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Originally Posted by 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. O BOMBYA 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...
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Again, we're talking about a study in which the chosen rats had a
premature death rate of 20-30% in the
control group. That would be akin to doing a long term study on smoking and finding that 20-30% of non-smokers died of lung cancer. Doesn't sound fishy to you? Fine. Keep posting links to the exact same "study", as if it makes it any more valid.
Politics and dirty business aside, the study suggested nothing to me (even if it were entirely valid) of any carcinogenic effects of genetically-modified corn. It only suggested that "safe" levels of fertilizer-slash-pesticide (and the only modification to the corn was to make it resistant to the pesticide)
might cause increased tumors in rats that are ridiculously easy to induce tumors in if you force feed them corn laced with said pesticide. In fact the rats used are so easy to induce tumors in that a fourth of the "control group" developed tumors.
Most respectable scientists are shocked by how poorly constructed the study is, and the announcement is getting torn to pieces by every science writer out there with half a brain. Hell, all I've read is the abstract, and I can call the findings complete and utter bullcrap.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/gm-c...dy-120920.html