GMO and Pesticides : Dangerous Effects on Human Health
Gilles-Éric Séralini, French researcher in molecular biology and GMO, affirms that the United States and very whole America must quickly make with the GMO if one does not want to live an extreme socio-medical crisis...
Question: Do you know what you eat at each day of your life? Do you really know?
In the American gastronomy, the Hamburgers (Bigmacs) forms part of the society as well as food containing corn.
Question: Do you know this which kind of corn you eat in your plate? Which are the effects of this corn?
It is what I will try to elucidate with you in this blog concerning this corn with more than 50 % modified for the people of USA and for other food too. I composed this blog to try to convince you that the situation is serious, very serious. It will not have to be astonished in a few decades from here, if there are serious problems in the medium of health. I created this blog to launch a cry of alarm which will be in my opinion very useful to inform more and more of people to this reality which is very critical for the current health of the individuals and that of the generations to come. We must speak about it as much as possible and I suggest you advising this blog with your entourage...
October 11, 2007, I attended a conference about GMO and pesticides: lauch a cry of alarm ! presented by Gilles-Éric Séralini, Researcher in molecular biology, president of the scientific Council of the Committee of research and information independent on the genetic engineering (CRII-GEN) and professor at University of Caen, in France. It is regarded as one of the first scientists who warned the population against the dangers related to the GMO. It acts, since 1998, as expert in two French governmental commissions charged to evaluate the GMO before and after their marketing. He recently published a most studie detailed on the signs of toxicity of marketed GMO (MON863) and works on the effects of the Round-Up, weedkiller major in the world used also with the GMO.
I thus your will present my summary of this conference. Be attentive!
Introduction
Today, in this sixth extinction of the species of planet, the GMO were never also present in humanity and the industrial rate/rhythm of production of these organizations which modifies the genetic inheritance is moreover in quickly. There are even GMO which are used in the depollution of the rivers too contaminated with heavy metals, but for the moment, that does not function very well. In the USA society, more than 50 % of the agriculture of corn consists of GMO.
Nowadays, by analyzing the blood of any child of the world, one can find gases of car there, chemicals, pesticides, plasticizers, retarders of flame, hydrocarbons, PCB and electrical insulators. There were studies carried out on the blood of several European members of Parliament and the scientists found around fifty of chemicals there.
To be able to change the world as regards agriculture, it would be necessary to be able to reconsider our economic system in which we live because it was invented in 18th century as if it were infinite without counting the exhaustion of the resources and taking into account pollution. To change economic system would require a social crisis which cannot be that negative because it can improve the mankind. We also neglected much the poisoning of the company by the development of humanity by exploiting our resources.
There is a serious problem with the pesticides because they are bioaccumulent in the body of the animals like the pig for example. There is thus less pesticide in cereals than in the lard because this one nourishes cereals.
Studies essential and debates on the mysteries of the GMO / pesticides would enable us to better include/understand what occurs with the types of cancer, the nervous diseases, problems of reproduction and immunity systems, Parkinson and Alzheimer.
The xenobiotic substances like fungicides, weedkillers, insecticides, pesticides, industrial products, the plasticizers which coat the heavy sandwiches( bisphenol A), drugs, metals and the GMO influential on the cellular transport by disturbing the hormones of the organization (endocrine system).
Effects of the GMO / pesticides on health

In USA, since we do not want to carry out the obligatory labelling of food GMO, we do not know the true causes of death as those which suffered from cancers, diabetes, nervous diseases and obesity. The pesticides, the GMO and the products in the air could also be for it the cause which we currently do not know.
The GMO cause two types of genetic pollution. The xenobiotics are a genetic pollution and the industrial products constitute the first type. These molecules can be stuck to the DNA, cause changes with the genetic material and cause cancer. In 1950, an ornithologist amateur discovered the case Bald Eagle, symbol of the United States, which was the first case. These birds found themselves without libido and this effect was caused by a too intense urbanization and chemical pollution.
