Why GMOs are Prohibited in Organic Agriculture? Rights of Nature Tribunal, Dec 4, 2015 Paris Andre Leu, President
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Why GMOs are Prohibited in Organic Agriculture?
Rights of Nature Tribunal, Dec 4, 2015 ParisAndre Leu, President
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The Myths of Safe Pesticides and GMOs
• The majority of GMO crops have been approved without adequate feeding trials
• The most recent study led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini found that both the GM maize and Roundup acted as endocrine disrupters and resulted in the females dying 2 -3 times more than the control animals. (Seralini et al 2014)
• This is the only life time feeding study done on GMOs
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The Myths of Safe Pesticides and GMOs
Most females had mammary tumors
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The Myths of Safe Pesticides and GMOs
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The RealityThe World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) gave glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) the second highest classification of:
Group 2A: Probably carcinogenic to humans
Group 2A is for substances where there is sufficient evidence of causing cancer in animals and limited studies in humans.
According to IARC, the 2A classification was because: ‘strong mechanistic evidence; for malathion and glyphosate, the mechanistic evidence provided independent support of
the 2A classification based on evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and experimental animals.’
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Are the current residues in food safe?
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Are the current residues in food safe?
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The Myths of Safe GMOs
Carman et al. (2013) reported that a diet of GE corn and soy was associated with stomach inflammation in pigs.
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Killed about 100 people and caused
5,000-10,000 to fall sick•The epidemic was discovered because the disease1.Was new, with unique symptoms2. Acute3. Came on quickly
L-tryptophan produced by GM bacteria
GM L-tryptohan
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Intestinal Wall
Non-GM GM
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Stomach lining
Non-GM GM
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Mice livers
Control GM-fed
Hepatocyte Nuclei
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Mice livers
Control GM-fed
Hepatocyte Nuclei
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GM Soy Damages Rat Livers
C, D – GM-soy groupА, B – control group
A
B
C
D
Dr. Irina Ermakova
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Rat Testicles
Control GM soy fed
GM-soyControl
Testicular cells had altered structure and functionEuropean Journal of Histochemistry, 2004
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GM-soy group
Ermakova Irina, 2005-2007
Mortality of rat offspring for one day
Control
Non-GM soy
GM-soy
GM SOY
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Rat litters at 9-days from mothers
fed non-GM
or GM soy.
Non-GM soy group
GM-soy group
Irina Ermakova, 2005-2007
GM SOY
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19-day old ratsLarger rat is from control group;
smaller from GM-soy group. Irina Ermakova, 2005-2007
GM SOY
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The Reality
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