Corn and canola are engineered to produce a pollen-sterilizing toxin called barnase.
Barnase is toxic to human cells and causes kidney damage in rats.
Although the GM plants were designed to produce the toxin in a non-food part of the
plant, some of the toxin is likely to be produced in all parts of the plant.
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Check out the Le Monde research.
You may want to include it in future
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Comments by Jeffrey M. Smith
Date: May 11, 2007
Thank you for this update, which we will be sure to include in the newer editions of Genetic Roulette. Le Monde wrote an article about this new research, which is posted here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/
article_4790.cfm.
