Guest guest Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 AID – CHILDREN OF THE CONTAMINATED CORN: The Village Voice reports that U.S. agencies have been exporting dangerous genetically-altered corn thought to cause allergy symptoms and asthma as part of aid shipments to Latin America. The corn crop, called StarLink, "generates its very own, built-in pesticide," and was "supposed to be used only for animal feed and to manufacture ethanol." Five years ago, U.S. factories were shut down and several illnesses reported after "more than 300 different kinds of corn products were found tainted with StarLink." A genetic analysis of aid packages found that "80 percent of the samples they took from aid packages to six Latin American countries tested positive for various genetically modified organisms," including StarLink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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