Did you know that the FDA is allowing Monsanto to poisen you and your children with their GMO 'food'? (Obama, free speech)
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In September 2012, Food and Chemical Toxicology, a serious international scientific journal, released a study by a team of scientists at France’s Caen University led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini. Before publication the Seralini study had been reviewed over a four-month period by a qualified group of scientific peers for its methodology and was deemed publishable.
It was no amateur undertaking. The scientists at Caen made carefully-documented results of tests on a group of 200 rats over a two-year life span, basically with one group of non-GMO fed rats, a so-called control group, and the other a group of GMO-fed rats.
Significantly, following a long but finally successful legal battle to force Monsanto to release the details of its own study of the safety of its own NK603 maize (corn), Seralini and colleagues reproduced a 2004 Monsanto study published in the same journal and used by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its 2009 positive evaluation of NK603.
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An arresting but widely criticized study that stoked fears about genetically modified foods (GMOs) was retracted Thursday.
The move was met with relief by scientists who heaped scorn on the French study after it was published last year. The study claimed a steady diet of genetically modified corn caused tumours in rats.
But observers say the damage will be hard to undo.
The retraction is “good news,” says biologist Robert Wager, at Vancouver Island University, who objected to the study from the outset. But he says “it’s worrisome it took over a year for the journal to do the right thing.”
How do you avoid GMOs? It may not be possible to completely avoid GMOs, but to limit them, choose organic products, especially fruits and vegetables.
All organic foods sold in the U.S. must be certified according to the USDA National Organic Standards, which prohibit the use of GMOs.
Look at the barcode on produce stickers. A four-digit code means the product was "conventionally grown." A five-digit code that starts with a "9" means that the product was organically grown.
A five-digit code that starts with an "8" means that the product was genetically modified.
How do you avoid GMOs? It may not be possible to completely avoid GMOs, but to limit them, choose organic products, especially fruits and vegetables.
All organic foods sold in the U.S. must be certified according to the USDA National Organic Standards, which prohibit the use of GMOs.
Look at the barcode on produce stickers. A four-digit code means the product was "conventionally grown." A five-digit code that starts with a "9" means that the product was organically grown.
A five-digit code that starts with an "8" means that the product was genetically modified.
1. oh its organic...yet the cow poop they use to fertilize...came from cows eating gmo corn......
2. fruits.....nearly every fruit has been modified over the years for 'better taste', 'better looks', 'dought resistance', 'insect resistance' etc
1. oh its organic...yet the cow poop they use to fertilize...came from cows eating gmo corn......
2. fruits.....nearly every fruit has been modified over the years for 'better taste', 'better looks', 'dought resistance', 'insect resistance' etc
the bar code means nothing....
Some people enjoy a little deception with their meals.
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