tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107222193317914082024-03-12T15:04:11.379-07:00Veterinary GMO Science Blog Dr..Ena Valikov's Veterinary GMO Explainers
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Did you know Pesticide Companies are in charge of your baby's food? Honestly, they are. beaachvetlbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17425432159269941522noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-710722219331791408.post-38118392864264172352019-02-19T13:27:00.001-08:002019-06-26T22:34:29.037-07:00Massaging numbers in a Faustian bargain. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Roundup, the most ubiquitous chemical in agriculture does not cause cancer</h3>
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OOOOPS. Glyphosate increases risks of lymphoma by 41% ?!</h3>
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More than 11,000 People Are Now Suing <a href="https://twitter.com/Bayer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Bayer</a> over Weedkiller Cancer Risk <a href="https://t.co/f838gEqy0H">https://t.co/f838gEqy0H</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Radical idea: read the two studies pivotal in the "bellwether" case!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "old standard tt" , serif;">And rather carefully since Monsanto deemed the AHS </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia, "old standard tt", serif; font-style: italic;">the most valuable epidemiological study </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "old standard tt" , serif;">in</span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia, "old standard tt", serif; font-style: italic;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "old standard tt" , serif;">a class action lawsuit involving thousands of plaintiffs and billions of dollars in damages riding on it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The National Cancer Institute occupational cohort study (AHS) enrolled two cohorts --applicants for commercial and private pesticide licenses. It also enrolled private pesticide licensee spouses following the cohorts through four phases. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The latest installment, phase IV was released to great fanfare last year and cited widely by pro-glyphosate advocates as the most comprehensive study on 54,000 (??) "farmers" proving decisively that Roundup does not cause cancer. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Commercial pesticide applicants could theoretically be operating out of a mansion in Bel Air with a crew of pesticide "handlers" doing the actual spraying. Private pesticide license holders are primarily conventional farmers likely spraying their fields themselves, and so the degree of exposure to Roundup between the two groups are presumably somewhat different. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No true control group without any occupational exposure-o</span><span style="font-size: large;">rganic farmers not using Roundup were recruited- there was no unexposed group comparison. And since </span><span style="font-size: large;">pesticide licenses are </span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><b>only required for the restricted use of pesticides, and</b></i><span style="font-size: large;"> Roundup is not a restricted use pesticide, home gardeners or farmers using a chemical marketed as safe as salt, coffee, and sunshine, who didn't get safety training are likely exposed to much higher levels of Roundup than anyone in either cohort--but are not represented in this study. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">So flaws are already evident in the basic study design in spite of "expansiveness" of the study enrolling over 89,651 "farmers". T</span><span style="font-size: large;">he method of original selection is akin to recruiting groups to measure effects of cigarettes by comparing cancer rates of half a pack a day smokers to a pack a day smokers while excluding nonsmokers and three packs a day smokers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">HUH!! WHY IS</span><span style="color: red;"> 46% reported as 60%?? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Maybe it is just a solitary goof up, an innocent arithmetical error?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let's repeat it in the next row, the spouses of private pesticide license applicants followed up. Because attrition of the male farmers might be somewhat compensated if the spouses were followed up. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">23796/32345x100=73,75%</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Nope! There it is again! 56% of spouses reported as <span style="color: red;">61%, </span>the same as in the summary! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">What is so special about 60%? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Once is an error, twice is an unlikely coincidence, but that weird 60% again, four separate times, National Cancer Institute-- inflating the numbers of people followed up? It's not a sporadic mistake, it is weird shenanigans deliberately misleading and fraudulent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Wonder why? Let's learn a bit about fundamental guidelines on<a href="http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP713_CohortStudies/EP713_CohortStudies4.html"> follow up in cohort studies.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Instead of admitting that losses to follow up introduced significant bias if they were due to Roundup exposure resulting in lymphoma, for instance, they fudged the numbers to underestimate risks of lymphoma by blatantly posting misleading, outright wrong percentages, to avoid raising suspicions. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">If this is not fraud, I do not know what is. </span></i></b><br />
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<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The missing data and gaps one can drive a Mack truck through are mitigated by "imputation" as the student who wrote the second study, the "explosive" meta-analysis, based on the AHS study mentions, which Carey does not notice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">97% of average readers never ever read past the headline, 2% read the entire article, while 0.9% click on the original study's abstract, and 0.1% read the actual peer-reviewed study. How many people do you suppose cross-checked the complex computer-generated statistical "imputations" or the statistical veracity of the meta-analysis or understood the sleigh of hand Carey used to misrepresent the meta-analysis?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's a safe bet that a number of readers are approximately zero-- a statistical black box, as naturally comprehensible, intuitive and accessible as the one holding Schrodinger's dead and alive cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">He clearly couldn't care less if this information ever reaches medical professionals. If it was really about hypothyroidism or lymphoma to advance animal or human health, he'd certainly be reporting on it in JAMA, JAVMA, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, where endocrinopathies are customarily discussed by medical professionals who diagnose and treat living breathing patients with this all too common disease. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">For Carey's team, there is no difference between science and politics. The AHS gave linking Roundup with hypothyroidism and leukemia so our "science"- defending journalism team will be happy to trade off and compromise on lymphoma and roll the rotting fraudulent AHS over into a meta-analysis that undergoes a spontaneous metamorphosis into a dazzling edifice of scientific certainty that is supposed to sway a jury and a judge that Round Up caused lymphoma. These folks are not Einsteins, methinks. </span><br />
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Study touted by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Monsanto?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Monsanto</a> and allies as giving <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/glyphosate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#glyphosate</a> a clean bill of health actually found a possible association with the most common form of acute leukemia in adults (AML.) Authors urged followup studies. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/media?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#media</a>? See eg: <a href="https://t.co/O3j4Qrje6d">https://t.co/O3j4Qrje6d</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NRDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nrdc</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "meta-analysis" is a mash-up of heterogenous case-control studies with a prospective cohort (AHS) study in which the authors </span><span style="font-size: large;">emphasizing several points.--the highly unusual methodology, discarding all data except for the highest levels of occupational exposure to farmers and listing pages upon pages of limitations </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">which Carey obviously missed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">A meta-analysis is as good as the sum of its individual studies. No matter how fancy the statistics, you can not build a robust meta-analysis based on studies with weak evidence any more than erecting a house with weight bearing beams and joists of rotting wood on a warped foundation. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">As I contend, the AHS study was fraudulent, but suppose that it was not. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The authors discarded all the AHS data except for </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">the<i></i><i> highest occupational exposures, including</i></b><span style="font-size: large;"> in a lengthy study just one sentence Carey wanted for <b><i>perfect sensationalized click-bait: glyphosate raises (relative) risks of lymphoma by 41%!! </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/about/key-statistics.html">lifetime risk of lymphoma in 2019 is 1/42 in men and 1/54 in women. </a>Which means that according to Carey's team, if a farmer is using glyphosate at a <i><b>maximum level</b></i> for a maximum period of time, and has none of the risk factors recognized by cancer experts--their <i><b>lifetime risk rises from 2.3% to 3.25% </b></i>in a lifetime. E</span><span style="font-size: large;">pic win for the Anti-Roundup Team? Certainly not a tabloid journalism clickbaity byline. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "old standard tt" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The self-appointed science guardians, unfortunately, appear to lack traits one seeks in a science journalist- curiosity, skepticism, and competence in science starting with elementary school arithmetic. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "old standard tt" , serif; font-size: large;">Because figuring out when science is used to manipulate rather than inform does not get much easier than this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The approximated risks in the hyped</span><span style="font-size: large;"> "meta-analysis" only apply to <i><b>extreme occupational exposure </b></i>and is absolutely irrelevant to the general public. </span><span bellwether="" blockquote="" case="" class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" don="" first="" i="" in="" judge="" lymphoma="" round="" shenanigans="" shennanigans="" sooo.="" sway="" t="" the="" these="" think="" up="" will=""></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tinos"; font-size: large;">You see why pro-GMO, pro-glyphosate people like it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in animals and limited in humans classifying it as a probable carcinogen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">And an astute science minded judge will see right through the manipulation. So, in the bellwether case on farmer lymphoma, the judge unsurprisingly</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> tosses Carey's entire idea of "science and truth" to the curb by bifurcating the case causing spasms of consternation for depriving the jury of "evidence".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> He directs the plaintiffs to first <b><i>prove causation of lymphoma</i></b> before anything in Carey's science-free book of anecdotes and chapters of insinuations called Whitewash that by the way, garnered a Rachel Carson award from American Society for Environmental Journalism, </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">documenting in tedious detail the <i>"industry playbook"</i></span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">(and </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">is just one of dozens i</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">n that genre that includes such science luminaries as the Food Babe)</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> is deemed relevant to whether hard science supports the claim that Round Up actually caused human cancer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">And when the judge restricts plaintiffs suing for lymphoma to hard science on causation alone deeming your "nuggets of truth" and your book completely irrelevant to the case--you do what your singular specialty has been all along-- you smear the judge's integrity with insinuations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Insightful story on Judge Chhabria's role in the Hardeman v. Monsanto proceedings by Joel Rosenblatt at Bloomberg <a href="https://twitter.com/business?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@business</a>. Check it out. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MonsantoTrial?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MonsantoTrial</a> <a href="https://t.co/Xh8XHeW4OU">https://t.co/Xh8XHeW4OU</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you own a vagina, a vajajay, a hoohah, a pussy, a pooter, a fuzzy wuzzy, a wookie </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or that unmentionable thing "down there"--</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> real news, </i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the venerable New York Times, understands your need for a trustworthy expert.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Produced by </span><a href="https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/d3jxzv/this-netflix-show-explores-why-people-do-detoxes-and-other-wellness-trends" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tim Caulfied-- a lawyer by training, and a health and science policy researcher</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> by industrial inclination. The first episode stars New York Times vagina expert, Dr. Jen, and costars Dr. Schwarcz, a chemist by training; and a religious expert, Alan Levinovitz--with no, none, zero scientific expertise of any sort. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">New York times selected a medical expert to help you keep your vagina fine-tuned like a Stradivarius. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will teach you how to clean it--don't,... it's like a self-cleaning oven. No joke!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s your official vetted certified media tour guide on appropriate objects to insert into your vagina---Dr. Jen is weirdly adamant about one thing--tampons, but most definitely not jade eggs. Jade what, you said? What? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Why?</span></div>
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I recognize the Biofortified plushy because the little stuffed corn showed up completely randomly in my flower bed, right outside my hospital, right after a 10,000- Monsanto-member Facebook page cyber attack on my 500-real humans' hospital Facebook page. </div>
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A potentially fatal disorder that results from the interaction of immune system ( that responds differently in younger people than the aged) with variants of super-toxin or super-antigen releasing aerobic bacteria, Staph aureus, and Strep pyogenes. Aerobic bacteria, remember--needs oxygen to live, while vaginas are anaerobic- supporting growth of friendly house-keeping anaerobic (oxygen-hating) bacteria. </div>
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Mr. Bob Folly, the CEO of GMOs Are the Bomb, Inc., is a leader of agricultural biotechnology, awarded with the National Medal of Technology in 1998, the Mother Theresa Medal presented by the Queen of England in 2006 and 2008, the Norman Borlaug Medal of Innovation in 2000, the World Food Prize Laureate in 1993 and 1995 through 2016, and the Rachel Carson Prize for environmental stewardship for 2017. He coauthored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. Today, Mr. Folly stopped by the Washington Tribune to discuss the challenges of addressing consumer concerns about biotechnology. </h3>
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<i><b>WT:</b></i> <i>GMOs Are the Bomb started marketing Pesticide Ready GMO seeds in 1996, over two decades ago, yet they continue to raise consumer concerns. Why do you think that might be?</i></div>
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<b><i>Folly:</i></b> Over the decades our Pesticide Ready GMOs have been commercialized, there has not been a single food problem associated with our seeds, not even a runny nose;<a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/10/gmo-junk-science-meets-junk-journalism.html"> trillions of meals have been eaten by billions of animals </a>and not a single problem has ever been reported.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">“In addition, GMO produce is doused with large doses of pesticide — more and more each year as weeds become resistant. Glyphosate (Roundup) is now found in the urine of the majority of Americans from the food they eat, and glyphosate has recently been found to be carcinogenic. Records uncovered at Monsanto show they knew about these carcinogenic properties decades ago but there was money to be made. </span></blockquote>
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“Personally, I suffered several chronic health issues (digestive problems, allergies, brain fog, low energy, frequent colds and flus) in the 2000-2010 period. Then I took a 30-day non-GMO challenge in 2011. For 30 days I ate no GMOs and only ate organic food. Within 3 weeks my chronic health issues disappeared and I turned that 30-day diet into a permanent diet. It was life-changing. Now the only time symptoms return is when I eat that crappy food in restaurants when on vacation."</blockquote>
<b><i>Folly:</i></b> We are on top of it, don't you worry. We recognized the need for a team of special communicators to improve consumer understanding and organized the GMO are the Bomb Education Response Teams ( their skills in copy-and-pasting exact quotes from our manuals with authenticity flourishes for our profit's sake is outstanding)<br />
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We screen them for ability to (never) think independently (and then we refine their ignorance).<br />
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<b><i>WT: </i></b><i>We interviewed a veterinarian who claims that GMOs have not been proven safe.</i><br />
