http://www.barneypell.com/2005/05/may-the-store-be-with-you/ Fri, 07 May 2010 13:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.barneypell.com/2005/05/may-the-store-be-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Barney Sat, 04 Jun 2005 12:00:46 +0000 http://174.120.172.92/~barneype/?p=17#comment-12 Aunty, thanks for the pointer. It is unfortunate that Monstanto hasn't released the full data from the referenceed study, so that the quoted scientists are responding to incomplete data. I have seen a few articles claiming th GM food has health side effects on animals who eat them. I have also seen articles refuting those other articles as poor science. If scientists do 100 slightly different studies, chance alone guarantees that some of those studies will show adverse effects. At the very least, the data must be considered in aggregate, and each result carefully scrutinized. The Monstanto spokesman's response, that nine other global authorities have approved this corn, raises additional questions about whether this one study is an anomaly. One last thought: I gather that studies like these compare health effects of GM corn and natural corn without pesticides. A more interesting comparison would be GM corn, which is pest-resistant and so requires less pesticide, to ordinary corn with normal pesticide treatments. My intuition is that corn with external pesticides is more harmful to consumer health directly and to the environment indirectly. Aunty, thanks for the pointer. It is unfortunate that Monstanto hasn’t released the full data from the referenceed study, so that the quoted scientists are responding to incomplete data.
I have seen a few articles claiming th GM food has health side effects on animals who eat them. I have also seen articles refuting those other articles as poor science. If scientists do 100 slightly different studies, chance alone guarantees that some of those studies will show adverse effects. At the very least, the data must be considered in aggregate, and each result carefully scrutinized.
The Monstanto spokesman’s response, that nine other global authorities have approved this corn, raises additional questions about whether this one study is an anomaly.
One last thought: I gather that studies like these compare health effects of GM corn and natural corn without pesticides. A more interesting comparison would be GM corn, which is pest-resistant and so requires less pesticide, to ordinary corn with normal pesticide treatments. My intuition is that corn with external pesticides is more harmful to consumer health directly and to the environment indirectly.

]]> http://www.barneypell.com/2005/05/may-the-store-be-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Aunty GM Sat, 04 Jun 2005 06:03:21 +0000 http://174.120.172.92/~barneype/?p=17#comment-11 I suggest you may like to have a butchers at the following, Barney, just so you bring yourself up to speed on the GM issue.. :) <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0522-03.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0522-03.htm</a> I suggest you may like to have a butchers at the following, Barney, just so you bring yourself up to speed on the GM issue..
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0522-03.htm

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