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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:19 PM Jun 2014

Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Are Unsafe Health Risks

There are a multitude of credible scientific studies that clearly demonstrate why GMOs should not be consumed, and more are emerging every year. There are also a number of scientists all around the world who oppose them.

By slipping it into our food without our knowledge, without any indication that there are genetically modified organisms in our food, we are now unwittingly part of a massive experiment.The FDA has said that genetically modified organisms are not much different from regular food, so they’ll be treated in the same way. The problem is this, geneticists follow the inheritance of genes, what biotechnology allows us to do is to take this organism, and move it horizontally into a totally unrelated species. Now David Suzuki doesn’t normally mate with a carrot and exchange genes, what biotechnology allows us to do is to switch genes from one to the other without regard to the biological constraints. It’s very very bad science, we assume that the principals governing the inheritance of genes vertically, applies when you move genes laterally or horizontally. There’s absolutely no reason to make that conclusion – Geneticist David Suzuki

If anybody ever tells you that we know with one hundred percent certainty that GMOs are totally safe to eat, they haven’t done their research. There is no reason GM foods should be approved safe for consumption, we just don’t know enough about them. We could easily feed the planet through organic, GMO-free methods, so there is absolutely no reason we need GM foods around.

Below I’ve presented just a bit of information to get you started on your research.

http://usnewsghost.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/scientific-studies-proving-gmos-are-unsafe-health-risks/

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mike_c

(36,213 posts)
1. the OVERWHELMING scientific consensus is that GMO foods are safe....
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:34 PM
Jun 2014

Yes, just as one can find a few working scientists and academic scientists who dispute evolution by natural selection, there are a few-- relatively a VERY few-- who have been swept up by the anti-GMO hysteria. However, they are a tiny minority. Nearly every major health and science organization that has expressed a position on GMOs has found them to have no inherent unsafe characteristics.

The anti-GMO movement is anti-science.

Most of the "evidence" the anti-GMO movement provides is based upon misinformation passed around on advocacy websites meant to obfuscate the issues with sciencey sounding hysteria, or it's derived from very poorly designed and conducted "research" that is nearly always published in low/no impact journals that specialize in pseudoscience. Several of those journals have been specifically criticized by the scientific community as "fake journals" whose very existence threatens to undermine the checks and balances of peer review and critical examination of research communications.

The anti-GMO movement encourages-- depends upon-- maintaining scientific illiteracy, and has spawned fake journals dedicated to substituting political advocacy for scientific objectivity.

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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
5. For your entertainment only ...
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:42 PM
Jun 2014

Prof. Séralini commented : “We are forced to conclude that the decision to withdraw our paper was based on unscientific double standards applied by the editor. These double standards can only be explained by pressure from the GMO and agrochemical industry to force acceptance of GMOs and Roundup. The most flagrant illustration is the appointment of Richard Goodman, a former Monsanto employee, onto the FCT editorial board, soon after the publication of the NK603 study. Worse, this pro-industry bias also affects regulatory authorities, such as EFSA (European Food Safety Authority),which gives favourable opinions on risky products based on mediocre studies commissioned by the companies wishing to commercialize the products, as well as systematically dismissing the findings of independent scientists which cast doubt on their safety.”

http://www.gmoseralini.org/editor-of-food-and-chemical-toxicology-is-obliged-to-give-prof-seralinis-team-right-of-reply-after-retracting-nk603-and-roundup-study/

mike_c

(36,213 posts)
6. what does any of that have to do with me?
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:50 PM
Jun 2014

Zip. None. Nada.

You're like the Alex Jones of anti-science hysteria, answering simple questions with innuendo and obscure references to irrelevant misinformation.

mike_c

(36,213 posts)
8. ah, a great example of a "fake journal" created to publish "research"...
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:15 PM
Jun 2014

...that no reputable scientific journal will touch. Or in this particular case, research that a reputable journal withdrew because it is utterly and completely made up bogus bullshit. You can mock me all day long if you like-- the citations you post are BS, and you clearly don't have a clue what they mean or how they were performed, because if you did you'd be too embarrassed to post them. You obtain them from advocacy websites that pass them around among anti-GMO folks who are likewise scientifically illiterate and easily fooled by fear and misinformation. Frankly, I think you should be ashamed for participating in that scam. But clearly, you're not.

Tumbulu

(6,267 posts)
16. No, there is no consensus, and until and unless some sort of transparent
Sat Oct 3, 2015, 12:36 AM
Oct 2015

honest long term studies are required, the just about endless repetition of lies about this will not make it true.

Every engineered organism is different and each requires testing appropriate to what has been engineered. Period. If you engineered the anthrax toxin to be expressed in a tomato, would it be safe because it is gmo? That is the ridiculous sort of logic that you are using here.

There are plenty of scientists who think that the rush to commercialize the gmo plants really created a rift within the scientific community. One that will only be healed with transparency and honesty.

Tumbulu

(6,267 posts)
10. I think that Dr. Alan Kapuler does a good job of explaining the scientific problems
Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:27 AM
Sep 2015

with the release of the gmo plants prior to proper study and evaluation.

There has been a well orchestrated attack of anyone and everyone who dares to stand up to the fundamentalists who would make such a preposterous claim that all gmo foods are safe. No, nothing is safe unless tested. Let alone when one goes in and messes with the language of life when we are only learning how to read it. And how the codes get screwed up when inserted haphazardly. Really reckless stuff what these fools have done, all in the name of making money.

Here is the link:


HuckleB

(35,773 posts)
14. Youtube "science."
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 12:19 PM
Sep 2015

There's no orchestrated attack against anything, other than the orchestrated attack of organic shills upon the science of the matter. This guy, in fact, is an actual seed seller, working to increase his profits by lying about other seeds. Lame stuff. Period.

Tumbulu

(6,267 posts)
15. Obviously you did not watch or listen to it
Sat Oct 3, 2015, 12:31 AM
Oct 2015

Your loss.

And seed breeders are to be criticized for having to sell seeds to fund their research? Many seed breeders are funded by Institutions and are not dependent upon seeds sales, anyway.

What about the biotech companies? They don't sell seeds?

Address the points he brings up, or don't write anything. Typical character assaults are not at all interesting or informative.

Tumbulu

(6,267 posts)
18. Oh, dont answer the question, simply insult
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 11:53 PM
Oct 2015

forgot your MO.

when you can behave like a scientist, get back to me.

Hint hint, scientists do not prope themselves up by insulting others. They elevate themselves by their own work, and their open minds.

womanofthehills

(8,579 posts)
11. the fact that many European countries have banned GMO's says something
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 10:10 PM
Sep 2015

Greece and Latvia just joined Germany and Scotland in rejecting Monsanto.

mopinko

(69,804 posts)
13. it says that some countries wish to score some points.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 11:56 PM
Sep 2015

trade agreements are rife w tit for tat petty shit.

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