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When I was researching this in the late 90's this is exactly what they were predicting would happen - and they said it would take a decade for the proof to come out
France:
Monsanto’s GMO Corn Causes Cancer, Organ Damage in Rats
21
September, 2012
This
image is from a French language story about the study posted
at nouvelobs.com:
Rats,
GMO Corn, RoundUp
Americans
are literally made of the stuff: King
Corn:
Via: AFP:
France’s
government on Wednesday asked a health watchdog to carry out a probe,
possibly leading to EU suspension of a genetically-modified corn,
after a study in rats linked the grain to cancer.
Agriculture
Minister Stephane Le Foll, Ecology Minister Delphine Batho and Health
and Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine said they had asked the
National Agency for Health Safety (ANSES) to investigate the finding.
“Depending
on ANSES’ opinion, the government will urge the European
authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and
animal health,” they said in a joint statement.
“(The
measures) could go as far as invoking emergency suspension of imports
of NK603 corn to Europe pending a re-examination of this product on
the basis of enhanced assessment methods.”
Earlier,
French scientists led by Gilles-Eric Seralini at the University of
Caen in Normandy unveiled a study that said rats fed with NK603 corn
or exposed to the weedkiller used with it developed tumours.
NK603
is a corn, also called maize, made by US agribusiness giant Monsanto.
It
has been engineered to make it resistant to Monsanto’s herbicide
Roundup.
This
enables farmers to douse fields with the weedkiller in a single go,
thus offering substantial savings.
Genetically
modified (GM) crops are widely grown in North America, Brazil and
China but are a hot-button issue in Europe.
The
study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical
Toxicology, says it is the first to look at rats over their normal
lifespan of two years.
“For
the first time ever, a GM organism and a herbicide have been
evaluated for their long-term impact on health, and more thoroughly
than by governments or the industry,” Seralini told AFP. “The
results are alarming.”
Two
hundred male and female rats were split into 10 groups of 10 animals.
One
was a “control” group which was given ordinary rat food that
contained 33 percent non-GM corn, and plain water.
Three
groups were given ordinary rat food and water with increasing doses
of Roundup, reflecting various concentrations of the herbicide in the
food chain.
The
other six were fed rat food of which 11, 22 or 33 percent comprised
NK603 corn, either treated or not with Roundup when the corn was
grown.
The
researchers found that NK603 and Roundup both caused similar damage
to the rats’ health, whether they were consumed together or on
their own.
Premature
deaths and sickness were concentrated especially among females.
At
the 14-month stage of experiment, no animals in the control groups
showed any signs of cancer, but among females in the “treated”
groups, tumours affected between 10 and 30 percent of the rodents.
“By
the beginning of the 24th month, 50-80 percent of female animals had
developed tumours in all treated groups, with up to three tumours per
animal, whereas only 30 percent of controls were affected,” it said
Males
which fell sick suffered liver damage, developed kidney and skin
tumours and digestive problems.
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Credit: LDXX
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