Colpo di scena nell’affare Séralini: la direzione della rivista Food and Chemical Toxicology dove era stato pubblicato un articolo di Gilles-Eric Séralini sugli effetti devastanti sulle cavie di un mais transgenico e dell’erbicida Round-Up ha deciso di ritirare l’articolo.
Libération evidenzia come la decisione (del tutto immotivata nel referee degli esperti convocati che ammettono la veridicità delle prove portate da Séralini) sia effetto delle forti pressioni della celebre ditta multinazionale Monsanto,messa in causa dallo studio dello scienziato.
Alleghiamo le raccapriccianti foto presentate nell’articolo sugli effetti sui ratti dell’uso del mais, dell’erbicida e dei due insieme... No comment. Se non che , come abbiamo appreso da un recente report televisivo, anche nelle risaie del Vercellese sono adottate sementi di proprietà multinazionali, le stesse che producono gli erbicidi cui le varietà dovrebbero resistere...
Quousque tandem permetteremo a costoro di farci venire il cancro?
Quousque tandem abutere, Monsanto, patientia nostra?
Ecco l’abstract dell’articolo di Séralini
Abstract
The health effects of a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize (from 11% in the diet), cultivated with or without Roundup, and Roundup alone (from 0.1 ppb in water), were studied 2 years in rats. In females, all treated groups died 2–3 times more than controls, and more rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs. All results were hormone and sex dependent, and the pathological profiles were comparable. Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than and before controls, the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments. In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5–5.5 times higher. This pathology was confirmed by optic and transmission electron microscopy. Marked and severe kidney nephropathies were also generally 1.3–2.3 greater. Males presented 4 times more large palpable tumors than controls which occurred up to 600 days earlier. Biochemistry data confirmed very significant kidney chronic deficiencies; for all treatments and both sexes, 76% of the altered parameters were kidney related. These results can be explained by the non linear endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup, but also by the overexpression of the transgene in the GMO and its metabolic consequences.
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