[escepticos] Los transgenicos son cojonudos

[Josep Català Medina <tecpress@...>]

Los alimentos elaborados a partir de materias primas genéticamente
modificadas son MÁS que saludables. Demostración: léase el texto
que se acompaña, en donde la "American Magufen Quiropractic of
dale que te pego a la columna vertebral" demuestra lo malos que
son los transgénicos. Ergo.... es que deben ser casi-milagrosos. Por
cierto, da pena que a estas alturas de la película estén hablando todavía
de pruebas, opiniones y "demostraciones" no ya obsoletas, sino
difuntas y putrefactas....

Saludos pocoprácticos

Josep Català
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Dear Colleagues:

> According to a press release dated May 9, 2000, the May
> edition of the Journal of the American Chiropractic
> Association makes the following disturbing claims which I
> have excerpted from the press release:
>
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>
>  ?According to most estimates, 60 to 70 percent of all
> processed foods contain genetically modified ingredients,
> including proteins previously absent from human diets,?
> write Shirley Watson, DC, director of education for the
> American Chiropractic Association?s (ACA) Council on
> Nutrition, and Barbara Keeler, a journalist and health and
> nutrition expert, in the JACA article. ?Some hazards from
> the GE process could directly impact patients who ingest the
> food. Other hazards are indirect, operating through
> pollution of other food species or through unintended
> effects on local and global ecosystems.?
>
>  Genetically engineered foods were quietly introduced into
> the marketplace in 1996. In the past four years, they have
> spread rapidly. Three varieties of soy, ten varieties of
> corn, papaya, yellow neck squash, canola, potatoes,
> tomatoes, dairy and animal products are already on the
> tables of most consumers -- with more than a hundred
> expected soon.
>
>  Among the hazards of genetically engineered foods revealed
> in the article:
>
>  * Toxin producers: The article quotes FDA documents that
> state, ?Corn and potatoes engineered to produce toxins that
> kill insects are now classified by the Environmental
> Protection Agency as pesticides, rather than vegetables.?
> These vegetables produce toxins designed to kill harmful
> insects, but ?non-target? insects and mammals have also been
> affected.
>
>  * Herbicide-resistant genes: Seventy-one percent of last
> year?s genetically altered crops carried genes designed to
> tolerate a specific herbicide made by the company
> engineering the seed. This guarantees that humans who ingest
> the foods will be exposed to herbicides ?with a litany of
> adverse health effects,? the article explains.
>
>  * Allergens: ?Genetic engineering may transfer new and
> unidentified proteins from one food into another, triggering
> allergic reactions. Millions of Americans who are sensitive
> to allergens will have no way of identifying or protecting
> themselves from offending foods,? according to FDA documents
> quoted in the JACA article.
>
>  * A Host of Unintended Side Effects: Impaired sense of
> smell and shortened lifespan in bees consuming pollen from
> GE plants; changed hormone levels and altered milk content
> in cows eating GE soybeans; sickness in cattle given bovine
> growth hormone; and toxicity moving up the food chain,
> causing death or impaired health in non-target species
> consuming insects that fed on crops with bacillicus
> thuringiensis (Bt) toxins.
>
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>
> Colleagues, I can scarecely overemphasize what might ensue
> if health care providers, such as chiropractors, pass on
> such gross distortions as fact to their patients, who will
> naturally, considering the source, treat such information as
> credible and authoritative.
>
> If any scientists in this group are willing to take
> proactive steps, I would urge them to demand that the
> Journal retract such scurrilous allegations regarding
> biotechnology.
>
> The American Chiropractic Association maintains a website at
> http://www.amerchiro.org. The named contacts for the above
> press release are Teri Howell or Felicity Feather, phone
> (800) 986-4636.