows what could have happened. | |
| There could have been some kind of cross-pollinization. | |
| And we're not saying that this is genetically modified. | |
| I mean, we don't know at this point. | |
| But it's almost like, you know, Mother Nature, something's going on, you know, something out of the ordinary. | |
| And I think it's an alarming event. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because not only that, we do know that there's been other tests and ranches nearby who have indeed found strains of cyanide in their grass as well, in their Bermuda grass as well. | |
| Hasn't killed any of their cattle yet, but it's there, so who knows where this is going to go from here. | |
| Now, just the fact that you and I are out here from InfoWars and Natural News and we haven't, you know, uncovered a smoking gun or found any answers. | |
| But we're not done here, you know, and obviously we don't want to alarm people. | |
| We're not going to say it's a GMO if it's not, you know, and so we have found no evidence whatsoever that it's been genetically modified. | |
| But this is day one of the investigation and who knows where it's going to go from here. | |
| Yeah, I think it's important to reiterate that we're out here just to gather facts and report the facts, and the facts are pretty scarce on this right now, but it does remain a huge mystery. | |
| Are you going to continue to investigate this at InfoWars? | |
| Oh, absolutely. | |
| Yeah, we have a couple more days, and anything that's going to happen in the future, obviously, you know, we're going to be keeping tabs on this situation. | |
| Right on. | |
| Good to talk to you. | |
| Darren McBreen here from InfoWars.com and InfoWars Nightly News. | |
| Thanks for being here today, Darren. | |
| Thanks, Mike. | |
| Alright, this is the grassing question, the Tifton 85 hybrid grass right here. | |
| This is on the field where the cows died here in Elgin. | |
| We were given permission by the farmer, Mr. | |
| Abel, to come onto his field and just take a look around and he helped answer some questions. | |
| Also urged us to help clarify some information and set the record straight on a few things, which we're going to do. | |
| But let me let me talk about this grass here. | |
| So this is supposed to be a sterile grass. | |
| It is an F1 hybrid. | |
| It is not a genetically engineered strain of grass. | |
| And we could probably eat this right now and we'd be fine. | |
| But the cows that ate this did die all within about a two-hour window, reportedly, after consuming this grass, which off-gassed cyanide gas. | |
| Now, there's a lot of grasshoppers out here. | |
| They're apparently not dead from it. | |
| Or maybe if one wave of grasshoppers died, another wave has come on and they're fine. | |
| We're obviously not dying out here from the grass. | |
| So it appears to be maybe something that just came and went. | |
| Maybe it was impacted by temperature, moisture, environmental conditions, possibly an interaction between the climate and the soil. | |
| There's a lot of speculation. | |
| We'll get to more of that. | |
| Maybe genetic pollution, genetic contamination from another field. | |
| Those are other possibilities. | |
| But some things that Mr. | |
| Abel told us was that this grass is very, very common in this region. | |
| And across Elgin and Bastrop and everything east of Austin, Texas, you're going to find, even in Brenham, this grass is very common. | |
| Why? | |
| Because it's drought resistant for one thing. | |
| We had a really bad drought in this region last year, a lot of fires. | |
| And even though there hasn't been that much rain this year, this grass is still doing pretty well. | |
| So it's great for cattle ranchers who want to obviously fatten their cattle with grass that's going to survive the droughts that come and go. | |
| Another thing that Mr. | |
| Abel told us is that he had this put in the field roughly 15 years ago, maybe 15 to 18 years ago, as he recalled. | |
| And since then, nothing, you know, he hasn't put any seed on the field, he told us. | |
| The only thing he's done is he has put... | |
| Chemical fertilizer on the field every year which is very traditional in this area That's not an organic practice. | |
| Obviously, it's a it is a chemical fertilizer You know nitrogen basically fertilizer that's put on the fields out here and again, that's a very common practice the other thing mr Abel told us was that There are some of his fields tested for zero cyanide gas While other fields tested with the deadly concentrations. | |
| So it doesn't appear to be something that exists everywhere. | |
| It's only in certain areas. | |
| He also said that other people around this area have reported that their fields tested positive for the cyanide gas from the grass itself. | |
| He also mentioned a veterinarian here who said that the grass could be cut and baled and let cure in the sun, and there's some other hay out here that is curing right now, and that that grass would be perfectly safe to consume by the cattle because the cyanide gas would have already off-gassed by that time. | |
| Now there's a lot of speculation out there on the internet about what could have caused this. | |
| Some of the comments I've seen are, oh, is Monsanto running some evil experiment out here? | |
| Is there some runaway escaped seed from somewhere? | |
| Is there a secret government experiment? | |
| Are these farmers engaged in some kind of secret experiment? | |
| You know, just being here in person and meeting the farmers and being on their ranch, I don't see any evidence of any of that going on. | |
| I can't rule it out. | |
| A lot of this is still speculation, but I don't see that happening. | |
| What could happen is cross-contamination of genetic pollution from another field that comes onto this field and then causes this grass to do something that normally it wouldn't do in nature. | |
| So one of the interesting questions in all this that we should be asking is, are there other cases in history where different types of grasses, Bermuda, Coastal, Tifton, or whatever, where it spontaneously began to off-gas toxic deadly chemicals? | |
| I don't know the answer to that. | |
| This story is still pretty new, but there may be other cases of that. | |
| If there are not any other cases of that, and if this is indeed the first known case, then that's very worrisome because it means something has changed. | |
| Something new has entered the equation that has caused this to be initiated. | |
| It also means that this could potentially spread. | |
| Now this strain, Tifton 85, is supposed to be sterile. | |
| But one of the things that I've learned, being an investigative journalist interested in the natural world and science as well, is that nature typically finds a way to overcome sterility. | |
| If you have a large enough population of almost any kind of bacteria, or mammals even, or insects, or plants, they usually find a way to reproduce. | |
| Through some overcoming through mutations that were unexpected. | |
| So you can imagine out here on this field, there must be countless millions of blades of grass. | |
| And one of them, somewhere along the line, has probably found a way to reproduce and not stay sterile. | |
| That's speculation, of course. | |
| But that is consistent with the patterns that we see in nature. | |
| Nature tends to overcome sterility if given a chance. | |
| But the bottom line with this story, as far as I'm concerned, is that this is a freak of nature incident. | |
| Is it nature fighting back against people? | |
| I'm not sure. | |
| I don't believe in the Gaia theory that nature has a singular consciousness that's trying to now destroy humanity. | |
| I think it's more cause and effect. | |
| I think if we imbalance nature, then that imbalance eventually results in effects that can be harmful to humans or harmful to our food production or perhaps even harmful to the environment itself. | |
| For example, if we dump mercury into the rivers, then that's going to create a toxic river and a toxic Ocean downstream that's gonna, you know, come back and reduce ocean life and then affect the food supply of ocean fisheries and so on. | |
| There's no question that there's a very complex web of interaction between the actions that we take as humans and then what comes back to haunt us potentially in the food chain or just out in nature like we are out here. | |
| But we don't have solid answers at this point. | |
| This is an ongoing investigation. | |
| We'll keep looking into it and we'll let you know if we find anything else. | |
| That may help solve the mystery of the cyanide grass in Elgin, Texas. |
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