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Séralini’s rat-feeding trial (part 5)
Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini is a French scientist researching pesticides and GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered, GE) crops. A research paper from his team was published in 2012, retracted (withdrawn) in 2013 and republished in 2014. Here it is. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, America, biotechnology, corn, crop variety, Europe, food safety, genetic modification, glyphosate, grain, herbicide, herbicide resistance, knowledge, lab animal, maize, maize NK603, mammal, Monsanto, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_monocot, rat, research, rodent, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, Séralini_Gilles-Eric, tumour, vertebrate
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The Séralini affair: weedkiller and a GM crop
Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini is famous or notorious depending on your point of view. He’s a French scientist researching pesticides and GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered) crops. For a few months by now, I’ve been gestating a blog post about the … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, biotechnology, corn, Europe, food safety, genetic modification, glyphosate, grain, herbicide, herbicide resistance, knowledge, lab animal, maize, maize NK603, mammal, Monsanto, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_monocot, rat, research, rodent, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, Séralini_Gilles-Eric, tumour, vertebrate
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Toxic pesticides
Gilles-Eric Séralini is famous for publishing controversial evidence that lab rats (Rattus norvegicus) got tumours after they ate genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered) maize (corn, Zea mays). Prof Séralini’s website explains that the maize was a Roundup Ready crop called … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, cell culture, corn, food safety, genetic modification, glyphosate, herbicide, human, knowledge, lab animal, laboratory, maize, maize MON863, maize NK603, mammal, Monsanto, pesticide, poison, rat, research, rodent, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, Séralini_Gilles-Eric, tumour, vertebrate
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Has the red kite become a pest?
Here in Britain the red kite (Milvus milvus) was hunted almost to extinction. In the 16th century it was classed as vermin, supposedly a threat to agriculture. A few centuries later, along came gamekeepers whose job was (and still is) … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged bird, bird of prey, child, conservation, earthworm, game, history, livestock, native species, pest, pet, poultry, predator, raptor, red kite, reintroduced species, rodent, shooting, vermin, vertebrate, wildlife
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8 Reasons GMOs are Bad for You
Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are created when a gene from one species is transferred to another, creating something that would not be found in nature. A large percentage of domestic crops (up to…
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Tagged biotechnology, Bt crop, corn, crop, crop diversity, crop variety, feed, food, food safety, genetic modification, knowledge, lab animal, law, maize, maize MON863, maize NK603, mammal, Monsanto, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, rat, research, rodent, Séralini_Gilles-Eric, soya, tumour, vegetable variety, vertebrate
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The badger cull – what we know and what we don’t know
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an infectious disease of cattle (Bos primigenius) caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. You could follow my ‘tuberculosis’ tag. Other animals can get bTB too. In Britain, some people think the native badger (Meles meles) is … Continue reading
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Tagged alien species, bacterium, badger, biosecurity, brushtail possum, cattle, data, deer, disease, farmer, foot and mouth disease, fox, history, knowledge, livestock, mammal, marsupial, mouse, mustelid, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, native species, poison, polecat, politics, research, reservoir, rodent, ruminant, shooting, shrew, squirrel, stoat, tuberculosis, vertebrate, vole, wildlife
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Don’t believe everything you read
Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham at Earth Open Source (EOS) advise us to beware of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI). Each of those organisations is proudly not for profit. According to Drs Robinson and Latham, ‘The life science industry… … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, allergy, America, biotechnology, corn, crop, feed, food safety, genetic modification, glyphosate, grain, herbicide, herbicide resistance, knowledge, lab animal, law, maize, maize MON863, maize NK603, mammal, Monsanto, pesticide, plant_monocot, politics, rat, research, rodent, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, Séralini_Gilles-Eric, tumour, vertebrate
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Rat poison ban could mean pest outbreak
Everywhere that people live in buildings, rats live too. In many places, including here in Britain, the most common kind of rat is the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). In different settings the rat is a charming pet (sometimes bred in … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterium, bromadiolone, building, difenacoum, disease, human, lab animal, law, leptospirosis, mammal, pest, pet, poison, rat, rodent, vermin, vertebrate, Weil's disease, zoonosis
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Uncovering the hidden mutations in developmental disorders
argylesock says… My science blog isn’t usually about genetics, but I’m reblogging this post. Recently we talked about bans on using animals to test cosmetics and I agreed that the ban should be worldwide. But there’s good science going on, … Continue reading
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Tagged disease, embryo, gene, genome, human, lab animal, laboratory, mammal, research, rodent, vertebrate
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