The farce of GMO industry safety studiesIn a GMO industry safety study designed to test the effects of feeding a GMO canola to rats, the test animals were fed GMOs and pesticides and control animals were also fed – er – GMOs and pesticides. Unsurprisingly, the study found no effect from feeding the GM food under test and concluded it was safe. In spite of its poor design, the study could be used to gain regulatory approval for the GM Roundup-tolerant canola under test. This latest farcical episode in GMO safety testing was uncovered by Prof Gilles-Eric Seralini's team and published as a letter to the editor of the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology. The FCT editor forcibly retracted Seralini's study on GM maize NK603 maize and Roundup, which, in contrast with this useless industry study, carefully controlled for GMOs and pesticides in the control rats' diet – and did find toxic effects in the GMO-fed rats. ![]()
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Quotes of the month"The so-called science, which is being promoted by big businesses is becoming a superstition; one should not follow it blindly. They say that the US has adopted GMO foods, but they are telling half-truth as consumers are not ready for GM food. People all around the world are unhappy." – Ashwani Mahajan, national convenor of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, the economic wing of the political group Sangh Parivar, India. Read more "I keep coming across the same phenomenon: scholars of all kinds, but especially scientists and economists, no longer seeking dispassionately after truth as they are generally understood to do, but using their talents and their education to defend the status quo – the prevailing economy and mode of government and the ideas that lie behind them, moral and otherwise. They do this even though it is obvious to all thinking people that the status quo will not do." – Colin Tudge, science writer and founder, Campaign for Real Farming, UK. Read more The second edition of GMO Myths and Truths, co-authored by genetic engineers Dr John Fagan and Dr Michael Antoniou and researcher Claire Robinson, has been released as a free online download. "10 reasons we don't need GM foods", a new short report from the authors of "GMO Myths and Truths", has been published as a free download.
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