GMO foods don't need special label, American Medical Assn. says

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81. Monsanto GMO's linked to organ failure + GMO causes sterility in lab animals in 3 generations + more

http://www.newslook.com/videos/179678-monsanto-gmos-linked-to-organ-failure

FDA won't allow food to be labeled free of genetic modification

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/215318-FDA-won-t-allow-food-to-be-labeled-free-of-genetic-modification

in the USA, it is ILLEGAL to label any food as not containing GMO

Fears grow as study shows genetically modified crops 'can cause liver and kidney damage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1244824/Fears-grow-study-shows-genetically-modified-crops-cause-liver-kidney-damage.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1346840020070313

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http://www.backpacker.com/monsanto_gmo_corn_toxic/blogs/green_scene/1585

Choose Your Tortillas Wisely - Monsanto GMO corn linked to organ failure

It's already January 15th,and I have yet to write a depressing blog entry about how the environment is collapsing around us or how corporate America is screwing the public. Hope you enjoyed your vacation... here we go.

International Journal of Biological Sciences just released a study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, and found that three varieties of Monsanto GMO corn that had been approved for human consumption in the US and Europe in fact cause organ damage in rats, and could in humans too. You'll be shocked to note (or maybe not) that the original study that proclaimed the corn safe for dinner was conducted by Monsanto after a full 90-days of evaluation. I'm neither a doctor nor am I a scientific researcher, but I spend more time 90-days testing boots before they get reviewed in Backpacker. It seems like an insufficient amount of time to test a possible human toxin.

Incredibly, an independent study just found that the three varieties of corn Monsanto claimed safe in fact cause kidney and liver problems in rats (the kidneys and liver are the two primary organs that clean toxins from the body). But wait, that's not all. The corn was also toxic to rats' heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells. The first studies were done on rats, but suggest that there could be serious problems for humans who consume this corn whether straight up or in any of the thousands of food products that contain corn syrup.
According to the Huffington Post, Monsanto insists the independent study is "based on faulty analytical methods and reasoning and do not call into question the safety findings for these products." The study author replied on the Food Freedom blog, "Our study contradicts Monsanto conclusions because Monsanto systematically neglects significant health effects in mammals that are different in males and females eating GMOs, or not proportional to the dose. This is a very serious mistake, dramatic for public health. This is the major conclusion revealed by our work, the only careful reanalysis of Monsanto crude statistical data."

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Seeds of Deception

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2108022965800005689#

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GMO's Making American Fat?

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Cloning animals for food is also bad news:

BBC: Cattle 'cloned from dead animals'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10951108

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Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality in Hamsters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/genetically-modified-soy_b_544575.html

"This study was just routine," said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.

After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They also suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups.

And if this isn't shocking enough, some in the third generation even had hair growing inside their mouths--a phenomenon rarely seen, but apparently more prevalent among hamsters eating GM soy.

The study, jointly conducted by Surov's Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Association for Gene Security, is expected to be published in three months (July 2010)--so the technical details will have to wait. But Surov sketched out the basic set up for me in an email.

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Study Confirms Genetically Modified Crops Threaten Human Fertility and Health Safety

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Austrian-Government-Study-by-Institute-for-Resp-081115-414.html

(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.


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A Perfect Storm of GMOs, Chemicals, and Cancer

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/a-perfect-storm-of-gmos-chemicals-and-cancer/

Several books, including Seeds of Destruction and Corrupt to the Core, along with the film, The Idiot Cycle, lay out the framework for, and evidence of, a concerted effort to sicken and then treat humanity, while earning obscene profits. When we factor in other recent actions taken by transnational corporations and lawmakers, the conspiracy adopts a more ominous tone.

Authors William Engdahl and Shiv Chopra appear in Emmanuelle Schick Garcia’s powerful film, The Idiot Cycle: What you aren’t being told about cancer. Both writers provide detailed evidence of a corporate-government conspiracy to adulterate the food and water supply with dangerous substances linked to a host of illnesses. The Case Against Fluoride, a book using hundreds of peer-reviewed studies, provides more evidence. In David Gumpert’s Raw Milk Revolution, we get a peek at the US government’s war on the natural dairy industry.

Looking at six companies, Dow Chemical, BASF, Bayer, Dupont, Astrazeneca (Syngenta), and Monsanto, Idiot Cycle exposes corporate-government collusion in the release of carcinogenic chemicals, but also reveals how some of the same chemical companies then profit from treating cancer. It’s a cycle only an idiot would tolerate. Going further, much of the film then addresses genetically modified food and its potentially disastrous effect on health and the environment.

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The World According to Monsanto

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Greenpeace International on GMO Dangers

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/ge-threat-to-fertility-11112008



Guardian UK Health: Soya-based foods may harm male fertility, say scientists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jul/24/foodtech.medicalresearch

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