[SymphonicHealth] Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food (fwd)

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MonSATAN/Monsanto....hell on earth anyway you look at it.

What's a little tweak of pesticide in your food?! Just so long as they

keep their profits going on....

FYI...good ole Orville Redenbacker popcorn/Con Agra products are all ownd

by Monsatan.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=640402

GM Food = Genetically Modified Food

Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food

Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed

abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood,

raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food.

Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food

Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed

abnormalities in blood and kidneys

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor

22 May 2005

Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn

developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to

their blood, raising fears that human health could be

affected by eating GM food.

The Independent on Sunday can today reveal details of secret

research carried out by Monsanto, the GM food giant, which

shows that rats fed the modified corn had smaller kidneys

and variations in the composition of their blood.

According to the confidential 1,139-page report, these

health problems were absent from another batch of rodents

fed non-GM food as part of the research project.

The disclosures come as European countries, including

Britain, prepare to vote on whether the GM-modified corn

should go on sale to the public. A vote last week by the

European Union failed to secure agreement over whether the

product should be sold here, after Britain and nine other

countries voted in favour.

However, the disclosure of the health effects on the

Monsanto rats has intensified the row over whether the corn

is safe to eat without further research. Doctors said the

changes in the blood of the rodents could indicate that the

rat's immune system had been damaged or that a disorder such

as a tumour had grown and the system was mobilising to fight

it.

Dr Vyvyan , a senior lecturer on human anatomy and

cell biology at Liverpool University, called for the

publication of the full study, saying the summary gave

" prima facie cause for concern " .

Dr Antoniu, an expert in molecular genetics at Guy's

Hospital Medical School, described the findings as " very

worrying from a medical point of view " , adding: " I have been

amazed at the number of significant differences they found

[in the rat experiment]. "

Although Monsanto last night dismissed the abnormalities in

rats as meaningless and due to chance, reflecting normal

variations between rats, a senior British government source

said ministers were so worried by the findings that they had

called for further information.

Environmentalists will see the findings as vindication of

British research seven years ago, which suggested that rats

that ate GM potatoes suffered damage to their health. That

research, which was roundly denounced by ministers and the

British scientific establishment, was halted and Dr Arpad

Pusztai, the scientist behind the controversial findings,

was forced into retirement amid a huge row over the claim.

Dr Pusztai reported a " huge list of significant differences "

between rats fed GM and conventional corn, saying the

results strongly indicate that eating significant amounts of

it can damage health. The new study is into a corn,

codenamed MON 863, which has been modified by Monsanto to

protect itself against corn rootworm, which the company

describes as " one of the most pernicious pests affecting

maize crops around the world " .

Now, however, any decision to allow the corn to be marketed

in the UK will cause widespread alarm. The full details of

the rat research are included in the main report, which

Monsanto refuses to release on the grounds that " it contains

confidential business information which could be of

commercial use to our competitors " .

A Monsanto spokesman said yesterday: " If any such well-known

anti-biotech critics had doubts about the credibility of

these studies they should have raised them with the

regulators. After all, MON 863 isn't new, having been

approved to be as safe as conventional maize by nine other

global authorities since 2003. "

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