Monsanto's genetically-modified corn causes organ failure in rats

what was wrong with the food the earth provided again?

but wait! GMO's are just as safe as regular food..right? That's why they don't have to label them as GM, right? WRONG!

don't fuck with mother nature & years of evolution.
this make me sick..

this isn't the only horrifying products from Monsanto...they must be stopped before they contaminate us all!

here in California the streets are littered with the dead and decaying bodies of people who have eaten GM corn, only those of us who have taken to our underground shelters eating only macrobiotic foods have been able to survive the onslaught of the food sold in supermarkets.

I think this may be a long range plan of Monsanto to kill all it's customers thus destroying it's source of income as well as so contaminating the entire earth with Frankenstein vegetation that all of the future generations of their own families will die a horrific death

RE: "I'm not a rat and I love GM foods."

Well then Jimmy... you obviously don't care much about yourself or your body. You are probably someone who is overweight and a couch potato. So, a little organ failure in your future is apparently not that important to you. Good for you...

I'm not a rat and I love GM foods.

Watch: Food Inc. or The Future of Food or even The Botany of Design. All three of these documentaries give tremendous insight to the food industry and what's on our plates. All can be accessed through Netflix's "watch it now". Spread the Word!! Save the Food!!

It is so phenomenally frustrating to be a scientist in this society. All indications point toward this study being vastly overreaching at very best, and fraudulent at worst. Science is not evil. Innovation is not inherently bad for us. Over the last 100 years life expectancies have risen dramatically thanks to guess what? Science.

hmmm.... so what you're saying is we got a killer corn on our hands....sounds like a sci-fi movie but couldn't be more serious.... now scientists stop creating things that kill people or animals and be more careful with your toys....things are getting out of hand....why do we need genetically altered corn anyway....i want to eat it not the other way around....unless they give the corn...frog like legs where it jumps in my mouth...that would be awesome...get to work on that...food that works for you

Although I agree with the whole idea of locally-grown, organic food there are a lot of people who do not have access to anything like that. The city I currently live in is an agricultural hub of California (and even the US) and we only have 1 farmers market which consists of very little produce. Many of the organic and locally-grown foods also are very high priced these days and many people cannot afford them (including myself). There has to be a big change in farming industry itself before we can get better, cheaper quality food readily available to the every day consumers.

I've seen 10 different articles on this, and nothing on the TV news.

something is wrong with this picture.

Other example that humanity has no business trying to "Save the Earth" when we can not even save ourselves. Once humanity is saved, the Earth will be just fine (with or without us).

Hopefully findings like these will start to change things a bit. Large companies like Monsanto have been doing more harm than good for a long time. Maybe the people in Washington will start to reconsider where all the subsidy money is going.

I've read the comments all of you have been posting and most of you have really intelligent things to say, backed up with some understanding of this issue. I really feel like we have an opportunity here, where like minded people can come together and try to do something real to combat this serious problem. It isn't enough to share opinion and information (although great), we need to take some action. I suggest that we find a forum we can all discuss this further. For starters, maybe we could create a group on another site (facebook?). Also, feel free to connect with me on Current. Any ideas? One last comment: We don't need independent testers or further data analysis. This is for real. This is happening. We are being slow killed and our government is not protecting us. Don't believe it? Its your right to keep eating poison. I on the other hand, care about what I put in my body, and I also care about protecting my family. Let's not forget that Monsanto has produced DDT and Agent Orange. Remember these chemicals? Check this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto.

The gene modified seeds yield as yet uncertain results, and therefore should be tested by independent, really independent, of governmental and corporate interests.

It used to be easy to control products and behaviors by having governmental agencies, usually associated with presidential, or executive that is, authority behind it to insure the public good be served.

But big government, and big business with its "think tanks" and paid to study and propagandize front groups, have so much money, compared to the amout prospective truth finding and publishing might garner, decideing what entity might best tell the truth is always daunting.

An interim solution to promote public safety would simply be to make posting gene modified information upon labels the norm.

Finally- a reliable rat poison!

I'd like to remind to everybody everything that Vandana Shiva is accomplishing against Monsanto in India.

if you type in 'monsanto corn' on cnn.com you dont get anything but advertisements for gm products.

its scary to think how long its going to be before we know all things wrong with the pesticides and gm foods.

let the buyer beware

Wow, this even made the homepage. Not quite though... still waiting for the expose' by Vanguard. But hopefully the Supreme Court case coming up which I posted about yesterday which has fallen off the radar already will be the vindication I and others have waited for. And BTW, where are the posters who trashed me in other threads for my "bitching about GMOS?"

