New Study Shows GE Corn Causes Infertility and Abnormal Gene Expression

[Orwellian_Ghost]

New Study Shows GE Corn Causes Infertility and Abnormal Gene Expression

A new study commissioned by the Austrian government has found that a diet of GM corn causes infertility and abnormal gene expression in mice. Most studies on the health effects of GM corn have been either short term, or corporate funded and controlled. This study adds to a growing body of independent evidence that GMO's may not be safe.

Alberta Velimirov at Research Institute on Biological Agriculture (Forschungsinttitut für biologishen Landbau) along with Claudia Binter and Jürgen Zentck at the Institute for Nutrition (Institut für Ernährung) both in Vienna, monitored multiple generations of mice fed GM corn for changes in overall heath and reproductive performance, and conducted sub-microscopic analyses of tissues, cells, and gene expression.

The Austrians tested a newer variety of “stacked” GM corn (NK603 x MON810) containing three sets of foreign genes: two of which code for tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate, (RoundUp), and one which produces the pesticide Bt inside the cells of the corn. The team reported that Monsanto was unwilling to provide neither the GM test crop nor the parent crop from which the GM crop was developed, so the research team had to use a close relative variety of corn as the control feed.

Three sets of experiments were performed:
• Starting with a multi-generation feeding trial, mice were fed and bred for four successive generations, beginning with parents who were fed on GM or control corn diets from birth.
• The second was a multi-cycle breeding trial lasting 20 weeks in which breeding pairs of mice were fed either GM or control corn beginning one week prior to breeding until the end of experiment, and allowed to go through four breeding cycles in the same generation.
• The third was a life-term trial involving feeding the mice without breeding from conception (via the pregnant mothers) to their eventual death.

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http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2336

[KittyWampus]

1. tagged for later- Germany has done quite a few GM studies that are damning.

[FedUpWithIt All]

2. How do we find out if the product we are buying is GM? n/t

[Orwellian_Ghost]

3. Very difficult

Most products that use corn or corn-based derivatives pull from many sources and often those sources are mixed with conventional and GM corn. This is also true with soy products.

Not all "organic" products are certain to be GMO-free even when labeled as such.

[FedUpWithIt All]

5. Hmmm. Well maybe we will add corn to our garden after all..

Not that it will prevent us consuming it as corn is in EVERYTHING.

Sigh. Greedy fuckers.

Thanks for the info.




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[goforit]

9. GMO-free will be an important "Flag" on all Organic products.

Scary shit!
Depopulation is the New World Orders mandate.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. I beleive that there had been some movements about accurate labeling

but the repukes stopped it.

[FedUpWithIt All]

6. I will never understand how mangling our nation's government, land and people benefits them.

Sure they are making $2, instead of $1, in the short term. But over the long term they are losing $100. When we are all broke and dying they will no longer be able to profit off of us. Nearsighted losers.

Have i mentioned my sincere loathing for the "right"?

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[Grinchie]

14. In America, You don't Know, Because thats the way Monsanto wants it.

A few years back, there were a few ballot initiatives in a few states that were asking for Mandatory labeling of GMO ingredients. The GMO Corporations spent enormous sums to make sure it didn't pass.

The trouble is that as soon as Mandatory labeling laws get passed, Monsanto with be directly traceable to the diseases that people may develop in the future, so they will delay that sticky little problem as long as they can by greasing everyone they know at the USDA, FDA, FSA, Farm Bureau, ad infinitum.

Obama's silence on GMO foods and his shocking selection of Monsanto fanbot Vilsack are very disturbing.

[Tashca]

7. Thank you for the article

I don't like biased reporting from any view point. I immediately googled Research Institute on Biological Agriculture. It appears to be a legitimate source. I have been looking for a source for research on biological processes in Agriculture. The short time I looked it appeared to be full of exactly the type of thing I've been looking for. I will study it more later.

If these claims are true and future research verifies them....the consumer must have a choice. We simply have to demand GMO labeling. I would say anything with at least 99% or less GMO would be labeled non-GMO. The consumer simply has to have a choice....period!!

If this were to happen and consumers would demand only GMO free.....farmers would comply. Either a premium for non-GMO or a deep discount for GMO crops that are grown.

Corn is a problem....even people who think they are growing non-GMO corn can have their corn contaminated if it happens to pollinate at the same time as a GMO Field two miles away. Most other crops are easier to contain because of self pollination.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

12. It's not so easy

Eliminate subsidies to agri-business and you are off and running. Until that happens the farmers are under some very extreme influences and financial distress. You can liken it to extortion.

[Grinchie]

15. Right now, the Organic corn demands a price premium.

If you have a feed store near you, just go in and price Chicken feed. All the stuff from Purina is GMO and chemicals. It is half the price of Organic feed of equivalent nutrition.

When naturally grown feed is more expensive that GMO, then our food supply is totally out of whack.

[hedgehog]

8. I'm waiting for someone to find out that GMO corn and soy beans

causes a gene to express in humans which causes obesity. Then heads will start exploding.

[goforit]

10. Wow, Wow and triple Wow!!!! MONSANTO should be ARRESTED and closed for good.

[Tashca]

11. Monsanto isn't alone

Monsanto seems to be the company everyone points their hatred toward on this site. There are plenty of other players.
In the above example MON810 is a Monsanto gene....NK603 is Northrup King which is owned by Syngenta a massive UK Ag. company.
Bayer a massive Ag. company from Germany is ramping up production of an alternative to Round-up technology in soybeans....it will be massively used in 2010 and after. They plan on capitalizing on the growing hatred of Monsanto by farmers.....but it's still a GMO.

There is going to be an unbelievable amount of new GMO technology unleashed in the next few years.

Monsanto is about to release a new one for corn also. It's called drought resistant corn. Now I asked a person in the know why they would do something so stupid in the corn belt. The only droughts I have been in were 1983 and 1988. The last droughts here before that were 1932 and 1934. My question was why would a farmer pay extra for seed when the odds of drought were so low. He laughed at me and said....this isn't for the corn belt.....this is so corn can be grown in area where it's never been grown before. Wrap your head around that one.

If this above article is true....we need to nip this in the bud now!!

[shadowknows69]

13. "Children of Men" anyone?