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"Indeed, in May of 2000, Monsanto announced that they found two rogue DNA fragments in the roundup ready soybean, in addition to the one gene the FDA approved. These unapproved genes are in every roundup ready soybean Monsanto has ever produced. While Monsanto claims there are no reports of harm from these genes, it is clear that results are unpredictable. Research is showing that viral DNA in GMO crops causes a higher than expected ability to induce unexpected viral recombination." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Whatever diversity existed among regional heirloom canola varieties in Canada is being rapidly homogenized by the roundup ready gene. Rene Van Acker of the University of Manitoba has found canola with roundup ready genes in ditches, schoolyards, and city lots; she found that even the purest, certified non-genetically engineered canola now contains up to 4.9 percent roundup ready material.20 And researchers have identified weeds that have acquired the engineered genes for herbicide resistance, thereby undermining the effectiveness of the herbicide used to treat the herbicide-resistant crops." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"They examined roundup ready seeds and natural ones, careful to use isogenic varieties—meaning the two had the same parents, so to speak, the only difference being that the genetically modified variety also had roundup ready genes. The team discovered that compared to natural soy, the roundup ready varieties consistently had 12 to 14 percent fewer isofiavones—a type of phytoestrogen." - 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.)

"These unapproved genes are in every roundup ready soybean Monsanto has ever produced. While Monsanto claims there are no reports of harm from these genes, it is clear that results are unpredictable. Research is showing that viral DNA in GMO crops causes a higher than expected ability to induce unexpected viral recombination. CaMV may damage other DNA chains (like firing a shotgun at a small target), inducing potential viral recombination that was not expected. Major concerns include the following: 1. An existing viral infection in a person may be enhanced when a person eats GMO food 2." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The organic movement valued a time and place where animals were not fed growth hormones and steroids and antibiotics and where crops were left to fend off the elements with their own protective antioxidants and anthocyanins, rather than chemical pesticides and carcinogens, and where "Roundup Ready," genetically modified plants (GMOs) were unknown." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Once heated, however, that difference jumped to threefold and sevenfold in the two roundup ready soy lines tested. This suggests that the allergen in GM soybeans does not break down as readily by heating (see section 2.11). (Monsanto had left out this comparison from its published report, but it was later recovered in the journal archives by an investigator.) There is also cross-reactivity between proteins in natural soybeans and in peanuts.99 Unpredicted changes in GM soybeans might increase the amount or power of this potentially dangerous allergen as well." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Regarding roundup ready canola: "When statistically significant differences in compositional analyses were determined between the GE plant and its control, Monsanto did not follow-up these results with substantial further experimentation to determine why these differences occurred. Instead, such differences in composition tend to be dismissed as being within the natural variation of the plant. Such a statement ignores the evidence from the controls and the reason for having controls in the first place." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Mae-Wan Ho "It was work done with a mixture of both Monsanto's roundup ready soya GTS 40-3-2 (as soya meal) and Mon 810 maize (as maize grain) at the same time, comprising only 13% and 18.5% respectively of the total diet. This inevitably decreases the chance of detecting the GM DNA belonging to the varieties."76 Mixing feed with other GM products Centre for Integrated "The authority, at the very least, should seek a feeding trial using LY038 rather than a mix Research on Biosafety of transgenic strains that dilutes LY038." (The feeding included 20.5% of another GM variety.)"77 Jeffrey M." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"The biggest GM crops to date are those, like canola, that Monsanto has manufactured as "Roundup Ready," augmented with a gene enabling it to tolerate the herbicide Roundup, also marketed by Monsanto. But genetic drift is a pervasive reality. Whatever diversity existed among regional heirloom canola varieties in Canada is being rapidly homogenized by the roundup ready gene. Rene Van Acker of the University of Manitoba has found canola with roundup ready genes in ditches, schoolyards, and city lots; she found that even the purest, certified non-genetically engineered canola now contains up to 4." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"Schmeiser claimed that roundup ready rapeseed had blown onto his farm and contaminated his crop so that it no longer had value as non-GMO seed. In Percy Schmeiser's case, he had tried to sell his seed that Monsanto's pollen drift or spilled seed had contaminated. Monsanto argued that Schmeiser knew it was contaminated and thus "enhanced" with Monsanto's patented intellectual property It demanded that he surrender the seed and pay the company a fee for its "intellectual property rights." Monsanto Seed Cops Snaring Farmers By Paul Euas AP Biotechnology Writer SAN FRANCtsm ?" - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Several roundup ready cotton varieties were taken off the market because of heavy crop losses. In an effort to get compensated, numerous farmers filed lawsuits that challenged Monsanto's rosy claims about GMO crops. To date, thousands of farmers have filed individual and class action suits against Monsanto. Almost all have found it expensive to challenge such a deep-pocketed adversary. A year after the farmers began their class action suits, Monsanto budgeted $ 10 million per year for legal expenses to fight the thousands of lawsuits and to prosecute farmers who violated their contracts." