"Jin stressed that the farmers did not know anything about GMOs, they made their discovery through practical experience. Nevertheless, after he and his team visited, one farmer from YuanYang carried out a full investigation on the effects of different feed. One group of pigs was fed on largely 335 maize, another group was fed an indigenous maize. The results were the same: as long as the pigs were fed 335, the sows miscarried or gave birth to dead piglets, and the few live births were quite sick and soon died. Are the observations of farmers not evidence? Jin asked. Finally, scientist Jiang Gaoming of The Chinese Academy of Sciences carried out an experiment in Jiangjia village of Piyi county, Shangdong Province. Three groups of the same breed and age of chickens – each with 13 hens and one cock - were compared over a period of 263 days. The group fed XY335 laid 121 eggs, the group fed ordinary maize laid 349 eggs, and the group fed organic maize laid 449 eggs. The XY335-fed group produced only 34 % as many eggs as the group fed ordinary maize and 27 % as many eggs as the group fed organic maize. This confirmed what farmers have found. The results were published in the newspaper, Chinese Science."
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:41:47 +0000
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