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<b><i>WT: </i></b>This vet has been writing about some bacteria that glyphosate could be suppressing that could be predisposing animals to <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/04/stubborn-stones.html">bladder and kidney stones.</a> She says after several years of asking questions of <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2016/03/gmo-politics-corrode-science.html">Monsanto friendly scientists</a>, none provided the answer- a cheap three day test called MIC.<br />
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<b><i>Folly:</i></b> Well, we have that under control, <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/04/yelping-on-yelpand-facebook-too.html">we already took care of it.</a><br />
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<b><i>Folly:</i></b> Well, that's a little silly. Food isn't medicine- drugs are- and there is absolutely no mechanism identified in the most thoroughly researched (by us) drug, I mean food, in the history of science. -- The process of genetic transformation using CaMV viral promoter, bacterial transgenes and terminators inserted ever so precisely into a plant -- which could <i>possibly </i>lead to any harm.<br />
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<b><i>Folly:</i></b> Hmmm. These are the most deliberately precisely modified and rigorously tested plants in history of all of science! We are certain of it, and our (confidential proprietary) studies prove it -- you'll just have to trust us on it. (And besides, it would take a very long time and a lot of financial resources to trace those crazy things people are scared of to our GMOs.)<br />
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The solution was given away free to local farmers. It didn't involve bio-tech companies at all. <a href="https://t.co/eWeFr1eB6N">https://t.co/eWeFr1eB6N</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoodEvolution?src=hash">#FoodEvolution</a> <a href="https://t.co/yc2yQkHCgv">pic.twitter.com/yc2yQkHCgv</a></div>
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<i>Papaya! The poster child of GMOs that's going to win your heart... </i><br />
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Monsanto, Dupont, Dow Chemical and allies in the processed food industry are waging an expensive media blitz campaign since California triggered a conversation with its ballot initiative to label genetically modified organisms. <br />
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It's no surprise to anyone following biotechnology farm wars and knowers of Propaganda strategies to sell the public on safety of everything from Toxic Sludge to Monsanto's first genetically engineered and soundly rejected product--Bovine Growth Hormone, described decades ago in must read books such as <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?162637-1/trust-us-experts">"Trust us...We are the Experts" </a><br />
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Behind the scenes, Monsanto is embroiled in class-action lawsuits with victims of non Hodgkins lymphoma which the cancer experts at the World Health Organization last year linked to Roundup, the glyphosate-based herbicide sprayed on <i>greater than 90% </i>of commercialized GMOs. But you won't see a health advisory about Monsanto's probable carcinogen in this "fact" based junkumentary. </div>
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Instead, the movie focuses on papaya, a boutique fruit representing less than 0.5% of GMOs that Hawaii exports to affluent consumers. Permit the GMO science persuader-in-chief Mark Lynas, among many others <i>with no science degree of any sort to</i> pummel your brain with his industry cultured science pearls and sit your ass down and cringe through a movie painting critics as ignoramuses and guilting them for standing in the way of science. Science!--Cue beautiful cinematography, clever editing and emotion arousing music pulling your heartstrings. Ah, power of the arts has finally been put to great use to frame meticulously selected, pure-intentioned victimized patent holding scientists determined to help people. Most especially the poor in third world countries.</div>
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But what has this movie brushed out as it explores the central question: Can GMOs be a force for good? As biotechnology advocates plead to increase food production for the next billion hungry mouths about to arrive on our planet, ardent promoter of GMOs and photogenic scientist next door at my alma mater, Pamela Ronald and her organic-farmer husband assert that organic and GMO agriculture are complementary, puzzled about all the fuss between radically different worlds of farming-- <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/08/22/how-food-actually-gets-wasted-in-the-united-states/?utm_term=.c2cc48577213">dumpsters of evidence are piling up that prove otherwise.</a><br />
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This multi-multibillion dollar agrochemical conglomerate whose mega profits are rooted in selling ever greater amounts of toxic herbicides, insecticides and their associated genetically engineered seeds can't believe you are skeptical of their motives to feed the starving in undeveloped nations as they clamor to expand their global market share.</div>
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It certainly doesn't matter that GMOs are optimized for monocultures, feeding primarily cars (40% goes into ethanol), factory-farmed livestock, junk food industry and our pets. And as a long practicing clinician, I will have much more to say about GMO safety to pets -- they eat more GMOs than people do. </div>
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Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/foodevomovie">@foodevomovie</a> before trashing/supporting it - that is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/science?src=hash">#science</a> - i.e let data & weight of evidence inform your opinion <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DataNotDogma?src=hash">#DataNotDogma</a></div>
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Care to explain why Food Evolution is comparing Monsanto's <b>profits</b> with Whole Foods'?<br />
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Trying hard to <a href="https://usrtk.org/gmo/food-evolution-gmo-film-serves-up-chemical-industry-agenda/">keep 'Monsanto' dirty fingerprints out</a> of this documentary.. supposedly an unbiased movie about science, facts, and D.A.T.A. while really only underscoring Public Relations tactics. </div>
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We all have a right to our own opinion but what about our own facts? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FeastOnFacts?src=hash">#FeastOnFacts</a> w. <a href="https://twitter.com/foodevomovie">@foodevomovie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CityCinemasNYC">@CityCinemasNYC</a> <a href="https://t.co/FLOMdVCenL">https://t.co/FLOMdVCenL</a> <a href="https://t.co/veEHsIEuvf">pic.twitter.com/veEHsIEuvf</a></div>
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The main point the director of this movie drives home obsessively is safety of GMOs, as solid as if it was written in granite rather than evolving, fluid science. Since rock solid, definitive GMO safety by sheer coincidence, is Monsanto's feverish dream -- it's worth mentioning that Alison, this movie's star, published a "landmark study" hyperbolically spun by the very same supporting actors promoting this<i> </i>junkumentary (including<a href="http://www.polluterwatch.org/jon-entine"> Jon Entine</a> of Genetic Literacy, <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2016/03/gmo-politics-corrode-science.html">Kevan Senapathy</a> with her platform on Forbes, <a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-the-american-council-on-science-and-health/">Hank Campbell of Science 2.0 and ACSH</a>...).<br />
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Ah, so the weight gain of billions of chickens was due to genetics - confounding factor she didn't correct for in her famous billions of chickens GMO study? Oh, by the way, the more efficient production of chicken meat must <i>automatically</i> indicate the safety of GMOs.<br />
No, not just to chickens, don't be silly--but safe to you, too, of course.<br />
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If one were to apply Alison & Co.'s methods of over-interpreting chicken production to health implications in pets and humans, one would arrive at the troubling conclusion that GMOs <i>are</i> in fact associated with obesity. With its world-leading consumption of GMOs, the United States is also coincidentally a leader in obesity epidemic seen in pets and humans associated with devastating chronic diseases: diabetes, kidney, liver and heart disease as well as cancer. These diseases will never be diagnosed in livestock (Alison's area of expertise) because they have long latency periods, and chickens slaughtered at 47 days just don't live long enough. And even if it was possible, Alison wouldn't be the one diagnosing these chronic diseases: she isn't a veterinarian! Livestock geneticists can't diagnose GMO harm to health of living patients, any more than plant scientists or astrophysicists -- neither the producers nor the scientists in this movie can speak credibly on GMO safety because they are overstepping into the realm of veterinary and human medicine.<br />
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Takes a village to correct misleading journalism- especially by those with financial &/ intellectual conflicts of interest.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeConsensus?src=hash">#FakeConsensus</a> <a href="https://t.co/jUL0HaERUK">https://t.co/jUL0HaERUK</a></div>
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<i><br /></i><i><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?162637-1/trust-us-experts">Here's a suggestion. Don't be a dunce! You have every right to feel insulted. </a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?162637-1/trust-us-experts">Get outraged</a> at these </i><i><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?162637-1/trust-us-experts">Propaganda Mongering Public-Manipulating & Infantilizing Relations </a></i><br />
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A long-awaited four hundred pages long <a href="https://nas-sites.org/ge-crops/">GMO study</a>-- was published this week by the National Academy of Sciences. People overly impressed with titles or grandiose institutions are easily intimidated, in the same way as walking through the Vatican-- makes you feel too insignificant to challenge it, blinded by the imposing structure.But in science--unlike religion and politics, titles and institutional <i>gravitas</i> aren't credible arguments.<br />
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Lets look beyond the massive appeal to authority and check the substance. In this study, the NAS, which reports to the US Congress, is basing <b> human health </b>conclusions on <b>animal</b> studies, most of which I am familiar with having read the literature on the subject for about five years.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/davidgaliel">@davidgaliel</a> Denial of ur science illiteracy, u mean?<br />
You have to flunk *Arithmetic* to believe GMOs safe <a href="https://twitter.com/specterm">@specterm</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes">@nytimes</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">Typically, I recommend you don't just read the headlines in the press, the title, don't settle for the abstract. My usual habit is reading the entire text, studying the tables and figures, introduction through the discussion section. </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">Read studies from stem to stern-</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">-</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">I normally do.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Rather, I learned enough in just one short paragraph to formulate the conclusion that </span>over four hundred pages of this document will be using more words than necessary to say far less than is needed about GMO impacts on animal and human health <span style="font-weight: normal;">for such an elite, prestigious institution.</span><br />
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And <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">This "study" on BILLIIONS OF BROILER CHICKENS is how The National Academy of Sciences became </span><a href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/sites/default/files/ib_1605_nrcinfluence-web.pdf" style="font-family: "times new roman";">The National Academy of Alchemy- attempting to turn chicken shit into diamonds.</a><br />
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If you want to hear the cacophony of what I heard, click on the violins above for my interpretation. Separating the chaff of biased opinion from kernels of evidence-- the actual livestock data-- will leave you with one table encompassing the entirety of it.<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/statistics/u-s-broiler-performance/"><span style="color: red;">It is here</span></a>.</span> <=<b>This represents the "long term data" on 95% of the livestock </b>-- the evidence used by the National Academy of Sciences to support the claim of long-term absence of harm to animals.<br />
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[1] Please add 400 rats together in all the tables in the standard rodent test conducted on the most prevalent GMO's in the food supply. <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/01/dear-food-and-chemical-toxicology.html">HERE</a> The Monsanto study that Van EEEnnnneeeennnnamaaam who is NOT <a href="https://www.beachvethospital.com/about_us">an animal medical expert</a>, nor has the integrity, competence or ethics to ever be completely erased!<br />
[2] Since GMO Gremlins hacked the link to say "this blog post doesn't exist"- here is<a href="https://gmonion.com/"> another link to help you do GMO Arithmetic. </a><br />
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Study GMO effects on Animal Health-without DVMs (experts) defies common sense. <a href="https://twitter.com/FarmFairyCrafts">@FarmFairyCrafts</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/cecilbadlands">@cecilbadlands</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/theNASEM">@theNASEM</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Olivefarmer">@Olivefarmer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/xkit">@xkit</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Professor Michelle McGuire of Washington State University and her husband, Mark, of the University of Utah published a<a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/03/30/ajcn.115.126854.full.pdf+html"> crucial study</a> that could potentially influence EPA's regulation of glyphosate.[2] </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> After a citizen science project by Moms Across America detected glyphosate in urine as well as breast milk of three of ten women tested, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Monsanto- unsurprisingly- went on an offensive glyphosate-defense campaign to dismiss the findings- not unlike tobacco scientists publishing junk science </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/">to manufacture doubt</a> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">about carcinogenicity of tobacco. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact Monsanto uses the identical laboratory established by Big Tobacco to this day --used by Michelle McGuire to "validate" this study.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you scroll all the way to the bottom you'll find out about Covance previously called Hazelton--started by Big Tobacco. </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.42857;"><br /></i> <i style="line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 22.4px;">Emily Willingham refuted the </span><span style="color: red; font-style: normal; line-height: 22.4px;">"independence"</span><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 22.4px;"> of study concisely with her head</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">line in Forbes: </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/04/04/monsanto-linked-study-finds-no-monsanto-linked-herbicide-glyphosate-in-breast-milk/#7ed4b66a54f3">Monsanto Linked Study Finds No Monsanto Linked Herbicide Glyphosate In Breast Milk</a> </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Let's, please, suspend our well-founded disbelief & give authors benefit of doubt nevertheless- let's </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">check the veracity of author's remaining claims to see if the study's conclusions are as "scientifically sound"<a href="https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/04/talking-biotech-shelley-mcguire-lactation-specialist-no-glyphosate-breast-milk-glyphosate-wine/"> as the author and others like Kevin Folta ( one of the anointed science experts and communicators) claims</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"McGuire and her colleagues: “our study provides strong evidence that glyphosate is not in human milk.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This independent study used an appropriate, precise, and validated analytical method and arrived at a scientifically sound conclusion....." Civil Eats </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>Forty-One</b> samples</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px;">from Pullman & Moscow extrapolated to </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>fifty states </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px;">of the United States of A. </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'times new roman'; line-height: normal;">Table 1. Characteristics of women participating in</b><b style="font-family: 'times new roman'; line-height: normal;"> study</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: normal;"><b>Don't live on or near a farm -75%</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: normal;">Strictly or mainly </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: normal;">organic consumer -42% </span></div>
