GMO: Going Against the Evidence

While the Congress of Costa Rica is preparing to vote on a four year moratorium on the cultivation of GM crops, the scientific evidence that they pose no risk to animal or human health is increasing.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

EDITORIAL

The article published in Elfinancierocr.com by Keilor Rojas reports on a study carried out by geneticists at the University of California-Davis that based on "... animal feed data from 1983, about 13 years before the introduction of GM crops, until 2011, " it has been concluded that" ... the performance and health of animals fed on GM crops does not differ from animals fed on non-GM crops."

Meanwhile, at the time the vote on the draft to a four-year ban GM cultivation in Costa Rica, environmental organizations are meeting to witness the debate and the safe approval of the project, in an exercise where a general hubbub replaces rational analysis of the subject.

The study published by the University of California-le Davis "... covered information on over 100,000 million head of cattle, forming a giant clinical trial whose conclusions are robust. The results are consistent with a number of recent studies which indicate that feeding GM crop varieties to other animal species such as sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, buffalo, rabbits and fish gave comparable results to those obtained from animals by fed with non-transgenic lines.

The abundant information indicates that concentrates derived from genetically modified crops are as safe and nutritious as those generated from non-GM crops, so there seems to be no risk to animal health and even less probability of risk to human health."

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