Dr. Mercola, September
The first-ever lifetime feeding study evaluating the health risks of
genetically engineered foods was published online on September 19, and the
results are troubling, to say the least. This new study joins a list of over 30
other animal studies showing toxic or allergenic problems with genetically
engineered foods.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical
Toxicology, found that rats fed a type of genetically engineered corn that is
prevalent in the US food supply for two years developed massive mammary tumors,
kidney and liver damage, and other serious health problems.
The research was considered so “hot” that the work was done under strict
secrecy. According to a French article in Le Nouvel Observateur, the
researchers used encrypted emails, phone conversations were banned, and they
even launched a decoy study to prevent sabotage.
According to the authors: “The health effects of a Roundup-tolerant
genetically modified maize (from 11% in the diet), cultivated with or without
Roundup, and Roundup alone (from 0.1ppb in water), were studied 2 years in
rats. [Editors note: this level of Roundup is permitted in drinking water and
GE crops in the US]
In females, all treated groups died 2-3 times more than controls, and
more rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs.
All results were hormone and sex dependent, and the pathological
profiles were comparable. Females developed large mammary tumors almost always
more often than and before controls, the pituitary was the second most disabled
organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments.
In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5-5.5 times
higher… Marked
and severe kidney nephropathies were also generally 1.3-2.3 greater. Males
presented 4 times more large palpable tumors than controls, which occurred up
to 600 days earlier.
Biochemistry
data confirmed very significant kidney chronic deficiencies; for all treatments
and both sexes, 76% of the altered parameters were kidney related. These
results can be explained by the non linear endocrine-disrupting effects of
Roundup, but also by the overexpression of the transgene in the GMO and its
metabolic consequences.”
Does 10
percent or more of your diet consist of genetically engineered (GE)
ingredients? At present, you can’t know for sure, since GE foods are not
labeled in the US. But chances are, if you eat processed foods, your diet is
chock full of genetically engineered ingredients you didn’t even know about.
The study
in question includes photos and graphs. They really are not exaggerating when
they say it caused massive tumors… They are huge! Some of the tumors weighed in
at 25 percent of the rat’s total body weight. This is the most current and best
evidence to date of the toxic effects of GE foods.
Rats only
live a few years. Humans live around 80 years, so we will notice these effects
in animals long before we see them in humans. The gigantic human lab experiment
is only about 10 years old, so we are likely decades away from tabulating the
human casualties. This is some of the strongest evidence to date that we need
to avoid these foods.
Do we
really wait 50 years to see what GE foods will do to human health and lifespan?
Related
news also sheds light on the massive devastation brought on the environment by
GE crops, and how soil destruction ends up affecting your health by decimating
the nutrient content in the foods you eat.
In
response to a scientific study that determined Western corn rootworms on two
Illinois farms had developed resistance to Monsanto’s YieldGard corn, the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made an admission about genetically
engineered crops: Yes, there is “mounting evidence” that Monsanto’s
insecticide-fighting corn is losing its effectiveness in the Midwest. Last
year, resistant rootworms infested corn fields in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and
Nebraska.
But YieldGard
is just one of Monsanto’s problems. Roundup-Ready crops are creating
super-resistant weeds that no longer respond to the herbicide. In fact, the
problem is so bad that 20 million acres of cotton, soybean and corn have
already been invaded by Roundup-resistant weeds.
Unfortunately,
resistant weeds are not the only, or the worst, side effect of Roundup-Ready
crops, genetically engineered to withstand otherwise lethal doses of
glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup.
Mounting
evidence tells us glyphosate itself may be far more dangerous than anyone ever
suspected… Earlier this month, Purdue scientist Dr. Don Huber again spoke out
about “the woes of GMO’s” and the inherent dangers of glyphosate in an article
published by GM Watch.
“Corn
used to be the healthiest plant you could grow. Now, multiple diseases, pests,
and weak plants are the common denominator of ‘modern’ hybrids,” he writes.
“Over
three decades ago we started the shift to a monochemical glyphosate herbicide
program that was soon accompanied by glyphosate- and insect-resistant
genetically engineered crops.
These two
changes in agricultural practices—the excessive application of a strong
essential mineral chelating, endocrine-disrupting chemical for weed control and
the genetically engineered production of new toxins in our food crops—was
accompanied by abandonment of years of scientific research based on the
scientific precautionary principle. We substituted a philosophical
‘substantially equivalent,’ a new term coined to avoid accountability for the
lack of understanding of consequences of our new activities, for science.”
Dr. Huber
commented, “Future historians may well look back upon our time and write, not
about how many pounds of pesticide we did or didn’t apply, but by how willing
we are to sacrifice our children and future generations for this massive
genetic engineering experiment that is based on flawed science and failed
promises just to benefit the bottom line of a commercial enterprise.”
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