New research finds some GM corn can cause organ failure

[cory777]

Source: Digital Journal

A study published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences asserts three tested varieties of Monsanto's genetically modified corn can cause organ failure, calling for further research.
The varieties of corn, Mon 810, Mon 863, and NK 603, were approved for food use for humans in Europe and North America. The research is described as the first to ever comprehensively study the potential mammal health risks that may arise from eating genetically modified food products. The research titled A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health was conducted by four French scientists. The researchers summarized their findings saying

"... Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM maize consumption, which were sex- and often dose-dependent. Effects were mostly associated with the kidney and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, although different between the 3 GMOs. Other effects were also noticed in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system. We conclude that these data highlight signs of hepatorenal toxicity, possibly due to the new pesticides specific to each GM corn."

The French scientists said it was important to study gm foods because

"... These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown."

The scientists fed rats gm corn varieties for three months, and said the results called for longer-term studies.
The Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), Lucy Sharratt said this latest research highlights a need to impose a moratorium on all gm foods, as well as review of all the science behind existing approvals.

"Health Canada does not do any testing but relies on Monsanto's data instead. This new study again shows that we cannot trust Monsanto's so-called science. Protecting the health of Canadians demands peer reviewed, independent science." Sharratt said via email Wednesday.

Sharratt said the findings confirmed those found in earlier research by the same scientists, and said ominously

"Actually, five of Monsanto's GM corn products pointing to serious problems with Canada's regulation. Health Canada recently approved an eight-trait GM corn - SmartStax - without assessing its safety, And recently Europe asked serious safety questions about a high-lysine corn Canada also approved years back. Health Canada must deal with the reality that it has approved GM foods that are increasingly understood as dangerous."

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/285594

[Liberty Belle]

1. Very important story. This stuff should be banned.

The majority of US soybeans and hefty percentage of our corn crops are GMO.

Why didn't they require animal studies BEFORE they allowed this stuff to be widely planted and the crops sold as food?

Oh, of course...because Bush was running the country back then.

Let's hope Obama's USDA and FDA start putting consumers' health ahead of Monsanto's profits.

[clear eye]

4. It's more widely sold as animal feed than human food, which is actually worse..

Animals concentrate these fat soluble insecticides in their tissues, so eating chicken, beef or fish fed w/ the stuff will give you a higher dose than eating, say, corn chips made of it.

One of the differences between eating a product made from ordinary sprayed corn and one made of the GM corn is that there is usually a period before harvest when the a regular crop is not supposed to be sprayed so the residue on the crop is reduced. If the crop is producing the insecticide itself or is incorporating a systemic herbicide, there can be no such safeguard. And they had to have known that before they created the Frankenseed. In a way, it was a method of getting around the washout period.

[nosmokes]

11. Actually the push for GMO began under Clinton but the M/I complex,AKA

the corporate oligarchy, is who can really take the blame, or the credit if you're a believer that transpecies mutations will prove to be harmless. It's been part of the 'New Democrats' agenda since everyone's idol King Willie coined the phrase and

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. "This new study again shows that we cannot trust Monsanto's so-called science."

Now there's the understatement of the decade!

[Demonaut]

5. My dog just went to emergency a week ago

his spleen is massive, it's a death sentence. Most of his food has corn as the main ingredient..well at least it was until I switched on the advice of a friend.

Hopefully it will shrink but the vet says its unlikely. With his diabetes and his age (12 years) an operation would probably kill him sooner.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Sorry to hear about your dog

I suspect all the cats dying of kidney disease are probably related to this as well. I know what years of drinking Coke (with HFCS) like water did to me, so none of this is surprising. MonSatan needs to die.

[Demonaut]

15. thanks man

hfcs is poison, I truly believe that

[cory777]

3. Obama Puts Monsanto Lobbyist In Charge Of Food Safety

Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq.
Organic Consumers Association
Friday, July 24, 2009

Genetically modified foods are not safe. The only reason they’re in our food supply is because government bureaucrats with ties to industry suppressed or manipulated scientific research and deprived consumers of the information they need to make informed choices about whether or not to eat genetically modified foods.

Now, the Obama Administration is putting two notorious biotech bullies in charge of food safety! Former Monsanto lobbyist Michael Taylor has been appointed as a senior adviser to the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner on food safety. And, rBGH-using dairy farmer and Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff is rumored to be President Obama’s choice for Under-Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety. Wolfe spearheaded anti-consumer legislation in Pennsylvania that would have taken away the rights of consumers to know whether their milk and dairy products were contaminated with Monsanto’s (now Eli Lilly’s) genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH).

Please click here to send a message to President Obama, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (oversees FDA) demanding Michael Taylor’s resignation, and letting them know that you oppose Dennis Wolff’s appointment.

About Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor is a lawyer who has spent the last few decades moving through the revolving door between the employ of GMO-seed giant Monsanto and the FDA and USDA. Taylor is widely credited with ushering Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) through the FDA regulatory process and into the milk supply — unlabeled. A Government Accounting Office (GAO) investigated whether Taylor had a conflict of interest and or had engaged in ethical misconduct in the approval of rBGH. The report’s conclusion that there was no wrongdoing conflicted with the 30 pages of evidence that Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) described as proof that “the FDA allowed corporate influence to run rampant in its approval” of the drug.

Taylor is also responsible for the FDA’s decision to treat genetically modified organisms as “substantially equivalent” to natural foods and therefore not require any safety studies. The “substantially equivalent” rule allowed the FDA to ignore evidence that genetically engineered foods, including soy, are in fact very different from natural foods and pose specific health risks

In November 2008, Tom Philpott reported that Taylor was among President-Elect Obama’s “team members” looking at energy and natural resources agencies, including USDA. In March 2009, President Obama announced the creation of a White House Food Safety Working Group to improve and coordinate the government’s approach to the nationwide food safety crisis. Agri-Pulse reported that Taylor was “the leading candidate to staff the White House working group.” While anti-GMO activists, including the Organic Consumers Association, protested — OCA members sent 13,435 letters to USDA Sec. Tom Vilsack, who co-chairs the Food Safety Working Group with HHS Sec. Sebelius — Taylor laid low. He was nowhere to be found at the White House Food Safety Working Group’s May 13th Listening Session. But, the rumor proved true. On July 7, 2009, the FDA announced that Taylor had joined the agency as senior adviser to the commissioner.

As Philpott describes in a July 8th article, Taylor’s food safety agenda is to “shift much more of the burden for funding food-safety operations to the state and local level” and to promote HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) systems where the points in a process that pose the most risk are identified and “fixed” with remedies like ammonia washes and irradiation. Taylor’s approach — putting a few bandaids on an industrialized food system gone wrong — is in direct conflict with organic practices and is likely to unduly burden small producers.

Taylor has long been hostile to real food safety. While working as a lobbyist, Taylor authored more than a dozen articles critical of the Delaney Clause, a 1958 federal law prohibiting the introduction of known carcinogens into processed foods, which had long been opposed by Monsanto and other chemical and pesticide companies. When Taylor rejoined the federal government, he continued advocating that Delaney should be overturned. This was finally done when President Clinton signed the so-called Food Quality Protection Act on the eve of the 1996 elections.

Taylor is featured in the documentary, The World According to Monsanto, which you can watch on OCA’s Millions Against Monsanto page.

About Dennis Wolff

Dennis Wolff is the Secretary of Agriculture for the State of Pennsylvania. Wolff also is a dairy farmer and owns Pen-Col Farms, a 600-acre dairy cattle operation. Wolff has championed agribusiness interests as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Agriculture, including banning local dairies from marketing their products as free of Monsanto’s rBGH. Wolff is a member of the Agriculture Technical Advisory Committee to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO has been largely credited with forcing so-called “free trade” on farmers and consumers around the globe, undermining national sovereignty and food safety. Finally, Wolff was a strong proponent of the “ACRE” initiative (Agriculture, Communities and Rural Environment), which gives the Pennsylvania state attorney general’s office the authority to sue municipalities over local farm ordinances deemed to exceed state law, depriving communities the right to ban toxic sewage sludge, factory farms, and GMOs.

Aside from having absolutely no experience in meat inspection, the chief food safety responsibility of the USDA, Dennis Wolff should be rejected for any post within the Obama Administration for the hostile position he has taken, as Pennsylvania’s Agriculture Secretary, against consumers’ right to know what is in our food. According to the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, Wolff:

* Tried to ban all labeling of dairy products that didn’t use genetically engineered growth hormone (rBGH or rBST). This was an outright violation of freedom of speech of the dairy processors and the farmers who supplied them.

* Said that consumers were “concerned or confused” about the labeling and said his department received “many calls” about it. Yet when a New York Times reporter asked him about this, Wolff couldn’t provide any surveys showing consumers were confused and could not come up with the name of ONE CONSUMER who had complained.

* Held one meeting of the so-called Food Labeling Advisory Committee and said they recommended the labeling ban. Yet the committee never voted on anything and never made any recommendations specific to dairy. Moreover, the group most affected by the rules and most opposed to them, the PA Association of Milk Dealers, was never even invited to the meeting.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. Like the tobacco companies.... Monsanto continues its course of destroying lives

for the acquisition of dollar bills. Have I said lately how much I despise these f'rs?

[undergroundpanther]

8. it's already in our food everywhere

If you, like most people, don’t want to eat GM foods, you may be surprised to learn that millions of tons of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are going into producing the food we eat.

These are the stealth GMOs whose presence in the food chain is carefully concealed. And here is how the trick is pulled.
Because people around the world don't want to eat GM foods, hardly any GM ingredients are going directly into foods that have to be labelled or that can easily be boycotted by consumers.

