GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans

GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans


One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO
plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released
in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of
independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet
of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real
reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer,
Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.

An editorial in the respected American scientific monthly magazine, Scientific American,
August 2009 reveals the shocking and alarming reality behind the
proliferation of GMO products throughout the food chain of the planet
since 1994. There are no independent scientific studies published in any
reputed scientific journal in the world for one simple reason. It is
impossible to independently verify that GMO crops such as Monsanto
Roundup Ready Soybeans or MON8110 GMO maize perform as the company
claims, or that, as the company also claims, that they have no harmful
side effects because the GMO companies forbid such tests!

That’s right. As a precondition to buy seeds, either to plant for
crops or to use in research study, Monsanto and the gene giant companies
must first sign an End User Agreement with the company. For the past
decade, the period when the greatest proliferation of GMO seeds in
agriculture has taken place, Monsanto, Pioneer (DuPont) and Syngenta
require anyone buying their GMO seeds to sign an agreement that
explicitly forbids that the seeds be used for any independent research.
Scientists are prohibited from testing a seed to explore under what
conditions it flourishes or even fails. They cannot compare any
characteristics of the GMO seed with any other GMO or non-GMO seeds from
another company. Most alarming, they are prohibited from examining
whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended side-effects
either in the environment or in animals or humans.


The only research which is permitted to be published in reputable
scientific peer-reviewed journals are studies which have been
pre-approved by Monsanto and the other industry GMO firms.

The entire process by which GMO seeds have been approved in the
United States, beginning with the proclamation by then President George
H.W. Bush in 1992, on request of Monsanto, that no special Government
tests of safety for GMO seeds would be conducted because they were
deemed by the President to be “substantially equivalent” to non-GMO
seeds, has been riddled with special interest corruption. Former
attorneys for Monsanto were appointed responsible in EPA and FDA for
rules governing GMO seeds as but one example and no Government tests of
GMO seed safety to date have been carried out. All tests are provided to
the US Government on GMO safety or performance by the companies
themselves such as Monsanto. Little wonder that GMO sounds to positive
and that Monsanto and others can falsely claim GMO is the “solution to
world hunger.”

In the United States a group of twenty four leading university corn
insect scientists have written to the US Government Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) demanding the EPA force a change to the company
censorship practice. It is as if Chevrolet or Tata Motors or Fiat tried
to censor comparative crash tests of their cars in Consumer Reports
or a comparable consumer publication because they did not like the test
results. Only this deals with the human and animal food chain. The
scientists rightly argue to EPA that food safety and environment
protection “depend on making plant products available to regular
scientific scrutiny.” We should think twice before we eat that next box
of American breakfast cereal if the corn used is GMO.

Source:-
http://www.globalresearch.ca/gmo-scandal-the-long-term-effects-of-genetically-modified-food-on-humans/14570