Genetically Modified Grass Begins Releasing Cyanide, Kills Texas Cattle
When a herd of cattle suddenly died in Central Texas investigators were dispatched to the scene to investigate and now preliminary test results are blaming the animals deaths on the genetically modified grass the cows were consuming.
The cows which were grazing on an 80-acre patch owned by Jerry Abel in Elgin, Texas died several weeks ago.
Abel tells CBS Station KEYE that the grass should have been perfect since it had “a lot of lead, it’s good grass, tested high for protein – it should have been perfect.”
The grass was a form of Bermuda known as Tifton 85 and it has been around for 15 years on the Abel farm. Unfortunately something went horribly wrong several weeks ago and according to Abel:
“When our trainer first heard the bellowing, he thought our pregnant heifer may be having a calf or something. But when he got down here, virtually all of the steers and heifers were on the ground. Some were already dead, and the others were already in convulsions.”
It turns out that the grass for some unknown reason began producing cyanide gas which is poisonous to cattle.
Other farms quickly began testing their fields and while no other cattle deaths have been reported at least several farmers found toxic cyanide in their Tifton 85 grass.
According to the Examiner the grass which has suffered from drought conditions for the last several years is now being dissected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if some type of strange mutation may have occurred.
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Jun 25, 2012
I hope people are really paying attention to this. This is bad, really bad.
Jun 25, 2012
I agree!
Jun 25, 2012
Ya….that's why you leave things alone. Unbelievable…and are we EATING this beef or DRINKING their milk? Thanks US Govt. Thanks greedy seed companies.
Jun 25, 2012
We gave the grass a weapon to fight with.This is how biological selection works. The Worse part is its loose… and a great survival mechanism, Will make the saying "Keep off the Grass" mean sooo much more.
Jun 25, 2012
What has the world come to? I see it as punishment from mother nature and from God for messing with what he created. In Spanish I would say : " La venganza de Gaia."
Jun 25, 2012
Mankind, (greed) does have tendency to try to improve on nature and 10 years later find it's a dangerous idea.
Jun 25, 2012
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Tragedy….. now, why is it that you need chemically modified grass when grass is cheap enough? And is no one upset that we're feeding genetically modified grass to cows on what is probably an organic farm or something?
Jun 25, 2012
I think genetically altering foods is the reason why Celiac Disease and many other food allergies are on the rise.
Jun 25, 2012
WHAT WHAT YOU EAT.
Jun 28, 2012
Take it easy folks this is not a GMO. It is a predictable occurence when you fertilize with cyanide labeled as nitrogen fertilizer and have a drought.
Jun 28, 2012
Take it easy folks this is not a GMO. It is a predictable occurence when you fertilize with cyanide labeled as nitrogen fertilizer and have a drought.
Jul 19, 2012
I feed my horses Tift 85 and they have not dropped dead yet… Tift 85 is used all the time on many ranches and fed to horses. Don't rely on 1 report.. and reread the article..
"the grass which has suffered from drought conditions for the last several years is now being dissected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if some type of strange mutation may have occurred."
http://www.tifton.uga.edu/fat/tifton85.htm
Jul 19, 2012
I feed my horses Tift 85 and they have not dropped dead yet… Tift 85 is used all the time on many ranches and fed to horses. Don't rely on 1 report.. and reread the article..
"the grass which has suffered from drought conditions for the last several years is now being dissected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if some type of strange mutation may have occurred."
http://www.tifton.uga.edu/fat/tifton85.htm
Aug 9, 2012
Well we know why the cows are dying, if we could just figure out why all the birds are dying?
Aug 9, 2012
don't fuck with nature don't fuck with nature bc in the end it will reclaim everything.
Aug 16, 2012
Sad to see the needless fear spreading. This anti-science movement is what is hurting out civilization, not science.