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Study of 100 Billion Animals Fed GMO Feed: No Problems

Richard Ha writes:

A scientific review by UC Davis found no sign of health or nutrition problems from GMO livestock feed.

From UC David News & Information on September 25, 2014:

A new scientific review from the University of California, Davis, reports that the performance and health of food-producing animals consuming genetically engineered feed, first introduced 18 years ago, has been comparable to that of animals consuming non-GE feed.

The review study also found that scientific studies have detected no differences in the nutritional makeup of the meat, milk or other food products derived from animals that ate genetically engineered feed.

The review, led by UC Davis animal scientist Alison Van Eenennaam, examined nearly 30 years of livestock-feeding studies that represent more than 100 billion animals.

Titled “Prevalence and Impacts of Genetically Engineered Feedstuffs on Livestock Populations,” the review article is now available online in open-access form through the American Society of Animal Science: https://asas.org/docs/default-source/jas-files/jas8124_final.pdf?sfvrsn. It will appear in print and open-access in the October issue of the Journal of Animal Science….

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Jon Etine, writing at the Genetic Literacy Project, also talks about this. He writes that "Although there have been more than two thousand studies documenting that GMOs do not pose an unusual threat to human health, questions about the safety of genetically modified foods remain in the minds of many consumers."

He goes on to say: "Estimates of the numbers of meals consumed by feed animals since the introduction of GM crops 18 years ago would be well into the trillions. By common sense alone, if GE feed were causing unusual problems among livestock, farmers would have noticed. Dead and sick animals would literally litter farms around the world. Yet there are no anecdotal reports of such mass health problems." Read the rest

His article is titled 29-year study of trillions of meals shows GE crops do not harm food-producing animals, humans.

Some ‘Real Clear Science’ on GMO Safety

Richard Ha writes:

Speaking of science, here’s some:

From Real ClearScience, an interesting website whose founding member Dr. Alex B. Berezow(PhD, Microbiology) is the author of ScienceLeft Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left:

MassiveReview Reveals Consensus on GMO Safety

“The scientific research conducted so far has not detected any
significant hazards directly connected with the use of genetically engineeredcrops.”

That’s the conclusion from a team of Italian scientists, who just completeda thorough systematic review of the scientific research conducted ongenetically modified (GM) crops in the past decade. Their work is published inthe journal Critical Review ofBiotechnology.

Led by Alessandro Nicolia, an applied biologist at the University of
Perugia in Italy, the team collected and evaluated 1,783 research papers,reviews, relevant opinions, and reports published between 2002 and 2012, a comprehensive process that took 12 months to complete. The records covered all aspects of GM crop safety, from how the crops interact with the environment, to how they could potentially affect the humans and animals who consume them.

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