Organic Consumers: Internal Monsanto Documents Reveal Hazards of GE Corn
The organic Consumers organisation has an article referring to a May 22 headline news story in the London Independent that has rocked Monsanto and the biotech industry and fueled the controversy over the safety of genetically engineered food. According to the article, internal Monsanto documents, reviewed by EU scientists, show serious health damage to laboratory animals fed Monsanto’s new genetically engineered “rootworm-resistant” corn. Rats who consumed the mutant corn developed smaller kidneys and exhibited blood abnormalities. Scientists say these are “red flags” for immune system damage and/or cancer tumor promotion. Although the EU will now likely ban Monsanto’s new GMO corn, this same rootworm-resistant corn is already being grown and consumed on a major scale in the United States. Monsanto refuses to turn over its data to the media, claiming that the lab studies are “Confidential Business Information.”
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