Whistleblowers reveal GMO science is dangerous, outdated garbage
It’s the single biggest lie in the entire food industry. And at least someone in the pro-GMO crowd tells it every single day.
“We believe the science is settled.”
That’s what Andrew LaVigne, CEO of the American Seed Trade Association, wants you to believe about the dangerous genetically modified foods (GMOs) we’re being fed by the ton. He’s just one of the people claiming that respected scientists have looked at bioengineered foods up, down and sideways and concluded they’re perfectly safe.
But two of the country’s top GMO researchers are now coming clean on this so-called science — and they’re revealing that it’s total garbage.
The kind that should be hauled to the nearest dump instead of being used to put risky Frankenfoods on your dinner plate.
Bad science and broken lawsIf you ever really want to know what the science on GMOs says — and doesn’t say — just ask Dr. Philip Landrigan and Dr. Chuck Benbrook.
They’re two of the most knowledgeable people on the planet. And in the most recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, both men said plenty.
Landrigan is the Dean for Global Health at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and Benbrook is a top crop and soil researcher at Washington State University. And they both served on the National Academy of Sciences that advises the government on health issues like GMOs.
Groups like the Grocery Manufacturers Association have long claimed that NAS and federal departments like the EPA thoroughly studied GMOs and declared they “are safe and there are no negative health effects.”
But to hear Landrigan and Benbrook tell it, that’s the kind of lie that would have made Pinocchio’s nose longer than a broomstick.
You see, the pro-GMO crowd claims that the NAS issued research on GMOs in 2004 and 2010. But it turns out that neither of those reports looked at the health consequences of the dangerous weed killers like glyphosate (the chemical in Roundup) that are sprayed all over these crops.
And according to Landrigan and Benbrook, that makes these NAS reports practically useless — especially now that a top World Health Organization panel has declared that glyphosate probably causes cancer.
In fact, Landrigan and Benbrook wrote that it’s now clear that GMOs “may pose hazards to human health that were not examined in previous assessments.”
That hardly sounds settled to me.
And what about the science used to get these weed killers approved in the first place? The studies that GMO supporters claim were subjected to rigorous government review?
Well, it turns out lots of that was garbage, too — and maybe even illegal.
For example, Landrigan and Benbrook claim that the EPA approved Enlist Duo, a combo of glyphosate and 2,4-D used on several new GMO crops, based on 30-year-old studies conducted by companies like Monsanto and Dow.
The research never looked at what health effects the chemical would have on children — which is actually against the law under federal pesticide regulations. And Landrigan and Benbrook believe Enlist Duo may turn out to be even more toxic than Roundup.
The idea that GMOs are safe — or that the science is settled — is a fairy tale that too many politicians and consumers are swallowing hook, line and sinker. And until we understand all the risks, Landrigan and Benbrook say we need to label GMO foods so we’ll know what’s really on our dinner table
It’s always nice when top scientists finally catch up to what I’ve been telling you for years.
But right now, as I’ve written before, the Senate is considering a piece of legislation nicknamed the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act that would practically kill GMO labeling forever.
Now’s a good time to write your Senators and remind them that the “science” concerning GMOs is as current as an eight-track tape.
We might even convince some of them to vote against the DARK Act. The ones who aren’t on Monsanto’s payroll, that is.
Sources:
“Scientists call for new review of herbicide, cite ‘flawed’ US regulations” Reuters, August 20, 2015, foxnews.com
