Food for Thought
Female rats were fed Roundup Ready soy starting before conception and continuing through pregnancy and weaning. Of the offspring, 55.6% died withing three weeks compared to 9% from non GM soy controls. In a separate study, after a lab began feeding rats a commercial diet containing GM soy, offspring mortality reached 55.3%. When offspring from GM-fed rats were mated together, they were unable to conceive.
Rats were fed potatoes engineered to produce their own insecticide. They developed potentially precancerous cell growth in the digestive tract, inhibited development of their brains, livers, and testicles, partial atrophy of the liver, enlarged pancreas and intestines, and immune system damage. The cause was not the insecticide, but in all likelihood was the process of genetic engineering.
GM food on the market - which were created from the same process - have not been subject to such an extensive testing protocol.