Report: 81% of GM Crops Approved Without Adequate Safety Studies
What’s a recipe for environmental mayhem and the destruction of human health? The approval of genetically modified organisms by governments worldwide without any scientific safety studies. A new study published by the risk-assessment journal Environment International states that of the GM crops approved for planting and marketing globally, 81% were not studied for possible health and environmental safety risks.
Nevertheless, the biotech industry keeps touting GMO ‘benefits’ like a narcissistic madman on steroids. This chest beating continues – despite a complete lack of published, peer-reviewed research supporting the safety of genetically modified organisms.
The researchers of the risk-assessment study looked at GM crops engineered either for tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) or engineered to produce pesticides in their tissues due to the expression of cry1Ab or cry3Bb1 genes. Of all the bioengineering tricks up Monsanto and Syngenta’s sleeves, these are the most commonly used in commercial GM crops.
A whopping 47 GM crop varieties meet these conditions and have been given approval by agencies like the USDA, the FDA, and other regulatory bodies around the world.
When the researchers did a search for peer-reviewed studies on these crops prior to their approval so that they could tell if the agencies were relying on published vs. secret, industry-led studies, their findings were indeed telling.
The approval of these crops was based entirely on industry-biased data.
Only 18 peer-reviewed studies could be found which assessed the safety of any of the 47 GM crops that have been given a rubber stamp, and only 9 of the 47 crop varieties were studied. This means that the remaining 38 GMO varieties were approved with zero credible scientific evidence of their safety.
This is an incontrovertible piece of evidence that Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, Bayer, Cargill, the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association, and others have completely swayed government opinion about GMO safety based on manufactured to appease ‘experts.’ Experts who are supposed to assess the possible toxicity of any food or beverage we consume. This means that GMOs got the green light without safety assessments by independent scientists. No government-appointed shills should be making decisions about our food supply with such little risk assessment conducted.
The new study does suffer from one major limitation, however, since it looked only for published studies involving feeding rats the GM crop in question and then monitoring them for health effects. There are obviously other ways to conduct safety tests, but these were not conducted either.
Furthermore, these companies did indeed test their own crops and hid the results from regulators, even when they knew their toxic GMO products could cause serious health risks. The biotech industry has called these tests a ‘commercial secret’ even when they knowingly promote GMOs while they causes harm.
The pesticides and herbicides marketed to go hand-in-hand with GM crop sales are subject to the same ‘scrutiny’ as GMO crops themselves. A 2014 study in the journal BioScience found that the pesticide-approval process has been very similar.
“Risk assessment is compromised when relatively few studies are used to determine impacts, particularly if most of the data used in an assessment are produced by a pesticide’s manufacturer, which constitutes a conflict of interest. Although manufacturers who directly profit from chemical sales should continue to bear the costs of testing, this can be accomplished without [conflicts of interest] by an independent party with no potential for financial gain from the outcome and with no direct ties to the manufacturer.”
Does anyone has a list of all foods that are GMO’s?? I will like to have a list if possible. They are lying so much and when we find out they already have a food oin the market for years. For example tomatoes, i am sure most of them are. when the seeds inside begin to sprout -look like worms- and the tomatoe begins to spoil inside instead the normal way, outside, that tells me they are GMO’S .. i imaging other veggies and fruits too are GMO and we don’t know.
There are no GMO tomatoes commercially available. The only GMOs are corn, cotton, soy, canola, sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya, and squash. That is it. If you live in China there is Petunias and eggplant as well.
The app buycott is good.
There are other test crops that have been in the fields and there’s no telling whether there’s been cross-contamination or whether they’ve “accidentally” been put in the food chain. I would avoid conventional wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, cacao, and rice. That’s besides the crops that are legally commercially available: corn, canola, cotton, soy, sugar beets, alfalfa, rainbow papaya, and zucchini (and the factory-farmed animals that eat those crops–including by-products like their milk and eggs). This includes pretty much all oils labeled generically as “vegetable oil” (be careful buying cheap olive oil because many manufacturers are cutting it with other oils).
If they had their way, they’d be modifying all crops. Growing your own or buying only organic/non-GMO verified is the quickly becoming the best way to know you’re avoiding GMOs and conventional pesticides. Supporting organic agriculture also ensures that you’re supporting a kind of ag that’s best for the environment.
freedomdove your exactly right
The produce,cereal,dairy everything in the store unless its labeled orhanic. Then you can’t be sure you would have to research each and every ones back ground. A farmers market or Amish community would be better.
Here is a great read. http://seedtoday.com/articles/German_Study_Finds_GM_Crops_Good_for_Farmers_and_the_Environment-145468.html