Genetically Modified Organism/Food
 Genetically Modified Organism/Food  (technology)   | |
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| Interest of | • National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy • Spinwatch |
Official narrative
No danger. No need to label GM food.
“Conspiracy theorists — some of them scientifically trained — have claimed that... that vaccines and genetically modified foods are unsafe.”
Ted Goertzel (2010) Conspiracy theories in science [1]
Safety
- Full article: GM/Food/Safety
- Full article: GM/Food/Safety
In the US, the FDA by deeming GM food "substantially equivalent"[citation needed] dodged all need to regulate its safety. This appears to be an underestimate of the risks.[2]
In the UK, in 1999, The Guardian published an article by Laurie Flynn and Michael Gillard which reported that
“The editor of one of Britain's leading medical journals, the Lancet, says he was threatened by a senior member of the Royal Society, the voice of the British science establishment, that his job would be at risk if he published controversial research questioning the safety of genetically modified foods. Richard Horton declined to name the man who telephoned him. But the Guardian has identified him as Peter Lachmann, the former vice-president and biological secretary of the Royal Society and president of the Academy of Medical Sciences. The Guardian has been told that an influential group within the Royal Society has set up what appears to be a "rebuttal unit" to push a pro-biotech line and counter opposing scientists and environmental groups.”
(1 November 1999) Pro-GM food scientist 'threatened editor' [3]
Population reduction
In 1999 Johns Hopkins University ran a small press release in their newsletter announcing that they had managed to grow corn that is genetically modified to produce human antibodies to sperm. Dr. Kevin Whaley said the technology "is inexpensive and could be used globally". The experimental corn had been licensed to the biotechnology company Epicyte.[4] The announcement was scrubbed from the internet by 2006.[5]
References
- ↑ EMBO reports Vol. 11, No.7
- ↑ https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/16/crispr-potential-dna-damage-underestimated/
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/nov/01/gm.food The Guardian
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20021121203257/https://www.jhu.edu/~newslett/10-28-99/News/10.html
- ↑ https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/secretly-drugging-fresh-produce-with
