another Monsanto problem

[bibliophile birds]

someone posted this over on BYC, so i thought i would share

Monsanto GM Corn Causing Organ Failure In Rats

naturally, the FDA is taking a HUGE backseat to Monsanto on this.

 

[freemotion]

Yeah, and in that study, they used a diet of 33% corn and only used one third of that as GMO corn! Not even the full amount as GMO corn.... That is how bad it is.

The study indicated other organ systems were negatively effected, but the liver and kidney damage was quick and clear and across the board.

Will it come off the market? I say nope. Hydrogenated fats are still EVERYWHERE and are very poisonous!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Germany banned it. Wonder what it's like to live in Germany?

Definately on the list of places to visit.

 

[TanksHill]

It's a beautiful amazing place. Very old school and extremely romantic. Ahhhhh!!!!!!

I wish I was still there.

gina

 

[Wolf-Kim]

It's sad that most people put so much faith into the FDA and other government moderations of our food stuffs. USDA 'approved' slaughter houses, wheeling downed cattle into the slaughter house via a forklift and hogs with tumors the size of basket balls being chopped up into Jimmy Dean sausage. I was talking to a gentleman who works for a hog processing plant and he says the stuff you see makes you never want to remotely touch store bought sausage. When he asked what they do with those basketball sized tumors, someone simply replied 'cut them off' or 'run them through'. He also informed me that the quality pork gets shipped overseas, and the tumor ridden hogs gets fed to the US! Um, there is something seriously wrong there...

Then you look at artificial sweeteners, like Aspartame, it has caused cancer it laboratory rats and they documented this. But because they never 'technically' tested it on human test subjects it was deemed safe for human consumption... What is the purpose of lab rats again? And the topping on the artificial sweetener cake, is that FDA didn't approve Stevia, because there hasn't been sufficient studies...

Genetics fascinate me and the whole idea of disease and pest resistant crops is a beautiful idea, but anyone who thinks about 'Pesticide producing corn' would realize that this means that consumers will also partake of corn with pesticide properties in it. Who in their right mind would pour pesticide chemicals into their or their children's portion of corn, or cereal, or bread, or the inumerious other items that contain corn. And while genetic modification produces some interesting things, glowing fish for instance, the overall outcome of genetic modification is going to be bad.

Oh, it's so aggravating. That the government would pay certain farmers not to grow certain things, while approving of companies such as Monsanto which are pressuring farmers to be me productive, while growing less crops at the same time.

The only way to combat such idiocies? Consumer conscern and extreme scrutiny. I've heard folks say all the time, if it was so bad for you, why would the government say it was okay to eat? And not only consumer concern, but we would have to be extremely scrutinizing, because they would pull something like "since the plants produce the chemicals within itself and they aren't added, this would qualify as 'organic'"

Whoo! What an early morning rant.

-Kim

 

[Woodland Woman]

That is why I only use organic corn meal. But I just recently realized that we still eat sweet corn sometimes. Is sweet corn gmo also?

 

[reinbeau]

This was my Facebook status on January 6, 2010:

"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of 'bio-tech' food," said Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications. "Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." Remember that when you hear about the wonders of 'Roundup Ready' corn, wheat, or whatev...er else they want to feed us. Monsanto's business practices are poisoning us, and they don't care.

Isn't that lovely? They can create any kind of monster food (I use that term loosely here) they want and it isn't up to them to make sure it's actually edibly safe. They don't give a you-know-what about the product they sell as long as it makes they money.

ETA here is the link to a Discover article about the subject. The comments below the article are particularly interesting. Here is the text from comment #7:

7. nathan Says:
January 15th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Heres the biased scoop from my own personal experience. I own an operational 65 cow dairy farm. I used monsanto GMO corn because it did exactly what it said. I could no til plant early in the season, spray with roundup and wait 120 days to harvest. The corn actually increased yield, energy, and profitability and it worked excellently for 3 years. But then last fall my cows started dying from what looked to be milk fever and ketosis. After necropsy samples were tested at State College i found my herd had fatty liver disease. which is funny because my cows were not fat. Further testing showed mycotoxins in the liver and kidney which is funny because I own a closed herd. These mycotoxins did not come from the hay, the grain, or any other site we tested. They came from the corn silage. This mycotoxin did not come from a mold. It came from the corn itself.- which is funny because GMO corn is safe. Or so they tell me. I lost 24 cows last fall and nearly went out of business because of Monsantos product. Which isnt very funny.

No, it doesn't sound funny at all.

 

[Wifezilla]

I am betting that all the cases of dogs getting liver disease you see now might be related. I know 4 dogs that died of liver cancer in the last couple of years. All were fed a corn-based feed.

 

[Dace]

Wow that is powerful. So what is the FDA going to do now?

Whole lot of nothing I bet. Actually I am sure they will come up with some assbackwards study to contradict these findings.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

7. nathan Says:
January 15th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Heres the biased scoop from my own personal experience. I own an operational 65 cow dairy farm. I used monsanto GMO corn because it did exactly what it said. I could no til plant early in the season, spray with roundup and wait 120 days to harvest. The corn actually increased yield, energy, and profitability and it worked excellently for 3 years. But then last fall my cows started dying from what looked to be milk fever and ketosis. After necropsy samples were tested at State College i found my herd had fatty liver disease. which is funny because my cows were not fat. Further testing showed mycotoxins in the liver and kidney which is funny because I own a closed herd. These mycotoxins did not come from the hay, the grain, or any other site we tested. They came from the corn silage. This mycotoxin did not come from a mold. It came from the corn itself.- which is funny because GMO corn is safe. Or so they tell me. I lost 24 cows last fall and nearly went out of business because of Monsantos product. Which isnt very funny.

No, it doesn't sound funny at all.

That is aweful. Just think the damage it could do to people! Monsanto is going to be responsible for lives lost and is probably going to be sued for every last penny for the people who are sick, dying, or the family of those that have died. But then Monsanto will simply put the blame on the FDA and vice versa. It's sickening.

My husbands family have Celiac's disease, so their corn and rice consumption have grown to make up for the lack of wheat. You just can't seem to win.