KPFA - Guns and Butter: "Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Food"

[Xicano]

This episode of Guns & Butter discusses the health risks of GMO's how "industry manipulation and political collusion, not sound science, allowed dangerously genetically engineered food into our diet."

((Audio)) http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20101027-Wed1300.mp3

[truedelphi]

1. Thank you for posting this item from Guns and Butter.

I no longer live in an area where i can hear via radio the Guns and Butter discussions, and I had forgotten all about them.

Will be checking this out.

[Xicano]

2. Here you go truedelphi, here's a link to KPFA's archives page

Guns and Butter are on Wednesdays.

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/date/2010/12/29

[truedelphi]

7. I am eating this up.l

Thanks again.

[AsahinaKimi]

3. So are we all screwed?

The corporations are out to poison us all?

[Xicano]

4. Corporations are out to make as much profit as they can, however they can

GMO companies denying the health risks of their products are no different than tobacco companies denying the health risks of tobacco. Their only concern is profits.

[saras]

5. Old news, but still relevant

Polluters, in general, knew what they were doing for the last hundred years
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/EarthSciences/EnergyEnvironmentalScience/?view=usa&ci=9780199739950

Good summary of GMO 'research' conducted according to principles in above book
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/SeedsOfDeception/TheBookataGlance/index.cfm

The basic logic is as follows

1. Don't do studies, and/or do really small ones.
2. Don't publish any studies but those with the most positive results
3. Assert that the tests are 'too small' and negative effects 'unrepresentative'
4. Widely claim that there isn't a significant amount of research showing negative effects
5. Widely claim that #4 implies that there aren't any negative effects
6. Don't forget the bribery, threats, invoking of national security, etc.

[felix_numinous]

6. K&R