A team of independent scientists led by Gilles-Eric Séralini at Caen University in France carried out a meta-analysis combining the results of 19 previous studies [1], and their report concluded: ‘From the regulatory tests performed today, it is unacceptable to submit 500 million Europeans and several billions of consumers worldwide to the new pesticide GM-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.
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
GM Feed Toxic, New Meta-Analysis Confirms
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Source: Institute of Science in Society
Publication Date: ISIS Report 05/09/11
Link: GM Feed Toxic, New Meta-Analysis Confirms
Source: Institute of Science in Society
Publication Date: ISIS Report 05/09/11
Link: GM Feed Toxic, New Meta-Analysis Confirms
Stephan: Four companies now control 90 of the seed market. All of human agriculture is based on seeds, which is to say all of human nutrition is now dependent on these companies. As this report makes clear -- and it is but one of a growing list of such reports -- the behavior of these corporations is no different than other corporate performance. Which is to say profit comes first and everything else comes a distant second.
I cannot urge you too strongly to begin to grow as much of your own food as you can, and to use unmanipulated traditional seed stocks, saving seeds from year to year. It is already getting difficult to get unmanipulated seeds. GMO is of a different order from the ancient practice of cross-breeding, because the manipulation is linked to specific patented pesticides and herbicides.