Gmo myths and truths robinson pdf download 2015

IRT Mission Statement. IRT Biography. Press Inquiries. Contact Us. Genetically modified crops and foods are neither safe nor necessary to feed the world, a new report by genetic engineers shows. John Fagan and Dr. Michael Antoniou and researcher Claire Robinson, was released on 19 May as a free online download by the sustainability and science policy platform Earth Open Source.

The second edition follows the publication two years ago of the first edition, which was downloaded , times just a few weeks after publication and was read online by several times that many visitors.

At pages, the new edition is nearly three times the length of the original and summarizes many new studies. Instead the evidence of risk and actual harm from GM foods and crops to health and the environment has grown in the two years since we brought out the first edition. The report shows that there are far better ways of ensuring a safe and sustainable food supply. There is evidence that Roundup, even at the low levels permitted in food and drinking water, could lead to serious effects on health over time, such as liver and kidney toxicity.

Based on this evidence, it appears that the levels of exposure currently held as safe by regulators around the world are questionable. The GMO industry is built on myths. The prestigious National Academies of Science agrees with US regulatory agencies, scientists, and leading health associations worldwide that food grown from GM crops is safe to eat, and no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crop plants modified by conventional plant breeding techniques.

Banning GMOs results in negative health consequences because farmers would be forced to go back to using older, more toxic pesticides and access to food is more limited. Reality: Humans have been selectively breeding plants and animals for countless millennia, so all domesticated plant species—and even your pet dogs and cats—are technically genetically modified.

Genetic engineering replicates a process that has been occurring in nature for millions of years as bacteria and viruses regularly shuttle genes between different species. Additionally, organic growers are allowed to use certain types of pesticides, so some GMOs could claim to be safer than organics. An example might be a GM blight-resistant potato, which does not need toxic substances like copper sulfate or other fungicides often used to control blight in organic farming.

Ideally, genetic modification would be used to improve organic farming. Reality: No one plant breeding or agricultural system can or will feed 9 billion people in a sustainable manner. Myth: GMOs are used only in industrial, chemical-intensive agriculture.

Together, these online publications have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by people all over the world.

The current third printed edition was produced in response to requests for a shorter publication in book form that could be easily read, carried around, and given to others.

Requests for larger numbers should be directed to the US distributor, Chelsea Green. It provides the essential evidence of harm concisely and clearly, and every point is referenced to peer-reviewed scientific research publications or other reports or documents that can be checked by the reader.

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New information in the updated report includes: A review that is claimed by pro-GMO lobbyists to show that 1, studies show GM foods are as safe in fact shows nothing of the sort.

Instead many of the 1, studies cited show evidence of risk.