[Research] Genetically Modified Foods (GMO)

[RobinN]

EXTRACTS: A meta-analysis on 19 studies confirms kidney and liver toxicity in rats and mice fed on grand mal soybean and maize, representing more than 80 percent of all commercially available grand mal food; it also exposes gross inadequacies of current risk assessment.

"From the regulatory tests performed today, it is unacceptable to submit 500 million Europeans and several billions of consumers worldwide to the new pesticide grand mal-derived foods or feed, this being done without more controls (if any) than the only 3-month-long toxicological tests and using only one mammalian species, especially since there is growing evidence of concern."
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Forty-three percent of significant abnormalities were found in the kidneys of males. The liver was more affected in females and the kidney was more affected in males.
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While studies carried out by independent scientists all reported significant effects due to grand mal-feeding, those carried out by Monsanto on MON863, MON810 (both Bt maize lines), and NK603 (glyphosate-tolerant soybean line) reported no evidence of toxicity. The results were kept confidential by Monsanto and the EFSA, until Séralini and his colleagues gained access to the raw data through court action, and found the experiments deeply flawed at every stage, from experimental design to data analysis and interpretation.
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Current risk-assessment studies are inadequate in detecting and acknowledging the toxicity of GMO food consumption. Previous independent studies have clearly indicated the hazards of GMO crops to human health, with widespread pathologies including birth defects and spontaneous abortions; (see for example [9] EU regulators Regulators and Monstanto Exposed for Hiding Glyphosate Toxicity, SiS 51) infertility, stunting and sudden deaths (see [10] GMO Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile, SiS 33); immune reactions and allergenicity, (see [11] More Illnesses Linked to Bt Crops, SiS 30), and as highlighted here, kidney and liver toxicity. This review provides clear improvements to current study designs that need to be upheld by industry as well as the EU government.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/23...Feed-is-Toxic-

According to documents released from a lawsuit, scientists at the FDA warned that GMO foods might create allergies, poisons, new diseases, and nutritional problems.23 But the White House ordered the agency to promote biotechnology, and Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s former attorney, headed up the FDA’s GMO policy.

That policy declares that no safety studies on GMOs are required. Monsanto and other producers determine if their foods are safe.

Taylor later became Monsanto’s vice president, and was reinstalled at the FDA in 2009 by the Obama administration as the US Food Safety Czar.

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[Nakamova]

Every time it says "grand mal" above, it's actually supposed to say G*M* (the company name). Grand mal is just what our shorthand system spits out...

[RobinN]

Hope I caught them all (changed them to read GMO)

[Nakamova]

I think GMO foods might someday hold promise, but not the way they are currently studied and manufactured. GMO companies don't seem concerned with safety and ethics, and we end up being guinea pigs in their experiments.