Yes, that is very clear to anyone who can read. Even so, Natural News is a nest of chemicalphobia, toxic terrorism, scientific illiteracy and needless alarmism.
Wiser heads will ignore any alarmism, or knee-jerk dismissiveness from both extremes that surround this sort of question.
Ahh, I see. Pointing out their alarmism equates to knee-jerk dismissiveness? You think the truth lies somewhere in the squishy middle? How squishy.
More information and study is needed
LOL! Yeah, like what measurement was used. Are they measuring for Bt in the blood in picograms? For some reason, Natural News chooses not to inform us of this important information. Like anyone who passed a class in toxicology will know, the dosage makes the poison. Or, as the old German axiom goes: All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.
Do you think Natural News neglected to provide this information because it would hurt their ability to generate as much alarmism as possible, or because they're a bunch of idiots?
but if the industry made claims that such substances in GMO foods would not end up in the bodies of humans, and that has been proven false, then that is a significant finding
Why would it be a significant finding? Did you ever stop to think that at the time they made the claim we didn't have the analytical capabilities to measure for the substance in the amounts found in the blood?
Good grief, you consume benzene in your drinking water in amounts measured in ppb. Benzene is extremely toxic. Yet, there it is in what we consider perfectly safe drinking water. The only reason we don't take it out is because filtering technology doesn't currently exist to do it. Even if it did, that wouldn't stop you from breathing it in from the air every day. This story is most likely a bunch of crap just like all the other chemicalphobia they subject their readers to. People are scared to death of things they don't understand. Does this include you?
Safety, the absence of risk, cannot be “proven” by science. The limit of detection always determines the extent of what we mean by safety, and we cannot prove the absence of something only its presence.
Lol, so that's your standard? Even the FDA admits they don't know the long term effects of all the drugs that have been approved, when taken at the approved dosages for long periods of time. But I guess you know the effects of long term doses of Bt and all other substances that humans might ingest.
And where this really ends up for many, maybe even most consumers, is that government is again dictating what people must accept, and so far has even refused labeling requirements for GMO foods. It's just more big government taking away people's choices, which seems to be almost epidemic with Obama and other big government types. It's amazing that anyone at FR defends this neverending, statist urge to take away people's choices.
And there are other areas where big government refuses to provide informative labels that consumers desire.
You are very unconvincing. And you try to sound convincing by throwing out irrelevant blather that has little to do with this specific issue.
Do you have evidence that there is now more sensitive testing equipment than when food industry spokesmen said that the Bt would not end up in the body of humans?
And you really love the absurdity that because one substance is ingested in water or food, that no one should be concerned about other, additional substances that could be ingested that way.
Lots of blather and little that's relevant from you.
It's about big government taking away choices and dictating what information people are allowed to have to base decisions upon.