Garber writes: "Yet another study has concluded that feeding animals GMOs results in higher rates of infant mortality and causes fertility problems."
GMO-fed hamsters have higher rates of infant mortality and fertility problems. (photo: Natural Society)
GMO-Fed Hamsters Become Infertile, Have Stunted Growth
08 August 12
et another study has concluded that feeding animals GMOs results in higher rates of infant mortality and causes fertility problems. Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov and other researchers fed Campbell hamsters (which have fast reproduction rates) Monsanto GM soy for two years. It should be noted that hamsters do not evolutionarily eat soy-just as cows fed Monsanto corn are actually ruminants and would not naturally eat corn.
"Originally, everything went smoothly," Surov told broadcasting service The Voice of Russia. Surov and the researchers fed the same diet to three generations of the hamsters, and that's when they noticed things going awry.
"We noticed quite a serious effect when we selected new pairs from their cubs and continued to feed them as before. These pairs' growth rate was slower and reached their sexual maturity slowly." By the third generation, the hamsters were infertile.
Many animals on the GM diet even displayed rare, strange pathologies like hair growing in recessed pouches inside their mouths. "Some of these pouches contained single hairs," said Surov in Doklady Biological Sciences, "others, thick bundles of colorless or pigmented hairs reaching as high as the chewing surface of the teeth. Sometimes, the tooth row was surrounded with a regular brush of hair bundles on both sides. The hairs grew vertically and had sharp ends, often covered with lumps of mucous." Surov and other authors concluded that because rates of hairy mouths occurred more frequently in third-generation GM-fed animals, the condition may have resulted of the GM feed. Surov says contaminants and herbicide residue (like Roundup) could be to blame as well.
Other than fertility problems, the GMO phenomenon has been noticed elsewhere-even in our own United States. Farmers using GM feed have reported infertile pigs and cows. Other incidents involving GMOs include:
- Austrian researchers reporting 4th generation "Frankencorn"-fed mice totally infertile.
- Thousands of dead sheep, buffalo, and goats in India after grazing on GM cottonseed.
- Offspring of mother rats fed GM soy dead within three weeks and recorded smaller sizes.
- Cooked GM soy with up to 7 times the amount of a soy allergen.
- Organ lesions, altered liver and pancreas cells, and changed enzyme levels.
- Excessive cell growth in the stomach lining of GM-potato-fed rats, potentially leading to cancer.
- GMO corn contributing to human obesity and organ disruption.
Overall, GM sounds like a sweet deal only for Monsanto (and our own FDA and USDA, repeatedly found in bed with them). It remains a bad deal for us, the consumers.
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" ... the condition MAY have resulted of the GM feed."
"...contaminants and herbicide residue (like Roundup) could be to blame as well."
The rest is anecdotal.
I don't believe the contents justify the headline.
Yes, there was a control group:
"He used Campbell hamsters, with a fast reproduction rate, divided into 4 groups. All were fed a normal diet, but one was without any soy, another had non-GM soy, a third used GM soy, and a fourth contained higher amounts of GM soy. They used 5 pairs of hamsters per group, each of which produced 7-8 litters, totally 140 animals."
From http://real-agenda.com/2011/11/01/genetically-modified-soy-linked-to-sterility-infant-mortality/
And think about your contaminants quote for just a second. Would non-GMO soy be able to grow well with Roundup residue? So isn't this a chose your poison argument?
Who says there wasn't a control group?
Were they peer reviewed?
How can you say there could have been a better study, when this article gives you so little to go on about this one?
I disagree with the statement that the study is flawed because of feeding the hamsters soy, when they do not normally eat soy. As they pointed out, cows do not naturally eat corn but they sure eat it in copious quantities in captivity. The study was evidently attempting to reproduce the state of current affairs, not what is natural. It won't be long before very little of what we and our animals eat is natural.
There are numerous other questions about the article that need to be answered. Like portiz, I would like to see the original papers and come to my own conclusions.
Another report on rats fed a 100% nutritionally complete, but synthetic, diet were also sterile by the 3rd generation.
If Mother Nature didn't make it, don't eat it....which means all processed food-like substances, if you want to maintain your health.
I view these kinds of lab tests with a great deal of skepticism. There is nothing more unlike reality than a laboratory. A better test would be to live-capture wild rodents living in the fields where GMOs are grown, and lots of Roundup applied, and see what is going on with them. One should also take a look at the predators, i.e. hawks, that eat the field rodents. We already know that feed-lot cattle is a bad thing no matter what they're fed.
GMOs are good for Monsanto and mega-agribusine ss, and not much else. Buy local, support your farmers' market. There is one near you.
I find this hard to believe. Since the same such chemicals and pesticides are universally, globally applied, and even in less regulated manners in many parts of the world, and the population of the earth was 2.5 billion at the end of WWII and is now almost 7 billion, it seems the very high level of 'recognized-as- estrogen' effects on men you describe as causing wa 50% drop in male fertility is kind of hard to fathom.., even as I would agree that such cause and effects perhaps do exist...--- But--- to such a HUGE degree as 50%...? Really..?
Much of the reasons for declines in American and Global fertility have to do with what were rising living standards in large parts of the world following WWII.
Perhaps now that The Wealthy Class has managed to rig the entire system to run according to them and concentrate wealth, power unto them, and thus-- rising living standards also almost exclusively unto themselves, then perhaps fertility rates will begin to climb once again. And, if Corpo-Romneyron and the Corpo-Repubican are able to purchase the election and the reins of power, then maybe 'fertility rates' among the accelerating rate or growing numbers of poor and disenfranchised will be sure to speed up. If for any reason, just to take their minds off such a National Disaster... :)
One could only hope that they do! If they become infertile, they will not be raising another generation of leaders who are morally bankrupt, not to mention greedy.
(I know...it's a stretch)
The antiGMO campaign reminds me a lot of the Romney's campaign against Obama. If Obama were really as bad as Romney says, then Romney would be able to come up with legitimate complaints. He wouldn't have to lie with every breath. The same thing with the antiGMO campaign.
no one is saying you don't have the right to eat your frankenfood but don't force the rest of us to eat this crap by not labeling it...if it's safe as you say people like you will eat it...and if it isn't before too long you won't be able to reproduce
The new problem is that while in the past lavatories blew up and scientists and sometimes neighbors died when something went very wrong. The problem today is that the whole earth is the laboratory, And experiments like genetically engineering insecticide in corn is not done in air tight laboratories, thus corn syrup from corn grown in the Northern Hemisphere is now poisonous to bees.
It's not that genetic engendering is wrong but it is not safe when done in an environment we all share.
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