Sick patients used as human guinea pigs in GM foods experiment

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Sick patients used as human guinea pigs in

GM foods experiment

Tuesday, April 03, 2007 by: Christian Evans

 

Patients have been fed genetically modified (GM) Russet Burbank potatoes in

an experiment to determine their nutritional effects on the human body.

Developed by Monsanto, a multinational biotech company, the potatoes, modified

to

resist Colorado beetles, were dispensed to Russian heart and blood pressure

patients as part of a recent study.

 

What you need to know - Conventional View

• This experiment is detailed in an unpublished report by the Nutrition

Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Science.

 

• The report describes the patients as " volunteers " and states that they are

" suffering from hypertensive disease and ischemic heart disease. "

 

• According to the research, rats that ate similar potatoes suffered

reductions in the weight of their hearts and prostate glands, but all changes

were

" within permissible physiological fluctuation. "

 

• These same rats suffered " increases of kidneys' absolute weight " when

compared to ones fed conventional potatoes.

 

• Some scientists believe that the trials were too short, and performed on

too few humans, to produce meaningful results of long-term effects.

 

• " A certain risk of GM food products for human health does exist, as there

can be by-effects of inserted genes besides the designed ones, " according to

the report.

 

• The report concludes: " The genetically modified potato provided by Monsanto

did not reveal toxic, mutagenic, immune modulating and allergic effects

within the examined parameters of the present experiment " .

 

• Last year alone, over 10 million farmers grew 250 million acres of GM crops

in 22 countries - home to over half the world’s population, according to The

Guardian

 

 

What you need to know - Alternative View

Statements and opinions by Mike Adams, author for Truth Publishing

 

• To use sick patients as human guinea pigs in a GM foods experiment grossly

oversteps the ethical and moral boundaries of medical science.

 

• Various GM foods have already been shown to have destructive health effects

on internal organs and reproductive capabilities. Subjecting sick and

diseased humans to these unnatural foods in " volunteer " clinical trials is a

violation of medical ethics standards.

 

 

Bottom line

• Heart patients were used in an experiment to study the effects of GM foods

on humans.