{"id":469,"date":"2010-04-26T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/hamster-roundup-sterility-and-infant-mortality.html"},"modified":"2010-04-26T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:11:00","slug":"hamster-roundup-sterility-and-infant-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/hamster-roundup-sterility-and-infant-mortality.html","title":{"rendered":"Hamster Roundup: sterility and infant mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\nImage by Adrisbow Photography\n<\/smaller>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\nJeffrey Smith writes in Huffingtonpost about\n\nGenetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality in Hamsters<\/a>:\n
\n“This study was just routine,” said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.\n

\nAfter feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They also suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups.\n<\/blockquote>\nNot just a little higher: five times highher infant mortality.\n

\nAnd it’s not necessarily the soybeans themselves:\n\n\n

\nIn addition to the GMOs, it could be contaminants, he said, or higher herbicide residues, such as Roundup. There is in fact much higher levels of Roundup on these beans; they’re called “Roundup Ready.” Bacterial genes are forced into their DNA so that the plants can tolerate Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. Therefore, GM soy always carries the double threat of higher herbicide content, couple with any side effects of genetic engineering.\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe article has more about previous experiments on rats.\n

\nRats and hamsters probably aren’t the only mammals affected:\n

\nAnd we can only speculate about the relationship between the introduction of genetically modified foods in 1996, and the corresponding upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems among the US population. But many scientists, physicians, and concerned citizens don’t think that the public should remain the lab animals for the biotech industry’s massive uncontrolled experiment.\n<\/blockquote>\nMaybe we could do this lab testing before<\/em> feeding most of the\npopulation on suspect foods.\nAnd since we didn’t, maybe we could stop producing and eating such foods.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image by Adrisbow Photography Jeffrey Smith writes in Huffingtonpost about Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality in Hamsters: “This study was just routine,” said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,42,174,44,71,72],"tags":[1552,615,175,1345,2775,611,2763,242,902,1061,181,1554,1341,15,171,1553,179,2767],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-food-and-drink","category-glyphosate","category-health","category-mammals","category-safety","tag-alexey-v-surov","tag-birth-defect","tag-dna","tag-fda","tag-food","tag-genetically-modified","tag-glysophate","tag-gm","tag-gmo","tag-growth","tag-herbicide","tag-infant-mortality","tag-jeffrey-smith","tag-monsanto","tag-pesticide","tag-reproduction","tag-roundup","tag-soybeans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-7z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}