Secret GM Corn Study

The fact that most of the GM corn and corn products have not been labeled in US and Canada means that the human effects will have gone undetected and the rat studies were labeled confidential business information to protect the sale of GM corn.

Great example of the British tabloid hysteria media at its best. "Secret", indeed.<br />
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How about an excerpt from a website devoted to rat dietary needs (seriously!) - <<a href="http://www.ratfanclub.org/diet.html>">http://www.ratfanclub.org/diet.html></a>;<br />
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Foods to Feed with Caution<br />
carbonated beverages—rats can’t burp (but they can fart!)<br />
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Dried corn can contain high levels of fungal contaminates which has been shown to cause liver cancer in rats. Corn also contains high levels of both nitrates and amines. These two compounds can combine in the stomach to form nitrosamines which are carcinogenic. Other foods high in nitrates include beets, celery, eggplant, lettuce, cucumber, radishes, spinach, collards and turnip greens. Therefore, I suggest you limit the amount of these foods in your rat’s diet. Some fresh corn is fine, but if you feed your rats blocks, try to avoid brands which have corn as the first ingredient.<br />
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So it appears to be very safe to say that any rat, by your own statement, "fed relatively high levels" of any kind of corn, could be reasonably expected to be found unhealthy when compared to "those on a conventional diet."<br />
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Now, wasn't that a silly thing to have to say? <br />
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I do find it indicative of the skewed thought processes posted as "features" here.<br />
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Don't you have some bigger problem to address? Like, oh, Corruption? Separatism? A complete lack of trust in your unrepresentive form of government?<br />
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I take it that are not governed by the same clique as I am. I notice you have nothing to say about Monsanto refusing to release the study. Is there something to hide?

Hide what? That healthy rats don't normally eat much corn?

So why won't Monsanto release the study? And, why won't the US and Canadian governments label GM products so that we can decide whether or not we want to take the gamble of eating pseudo food?

I can't speak for Monsanto. Why don't you ask them your question?<br />
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Of course, they may simply refer you to the more reputable work that has already been done by others.<br />
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<a href="http://www.efsa.eu.int/press_room/press_release/669_en.html">http://www.efsa.eu.int/press_room/press_release/669_en.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/food-aliment/mh-dm/ofb-bba/nfi-ani/e_cry3bb1.html">http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/food-aliment/mh-dm/ofb-bba/nfi-ani/e_cry3bb1.html</a><br />
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If, as you say, you can't speak for Monsanto, then why are you?

Monsanto did the study, The Independent reporters asked for it, Monsanto won't release it. What are they hiding? I don't know, but I do know that they are behaving as if they know something that they don't want us to know about the effects that their mutated corn had on the rats that ate it. As they have been selling this mutated corn in Canada and the US and they won't label products that have this GM(grossly mutated) corn in it, how are we to identify bad reactions?

If rats don't eat corn then why is that when a corn farmer (or any other farmer for that matter) sees one he will try every means to kill it? Rats will eat anything they can get their teeth into. If you don't believe this, explain how you think rats survive anywhere they take up residence, including sewers in big cities.

As for your healthy rat diet website, it might help if we could actually view the page. Judging by your link to the rat fan club, I can only guess that the healthy rat diet you are talking about is for caged pet rats that eat only what you provide them with.

The article didn't directly reference cancer as being one of the health problems identified in GM potato or corn fed rats.<br><br> This is from <a href="http://members.aol.com/juliesrats/health.html">Feeding your rat</a>. There seems to be some difference of opinion within the pet rat owner community. <blockquote>Corn: you will hear that corn causes cancer in rats. This is based on a study in which researchers fed rats six gazillion tons of corn. So the whole thing is bogus. However, only feed corn in moderation, no matter how much the rats beg. It’s not very digestible which is why cheap pet foods contain lots of corn and corn meal: it’s mainly high-profit, non-nutritive bulk.</blockquote> The article didn't come across as hysterical to me. The author indicates: <blockquote>The official European Food Safety Authority, the Food Standards Agency in Britain and other regulatory agencies back Monsanto's view - as does most weighty scientific opinion. It would be extremely foolhardy to disregard their judgements and jump to alarming conclusions. <br><br> But it would be equally foolish to dismiss the few dissident voices. For I have found, time after time, in covering controversial environmental issues over the past 35 years, that lone scientists, stubbornly raising concerns in the teeth of entrenched opposition from industry and the scientific establishment, have often proved to be right.</blockquote> <p>---<br>"When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm" (Adam Smith).<br />

>>So why won't Monsanto release the study? <<<

The cia took the study from the Grassy knoll outside Monsanto to area 51 in order to protect international corporate agribusiness and their mind control corn. I think the Mossad was involved as well…


Man… Its like an onion,
Ya peel back the layers of onion obfuscation and there are just more layers. Dont you people get it!

Crap, I ran out of lithium again. Never mind...