The article about the GE Free BC speaking tour is full of misleading or false statements from the main speaker, Thierry Vrain.
He starts with the antibiotic (Ab) fear story but fails to mention the Ab gene found in some first-generation GM crops can be found in almost every square foot of soil on the planet.
This Ab gene is as old as dirt.
Nature has been moving genes around since life existed on the planet. The more science looks, the more examples they find of gene movement between species.
Most critics of GM crops fail to tell people the EU High Court recently struck down the ban on GM crops for lack of evidence of harm to humans or the environment.
GMO Myths and Truth is chalked full of false information. There is a whole section in the GMO Myths and Truth document designed to misinform the reader about glyphosate (Roundup is a trade name)
For a variety of well documented reasons, Roundup does not compete for iron with blood.
This is pure pseudo-science designed to generate fear.
Testing is “not done or inadequate.”
Not according to every food safety authority in the world, every National Academy of Science and the World Health Organization. Vrain may call the fact three trillion meals without a single case of harm “empty” but he cannot point to a single case from consuming GM food.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science said it best: “the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the British Royal Society, and every other respected organization that has examined the evidence has come to the same conclusion: consuming foods containing ingredients derived from GM crops is no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crop plants modified by conventional plant improvement techniques.”
Robert WagerVancouver Island University, Nanaimo
