This morning I sat down with a hot cup of coffee and began playing with email and Facebook. My anti-GMO friend Lilia posted a rather chippy comment:
"Just found another study, here is the video which I bet you won't want to watch"
Of course, being open to all information I certainly would be interested in another study. If one showed that transgenic crops were truly dangerous it would be a first. But a video? That's not a study!
But I'll play. Now before you watch this keep in mind that one of my transgenic-loathing friends here is sold on the dangers of GMO food and the cited study tells firmly why. Or does it?
Turn out that my anti-GMO friend and The Health Ranger at Natural News didn't even read the study. But you can!
But before you watch, download the original research report that they cite. It is in Cell Research from summer 2011 (22:107-126), a report by Zhang et al. on micro RNA from rice. If you don't have it, I can send it to you. It is a really cool paper that says that certain miRNAs (small regulatory molecules) found in plants survive digestion and may have specific physiological consequences.
What you will see is that the scientific study is completely misrepresented in the following video:
In the paper:
-- There is no mention of GMO/transgenic plants
-- There is no evidence of "How GMO foods alter organ function and pose a very real threat to humans"
As usual, Natural News uses fear mongering and deception, lying about the contents of a real scientific study from a peer-reviewed journal.
Plus, if they fear miRNA from GMOs they might rethink that position. In a transgenic plant we can predict and test for miRNA. Based on constructs in use, it likely is not even being made. However, plants make many different miRNAs!! Plants from different parts of the world make different ones, the sequences vary, etc. The paper shows that miRNA can survive digestion and get into the bloodstream where it has interaction targets That's remarkable! But if they are going to fear GMOs, they better fear the generic plant first!
The sad part is in the comments. Below the video you will find this:
| KB Posted 2/6/2012 1:17:14 PM | Thank you for bringing us they science behind GMO's. My children attend the most prestigious private school in the area and their science teachers have been spouting how wonderful GMO products are for the world(to a classroom of children)! As a parent, I have been re-teaching my children just the opposite and now have the "science" for the "science teacher"! |
That is just frightening. How dare those science teachers teach science! Then this idiot parent has the audacity to slam scientists and anoint their kids with pseudoscientific garbage.
If you have any questions about GMO food and the lies and distortions used by the anti-GMO crowd, please get this paper and watch this video. You'll find that the two have no concordance, and it is just more evidence that they use real science inappropriately to manipulate weak minds.
1 comments:
What's so amazing about that? Par for the course I'd say. :D
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