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The "You have all failed" recap. |
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The European action was based |
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06/09/2005 |
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I thinks its great that listed those organiztions as "on your side"(whatever that means?). Are we to met in the streets snapping our fingers in sync as we prepare for the big rumble?
Could you site this "literature"? Could you provide me with a link to this "data"?
In a "UK Independent" article it was revealed in a monsanto study that:
"Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to iternal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food"
These health issues were absent from the group that ate non-gm food.
Studies like this were the basis for the European Union's decision to ban GM food. Looks like I have Europe on "my side".
"Milk from rbGH-treated cows contains an increased amount of the hormone IGF-1, which is one of the highest risk factors associated with breast and prostate cancer, among others"
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purely on political considerations (a frightened, scientifically uninformed public).
While the US scientific community is not the sole arbiter on these issues, no European nation or group of nations has the combined expertise of the organizations I mentioned, including the premier scientific analysis and review resources of the peerless National Academy of Sciences.
Chemophobia is quite common among both our population and the western Europeans. But it is a phobia generally based on a lack of scientific education, not reality.
Genetically modified food is the world's greatest hope for reducing starvation, malnutrition AND the use of pesticides. The EU's position on the latter is as neanderthal as is Bush's view of stem cell research. Neither view is scientifically sound nor, more subjectively, morally sound.
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