[lbo-talk] bad review for GM crops

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 05:39:44 PST 2006


---- Original Message ---- From: joanna To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:11 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] bad review for GM crops


> Genetically modified crops that benefit consumers or the environment
> are yet to materialise despite renewed promises by biotech
> corporations, according to a new report by an environmental group.
> The biotech industry continues to misleadingly claim that GM crops
> play a role in solving world hunger, the Friends of the Earth
> International report said.
>
> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B708036E-2815-4421-BBCB-B978334CD34A.htm
>

You Give Birth To What You Eat - GM: New study shows unborn babies could be harmed - Independent (UK) via Pravda

[ It just LOOKS like food, and with luck, your infant will LOOK like an normal baby. ]

GM: New study shows unborn babies could be harmed Geoffery Lean - The Independent January 8, 2006

Women who eat GM foods while pregnant risk endangering their unborn babies, startling new research suggests.

The study - carried out by a leading scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences - found that more than half of the offspring of rats fed on modified Soya died in the first three weeks of life, six times as many as those born to mothers with normal diets. Six times as many were also severely underweight.

The research - which is being prepared for publication - is just one of a clutch of recent studies that are reviving fears that GM food damages human health. Italian research has found that modified Soya affected the liver and pancreas of mice. Australia had to abandon a decade-long attempt to develop modified peas when an official study found they caused lung damage. <More> http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=155781

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