In the Sixties, there were the first economic consequences of these first cases: the industry of the fur coat in is reached. It is particularly what arrived with the bisons which nourished fish contaminated to the PCB, an electrical insulator. Today, all the French territory is contaminated with the PCB, the results did not leave yet however.
In 1970, the history of the alligators of the Apopka lake influenced also much the industry of the bag in crocodile because 78 % of eggs only hatched. The researchers discovered that the size of the penises decreased enormously. They were victim of a feminization because of the sediments of glyphosate which were stored in the algae, small fish, the shrimps and finally in the large fishes whose alligators nourish themselves. These products were stored in the food chain, which caused problems on the level of the reproduction.
The testicles constitute the barometer of the environmental state of the chemical contamination of the animals including the human ones. In this body, it is there that there is the greatest cellular multiplication of all the organization. The pesticides cause a reduction in the spermatozoa at all the animal species without any exeption. Moreover, there are phenomenon of feminization, change of sexual behavior and congenital malformations of the babies caused by the contamination with the DDT. But, there is does not have studies at the human ones which prove it as that was done in the case of the animals.

In California, the scientists discovered seagulls females which nested together with 4-5 eggs instead of 3. That is with the contamination of the DDT.
Since the years 2000, the congenital malformations caused by the DDT at the babies increased. There are falls of the spermatozoa at the men, of cancers of more frequent testicles. In 50 years, the number of spermatozoa fell of more than 50 %. There is even increase in cancers especially at fabrics in contact with the environment except the brain, the liver and the kidney.
The danger of the GMO / pesticides is that their effects are felt in much the longer term because they accumulate very a long time in the organization with compared with the diseases of microbial origin and it is that the real danger. These molecular agents are much smaller and hard to locate, here is a limit of current medicine. The techniques of detection are more complex and more expensive for the chemical contamination. Special genes of human of the cytochrome p450 could be used using stimulative drugs in the future to detoxify the cells of the organization.
In the world of the pesticides, there are no clinical tests carried out to evaluate toxicity and then there is less of regulation, less follow-ups. For the world of the by-products and GMO, these observations are even more minimal and the thresholds of toxicity are evaluated on bases far from scientific. One does not hold account of the effect of the mixtures, the effects on the foetuses and the children, of the disturbing effects to the nervous system.
Cancers increase more and more in the industrialized countries for the children and cancer is a disease of the cellular communication, therefore the cells are not able any more to communicate between them. Cancer is the most serious disease of the cellular communication and the nervous diseases are the second.
In the Great Lakes of Canada and USA, it has more than 350 pollutants which one knows only 70 of these pollutants and one proportions very little the presence of the pesticides in the rivers mainly in Quebec of which the glyphosate. It should be mentioned that this ecosystem feeds nearly 40 million people.
If one combined in the air 5 toxic products like pesticides with nondangerous thresholds for each one of them, the researchers realized that the effect is 10 times more toxic than the threshold of an individual product because of the effect of a mixture. It will be necessary that the companies of the 21e century adapt to this phenomenon if not the economic sphere will be affected.

The residues of pesticides, the glyphosate contained in the Round-up are since 2006, the principal contaminants of the rivers in France. 70 to 80 % of the GMO in the world are developed to be able to absorb these products, to tolerate it, live with. Because it was one of the principal surface water pollutants, the scientists carried out studies of this weeding on the GMO. These product are found of course in hamburgers (bigmac) an corn food of the people of USA and Canada...
Researchers studied the effects of the Round-up on the embryonic cells of the farmers in Ontario since they often use this product. There is like results of the hormonal disturbances on the manufacture of the sex hormones. The glyphosate (active ingredient) is always less toxic when it is alone, but in the presence of other products as in a bottle of Round-Up, it is very toxic. Tested on cells of mouse, the Round-Up kills those in the 3 days space. In more this Round-Up is not biodegradable! The Round-Up was never tested in entirety with all its components before being sold with the store!