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It would support that a small number of predominantly white educated mothers in two college towns in Pacific Northwest-- most likely to buy organic--didn't have detectable glyphosate levels in their breast milk. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Uneducated women were unlikely to be selected. Neither were Black, Hispanic, Asian and other non-Caucasian minorities, nor the segment of the population most at risk--farmers.</span></dd><dd id="abstract" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">D</span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">oes the study provide evidence to conclude glyphosate is absent in breast milk of women not represented in this sample-</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> populations at highest risk of glyphosate exposure- farmers, farm laborers, poor, uneducated people? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Of course not! Not even in the cities of Pullman and Moscow, never mind the entire fifty states. </span></dd><dd id="abstract" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">So apart from the fact that a study of mere 41 samples is ludicrously statistically underpowered, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> it was a </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">non-random unrepresentative sample</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22.4px;">And since sampling bias wasn't accounted for and the sample size is statistically trivial -- <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble">failure to detect glyphosate could be a false negative</a>, erroneously attributing the failure of detection to lack of bioaccumulation instead of the underpowered sample, technical difficulty and the biased method of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sampling (statistics)">sampling</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></dd><dd id="abstract" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Although detection method used </span></i></span></span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.42857; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">(HPLC- MS) [6] is precise, </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.42857; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">a study failing elementary statistical principles, suffering from </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Selection_bias" style="line-height: normal;">selection bias</a>, </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.42857; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">can not draw sound scientific conclusions.</span></i></dd></dl>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><b>So, statistical methodology was not </b>"</span><b style="background-color: #cccccc; color: red; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><i>appropriate" or "precise" </i></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #cccccc; color: red; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><i>Was HPLC-MS methodology "validated"?</i></b><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span></div>
</dd><dd id="abstract" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.42857; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This study describes isolation of glyphosate from milk using very sensitive and precise techniques: High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography in tandem with Mass Spectrometry, but even if it wasn't </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.42857; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> designed by Monsanto scientists with conflicts of interest</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.42857; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/27/trouble-in-science-massive-effort-to-reproduce-100-experimental-results-succeeds-only-36-times/"> prone to technical, experimental and human error</a></span></i></dd></dl>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If detection method developed for milk by Monsanto scientists were accurate, and glyphosate was indeed not detectable in the milk-- the simplest verification method of absence glyphosate in milk is assaying urine of babies nursing on sampled mothers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Remember--glyphosate detection in urine is ten times as sensitive as in milk?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Instead, validation of the method of detection rests on the independence and legitimacy of an </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">"<span style="color: red;">outside accredited organization</span>"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.42857; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Apart from the unbelievable cruelty and unforgivable inhumanity, this "outside accredited organization" was cited for lack of employee training and supervision, uncertified employees anesthetizing animals, knowingly using unhealthy animals in studies, malaria-infected monkeys still used in studies for pharmaceutical and lying about the cause of death for three monkeys found dead in their cages, and intoxicated employees performing lab procedures on monkeys.[5]<br />
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This profit- laboratory's income is dependent on producing outcomes paid for- otherwise its contracts and repeat business dry up. In fact, it admits to this being the case : " ... <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> a company with a customer base primarily made up of manufacturers rather than healthcare providers can help LabCorp mitigate reimbursement trends..." and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“As a combined company, we will be well-positioned to respond to and benefit from the fundamental forces of change in our business, including <i><b>payment for outcomes</b></i>" [3]</span><br />
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[1] Michelle. If I am so childish why does the <a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/03/30/ajcn.115.126854.full.pdf+html">discussion section of your paper listing limitations of your study</a> echo my criticism?<br />
[2] <a href="http://civileats.com/2015/07/30/is-there-glyphosate-in-breast-milk/">Civil Eats. Is there glyphosate in breast milk? </a><br />
[3] <a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141103/NEWS/311039943"> LabCorp's Covance Deal</a> <br />
[4]<a href="http://www.thelocal.de/20150626/concerns-over-safety-of-german-breast-milk"> Greens Warn Breast Milk Unsafe</a><br />
[5] <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Covance_Laboratories">Covance Labs</a>- Tobacco Portal<br />
[6] <a href="https://www.jic.ac.uk/services/metabolomics/topics/lcms/why.htm">HPLC-MS</a><br />
[7] <a href="http://rdw.rowan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1197&context=etd">Who buys organics?</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/TBCMicrobes">@TBCMicrobes</a> yes, I was being sarcastic in response to a person who claimed degrees were all important <a href="https://t.co/pt1YVmHzhx">https://t.co/pt1YVmHzhx</a></div>
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The state of California where he resides thinks degrees are important or Jonathan would be performing surgery on you.<br />
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Who would have thought-gut <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/microbiome?src=hash">#microbiome</a> might have a role in stroke recovery? <a href="https://t.co/JK6QlQMbc3">https://t.co/JK6QlQMbc3</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NatureMedicine">@NatureMedicine</a> <a href="https://t.co/jbTF7rh7md">pic.twitter.com/jbTF7rh7md</a></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ksenapathy">@ksenapathy</a> In fact I've a simple microbiology Q: MIC of glyphosate for Oxalobacter formigenes <a href="https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest">@MicrobiomDigest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMel_T">@DrMel_T</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/phylogenomics">@phylogenomics</a></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/phylogenomics">@phylogenomics</a> The clinically relevant study was published in <a href="https://twitter.com/nature">@nature</a> Cited here <a href="https://t.co/mQkrEWicNu">https://t.co/mQkrEWicNu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest">@MicrobiomDigest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMel_T">@DrMel_T</a></div>
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,<a href="https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest">@MicrobiomDigest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Jo44">@Jo44</a> Why don't we assay microbiome in USA parallel with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/glyphosate?src=hash">#glyphosate</a> urine levels? <a href="https://twitter.com/davidacoil">@davidacoil</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/microBEnet">@microBEnet</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/phylogenomics">@phylogenomics</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/04/stubborn-stones.html">A lot of important work has already been published on intestinal bacteria called Oxalobacter formigenes that degrades oxalate thereby reducing risks of kidney stones and kidney disease affecting the well-being of millions of animals and people. </a>This area of microbiome science is focused, targeted, in contrast to blind fishing expeditions into dolphin's guts.</span></div>
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"<span style="color: blue;"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By and large, the scientific and medical communities seem to stress the importance of avoiding unnecessary antibiotics to protect our microbiomes and, importantly, to mitigate the real and alarming problem of </span><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/community/about/antibiotic-resistance-faqs.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">antibiotic resistant bacteria</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, now thought to be one of the most pressing health problems in the world"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Microbe guardians can't cite a basic microbe test--the sensitivity of even ONE commensal beneficial microbe to glyphosate, a patented antibiotic. </b></span><br />
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How careerism <a href="https://twitter.com/itntunes">@itntunes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Sciencesharenew">@Sciencesharenew</a> corrupts very heart of the scientific establishment <a href="https://t.co/BZTDgjpPml">https://t.co/BZTDgjpPml</a> <a href="https://t.co/5pG9BHeKSe">pic.twitter.com/5pG9BHeKSe</a></div>
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[1]<a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/news/archive/2004/7593-biotech-industry-funds-bumper-crop-of-uc-davis-research-862004" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18.72px;">Biotech industry ( glyphosate producers) fund bumper crop of UC Davis research</a></div>
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[3] <a href="http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/21/mcr-gene-colistin/">Antibiotic Armageddon </a>
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[5] <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US7771736">Glyphosate patent </a></div>
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ICYMI: Keep Calm And Avoid Microbiome Mayhem <a href="https://twitter.com/ksenapathy">@ksenapath</a><a href="https://twitter.com/ksenapathy">y</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/phylogenomics">@phylogenomics</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMel_T">@DrMel_T</a> and me<a href="https://t.co/sSDfHc9S2r">https://t.co/sSDfHc9S2r</a> <a href="https://t.co/IbOTxK7zpJ">pic.twitter.com/IbOTxK7zpJ</a></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/phylogenomics">@phylogenomics</a> I've specific medical clinically relevant question 're glyphosate & microbiome. Does <a href="https://twitter.com/ksenapathy">@ksenapathy</a>? <a href="https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest">@MicrobiomDigest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMel_T">@DrMel_T</a></div>
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It was an honor for me to be on a panel with Drs. Hyman and Bredesen at Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit <a href="https://t.co/p63WWRJ3VQ">pic.twitter.com/p63WWRJ3VQ</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">1. California Regulations and guidelines<a href="http://www.mbc.ca.gov/about_us/laws/laws_guide.pdf" style="outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"> for medical practice.</span></a></span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="http://www.mbc.ca.gov/about_us/laws/laws_guide.pdf"> </a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">If you've been following this debate, you'll recognize a favorite narrative of the Agrochemical Corporations pro-GMO sales staff, casting skeptics of their merchandise as science illiterate idiots. When they aren't framed as <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/golden-rice-opponents-should-be-held-accountable-for-health-problems-linked-to-vitamain-a-deficiency/"><span style="color: #0b5394;">outright murderers</span></a>, that is, for daring to question <a href="https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden-rice-falls-short-lifesaving-promises/">Vitamin A fortified GMOs- that sacred cow deserves its future post.</a> </span></h4>
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Often supported with <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/10/gmo-junk-science-meets-junk-journalism.html">"billions of animals and trillions of GMO meals served without one incidence of harm."</a></b></h4>
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<li>We've only been ingesting transgenic GMOs since 1996 while humans have eaten crops modified through selective breeding for millennia. Organic foods, or <i>simply food</i> as our moms and grandparents called, it has a very long history of safe use. It derives from millions of trial and error experiments conducted by billions of people globally</li>
<li> Monsanto's transgenes began infesting food in the nineties and their safety <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/01/dear-food-and-chemical-toxicology.html">tests haven't convinced me GMOs are safe for rats, yet.</a> </li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Cartagena international bio-safety agreements stipulate novelty and experimental nature of these foods,</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> as well as <a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10977/safety-of-genetically-engineered-foods-approaches-to-assessing-unintended-health">National Academy of Sciences </a> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, if you click on te National Academy of Sciences link and forward to page 4, you'll find a great graphic depicting relative risk of unintended effects. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Evolved</b> over eons (along with “checkpoint” mechanisms to eliminate mistakes)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Occurs between <b>closely related</b> organisms</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Genetic exchange occurs in <b>reproductive </b>cells,</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Involves <b>any gene from any organism</b> (alive or dead) or synthesized in a lab</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Occurs in <b>somatic</b> cells</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Insertion into chromosomes occurs “randomly”</span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Causes<b> insertional mutation</b> of recipient’s genes at rates of <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559911/" target="_blank">27-63%</a></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gene spacing and amount of genomic DNA are altered</span></b></li>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">15:20</span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </b><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">If a genome is like a book..</i></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">and genetic engineering is like word processing</i>.....</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>then the corn book was edited fifteen years before anyone even read it -</i></b></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>because it wasn't translated it into "English " yet! </i></b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091119/full/news.2009.1098.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000;">T</span>he book on corn was<span style="color: black;"> finally decoded and published in 2009</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">, </span>but</span><span style="background-color: white;"> GMO corn was planted in 1996!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Corn is a very complex plant that has 12,000 more genes than humans do, stuffed into ten chromosomes instead of humans' twenty-three. B<span style="background-color: white;">oasting <b>more genes than human</b> corn genome proved tough to decode. So, the seeds of corn we co-evolved with for nine thousand years, was genetically engineered <a href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/organic/gencode.html">before the code</a> was even known, and the "book" had been read. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.25in;">This novel and quite original piece of classical literature </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">mash-up </span><span style="line-height: 0.25in;">was capped off with three pages from Madame Bovary by Flaubert --<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codon_usage_bias">in French</a>! </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.25in;">When it was all said and done </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">one or two copies of </span><span style="line-height: 0.25in;">this novel creation (transgene) were pasted entirely randomly by a blind person throughout </span><i>Iliad</i> and the <i>Odyssey --</i>before 90% the books were even translated into English. </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hen both genetically edited new and improved Iliad and Odyssey were republished in</span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Braille* </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.25in;"><br /></span> <span style="line-height: 0.25in;"> The minor difference being you aren't just <i>reading</i> this modernized and "<i>innovative</i>" piece of classical Greek literature or listening to God-awful ear-bleeding noise some call music for entertainment...you are feeding it to your babies for breakfast and dinner. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Can you break into someone's house and pour a Coke down their throats if they prefer orange juice?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> No. Not unless you conflate the product itself with science, and the customer who rightly rejects it for absolute absence of merit with a Luddite anti-science fear- mongering lunatic. You also have to attack the alternative- organic crops that our moms and grandparents simply called food, because GMOs are excluded from organic designation. So, you will see Monsanto and its minions perpetually misrepresenting organic food and attacking anyone, whether NGOs, farmers or scientists, researching or advocating for organic methods of production. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <b><span style="background-color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">As an educated and health conscious person you have every right, and as a parent or a pet owner responsible for your family's health even</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">a duty to reject GMOs</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;"> </span><span style="color: white;">for a variety of different reasons....</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">including an unwillingness to risk your kids' health to benefit a Corporate bottom line. </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But returning to Stephen. Having never defined GMOs himself this "scientist" mentions in passing one of the villains who stand in the way of GMOs- Greenpeace. But y</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ou know the cast....NGOs, evil activists, moms, grandma's, Hawaii's physicians, and<a href="http://www.ensser.org/media/0115/"> <span style="color: #674ea7;">hundreds of independent scientists</span></a> unaffiliated with the pesticide industry.