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An important new manuscript accepted for publication in the journal
Food Chemistry
disproves the widely held notion that GMO crops are 'substantially
equivalent' to their traditional counterparts; a notion which forms the
basis for national and international agencies – including the U.S. FDA,
the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization and the World
Health Organization – declaring genetically modified foods to be safe
without having performed adequate health risk assessments.
The new manuscript titled, "
Compositional differences in soybeans on the market: Glyphosate accumulates in Roundup Ready GM soybeans,"
[i]
was submitted by a team of researchers from Norway and the United
Kingdom who explored the compositional differences of 31 soybean batches
from Iowa, USA, which consisted of three different types:
- Genetically modified, glyphosate-tolerant soy (GM-soy);
- Unmodified soy cultivated using a conventional "chemical" cultivation regime;
- Unmodified soy cultivated using an organic cultivation regime.
Their analysis revealed the following discoveries:
-
"Organic soybeans showed the healthiest nutritional profile with more
sugars, such as glucose, fructose, sucrose and maltose, significantly
more total protein, zinc and less fibre than both conventional and
GM-soy."
- "Organic soybeans also contained less total saturated fat and total omega-6 fatty acids than both conventional and GM-soy."
- "GM-soy contained high residues of glyphosate and AMPA (mean 3.3 and 5.7mg/kg, respectively). Conventional and organic soybean batches contained none of these agrochemicals."
They summarized their findings:
"Using
35 different nutritional and elemental variables to characterise each
soy sample, we were able to discriminate GM, conventional and organic
soybeans without exception, demonstrating "substantial non-equivalence" in compositional characteristics for 'ready-to-market' soybeans." [emphasis added]
As we discussed in our previous article, "
Extreme Toxicity of Roundup Destroys GM/Non-GM 'Substantial Equivalence' Argument," an increasingly concerning body of peer-reviewed published research indicates that Roundup and related
glyphosate-based herbicide formulations represent an extreme environmental and human health danger:
"If
Monsanto's Roundup herbicide were actually 'safer than table salt' as
they once advertised, the consumption of GM food wouldn't be nearly as
controversial. The truth, however, is that virtually all GM food today
contains residues of this toxic chemical, which disproves that GM and
non-GM foods are 'substantially equivalent," and which is the primary
doctrinal justification behind why GM foods are not properly safety
tested and millions in this country eating them are living and breathing
guinea pigs."
Owing to the fact that
glyphosate has now been identified as a ubiquitous environmental exposure, found in the
majority of air and rain samples recently tested,
groundwater,
seawater
and any glyphosate tolerant GM food, simply choosing to refrain from
eating GM foods (which is exceedingly difficult owing to the lack of
labeling) is not going to solve the problem of the incessant
environmental fallout from the glyphosate-dependent GM agricultural
system itself. Pleading to regulatory agencies or lawmakers to provide
us a right to choose to avoid GM ingredients is a worthwhile cause, but
GM labeling is only a part of a larger battle, which includes refusing
to buy foods that are made with GM ingredients or may be suspected to
be, and moving towards an outright ban of agrochemicals and GM plants
whose
biopollution represents an irreversible threat to the biosphere, of which the human body forms an inextricable part.
In
order to drive momentum towards mass awareness of the extreme health
dangers associated with the use of Roundup and Roundup-Ready
agriculture, we are offering a free PDF download of our accumulated
research on the topic to be shared far and wide. It is a document
consisting entirely of peer-reviewed and published research, with
hyperlinks back to the original citation location on the National
Library of Medicine's bibliographic database. Please share and download
it here today:
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/sites/default/files/free_downloads/gpub_78151_toxic_ingredient_glyphosate_formulations.pdf
To
learn more about the dangers of GM food, agricultural practices and
agrichemicals, visit our regularly updated research section on the
topic: Health Guide: GMOs.
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[i] T Bøhn, M Cuhra, T Traavik, M Sanden, J Fagan, R Primicerio.
Compositional differences in soybeans on the market: Glyphosate accumulates in Roundup Ready GM soybeans. Food Chem. 2014 Jun 15 ;153:207-15. Epub 2013 Dec 18. PMID:
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