Posted on 09/19/2012 5:31:52 PM PDT by opentalk
The world’s best-selling weedkiller, and a genetically modified maize resistant to it, can cause tumours, multiple organ damage and lead to premature death, new research published today reveals.
In the first ever study to examine the long-term effects of Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, or the NK603 Roundup-resistant GM maize also developed by Monsanto, scientists found that rats exposed to even the smallest amounts, developed mammary tumours and severe liver and kidney damage as early as four months in males, and seven months for females, compared with 23 and 14 months respectively for a control group.
“This research shows an extraordinary number of tumours developing earlier and more aggressively -particularly in female animals. I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts,” said Dr Michael Antoniou, molecular biologist at King’s College London
...GM crops have been approved for human consumption on the basis of 90-day animal feeding trials. But three months is the equivalent of late adolescence in rats, who can live for almost two years (700 days), and there have long been calls to study the effects over the course of a lifetime.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegrocer.co.uk ...
...funny you bring that up.
I learned that lesson 20 years ago the hard way. I actually have 3 separate sprayers painted different colors now. One for herbicides, one for roundup only and one for pesticides. It seems you can never really get ALL of the chemical out of a plastic tank so I just dedicate one for roundup and be done with it.
Because corn was a grass and not real nutritious . I’m sure that before the Europeans got here the natives selectively nurtured the better strains for a better food source. Through centuries of selective genetic modification it has become a staple for millions if not billions of people. Corn before man started modifying it would not have caused much of an obesity problem.
Not at all what I said. I did say it didn't prove anything. It's pointless just like these sites you list.
GM foods don't seem to be hurting the life span of Americans. Natural News claims great waves of radiation from Japan is killing the people of California and nonsense like that.
Somehow the people of California haven't noticed I guess.
And Mercola I just won't waste a minute on.
And just what is it at these sites that indicates the CDC figures are wrong? I'll wait while you look.
Because corn was a grass and not real nutritious . I’m sure that before the Europeans got here the natives selectively nurtured the better strains for a better food source. Through centuries of selective genetic modification it has become a staple for millions if not billions of people. Corn before man started modifying it would not have caused much of an obesity problem.
I am sorry, but your logic makes no sense to me.
1. First you say corn is a grass so not “real” nutritious? I believe there actually are some very nutritious grasses...barley? alfalfa?
2. You say you are sure (not sure how you are, but I will take your word for it) that natives nurtured the better strains...welcome to agronomy and plant breeding. by nurturing the better strains, they were plant breeding...selecting better plants that could be cross pollinated to form new hardier more nutritious varieties...this is what plant breeders do....seedless water mellon? seedless grapes? broccoflower? tangelos? etc
3. If corn was not nutritious, and it was improved over the centuries as you say, then why would that cause obesity and be bad thing? Seems to me that obesity is caused by eating too much....not by producing too much....
farmers feed the world :)
Exactly right. What is so troubling is that so much soy in is baby formula. The FDA is in bed with Monsanto.
Not for wheat
Actually, he purchased the GM feed and decided not to give it to his animals. He threw it out at the edge of the woods to get rid of it. I didn’t find this on the internet. I live in Amish country and heard it here.
Keep waiting, and please don’t invite us to dinner at your house. I hate to be rude.
So far my FRiend you have presented No arguement to support the safety of GM foods.
When were they tested, how, and by whom?
No clue as to your site but I don’t click on websites that I don’t know, thanks anyway.
Strange, scary sites like Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is full of cranks and re writers, there is no editing there.
Strange and Scary? I don’t know but stupid and unreliable works for me.
mark
It's a useful starting point for a simple bio. No reason to fear it.
I might not have anything for you to eat. The deep fried fish has acrylamide in the breading and mercury in the fish.
The frying peanut oil may kill you.
The wine has tannins and the dairy products radioactive potassium, maybe strontium to lodge in your bones.
Maybe you'll be safe if you stick with the raw celery...But it has carcinogens called furanocoumourans.
And stay away from the barbecue, too. No potato chip snacks, either. No tofu burgers. No hard cheese.
I'd ask you to join me in the garage but there might be benzene fumes from gasoline or second hand tobacco smoke from somewhere.
You're right. You wouldn't survive a night at my house with all these tested carcinogens and toxins and allergens present.
Meanwhile billions of servings of GM food without harm prove nothing.
By the way, who tested the hybrid wheat in your Wheaties?
Funny how some people are. If I am a red blooded Conservative American, should I not have the choice to live my life as I choose?
Not that Conservative has anything to do with it.
Why should we be not be able to determine what type of food that we eat and why is this “debunking” attitude of yours so very important to you?
Why would you care so much unless you have a vested interest?
What is so awful about “labelling”?
Hybridization of plants is one thing but inserting genes into seeds that have no business being there, pre existing bacteria, virus and insects in order to enrich the people who invested in the technology by fooling farmers into thinking it’s a good thing.... well let’s just agree to disagree.
By the way, you are correct, I don’t eat any of the foods that you mentioned, nor does my family.
We eat tasty food that is not intentionally chemically treated.
P.S. Don’t forget about the Silicone sprayed cold cuts ‘cause we are all gonna get Lysteria!
Who in Congress made money off of that one?
Pot meet kettle. You are more guilty of everything that you accuse him off...
None of the substances I listed are the result of any chemical treatment, in fact they are all “naturally” found in those foods and that would include the “organic” brands.
“What is so awful about “labelling”?”
Nothing at all. The foods you eat should have warning labels about possible carcinogens in them.
As for debunking the world has enough bunk in it that losing a little bit of it won't hurt anyone except the bunkers. FR is useful to that end.
Once again, you misunderstand.
“intentionally chemically treated”
You clearly misunderstand the difference between naturally occuring compounds and chemicals, and no indeed they are not found so much in non GMO foods.
There is a difference between non GMO and organic, so I try and stick with both for my family’s health.
Can we just agree to disagree? Or are you one of those swarthy males who always has to “win”?
But the “people of color” may well object to your question about “swarthy males” as though it were a pejorative.
Cheers!
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