ED NOTE: This one hour and 24 minute documentary is the most comprehensive single coverage of GMOs that I've witnessed. It is available for free viewing throughout the rest of this month of October, 2012. Otherwise, it has to be purchased as a DVD from Jeffrey Smith's Institute of Responsible Technology.
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This Supermarket 'Health Food' Killed These Baby Rats in Three Weeks
Killer Potatoes
Posted by Doctor Mercola
'The results of Pusztai’s work were supposed to become the required testing protocols for all of Europe. But when he fed supposedly harmless GM potatoes to rats, things didn’t go as planned.
Within just 10 days, the animals developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers, and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged immune systems. Moreover, the cause was almost certainly side effects from the process of genetic engineering itself. In other words, the GM foods on the market, which are created from the same process, might have similar affects on humans.
With permission from his director, Pusztai was interviewed on TV and expressed his concerns about GM foods. He became a hero at his institute -- for two days.
'Then came the phone calls from the pro-GMO prime minister’s office to the institute’s director. The next morning, Pusztai was fired. He was silenced with threats of a lawsuit, his team was dismantled, and the protocols never implemented. His Institute, the biotech industry, and the UK government, together launched a smear campaign to destroy Pusztai’s reputation.'
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