Wednesday 26 September 2012

THE TIDE TURNS: MONSANTO'S GM CORN SUSPENDED IN RUSSIA

ED: Meanwhile, France has announced it will uphold the ban on genetically modified crops in the country. It has asked the national food-security agency Anses to examine the study of Monsanto’s corn. If other countries follow the examples of Russia and France it could be a severe blow to the major US biotech.

In California, activists are fighting to have GM products removed from the food supply. They are also pushing to pass Proposition 37, a law that would legally require genetically modified foods to be labeled as such. Monsanto is opposing the law and it has donated over $4.2 million to lobby against it. Over 2,000 farmers have petitioned the US government to more thoroughly investigate the impacts of the genetically modified corn crop from Monsanto.

By Sayer Ji
September 26, 2012

In a bold and encouraging move on Tuesday, Russian authorities suspended the import of Monsanto's genetically-modified corn over cancer fears spurred by an alarming long-term animal feeding study performed by French researchers at the University of Caen and published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology this month.  

According to Russia Today:
The Russia's consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country's Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The watchdog has also contacted to European Commission's Directorate General for Health & Consumers to explain the EU's position on GM corn.
The temporary suspension will immediately affect American imports of corn. The government of France has already embarked upon investigation as to the safety issues surrounding its use, and actions of this sort could soon be followed by other nations.

Previous feeding studies on both GM corn and glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, involved feeding the rats for no longer than 90 days, and were conducted exclusively by biotech corporations with a vested interest in finding safe results.

The new French study was conducted on rats for two years, the equivalent of a human lifespan, and resulted in dramatically shortened life spans due to organ damage and failure, as well as massive tumors, most notably mammary tumors in female rats.
Most of the gross abnormalities appeared after the first 90 days of their life, explaining why previous 90 day studies found little of concern.
Increasingly, among research not directly funded by Monsanto, or the biotech industry as a whole, evidence is accumulating that GM-produced food crops are extremely dangerous to human health and the environment. 

ED: Monsanto (this is rich irony here) criticized the study, saying it “doesn’t meet minimum acceptable standards for this type of scientific research” and the data was incomplete.

Monsanto also said Russia’s ban will have little effect on its business as the country import small volumes of corn from the US. Besides that, the Russian government doesn't permit farmers to plant GM crops. "Russia is a net exporter of grain, so the actual impact of their temporary suspension, if any, is likely to be small," the spokesman said in a statement.

Do you sense a little sour grapes in this response?

The NK603 Roundup tolerant GM maize Russia suspended imports of is designed to be sprayed with Roundup (glyphosate) and therefore contains residues of both the herbicide and its toxic metabolites. The French researchers also raised concern that the transgene within the maize that makes it resistant to Roundup is promoting organ damage by preventing the production of natural Roundup-detoxifying phenolic compounds such as ferulic and caffeic acid within those who consume it.

The GreenMedInfo database has indexed peer-reviewed research on over 30 adverse health effects linked to glyphosate exposure, including:
  • Lymphoma
  • DNA Damage
  • Hormone Disruption
  • Brain Damage
  • Liver Cancer
  • Infertility
  • Kidney Damage
To learn more about the devastating health effects associated with GM-produced food visit our GMO Research page.
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Image of the rats from the French study fed GMO maize, GMO mazie + Roundup, and Roundup alone.

1 comment:

  1. What is particularly interesting here is that Russian scientists in the early 1990's exposed thimerosal (an alkyl mercury containing preservative used in most pediatric vaccines still today despite how those in the corrupt media lie, which is causally related to a horrendous epidemic of autism in American children, as a horrendous neurotoxin and took out any thimerosal from their vaccines, whereas the US and Britain medical established continued to rely on their failed science which ushered in all of the damaged children. To date, the American and British medical establishments are besieged on all fronts by their criminal mandated vaccine paradigm which has resulted in their collapsing credibility. It also has done tremendous damage to the mainstream media as they parrot the lies of the medical establishment which corruptly tries to avoid trillions of dollars in damage awards.
    Usher in the GMO controversy, with Russia at its center and its scientists acting ethically.
    History may not repeat, but it certainly does rhyme.

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