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In reply to the discussion: Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops - January 21, 2013 [View all]Berlum
(7,044 posts)When a scientific study was published in September last year showing that a genetically modified maize and tiny amounts of the Roundup herbicide it is designed to be grown with damaged the health of rats, Corinne Lepage MEP called it "a bomb".
The study, by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini's team at the University of Caen, France, was the first to test the effects of eating a GM food and its associated pesticide over the animals' lifetime of two years.
The study found that GM maize and Roundup caused severe organ damage and increased tumour rates, as well as earlier death....
HUGE STINKING TANTRUM BY "Scientists" immediately thereafter gets MASSIVE corporate media play.
"...But all was not as it seemed. Many of the critics were subsequently exposed as having commercial or career interests in GM technology interests that went undisclosed in media articles that quoted them.
The Science Media Centre itself has taken funding from GM and agrochemical companies.
Government agencies that condemned the study, such as the EFSA, had been involved in GM crop approvals and so were simply defending their own decisions.
Read more: http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/2937/citizens-were-lied-to-over-gm-study#ixzz2IjCiUj00