Austrian Study Confirms Genetically Modified (GM) Crops Threaten

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Human Fertility and Health Safety

Los Angeles, CA.) - A long-term feeding study commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, managed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth, and carried out by Veterinary University Vienna, confirms genetically modified (GM) corn seriously affects reproductive health in mice. Non-GMO advocates, who have warned about this infertility link along with other health risks, now seek an immediate ban of all GM foods and GM crops to protect the health of humankind and the fertility of women around the world.

Feeding mice with genetically modified corn developed by the US-based Monsanto Corporation led to lower fertility and body weight, according to the study conducted by the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. Lead author of the study Professor Zentek said, there was a direct link between the decrease in fertility and the GM diet, and that mice fed with non-GE corn reproduced more efficiently.

In the study, Austrian scientists performed several long-term feeding trials over 20 weeks with laboratory mice fed a diet containing 33% of a GM variety (NK 603 x MON 810), or a closely related non-GE variety used in many countries. Statistically significant litter size and pup weight decreases were found in the third and fourth litters in the GM-fed mice, compared to the control group.

The corn is genetically modified with genes that produce a pesticidal toxin, as well as genes that allow it to survive applications of Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup.

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm

http://www.ages.at/ueber-uns/presse/pressemeldungen/klarstellung-zu-neuen-er (auf Deutsch)

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1. And the sad thing is that it's now too late to stop it entirely

because the GM seed has been released into the ecosystem.

It's too bad the study wasn't done BEFORE they moved forward with it.

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2. Maybe Big Agribusiness is taking up population control where

the Church refuses to go?

Seriously, GM crops are bad news. Small farmers trying to stay with so-called heirloom crops and/or organic methods face increasingly limited access to "modern" agricultural processes. When the bottom line is profit only, healthy food and a well fed population don't even rank.

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