GMO-Fed Hamsters Become Infertile, Have Stunted Growth
Lisa Garber
NaturalSociety
August 7, 2012
NaturalSociety
August 7, 2012
Yet
another study has concluded that feeding animals GMOs results in higher
rates of infant mortality and causes fertility problems. Russian
biologist Alexey V. Surov and other researchers fed Campbell hamsters
(which have fast reproduction rates) Monsanto GM soy for two years. It
should be noted that hamsters do not evolutionarily eat soy—just as cows
fed Monsanto corn are actually ruminants and would not naturally eat
corn.
“Originally, everything went smoothly,” Surov told broadcasting service The Voice of Russia.
Surov and the researchers fed the same diet to three generations of the
hamsters, and that’s when they noticed things going awry.
GMO Causes Fertility Problems, Slow Growth, Hair Growth in Mouths
“We noticed quite a serious effect when we selected new pairs from
their cubs and continued to feed them as before. These pairs’ growth
rate was slower and reached their sexual maturity slowly.” By the third
generation, the hamsters were infertile.
Many animals on the GM diet even displayed rare, strange pathologies like hair growing in recessed pouches inside their mouths. “Some of these pouches contained single hairs,” said Surov in Doklady Biological Sciences,
“others, thick bundles of colorless or pigmented hairs reaching as high
as the chewing surface of the teeth. Sometimes, the tooth row was
surrounded with a regular brush of hair bundles on both sides. The
hairs grew vertically and had sharp ends, often covered with lumps of
mucous.” Surov and other authors concluded that because rates of hairy
mouths occurred more frequently in third-generation GM-fed animals, the
condition may have resulted of the GM feed. Surov says contaminants and
herbicide residue (like Roundup) could be to blame as well.
Other Victims of GMOs
Other than fertility problems, the GMO phenomenon has been noticed
elsewhere—even in our own United States. Farmers using GM feed have
reported infertile pigs and cows. Other incidents involving GMOs
include:
- Austrian researchers reporting 4th generation “Frankencorn”-fed mice totally infertile.
- Thousands of dead sheep, buffalo, and goats in India after grazing on GM cottonseed.
- Offspring of mother rats fed GM soy dead within three weeks and recorded smaller sizes.
- Cooked GM soy with up to 7 times the amount of a soy allergen.
- Organ lesions, altered liver and pancreas cells, and changed enzyme levels.
- Excessive cell growth in the stomach lining of GM-potato-fed rats, potentially leading to cancer.
- GMO corn contributing to human obesity and organ disruption.
Overall, GM sounds like a sweet deal only for Monsanto (and our own FDA and USDA, repeatedly found in bed with them). It remains a bad deal for us, the consumers.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/gmo-fed-hamsters-become-infertile-have-stunted-growth/#ixzz233RZejxj
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