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Re: 436 city worldwide protest [message #481177 is a reply to message #481168]

Mon, 27 May 2013 20:04

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http://doccamiryan.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/10-reasoned-responses-to-10-reasons- we-dont-need-gmos/

6. GM foods have not been shown to be safe to eat

I hear this a lot and I have to remind everyone that nothing is 100% safe. Nothing. NO food. You can test organic, conventional and GM for the next 500 years and there will never ever be "absolute proof" that a food produced a certain way is 100% safe. That's not how things roll here in the 'real world'. The food value chain is long and involves lots of actors. Lots can happen. Take for example the Maple Leaf Foods listeria crisis in 2008 (23 confirmed deaths). Then there was the XL Foods e.coli incident in 2012 where 18+ people were taken ill when they ingested tainted meat. And the anti-GM folks get a bit hot under the collar when I mention this one: almost 4000 people were affected and 53 died from a rare strain of e.coli in sprouts that were produced on an organic farm in Germany in 2011.

There has been some food-related tragedies. But there is no documented evidence of harm to human health or deaths from consumption of GM foods since they were introduced to the market two decades ago. None. Here are TWO studies (US and EU – and there are more) that attest to the safety of GM foods (NRC 2004, EC 2010). GE crops or GMOs have been the most heavily tested food products in the history of our regulatory system.

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		436 city worldwide protest By: zeratul on Sun, 26 May 2013 14:40
		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: Aircraftkiller on Mon, 27 May 2013 20:04
		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: zeratul on Tue, 28 May 2013 06:34
		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: Jerad2142 on Tue, 28 May 2013 13:56
		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: ehhh on Tue, 28 May 2013 14:05
		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: Jerad2142 on Tue, 28 May 2013 14:13
		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: zeratul on Tue, 28 May 2013 14:36
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		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: zeratul on Sun, 02 June 2013 11:09
		Re: 436 city worldwide protest By: iRANian on Tue, 28 May 2013 00:44
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