Study: GMO Soy Accumulates Cancer-Causing Formaldehyde
In a groundbreaking new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Agricultural Sciences, researchers have found that when soy is genetically engineered, it disrupts the plant’s natural ability to control stress and even sparks the production of carcinogenic formaldehyde.
This new research led by an MIT trained biologist, Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., an MIT-trained systems biologist, utilized a method to integrate 6,497 in vitro and in vivo laboratory experiments from 184 scientific institutions, across 23 countries. The researchers discovered that the accumulation of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, and a dramatic depletion of glutathione, an anti-oxidant necessary for cellular detoxification, is the result of genetic tinkering with soy plants.
Dr. Ayyadurai stated:
“The results demand immediate testing along with rigorous scientific standards to assure such testing is objective and replicable. It’s unbelievable such standards for testing do not already exist. The safety of our food supply demands that science deliver such modern scientific standards for approval of GMOs.”
Dr.Ray Seidler, a former EPA Senior Scientist, said:
“The discovery reported by Dr. Ayyadurai reveals a new molecular paradigm associated with genetic engineering that will require research to discover why, and how much formaldehyde and glutathione concentration, and what other cellular chemicals relevant to human and animal health, are altered. We need the kinds of standards Dr. Ayyadurai demands to conduct such research.
Formaldehyde is a known class1 carcinogen. Its elevated presence in soybeans caused by a common genetic engineering event is alarming and deserves immediate attention and action from the FDA and the Obama administration. Soy is widely grown and consumed in the U.S., including by infants fed baby food products, with 94% of soy grown here being genetically engineered.”
The study abstract reads:
“…The results predict significant accumulation of formaldehyde and concomitant depletion of glutathione in the GMO, suggesting how a “small” and single GM creates “large” and systemic perturbations to molecular systems equilibria.
Regulatory agencies, currently reviewing rules for GMO safety, may wish to adopt a systems biology approach using a combination of in silico, computational methods used herein, and subsequent targeted experimental in vitro and in vivo designs, to develop a systems understanding of “equivalence” using biomarkers, such as formaldehyde and glutathione, which predict metabolic disruptions, towards modernizing the safety assessment of GMOs.”
These findings should completely reverse the FDA’s regulatory protocols that call GMOs ‘substantially equivalent’ to their non-GMO counterparts. This stance allows the FDA, in cahoots with biotech, to continue to give green-light, fast-track approval to more varieties of GM soy, corn, and other crops that are only meant to be used with ever-greater doses and mixtures of carcinogenic chemicals, like the new glyphosate, 2-4D combination which the Environmental Protection Agency just recently approved.
Perhaps the FDA and the EPA should get together and have a GM soy-eating party. If they won’t eat their own creations, why should we be expected to?
And corn products — which are often used as food additives or as binders in vitamin supplements. Most likely GMOs. .
http://multiplefoodallergyhelp.com/common-allergens/corn-allergy/
Some time ago, it was by third day that I realized I had to stop drinking Silk’s Chocolate Milk (Soy base) because it was so phyto-estrogenic that it was interfering with already deficient Thyroid function. In other words, even a juice glass was enough to make the (former) hypothyroid problems worse.
So, to think that newborn infants are routinely being given a Soy Formula as “food” is beyond the pale! As I learned, while these two major hormones compete for the same uptake receptor in the brain, it is the mighty Estrogen that always wins (prevails) over Thyroid. Put another way: while there is far less metabolism (via thyroid), so is there more potential to grow (via estrogen) whatever. While, traditionally, it is fermented Soy that has been a healthy food in Asiatic countries for centuries…it is Soy that is found in many US products like Silk’s that are not fermented and yet are being sold as ‘healthy’ when, in fact, they are most certainly not…and as the author reports, are now often to be of GMO-derived sourcing.
More recently, our daughter’s aged dog’s Veterinarian recommended a Hydrolyzed Soy Protein canine kibble that was touted to be less allergenic (then those with common grains, chicken, etc.) so as to stop the awful smell from his coat and to deter the oft’ repeated bacterial infection in his ears or on his belly. Come to find out, hydrolyzed has to do with reducing the Soy plant material to such microscopic size that it ‘fools’ the hyperactive or overly sensitive innate immune system and for some dogs is (supposedly) able to quell these problems, at least initially. In our case, after the dog had been eating this faux (unnatural) food for an omnivore for about three months, he began to display a new habit which was to not only turn around to smell, but eat his feces.
Yikes, when I heard this, I immediately deduced he was starving for species-appropriate protein that, in NO way, can be provided by Soy. In the wild, a dog would never seek out such plant source as a food so to think this could provide a dog with some degree of balanced nutrition defies all common sense. Thus, once I confirmed how it was about the lack of B vitamins in his diet that was causing this new grossly unhealthy behavior, I implored of our daughter to find another Vet and kibble which she did and by now, not only is the doggy smell gone due to a more shiny, full coat, but so are the bacterial infections less prevalent and neither is our pooch at all interested in eating his own stool.
Therefore, now that we have this day’s scientific evidence (yet another great report, Christina!) as well as real life experiences like these to compare, I say there is NO safe Soy…other than in its ancient fermented form…which means that all ‘processed’ (hydrolyzed, GMO, Monsanto sprayed) Soy is NEVER a good source of nutrition for we as humans or the animals who depend on us for their safety.
This is a bunch of hogwash. The ‘study’ was entirely in silico, i.e. no actual biological samples were ever tested. Testing for formaldehyde is relatively easy. The fact that the authors did not do this says one of two things: 1) They aren’t interested in actually determining if their computer model is accurate and instead are only interested in pursuing an agenda and/or generating press for their company (more on that below), or 2) they did the tests but got results that showed their computer model was wrong and so didn’t include the results.
Also, at least one of the authors is the founder of a company that is trying to market the very software used in this study. Yet, Sarich doesn’t seem to see this as problem, which is grossly hypocritical of her as I have read articles by her before that bemoan the conflict of interest in industry funded studies. Funny how that concern vanished when the study in question supports Sarich’s pseudoscience beliefs.
What an utter pile of bull dung.