New French Study: Rats, Roundup and Zombie Foods: Most Sincerely Bad News

9:19 am in Uncategorized by wendydavis

Here’s the abstract of the study, ‘A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health’.  Here is the Scribd version including ghastly photos.

So much for 90-day studies.

From the  CRIIGEN website (h/t Yves Smith):

“For the first time, the health impact of a GMO and a widely used pesticide have been comprehensively assessed * in a long term animal feeding trial of greater duration and with more detailed analyses than any previous studies, by environmental and food agencies, governments, industries or researchers institutes.

The two tested products are in very common use : (i) a transgenic maize made tolerant to Roundup, the characteristic shared by over 80% of food and animal feed GMOs, and (ii) Roundup itself, the most widely used herbicide on the planet. The regulatory approval process requires these products to be tested on rats as a surrogate for humans.

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