90+ Leading scientists: "No consensus" on GMO safety

In a response to the inappropriate awarding of the World Food Prize to Monsanto and Syngenta, more than 90 leading scientists, including Nobel Prize and earlier World Food Prize winners have stepped forward to debunk the myth that there is "consensus" on the safety of GMOs.



http://www.examiner.com/article/lead...fied-organisms

Quote:

There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods and crops, according to a statement released today by a growing list of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians. The statement comes in response to recent claims from the GM industry and some scientists, journalists, and commentators that there is a “scientific consensus” that GM foods and crops, which are engineered in a lab to make their own pesticides or to withstand large applications of herbicides, were generally found safe for human and animal health and the environment. The statement calls these claims “misleading”, adding, “this claimed consensus on GMO safety does not exist.”

Press release here:



http://www.ensser.org/increasing-pub...on-gmo-safety/



Read the actual statement here:



http://www.ensser.org/fileadmin/user...ety_ENG_LV.pdf



List of initial signatories here:



http://www.ensser.org/fileadmin/user...ety_131022.pdf

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