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"In 1995 biologist Arpad pusztai received a grant from the Scottish Agriculture, Environment, and Fisheries Department to develop a model for testing the safety of GM foods. pusztai studied the effects of a diet of GM potatoes on adolescent laboratory rats. After only ten days on a GM diet, the rats suffered immune system damage, white blood cell suppression, impaired organ development, and other problems. "I had facts that indicated to me there were serious problems with transgenic [GM] food," says pusztai." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"For this, Dr. pusztai was suddenly and inexplicably fired. Only later was it discovered that the Rowett Institute is partially funded by Monsanto. A subsequent panel of twenty independent scientists from thirteen countries, however, confirmed both Dr. Pusztai's data and his findings, and the Institute eventually was forced to reinstate Dr. pusztai. Meanwhile, a ban was imposed on growing genetically engineered crops of any kind in the United Kingdom for three years." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"Although this is still an incredibly low number of papers by which to judge safety, according to Arpad pusztai, an expert in feeding studies, Preston's list failed "to distinguish between a scientific study and an animal production exercise."The latter "maybe of some value to commercial animal production but have limited scientific value."7 When the commercial studies were removed from the list, it left only 18 (4 of which are in Russian or Chinese)." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Another possibility is the living pesticide factory described by Dr. pusztai. In December of 2005 Russian researchers completed a thorough preliminary study on genetically modified soy organisms. They found that half the offspring of rats fed GMO soy during pregnancy and lactation died within the first three weeks of life. Our National Institute of Health was asked to do an immediate follow-up study, due to the significant nature of this discovery. Will they? Do you think it is safe for a baby to consume a GMO-containing soy formula?" - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"In 1995 biologist Arpad pusztai received a grant from the Scottish Agriculture, Environment, and Fisheries Department to develop a model for testing the safety of GM foods. pusztai studied the effects of a diet of GM potatoes on adolescent laboratory rats. After only ten days on a GM diet, the rats suffered immune system damage, white blood cell suppression, impaired organ development, and other problems. "I had facts that indicated to me there were serious problems with transgenic [GM] food," says pusztai." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"Arpad pusztai in Scotland was the first scientist to demonstrate that genetically modified potatoes damaged the spleen, thymus, kidney, and guts of young rats and retarded their growth. His findings alone proved that more independent and government testing should be mandatory. His findings and the publication of his fears also led to him being fired from the institute where he had worked for thirty-five years." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "However, studies such as Pusztai's and Ermakova's are finally beginning to emerge and they illustrate that there are severe problems with GMO foods and products, as the following excerpt from Jeffrey Smith's Seeds of Deception shows: Rats fed GM corn had problems with blood cell, kidney and liver formation. Mice fed GM soy had problems with liver cell formation and pancreatic function, and the livers of rats fed with GM canola were heavier. Pigs fed GM corn on about 25 farms in North America became sterile, had false pregnancies or gave birth to bags of water." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"When Pusztai's gag order was eventually lifted and he gained access to his data, 23 top scientists from around the world reviewed the research and came to his defense. The study was peer-reviewed and published in the prestigious Lancet (in spite of threats made to its editor by a Royal Society official).22 Case study: Spinning failure into proclamations of success GM peas under development were evaluated by tests normally applied to medicine—not to GM food.23 The peas created a dangerous immune response in mice which, if found in humans, might be life-threatening." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"In November of 2005, Dr. pusztai publicly responded to a media attack on his credibility. Here is what one of the world's leading scientists had to say about Bt-toxin: The crops designed to create the Bt-toxin were based on the assumption that it is not bioactive in mammals but when Bt-toxin was fed to mice they developed a powerful immune response and abnormal and excessive cell growth in their intestines." