Europe-wide ban on Monsanto GM corn imminent in wake of French study linking it to cancer

Europe-wide ban on Monsanto GM corn imminent in wake of French study linking it to cancer


(NaturalNews) Pending affirmation by its national health agency, France
is expected to call for an official ban on Monsanto's
genetically-modified (GM) corn very soon "at a European level,"
according to the French news source RFI. Following the recent release of a University of Caen
study that found a link between the "Frankencorn" and the development
of severe tumors in rats, French officials have been urging a
Europe-wide ban on both the cultivation and import of the GM corn, which
was never proven safe in the first place prior to its commercial
release.

The study, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology,
revealed for the first time that rats fed Monsanto's NK603 GM corn
treated with Roundup (glyphosate) herbicide for longer than 90 days
developed deadly tumors at a much higher, and much quicker, rate than
rats not exposed to these products. Similar health consequences were
observed in rats fed NK603 GM corn without Roundup, as well as in rats
exposed to just Roundup, revealing more about the true toxicity of these
two highly-pervasive food technologies.

What the study suggests,
in other words, is that GMOs are far from innocuous, and that they pose
some very serious health threats when consumed for long periods of
time. Since there have never been any other long-term studies on the
safety of GMOs -- and definitely none that have ever proven them to be
safe -- it makes logical and scientific sense to adopt the precautionary
principle in light of the available evidence, which is heavily stacked
against the continued purveyance of GMOs.

"'Several animal
studies indicate serious health risks associated with GMO food,'
including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, faulty
insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal
system," says the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT). "The AAEM (American Academy of Emergency Medicine) asked physicians to advise patients to avoid GM foods."

And this latest study
out of France only affirms what groups like IRT have been warning about
for years -- that GMOs are not safe, that independent research clearly
illustrates their potential health risks, and that no long-term safety
studies have ever definitively proven that GMO consumption is safe or
beneficial to human health.

"While previous studies have usually
lasted only about three months, Seralini's (French GMO study) lasted two
years, the average rat's lifespan, and the illnesses developed later in
the period covered," says RFI.




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