Manufacturing the Global Food and Agricultural Crisis
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/22/manufacturing-the-global-food-and-agricultural-crisis/ From the Boardroom to the Field Manufacturing the Global Food and Agricultural Crisis by COLIN TODHUNTER In 2012, Professsor Seralini of the University of Caen in France led a team that carried out research into the health impacts on rats fed GMOs (genetically modified organisms). The two-year long study concluded that rats fed GMOs experienced serious health problems compared to those fed non GM food. Not long after, a new major peer-reviewed study emerged that threw into question the claim often forwarded by the biotech sector that GMO technology increases production and is beneficial to agriculture. Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand found that the GM strategy used in North American staple crop production is limiting yields and increasing pesticide use compared to non-GM farming in...