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Soon thereafter, advertisements touted their genetically altered roundup ready plants as the most successful product introduction in farming history. Monsanto began to promise that farmers could limit their herbicide purchases to just one "safe" killer and control the weeds in one application. The ads claimed that this would provide economic savings to farmers at a time of substandard prices for all commodities. And they promised to make cotton the nation's first crop in which genetically altered varieties predominated." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Well before Monsanto released roundup ready cotton, farmers were barraged with performance promises, but without government or other scientific trials, farmers had to accept the products as a leap of faith and hope. Most of the promotions reached farmers through the farm journals. Today, the average farmer in cotton country still gets as much as 90 percent of his or her information through advertisements and advice from the people who make or sell the products." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Consider the implications if Bt genes, like roundup ready genes, were to transfer to gut bacteria. That could turn our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories. The Human Interaction with GMO Food The odds are high that humans will face super-strains of viruses which develop their new powers from interacting with GMO food. There are now trillions of cells in crops around the world that contain viral promoter genes which may interact with a virus and dramatically strengthen it. Viral recombination is part of the random chance of nature." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "It is widely used in crops such as the roundup ready (RR) Soy of Monsanto, the Bt-Maize of Novartis, GE cotton and various varieties of GE Canola grown mostly in Canada. It is important to understand that this is a highly infectious viral gene. It is used because it is far more effective than any other strategy to promote the uptake of the foreign DNA fragment into the DNA of food. We are inserting into every cell of GMO food the major weapon that a virus uses to replicate." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"In 1997, a few months after he was set straight by the Monsanto Vice President at headquarters, a company scientist told him that roundup ready cotton plants contained new, unintended proteins that had likely resulted from the gene insertion process. No safety studies had been conducted on the proteins, none were planned, and the cotton plants, which were part of field trials near his home, were being fed to cattle. Azevedo "was afraid at that time that some of these proteins may be toxic." Azevedo asked the PhD in charge of the test plot to destroy the cotton rather than feed it to cattle." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"The farmers were seduced by Monsanto's promise of increased productivity and decreased herbicide use with roundup ready soy. The economic dream crop, however, soon became a nightmare. Problems with herbicide resistant "superweeds" led GM soy growers to double the amount of herbicides used by conventional farmers. Bacteria died, leaving soil so inert that dead weeds would not rot. Farmers and neighbors near GM fields have suffered health problems such as rashes and tearing eyes, while many livestock have died or given birth to deformed young." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"Case Study: roundup ready Soybeans A combination of human error and the unpredictable effects of genetic engineering was revealed in May of 2000. Monsanto's roundup ready soybeans had already been on the market for seven years. The company thoughtthey had inserted only a single foreign gene (along with its CaMV promoter). The gene, derived from bacteria, allowed the soy plant to survive high concentrations of Monsanto's herbicide called Roundup. To the company's surprise, they discovered that there were two additional gene fragments that had been inserted into the soy DNA accidentally." - 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 judge took nine months to reach the conclusion that wind-borne pollen or seeds from a passing truck were almost certainly not the source of Schmeiser's roundup ready canola plants. But the source really didn't matter, ruled the judge. Whether Schmeiser's roundup ready seeds had come as whole seeds from the store or from a neighbor, or had fallen off a truck, or had been created in his conventional canola by pollen flown in by bees, or had blown in on the wind was not the issue." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"Data published by Monsanto in the Journal of Nutrition, March 1996, shows that relative to conventional soy meal, roundup ready soy meal contains 27% more trypsin inhibitor, meaning it has even greater potential for setting off allergic reactions and digestive disturbance. In 1999, the York Nutritional Lab in the U.K. attributed a 50% increase in soy allergies to the fact that British consumers had started eating large amounts of imported genetically engineered (GE) soybeans the previous year." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"There were significant differences in the ash, fat, and carbohydrate content. roundup ready soy meal contained "more trypsin inhibitor, a potential allergen."30 This increase might help explain the sudden jump in soy allergies in the UK beginning right after roundup ready soy was introduced. This public health concern is discussed in a later chapter. Also, cows fed GM soy produced milk with a higher fat content, further demonstrating a disparity between the two types of soy." - 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.)

