Suppressed report shows cancer link to GM potatoes
Campaigners against genetically modified crops in Britain last are calling for trials of GM potatoes this spring to be halted after releasing more evidence of links with cancers in laboratory rats.UK Greenpeace activists said the findings, obtained from Russian trials after an eight-year court battle with the biotech industry, vindicated research by Dr Arpad Pusztai, whose work was criticised by the Royal Society and the Netherlands State Institute for Quality Control.
The disclosure last night of the Russian study on the GM Watch website led to calls for David Miliband, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to withdraw permission for new trials on GM potatoes to go ahead at secret sites in the UK this spring. Alan Simpson, a Labour MP and green campaigner, said: "These trials should be stopped. The research backs up the work of Arpad Pusztai and it shows that he was the victim of a smear campaign by the biotech industry. There has been a cover-up over these findings and the Government should not be a party to that."
Emphasis added. Why am I not surprised?
Hat-tip to Chris in Paris at AMERICAblog.
GM potatoes are commonplace in Canada.
All manner of GM crops are commenplace here in Canada. Wether this particular strain of potatoes is available, I have to admit I don't know, I'm not a potato-man. I would think that because they still haven't finished field trials yet in the UK, this particular strain is not widely available anywhere. I could be wrong, the europeans are much more picky about their foods than North Americans, almost to the point of being paranoid about GM foods. Of course, Monsanto et al. haven't exactly given anyone any reason to trust them either.
Monsanto et al. haven't exactly given anyone any reason to trust them either.
You have a gift for understatement. I wonder how many other research studies are under wraps.
I remember arguing with an insufferable bio-foods shill on rabble/babble about this. He had his own smear industry for Pustzai going on all by himself.
obnoxious liar.
Years ago I used to work for a rather large french fry company you all are probably aware of.
Company policy was that any truckload that contained GM product would be turned away *instantly*, largely because product for export might be banned at the borders of other countries. None of the farmers that supplied the plant would even consider running GM for fear of being caught and neither would management risk being barred from foreign markets.
Not sure if that policy is still in place though but it's a bit of a myth that industry is said to be clamouring for this stuff.
thwap: Ah, yes--mellowyellow, I believe the handle was. What a putz.
I'd never before heard that GM potato was common. Canola, corn and soy, yes.
In terms of baking etc. oil I've pretty much moved to sunflower; never heard of a GM sunflower, and the stuff is pretty healthy I believe. Well, and of course olive oil where appropriate, what?
The soy is *really* annoying--the Great Healthy Hope and all that, and then most of it's GM!
*&%$#@!!!