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1.Don't trust favourable GM reports - expert

2. " HEALTH DANGERS OF GE FOODS AND THE COVER-UP "

 

" Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven out

of 40 died in two weeks. Despite this, the crop was approved without

further testing, " said Smith, warning that Africa's leaders should look

critically at research presented by those in the biotech industry.

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1.Don't trust favourable GM reports - expert

By Penny Sukhraj

Independent Online, September 20 2005

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 & click_id=143 & art_id=vn20050920070147\

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An author on a mission to expose the dangers of genetically modified

food has arrived in South Africa with tales of corporate espionage and

biotech bullies.

 

" If there was no deception in the United States (about GM food), I

would not be here, " Jeffrey Smith said on Saturday.

 

The bestselling writer, who is at the forefront of the fight against GM

foods with his international exposé Seeds of Deception, is touring the

African continent, raising awareness of the dangers of GM foods.

 

Smith worked in the industry for a laboratory involved in GMO detection

Smith is founding director of the US-based Institute for Responsible

Technology.

 

It took a lecture on harmful effects of GM foods 10 years to stir him

to educate people on issues of genetically modified organisms (GMO), a

topic immersed in technical jargon with ultimately little concern for

the consumer, who is most affected.

 

Smith worked in the industry for a laboratory involved in GMO detection

and wrote his book after he left the industry.

 

The work reads like a thriller, with stories of how international

biotech corporations bribed officials and even threatened scientists who

exposed the harmful effects of GM foods.

 

He has also documented how evidence, proving the unpredictable dangers,

side-effects and by-products of GM foods, was stolen.

 

Even research documents were fudged, with crucial chunks of data which

would hinder or prevent the approval of GM foods, omitted.

 

There is little debate about genetic modification in South Africa,

where GM products include about 10 percent of maize, 30 percent of

soya and

up to 80 percent of cotton. Consumers are unaware of the ultimate

dangers of splicing genes of one species and inserting them into another.

 

It is in this naive context, said Smith, that companies like giant

multinational Monsanto - primarily responsible for pushing GM foods

globally - are targeting developing nations.

 

" Countries like South Africa are seen as launch points for the

developing world. South Africa appears to be hijacked in much the same

way US

regulatory agencies have been hijacked.

 

Smith has documented cases of blatant industry collusion and exposed

the enormous food safety risks which have come as a result of corrupt

methods of approving GM foods.

 

" Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven out

of 40 died in two weeks. Despite this, the crop was approved without

further testing, " said Smith, warning that Africa's leaders should look

critically at research presented by those in the biotech industry.

 

" We should enforce a ban on GM foods, but there is so much money and

political power in this, it may take dead bodies to change the

situation, " he said.

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2. " HEALTH DANGERS OF GE FOODS AND THE COVER-UP "

 

Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, reviews deaths associated

with the genetically engineered dietary supplement L-tryptophan, the

huge increase of allergies in Great Britain which occurred with the

introduction of GE foods, and the conflict of interest surrounding the

injection of bovine growth hormones into dairy cows. He describes how the

public is kept in the dark about

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