[suspectnumber961]

I can't say as I understand all the details of the study...but then it lasted 2 yrs using the same rats that the biotechs use to do safety studies that only last 90 days....with no oversight. Studies cost $...but then poorly designed 2 yr studies beat 90 day studies???

Obama has put probably a dozen or so Monsanto execs into his admin and they are rolling out the GMOS as fast as they can. Most countries have banned GMOs. All recent Pres and families eat (have eaten) organics...while you get GMOs. OBOMBYA smells, but not as much as un-MITT-igated disaster Robnya?

I do seriously try to avoid GMOs...meaning avoiding most processed food...corn...soy...canola....also sugars...wheat...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...1103_DNL_art_1

The world’s first lifetime feeding study discovered that rats fed a diet containing 11 percent GE corn developed massive breast tumors, kidney and liver damage and other serious health problems in the 13th month of life.

To put this into human perspective, if the average lifespan of a person is 80 years, these health problems would start rearing their ugly head somewhere during the 43rd year of life, provided your diet contained just over 10 percent GE foods and you began eating them in early childhood

According to a report released by the Environmental Working Group, Americans are eating their weight and more in genetically engineered food every year—an average of 193 pounds of GE foods annually

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Originally Posted by niky

So a study finds out that rats exposed to fertilizers suffered tumors, and rats fed exclusively on corn LACED WITH THE SAME fertilizers suffered tumors, but not as much as rats who drank the fertilizer straight? And that rats who drank no fertilizer and ate no GMO corn suffered a premature death rate of around 20-30%?

Am I missing something here? Color me stupid, but I thought that study controls were supposed to isolate all elements being studied thoroughly?

All I see is a study proving that RoundUp fertilizer is carcinogenic. Shocking, yes. But it tells me nothing about GMOs, nothing about what particular genes were modified, what effects the modification had on the modified organisms and what inherent qualities or chemicals the modified organisms possessed that would cause cancer.

Aside from the fertilizer, of course.

That's the problem with reading something with the idea of proving a case, you miss the bigger picture. Thankfully, more sober news agencies are calling it as it is... RoundUp is possibly carcinogenic. Not the plants.

And after all that, we will have to examine what it is in non-GMO corn that causes a 20-30% premature mortality rate in rats.

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This is not to say that Monsato isn't an abusive, bloodsucking corporate agricultural monopolist with no conscience... But the study strikes me as almost as flawed as a recent one that pointed out diet softdrinks are linked to higher incidences of heart problems versus fruit juice. Only admitting, in the fine print, that most of the fruit juice respondents were vegetarians, while most of the softdrink drinkers ate lots and lots of red meat. Whoops.