The American Academy of Environmental Medicine has warned that the public should avoid genetically modified (GM) foods, stating, "There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation."

A large number of studies and incidents have implicated GM foods in a wide variety of health problems, including accelerated aging, immune dysfunction, insulin disorders, organ damage and reproductive disruption.

For example, female rats fed a diet of GM soy experienced a drastically higher infant death rate, and their surviving infants were smaller and less fertile than the offspring of rats fed on a non-GM soy diet. Male rats fed the GM soy had their testicles change from pink to blue, and the GM soy was also observed to damage the DNA of sperm and embryos. Fertility problems such as abortion, infertility, premature delivery, prolapsed uteri, infant death, and even delivery of unformed infants (bags of water) have been observed in farm animals fed GM cottonseed and corn.

Animals consuming crops that have been genetically modified to produce the pesticide Bt (approved for human consumption in the United States) have died by the thousands, while animals grazing on a non-GM version of the same crops remained unharmed. Upon autopsies, researchers have found black patches in the animals' livers and intestines, internal bleeding and other signs of Bt poisoning. Farm workers in India have begun developing allergic reactions upon handling Bt corn, similar to the effects experienced by people exposed to Bt spraying.

In addition to these risks, GM soy and corn contain significantly higher concentrations of allergens than unmodified varieties. Evidence also suggests that the genetic abnormalities of GM foods may transfer to bacteria in the human gut, thereby exposing people to their detrimental effects long after a food has been consumed.

Yet in spite of all this evidence and the prevalence of GM crops in the U.S. food supply not a single clinical trial of any GM crop has ever been published.

"The experiments simply haven't been done and we now have become the guinea pigs," said Canadian geneticist David Suzuki. "Anyone that says, 'Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,' I say is either unbelievably stupid or deliberately lying."

Genetically modified foods for sale in Nigeria by 2015 – Minister

The Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Ita Ewa, said at the weekend that Genetically Modified (GM) foods will start selling in the country by 2015.

Prof Ewa, who disclosed this at the launching of International Service for the Acquisition of Agric-biotech Application (ISAAA) in Abuja, said Nigeria would join South Africa, Burkina Faso, Egypt and Sudan in commercializing biotech/GM crops in 2015.

The minister, represented by the Director General of National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof Bamidele Solomon, also said many developing countries are expected to plant biotech crops in commercial quantity across the world in two years time.

He said field trial had already been conducted on some crops by biotech experts in the country and the next stage would be to commercialise them.

Biotech crops have the potential to make substantial contribution to the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of cutting poverty in half, he stated.

Enumerating the benefits of biotech crops, Prof Ewa said the crops have contributed to food security and sustainability by increasing world crop production valued at $98.2 billion between 1996 and 2011.

“The continent (of Africa) continued to make progress with South Africa increasing its biotech area by a record 0.6million hectares to reach 2.9million hectares; Sudan joined South Africa, Burkina Faso and Egypt, to bring the total number of African biotech countries commercializing biotech crops to four. Five countries: Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda conducted field trials of biotech crops, the penultimate step prior to approval for commercialization”, he said.

He said that the biosafety bill passed by the National Assembly on June 1, 2011 would soon be signed by President Goodluck Jonathan.

ebamma 3: Thank God garri is not among them

For example, female rats fed a diet of GM soy experienced a drastically higher infant death rate, and their surviving infants were smaller and less fertile than the offspring of rats fed on a non-GM soy diet. Male rats fed the GM soy had their testicles change from pink to blue, and the GM soy was also observed to damage the DNA of sperm and embryos. Fertility problems such as abortion, infertility, premature delivery, prolapsed uteri, infant death, and even delivery of unformed infants (bags of water) have been observed in farm animals fed GM cottonseed and corn.

Animals consuming crops that have been genetically modified to produce the pesticide Bt (approved for human consumption in the United States) have died by the thousands, while animals grazing on a non-GM version of the same crops remained unharmed. Upon autopsies, researchers have found black patches in the animals' livers and intestines, internal bleeding and other signs of Bt poisoning. Farm workers in India have begun developing allergic reactions upon handling Bt corn, similar to the effects experienced by people exposed to Bt spraying.

bbpreye.:


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I dont eat the rest
You can put it to a test
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ebamma 3: Thank God garri is not among them

bbpreye.:


Garri remains the best food one can get.
Genetically modified Garri wont work.

''Garri is the best
I dont eat the rest
You can put it to a test
Oh my Garri is the best''

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konn: please give us examples of genetically modified foods

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