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> I recall claims we always hear about <b>safety testing</b> and<b> redundant regulatory oversight</b>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white;"> I was stunned by the unscientific statement "<i>we ingest DNA and proteins all the time, so they are safe</i>" and assurances about GMO <i>post-market testing??? Post-market testing??? </i> Huh? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The first is a very ignorant claim--<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin"><span style="color: #674ea7;">botulinum toxin</span></a> is just<i><b> a </b></i></span><i><b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white;"><i><b>protein.</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html"><span style="color: #674ea7;"> Allergens</span></a> triggering <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000844.htm"><span style="color: #674ea7;">anaphylactic shock</span></a> are just proteins. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">--and <i>in vitro</i> digestibility tests are inadequate to screen food allergens out. Blinded challenge studies are the gold standard allergy tests because in<i> vitro</i> food allergy tests are so unreliable. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">How many blinded challenge allergy studies have been published comparing GMOs to non-GMOs? None...Zero</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">C</span><span style="background-color: white;">urrent GMO </span><b><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html"><span style="color: #674ea7;">allergy testing</span></a></b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span>is utterly inadequate, just like</span><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/01/dear-food-and-chemical-toxicology.html">the standard rodent tests</a>.</span><span style="color: #351c75;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">In fact, it wouldn't be incorrect to call GMO safety testing a complete sham.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white;">And the later statement about </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Post-market testing </b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">is an outright blatant lie. I</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">t's impossible to associate adverse effects with untraceable unlabeled products-- with a majority of the medical community in the dark </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">about GMOs</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">, along with consumers --and no infrastructure set up to trace and report adverse effects. </span></span><br />
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As a medical professional licensed to prescribe drugs, I'd love to challenge Purdue's Mitch Daniels to post links to Phase I, Phase II and Phase III human clinical trials for GMOs that FDA approved drugs have to undergo--they just do not exist! Whether you like or hate gambling, let me assure you a thousand dollar bet for the Dean of Purdue to produce a link to the GMO clinical trials or a record in the form of data or a citation to a peer-reviewed study elaborating on that "record" for<a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/news/archive/2014/15669-why-jon-entine-s-trillion-meal-study-won-t-save-us-from-gmo-dangers"> trillion GMO meals </a>just can not lose. Guaranteed winner- NEVER again will you see gambling odds like this!<br />
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[1] <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/gmcr.21406">CAMV promoter</a><br />
[2] <a href="http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/04/crispr-gene-editing-mushroom-dodges-gmo-regulation">CRISPR engineered mushroom escapes regulation </a><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>And the novel genetically "improved" plant is unlabeled. </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>And finally, the most prevalent GMO is sprayed with glyphosate. Please do me a favor and click on the <a href="http://theethicalskeptic.com/2014/11/19/pseudoscience-in-action-the-urgent-need-to-reform-the-science-around-glyphosate/" style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #674ea7;">glyphosate</span></a> link. </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i><a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987368/why_cant_we_have_an_honest_conversation_about_gmo_labeling.html">Why can't we have an honest GMO debate? </a> </i></span></li>
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Few things are quite as woo-licious as conflating completely unrelated things. We all know Monsanto's Uncle Robb loves him some chicanery, but when Uncle Robb says different things are the same, the faithful media lapdogs repeat the myth no matter how ludicrous it is.<br />
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On account of this, Chipotle was excoriated and dubbed anti-science, ostensibly because the restaurant chain failed to disclose the use of genetically engineered chymosin- an enzyme used to curdle milk in cheese making-<em> </em>when it announced it was<em> removing GMOs </em>recently.<br />
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Th<i>e tidal wave of abuse</i>, as <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/chipotle-goes-gmo-free-monsantos-worst-fear-coming-true">Alternet put it</a>, was simply spectacular. Similarly, the state of Vermont was labeled anti-science for failing to label chymosin. But when you scratch the surface of this cheesy kerfuffle, even if it sounds counter-intuitive, Chipotle is scientifically correct to call its cheese "GMO-free"-- even if, and in spite of- it being genetically engineered, as is the state of Vermont.<br />
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I love UC Davis, and am proud of the education I got there...indeed, I credit what little success I've achieved to U.C Davis' high educational standards.<br />
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Amazingly, everyone misses that one of the three things on the poster is nothing like the other two, even though the two on the left are<i> microscopic bacteria</i>....while the<i> third is a large plant </i>plainly visible to the naked eye.<br />
The<i> bacteria (</i> or yeast) on the left are modified by near-surgical precision to produce<b><a href="http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/protein-structure-14122136"> proteins</a>-</b> insulin and chymosin--while the one on the right is a <i>plant </i>whose "engineering" is akin to a blindfolded Goofy playing darts with transgenes. I'll delve into this a little more in the second installment.<br />
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<li>We do not know the exact structure of the oil depicted by Kevin in his goofy poster- whether it's healthy or not- because there aren't any studies showing that. But even if the oil is healthy, lifting the oil out of the GMO and forgetting the GMO itself is deceptive, because once the oil is extracted the plant, the actual GMO- is fed to animals in the form of soybean meal. Similarly, although the sugar molecule from a genetically modified beet is identical to sugar from a non-engineered plant, the GMO in the form of beet<a href="http://kfolta.blogspot.com/2014/04/gmo-labeling-ill-agree-when.html"> pulp is fed to pets, while Kevin omits that fact</a> as well. And I know that he knows better! </li>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a> insulin? OK! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a> cheese? OK! Oil from a GM soybean? The hypocrisy of fighting science. <a href="http://t.co/nkspwGGuDC">pic.twitter.com/nkspwGGuDC</a></div>
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Now, during the Twitter exchange with Robb Fraley, who never uttered a word, I made a promise to explain how genetic modification of a simple organism, a bacteria or yeast-- with less than 5,000 genes, is radically different from genetic engineering of a plant whose genome contains 35,000 genes. I will tackle that in the next installment (<a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-gmo-scientists-break-social-contract.html">here it is</a>).</div>
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<strong><br /></strong> 1. Uncle Robb's credible science source: <a href="https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/acsh-attacks-american-cancer-society-good-evidence-acs-doing-something-right-e-cigs">https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/acsh-attacks-american-cancer-society-good-evidence-acs-doing-something-right-e-cigs</a><br />
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2. The tobacco-peddling Dr. Gilbert Ross was one of the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/04/16/a-bunch-of-doctors-ask-columbia-university-to-cut-its-ties-with-dr-oz/">attackers of Dr. Oz, </a>along with his <a href="http://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-henry-miller-on-gmos/">radioactive comrades, including Henry I Miller</a>. I infer from this that Dr. Oz is stepping on the right toes:)<br />
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3. <a href="http://johnonjuan.org/2015/10/21/big-food-will-break-your-legs/">On Chipotle's and Big Food Mafia </a><br />
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4. It turns out UC Davis put on the #IFAL2015 meeting and paid journalists to attend their<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <a href="http://www.popsci.com/on-science-journalism-and-conflicts-interest">junket funded by BIO</a></span>, a <a href="https://www.bio.org/articles/bio-members-web-site-links">Chemical Corporate industry trade group</a>. Hopefully, students weren't fooled by this industrial charade.<br />
5. <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16574-death-threats-libel-and-lies-part-4-kevin-folta-s-toxic-legacy">Blow-back for our science advocacy for science literacy, animal, and pubic health. </a></div>
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The lies about GMO safety are <a href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/29/pewaaas-study-scientific-consensus-on-gmo-safety-stronger-than-for-global-warming/" target="_blank">screamed by blogs</a>, shouted by just about every newspapers' editorial board- having become mouthpieces for special interests centuries ago- and screeched by Michael Specter, tarnishing the legendary New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-genetically-modified-food/" target="_blank">Scientific American</a>....etc etc.. Every credible international and national science organization has endorsed GMO safety-<b>they claim</b>- and <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/1/29/7947695/gmos-safety-poll" target="_blank">88% of all scientists polled insist they are safe, in contrast to the conspiratorial public.</a> For when a big lie is repeated by PR minions funded by Chemical Corporate billions, it eventually mutates into pseudo truth--or so the Corporations paying off the mass media to relentlessly reprint blatant lies, thinks.<br />
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Spud 1. The Simplot potato reduced in an amino acid called asparagine, engineered through silencing RNA (RNA interference also known as dsRNA, which stands for double stranded RNA ) technology. <a href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/3594/poorly-tested-gene-silencing-technology-to-enter-food-supply-with-simplot-potato#" target="_blank">The uncertainty surrounding these Simplot taters is discussed here. </a> and more thoroughly here : <a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/RNAi-Biosafety-DraftPaper-2015-LathamWilson.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bioscienceresource.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/RNAi-Biosafety-DraftPaper-2015-LathamWilson.pdf</a><br />
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Without published peer reviewed studies, its impossible to tell which exact genes were silenced in the plant, or whether the short silencing RNA matches our own. <i>But if the RNA were to match our own and was absorbed-it could, indeed, silence our genes, including potentially the ones synthesizing asparagine.</i> I quote a<a href="http://theconversation.com/explainer-microrna-the-puppet-master-of-the-genome-39641" target="_blank"> good explainer on double stranded ds RNA/ miRNA</a>. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">One fascinating aspect of miRNA is that they control 60% of the genes in the human genome. The secret lies in their promiscuity. One miRNA can bind to many mRNAs and inhibit their expression" </span>So a fundamental <b>preliminary question is: "does this RNA molecule get degraded in your gut, or does it get absorbed, such that it could silence our genes? "</b>. Keep this in mind...the reason will become clear in Act II.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/arielwaldman">@arielwaldman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> I would looove to see that study showing how dsRNA gets digested at physiologic pH. Do you have one by chance?<br />
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" Ariel is an appointed National Academy of Sciences committee member of a congressionally-requested study on the <a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18801/pathways-to-exploration-rationales-and-approaches-for-a-us-program"><span style="color: #ff0066;">future of human spaceflight</span></a>. She also sits on the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/nec_bios_all.html"><span style="color: #ff0066;">council</span></a> for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/niac"><span style="color: #ff0066;">NIAC</span></a>), a program that nurtures radical, sci-fi-esque ideas that could transform future space missions. In 2013, Ariel received an <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/25/hacking-science-and-space-exploration"><span style="color: #ff0066;">honor</span></a> from the White House for being a Champion of Change in citizen science"<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> here’s the <a href="https://twitter.com/NASciences">@NASciences</a> report on GMOs. I recommend reading it. <a href="http://t.co/0dquNX6yqF">http://t.co/0dquNX6yqF</a> to be pro OR anti ALL GMOs is ignorant.<br />
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I am not sure if I was supposed to be impressed by her elite status in the science hierarchy, which I just learned about today, or that she conquered the skill of copy & paste. Aside from that, I am neither pro-GMO or anti-GMO, having used products of genetic engineering in my practice -recombinant insulin, interferon, erythropoietin, Neupogen- and even ( *gasp*) genetically engineered yeast in my younger days.<br />
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Challenging her to show me her<b> science evidence</b>, or as less politically correct people might say "put up or shut up", is evidently frowned upon by "credible " elite scientists because she answers my question on <i>digestibility of silencing RNA </i>with a link to a large book on<i> farm sustainability</i>--which, by the way, doesn't hold the answer to my question. Farm sustainability <b> has exactly nothing </b>to do with health and safety studies on these potatoes<b>, </b>though you are welcome to read the book and prove me wrong.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> if you don't recognize/respect <a href="https://twitter.com/NASciences">@NASciences</a> reports as evidence, then I don't have time to hold your hand on this.<br />
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I certainly didn't feel any disrespect towards a preeminent science organization established on Congressional orders by President Abraham Lincoln until I noticed that the National Academy of Sciences favorites her unfounded accusation sandwiched between insults, frank ignorance and uncompromising arrogance. And then as I tasted the vomit in my mouth, I realized, that like the majority of rusted decrepit institutions in 'Merica, the NAS has become yet just another corrupt politician wearing a cheap suit with a logo on it.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/arielwaldman">@arielwaldman</a> I don't need a science illiterate holding my hand. I politely asked u to post peer reviewed science. Where is it? <a href="https://twitter.com/NASciences">@NASciences</a><br />
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I am certain that as a member of that 88% of scientists-- unlike an ignorant anti-science veterinary medical doctor, whose patients eat GMOs--she<b> considers them perfectly safe, based on science they DO NOT comprehend</b>. Ignorance is bliss! Presumptions, prejudices and insults evidently compensate for the fact that physics scientists have absolutely no idea what GMOs are, and really have no business even having their opinions tallied in any poll on GMO science. These polls need to carefully and scientifically measure opinions of experts in biotechnology and health, ecology and other relevant fields.<br />
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An apology and admission of ignorance are evidently also frowned upon by the 88% of premier scientists who agreed on GMO safety- based on complete utter ignorance- and asking questions....well, that's just completely out of the question. They can't answer any of them-don't even try.<br />
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Thousands of words have been written and hundreds of different pieces of advice have been dispensed by sociologists and other experts at dozens of meetings on communication of the science of genetic engineering to the public. It just hasn't occurred to anyone that the best way might be to politely ask questions and listen to the answers instead of hurling insults and then hiding upon making the discovery that the public might be smarter than the pseudo-experts.</blockquote>
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1. I found the statements by the scientist in the video to be nothing more than tired and overused talking points unsupported by any evidence. There is no evidence that anti-GMO movement or regulation have hindered marketing of GMOs- there has not been a single plant that the USDA hasn't deregulated. In fact, according to a public interest attorney, <a href="http://www.biointegrity.org/" target="_blank">the entire regulatory scheme is fraudulent.</a><br />
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2. The statements on BT are patently false. <a href="http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-879X2000000200002&script=sci_arttext" target="_blank">Cry proteins have been reported to induce mucosal and systemic immune reactions</a>, which might indeed lead to "leaky gut".<br />
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Dr. Kevin Folta, chairman of the horticulture department at
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Math" linked above in the title, but his<i> new math</i> muddies the facts
