The field of genetically-modified food needs to be under the control of the people who will end up eating it, not the corporations who stand to gain millions of pounds from forcing it onto our tables. It is an uncharted area and those who stand to get rich by it should not be in the decision making of its suitability for human consumption.
A recent French study of Monsanto genetically-modified corn
has turned up shocking and disturbing images of rats weighed down with
disgusting tumors the size of golf balls. The two-year study
found that rats fed Monsanto’s NK603 corn developed more tumors and
severe diseases than a control group fed natural corn.
France has twice banned the corn from its country, but twice has seen
that ban overturned by the European Food Safety Authority, most
recently in May. According to the EFSA, it is because "there is no
specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal
health or the environment" to support a ban. But the results of this new study are too big to ignore, and with our help the EU might finally listen. Russia has already banned the product, and the European Union should be next in line to protect consumers.
Monsanto and other GMO companies
have an enormous amount of lobbying power, but through direct
citizen-consumer action, we can get our own voices heard, and have an
enormous impact. Speaking up with the combined power of our voices,
members of SumOfUs.org are able to counterbalance some of the biggest
corporations in the world. Together, we are building a healthier, safer
world.
Thank you,
-Paul, Claiborne and the rest of us
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Further information:
Food and Chemical Toxicology: Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize, 19 September, 2012
