“Hot Off the Press: Rats Fed GMO Corn Die Young What happens when rats are fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto’s GMO corn, or exposed to Monsanto’s top-selling weedkiller, Roundup? It’s not pretty. Tumors. Kidney damage. Liver damage. In a study released yesterday – the first-ever long-term study of its kind – French scientists reported that rats fed a diet containing the herbicide-tolerant GM maize, or given water containing Roundup in amounts considered safe in drinking water and GM crops in the US, died sooner than the rats fed just the standard diet. Will this be enough to make the FDA start conducting independent testing of GMO’s – before allowing these products into our food supply? Or will the FDA continue to pander to Monsanto and tell us that GMO products are ‘not substantially different’ than non-GMO products? Read the news here Video about the study Read the study here, including photos of the GMO-fed rats (PDF)”
I regularly receive posts from the Organic Consumers Association, based in the US. Most of them contain the latest news about Monsato, essays about GMOs, and the constant battle between scientific evidence and government response to it, or lack thereof.
I sometimes take the time to read through these posts, all of which appear to be painstakingly researched and very to the point. It soon becomes quite evident that the US government is playing favourites; the people are the losers in all this–as is our dear, dear planet. I cry for Her!
It is high time that governments (all of them) put our health and the health of the planet and other species first–before petty politics, before profits, before expediency!
We live in an age in which the general public is the moral superior of its potlitical leaders. That is not only a crying shame, but downright scary!
Teresa Carey
