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MONSANTO PESTICIDES: An interview with scientist GILLES-ERIC SERALINI

By Extracts from an interview by Ken Roseboro  Posted by Linn Cohen-Cole (about the submitter)       (Page 2 of 2 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   2 comments

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I believe GM seed will make hunger in the world. They will make people starve. Poor people will not have enough money to buy the seed.

I think GMOs are dangerous because of the results that have been produced in the laboratory, because of Roundup residue and probably because of Bt residue. Maybe they have some other dangers that have not been seen because of genetic engineering itself. It's possible in some cases and not in others.

I think GM technology is out of control.
It is abnormal at the beginning of the 21st century to give these seeds no more than three months trial, and this is a dishonest way of functioning for genetic engineeting control.

I am not against genetic engineering itself, but I think that not too many things are possible with it. It takes hundreds of genes to adapt to a changing environment and we are able to change a couple of them so we wont be able to adapt a seed to a different environment.

France has given 1bn euros to the genoplant project. German and Uk governments have done the same - they have invested a lot of money in biotechnology.

You can't feed 240 million Europeans without tracing the product and GM is not traceable. There's no traceability in the States where 98% are produced at the seed level.

I'm confident that the effects of GM are not like toxic effects. They are like pesticides - they increase endocrine diseases, increase cancers and increase neurologial diseases like we have seen in farmers, increase malfunction and reproductive problems. But if there's no traceability you can't ask the right questions. It's like Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases. Nobody asked if pesticides are involved. I think they might be.

A total of 400 pollutants have been found sticking to the DNA of a baby.

You can't find out about GM created diseases if you don't study it.


We are almost eating GM already through animal feed in Europe. Are American people more sick because they are eating GM food directly? Are they living less and having more food-related diseases? The answer is yes to both of the last questions. Americans are living less and more dying are early from food-related problems. Is that linked to GM or hormones in the cow or to all the addtives in the food they eat? No one knows because no one is finding out. GM is not labelled over there. It will go on like that for years if we don't study the problem.

I wanted a moratorium of GM in Europe. We were successful in that, but we have been told we can't have any money for testing.

So this is the first time in the history of the world that what amounts to a drug or pesticide has not been tested before release by anybody other than the company that makes it."

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