You don't want to end up like those rats...
Photo courtesy of The Guardian
Fewer chemicals may be used with GMOs and they have “[…] been regarded as ‘safe to eat’”1. They have been sold for a while, which can help someone think they are safe too3.
Being resilient to herbicides and insects also seems advantageous towards GMOs3. With “[c]urrent developments on GMOs focus[ing] on pest control and weed control […]GM crops can be useful where the land holding system is larger and where commercial spraying is now destroying biodiversity”1.
So, for areas with larger lands (but not your backyard garden), GMOs can be useful for assisting growers to fight back weed infestations and defend crops against harmful bugs.
However, from The Guardian’s online article titled “Study Linking GM Maize to Cancer Must be Taken Seriously by Regulators”, molecular biology professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, from France’s Caen university, reports a very important, recent discovery:
“In a peer-reviewed US journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology […]” professor Séralini reports that rats were “[f]ed a diet of Monsanto's Roundup-tolerant GM maize NK603 for two years [and the] rats developed higher levels of cancers and died earlier than controls” (emphasis added).
Two years is about the amount of time that any rat stays alive4. This study was the first that incorporated feeding the rats GMOs for that long. The photographs of the rats getting large tumors was also a sickening sight.
Being resilient to herbicides and insects also seems advantageous towards GMOs3. With “[c]urrent developments on GMOs focus[ing] on pest control and weed control […]GM crops can be useful where the land holding system is larger and where commercial spraying is now destroying biodiversity”1.
So, for areas with larger lands (but not your backyard garden), GMOs can be useful for assisting growers to fight back weed infestations and defend crops against harmful bugs.
However, from The Guardian’s online article titled “Study Linking GM Maize to Cancer Must be Taken Seriously by Regulators”, molecular biology professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, from France’s Caen university, reports a very important, recent discovery:
“In a peer-reviewed US journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology […]” professor Séralini reports that rats were “[f]ed a diet of Monsanto's Roundup-tolerant GM maize NK603 for two years [and the] rats developed higher levels of cancers and died earlier than controls” (emphasis added).
Two years is about the amount of time that any rat stays alive4. This study was the first that incorporated feeding the rats GMOs for that long. The photographs of the rats getting large tumors was also a sickening sight.
With this current, extensive study being done on the safety of indulging these enhanced organisms, it appears that GMOs would not be the way to go for anyone concerned with the quality of the food they get at the store.
Here is a personal account where switching to a non-GMO diet drastically helped the health of this mother and her two young kids (stick with it till the end):
Here is a personal account where switching to a non-GMO diet drastically helped the health of this mother and her two young kids (stick with it till the end):
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