CSIRO to Start Human GMO Trials
June 25, 2011 2 Comments
ABC News
June 24, 2011
The CSIRO has been given permission to conduct Australia’s first trial in which humans will eat genetically modified wheat.
The wheat’s genes have been modified to lower the glycemic index and increase fibre to create a product which will improve bowel health and increase nutritional value.
For the first time, it is being grown in outdoor trials in the ACT.
The CSIRO’s Matthew Morell say animal feeding trials of up the three months have been done.
“Subject to that being successful we would move onto humans,” he said.
Dr Morell believes its a first for GM wheat. No genetically modified wheat strain has ever been approved for cropping in Australia.
“In Australia, that would be the case,” he said. “Internationally, I’m not aware of any others.”
But Laura Kelly from Greenpeace says there should be animal feeding trials for at least two years.
“You can see that they have no intention to test for negative health effects by just how short the time period is that they’re feeding this stuff to people,” she said.
The CSIRO has developed the wheat lines in a partnership which includes Europe’s largest grain company Limagrain.
The human trials are at least six months away.
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The official U.S. position on genetically-modified organisms is that there is no difference between them and natural organisms. The issue goes even further to suggest that no country should be able to require mandatory GMO labeling on food items, even though science shows that GMOs act differently in the body than do natural organisms and are a threat to health.
Is there some reason why Scientists can’t leave our food alone? If people eat norml food , not GMO food, they should do well as nature intended, since when do we need food that has been modified to be healthy? Our country is taking away all of the healthy food and replacing it with GMO garbage food that is unhealthy and now they are going to counter attack with food that is going to make you more healthy? just leave the food supply alone and we will be fine , let us grow our own food instead of being forced to eat this swill. There was nothing wrong with our food to begin with, as they say, “If it aint broke don’t fix it”.