Re: New study: GM soy may harm unborn babies

[Guest guest]

That's a pretty good synopsis, . Hence the terms " Natural "

healing, " Natural " alternatives, and not patentable; as in found in

nature and not man made or tampered with too much...

Vince

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> As a rule whatever man tampers with from nature he messes up.

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> How can you improve on God? or know better then him?

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[Guest guest]

As a rule whatever man tampers with from nature he messes up.

How can you improve on God? or know better then him?

Draper wrote:

> GM Food: New study shows unborn babies could be harmed

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> http://www.thecampaign.org/forums/showthread.php?t=93

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> Mortality rate for new-born rats six times higher when mother was fed

> on a diet of genetically modified soya, which is widely sold and

> consumed in the USA.

>

> By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, The Independent (London)

> Published: 08 January 2006

>

> Women who eat GM foods while pregnant risk endangering their unborn

> babies, startling new research suggests.

>

> The study - carried out by a leading scientist at the Russian Academy

> of Sciences - found that more than half of the offspring of rats fed

> on modified soya died in the first three weeks of life, six times as

> many as those born to mothers with normal diets. Six times as many

> were also severely underweight.

>

> The research - which is being prepared for publication - is just one

> of a clutch of recent studies that are reviving fears that GM food

> damages human health. Italian research has found that modified soya

> affected the liver and pancreas of mice. Australia had to abandon a

> decade-long attempt to develop modified peas when an official study

> found they caused lung damage.

>

> And last May this newspaper revealed a secret report by the biotech

> giant Monsanto, which showed that rats fed a diet rich in GM corn had

> smaller kidneys and higher blood cell counts, suggesting possible

> damage to their immune systems, than those that ate a similar

> conventional one.

>

> The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation held a workshop

> on the safety of genetically modified foods at its Rome headquarters

> late last year. The workshop was addressed by scientists whose

> research had raised concerns about health dangers. But the World Trade

> Organisation is expected next month to support a bid by the Bush

> administration to force European countries to accept GM foods.

>

> The Russian research threatens to have an explosive effect on already

> hostile public opinion. d out by Dr Irina Ermakova at the

> Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the

> Russian Academy of Sciences, it is believed to be the first to look at

> the effects of GM food on the unborn.

>

> The scientist added flour from a GM soya bean - produced by Monsanto

> to be resistant to its pesticide, Roundup - to the food of female

> rats, starting two weeks before they conceived, continuing through

> pregnancy, birth and nursing. Others were given non-GM soyaand a third

> group was given no soya at all.

>

> She found that 36 per cent of the young of the rats fed the modified

> soya were severely underweight, compared to 6 per cent of the

> offspring of the other groups. More alarmingly, a staggering 55.6 per

> cent of those born to mothers on the GM diet perished within three

> weeks of birth, compared to 9 per cent of the offspring of those fed

> normal soya, and 6.8 per cent of the young of those given no soya at all.

>

> " The morphology and biochemical structures of rats are very similar to

> those of humans, and this makes the results very disturbing " said Dr

> Ermakova. " They point to a risk for mothers and their babies. "

>

> Environmentalists say that - while the results are preliminary - they

> are potentially so serious that they must be followed up. The American

> Academy of Environmental Medicine has asked the US National Institute

> of Health to sponsor an immediate, independent follow-up.

>

> The Monsanto soya is widely eaten by Americans. There is little of it,

> or any GM crop, in British foods though it is imported to feed animals

> farmed for meat.

>

> Tony Coombes, director of corporate affairs for Monsanto UK, said:

> " The overwhelming weight of evidence from published, peer-reviewed,

> independently conducted scientific studies demonstrates that Roundup

> Ready soy can be safely consumed by rats, as well as all other animal

> species studied. "

>

> What the experiment found

>

> Russian scientists added flour made from a GM soya to the diet of

> female rats two weeks before mating them, and continued feeding it to

> them during pregnancy, birth and nursing. Others were give non-GM soya

> or none at all. Six times as many of the offspring of those fed the

> modified soya were severely underweight compared to those born to the

> rats given normal diets. Within three weeks, 55.6 per cent of the

> young of the mothers given the modified soya died, against 9 per cent

> of the offspring of those fed the conventional soya.

>

> Women who eat GM foods while pregnant risk endangering their unborn

> babies, startling new research suggests.

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