Infowars
September 24, 2012
Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study
which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn
were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature
death.
Aside from the details of the study, a wider question
remains. If Monsanto and other GMO giants are so confident in the safety
of their products and have no qualms about them being in the food
supply, why have they spent a combined total of over $19 million dollars in an attempt to prevent Americans from knowing that their food is genetically modified?
Monsanto has bankrolled a huge campaign fronted by
lobbyists in an effort to sink California’s Proposition 37, a bill that
would simply mandate genetically modified food and ingredients be
labeled at the retail level.
If genetically-modified food is safe and the studies have proven it is safe, why is Monsanto so desperate to keep its presence in our food hidden?
The recent study,
conducted by scientists at the University of Caen and published in the
journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, found that 50 percent of male and
70 percent of female rats fed on a diet containing NK603 – a genetically
modified corn produced by Monsanto – or those exposed to Monsanto’s
Roundup weedkiller – suffered tumors and multiple organ damage, causing
them to die prematurely.
Monsanto immediately went into spin mode, issuing a
press release over the weekend claiming that toxicologists and public
health experts had found “fundamental problems with the study design,”
without specifically explaining what those problems were.
