rats to GM food!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19654825

A furious row has erupted over a French study claiming to have found tumours
and other problems in rats fed on genetically modified maize and exposed to a
common, associated herbicide.
The rodents ate the GM diet over a two-year period - a normal lifetime.

The study's length made its results far more reliable than previous research,
said team-leader Gilles-Eric Seralini.

But independent scientists criticised the work for its statistical methods and
for using the wrong type of rat.

They said the albino Sprague-Dawley strain of animal had a tendency to develop
cancers, especially the mammary tumours seen in some of the study subjects.

A paper detailing the investigation has been published in the peer-reviewed
journal Food and Chemical Toxicology.

Different diets
It describes how groups of rodents were given a diet that included the
engineered maize known as NK603.

This is a product of the big agrochemical business Monsanto, which has
modified the genetics of the plant so that it can resist the company's
herbicide Roundup. The biotech innovation has allowed farmers to spray their
fields and kill off weeds without harming the crop.

Prof Seralini and colleagues examined 200 rats in their research.

Some ate engineered maize sprayed with Roundup; some ate just the GM maize
with no herbicide present; and a third group consumed no GM material but had
traces of Roundup introduced into their drinking water. A fourth group acted
as the control, and ingested a non-GM maize and non-tainted water.

The two-year study length was designed to match the expected lifetime of a
standard rat - far longer than the usual 90-day trials conducted by industry,
the team said.

The French scientists found that the rats fed on a diet containing the
herbicide-tolerant GM maize, or given water containing Roundup considered safe
in drinking water and GM crops in the US, died sooner than the rats fed just
the standard diet.

Fifty percent of males and 70% of females died prematurely, compared with only
30% and 20% in the control group.

### - oh but i'm sure it's all ok for humans tho, right??

D'oh! ;-)

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"before you can change the world you have to accept it as it is, with no
illusions." --from the brando movie : 'The Men' (1950)

[SpiritK9]

This is the left wingers (liberal progressive socialists) wet dream of population control. I think it'd be more appropriate to start controlling the population of these scumbags by shortening all THEIR lives. We don't need expensive chemicals to do it either, one bullet apiece will do just fine.

[Bob]

Me rather thinks this a capitalist dream come true, cause they all want
to exploit nature and everything in behalf for money!

[SpiritK9]

I'll take free market style capitalism with as little government control as possible over the constructs of a libtard government telling me what's good for me, bad for me, what I should buy and who I should vote for. Anything that falls in the above mentioned is immediately rejected, especially if the united nations tells me who not to vote for. No, it doesn't mean I'll automatically do the opposite just to be oppositional, it means anyone that insists I help determine their desired outcome for them earns immediate disdain...and possibly a fist jammed in a sensitive part of their body if they become too insistent.

When liberals try to box you in all you need to do to defeat them is step outside the box again and close the box behind you, leaving them there in their own little disposable world.

[SpiritK9]

If only it were that easy. They are as logic-proof as Kevlar is bulletproof. The biggest problem with the left-tards is that they are willing, useful idiots for the liberal progressive socialists in power who continuously endeavor to destroy everything positive in the world today, and they've been doing it openly since the 1960's.

The last thing left to the sane to do is help them get to the bottom of the barrel so we can rebuild again. Get on food stamps, welfare, unemployment comp. and any other freeloader tool you can think of. The sooner we crash, the sooner the revolution will begin and end so we can dispose of the stinking bodies and rebuild. Again.

Once defeated (or wiped out) the remainder of the succubus class can be left in that box to rot....if they aren't already on a pyre adding to the carbon content of the atmosphere.

Never stand downwind from a pyre of burning communist bodies. You'll likely become addicted to whatever destroyed their minds in the first place.