sciam.com — A study published in the journal Archives of Environmental Contamination and Technology showed rats fed for 90 days on Monsanto's MON863 maize showed "signs of toxicity" in the liver and kidneys. "It is the first time that independent research, published in a peer-reviewed journal, has proved that a GM food presents signs of toxicity,"
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evgenMar 16, 2007
> Nature develops natural pest-resistant genes over millions of years and the result must be in balance with the ecosystemI am not sure where you learned your ecology moon-child, but the reason these mutations (like pest resistance) spread is precisely because they _unbalance_ an existing ecosystem. Plant develops mutation that kills bugs, it produces more seeds because it does not have to fight off the pest, these seeds grow into more plants with the pest resistence, rinse lather repeat. Eventually the a pest mutates a way around the defense or it dies out. Plants are hard-scrabble fighters that do tricks with chemistry we still do not understand and they are not trying to "play nice" with all of the other fuzzy forest-dwellers.
znutarMar 16, 2007
oh, and I forgot, but these are the same morons who are against the GMO rice variant enriched with vitamin A (Golden rice, see: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice)</a> that could be a major life saver in third world countries. It's developer refused to take a patent on it or profit from it production and use so obviously it is not always "about the money"Greenpeace can kiss my butt.
honeymonsterMar 16, 2007
Borlaug used natural selection to improve the natural wheat alongside introducing modern farming practices, all good. GM crops are artificially modified most commonly to resist pesticides so more can be used on them. Pesticides are rather bad for humans and animals, eat the crops more pesticides in your, eat the animals that eat the GM crops, more pesticides in you. Africa’s biggest problem is endemic corruption, civil war, incompetent leaders and lack of modern farming. Zimbabwe is a great example of this.
allnightchemistMar 16, 2007
Next time don't mention the rats...
waterdragonMar 16, 2007
@djlosch"the industry is right. most GMO uses technology covered by the Terminator patent, although some countries have banned the technology. effectively, Terminator makes it so the plant won't germinate because the seeds are sterile. in other words, the plant cannot reproduce at all, thus forcing the farmer to continue to buy seed from monsanto year after year. more info: <a class="user" href="http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/terminator.shtml">http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/terminator.shtml</a>"]YOU ALMOST have it right. The entire problem with terminator gene-plants is that their pollen inevitably spreads to neighboring crops on other farms, usually with the terminator gene taking over, so that now the neighboring farmer, miles away, has dead seed and can only grow the crap he would have to buy from Monsanto. It is known in some framing areas that entire native species of certain plants have been wiped out by the exposure to this inevitable overspill of the pollen from the GMO plants. In fact, within the past year ( and it was a digg story), some rice that was not approved for humans by the FDA, was said to have accidentally (yeah, sure) escaped into the field, so that it has made its way into the commercially grown rice crops in the US. The particular kind of unapproved rice was designed to allow an incredibly large amount of a certain pesticide to be used, without killing the rice plant. So naturally, the corporate pigs arranged an 'accident', so they could plan on selling more of their poisonous pesticides later on. This is why I will not eat rice grown in the US, if I can help it....especially the kinds that are not organically farmed. but with pollen overspill from GMO crops, even the organic farms are at risk, since you really can't control where pollen goes. You continued with "there cannot be any evolution of the species if there is no crossbreeding,"...so, note tht the above mentioned process of terminator pollen overspill precisely eliminates the needed biodiversity!
owdenbowdenMar 16, 2007
We're all doomed!Before you know it we will won't be eating we will be getting our nutrition via a pill.
elviescaMar 16, 2007
@geronimo"Their other wonderful product - rBST or BGH, bovine growth hormone, given to cows to help them produce more milk."You mean the hormone designed to keep milk cows artificially pregnant for life? How can this be healthy? the cows get really sick and are treated no better than a machine, and you end up drinking this stuff in the milk.The hormone got approved in the US because of corporate money (Monsanto's) used to buy the media (specially Fox News). Ask the Canadians if they are drinking milk with BGH, no, of course they don't.I really recommend watching the documentary The Corporation: <a class="user" href="http://www.thecorporation.com/">http://www.thecorporation.com/</a>A really eye opener.
hawk0168Mar 16, 2007
To those saying that the US "probably" doesn't even test this you should probably ask yourself why we have the USDA. They're a rather large government entity and I don't quite remember, but I think one of the letters in their name stands for "Agriculture"./sarcasm
knowyourightsMay 12, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.theshowpodcast.com">http://www.theshowpodcast.com</a>
joshshuMay 23, 2007
to Travis182 because it's cheaper than on rats
Closed AccountJun 3, 2008
Which Health Canada scientist told a Canadian Senate committee of being in a meeting where officials from Monsanto made an offer of between $1-2 million to the scientists from Health Canada - an offer that she told the senators couldonly have been interpreted as a bribe. Additionally, she also recounted how notes and files critical of scientific data provided by Monsanto were stolen from a locked filing cabinet in her office.
tortor54Jul 31, 2008
Monsanto's large scale corruption and abusive actions make it the perfect candidate for Corporate Accountability International's 2009 Corporate Hall of Shame. This years winners were Blackwater, ADM, and Walmart- and now we are accepting suggestions for the new nominees. To nominate Monsanto go to:www.stopcorporateabuse.org
marytormeyJun 30, 2009
I agree that there is not enough evidence to show the round-up ready corn itself is dangerous, but the mining of phosphates to make round-up damages our environment. Also round-up is toxic in large amounts so eating a lot of food sprayed directly with round-up is a bad idea.
marytormeyJun 30, 2009
Maybe we should use politicians, bankers, CEO's and lawyers instead.