Studie "The GMO-emperor has no clothes" (engl.) - Nabu

environmental assessment of the new droughtresistant
GE corn, “Equally comparable varieties
produced through conventional breeding
techniques are readily available in irrigated corn
production reviews.” (“USDA Looks to Approve
Monsanto’s Draught-Tolerant Corn,” The New
York Times, May 11, 2011.)
Helen Wallace of GeneWatch UK cautions: “The
GE industry must now stop its cynical attempts
to manipulate the public into believing that GE
crops are needed to feed the world.” (GeneWatch
UK press release, “Draught-Tolerant GM Corn
Will Not Feed the World,” May 13, 2011.)
Other biotech industries also falsely claim that
they are inventing climate resilient traits. As Ram
Kaundiya, CEO of Advanta, India and Chairman
of Biotech Led Enterprises – Agriculture Group
- writes, “Very exciting input traits are in the
pipeline. For example, a water use efficiency
trait will reduce the water requirements of the
crops considerably and can help vast numbers
of farmers who cultivate rainfed crops in the
country in more than 100 million ha. Similarly,
the nitrogen use efficiency trait which will reduce
the use of nitrogenous fertilizer on the crops
by an estimated 30 percent. Another trait that
is waiting in the wings is a salt tolerance trait
which can help farmers grow crops in saline soils
of more than 20 million ha in India.” There are
1600 patents on climate resilient crops (Biopiracy
of Climate Resilient Crops: Gene Giants Steal
Farmers Innovation of Drought Resistant, Flood
Resistant and Soil Resistant Varieties, Navdanya/
RFSTE, June 2009 & www.etcgroup.org)
But all these traits have already been evolved the
traditional way by Indian farmers. Navdanya’s
seed collections have drought tolerant varieties
like Nalibakuri, Kalakaya, Atia, Inkiri etc.,
flood tolerant varieties like Nalidhulia, Ravana,
Seulapuni, Dhosarakhuda etc., and salt tolerant
varieties like Bhundi, Kalambank, Lunabakada,
Sankarchin etc.
Pulses and beans are nitrogen fixing crops.
None of these traits are “invented” by genetic
engineering. They are pirated from nature and
farmers.
3. Health Safety
While the GE Emperor has no clothes—i.e., GE
crops cannot feed the world, it has the potential
for harming the world and enslaving the world.
Among the false claims made by Monsanto and
the Biotechnology industry is that GE foods are
safe. However, there are enough independent
studies to show that GE foods can cause health
damage.
For example, Dr. Arpad Pusztai’s research
has shown that rats fed with GE potatoes had
enlarged pancreases, their brains had shrunk,
and their immunity had been damaged. Dr.
Eric Seralini’s research demonstrated that organ
damage can occur.
Experiment by Irina Ermakova: influence of GM-soy (Roundup
Ready) on same age rats : control group on left, GM-soy on right
with pups small sizes and weights
The Committee of Independent Research and
Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)
and universities at Caen and Rouen were able to
get raw data of Monsanto’s 2002 feeding trials
on rats at the European Council order and made
it public in 2005. The researchers found that
rats fed with three approved corn varieties of
GE corn—Mon 863, insecticide products, Mon
810, and Roundup Ready herbicide —suffered
organ damage. The data “clearly underlines
adverse impacts on kidneys and liver, the dietary,
detoxifying organs as well as different levels of
damages to the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and
haematopoietic systems,” according to Dr. Gilles
Eric Seralini, a molecular biologist at the University
of Caen. (“A Comparison of the Effects of Three
GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health,”
Joel Spiroux de Veu de Mois, Francois Roullier,
Dominique Cellise, Gilles Eric Serelini, International
Journal of Biological Sciences, 2009, 5: 706-726).
The Biotechnology Industry attacked Dr. Pusztai
and Dr. Seralini and every scientist who has done
independent research on GMOs. GMOs cannot
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