A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals.
An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based consulting company’s comparison of corn types, and the results reveal that genetically modified foods may be more hazardous than once thought.
The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro, was published recently on the website for Moms Across America March to Label GMOs, a group that says they wish to 「raise awareness and support Moms with solutions to eat GMO Free as we demand GMO labeling locally and nationally simultaneously.」 They are plotting nationwide protests scheduled for later this year.
The report, writes the website’s Zen Honeycutt, was provided by a representative for De Dell Seed Company, an Ontario-based farm that’s touted as being Canadian only non-GMO corn seed company.
「The claims that 『There is no difference between GMO corn and NON Gmo corn』 are false,」 says Honeycutt, who adds she was 「floored」 after reading the study.
According to the analysis, GMO corn tested by Profit Pro contains a number of elements absent from traditional corn, including chlorides, formaldehyde and glyphosate. While those elements don’t appear naturally in corn, they were present in GMO samples to the tune of 60 ppm, 200pm and 13 ppm, respectively.
Honecutt says that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (FDA) mandates that the level of glyphosate in American drinking water not exceed 0.7 ppm and adds that organ damage in some animals has been linked to glyphosate exposure exceeding 0.1 ppm.
「Glyphosate is a strong organic phosphate chelator that immobilizes positively charged minerals such as manganese, cobalt, iron, zinc [and] copper,」 Dr. Don Huber attested during a separate GMO study recently released, adding that those elements 「are essential for normal physiological functions in soils, plants and animals.」
「Glyphosate draws out the vital nutrients of living things and GMO corn is covered with it,」 adds Honeycutt, who notes that the nutritional benefits rampant in natural corn are almost entirely removed from lab-made seeds: in the samples used during the study, non-GMO corn is alleged to have 437-times the amount of calcium in genetically modified versions, and 56- and 7-times the level of magnesium and manganese, respectively.
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一項被洩漏出來的檢測轉基因玉米的研究揭示，實驗室造出的有機玉米替代品中的有毒化學物質含量驚人。
一家反轉基因食品網站已經上傳了某教育型諮詢公司對兩種玉米的比較結果，結果揭示轉基因食品的危害可能比人們先前認為的更大。
諮詢公司Profit Pro的2012玉米比較研究報告近日發布在「全美母親呼籲轉基因食品標籤」網站上，該組織稱他們希望「通過要求在地方和全國出售的轉基因食品上同步貼上標籤來提高母親們在這方面的意識，為母親們提供食用非轉基因食品的途徑」。他們還計劃在今年晚些時候策劃全國範圍的抗議活動。
網站的真•哈尼卡特稱，該研究報告是由德•戴爾種子公司的一名代表提供的。德•戴爾種子公司的農場位於安大略，號稱是加拿大唯一一家出售非轉基因玉米種子的公司。
哈尼卡特說：「那些宣稱『轉基因玉米和非轉基因玉米沒有差別』的論調是錯誤的。」她還表示，自己在讀過這一研究報告後被「震撼了」。
根據這一分析報告，Profit Pro公司檢測的轉基因玉米含有傳統玉米所沒有的多種物質，包括氯化物、甲醛和草甘膦。天然玉米中不含這些物質，但在轉基因玉米的樣品中，這幾種物質的含量卻分別高達百萬分之六十、百萬分之二百和百萬分之十三。
哈尼卡特說，美國環境保護局規定美國飲用水中的草甘膦含量不得高於百萬分之零點七，而且她還補充道，某些動物的器官損傷已被證實和草甘膦含量超過百萬分之零點一有關。
唐•胡貝爾博士在新近發布的另一篇獨立的轉基因研究報告中證實道：「草甘膦是一種強力的有機磷酸螯合劑，它能阻滯如錳、鈷、鐵、鋅、銅等有益礦物質的流動。」胡貝爾博士還補充道，這些化學元素「對於土壤、植物和動物的正常生理機能至關重要。」
哈尼卡特補充說：「草甘膦會把生物中至關重要的營養素抽離出去，而轉基因玉米則含有大量草甘膦。」她指出，天然玉米中所含的豐富營養價值幾乎全部被從實驗室造出的轉基因種子中剔除了：在研究所用的樣品中，據稱非轉基因玉米中的鈣含量是轉基因玉米的437倍，鎂含量和錳含量也分別是轉基因玉米的56倍和7倍。
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