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Plants are often genetically modified to make a molecule called endotoxin. This toxin keeps pests from attacking a plant and eating it before it's ready to harvest. However, in a new study where mice were fed endotoxin, researchers found that even the smallest, and once deemed safe, doses of the toxin appeared to cause harmful immune reactions.
Researchers looked at immune reactions in the exposed mice after one, three, and seven days. They found that after one day, the mouse's blood contained many inflammation-inducing molecules. These inflammatory molecules were not localized to anywhere in particular, indicating that the blood was rejecting the toxin and the immune system was sending out molecules to mark it for immune attack. By the third day, the level of inflammatory agents in the blood had significantly increased, further indicating that the toxin was creating a negative effect in the mice, even at a small dose
Originally posted by cheesy
I think GM food is the cause of the increasing number of children who have mental disorders such as autism down syndrome etc.
Except that there is nothing specific to GMOs in that study. Bt toxins have been used since the 1960's and are certified for organic growing.
Published in the open-access, peer-reviewed Journal of Hematology & Thromboembolic
Diseases, findings reveal that GMOs indeed damage and toxify human blood cells, leading to
Anemia, and Luekemia, and Organ damage.
Originally posted by Phage
Except that there is nothing specific to GMOs in that
Published in the open-access, peer-reviewed Journal of Hematology & Thromboembolic
Diseases, findings reveal that GMOs indeed damage and toxify human blood cells, leading to
Anemia, and Luekemia, and Organ damage.
study.
Bt toxins have been used since the 1960's and are certified for organic growing.
While Bt toxin does appear naturally in the environment, it does not normally occur in conjunction with soil, insects and plant surfaces
Nothing about humans either. It was a mouse study.
alkali-solubilized Bt spore-crystals caused in vitro hemolysis in cell lines of rat, mouse, sheep, horse, and human erythrocytes and suggested that the plasma membrane of susceptible cells (erythrocytes, in this case) may be the primary target for these toxins.” - See more at: www.thedailysheeple.com...
You really have no idea what you are talking about do you? That's what happens when you skim an article looking for keywords. They are the same toxins produced by the bacteria. The variants used in the study came from the bacteria, not from GMO plants. The same toxins used by organic and non-GMO farming.
Not in a transgenic form, such as a Cry toxin. Not the same at all.
I read the study, I stay away from sensationalist interpretations of studies. Here is what you said:
I guess you did not read any of the articles I posted.
findings reveal that GMOs indeed damage and toxify human blood cells, leading to
Anemia, and Luekemia, and Organ damage.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by burntheships
You really have no idea what you are talking about do you? That's what happens when you skim an article looking for keywords.
Not in a transgenic form, such as a Cry toxin. Not the same at all.
genetically modified organism (GMO) and all subsequent identical clones resulting from a transformation process are called collectively a transformation event. If more than one gene from another organism has been transferred, the created GMO has stacked genes (or stacked traits), and is called a gene stacked event.
en.wikipedia.org...
I read the study, I stay away from sensationalist interpretations of studies.
No. It's an interest in facts and I've had it for a long time.
Sorry phage, its you who has taken on some evil cause, as evident of your sudden
blind devotion to poisonous Genetically Engineered Franken food.
Says someone who didn't read the study.
Its you who is using the same ignorant talking points over and again in every thread,
refusing to look at real science.
Who says the study and its interpretations are sensationalist? You?
Originally posted by burntheships
Sorry phage, its you who has taken on some evil cause, as evident of your sudden
blind devotion to poisonous Genetically Engineered Franken food.
Its you who is using the same ignorant talking points over and again in every thread,
refusing to look at real science. One could imagine you are using USDA or FDA
talking points.
Put another way, if independent studies such as this one had been required to be conducted prior to the approval of GM crops with Bt traits, such crops never would have been approved in the first place, as it would have been abundantly evident from the start that they are not safe for human consumption
What claims.
Oh, cute. So you left to retorts, since you have no facts to back up your blind claims.
The USDA, the EPA, the EFSA, among others.
Once agian, I will ask you who declared Genetically Engineered food to be safe?
I don't have any reason to think that approved crops are not safe.
Who claims its safe for human consumption. You?
I think that I'd like to cut through the scientific craparamma and just say that common sense dictates that you shouldn't eat food that produces it's own poison in order to kill insects.