Biotech Leader Covered Up Animal Deaths From GM Corn

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[font size=3]Biotech Leader Covered Up Animal Deaths From GM Corn[/font]

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By Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society
16 June 2012


[font size=1 color=gray]Corn is the second-most important GM crop worldwide, growing
in 18 countries. GM corn includes insect-resistant and herbicide-
tolerant varieties, and unlike soybeans, some GM corn has both
modifications 'stacked' together.[/font](photo: Reuters)

In a riveting victory against genetically modified creations, a major biotech company known as Syngenta has been criminally charged for denying knowledge that its GM Bt corn actually kills livestock. What's more is not only did the company deny this fact, but they did so in a civil court case that ended back in 2007. The charges were finally issued after a long legal struggle against the mega corp initiated by a German farmer named Gottfried Gloeckner whose dairy cattle died after eating the Bt toxin and coming down with a ‘mysterious' illness.

Grown on his own farm from 1997 to 2002, the cows on the farm were all being fed exclusively on Syngenta's Bt 176 corn by the year 2000. It was around this time that the mysterious illnesses began to emerge among the cattle population. Syngenta paid Gloeckner 40,000 euros in an effort to silence the farmer, however a civil lawsuit was brought upon the company. Amazingly, 2 cows ate genetically modified maize (now banned in Poland over serious concerns) and died. During the civil lawsuit, however, Syngenta refused to admit that its GM corn was responsible. In fact, they went as far as to claim having no knowledge whatsoever of harm.

The case was dismissed and Gloeckner, the farmer who launched the suit, was left thousands of euros in debt. And that's not all; Gloeckner continued to lose many cows as a result of Syngenta's modified Bt corn. After halting the use of GM feed in 2002, Gloeckner attempted a full investigation with the Robert Koch Institute and Syngenta involved. The data of this investigation is still unavailable to the public, and only examined one cow. In 2009, however, the Gloeckner teamed up with a German action group known as Bündnis Aktion Gen-Klage and to ultimately bring Syngenta to the criminal court.

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[tabatha]

1. Thanks for that article.

Some good comments as well.

[jeff47]

2. This is a rather poorly-written article.

1) What, exactly, was withheld? They never say.

2) Headline implies the "cover-up" was proven at trial. You have to get to the end of the article to find that there hasn't been a trial yet.

3) It would be nice if there was some actual science in these articles. Yes, the corn looks like a good suspect but there isn't any actual mechanism discussed.

4) If the farmer "attempted a full investigation", how come he doesn't have a copy of said investigation to release?

[NickB79]

3. Yeah, I'd have to agree. We need more information

I got to the end of the page, and I started looking for a way to click to the second page when I realized, there was no second page.

[Stephanie69]

4. Spam deleted by tjwmason (MIR Team)

[crunch60]

5. I do believe we humans are the guinea pigs for Monsanto and their GM crops. I try

to buy as many products labeled non-GM as possible. I also try to support local organic farmers, and buy my produce from them. We need labeling of all GMO foods. Monsanto is fighting this regulation.

List of Countries that have or are Banning Genetically Modified Foods (Article)
http://www.factoverfiction.com/article/3344