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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Monsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True
  • Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 12:10:40 -0400

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published today (Mon 18th May) by Independent Science News
Monsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True
by Jonathan Latham

http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/monsantos-worst-fear-may-be-coming-true/

Synopsis: The decision of the restaurant chain Chipotle to go GMO-free is
potentially a huge blow to the agbiotech industry. The decision opens up a
crack in the previously solid front offered by the food industry in support
of GMOs. Two factors are at work that will widen that crack: the growing
unpopularity of GMOs and the pressure being felt by most sectors of the
food industry to produce safer, healthier, and more sustainable products.
Going GMO-free is a simple and manageable way for stores and brands to meet
that demand. Consequently, a race to become GMO-free may be developing. But
there is a third factor in this scenario: hazards in the GMO product
pipeline. Many new GMOs are expected to be produced using a phenomenon
called RNA interference which uses perfectly double stranded RNAs (dsRNAs).
Our research shows that RNA molecules exactly like these were tried and
rejected by medical researchers in the 1960s and 1970s as being too
hazardous for medicine. The scientific literature evaluating the hazards of
RNA molecules in crop biotechnology has so far overlooked this important
historical research. As this research becomes better known, it will make
defending the use of GMOs much harder.

Please share this article. Apologies for cross-posting.
yours sincerely

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org

jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279

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Lawrence F. London
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  • [permaculture] Monsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True, Lawrence London, 05/18/2015

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