New GM Health Risks Revealed

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Sunday, 22 May 2005

When fed to rats it affected their kidneys and blood counts. So what might it do to humans? asks today's Independent on Sunday.
The secret research they reveal raises the potential health risks of genetically modified foods. Here, environment editor Geoffrey Lean, who has led the paper's campaign on GM technology for the past six years, examines the new evidence. And he asks the questions that must concern us all: why is Monsanto, the company trying to sell GM corn to Britain and Europe, so reluctant to publish the full results of its alarming tests on lab rats? Why are our leaders so keen to buy the unproven technology against the wishes of consumers? And why is the man who first raised these concerns six years ago shunned by the scientific establishment and his former political masters?

For full story goto: The Independent on Sunday