Johnson grass will produce cyanide after a frost and kill cattle.
From: authfriend <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 1:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Genetically Modified Grass Begins Releasing Cyanide, Kills Texas Cattle Nabby, did you not see the update at the end? It wasn't GMO grass after all. --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Posted: June 25, 2012 Genetically Modified Grass Begins Releasing > Cyanide, Kills Texas Cattle > <http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inquisitr.\ > com%2F262111%2Fgenetically-modified-grass-begins-releasing-cyanide-kills\ > -texas-cattle%2F&media=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.inquisitr.com%2Fwp-content%2Fupl\ > oads%2F2012%2F06%2FTifton-85-Cyanide-Grass-is-killing-cows-e134063269664\ > 6.jpg&description=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> [Tifton 85 Cyanide Grass is > killing cows] > 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 leaf, 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 > <http://www.examiner.com/article/15-year-old-field-of-gm-tifton-85-grass\ > -suddenly-produces-cyanide-kills-cattle> 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. > > Update: The original report we received stated that the grass was a GMO > version of Tifton 85. In fact it was a hybridized version of the > product. >
