GMOs Were Never Proven Safe, PhD Explains b4in.org/dEOL He’s been the head of the Council for Responsible Genetics for more than 30 years, and he is no fan of GMOs. Sheldon Krimsky writes extensively on the fraud that has been committed against an unsuspecting public when it comes to GMOs with his book of essays titled, “The GMO Deception.” Among his many critiques of the biotech’s poison crops, he states that one negative finding regarding risks of GMOs weighs ten times more than any positive study since most of the studies ‘proving GMO safety’ are funded by the industry itself. The professor of Tufts University states that he isn’t FOR or AGAINST GMOs, but thinks that the agricultural industry has been negligent in telling the truth about the way they create our food. GMO Deception is just the latest of 13 other books about science, food, and society. Krimsky believes there is ‘quite a bit of ambiguity’ surrounding the ‘science’ of GMOs. He says that much of the “organized skepticism” needed for real science to be conducted has been thrown out the window. You aren’t allowed to just propose that GMOs are safe as your hypothesis and assume that is true. You are supposed to be able to prove that. And science has not. The issue of GMO safety become so contentious because since 1992, through the Quayle Commission named after the then Vice President, the FDA was told that they “didn’t need to test any of these [GMO] products.” They were only advised to tell us if there were any problems. As Krimsky points out, you won’t always know what problems will arise from putting foreign genes into organisms from the onset. Prediction about outcomes from altering DNA only come from testing – which largely has never occurred. And hybrid crops are not the same as genetically engineered crops. as Krimsky explains: “In genetically engineered crops, you’re taking a gene from a completely distant species, and putting it in a plant genome. It’d be like saying let’s put a few animal genes into the gamete of human beings and assume that it’s no different than if we just threw in some genes from another human being.” More b4in.org/dEOL
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:06:19 +0000
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