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发帖数: 4736 | 1 http://rt.com/usa/toxic-study-gmo-corn-900/
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.” | c****g
发帖数: 37081 | 2 Honecutt says that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (FDA)
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