Mice avoid eating GM foods when they have the chance, as do rats, cows, pigs, geese, elk, squirrels, and others. What do these animals know that we don’t? At the end of each chapter is a one-page story describing how farmers, students, and scientists discovered that animals refuse to eat the same GM foods that we consume everyday.
The Washington Post reported that laboratory mice, usually happy to munch on tomatoes, turned their noses up at the genetically modified FlavrSavr tomato. Scientist Roger Salquist said of his tomato, “I gotta tell you, you can be Chef Boyardee and mice are still not going to like them.” [8]
The mice were eventually force fed the tomato through gastric tubes and stomach washes. Several developed stomach lesions; seven of forty died within two weeks. The tomato was approved without further tests.
When eminent scientist Arpad Pusztai went public about his accidental discovery that genetically modified (GM) potatoes severely damage the immune system and organs of rats, he was suspended from the prestigious Scottish research institute where he had worked for thirty-five years. He was silenced with threats of a lawsuit while the Institute denied or distorted his findings.
k - ya, this is bad eh?
- evidence* points to GMO foods as being dangerous to our health, and scientists who speak out about that danger are being silenced. I see that as another way to create both illness and profits, and profits from the illness{which is worth 100s of BILLIONS or dollars each year to the pharmaceutrical/medical industries].
*Evidence way beyond seeing that animals will refuse GMO foods in favour o natural foods - there is real clinical evidence, though most of it has been quashed, something we know by the numbers of silenced scientists -
When FDA scientists tried to blow the whistle on what was happening, they were stripped of responsibilities or fired. The FDA eventually approved rbGH on the basis of a research summary submitted by Monsanto that had distorted and deleted data about serious health effects, including cancer.
quotes from this article:
"Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the
Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating" :
http://www.wanttoknow.info/deception10pg
Health Information Center -
http://www.wanttoknow.info/healthinformation
As consumers, a boycott of anything "that could be" GMO would go a long wasy to discouraging Monsanto's plans.
Asking our politicians to put regulations on GMO foods, including labelling of GMO food products, is another action we can take to address this unfolding horror.
Horror? - yes, cancer of the bowel WILL OCCUR if we eat GMO foods, and when the bowel is diseased, you are in hell, no doubt of that.
You will wish you had never eaten GMO foods, but you will be too weak and in too much agony to demand anything at that point. Better to do it NOW!!!
Karlin
