Other evidence includes the following:
· Villagers in the south of the Philippines living near fields planted with Monsanto’s GM hybrid maize containing Bt toxin suffered debilitating illnesses in two successive growing seasons.
· Between 2001 and 2002, twelve dairy cows died on a farm in Hesse, Germany, after eating Syngenta’s Bt176 GM maize, and others in the herd had to be slaughtered on account of mysterious illnesses.
· Arpad Pusztai and colleagues found that GM potatoes with snowdrop lectin adversely affected every organ system of young rats, and the stomach and small intestine lining grew up to twice the thickness of controls.
· Scientists in Egypt found similar results in the gastrointestinal tract of mice fed GM potato with Bt toxin.
· US Food and Drug Administration had data since the early 1990s showing that rats fed GM tomatoes with antisense gene to delay ripening developed small holes in their stomach.
· Aventis (now Bayer) found 100% increase in deaths of broiler chickens fed glufosinate-tolerant GM maize T25 compared to controls.
· Numerous anecdotes from farmers and others indicating that livestock, wildlife and lab animals avoid GM feed, and fail to thrive or die when forced to eat it.
Please visit the website of the Institute for Science in Society (I-SIS) for details about the presentation: The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World;
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/
Please also see:
Bad Seed Rules Threaten GE-Free Europe - Europe Must Reject New Proposal That Would Allow Contamination
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=415&blz=1
PHOTO: Greenpeace
Corn Grenade: the winning image from the Greenpeace Seeds Of Trouble competition c. Statchett.
· Villagers in the south of the Philippines living near fields planted with Monsanto’s GM hybrid maize containing Bt toxin suffered debilitating illnesses in two successive growing seasons.
· Between 2001 and 2002, twelve dairy cows died on a farm in Hesse, Germany, after eating Syngenta’s Bt176 GM maize, and others in the herd had to be slaughtered on account of mysterious illnesses.
· Arpad Pusztai and colleagues found that GM potatoes with snowdrop lectin adversely affected every organ system of young rats, and the stomach and small intestine lining grew up to twice the thickness of controls.
· Scientists in Egypt found similar results in the gastrointestinal tract of mice fed GM potato with Bt toxin.
· US Food and Drug Administration had data since the early 1990s showing that rats fed GM tomatoes with antisense gene to delay ripening developed small holes in their stomach.
· Aventis (now Bayer) found 100% increase in deaths of broiler chickens fed glufosinate-tolerant GM maize T25 compared to controls.
· Numerous anecdotes from farmers and others indicating that livestock, wildlife and lab animals avoid GM feed, and fail to thrive or die when forced to eat it.
Please visit the website of the Institute for Science in Society (I-SIS) for details about the presentation: The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World;
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/
Please also see:
Bad Seed Rules Threaten GE-Free Europe - Europe Must Reject New Proposal That Would Allow Contamination
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=415&blz=1
PHOTO: Greenpeace
Corn Grenade: the winning image from the Greenpeace Seeds Of Trouble competition c. Statchett.