In the USA, where most GM crops are grown, GM ingredients don’t have to be labelled. As a result, GM ingredients are going into highly processed US foods where they are hard to identify. More recently, the Bush administration’s big subsidies for biofuels, and particularly corn (maize) ethanol, means GMOs have also been used for fuel, avoiding direct consumer contact.

http://www.bangmfood.org/stealth-gmos

In 2001, taco shells and other corn products in the USA were recalled because they were found to contain GMed corn (Starlink). GMed corn causes anaphylaxis. In the UK, anaphylactic shock has increased by 560% since the introduction of GMed foods from the USA. France reported a 5 fold increase.
http://www.bloggersbase.com/sports-and-fitness/are-you-eating-foods-of-deception-part-3/#4

The only way for GMed food to be identified is to have them tagged with antibiotics. These minute traces of antibiotics in GMed food open up to a wide range of problems associated with bacterial resistance (harder for humans to fight illnesses). < There will be more "research groups" requiring donations and funding to create more prescription drugs that may not work to fight new and never-before diseases. >

Buffaloes in India that ate GMed cottonseed had complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, infertility, and prolapsed uterus. Milk production and performance of lactating showed significant differences between cows fed GM and non-GM feeds. Many calves died.

On January 3rd 2008, 13 buffaloes who grazed GMed cottonseed plants fell sick the next day; all died within 3 days. Buffalo that graze on matured non-GMed cotton plants for past eight years do not suffer from such complications.

Sheep fed GMed cotton plants (in India too) were dead within 30 days; those that grazed on natural cotton plants remained healthy. Post mortem of sheeps that grazed on GM cotton plants, showed severe irritation and black patches in both intestines and liver (as well as enlarged bile ducts).

GMed cottonseed plants also killed 30% of pollinating bees in the fields of Thailand. - Institute for Science in Society, London.

GMed Tobacco Plants in sheep. CSIRO spliced genes of a tobacco plant to place into sheep. Sweat glands started to secrete Chitinase that kills blowfly larvaes by dissolving the larvae's endoskeleton. Err....nicotine in lamb chops anyone?


http://www.bloggersbase.com/sports-and-fitness/are-you-eating-foods-of-deception-part-3/

Weaponizing Food

Take a deep breath and think about that concept. If you poison water, you’ll kill the people and animals who must either drink it or die without it. If you do the same to food, you’ll kill the people who must eventually eat it or die because they did not. But if you are the Pharmaceutical industry and you can make as many people sick as possible in as short a time (and, of course, you successfully criminalize your more effective competitor, natural, non drug remedies and treatments) then you can accumulate enormous resources while you are accomplishing what Henry Kissenger so bluntly identified as the first priortiy of US foreign policy: depopulation.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=712

Worst finding of all—GMOs remain inside of us
The only published human feeding study revealed what may be the most dangerous problem from GM foods. The gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines and continues to function. This means that long after we stop eating GMOs, we may still have potentially harmful GM proteins produced continuously inside of us. Put more plainly, eating a corn chip produced from Bt corn might transform our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories, possibly for the rest of our lives.

When evidence of gene transfer is reported at medical conferences around the US, doctors often respond by citing the huge increase of gastrointestinal problems among their patients over the last decade. GM foods might be colonizing the gut flora of North Americans.

Warnings by government scientists ignored and denied

Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had warned about all these problems even in the early 1990s. According to documents released from a lawsuit, the scientific consensus at the agency was that GM foods were inherently dangerous, and might create hard-to-detect allergies, poisons, gene transfer to gut bacteria, new diseases, and nutritional problems. They urged their superiors to require rigorous long-term tests. But the White House had ordered the agency to promote biotechnology and the FDA responded by recruiting Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s former attorney, to head up the formation of GMO policy. That policy, which is in effect today, denies knowledge of scientists’ concerns and declares that no safety studies on GMOs are required. It is up to Monsanto and the other biotech companies to determine if their foods are safe. Mr. Taylor later became Monsanto’s vice president.
http://www.foodmatters.tv/_webapp/The%20Truth%20Is%20Out%20on%20Genetically%20Modified%20Foods%20-%20And%20It%27s%20Not%20Pretty

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Corporations Vs. The Truth

and it just continues to get worse...

That's some scary shit in your post.

[SpiralHawk]

14. Wow, Panther. This clip from your post is stunning

"Worst finding of all—GMOs remain inside of us
The only published human feeding study revealed what may be the most dangerous problem from GM foods. The gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines and continues to function.

"This means that long after we stop eating GMOs, we may still have potentially harmful GM proteins produced continuously inside of us. Put more plainly, eating a corn chip produced from Bt corn might transform our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories, possibly for the rest of our lives."

[cory777]

10. Why was this moved from the latest board in only 45 minutes?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

12. kick

[SpiralHawk]

13. Ban the occult mutant GMO crapola because

...there will likely be DIRE consequences down the road after people have eaten this unlabeled mutant crap for a generation or two. Then we will see how sick a screw up this is...