Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice

Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by Sniffnoy on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:47AM (#2126584)

Even if this is true, the way it's written qualifies it as (not necessarily deliberate) scaremongering, as it identifies the commonality between the experimental varieties of corn as being that they were genetically modified, rather than that they were genetically modified to produce pesticides. The latter could plausibly have such a uniform effect, whereas the former could not. They need to be precise and say what they mean.

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by NHQ on Friday January 21, 2011 @02:19AM (#2126726)

The real results are the meta-results: that such a small and narrow study is all we have in the way of research into the possible effects of GM foods.

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by dandelany on Friday January 21, 2011 @02:29AM (#2126739)

This is far from the only study that's been done on the matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_contr...

"However, an article in 2007 by Vain found 692 research studies focusing on GM crop and food safety and identified a strong increase in the publication of such articles in recent years"

Though the veracity (and funding sources) of said studies is a different matter entirely.

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by runningdogx on Friday January 21, 2011 @06:51AM (#2127135)

Agreed, I hate GM scaremongers as well.

The suspect species of corn (and soy, for that matter) with genes to produce pesticides, however, might cross-pollinate. In that case, it's not only GM corn that's suspect, but all corn.

edit... I still don't think it's clear whether the problem is with the gene producing pesticide, or excessive external pesticide/herbicide use.

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