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The next morning, Dr. pusztai was released from the institute after 35 years and silenced with threats of a lawsuit. His research team was disbanded and the government never implemented any long-term testing protocol. Disinformation was widely circulated. The institute and pro-biotech members of the Royal Society staged so-called peer-reviews, but didn't use all the test data, had no nutritionists doing the critique of a nutritional study and made sweeping claims that contradicted the research." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "According to Arpad pusztai, an allowance of 5% variability is the norm in food experiments and a 10% rise in blood sugar has serious ramifications, given the epidemics of obesity and diabetes. He said, "It is almost impossible to imagine that major lesions in important organs (kidneys, liver, etc.) or changes in blood parameters (lymphocytes, granulocytes, blood glucose, etc.) that occurred in GM corn-fed rats, is incidental and due to simple biological variability." 3." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"He then showed severe damage to the digestive tract of rats eating this GMO food, as the rats developed a serious viral infection from this promoter gene. Dr. pusztai was fired for publishing his work, due to influence from the highest levels of the British government. Breeding viral resistance into food is another important issue, because viruses are a significant source of crop loss in third-world countries. Researchers at Michigan State University discovered that a virus-resistant gene inserted into a plant has the potential to re-combine into a new and possibly more potent virus." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Tomatoes with rat genes are not the same as heirloom tomatoes. Drs. pusztai and Ermakova and several other scientists have shown that it is not safe. Most genetically modified food is from the major subsidized crops: corn, soy, cotton, and canola. None of these highly subsidized crops are cheap, since shoppers pay for them once at the market and once again at tax time, and since we don't know how much it is going to cost for the cleanup of chemical and genetic farming, we should expect a third payment sometime in the near future. It only seems cheap when one looks at only the purchase price." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"GMO articles from every year, including Monsanto cover-up and Dr. pusztai statements: www.saynotogmos.org Chapter 16 1. Information on the cover-up of bone cancer from fluoride: http://www.ewg.org/is-sues/fiuoride/20050627/index.php 2. April 2006, Harvard study is published showing five times increased risk for boys of a form of bone cancer from fluoride: http://www.ewg.org/issues/fluoride/20060405/ index.php 3. Fluoride Report. National Academy of Sciences, March 2006. Summary: http://dels. nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/fiuoride_brief_final.pdf 4." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Alpad pusztai, for instance, has already shown that genetically-manipulated foods can, when fed to animals in reasonable amounts, cause very gradual organ and immune system damage.29 Another study, carried out by Dr Irina Ermakova at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, at the Russian Academy of Sciences, found that more than half of the offspring of rats fed on modified soya died in the first three weeks of life, six times as many as those born to mothers with normal diets.30 Dr." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Some of the country's senior scientists thought that Pusztai's work should not have been published at all—and some apparently even tried to stop The Lancet from publishing it. Horton had submitted Pusztai's work to six reviewers—twice the normal number. A majority had agreed that it should be published, but Horton came under intense pressure to drop the paper. He was telephoned by a member of the Royal Society and, he says, threatened with loss of his job if the publication went ahead." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"What pusztai and his team found was quite a shock. First, the nutritional content of some GM potatoes were considerably different from their non-GM parent lines, even though they were grown in identical conditions. One GM potato line, for example, contained 20 percent less protein than its own parent line. Second, even the nutritional content of sibling GM potatoes, offspring of the same parent grown in identical conditions, was significantly different. If Pusztai's results were limited to just these facts, they alone might have undermined the entire regulatory process of GM foods." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.) "In fact, less than twenty minutes before, thirty reporters had sat in the Rowett Institute press conference listening to its director, Professor Phillip James, casually mention that the restrictions on Dr. Pusztai's speaking to the press had been lifted. Before James had finished his sentence, the reporters leaped for the door. They jumped into their cars and headed straight to the Pusztai's house on Ashley Park North, an address most were familiar with, having virtually camped out there seven months earlier." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.)