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complacent extreme on medical relevance of glyphosate- and some might say, my blog post will present the opposite, the precautionary principled extreme. <br />
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I was prompted to write this because an alarming <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23756170" target="_blank">study was recently published</a> reporting glyphosate leads to proliferation of a type of breast cancer cells- sensitive to estrogen & progesterone. Common sense suggests that a prevalent chemical stimulating growth of breast cancer in trace amounts surely should be monitored. Unfortunately, as you will see, our regualtory agencies tasked with protecting public health have never monitored glyphosate and still do not. <br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">" <a href="http://www.panap.net/sites/default/files/monograph_glyphosate.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Glyphosate</b></a> is an active ingredient of the most widely used herbicide and
it is believed to be less toxic than other pesticides. However, several
recent studies showed its potential adverse health effects to humans as
it may be an endocrine disruptor. This study focuses on the effects of
pure glyphosate on estrogen receptors (ERs) mediated transcriptional
activity and their expressions. Glyphosate exerted proliferative effects
only in human hormone-dependent breast cancer,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breast_cancer_cell_lines" target="_blank"> T47D cells, but not in hormone-independent breast cancer, MDA-MB231 cells</a>, at 10⁻¹² to 10⁻⁶M in
estrogen withdrawal condition. The proliferative concentrations of
glyphosate that induced the activation of estrogen response element
(ERE) transcription activity were 5-13 fold of control in T47D-KBluc
cells and this activation was inhibited by an estrogen antagonist, ICI
182780, indicating that the estrogenic activity of glyphosate was
mediated via ERs. Furthermore, glyphosate also altered both ERα and β
expression. <b>These results indicated that low and environmentally
relevant concentrations of glyphosate possessed estrogenic activity.</b>
<b>Glyphosate-based herbicides are widely used for soybean cultivation, and
our results also found that there was an additive estrogenic effect
between glyphosate and genistein, a phytoestrogen in soybeans. However,
these additive effects of glyphosate contamination in soybeans need
further animal study.</b></span><br />
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Previous studies have already suggested it acts as an <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539684" target="_blank">endocrine disruptor</a> affecting aromatase. This of course is in addition to many other studies demonstrative of pathological changes including<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20695457" target="_blank"> teratogenecity </a>via the retinoic acid pathway, as well as uncoupling of <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16263381" target="_blank">oxidative phosphorylation</a> potentiated by glyphosate's adjuvants, associated with<a href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk/facta/cgi-bin/facta.cgi?query=CAS:1071-83-6%7C111111%7C0%7C0%7C235064%7C0%7C10" target="_blank"> liver damage among other disorders. </a> Unfortunately toxicity of these undisclosed <i>inactive ingredients isn't evaluated in toxicity studies, even though they are very active!</i><br />
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<i>More information on glyphosate<a href="http://personx.tumblr.com/post/109451164633/roundup-is-poison" target="_blank"> here</a></i><br />
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Neither the FDA nor the<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/usda-pesticides-report-idUSL1N0U325I20141219" target="_blank"> USDA have ever measured glyphosate residues in food</a> in spite of the fact that use of <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/07/02/gmo-crops-mean-more-herbicide-not-less/" target="_blank">glyphosate has skyrocketed with evolution of superweeds, making it the most prevalent chemical in agriculture.</a><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">Labeling instruction are <a href="http://www.monsanto.com/sitecollectiondocuments/weed-management-documents/genrr2y-rr-soybeans.pdf" target="_blank">22-64 oz/acre / season depending on weed pressure.</a></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">22oz/acre=0.66L x 560gm/ L= <b>369.6gm/ acre </b> -to- 64oz/acre=1.92L x 560gm/L= <b>1075gm/ acre</b>.</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">369.6gm/1170kg soybeans=<b>0.316gm (316mg)</b>- to- 1075gm/1170kg soybeans=<b>0.920gm (920mg)</b></li>
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<b>Thus it appears glyphosate residues could potentially range between 0.316 gm to as high as ~0.92gm/ kg of sprayed </b><b>soybean</b><span style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b>-</b></span><span style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b> that is 316mg to 920mg per kg of soybeans</b></span><b style="text-align: center;"> </b></div>
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<i><b>if maximum per label amount of 64oz/acre are used preharvest as a dessicant</b></i></div>
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Of course this amount isn't found in the soybeans themselves- glyphosate translocates through the plant but 100% of it certainly doesn't end up in the seed. <span style="text-align: center;">Some of the glyphosate is sprayed on weeds and since seed planting density varies from farmer to farmer we have no way of figuring out how much actually ends up on soybean plants.</span> Residues decay after glyphosate is sprayed and thus are highly dependent on the period it is applied preceding harvest, but Monsanto reports seed residues at 110 days post spraying, while the label authorizes its use just <b>one week before harvest as a dessicant,</b> which is a serious concern!</div>
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This is about <i>100 times more </i>than the residues a recent study reported in a few market samples of<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24491722" target="_blank"> Iowa soybeans</a> - 9mg/kg ( glyphosate + AMPA combined).</div>
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<b>We do know this though: glyphosate stimulates breast cancer in parts/trillion--thousands of times less than even the smallest measured concentrations. And we know undoubtedly that the cancer experts at the W<a href="http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=15245">orld Health Organization just classified it as a </a><span style="color: #cc0000;">probable carcinogen</span> (Class 2A). </b><br />
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Is this back-o'-the-cocktail- napkin analysis ..... a glorified~sorta~educated <b>guess...</b>sufficient to protect public health? Of course not!<b> </b>Just look at the difference between Dr. Folta's guesstimate and mine. <b></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>WE need to measure glyphosate residues in food and even more importantly in animals and people.</b></span> There are multiple non-dietary exposure pathways so ingestion of food is itself only a partial measure of exposure. Here are some neat<a href="http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/show_map.php?year=2011&map=GLYPHOSATE&hilo=L&disp=Glyphosate" target="_blank"> maps that show how variable glyphosate is in water & how much the use has escalated over time- since introduction of genetically modified (GMO) crops in 1995 </a></div>
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* <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/usda-pesticides-report-idUSL1N0U325I20141219">Anonymous spokesperson at USDA says that it is too expensive to measure glyphosate</a>. Question is: too expensive for who? FDA & USDA can't afford liquid chromatography in tandem with MS, that just about every university has? Hmmmmm. Clearly the $8,000,000,000/ annual herbicide sales have not influenced that decision. </div>
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At the beginning of September, <a href="https://www.beachvethospital.com/about_us">I met Kevin Folta</a>, a plant scientist- who has taken an active role on the internet educating the public about GMOs.. We talked about GMOS science over lunch and as the scientist was getting ready to leave mentioned that a new study was about to be published on GMOs involving BILLIONS of animals. <b>BILLIONS of animals!</b><br />
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What happens when 100 billion animals, over 18 years, eat GMOs? <a href="http://t.co/GScfLlbhhc">http://t.co/GScfLlbhhc</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/GeneticLiteracy">@GeneticLiteracy</a></div>
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— Alison Van Eenennaam (@BioBeef) <a href="https://twitter.com/BioBeef/status/513333318167703552">September 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Looking under the hood of the billions of <strike>animals </strike> chickens <strike>clunker </strike> study</h3>
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<b><span style="color: red;">94.7%</span> </b>or <b> </b>94,683,600,000 of the 100, 000,000,000<b> are </b><span style="color: red;"><b>broiler chickens</b></span>, which the author<i> </i><b><i>doesn't disclose for 37 pages</i> </b>(Table 3) and neither does the media echo-chamber. </div>
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This is poultry whose natural lifespan is about 5 years, slaughtered at less than 49 days of age. So, even if the study reported convincing health data, it would remain a very short term study. In other words, it is 19 years-worth of 49 day old chickens, which is quite different than 19 years of life-long animal studies.<br />
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The "study" is a hodgepodge of livestock production data used to bolster the safety alleged from a literature review. The rest is polemics on international harmonization, with a <b>particular emphasis on Ukraine. The author is making a case for "harmonization" -- actually, code for<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/monsantos-land-grab-ukraine"><span style="color: #351c75;"> take-over of Ukranian agriculture by international corporations</span>- Monsanto, Dupont, Cargil </a></b><br />
<b>--</b>concomitant with the relaxation of already outrageously unacceptable, crude and inadequate safety testing standards.<br />
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The author recommends elimination of the 90-day rodent feeding trials- described as "<i><b>interference in risk assessment based on pseudoscience</b></i>", as well as the long-term studies " <i><b>due to additional time, expense and animal experimentation.</b></i>" .<br />
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<strike>Health</strike> Livestock production data on<b> billions</b> of chickens. </h4>
<b>What one expects to see in animal health studies</b><br />
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<li>Incidence rates of various diseases-<a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/morbidity" target="_blank"> morbidity rate</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002623.html" target="_blank">laboratory work</a></li>
<li><a href="http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vm009" target="_blank">post-mortem data </a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histopathology" target="_blank">histopathology</a>.</li>
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The "data" for nearly 95% of the "animals" summarized in Table 4 and Figure 2 reported by the<a href="http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-ncc/overview/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"> Chicken Council- a poultry industry trade group</span></a>- hardly a source of medical quality scholarship.<br />
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<i></i>Poultry statistics are used to prove the following hypothesis: "<i> It would be reasonable to hypothesize that if animal feed derived from GE crops had deleterious effects on animals consuming GE feed, then animal performance and health attributes in these commercial livestock populations would have been negatively impacted" </i><br />
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<li> Firstly, livestock performance is not a marker of health- because the goal of<i> livestock</i> production is minimizing inputs and maximizing production of meat, eggs or milk regardless of costs to the animal's health or longevity. For the rest of us, who aren't slaughtered at 49 days, the goals are completely different.</li>
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<li>Secondly, the ridiculously limited <i>livestock </i>parameters reported in this study can only establish a correlation with GMOs rather than causation by GMOs- multiple confounding factors have not been controlled. <a href="http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/2/6875031/chickens-breeding-farming-boilers-giant" target="_blank">Feeding efficiency and chicken carcass weight have been increasing due to genetic selection</a> <b>as well as</b> the use of <a href="http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/american-meat-has-more-antibiotics-than-ever/381100/" target="_blank">antibiotics for growth promotion that has risen according to the FDA</a>., which the author never mentions.</li>
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<li><b>Interestingly, if one were to literally assume that GMOs lead to improved feeding efficiency- as is seen in poultry statistics- grossly extrapolating that hypothesis to humans and pets, we could attribute the obesity epidemic to GMOs.</b> But since the traits aren't segregated, if a particular crop reduced feed efficiency it would go undetected. </li>
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<li>Beyond <i><b>wishful thinking</b></i>, the author doesn't convincingly explain how these exceptionally limited parameters encompass <a href="http://delmarvapublicradio.net/post/senators-push-stricter-pathogen-standards-poultry" target="_blank">health</a>. Health is measurable with medical tests (bloodwork, microbiology, imaging such as X-rays, biopsies/ histopathology), but <strong>no medical tests are cited in this "study" </strong></li>
<li> Irrelevant, indirect data is missing for meager livestock parameters-- and<b> there is no medical testing or medical data of any kind permitting assessment of overall animal health</b>.</li>
<br />Joint disease is common in poultry, for example, because of selection for growth--but would be devastating for humans.</ul>
It should be intuitively obvious by now that even if medical tests were reported--wholly absent from this study they are entirely meaningless to any animal other than a 49-day old broiler chicken, never mind a human. <strong>And there are reasons chickens aren't EVEN used in preliminary testing of effects of substances on humans--they are a very poor model for human health.</strong><br />
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The remaining 5% of the animals in the data set are dairy cattle and beef cattle. The authors cobbled together arbitrary unrelated data -somatic cell counts, and condemnation rates, from disparate sources, and when data wasn't available-simply made it up.<br />
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Data for 1994 (before GMOs) was collected from National Non-Fed Beef Quality Audit--but these animals do not spend time in feedlots and so are pasture raised and aren't fed GMO corn and soy.<br />
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Data was unavailable for cattle before GMOs were introduced, so the authors fills in a 22 year gap with regression analysis -a projection- for 11 years (1983-1994) before GMOs were introduced, as well as for 11 years (2000-2011) after. Since there was no data for cattle for 1983-1994 or 2000-2011, claims that this study examined parameters for 19 years is a lie.<br />
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The only definitive data was for 1999-2002, even if condemnation rates were associated with animal health, but they aren't. Speed of slaughter lines and the number of assigned federal <a href="http://www.alternet.org/food/mad-cow-eye-cancer-feces-your-food-price-cutting-back-meat-inspectors" target="_blank">meat inspectors whose numbers have been dwindling.</a> affect condemnation rates which do not substitute for proper post-mortem analysis with histopathology.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count" target="_blank">Somatic Cell Counts </a> --indicator of mastitis-breast infection in dairy-are reported for a 1995-2011, thus, there is no data "before GMOs" and condemnation rates for 1998-2006, after the introduction of GMOs. Moreover, SCC can't differentiate mastitis due to good/ poor animal health resulting from impacts of GMOs on health from hygiene, milking equipment sanitation or antibiotic use. These confounding factors make the association of this test with GMOs spurious.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">Meanwhile, veterinary health data has been collected by the <a href="http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPHS/adrsdata/adrsfydx.htm">FSIS and it shows remarkably high rates of malignant lymphoma in livestock</a>. </span></strong></h3>
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Most of the text focus is on international trade rather than science- more appropriate for The Wall Street Journal or Forbes, rather than a peer-reviewed journal.<br />
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None of these are found in this study- the <b>Methods and Materials section doesn't exist</b>, while the <b>hypothesis itself is hidden on page 10 of the introduction:</b> "<i> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">It would be reasonable to hypothesize that if animal feed derived from GE crops had deleterious effects on animals consuming GE feed, then animal performance and health attributes in these commercial livestock populations would have been negatively impacted"</span></i><br />
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Given the glaring gross science ineptitude, promotion of exceptionally poor scientific standards, the obvious bias and explicit agenda to force GMOs into war-torn Ukraine & European Union, I felt reading the author's lengthy science illiterate opinion on GMO safety literature to be a complete waste of time.<br />
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Quite unsurprisingly- <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=malatesta+genetically+modified+soybeans"><span style="color: #351c75;">the body of solid work by Manuella Malatesta demonstrative of hepatic and pancreatic harm by GMO soybeans, which were reversible on cross-over analysis</span></a>, were dismissed- while flawed studies and a flawed review (Snell et al) that purport not to show harm were accepted.<br />
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The Snell et al review cites <span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2014/01/dear-food-and-chemical-toxicology.html"><span style="color: #351c75;">Monsanto's own short-term studies</span></a> </span> actually suggestive of kidney and liver harm induced in rats in under 90 days, as well as other studies reporting kidney damage and other forms of medical harm caused by GMOs.<br />
