A new study on GM corn [fr], conducted in secret by a french team of researchers led by Gilles-Eric Séralini, is to be published today by Food and Chemical Toxicology. Its results are chilling.
Started in 2006, the study managed to covertly acquire bags of Monsanto’s NK 603. After a few years of feeding it to rats, while maintaining secrecy (encrypted mails, no phone, misdirection through decoy studies), the results are in: GM-fed rats show an explosion of tumors with two to five times the rate of the non-GM-fed control group, and those tumors happen far earlier than in the control group: 20 months before for males, 3 for females. Considering an average life expectency of 2 years, the difference is huge.
A documentary is set to be released on the september 26, based on an upcoming book by Gilles-Eric Séralini, to be released next week.
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