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  1. blank Lynda Jones says:

    Wooo, Alan Smith- nice way to alienate anyone with your hate speech. For anyone who wants to know the real human, environmental, water damage done by endocrine disruptor pesticides (like Roundup, Enlist, Dicamba) here’s some reading for you- some of the many references from the book I’m researching and writing
    1b FAILURE TO YIELD- Evaluating the Performance of
    Genetically Engineered Crops
    http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/failure-to-yield.pdf
    http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/pocketk/1/http://www.unep.org/dewa/agassessment/reports/IAASTD/EN/Agriculture%20at%20a%20Crossroads_Synthesis%20Report%20%28English%29.pdf.
    And 6 http://www.globalonenessproject.org/sites/default/files/downloads/IAASTD%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
    1c http://American Academy of Environmental Medicine http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html
    1d Seralini Study: Actual report download with links to critical feeback by Monsanto interest groups etc. and references: http://www.herbogeminis.com/IMG/pdf/roundup_toxicity_seralini-2.pdf
    Seralini Studies: ScienceDirect
    http://www.ijbs.com/v05p0706.htm
    http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/news/messages/200703.docu.html
    http://zcomm.org/zmagazine/three-approved-gmos-linked-to-organ-damage-by-rady-ananda/
    Monsanto
    Studies: ScienceDirect
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691504000547
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691505001985
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691506000093
    1d SCIENTIFIC
    REPORT OF EFSA- Considerations on the applicability of OECD TG 453 to whole
    food/feed testing http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/3347.pdf 1dd
    http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/3347.pdf
    1e David Schubert, personal communication to H.
    Penfound, Greenpeace Canada, October 25, 2002.
    1f Irina
    Ermakova, “Genetically modified soy leads to the decrease of weight and high mortality of rat pups of the first generation. Preliminary studies,” Ecosinform 1 (2006): 4–9.
    1g Irina Ermakova, “Experimental Evidence of GMO Hazards,” Presentation at Scientists for a GM Free Europe, EU Parliament, Brussels, June 12, 2007
    1h L. Vecchio et al, “Ultrastructural Analysis of Testes from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean,” European Journal of Histochemistry 48, no. 4 (Oct–Dec 2004):449–454.
    1i Oliveri et al., “Temporary Depression of Transcription in Mouse
    Pre-implantion Embryos from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean,”
    48th Symposium of the Society for Histochemistry, Lake Maggiore (Italy),
    September 7–10, 2006.
    1j Alberta Velimirov and Claudia Binter, “Biological effects of transgenic
    maize NK603xMON810 fed in long term reproduction studies in mice,”
    Forschungsberichte der Sektion IV, Band 3/2008
    1k Jerry Rosman, personal communication, 2006
    1l See for example, A. Dutton, H. Klein, J. Romeis, and F. Bigler, “Uptake of Bt-toxin by herbivores feeding on transgenic maize and consequences for the predator Chrysoperia carnea,” Ecological Entomology 27 (2002): 441–7; and
    J. Romeis, A. Dutton, and F. Bigler, “Bacillus thuringiensis toxin
    (Cry1Ab) has no direct effect on larvae of the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae),” Journal of Insect Physiology 50, no. 2–3 (2004): 175–183.
    1m Washington State Department of Health, “Report of health surveillance activities: Asian gypsy moth control program,” (Olympia, WA: Washington State Dept. of Health, 1993).
    1n M. Green, et al., “Public health implications of the microbial pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis: An epidemiological study, Oregon, 1985-86,” Amer. J. Public Health 80, no. 7(1990): 848–852.
    1o Ashish
    Gupta et. al., “Impact of Bt Cotton on Farmers’ Health (in Barwani and Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh),” Investigation Report, Oct–Dec 2005.

  2. blank sixholdens says:

    So it took him 15 years to do what Monsanto does in just a few swipes with a gene splicer. Big deal. Genetic modification is genetic modification.

  3. blank Charles Byrd says:

    Ironically, the breeding of this corn is also genetic modification and American corn is basically genetically modified grass.

    1. Wrong. Genetic engineering is the process of manually
      adding new DNA to an organism. The goal is to add one or more new
      traits that are not already found in that organism. Selective breeding is not GE.

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