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  1. Corn is a very popular animal food. It contains high sugar content and does to animals what sugar does to humans; causes diseases and sickness! Fattening up animals fast is an economic advantage to farmers who want to get the most for their money! This study is a no brainer for anyone that understands simple economics, but it is not as obvious to the casual observer that GMO Corn also makes PEOPLE FAT as well, just like the animals! High fructose corn syrup is being promoted as if it was just sugar, but again, anyone that understands how the body works knows that High fructos corn syrup is processed in the liver like alcohol, not like sugar. So when you eat it or drink it, you get fatty liver that leads to cirrhosis of the liver just as if you were an alcoholic, but of course, without the buzz!

    Is it any wonder that 25% of all children in America under 4 years old are OBESE! Enfamil baby formula contains 43% HFCS and 10% sugar! 53% of that garbage is a huge problem for anyone wanting their child to be healthy!

  2. Now I know why my dr. and all who work in office are fat. He kept telling me how skinny I am. I'm not skinny, just eat in moderation and try to stay away from crap foods which isn't possible so I eat in moderation.

    I read ingredients on mountain dew my kid's friend was drinking and I asked him why he thought they needed to put vegetable oil in it. He just looked at me weird. Poor kids, they've been so brainwashed and many have nothing to look forward to because of the dumbed down people not watching the govt as they destroy everything good because there's a soccer game to go to or something made in China calling their name to shop.

    If the govt says it's good for you, always remember they LIE.

    1. I wish there was a like button or something similar on this site. I would have clicked it for your comment. In any case… I like your comment so very much !

  3. John, your grasp of the motivation to fatten animals is deficient. First, farmers do not fatten animals, commercial feedlots do so. Don't demonize the producer. Farmers raise animals, they provide the stock that is subsequently pumped full of corn sugar, antibiotics, and hormones which the public demands. That's right, animals are fattened because you want it. If it didn't sell, it wouldn't be produced.

    1. Freakazoid says:

      If this crap meat was honostley labeled would sales be the same? Scew you man

    2. Maybe because thats the only thing available in stores 90% of the time. If you want to buy local non GMO food from local farmers markets, etc. You have to pay a ridiculous amount of money. I make 24,000 dollars a year and can't afford to buy food like that. I am forced to buy over processed, gmo foods because it is so cheap. The problem here isn't because I want the food. I want the real, fresh food that goes bad after a few days. If it wasn't so expensive I would only buy that kind of food. Yet fast food is so cheap and easily available to a large percent of the global population. Wouldn't it make sense to make junk food such as that more expensive and food that's actually good and healthy for you, cheap and readily available to everyone? That's the problem with the US and other developed countries. Until that changes, people will continue to buy it. Are you going to pay for my groceries? I can buy everything I need @ walmart for 1-2 weeks for around 80$. I'd have to spend 280$ if not more @ my local farmers market. At some point you have to quit blaming people and realize that at the end of the day, it all leads back to corrupt companies such as Monsanto and of course our government and government agencies such as the USDA and FDA which are now ran and controlled by corporations.

  4. Anonymous says:

    all your comments make me sick because it's all so true

  5. Milo Betto says:

    Went to the grocery store the other day and after walking all the isles, reading all the labels, the only thing I came out with was some bananas.

    We must vote with our dollars and not buy this crap food and do what we can to inform people we know about the poor quality of our food supply, environmental damage, and cruelty to animals.

    I am going to miss enjoying a nice ear of corn.

    1. Try going to a farmers market where you can buy real corn

      1. I believe it is now illegal to plant any corn other than GMO corn in the U.S.

    2. Anonymous says:

      For your information I grow 300 acres of sweet corn and I supply grocery stores and big distribution centers and I do not have any GMO corn. Just because its not organic does not mean its GMO. Get it straight!

  6. The tide is turning and YES- GMO'S will GO BY THE WAY SIDE! But it does require education on behalf of the public! And FOR THE PUBLIC to EXERCISE their POWER OF THE FORK!! I GUARANTEE IT WILL HAPPEN!! WE American's are TIRED OF BEING SICK!! AND the TRUTH is NOW OUT THERE!! THANKS FOR THE ARTICLE!!

    1. Cindy:
      When will GMOs go by the wayside if places like California voted to not have GMO products labelled.
      We need people to force the government to STOP all GMO's.
      YES, WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK!

  7. EdwardLewis says:

    The study that was done. It’s not a study unless you are pitting that data against another group. Those mice gained that weight, but did the study also have mice eat corn that wasn’t genetically modified.

    1. every single figure is labeled against a control group.

  8. pat sherman says:

    Why do we feed as know in history, corn to pigs…fatten them up.

  9. I feel like Milo I have learned so much about the garbage that we feed our bodies ,and we go to our super markets to shop for healthy chemical free and things like non GMO, and everything is got something in it thats garbage,unless we buy 100% organic,which is not always available,or even affordable for some of us we are destined to many illnesses and poor immune system.

  10. Does the study mention anything about the effects of feeding the rats NON-GM Corn? I'm sure if something ate corn exclusively for a long period of time it would have negative effects. If there are effects from a control group it should be mentioned in this article.

    1. "There were also two comparative control groups fed diets containing similar quantities of the closest isogenic or parental maize variety."

  11. The study is promising but the sample size seems too small to claim that it "effectively ends as to whether GMO foods are safe". Even the study authors claim inconclusiveness. Too bad I had to find this interesting study through a sensationalistic and misleading article.

  12. This work was highly critisized because the autors used a wrong statistical method to evaluate it. If you use the common and correct statistical methods, the results are the opposite, the rats that have eaten GMO were bettter than the others.

  13. bramclabby says:

    The weight increase was only 3.7%. For most people, that increase is negligible. I'm sure there is an overall trend for GMO's to cause more damage than that, but I'll admit, I don't know how strong it is.

  14. Good for you. Hydrogenated vegetable oil is a flame retardant and banned in Europe – they use it so the ingredients don’t separate. Seems reasonable..

  15. BLACK ARMOR says:

    me to you can’t eat anything without worrying these days

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