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Genetically Modified Foods: Toxins and Reproductive Failures
http://arizonaadvancedmedicine.com/articles/genetically_modified_foods.html
Rhetoric from Washington since the early 1990s proclaims that genetically modified (GM) foods are no different from their natural counterparts that have existed for centuries. But this is a political, not a scientific assertion.
65 Health Risks of GM Foods
Section 1: Evidence of reactions in animals and humans
1.1 GM potatoes damaged rats
1. Rats were fed potatoes engineered to produce their own insecticide.
2. They developed potentially precancerous cell growth in the digestive tract, inhibited development of their brains, livers and testicles, partial atrophy of the liver, enlarged pancreases and intestines and immune system damage.
3. The cause was not the insecticide, but in all likelihood was the process of genetic engineering.
4. GM foods on the marketwhich were created with the same processhave not been subject to such an extensive testing protocol.
http://responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/65-health-risks/1notes
Austrian Government Study Confirms Genetically Modified (GM) Crops
Threaten Human Fertility and Health Safety 11-14-08
http://www.abundantlifeessentials.com/news/gmofertility.htm
Monsanto's GM Corn MON863 Showed Kidney, Liver Toxicity in Animal Feeding Study
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4790.cfm
Russian researchers present new data on negative influence of GMO on human health
http://www.regnum.ru/english/813298.html
Click here to download GM Crops Just the Science, a 2009 document prepared by preeminent researchers and scientists based in the EU. This excellent summary contains 136 citations and is written in plain English for accessibility to the general public.
http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/gm-crops-just-the-science/
Fate of food DNA
Evaluation of the safety of genetically modified (GM) crops seems to be hampered by the unwillingness of regulators recognize and to evaluate the impact of genetic effects that are outside simplistic models of genes and their behavior. It has been presumed that the organism destroys food genes during digestion and excretion. However, studies on DNA immunization showed that DNA could be delivered to the immune system through oral uptake. A few daring German researchers have also explored the fate of orally ingested genetic material. The papers below show that ingested DNA is not only circulated through the animal body but may be associated with nucleus and chromosomes.
http://www.saynotogmos.org/scientific_studies.htm