In the U.S., incidence of low birth-weight babies, infertility and infant mortality are escalating, and may possibly be associated with increasing GMO's
The following information taken from an interview with Jeffrey M Smith, author of the bestseller Seeds of Deception, at mercola.com
http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/ExpertInterviewTranscripts/InterviewJefferySmith.pdf
The following animal studies should raise concern
Russian scientists find 3rd generation hamsters are sterilized by GM soy! This study was conducted by the Russian equivalent of the US National Association for Gene Security. This study confirms earlier problems related to fertility, birth weight of offspring, and infant mortality.
- In this feeding study they used hamsters - an animal not previously featured in GM safety studies.
| Hamster Study Groups | Food Eaten |
|---|---|
| Group 1 (Control) | Normal diet without any soy |
| Group 2 | Non-GMO soy |
| Group 3 | GM soy |
| Group 4 | Higher amount of GM soy than Group 3 |
Using the same genetically modified (GM) soy that is produced on over 90 % of the soy acreage in the US, the hamsters and their offspring were fed their respective diets over a period of two years, during which time the researchers evaluated three generations of hamsters.
First they took five pairs of hamsters from each group, each of which produced about seven to eight litters each, totaling about 140 animals.
All went well at the start, but serious problems became apparent when they selected new pairs from the offspring:
1st problem - the second generation had a slower growth rate and reached their sexual maturity later than normal.
However, this second generation eventually generated another 39 litters:
• The no-soy control group had 52 pups
• The non-GM soy had 78
• The GM soy had only 40, of which 25% died
2nd Problem - the second-generation GM soy-fed hamsters had a five-fold higher infant mortality rate, compared to the 5% normal death rate of the controls.
3rd Problem - Nearly All of the Third-Generation GMO lost the ability to have babies altogether! Only a single third-generation female hamster gave birth to 16 pups, and of those, one fifth died.
4th Problem - hair growing inside the animals'mouths - an unusually high prevalence was found in the GM soy-fed groups of an otherwise extremely rare phenomenon -You can see the images here. Says Jeffrey Smith, ". . . it's a very rare phenomenon but he [study author, Dr. Surov] had never in his life seen more hair in mouths of hamsters than with these GM soy-fed, third generation hamsters."
GM crops weren't released until 1996, starting with GM soy, corn and cotton. Modified canola came about a year later.Thus, since humans have a much longer life span than hamsters, in comparison, we are only 15 years into the first generation since GMO introduction, but if we experience similar effects to the hamsters, we could be looking at sterility on a grand scale as our great-grandchildren grow up and try to procreate...
50% of babies of mother rats fed GM soy flour died within 3 weeks - compared to 10% death rate of those fed natural soy flour. Again, that's a death rate five times higher than normal -identical to the findings in the hamster study above;
2nd generation of rats found mostly sterile - Also similar to the hamster study above, surviving GM-fed babies had lower birth weights, grew more slowly, and again, when the rats'offspring tried to reproduce, they too were found to be mostly sterile, but it happened sooner, with infertility striking the second generation of rats, as opposed to the third generation of hamsters.
Litter from female rat fed GM soy (bottom) compared with control
(from Dr. Erina Ermakova)
Ermakova, Irena, "Genetically modified soy leads to the decrease of weight and high mortality of rat pups of the first generation. Preliminary studies," Ecosinform 1, 2006);
Ermakova, Irena, "Experimental Evidence of GMO Hazards," Presentation at Scientists for a GM Free Europe, EU Parliament, Brussels, June 12, 2007
Ermakova wanted to perform further studies to analyze the organs she'd collected from the study, but she never got the chance:
Jeffrey Smith relates:
"She told me as we were sitting at the EU Parliament after giving a presentation there, that her boss had been pressured by his boss. So, she was told to do no more GM food study on animals. Her documents were burned on her desk, samples were stolen from her laboratory.."
Inadvertently, however, she stumbled upon further proof that GM soy wreaks havoc with reproductive health, when she discovered that the food being fed to all rats in the facility had been switched, so that all of it contained GM soy. Two months later she asked her colleagues whether or not they'd discovered any surprising changes in the infant mortality of their various studies, and find out that inexplicably, infant mortality in the animal studies performed at the National Academy of Scientific Laboratory in Moscowhad skyrocketed to over 55%, sometimes higher!
GM soy-fed male rats testicles changed from normal pink to dark blue
In an interview with Dr. Mercola, Jeffrey Smith explains:
- When Ermakova, senior researcher at the Russian National Academy fed GM soy to male rats, it changed the color of their testicles from pink to blue, and that the structure of the cells in the testicle was different; a completely different blood flow.
- In Italy, when they fed mice GM soy, the mice had changes in their testicles, including damage to the young sperm cells- which could cause infertility, or problems with the offspring. It appears that they may have had both - they removed the embryos from the pregnant mothers and found that the DNA functioned differently in those who were born to GM soy-fed parents vs. those who were fed non-GM soy.
Most buffalo fed GM cottonseed had reproductive complication -incl. premature deliveries, abortions, infertility; many calves died.[Haryana, India];
Pigs of two dozen U.S. farmers became sterile when fed certain GM corn varieties -some had false pregnancies, others delivered bags of water; cows and bulls became infertile.
