GMO Open Forum

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GMO Open Forum

• This is a Facebook forum: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gmoopenforum/
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• Multipart Series - "Troubling GMO Science" -- start here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gmoopenforum/permalink/622763884558707/

Background

• WHAT IS A GMO? According to the World Health Organization, Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs) are "organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in such a way that does not occur naturally." This technology is also referred to as "genetic engineering", "biotechnology" or "recombinant DNA technology" and consists of randomly inserting genetic fragments of DNA from one organism to another, usually from a different species. For example, an artificial combination of genes that includes a gene to produce the pesticide Cry 1 Ab protein (commonly known as Bt toxin), originally found in Bacillus thuringiensis, is inserted in to the DNA of corn randomly. Both the location of the transferred gene sequence in the corn DNA and the consequences of the insertion differ with each insertion. The plant cells that have taken up the inserted gene are then grown in a lab using tissue culture and/or nutrient medium that allows them to develop into plants that are used to grow GM food crops.

Direct Resources

Very frequently, documents and papers are posted in Facebook threads. It is easy to lose track of these within the threads because Facebook does not provide any means to organize. Therefore, we have established this page to allow these items to be organized.

• Gmo Resources - This page will be the master page for recording these items. Also see the "Submitted Media" below.

Interesting Facebook Threads

Note: On Facebook, to get a link to a thread, hover over the date of the thread, right click, and "Copy Link Address"

Big Picture

• World Hunger -- will more food fix it?
• Pope Francis -- "On Care of Our Common Home"

General reviews

• Dr. Michael Antoniou: Health Risks from GMO foods and Glyphosate based herbicides
• E. G. Vallianatos, a former EPA employee on corruption in the EPA and the chemical industry (video)
• American Academy of Environmental Medicine position paper on GMOs
• Steven Druker's Book "Altered Genes Twisted Truth"
• Norway GMO Soybean Sustainability Report
• Dr. Thierry Vrain on GMOs (TED Talks Video)
• The World According to Monsanto (Video)
• A very enlightening overview of the issues surrounding the GMO product questions... "What Big Food is hiding with its slick PR campaign on GMOs"
• Intelligence Squared Debate on GMO Food
• The environmental case for industrial agriculture (Pro-GMO)
• "GMOs, silver bullets, and the trap of reductionist thinking", good overview of GMOs
• Pushing Boundaries of Agriculture, Rob Saik (Pro GMO)
• Some of the scientific literature on GMOs (Knigel Holmes)
• Bought Movie Short

Reliability of Modern Science in Corporate World

• Peer reviewed Literature Review of GMO science finds stunning lack of consensus, research
• Rodent Studies are Unreliable
• Collusion between science and corporate interests (as exemplified by history of Cancer research)
• Research Universities have lost their Independence
• A story about Syngenta harassing a scientist's research on one of their pesticides.
• Lies, Damned Lies, and medical Science -- up to 90% of medical research is flawed
• Peer Review is hardly reliable

Specific studies, herbicides, scientific questions, etc.

• GMO Bt Corn - Eating This Could Turn Your Gut Into a Living Pesticide Factory
• Carmen Pig Study
• Seralini 2-year Rat Study on GMO feed
• The Question of Hammond's Dead Rat -- (continued thread from GMOSF when it was stopped by admins there)
• Pusztai Rat Study - What a disgrace to science that they let corporate influence denigrate this scientist's reputation, when he should be a hero, willing to speak truth to power.
• Glyphosate
• Chlorpyfiros
• Herbicide use is up on acres-treated basis
• WHO may target Monsanto in next review of herbicides
• Deregulate herbicide 2,4-D?
• U.S. Recommends deregulating herbicide 2,4-D
• Dose makes poison?
• Monarch Butterfly decline linked to Roundup Use
• Decline of Honeybees linked to glyphosate
• Continued discussion of sample size in GRACE protocol
• Glyphosate classified as Carcinogenic by WHO
• Golden Rice (Ron Rein)
• Animals Prefer Natural Grain to GMO Grain
• SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON GMOS DOES NOT EXIST
• The failed Rothamstead wheat-aphid experiment

Regulation and Testing

• DOES THE FDA REGULATE GMO FOODS VERY WELL?
• The crux of the GMO fraud is calling them "generally recognized as safe"
• WHERE IS THE LIST OF TESTS PERFORMED AND THE RESULTS??