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<b>There is no precedent for using <i>livestock production</i> as a proxy for animal or human health--an outrageous claim--but so what--T</b>weeterverss explodes in a convulsion of GMO celebrations.</h3>
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Livestock health has improved since the introduction of genetically engineered crops. <a href="http://t.co/zfGjzFcoXa">http://t.co/zfGjzFcoXa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a><br />
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The Debate About GMO Safety Is Over, Thanks To A New Trillion-Meal Study <a href="http://t.co/ofN99kCrxw">http://t.co/ofN99kCrxw</a><br />
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MT <a href="https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld">@AgBioWorld</a> 19-year study involving trillions of meals from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a> food-producing animals/humans: what they found <a href="http://t.co/Vk7Jeitrrd">http://t.co/Vk7Jeitrrd</a><br />
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19-year study of trillions of meals: GE crops do no harm food-producing animals, humans <a href="http://t.co/jE8cQbx1w6">http://t.co/jE8cQbx1w6</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GeneticLiteracy">@GeneticLiteracy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BioBeef">@BioBeef</a><br />
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The hype circled the globe reaching Russia within ten days.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreakingtheSet?src=hash">#BreakingtheSet</a>: Scientist vs. Organic Advocate Debate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a> Safety [VIDEO] <a href="http://t.co/1BlSMi0zMt">http://t.co/1BlSMi0zMt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin">@AbbyMartin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@KevinFolta</a><br />
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A few months ago we saw a case we think is worth sharing--a cute little 5-year old pooch with two stones wedged inconveniently in the urethra overlying the os penis, a rod-like bone structure within the penis of male dogs (see X-ray below ). </div>
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Some breeds, dalmatians, have a genetic predisposition to stone formation, and infections can lead to struvite (Magnesium Triple Phosphate) stones. And yet other stones form for reasons we don't understand--<b>the most common in cats and dogs (as well as people) being <span style="color: #660000;">calcium oxalate</span></b>. </div>
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Here is a good overview on calcium oxalate stones by <a href="https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/calcium-oxalate-bladder-stones-in-dogs">VCA Animal Hospitals </a>and we will offer more insight VCA veterinarians aren't aware of below. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The dog's luck was starting to run out as we considered "</span><i style="text-align: left;">turning him into a girl</i><span style="text-align: left;">"--performing surgery ( </span><a href="http://www.vetsurgerycentral.com/urethrostomy.htm" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">perineal urethrostomy</a><span style="text-align: left;"> ) to bypass the penis. The trouble is that a newly created "vagina" often increases the dog's susceptibility to chronic urinary tract infections, not to mention is invasive and painful. </span></div>
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Fortunately, for our little patient the owners were happy to drive him up to <a href="http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vmth/small_animal/index.cfm" target="_blank">U.C.Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital</a>, where veterinarians have refined laser<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vyl4fNIgCM" target="_blank"> lithotripsy. </a>, a procedure in which a tiny fiber-optic camera contained within a urethroscope or endoscope is used to visualize and guide a laser to pulverize the stone ( shown in the ureteral lithotripsy link).</div>
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The items underlined in red on the pet food label are most likely genetically modified (GMOs). They have been sprayed with Round Up- a proprietary formulation of glyphosate with other ingredients<b>. </b><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Beets are in many common pet foods. In addition to beets naturally being very high in oxalate, Monsanto genetically modified them (GMO) and they are sprayed with Round Up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Round Up (glyphosate) isn't just an herbicide; it's also</b> an antibiotic.</span></h3>
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Monsanto <b><a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US7771736">patented formulations of glyphosate with oxalate as an adjuvant for its herbicides</a>, and farmers are s</b>praying it in <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2015/01/round-up.html">exponentially increasing amounts on GMO crops.</a><br />
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Even though we eat oxalate in foods like kale, beets, and spinach,<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071521/"> intestinal bacteria like <i><b><span style="color: red;">Oxalobacter formigenes</span></b> </i>degrade it, so less is bound to calcium and is unavailable to make kidney and bladder stones. </a>But<b> s</b>tudies show glyphosate inhibits beneficial bacteria, some of which might degrade oxalate.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e1e8ed; color: #292f33; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In other words, Oxalobacter formigenes helps to neutralize oxalate, thus preventing kidney stones. It isn't the only vital bacterium, as studies have show<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">n inconsistent </span>reduction in oxalate in people administered a proprietary probiotic called OxaDrop, that doesn't <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">contain</span> O. Formigenes<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">--</span> which is why microbiome studies characterizing microbial diverstiy and phenotypic changes cause by glyphosate in animals are needed. </span></blockquote>
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Veterinarians have long been puzzled by the <a href="http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dvm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=676609&pageID=1&sk=&date=" target="_blank">increase in the incidence of calcium oxalate urinary stones in cats and dogs</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>T</b></span><b><span style="color: #660000;">he increased incidence of calcium oxalate stones in pets suggests an environmental cause</span></b>.<br />
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<u>Calcium Oxalate uroliths are represented by green, whereas struvite is aqua blue.</u><br />
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<b>Research shows that a recently identified bacteria (Oxalobacter formigenes) found in both animals and people, reduces oxalate absorption from the intestines-- thereby reducing risks of forming calcium oxalate kidney stones in people. </b><br />
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The role of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Oxalobacter formigenes</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>colonization in calcium oxalate stone disease</h2>
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As<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.96px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Oxalobacter formigenes</i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold 12.96px / normal "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium that degrades oxalate in the intestinal tract, we assessed the role of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.96px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">O. formigenes</i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold 12.96px / normal "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in oxalate metabolism by evaluating its intestinal absorption, plasma concentration, and urinary excretion [...] <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold 12.96px / normal "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Our findings suggest that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.96px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">O. formigenes </i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold 12.96px / normal "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">lowers the intestinal concentration of oxalate available for absorption at constant rates, resulting in decreased urinary oxalate excretion. Thus, dietary factors have an important role in urinary oxalate excretion. The data indicate that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.96px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">O. formigenes</i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold 12.96px / normal "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>colonization may reduce the risk of stone recurrence.</span></span><br />
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G<a href="http://beachvethospital.blogspot.com/2015/01/round-up.html" style="background-color: #f5f6f5;">lyphosate sprayed on Round Up Ready GMOs </a>--- patented as an antibiotic has been shown<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23224412" style="background-color: #f5f6f5;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> in several studies to suppress beneficial bacteria</span></a> in animals.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AlwaysaScouser">@AlwaysaScouser</a> Asked u for study on glyphosate s (antibiotic) effects on O. formigenes in Apr. Do you have one, by any chance?</div>
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We know that <a href="http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/glyphosate#section=Human-Toxicity-Excerpts">glyphosate is primarily excreted</a> in the urine and feces where it can adversely affect beneficial bacteria, as well as <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2015/04/01/antibiotic-resistance-from-unexpected-sources/#74782bf2740d">paradoxically cause antibiotic resistance.</a><br />
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If your pooch is a breed predisposed to these stones -Shi Tzu, Lhasa Apso, Bichon Frise- or your doctor diagnosed him with calcium oxalate urinary stones-the <a href="http://nebula.wsimg.com/994461b9d089467ee43dbe56d750c5e8?AccessKeyId=F8EFA7E56875355794EB&disposition=0&alloworigin=1">Precautionary Principle dictates avoiding Round-Up Ready crops.</a> Do not buy pet foods with GMO corn, soy, beet pulp, as they are likely to have been engineered to be Round-Up ready, and sprayed with <a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2015/01/round-up.html">glyphosate</a> plus other undisclosed ingredients. </h3>
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Like most people, you've peeked at a business' reviews online before investing money or precious time on it, in the belief that the reviews are written in good faith. Most of us do it because we trust word of mouth opinions of our equals much more than direct marketing by the business itself.<b> </b><br />
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<b>But the reviews you are about to read are from people who</b><b> have never been to our business, and as alarmingly, some who have shown up under false pretenses to harass us. </b><br />
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Tell Consumers What They Are Eating <a href="https://t.co/Vwup3OAWNE">https://t.co/Vwup3OAWNE</a>
New York Times Changes Its Mind On Labeling <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a> s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Foodiechats?src=hash">#Foodiechats</a></div>
— Beach Vet Hospital (@Beach_Vet) <a href="https://twitter.com/Beach_Vet/status/671739381808435201">December 1, 2015</a></blockquote>
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We believe it is our right to know what we are eating and that <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/ct-gmo-crops-pesticide-resistance-met-20151203-story.html">GMOs have not been shown safe for our patients to eat</a>. </div>
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We have been vocally <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2013/april/16a-anti-gmo-efforts-us">advocating for labeling GMOs</a> since <a href="http://www.carighttoknow.org/jumpsuits">Proposition 37 was placed on the ballot in California</a>. Having read thousands of long and complex peer reviewed studies on GMOs over the last six years, we have very serious medical concerns about genetically modified foods, also known as <a href="http://www.responsibletechnology.org/health-risks"><span style="color: #351c75;">GMO</span></a>, present in many pet foods. We are concerned that they are contributing to allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis, liver and kidney disease, as well as kidney stones among others. Recently, the World Health Organization Cancer Experts found sufficient evident that Round Up (Glyphosate), present in unmeasured and unknown quantities in most GMOs, is carcinogenic to animals and probably to people, particularly causing non Hodgkins lymphoma and leukemia (AML). Remember, the most common GMO trait is Round Up (Glyphosate) resistance. <br />
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As a result, we are being targeted in a smear campaign, psy. ops (torrents of hate lit with gaslighting), business sabotage, harassment, intimidation, bullying, defamation, libel and legal threats. A Monsanto mommy blogger-"farmer" married into a farmer family that, I was told in confidence, makes generous profits selling pesticides on the side --arranged complaints to be lodged with the veterinary medical board jeopardizing my veterinary license.<br />
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I invite you to find out what's involved in admission to UC Davis Veterinary School, graduation, passing two separate Boards (federal and state) and then watching Monsanto's trolls threaten your medical license -- mine is. Why?<br />
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Because I have been doing my best to inform the public. The world needs to know that the <span style="color: #990000;">cancer specialists at the </span><span style="color: #351c75;">World Health Organization</span><span style="color: #990000;"> have just classified Round Up sprayed on 90% of GMOs as a </span><span style="color: #351c75;">probable carcinogen</span>.<br />
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The most prevalent GMOs are Round Up-ready and no agency in the United States monitors Round Up residues of a ubiquitous chemical in our food. We suggest if you haven't been paying attention to food ingredient labels: you begin to read them very carefully now. Stay away from any package that contains soy, corn, sugar beets/ beet pulp, alfalfa -- very common ingredients in pet foods.<br />
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We have been seeing suspicious clients sporadically since Proposition 37. Arriving with an agenda rather than seeking care for their pets, our unwelcome MonSatan "clients" post vicious Yelp reviews and then link them on Twitter and other GMO discussions. The video below illustrates a Monsanto affiliated front group, Biofortified, planting their mascot in our flower bed. They want to know they are physically present at our hospital. We know many negative Yelp reviews are fake because the clients -- just like Stephan, Mike B, and several others, who I invite you to learn about in a linked 10 minute video -- don't show up in our records </div>
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This is a forgery of an image from our Beach Vet Hospital's Facebook page (as it was being assailed by Monsanto's GMOLOL 10,000-troll-strong Facebook group) joined to an image from Stephan's <i>own</i> Facebook page, on Yelp.<br />
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To someone whose grandpa was one of six millions Jews to perish, growing up in a home where two giant tomes of black-and-white photos of the Holocaust and Nuremberg trials graced our coffee table, trivialization of the horrors was beyond shocking.<br />
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Stephan equating a celebrated author-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb"> Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>- with Hitler. He is being targeted, just like us, for advocating Precaution with GMOs.<br />
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This anomalous <i>"client" </i>came in for a complementary staple removal. We have a policy of providing complementary suture or staple removal for our own clients, as well as clients of other hospitals --<i>based on records and instructions of the primary surgeon</i>.<br />
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"Was it done at our local emergency hospital, who we work with extensively?"<br />
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In addition to demanding free staple removal, this "client" reiterated the point that she could remove the staples by herself! If you click on her review you will notice that is exactly what she did, with professional grade staple removers, begging the following question:<br />
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Unlike routine surgeries, bite wound healing is neither predictable nor routine because most of the trauma is <i>beneath </i>the skin. Bite wounds are not cutting wounds--they are crushing wounds. Which means that if we remove sutures or staples prematurely, against the primary surgeon's advice-- we have now made ourselves liable- opening ourselves up to a lawsuit. <b></b><br />
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My undergraduate degree is in biochemistry. Prior to veterinary school I worked sequencing DNA. We used restriction enzymes to map DNA in the 80s, but sequencing projects taking years in the past can be done in minutes with automation today. Later I worked on a project genetically engineering yeast for the brewing industry, which failed. But, this training and experience gives me an understanding of the science of genetic engineering and awareness of genetic modification of our food supply most private practice veterinary clinicians lack. </div>
