Read the study I posted. I didn't read the clap trap at all.
thats the fucking french bullshit Onco-mouse "study' again. it's been roundly and soundly rejected. it is flawed like a motherfucker.
there are a few studies of BT crops which are a concern, but this is not one of them the lead author is a fraudster and a "homeopathic doctor"
here's his CV.
http://www.criigen.org/SiteEn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=104
it's crap, 100% crap.
dude, the BT producing food products have some serious problems, since the BT toxin has been used as a spray for decades and is considered safe as fuck, and a "natural alternative" to chemical pesticides the BT food products got a pass from the usual health and safety testing.
theres been a few studies that show BT food crops may contain a LOT more BT than one would get from pesticide residue, and at these levels BT may not be safe at all.
heres one that suggests BT Toxin may be leeching into the soil from GM crops and could damage the soil's microbial balance (which is already nonexistant on any farm which uses GM crops) it's non-sequitor, but its interesting.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2000.tb00724.x/full
despite all the concern, BT food products are NOT in the human food supply, nor are they used in livestock feed. (a few bushels of "starlink" BT corn gort into a cattle feed, and the whole operation was shut down in reaction)
BT is a concern to me, but its not been approved for human food or livestock feed yet.
the ferench study was NOT on BT corn, it was on NK603, or "roundup ready/starlink"
glyphosate resistance is not anything like production of BT toxin.. glyphosate resistance (roundup ready) allows the use of glyphosate on crops with the promise of only killing the weeds. unfortunately it hasnt worked as well as advertised, since glyphoisate resistance is not immunity, and using roundup damages your own crop when it kills the weeds, and the lower doses needed to prevent killing your roundup resistant crops encourages survival and natural resistance in weed species.
roundup ready crops were supposed to let you hose your feilds down, killing all weeds without harming your crop, like a magic bullet.
it's more of an enchanted flamethrower that scorches your shit, and kills a lot of weeds, but the surviving weeds come back stronger than ever.
roundup resistance has not been linked to ANYTHING, and being resistant to roundup does not allow a crop to receive more roundup than is legally allowed by the FDA.
or in non-farming terms, even if you put your kid in flame retardant jammies, are you gonna let him play with matches and gasoline? i think not.
some farmers may be tempted to over use glyphosate trusting in the resistance to protect their crops, but the PCA still has to do the job, and abide by all existing federal restrictions.
glyphosate resistance means you can use glyphosate on crops which would previously die if you brought a jug of roundup into the same county, but does not eliminate already established useage regulations and residue limitations.
Edit: i read that shit again, he has released more data since his first dump, but still not all.
the french silly "study" feature 2 BT varieties, Mon610 and Mon863, as well as the Glyphosate resistant NK603
they only offered up the detailed results from the NK603 glyphosate resistant subjects, and only at 1 feeding level with a single control group, and the rest was all statistical charting of outliers and texas sharpshooter nonsense for the 2 BT varieties since the results were not dramatic enough.
thats why it was never published, only publicized. frenchy never released all the data or any of the details for peer review since he knows quite well that homeopathic medicine and acupuncture degrees will not help him sell his shit to real scientists.
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