News of interest

• Hidden Viral Gene in GMO crops
• Energy industry uses the same language about risk factors
• Monsanto Lawsuit in LA
• Monsanto thinking of changing their name
• Almost all Cotton, Corn and Soy now GMO in the U.S.
• Former Greenpeace chief supports GMO crops
• Humans have fish genes meme
• Monsanto Buys up heirloom seed suppliers
• Why is Monsanto the poster child?
• Starved for Science -- suggests that GMOs are being kept out of Africa and is why people are starving
• Prominent anti-GMO NGO's wanted (David Owen)
• Pineapples that fight cancer? (David Owen)
• San Diego Biotech: Don't call our crop a GMO
• Federal Judge rules in favor of GMO-ban
• Genetically modified herpes fights skin cancer
• Thank you for starting this group, Knigel Holmes (GMOSF Founder)
• Intro to the GMO Open Forum
• 'Genetically-Modified Narrative Writing: A Few Examples of Narrative Writing Covering GMO Issues' (Knigel Holmes)
• Monsanto employee finally talks about the controversy over ?? (Jonathan Kobolt)
• How mushrooms can save the world and put Monsanto out of business.

Side Topics

• Nodes of Science, Pieces of Pi Blog (Knigel Holmes)

Related Resources (Not Facebook)

• http://npic.orst.edu/ - National Pesticide Information Center
• http://www.unep.org/dewa/agassessment/reports/IAASTD/EN/Agriculture%20at%20a%20Crossroads_Global%20Report%20(English).pdf
  • Agriculture at a Crossroads - International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development

Summary of articles submitted (Add | All):

• (M1629) 2016-01-10 Bt Toxin in Food Crops is Inadequately Tested -- Ray Lutz, Citizens Oversight,
• (M1657) 2016 Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects -- , National Academies Press,
• (M1609) 2015-06-26 FOIA Request to FDA regarding BNF0035 (MON802 RR Bt Corn) -- Ray Lutz, Citizens Oversight,
• (M1602) 2015-06-16 On Care of Our Common Home -- Pope Francis, The Vatican,
• (M1596) 2015-06-01 Transcript by Admin on GMO Skeptics Forum -- Ray Lutz, Citizens Oversight,
• (M1595) 2015-05-30 Independent Review of the Seralini GMO-Roundup Rat Study -- Ray Lutz, Citizens Oversight,
• (M1578) 2015-03-25 Widely Used Herbicide Linked to Cancer -- The World Health Organization's research arm declares glyphosate a probable carcinogen. -- Daniel Cressey, Scientific American,
• (M1601) 2015-01 Seedy Business: What Big Food is hiding with its slick PR campaign on GMOs -- Gary Ruskin, USRight To Know,
• (M1872) 2015 No scientific consensus on GMO safety -- Hilbeck et al, Environmental Sciences Europe,
• (M1579) 2014-10-28 MIT Researcher’s New Warning: At Today’s Rate, Half Of All U.S. Children Will Be Autistic By 2025 -- Nick Meyer, althealthworks.com,
• (M1585) 2014-07-22 The Alarming Truths About Genetically Modified Foods -- , Mercola, Nice 5-minute overview of GMO problem
• (M1592) 2014-06-25 Study on genetically modified corn, herbicide and tumors reignites controversy -- , Cbs News,
• (M1654) 2014-06-15 Compositional differences in soybeans on the market: Glyphosate accumulates in Roundup Ready GM soybeans -- Bohn, T, et al., Science Direct,
• (M1593) 2014-06 Evidence of the toxicity of glyphosate is overwhelming -- Adrienne Samuels, Ph.D., Truth In Labeling,
• (M1604) 2014-05-18 Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Carman About GMO Dangers -- , , Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Dr. Judy Carman about the dangers of eating genetically modified foods.
• (M1591) 2014-05-14 Scientists May Have Finally Pinpointed What's Killing All The Honeybees -- Dina Spector, Business Insider, Bee Decline
• (M1587) 2014-04-20 GMO Whistleblower Thierry Vrain talks to Cristie Paris and Nick Bernabe -- , ,
• (M1655) 2013-09-13 An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research -- Alessandro Nicolia, Alberto Manzo, Fabio Veronesi, and Daniele Rosellini, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology,
• (M1606) 2009-04 Failure to Yield -- Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops -- Doug Gurian-Sherman, Union Of Concerned Scientists,
• (M1656) 2004 SAFETY OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS -- APPROACHES TO ASSESSING UNINTENDED HEALTH EFFECTS -- Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health, National Academies Press,
• (M1627) 2000 Ecotoxicological risk assessment of Roundup Herbicide -- Giesy, Dobson, Solomon, Rev Environ Contam Toxicol 167:35-120,

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