"When independent researchers looked at Monsanto's tests on roundup ready soybeans, they found that the soybeans Monsanto tested were not an accurate representation of the Monsanto soybeans that appear in the store as food. They had not been treated with herbicide, although no one grows an)- roundup ready variety without using Roundup on the fields." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.) "Roundup Ready crops are genetically engineered to withstand repeated doses of Roundup, enabling farmers to sprav their fields and kill weeds without killing the roundup ready crop. This is the crops' only benefit, and no farmer ever grows a Roundup Readv variety without applying the herbicide. In 1998, Monsanto was on track to spend nearly a billion dollars building new factories worldwide to manufacture more Roundup.15 And it was doing this unfazed by the fact that the U.S. patent on Roundup ran out in the year 2000." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.) "In 2001, the Los Angeles Times published an expose: revealing that Monsanto's own research had raised many questions about the safety of their roundup ready soybeans.25 Remarkably, the FDA did not call for more testing before allowing these soybeans to flood the marketplace. Since half the soybeans grown in the United States are now Monsanto's roundup ready variety, and because soy is contained in such a wide array of processed foods, tens of millions of people are unknowingly eating these experimental foods daily." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"For example, Monsanto created roundup ready (RR) soy, corn, and cotton specifically so that farmers would continue to buy Roundup, the company's best-selling chemical weed killer, which is sold with RR seeds. Instead of reducing pesticide use, one study of more than eight thousand university-based field trials indicated that farmers who plant RR soy use two to five times more herbicide than farmers who use traditional weed control methods. Our View ofGM Foods We are concerned about the development of GM foods for several reasons." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Cows fed roundup ready soybeans produced higher levels of milk, which might be a direct consequence of higher estrogen levels in these soybeans. þ Data from an early experiment were omitted because they showed lower protein levels and significantly lower levels of the essential amino acid phenylalanine. These and many other indications of experimental manipulation, misinterpretation, falsified conclusions and flagrant disregard of data have led to demands for independent safety assessments. SOURCES Monsanto genetically engineered soya has elevated hormone levels: public health threat." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.) "The protein analysis did not come from the roundup ready soybean itself but from the resistant bacterium whose genes were inserted into the new plant. The two may or may not be equivalent. Tests used to verify antigenic equivalence do not prove that the amino acid sequences are the same and rearrangements are normal in the DNA sequence of a plant as it accommodates a new gene. þ In acute toxicity tests on rats, scientists used the bacterium, not the GM soybean." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"Monsanto points out that it registered Roundup as an herbicide in 1974 with minimal subsequent evidence of hazard: "Consumers benefit from roundup ready soybeans because farmers can control weeds better ... with less herbicide while using a herbicide with the best environmental profile." To bolster that argument, the company cites two lines of research: Roundup binds so tightly to soil particles that the chemical does not harm nearby vegetation (and, therefore, is unlikely to move to groundwater), and it decomposes naturally to benign substances." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "Thailand Bans new field trials; approves roundup ready soybeans. European Requires member states to ensure the traceability of Union genetically modified foods at all stages of marketing; restricts new product approvals to 10 years with renewal for another 10 years; establishes public registers for field-testing sites; phases out use of certain antibiotic-resistance markers; establishes labeling threshold of 1%. France, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark and Greece declare moratorium on planting until these rules take effect. source: Food Chemical News, 2001." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

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