GMOs are prohibited in organic agriculture due to health and safety concerns. Studies have found that both GM maize and the herbicide Roundup acted as endocrine disrupters, causing female animals to die at much higher rates. The WHO classified glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as probably carcinogenic to humans. Additional studies found GM corn associated with stomach inflammation in pigs, and GM soy was found to damage rat livers and testicles, causing higher mortality rates and smaller litter sizes in rat offspring.

1. Why GMOs are Prohibited in
Organic Agriculture?
Rights of Nature Tribunal, Dec 4, 2015 Paris
Andre Leu, President

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The Myths of Safe Pesticides and
GMOs
• The majority of GMO crops have been approved
without adequate feeding trials
• The most recent study led by Professor Gilles-
Eric Seralini found that both the GM maize and
Roundup acted as endocrine disrupters and
resulted in the females dying 2 -3 times more
than the control animals. (Seralini et al 2014)
• This is the only life time feeding study done on
GMOs

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The Myths of Safe Pesticides and
GMOs
Most females had mammary tumors

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The Myths of Safe Pesticides and
GMOs

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The Reality
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC) gave glyphosate (the active
ingredient in Roundup) the second highest classification of:
Group 2A: Probably carcinogenic to humans
Group 2A is for substances where there is sufficient evidence
of causing cancer in animals and limited studies in humans.
According to IARC, the 2A classification was because:
‘strong mechanistic evidence; for malathion and glyphosate,
the mechanistic evidence provided independent support of
the 2A classification based on evidence of carcinogenicity in
humans and experimental animals.’

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Are the current residues in food safe?

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Are the current residues in food safe?

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The Myths of Safe GMOs
Carman et al. (2013) reported that a diet of GE corn
and soy was associated with stomach inflammation
in pigs.

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Killed about 100 people and caused
5,000-10,000 to fall sick
•The epidemic was discovered because the
disease
1.Was new, with unique symptoms
2. Acute
3. Came on quickly
L-tryptophan produced by GM bacteria
GM L-tryptohan

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Intestinal Wall
Non-GM GM

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Stomach lining
Non-GM GM

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Mice livers
Control GM-fed
Hepatocyte Nuclei

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Mice livers
Control GM-fed
Hepatocyte Nuclei

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GM Soy Damages Rat Livers
C, D – GM-soy groupА, B – control group
A
B
C
D
Dr. Irina Ermakova

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Rat Testicles
Control GM soy fed
GM-soyControl
Testicular cells had altered structure and function
European Journal of Histochemistry, 2004

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GM-soy
group
Ermakova Irina, 2005-2007
Mortality of rat
offspring for
one day
Control
Non-
GM soy
GM-soy
GM SOY

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Rat litters at
9-days from mothers fed
non-GM
or GM soy.
Non-GM soy group
GM-soy group
Irina Ermakova, 2005-2007
GM SOY

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19-day old rats
Larger rat is from control group;
smaller from GM-soy group. Irina Ermakova,
2005-2007
GM SOY

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The Reality