3 days after application of Round-Up on embryonic cells, liver, of placenta, testicles of rat, there is enormously cellular mortality. The Round-Up much also acts on the oestrogens which act in the ossification of the foetuses and it is perhaps for these reasons that there are congenital malformations at the babies.
There are 150 countries throughout the world with share Canada, the United States and Argentina which signed the international treaty on and the biosecurity which aims at identifying the GMO at the borders.
The GMO have like objective to live, with increasingly large concentrations of Round-Up, so that they are cultivated. There are soya GMO which do not die any more because they can tolerate the Round-Up with concentrations 100 000 times higher. In addition, there are GMO which have an insecticide inside them like corn LT. These are proteinic toxins that the corn manufactures to get rid of the insects. Thus corn LT does not decrease the quantity of insecticides used because the insecticide itself is inside corn and the total insecticides are more numerous in corn than the good old woman chemical method of spreadings on the grounds. The effects on health were not evaluated yet with these increasingly large insecticide concentrations. There are 13 % of the GMO world which make both at the same time: Tolerance with the insecticidal Round-Up / since 1998. 11 years ago already that the GMO are used.
All things considered, the GMO in agriculture are used to produce pesticides. In Europe, there were scientists who established a gene of dog in the corn genome, which can produce gastric lipase, a drug. It was less expensive for this European company to carry out this production in full nature than in interior medium confined in factory and that is criminal. In opened medium, the GMO can disperse by the machinery, transport, the birds, the bees, the wind, etc.
Soya and the corn constitute the plants which are generally genetically modified to create pesticides. Cotton and colza constitute 7 % of the world production of the GMO and they are used in textile industry. 98 % of the food producers of GMO are on the American continent: The United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Uruguay and Mexico. The three principal producers are the United States, Argentina and Brazil. In Europe, there is only 0,05% of food GMO, but this continent was the precursor because it was invented in 1983 with the first tobacco transgenic tolerating with a weedkiller. In 1994, this tobacco was authorized and a few following months, there was American transgenic tomato and it was removed market because it was not very good with consumption. Even in the meats frozen in America, there are GMO in order to make it possible those to be more tender with defrosting. In 2006, these food GMO represent 12 % of the agricultural surface of the United States and less than 7 % throughout the world.
Biological agriculture is against the genetic modifications, against the patents on the seeds GMO which prevent the access to the country or farm seeds, because the GMO tolerate the pesticides.
The GMO lead to the patents on artificial genes, which makes it possible to patent by the same blow living it. In 1980, the supreme court of the United States decided by 5 votes against 4 in favour of this type of brevetage. If companies can touch with patents which touch the four large plants of planet is soya, the corn, rice and the corn, those will be able to touch with royalties of the rich or poor citizens of the whole world. This type of trade perhaps will create the famine in the world because the poor countries will not have been able access there.
In the world, there are 30 000 edible vegetable species. 7000 vegetable species are only cultivated. 30 vegetable species provide 95 % of our energy. 15-20 % of the vegetable species are used to nourish us or nourish the animals which one eat. Soya, the corn, rice and the corn make more than 60 % of world food energy. Soon, the scientists will tackle rices and with corn...

Monsanto made some 90 days studies on rat which consumed GMO. The studies showed that there was beautiful and many harmful effects, but the studies were kept secret by the government. These effects were judged without significance. Was needed that Greenpeace requires of the German government the results, Monsanto said not, it was in hand and it lost. Then, it was in the course of call and it lost again.
Meanwhile, enquiring which made electronic microscopy, it gave soya Round-Up to animals and it looked under the microscope the various bodies and it saw disordered states in the cells of the liver, the pancreas and the testicles. Compounds being studied of RoundUp of M. Séralini, why not emit as assumption that makes sick...
For the studies carried out on a type of corn transgenic, the researchers discovered an increase in the white globules, a fall of red globules in the females, of the hormonal effects, increase in the glycemia in the female and the anomalies in the kidneys of the male.