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<span class="jrnl" title="Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association">Food Chem Toxicol</span>. 2004 Jun;42(6):1003-14</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Food and Chemical Toxicology, the journal which recently retracted the infamous <a href="http://gmoseralini.org/en/" target="_blank">Seralini </a>study- reporting kidney & liver disease, as well as unexpected <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240732/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">breast cancer</span></a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">also published </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=hammond+safety+assurance" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">four safety assurance studies by Hammond et al.</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/28/study-gm-maize-cancer">Seralini was crucified in the popular media</a>: " </span>Commentators variously claimed the study to be "biased", "poorly performed", "bogus", "fraudulent", "sub-standard", "sloppy agenda-based science", "inadequate" and "unsatisfactory". Séralini was said to have "sought harm" for the rats, the experiment was dismissed as "inhumane" and the research group was called "partisan". <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2016/07/11/la-discrete-influence-de-monsanto_4967784_1650684.html?xtmc=goodman&xtcr=1#meter_toaster">France was outed as "the most anti-science country in anti-science Europe" and vociferous GM supporters"</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reason for the retraction was simply bizarre. The study that replicated Monsanto's 90 day safety test on Round Up Ready Corn (NK603) by Hammond et al was retracted because the results were found to be<b><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"> <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-announces-article-retraction-from-journal-food-and-chemical-toxicology"><span style="color: #cc0000;">inconclusive</span></a></span></i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span>: "</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Ultimately, the results presented (while not incorrect) are inconclusive, and therefore do not reach the threshold of publication for Food and Chemical Toxicology" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">If this standard was applied to other studies in any field of science, 90% of studies would have to be retracted. But of the two studies, Hammond's suffers from far worse, indeed- catastrophic flaws. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Agricultural GM cheerleaders who lobbied aggressively for retraction of Seralini's life-long rat study, made darn sure that Hammond's study which triggered Seralini's study-never ever ever never drew any attention. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Read and understand this study- </span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">representing a standard safety test on the most prevalent transgenic crop in the food supply.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The study is a safety assessment to ensure that the <a href="http://cera-gmc.org/GmCropDatabaseEvent/NK603">RoundUp Ready corn (NK 603)</a> is as safe as conventional corn involving two components. Firstly, it is an evaluation of safety of the <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">newly introduced trait</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">-</span></i> Round Up Resistance conferred by the Round Up Ready transgene (CP4 EPSPS). Secondly, it is an assessment for possible toxicity due to unintended <span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiotropy">pleiotropic</a> </span>effects resulting from the</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i><span style="color: #0b5394;">insertion</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"> of the trait</span></i><i style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></i></span><span style="color: #073763;">(transgene)</span>.</span><span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> [*] </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it appears this study does not provide robust evidence to support either claim, is even <i><span style="color: red;">less conclusive than Seralini</span></i>- and should likewise be retracted. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If you add the experimental and control rats in any category, test results should be available for </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">400 rats</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Let see what happens when you try this exercise for bilirubin, in the table posted above, as an example. For male rats (Table 4) bilirubin is reported for 4-6 experimental and 36 control rats, while for females (Table 5) it's reported for 7-8 experimental and 49 control rats. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So results are reported for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(4 to 6 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">+ 36) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">+ (7 to 8 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">+ 49) = 96 to 99 rats. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Don't feel too bad if you aren't finding it easy, because the "esteemed" scientists and editors at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Food and Chemical Toxicology, as well as regulators---<b> </b> flunked elementary school arithmetic.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">In a non-blinded experiment, where the researchers know which animals are exposed to which food, and test results are published for less than half the rats ( N 4-10, instead of 20 in Tables 2,3,4), the researchers are free to cherry pick the rats based on overt clinical signs. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If the transgenic corn was engineered with a metabolite toxic to the kidneys, the most affected rats would be identifiable, as they would be drinking excessively and urinating excessively. Rats with liver disease could likewise be avoided for sampling because their white skin would glow yellow</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> due to jaundice. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But beyond just that-- biochemistry and hematology are reported for half as many rats as were necropsied-dead-thus the data literally says, only half of the rats were analyzed because the other half died. Laboratory rats rarely to never go on Caribbean vacations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Committees of global experts</span><span style="background-color: white;"> have created decision trees largely based on assessment of IgE-mediated food allergenicity for</span><span style="background-color: white;"> risk assessment.[8] T</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he WHO guidelines state that a transgene with<span style="color: #351c75;"> <b><a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y0820e/y0820e00.HTM">greater than 6 (continuous) amino acid homology</a></b></span><a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y0820e/y0820e00.HTM"> </a>to a <i>known allergenic</i> epitope or > 35% of (discontinuous) sequence , should be further screened on 25 individual serum samples with high IgE titers to that air borne or food borne allergen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[2]</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CP4 EPSPS protein has<span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html"> </a><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html">homology</a><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html"> of SEVEN</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html"> </a><a href="http://beachvetlbc.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html">amino acids</a></span></b><a href="http://beachvethospital.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-let-mites-out.html" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"> </a></span> to a known and prevalent allergen- dust mite allergen (der p 7).[1] </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hammond cites Harrison et al, a study on </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">digestibility</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of CP4 EPSPS protein as evidence for lack of allergenicity of the introduced transgene. While digestibility is a preliminary step in screening novel proteins, it is not a substitute for immunologic studies. Hammond also cites studies on Round Up Ready soybeans as evidence of lack of allergenicity. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tudies on Round Up Ready soybeans are not a substitute for studies on Round Up Ready corn.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Moreover, a targeted analysis on serum from patients with dust mites allergies was not performed on 25 serum samples in the studies. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The largest inhibition ELISA on CP4 EPSPS was reported for Round Up Ready soybeans on a <b>trivial sample of 4 </b>[9] </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and thus the studies would not uncover cross reactivity between Cp4 EPSPS and der p 7 in soybeans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Liver enzyme tests are not liver function tests-they are tests of inflammation. In fact, liver enzymes can appear relatively normal in the face of liver failure.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Bilirubin</i> is a marker of jaundice most often associated with hepato-biliary disease.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In cats the most common form of liver disease is known as hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. The same disease is recognized in rats and in people, and it is called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21440669" target="_blank"> (NAFLD)</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Its prevalence rate is rising- <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22249728" target="_blank">especially among kids</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recall at the very beginning of this post there is a table that shows that T<i>otal bilirubin (t.bili)</i> in Table 4 is <i>reported for 4-6 out of 20 male rats (and 7-8 out of 20 female rats</i>.) B</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ilirubin values in the urine are not published for the rats at all. </span><br />
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"Some of my concerns with GMOs are “just” practical ones. I have read numerous GMO risk assessment applications. These are the documents that governments rely on to ‘prove’ their safety. Though<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotechnology/petitions_table_pending.shtml" style="color: #1d4e89; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">these documents</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are quite long and quite complex, their length is misleading in that they primarily ask (and answer) trivial questions. Furthermore, the experiments described within them are often very inadequate and sloppily executed. Scientific controls are often missing, procedures and reagents are badly described, and the results are often ambiguous or uninterpretable. I do not believe that this ambiguity and apparent incompetence is accidental. It is common, for example, for multinational corporations, whose labs have the latest equipment, to use outdated methodologies. When the results show what the applicants want, nothing is said. But when the results are inconvenient and raise red flags, they blame the limitations of the antiquated method. This bulletproof logic, in which applicants claim safety no matter what the data shows, or how badly the experiment was performed, is routine in formal GMO risk assessment.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: white;">[*]</span><span style="background-color: white;"> <b>The study as designed by Hammond et al does not permit evaluation for pleotropic effects since there is a confounding factor that has not been segregated out. The corn was treated with <a href="http://beachvethospital.blogspot.com/2015/01/round-up.html" target="_blank">Round Up- a mixture of glyphosate, AMPA and proprietary adjuvants</a>. The authors state that glyphosate wasn't detected at 250 ppb, however, the methodology isn't listed. Typically residues are measured by High Pressure Liquid Chromatography in tandem with Mass Spectrometry or ELISA. Since methods weren't published reported glyphosate residues are questionable. If indeed the levels of glyphosate were <250ppb they might not represent field conditions, and if greater-t</b></span><b>hese additional chemicals make it impossible to tease away any potential metabolic toxicity caused by transgene insertion on the genome from chemical toxicity of Round Up and its adjuvants. It is also the reason that Seralini in his retracted paper came up with the "complicated design" separating rats into groups exposed to transgenic corn alone ( to evaluate effects of transgene insertion on the genome in isolation of Round Up) and those exposed to Round Up in the drinking water. </b><br />
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We recently had a conversation on Twitter about the alleged consensus on safety of GMOs. Jesus, who hangs out on Twitter, in case you are seeking him, challenged the legitimacy of said consensus. He pointed out a break-away group of non-adherents of the consensus named ENSSER. You really should click on the ENSSER statement, linked below Jesus' tweet-it's worth it. </div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/amy_harmon">@amy_harmon</a> Pure GMO propaganda. "There is no scientific consensus on GMO safety", view first signatories <a href="http://t.co/ZrAdbyEpYV">http://t.co/ZrAdbyEpYV</a><br />
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ENSSER STATEMENT: <a href="http://www.ensser.org/increasing-public-information/no-scientific-consensus-on-gmo-safety/" target="_blank">No Consensus on GMOs</a></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">A schism among legitimate scientists is inconvenient as hell. Thus impugning the credibility of heretical scientists is rather a rational response. I happen to agree with Jesus on this one- I think a consensus on GMOs is as real as the Spaghetti monster.</span></h4>
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As a general rule, those who believe in the consensus reject labeling GMOs and those who don't believe in it want them labeled.</div>
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I mentioned that a pioneering genetic engineer, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/First-Fruit-Creation-Tomato-Biotech/dp/0071360565">Dr. Belinda Martineau, of Calgene's Flavr Savr tomato fame</a>, is one of 200-something signatories to the ENSSER's non-consensus statement and followed that up with thousands of veterinarians and internists represented by two <i>science based organizations </i>which reached opposite conclusions. It is useful to contrast the two: the American Veterinary Medical Association ( AVMA) representing approximately 80,000 Doctors of veterinary medicine and the American College of Physicians (ACP) with 130,000+ internal medicine specialist members.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/BrianDeverell">@BrianDeverell</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TheGOPJesus">@TheGOPJesus</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/amy_harmon">@amy_harmon</a> Nice! They say labeling inconsistent with AVMA position on biotech. Thanks Brian!<br />
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<a href="http://www.acponline.org/about_acp/chapters/il/s10resolutions.pdf">So here is American College of Physicians' Resolution on GMOs. </a><br />
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Resolution 6-S10. Supporting Legislation and/or Regulation that Requires Clearly Labeling Food with Genetically Engineered Ingredients (pages 8-9)
WHEREAS, ACP has as a strategic theme “to promote the highest professional and ethical standards for our members and organization; and WHEREAS, the Physicians Charter of Professionalism calls on physicians to provide “expert advice to society on matters of health”; and
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WHEREAS, lack of labeling denies health professionals the ability to trace potential toxic [1] or<br />
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and WHEREAS, the World Health Organization issued warnings on the use of antibiotic resistance marker genes in genetically engineered food [8];
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and WHEREAS, in order to make informed decisions, the public needs to be made aware of the contents of their food just as patients need to be aware of the risks, benefits and alternatives to their medical and surgical treatments;
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and WHEREAS, crop scientists complain that they must ask biotechnology corporations for permission before conducting orpublishing independent research on genetically engineered crops [9] [10];
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and WHEREAS, 40 countries require labeling of genetically engineered food, including the European Union, Australia, Japan, Russia, China, New Zealand, Brazil and South Africa [11];
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and WHEREAS, the American Public Health Association [12], American Nurses Association [13], the British Medical Association[14] and the Irish Medical Organization [15] support the labeling of genetically engineered food products;
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and WHEREAS, Catholic Healthcare West (a network of 41 hospitals and 10,000 physicians) avoids genetically engineered food and advocates for public policies that include the labeling of genetically engineered food [16];
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and WHEREAS, 304 U.S. hospitals and medical centers have signed the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge, encouraging vendors to supply food that is produced without genetic modification [17];
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RESOLVED, that the Board of Regents supports legislation and/or federal regulatory action which requires all foods containing genetically engineered ingredients to be clearly labeled.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TheGOPJesus">@TheGOPJesus</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/amy_harmon">@amy_harmon</a> Links (from Android) <a href="https://t.co/1wkc5lG3nl">https://t.co/1wkc5lG3nl</a> <a href="https://t.co/86qd4u2aEJ">https://t.co/86qd4u2aEJ</a><br />
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Agreement Seeking: A consensus <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making">decision making</a> process attempts to help everyone get what they need.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making#cite_note-cdmsite-2"><br /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration">Collaborative</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation">Cooperative</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism">Egalitarian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion_(value_and_practice)">Inclusive</a>: As many <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stakeholder">stakeholders</a> as possible should be involved in the consensus decision-making process. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_(decision_making)">Participatory</a>: The consensus process should actively solicit the input and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_(decision_making)">participation</a> of all decision-makers<br />
