Mercola reports 07/19/2012
Cows fed GMO corn died
With the support of local prosecutors, Mr. Gloeckner, a German farmer who had 65 cows die after he fed them genetically modified Bt corn has filed criminal charges against the manufacturer, Syngenta, alleging that the company not only knew the corn could be lethal to livestock, but was covering up deaths that occurred during clinical trials.
According to a recent press release by GM Watch1, the lawsuit asserts that Swiss biotech Syngenta committed a grave criminal offense by deliberately withholding the results of a feeding trial in which four cows died in two days. The deaths prompted the company to halt the test. No health problems or deaths were reported in the control group, which was not fed the genetically engineered Bt 176 corn.
Thousands of livestock deaths have also been reported across India, as a result of grazing on genetically engineered crops and feed.
Syngenta also recently agreed to pay $105 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in which 2,000 water utilities in the U.S. Midwest claimed the company’s weed killer Atrazine had contaminated their drinking water.
Dr. Hayes, PhD. claims he resigned his contractor position with Syngenta after they refused to allow him to publish the results of studies they had funded. The research in question found that Atrazine causes hermaphroditism in frogs.
In an ironic twist, five months before it “earned” its place on the .2010 ‘Top 10 Employers’ list of Science Magazine, Syngenta was condemned by the Permanent People’s Tribunal for human rights violations in Brazil.
Dr. Wilson replies:
When will we learn not to mess with Mother Nature? When we do she has shown us her teeth! We need to get back to eating real food, not manufactured fake food. !00 years ago there were hundreds of different breeds of chickens and cows. Today we have only a few. Mother Nature works her magic through genetic diversity but we are pushing things in the opposite direction by manipulating genes in an unnatural way.
Stand up and be counted. Add you voice to the growing crowd of people who refuse to consume these Frankenfoods. They should be banned from the planet.
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