"Bardocz, S., pusztai, A., and Ewen, S.W., 2002, Dietary mistletoe lectin supplementation and reduced growth of a murine non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Histology and Histopathology, 17( 1): 261 -271. 22. Schaffrath, B., Mengs, U., Schwarz, T., Hilgers, R.D., Beuth, J., Mockel, B., Lentzen, H., and Gerstmayer, B., 2001, Anticancer activity of rViscumin (recombinant mistletoe lectin) in tumor colonization models with immunocompetent mice', Anticancer Research, 21(6A): 3981-3987. 23. Schumacher, U., Feldhaus, S., and Mengs, U." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Even the institute staff was not sure because pusztai had not shown them his data. In Pusztai's defense—and their own—the institute's top staff emphasized the provisional nature of the results, which, they pointed out, had not been peer-reviewed. They added that if Puzstai had found some abnormalities, it was not really surprising. Lectin was a poison: if you feed rats only potatoes laced with lectin, they don't die but they may get sick." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.) "If the intention of the Royal Society had been to protect the biotech industry in Britain, it was not successful. The pusztai affair would not go away. In October his research was published in an amended form in The Lancet, Britain's oldest medical journal. The paper, more circumscribed and cautious than Pusztai's public statements, restated that the GM potato diet had affected the intestines and stomach lining of the rats in various ways, but there was no reference to adverse effects to the immune system." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"The implications of this cell growth are unclear, but pusztai and others say it may be a precursor to cancer. It is important to note that none of the published studies refuted Pusztai's discovery of damage to organs and the immune system. Similar problems may have afflicted laboratory animals from the other studies, but since the scientists weren't looking for that, their research designs would not have detected them. One additional unpublished study is worth mentioning. It was conducted on FlavrSavr tomatoes. These tomatoes were genetically engineered to have a prolonged shelf life." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.)

"The snowdrop lectin had been inserted into the potato because it is a naturally occurring insecticide. Pusztai's testimony made a mockery of claims to safety put forth by Monsanto and other biotechnology giants that stand to profit mightily from GM crops and within four days, the distinguished researcher was forced to retire from a job he had held for 36 years at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. The pretext was that he had muddled his findings. More likely greed led the Institute to kowtow to Monsanto, which had given a $230,000 (U.S." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"Shafey and in Chapter 9 about Dr. pusztai.) 71a'b Should Implementation of Laws Be Monitored More Closely? We must ask why the government passes laws and does not establish mandatory follow through methods of implementation. EPA officials, who are dedicated and highly qualified, can do their part but it is of little value if powerful industries get a mere slap on the wrist for flagrant wrong doings. The public needs effective implementation and enforcement of sensible regulations and recommendations." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "Arpad pusztai from Scotland studied rats fed lectin incorporated into genetically modified potatoes. There was evidence of organ damage, especially of the stomach linings, thickening of the small intestines, poor brain development and a weakening of the rat's immune system. Once again there is evidence that the intestines can be affected.51a'b It was reported that he was fired for releasing this data.193'31'33'36 (See Chapter 7.) It was reported that John Fagan, Ph.D." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"The Institute's internal inquiry concluded that the thrust of Pusztai's work was perfectly valid—to develop new testing methods—but that his experiments were "too crude and preliminary to justify any claims for novel findings of either lectin-related or general biotechnological significance."27 Amid the confusion, pusztai came to believe that he had found something wrong, not with the lectin per se but with the "process" of genetic engineering." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"In October 1999, in an act that itself generated a huge outcry, the Lancet published Dr. Pusztai's data as a short research letter. The journal fueled the controversy by including another report in the same issue suggesting that snowdrop lectins interact with human white blood cells in some peculiar way that demands further investigation. An editorial in the same issue, however, stated that such experiments were incomplete, insignificant, inadequately controlled, and uninterpretable." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Rowell, Don't Worry It's Safe to Eat: The True Story of GM Food, BSE and Foot and Mouth, Earthscan, 2004 Ardai pusztai, Report of the Project Co-Ordinator on Data Produced at the Rowett Research Institute (Scottish Office, Agriculture, Environment 8c Fisheries Department (SOAEFD), Flexible Fund project RO 818, October 22, 1998. Online: www.rri.sari.ac.uk J. Rifkin, The Biotech Century, Tarcher Putnam, 1999 W. Roberts et al, Real Food for a Change, Random, 1999 V. Shiva, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, Between the Lines, 1997 V." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

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