Pharmageddon or cultivation "pharmaceutical" plant

Try to imagine a field sown with genetically modified crops, which are grown for the production of drugs or industrial chemicals. Now imagine them mixed with your meal. The Ministry of agriculture intends to reduce the restrictions on the cultivation of "pharmaceutical" plants. Biotech companies develop food plants for the production of medical drugs and industrial chemicals, and are grown these plants under the open sky, often in regions with developed agriculture. Scientists and independent experts Union of Concerned Scientists agree that there is a very serious danger: "pharmaceutical" crops, such as rice, corn and soybeans, can infect the food products of medicinal and industrial chemicals that are a potential threat to human health. So far the USDA has not shown zeal nor in legislation, nor oversight, nor in the sphere of public accountability in matters relating to the cultivation of farm crops in the open ground. Food industry, agriculture and public organizations joined the UCS calls to ban the growing of Pharma food crops outdoors. Despite these warnings and the presence of risk, the new proposals of the Ministry of agriculture could further weaken the oversight of the cultivation of farm crops.







Genetically modified sweetener aspartame (E951, or NutraSweet) is the second most popular sweetener in the world and is part of a huge number of products. These are soft drinks, hot chocolate, chewing gum, candy, yogurt, vitamins, pills against cough and so on.

In food industry, aspartame is used more than 30 years. At the time of its approval by the Directorate of food and drug products in the USA (FDA) checks for Carcinogenicity gave a negative result. But some researchers did not support the point of view of the FDA.

Doubts were confirmed after a number of women in the US have discovered evidence of malignant cellular changes caused by the use of this GM product. 780 of them have filed a lawsuit against the company-the developer of aspartame G. D. Searl, who was forced to grant sued and to pay the victims $ 28 million.

In recent studies of Italian scientists concluded that aspartame is carcinogenic and toxic agent. The experiment lasted more than 3 years. Aspartame was added in different concentrations in the food of rats, causing the animals showed a clear tendency to the development of different types of malignant cell formations, including lymphoma and multiple tumors of various organs.

Scientists suggest that the situation in the formation of malignant tumors and leukemia are two components, which are formed when heated to +30 ° C: formaldehyde, a powerful carcinogen, and methanol, which is also highly toxic. For humans negative effects from the use of aspartame comes in daily dose of 20 mg/kg of body weight, which is much less than the recommended (50 mg/kg in the US and 40 mg/kg in Europe). In case of poisoning with this sweetener have a loss of consciousness, dizziness, rash, joint pain, hearing loss, decline of vision, up to complete loss.



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