Position
Statement on Genetic Engineering & EMS
by
Marylin Faith Rumph
"I
believe that GE (genetic engineering) is the main factor or cause in the development
of the disease we call Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome (EMS). If there had been
no toxin(s) of an unusual type capable of causing a new disease, which needed to
be filtered out, then the reductions in the filtering process at the Showa Denko
plant would have been of little consequence. However, since one or more toxins capable
of creating a new disease existed due to GE used by Showa Denko K.K. in the manufacturing
of L-Tryptophan, filtering did not remove the causative toxin or toxins or else filtering
did not remove them enough to prevent several thousand persons from
getting EMS. If there had been no GE'd tryptophan, I maintain there would have been
no EMS, with or without the filtration cutbacks. GE was the critical change in causing
the novel disease we call EMS. Nothing else makes any sense. GE may have appropriate
uses, but it went wrong in this case. Moreover, the manufacturer did not report the
fact they were using GE to the FDA. I don't even like to use the term GM (genetically
modified), as in GM foods, because I view that as an attempt to make GE more
palatable for the masses." - M.F.Rumph
- To read articles on GE and
EMS, see my Information Page section titled "GE
and EMS."