In 2007, there are other studies on corn transgenic given to rats which include more statistics which reveal signs of toxicity and differences between those which do not eat a GMO and those which eat some. They have to analyze the whole of the bodies thereafter. In the females, it y increase in the blood of the sugar rate, an increase in greases in blood, an increase in the weight of the liver compared to the weight of the body, a augmentation of the weight of the body, problems renal and a beginning of diabetes because the toxin which kills the insect could produce lesions with the pancreas, which could have like effect to perforate this body. For the males, they are much more sensitive to the kidneys, the males age more quickly, much of parameters put out of order with the liver.
Nobody can thus know today in North America if the allergies, cancers, the nervous diseases, the diabetes and other diseases/deaths are caused by the GMO. It is not known if a person is allergic or not to a type of GMO in particular.
To sign a petition against GMO foods in United states and Canada, go to: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/471188295
Sources:
October 11, 2007 at University of Quebec at Montreal : Conference about GMO and pesticides: lauch a cry of alarm ! presented by Gilles-Éric
- Studies carried out by the researcher Gilles-Éric Séralini:
Endocrine Cytotoxic effects and aromatase inhibition by xenobiotic disrupters alone and in combination:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WXH-4NTJGX1-1&_user=10&_coverDate=07%2F15%2F2007&_alid=631314345&_rdoc=1&_fmt=summary&_orig=search&_cdi=7159&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1&_acct=C000050221&_ver
- Time and Amount Dependent Effects of Roundup one Human Embryonic and Placental Cells
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/244/2007/00000053/00000001/00000154
- New Analysis of has Rat Feeding Study with has Genetically Modified Maize Reveals Signs of Hepatorenal Toxicity







Le 13 novembre 2007, j'ai visualisé le film ''Homo Toxicus'' de Carole Poliquin qui est une enquête-choc à la première personne sur les contaminants chimiques qui se retrouvent à notre insu dans notre corps et c'était la première mondiale.
Les Inuits du Nunavut ont dans leur sang les quantités de mercure, de BPC et de pesticides les plus élevées au monde. Il y a beaucoup de problèmes d'audition sévères, des otites, de la surdité, des problèmes au niveau des tympans, etc. Les scientifiques pensent qu'il y a un lien entre les contaminants de l'air retrouvés dans cette région du globe et ces problèmes de santé. Plus les enfants sont exposés à ces toxiques, plus ils font des infections et leur système immunitaire s'affaibli. Ils sont plus susceptibles à des cancers et à des infections virales et bactériennes. Ce dérèglement du système immunitaire peut même aller jusqu'à une augmentation des allergies chez les enfants.
Plus d'allergies aux arachides et d'autres allergies mineures...Plus de déficit d'attention...et il y en a de plus en plus...C'est sûr que c'est multifactoriel, mais on apprend aujourd'hui que la pollution agit également comme cause.
Les normes de Santé Canada au niveau des pesticides sont beaucoup moins sévères que les normes européennes.
Il y a beaucoup de substances toxiques dans le fleuve de la belle province et beaucoup d'oestrogène également qui diminue la spermatogénèse (création des spermatozoïdes) des poissons en général. Donc moins de spermatozoïdes, les spermatozoïdes nagent moins dans le sperme. Donc, les chances de fécondation diminuent de plus en plus. Beaucoup de poissons mâles forment maintenant des ovules, donc il y a apparition de féminisation des mâles.
C'est là ou il y a beaucoup d'industries pétrochimiques au Canada. Il y a des raffineries, une centrale chimique au charbon, des industries pétrochimiques et un site d'enfouissement de déchets toxiques. À côté, il y a une réserve indienne dont la population est constituée de deux fois plus de filles que de garçons et ce n'est pas normal. Il y a beaucoup de fausses couches et la quasi-totalité de ces fausses couches sont des garçons. Il y a diminution progressive des naissances masculines dans cet communauté amérindienne. Il y a également beaucoup de problèmes d'asthme chez les enfants.


