Study reveals GMO corn to be highly toxic

Study reveals GMO corn to be highly toxic

Published time: April 15, 2013 18:53



A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn
reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals.


An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based
consulting company’s comparison of corn types, and the results
reveal that genetically modified foods may be more hazardous than
once thought.
The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro, was
published recently on the website for Moms Across America March to
Label GMOs, a group that says they wish to “raise awareness and
support Moms with solutions to eat GMO Free as we demand GMO
labeling locally and nationally simultaneously.” They are
plotting nationwide protests scheduled for later this year.
The report, writes the website’s Zen Honeycutt, was provided by
a representative for De Dell Seed Company, an Ontario-based farm
that’s touted as being Canadian only non-GMO corn seed company.
“The claims that ‘There is no difference between GMO corn and
NON Gmo corn’ are false,” says Honeycutt, who adds she was
“floored” after reading the study.
According to the analysis, GMO corn tested by Profit Pro
contains a number of elements absent from traditional cord,
including chlorides, formaldehyde and glyphosate. While those
elements don’t appear naturally in corn, they were present in GMO
samples to the tune of 60 ppm, 200pm and 13 ppm, respectively.
Honecutt says that the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (FDA) mandates that the level of glyphosate in American
drinking water not exceed 0.7 ppm and adds that organ damage in
some animals has been linked to glyphosate exposure exceeding 0.1
ppm.
“Glyphosate is a strong organic phosphate chelator that
immobilizes positively charged minerals such as manganese, cobalt,
iron, zinc [and] copper,” Dr. Don Huber attested during a
separate GMO study recently released, adding that those elements
“are essential for normal physiological functions in soils,
plants and animals.”
“Glyphosate draws out the vital nutrients of living things
and GMO corn is covered with it,” adds Honeycutt, who notes
that the nutritional benefits rampant in natural corn are almost
entirely removed from lab-made seeds: in the samples used during
the study, non-GMO corn is alleged to have 437-times the amount of
calcium in genetically modified versions, and 56- and 7-times the
level of magnesium and manganese, respectively.
These studies come on the heels of a recent decision on Capitol
Hill to approve an annual agriculture appropriations bill, even
though a provision within the act contained a rider that frees GMO
corporations such as the multi-billion-dollar Monsanto Company from
liability. The so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” written by a
lawmaker that has lobbied for the agra-giant, says biotech
companies won’t need federal approval to test and plant GMO-crops,
even if health risks are unknown.
“The provision would strip federal courts of the authority to
halt the sale and planting of an illegal, potentially hazardous GE
crop while the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assesses those
potential hazards,” reads a letter to the House of
Representatives that was delivered to Congress last month with the
signatures of dozens of food businesses and retailers, as well as
interest groups and agencies representing family farmers.
“Further, it would compel USDA to allow continued planting of
that same crop upon request, even if in the course of its
assessment the Department finds that it poses previously
unrecognized risks.”


Source:-
http://rt.com/usa/toxic-study-gmo-corn-900/