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Wij gebruiken cookies onder andere voor: Sociale cookies Sociale cookies verzamelen gegevens over de activiteiten van gebruikers. Rat reality show: Russian scientists to broadcast GMO experiment. After a French study suggested that rats fed on Monsanto GMO corn suffered tumors, Russian researches plan their own, this time public, experiment. The unique reality show with rats is expected to prove or deny GMO’s health-threatening influence. The Russian scientists, who oppose genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food, expect that their year-long experiment will show whether the controversial cultivation process has effects as dangerous as French revelations claimed on September 19.
Scientists from France's University of Caen made public the results of their classified study, publishing the images of rats with tumors after they were fed a diet of genetically modified (GM) maize produced by American chemical giant Monsanto. The revelation stirred fear across Europe and in Russia, where authorities temporarily suspended the import and sale of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn. So they came up with the idea of public experiment. The current project may cost up to $1 million. ABOUT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GENETIC SAFETY - Общенациональная Ассоциация Генетической Безопасности.
National Association for Genetic Safety (NAGS) was formed in March, 2004, as a non-governmental, non-profit organization based in Moscow, Russia. NAGS’s activities are aimed to contribute the protection of biological and genetic safety of humankind and the environment, and to promote sustainable development ideas in human consciousness. GMOs Since its foundation NAGS has had a great influence on the development of public debate concerning the safety of modern biotechnology, including GMOs, in Russia. In 2008 NAGS in partnership with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of A.N. Severtsov of Russian Academy of Sciences has conducted its own independent research on the impact of GMOs on the health of mammals. In 2013 NAGS announced the start of preparation for the first international long-term study on the influence of GMOs on animals’ health.
In 2012 NAGS launched a separate project — environmental initiative «Emerald Planet». INTERNATIONAL ACTION «SAFETY TEST» - Общенациональная Ассоциация Генетической Безопасности. Russian National Genetic Safety Association calls for raising fund to study GMO influence Debates on influence of GM products upon human organisms have been active over the world. However, neither GM supporters nor GM opponents have enough arguments or scientific proofs to draw unequivocal conclusions. Meanwhile, results of certain scientific studies on GM impact on mammals stir concern, as they point out directly the negative consequences of genetically modified organisms influence.
In this connection, the National Genetic Safety Association thinks it necessary to carry out an independent public scientific experiment aimed at collecting convincing proofs that will let us decide on safety or non-safety of the genetically modified plants and their products for human and animal health. The public experiment will be held under supervision of the specially established Scientific Council, which will include researchers from scientific institutions in Russia and other countries.
Russian researchers plan public GMO study on rats. Globe&Mail: Censorship is alive and well in Canada – just ask government scientists. Freedom to Read Week begins on Feb. 24, bringing with it the perfect opportunity to kick the tires of democracy and make sure the old jalopy’s still running as she should. What’s that you say? The bumper fell off when you touched it?
The engine won’t turn over? That’s not so good. Better look under the hood. We like to think of censorship as something that happens over there, in the faraway places where men break into houses at night to smash computers, or arrive in classrooms to remove books they don’t like. Just ask Canada’s government scientists. You wouldn’t want the average citizen to learn too much about caribou, now. The other thing that the report makes clear is how deliberate this strategy is: “The federal government has recently made concerted efforts to prevent the media – and through them, the general public – from speaking to government scientists, and this, in turn, impoverishes the public debate on issues of significant national concern.” (pdf)2012-03-04 Democracy Watch_OIPLtr_Feb20.13-with-attachment.