Please see the full report
http://www.enveurope.com/content/23/1/10
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"We can conclude, from the regulatory tests performed today, that it is unacceptable to submit 500 million Europeans and several billions of consumers worldwide to the new pesticide GM-derived foods or feed, this being done without more controls (if any) than the only 3-month-long toxicological tests and using only one mammalian species, especially since there is growing evidence of concern (Tables 1 and 2). This is why we propose to improve the protocol of the 90-day studies to 2-year studies with mature rats, using the Toxotest approach, which should be rendered obligatory, and including sexual hormones assessment too. The reproductive, developmental, and transgenerational studies should also be performed. The new SSC statistical method of analysis is proposed in addition. This should not be optional if the plant is designed to contain a pesticide (as it is the case for more than 99% of cultivated commercialized GMOs), whilst for others, depending on the inserted trait, a case-by-case approach in the method to study toxicity will be necessary."
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1. See the YouTube video "Slavoj Žižek in Examined Life." Near the end (8:27-9:09?) Žižek says something like "What I think we should do to properly approach the topic of ecological catastrophe, is not all this New Age stuff to break out of the technological manipulative mold, to find our roots in nature, but on the contrary, to cut off even more these roots in nature" and "we need more alienation from our life world, from our--as it were--spontaneous nature. We should become more artificial."
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