Dr. Thierry Vrain, a former soil biologist and genetic scientist, worked for Agriculture Canada for 30 years. He was the designated spokesperson to assure the public of the safety of GMO crops. Since retiring 10 years ago, after taking into account scientific evidence ignored by most of the bio-tech industry promoters and government regulators, Dr. Vrain has reversed that position and now warns of the dangers from GMOs. Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yotyDZ1YFHk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thierry.vrain Kathleen interviews Dr. Vrain in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLe0QH11MV4 Food Integrity Now Podcast (58+ mins) http://foodintegritynow.org/2014/05/08/dr-thierry-vrain-former-gmo-scientist-speaks/ Engineered food and your health: the nutritional status of GMOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiU3Ndi6itk TedTalk: The Gene Revolution, The Future of Agriculture: Dr. Thierry Vrain at TEDxComoxValley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkQXyiynYs GM Scientist Changes Opinion and Now Wants GMOs Banned “I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my institute to address public groups and reassure them that genetically engineered crops and foods were safe. There is, however, a growing body of scientific research – done mostly in Europe, Russia, and other countries – showing that diets containing engineered corn or soya cause serious health problems in laboratory mice and rats. I don’t know if I was passionate about it but I was knowledgeable. I defended the side of technological advance, of science and progress. In the last 10 years I have changed my position. I started paying attention to the flow of published studies coming from Europe, some from prestigious labs and published in prestigious scientific journals, that questioned the impact and safety of engineered food. http://www.gmeducation.org/blog/p212592-gm-scientist-changes-opinion-and-now-wants-gmos-banned.html IARC Monographs Volume 112: evaluation of five organophosphate insecticides and herbicides (March 2015) http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf To the Honorable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health Re: Herbicide pollution and GMO labeling Minister, The confusion about the safety of GMOs is quite simple to address. The only GMOs in our agriculture are Glyphosate Modified Organisms also known as RoundUp Ready crops and the only GMOs in our food supply are from those crops. RoundUp Ready crops are engineered to be sprayed with the herbicide RoundUp and this technology has become so successful that RoundUp has become a major pollutant (1). This chemical pollution is antibiotic, it impacts the microbiome, impairs CYP enzymes, and depletes food of essential mineral micronutrients. As a background paper for the impact of this pollution I offer my speaking notes to the American College of Nutrition conference last week in San Antonio (Texas). Most of the studies I cite were published in the last five years. Glyphosate is the active ingredient of the herbicide RoundUp, a new molecule created in 1960 by Stauffer Chemicals - a US company with a business of cleaning industrial pipes and boilers of mineral scales. The mineral deposits (same as in electric kettles) are called scales, and the pipe cleaning chemicals are called descaling agents. Glyphosate was patented in 1964 in the US as a powerful and very broad spectrum descaling agent (2). Meaning, it binds to metals indiscriminately and does a great job at “dissolving and preventing minerals from being reactive or bioavailable in solution”. When the descaling solution was disposed of in nature, it was obvious that it killed plants. The chemical company Monsanto promptly bought the molecule, patented it as a herbicide in 1969, and got it commercialized in 1974 (3). This molecule is making history because glyphosate has become the most successful agricultural chemical in North and South America wherever RR seeds are used. The farmers using this technology get simpler and cheaper weed management and despite higher input bills and sometimes disappointing yields, and with weed resistance spreading fast, they adopted it in troves (4). Read More https://www.facebook.com/thierry.vrain/posts/10152359172575825

• published: 03 Apr 2015
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