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

February 2002 best describes the sort of business
that Monsanto is in. In 1966, court documents
in a case concerning Anniston residents in the
US showed that Monsanto managers discovered
that fish dunked in a local creek turned belly-up
within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding
skin as dropped into boiling water. In 1969, they
found fish in another creek with 7,500 times
the legal PCB level. But they never told their
neighbours and concluded that “there is little
object in going to expensive extremes in limiting
discharges – we can’t afford to lose one dollar
of business”. In fact court documents revealed
that the company withheld evidence about the
safety of their PCBs to the residents of the town
that were being poisoned by their factory to keep
their profitable dollars. On February 22, 2002,
a court found Monsanto guilty on six counts
of Negligence, Wantoness And Supression of
the Truth, Nuisance, Trespass And Outrage.
Outrage according to Alabama law is conduct
“so outrageous in character and extreme in
degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of
decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and
utterly intolerable in civilized society.”
! 2005: Monsanto omitted incriminating data
altogether from its 1996 published study on
GM soybeans. When the data was recovered
later by an investigator, it showed that GM soy
contained significantly lower levels of protein
and other nutrients and toasted GM soy meal
contained nearly twice the amount of a lectin
(protein) that may block the body’s ability to
assimilate other nutrients. Furthermore, the
toasted GM soy contained as much as seven
times the amount ot trypsin inhibitor, a major
soy allergen. Monsanto named their study: “The
composition of glyphosate-tolerant soybean
seeds is equivalent to that of conventional
soybeans”
! In Europe, Monsanto refused to reveal the
results of its own secret animal feeding studies,
which revealed serious abnormalities to rats fed
GM corn, citing CBI (Confidential Business
Information) until forced to do so by a German
Court. One of its Bt corn products (the only
GM crop grown in the EU) was subsequently
banned for planting in France and other EU
countries based on the appraisal by Seralini of
Monsanto’s own dossier.
! 2009: A U.S. Federal Court ruled on 24th
September, 2009, that USDA violated federal
law by allowing Monsanto’s genetically
engineered sugar beet on the market.
! 2009: As is usually known (and supported by
a letter from Meera Shankar, our Ambassador
to the U.S., to PMO), it is common for U.S.
MNC’s to bribe Indian officials to achieve their
objectives.
* Dr. P. M. Bhargava, architect of molecular biology
and biotechnology in India. Is currently the chairman
of MARCH (The Medically Aware and Responsible
Citizens of Hyderabad). A recipient of the Padma
Bhushan and France’s highest civilian honour, Legion
d’Honneur, the National Citizens’ Award, founder
director of one of the world’s best laboratories in modern
biotechnology, the Centre of Cellular and Molecular
Biology, Hyderabad, currently a centre of excellence
recognized by UNESCO.
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