Mainstream media called out for complete blackout on GMO health risks

Mainstream media called out for complete blackout on GMO health risks


(NaturalNews) The recent release of the first ever long-term study to examine the consequences of prolonged consumption of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs)
has set the world ablaze, with individual citizens and even government
officials now calling for an immediate embargo on all things GMO. But
strangely silent in all this has been The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC,
and various other mainstream media groups based in the U.K., none of
which have bothered to even mention the study in any of their reports.

The results of the study, which Natural News has already covered extensively (http://www.naturalnews.com),
were so shocking that even many mainstream media outlets in the U.S.
covered them, although with plenty of obvious bias. Even so, the
U.K.-based media has largely ignored the findings altogether, which most
certainly call into question to whom their allegiances lies -- with the
people or with the biotechnology industry, who appear to be trying to
protect from public scrutiny?

"These newspapers have
sycophantically reported on small GM research trials about purple
tomatoes, blood oranges and cooking oil as if civilization depended on
such things. Yet, they completely ignore this new research which reveals
significant health risks and the inadequacy of the GM regulatory
system," writes Lawrence Woodward for NYR Natural News. "The research on rats, carried out at the University of Caen in
France, found that GM maize, GM maize sprayed with Roundup, and Roundup
itself causes tumors, multiple organ damage, and premature death."

Among those media
sources that did give the research at least a cursory mention, many
peppered their reporting with doubt and skepticism about the legitimacy
of the research. With the exception of the U.K.'s Guardian, which published an editorial urging regulators to take the research seriously (http://www.guardian.co.uk), as well as IBTimes UK (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk) and the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk), virtually no other media groups have given the research a fair shake, according to Woodward.

Industry-backed American media largely ignores GMO study, dismisses it as invalid

Sadly,
the situation is not much different in the U.S., except for the fact
that the mainstream media there, when it did report on the study, largely dismissed it as invalid.
Even though the research was conducted in accordance with the generally
recognized protocols for studies of this nature, industry-backed news
corporations like Forbes, Slate Magazine, and CBS News, among many others, basically insinuated that the research could not be trusted.

Forbes,
for instance, ran a headline asking the question, "Does genetically
modified corn cause cancer? A flawed study fails to convince." And Slate ran this obnoxious little gem of a headline, "GMO
Opponents Are the Climate Skeptics of the Left," followed by the
unbelievably false and incendiary statement urging readers, "Don't
worry. Genetically modified corn isn't going to give you cancer."

That
any so-called journalist would dare make such an inane statement in
light of the new research, regardless of any potential flaws it may or
may not have, is highly irresponsible. Since not a single long-term study other than this one has ever been conducted
on the safety of GMOs -- and not a single study ever has proven GMOs to
be safe -- how, exactly, is it in any way scientific or rational to
tell the world that eating GM corn will not cause them to develop
cancer?

To learn more about the many documented dangers of GMOs, visit:
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers


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