I have told people about this for years and it seemed no one cared, but finally the word is getting out and solid verifiable statistics are available to the public!!! Basically the pesticide is genetically modified into the corn so that when an insect ingests it, it dies!!! What is this doing to people??? Corn also has a massive range of cross-pollenization and can cross pollinate with other varietals of corn, this means that a farmer can plant a crop of corn without the pesticide genetically engineered into it and the next year a quarter to half his crop could contain the pesticide, and the contaminated source of corn which contaminated his crop could easily be 15 or more miles away! Insane!!! I don't think there is an uncontaminated source of corn left in this country, and if possible the corn with the pesticide should be burned, every last sheaf!!! This is a serious issue about the ethicality of manipulating plant genetics and should be addressed immediately but wait isn't that what the FDA and the department of agriculture are for??? In the southern part of my state there are only 2 inspectors for the department of agriculture and our state legislature is trying to cut them out of the picture completely!!! That means absolutely no inspections!!! And the FDA is only concerned when someone dies and not the purity/cleanliness of the food we eat!!! And FYI everyone the majority of corn grown in this country is grown this way, including corn products such as high fructose corn syrup and ethanol.

It's about time something was published about the effects of Monsanto's GMOs.

What idiot would ever think that an "herbicide-absorbing" plant is okay to eat?

a non-gmo shopping guide: http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/documentFiles/209.pdf

The whole GM food thing was stupid from the get go. Food that has been genetically modified or broken down to its component parts and rebuilt into something new, isn't food! It doesn't get any better than the food we evolved on, and the fact that people think we can make better [imitation] food astounds me. Monsanto says that they will feed the world with GM crops by producing higher yields of food (like they actually give a shit). Well Monsanto must have skipped ecology class because increasing food production, increases the size of your population. It's not going to feed the world, it's just going to create more people to feed! Interesting how that particular situation seems to work out pretty well for Monsanto. As usual, profits are the only thing that matter to them, not you.

I'd like to try and inject a differing point of view on this issue, and it seems not many here have a dissenting view on GM foods.

In the article, the research is scrutinized for its shortcomings. This one report hardly substantiates claims about the safety of GMs, one way or another. The lab research itself was done on one species, and done only once. And, taken right from the source article:

"Leading nutrition professor Dr. Marion Nestle wrote on her blog about the study, "I found the paper extremely difficult to read, in part because it is written in exceptionally dense and opaque language, and in part because it presents the data in especially complicated tables and figures." Monsanto claims that the study employed "non-traditional statistical methods to reassess toxicology data from studies conducted with MON 863, MON 810 and NK603 corn varieties" and that the IJBS paper reaches "unsubstantiated conclusions." "

I will concede that having a study showing rats with crippling organ failure after eating a diet of GM corn is not good. Not good at all. It shows we need more research into Mansanto and their science in order to improve the quality of their product (IE: Make it not lethal, if such is the case). Also from the article:

"While some groups like Change.org, see this study as a rallying cry for regulatory action and boycott, others on both sides of the GMO issue think the study results itself are not clear and shouldn't be accepted wholeheartedly. The IJBS is not a peer-reviewed journal, and the work was not an independent analysis of the effects of the GM corn on rats. Rather, it was a full interpretation of all of the samples of rats in the 90-day study that Monsanto itself sponsored. After analyzing the data, the European researchers came to the conclusion:"

I am not wholly convinced by this particular research study. If anyone sees a follow-up or has past research articles on Mansanto's corn dealings, please feel free to direct me to them. Knowledge is power.

It seems that Monsanto doesn't care if you die as long as they take your money. They are based in St. Louis and I have heard that they have a stranglehold on soy beans, which is allegedly running traditional farmers out of business.

at least they make brilliant pr tv spots.

when is enough enough? All I hear about Monsanto are these horrific reports about their products and unethical business dealings. This is just ridiculous!

monsanto is starting to have a harder time hiding their shit... they won't survive this decade!

Sick. Sick. Sick. People better start paying attention to these agrioplolists (yes, I made that up) and re-think their eating habits.

Locally-grown, organic food is the answer.