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Firstly, having been a member of the AVMA for a couple of decades, I've never known it to operate by any of the above guidelines cited by Wiki. Secondly, there has not been a single journal article on GMOs in veterinary literature. There has been no mention of GMOs in written form in veterinary literature nor has it ever been brought up at any veterinary continuing education meeting I've ever attended. I venture to say that<b> the majority of veterinarians have not heard of genetic modification of food</b> or have a vague awareness gleaned from popular media coverage of the recent labeling initiatives.in California and Washington. <b>Thus they, the approximately 80,000 AVMA members, couldn't actively formulate the consensus on this issue by virtue of ignorance alone</b>. And ignorance might be the main ingredient in cooking up a bowl of pastafarian GMO consensus by a couple of key chefs in positions of leadership. <b>This is the reason I don't place much stock in position statements of any organization--they sometimes/ often(?) do not represent their members.</b></div>
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Federal Issue Brief<br />
H.R. 3553, Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act<br />
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Nonsupport<br />
The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to deem a food misbranded if it contains or was produced with a genetically engineered material unless its labeling contains statements meeting specified requirements. The legislation also requires the periodic testing of such foods transferred along a chain of distribution to assure accuracy of labels, subject to specified exceptions.<br />
Key Points in Opposition:<br />
While the AVMA recognizes the public’s right to be informed about the content of food, the AVMA has policy supporting truthful and non-misleading human food labeling and believes that the labeling of genetically engineered food or food that is produced with genetically engineered material as it is defined within the legislation could mislead the general public to perceive an unrealistic food safety hazard. At the same time, the FDA is prohibited from requiring labeling that is not truthful and misleading.<br />
The legislation specifically includes food from which the animal “has been fed genetically engineered material,” which will prove to be extremely challenging logistically, if not impossible, to discern for most animal-derived products. And should food and food products from genetically engineered material require labeling, it would create a precedent for labeling hundreds, if not thousands, of food products from GE plants (e.g. corn, soy) that have been safely consumed for many decades.<br />
The legislation is also inconsistent with the AVMA policy on use of biotechnology in veterinary medicine and animal agriculture.<br />
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H.R. 3553 was introduced on 12/09/2011 by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH-10th) and referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, and the Agriculture Committee.</div>
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I do understand the reservations AVMA expressed about labeling livestock fed GMOs, a standard even Europe seems to find onerous. But the glaring political motive of this statement, crafted by a conservative leadership of the AVMA in response to a bill introduced by a progressive democrat is extraordinary. It is highly anomalous for the AVMA to express opposition to a bill introduced many times with little risk of passing--one of thousands of pieces of legislation, which hasn't made it out of one committee and likely wont. It has little to do with the veterinary industry. So, the statement is less about opposition to the bill itself, but rather about the AVMA establishing a record against labeling GMOs without the knowledge or input of its members.<br />
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80,000 veterinarians can't come to a consensual agreement on GMOs. Most don't know they exist!<br />
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If you recall my last post on the genetically silenced apple I outlined another simple guideline to differentiate between scientists and GMO politicians, for those not familiar with how science works. The former will have scientific citations, like ACP and ENSSER do, and it is a point worth repeating. Politically motivated opinions have little use for science and citations, my non-scientist friends.<br />
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The really awful news, though, is that Jesus occupied the same space & time with the Spaghetti monster! We had a perfect opportunity to produce empirical evidence proving that Jesus is not Spaghetti monster's son and collect $1,000,000 in "Intelligently Designed currency" and blew it. Darn!<br />
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Have you heard of the non-<i>browning </i>Arctic Apple engineered to market <i>sliced</i> apples and reduce waste? The GMO apple is galaxies away from fruit Adam and Eve tasted in the Garden of Eden.<br />
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It's worth reading some science going into its creation to learn if we feel at ease taking a bite and tasting this modern fruit....dwelling a bit on the tree of knowledge good or evil, science or belief?<br />
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If, like me, you have ever felt like some GMO scientists sound more evangelical than scientific by the time you are done reading this modern Twitter drama there will be less doubt your feelings are legitimate.<br />
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Though it might give you a little headache if you aren't a scientist, I think it'll be worth your time. Knowledge is like that. Biotechnology science is as fascinating as it gets, even if a little complicated.<br />
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It could be a fun exercise in separating science from illusions of science-beliefs.<br />
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If you aren't science minded skip the details. Ask yourself a basic question "am I seeing statements fitting better in the science or religion category"? The fog might lift a just a little.<br />
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<b>Science 101:<i> </i></b><br />
<b><i>Evidence-based</i></b><br />
Customarily presented in a form of shiny<i><b> citations to data (</b></i> <i>non-scientists might find annoying</i>).<br />
Usually containing raw numbers, science symbols, charts or graphs.<br />
<u>Core tenet: questioning assumptions.:</u><br />
<i> " <b>What is the evidence for my theory/ hypothesis / belief </b> ???????"</i><br />
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<b>Religion</b>--belief based.<br />
No data, proof, or evidence required.<span style="color: blue;">*</span><br />
<b><i>Science citations</i></b> inevitably <b><i>absent</i></b>.<br />
<b><i>Assertions</i></b> made requiring <b><i>zero proof.</i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">*</span> Don't recall the last time they showed numbers or graphs at a religious ceremony.</i><br />
<i> I</i><i>t is a good thing, too -can't remember the last spiritual, transcendental graph I've seen, do you? </i><br />
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I have some questions about testing before taking a bite, don't you? [1] [7]<br />
Were precise profiling techniques used e.g. transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics ( the "omics")?<br />
Any feeding trials conducted on laboratory rats?<br />
The answers appear to be "None" & "No".<br />
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Unlike the common herbicide-tolerant and insecticidal GMOs, the GMO apple was not created by the addition of genes.<span style="background-color: #3d85c6;"> <span style="color: white;">(</span><u><span style="color: white;">+)</span></u> </span><br />
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A genetic engineering technique called <b>RNAi </b>or <a href="http://www.nature.com/nrg/multimedia/rnai/index.html" target="_blank">RNA interference</a> was used<i>. </i><a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/RNAi-Biosafety-DraftPaper-2015-LathamWilson.pdf" target="_blank">Double-stranded RNA (<b>dsRNA</b>) which binds messenger RNA</a> (<b>mRNA</b>) preventing the production of the browning enzyme; PPO<b><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-why-cut-apples-turn-brown" target="_blank"></a> </b>was introduced. <span style="background-color: #6fa8dc; color: white;"> (*)</span><br />
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So as promised here comes the Tweeter-drama. As the USDA was wrapping up its public comment period on the Arctic apple advocates took to Twitter, where the following ensued and was storify'ed for you.<br />
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Darryl Hannah tweeted a link to her followers encouraging them to voice their disapproval</div>
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DEADLINE DECEMBER 16: Tell the USDA You Don’t Want a GMO Apple! - <a href="http://t.co/IkaApTkrsk">http://t.co/IkaApTkrsk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/OrganicConsumer">@OrganicConsumer</a><br />
— Daryl Hannah (@dhlovelife) <a href="https://twitter.com/dhlovelife/statuses/412323597105913856">December 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Predictably "scientists" flocked to "educate the masses".<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> This interview with the CEO of <a href="https://twitter.com/ArcticApples">@ArcticApples</a> is really good too. He talks about the details. <a href="http://t.co/DF71RwV2Qu">http://t.co/DF71RwV2Qu</a><br />
— Suzanne Kennedy (@SuzyScientist) <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist/statuses/412345881904435200">December 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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The website is a glossy promotional site without a single science citation to be found.<br />
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So I pressed the scientist & Co again, and again, and again, and again to post links to<b> <a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/RNAi-Biosafety-DraftPaper-2015-LathamWilson.pdf">science on off-target effects (OTE)</a></b><a href="http://./">.</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> Again, tell that to the dead worms who were late to the class & died. <a href="http://t.co/Ep8A1yUycr">http://t.co/Ep8A1yUycr</a><br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413155580388200448">December 18, 2013</a></blockquote>
You see it is very well known that today's silencing technology leads to unpredictable unintended effects causing surprises<b></b>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">" When designing therapeutic short-interfering RNAs (siRNAs), <b>off-target effects (OTEs)</b> are usually predicted by computational quantification of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) that contain matches to the siRNA seed sequence in their 3' UTRs (<i> untranslated regions</i>) [..]</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">We observed no correlation between the number of computationally predicted OTEs and the actual number of seed-dependent OTEs (P=0.76). On average <b>only 20.5% of actual transcriptional OTEs </b>were seed-dependent (i.e., <b>predicted</b>)." [6]</span></span></span><br />
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Sometimes as discovered in a study on bees - scientists silenced genes they didn't even know existed! [3]<br />
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A study on insecticidal RNAi reported that dsRNA engineered to kill insects produced unintended secondary dsRNA with different sequences and different targets than originally planned which did the insects in. [4] A similar process of generation of secondary dsRNA has been described in plants.[8]<br />
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Off-target effects causing unpredictable gene silencing are far from conspiratorial. They are discussed by USDA's scientists [5]<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ArcticApples">@ArcticApples</a> RNAi is specific. Over 10 years testing. All studies show they are nutritionally equivalent.<br />
— Suzanne Kennedy (@SuzyScientist) <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist/statuses/412353969302679553">December 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Suzy, the scientist claims there have been 10yrs of testing which, while true, is misleading because they were years of agronomic research and development, rather than safety testing.<br />
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Not a single study on any experimental animal-lab rat or human- exposed to this silenced fruit is anywhere to find. Not a single "omics" study ( transcriptomics, metabolomics or proteomics) [7] is cited in spite of multiple requests.<br />
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Thus saying they are nutritionally equivalent is a leap of faith- not rigorous science.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> RNAi is occurring in the cells of your body all day every day. It is a natural process. <a href="https://twitter.com/ArcticApples">@ArcticApples</a><br />
— Suzanne Kennedy (@SuzyScientist) <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist/statuses/412351167604064256">December 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> The dsRNA in apple new & exogenous. No one has posted DATA on in planta *off-target effects*, which are common<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413148392903036928">December 18, 2013</a></blockquote>
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The tweet below is where it got really interesting!<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ArcticApples">@ArcticApples</a> It can't. Humans don't have the gene for PPO. It is a plant gene. And microRNA won't survive stomach acid pH2<br />
— Suzanne Kennedy (@SuzyScientist) <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist/statuses/412362192684449792">December 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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1. She is unaware that a study recently completed at Rutgers University demonstrating short dsRNA (microRNA) in the viscera of rabbits fed a therapeutic (antiviral) microRNA engineered tomato. The scientists filed a patent for plant-based therapeutic applications using this technology. Thus, her declarative statement that microRNA won't survive digestion is steeped in a brew of ignorance and is scientifically untrue.<br />
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Edible transgenic plants as oral delivery vehicles for RNA-based therapeutics <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dsRNA&src=hash">#dsRNA</a> Say dietary miRNAs detected.
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— Jack Heinemann (@Jack_Heinemann) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jack_Heinemann/statuses/401797512182239232">November 16, 2013</a></blockquote>
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the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dsRNA&src=hash">#dsRNA</a> from GM plants "can be taken up efficiently into the circulatory system of mammals after their ingestion" <a href="http://t.co/N7tm7TQxtE">http://t.co/N7tm7TQxtE</a><br />
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novel dietary <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GMO&src=hash">#GMO</a> RNA "stable for up to two weeks in the blood" of rabbits and detected in brain, spleen & liver <a href="http://t.co/N7tm7TQxtE">http://t.co/N7tm7TQxtE</a> …<br />
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2. It should be clear to readers that absence of PPO ( browning enzyme) and its gene in humans is irrelevant in the context of<b> off-target effects</b> in the plant itself or animals ingesting the silencing gene carrying apples.<br />
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3. She appears unaware of a study demonstrating microRNA from bacteria, fungi and even insects has been detected in human plasma. How did they get there? Did she not know or has she not bothered to ask? [2]. Oh, yeah--Monsanto insists microRNA can't be absorbed, and is still arguing that microRNA are a contaminant to avoid safety testing its crops.<br />
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4. But, there is not a single study anywhere in the literature showing rates of degradation of double-stranded RNA at Ph 2! Never mind in the range of gastric pH's (2-5) in adult humans.<br />
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So Suzy, the Scientist, can Not back up any of her claims. Her only refuge would be to call me names, which she already tried, but I skipped that part because ad hominem statements starting with " you are...X, Y, ...Z" are so common in these GMO "conversations/ religious conversions."<br />
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Thus, I pressed the scientists to show me a study on degradation of dsRNA at ph2. Here is what happened.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> Never mind in an actual stomach w. pH 2-5 and is higher in babies! Crickets!<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413043860873289728">December 17, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> I
Prefer a citation to SINGLE study on degradation rates of dsRNA. Crickets!<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413063417394503680">December 17, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> Still waiting for a single citation. Crickets chirping!<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413084909289238529">December 17, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> Hydrolysis of Nucleic Acids (in acid and base) <a href="http://t.co/iSvY0IMCWG">http://t.co/iSvY0IMCWG</a><br />
— Suzanne Kennedy (@SuzyScientist) <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist/statuses/413122336095617024">December 18, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Dr Suzy the Scientist posts a link to a study on chemical hydrolysis of ribonucleic acids. Not only is it completely irrelevant to dsRNA, but the hydrolysis reaction takes place after an hour of boiling. How many people do you know who stew their stomach contents at 220F for an hour?<br />
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As a brilliant scientist watching this little drama unfold commented: <b>"Funny how they so adamantly claim these things but cannot show any data."</b><br />
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The stuff sounds pretty indestructible now. Of course, it isn't, because we have lots of enzymes called pancreatic RNases to digest RNA, Suzy the Scientist evidently forgot about.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> Thxs! Appreciate it, Adam! Will read it as soon as I have a chance <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a><br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413104041455939584">December 18, 2013</a></blockquote>
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OK! Finally! After days of unscientific nonsense, we arrive where we should have started --at our first science citation. Or rather a citation to a study on pancreatic ribonucleases (RNases), enzymes that degrade RNA, which, by the way, have little to do with chemical degradation at pH 2.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> OK. No data on how fast dsRNA degraded in stomach,or anywhere else1/3<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413517078121816066">December 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> 2) bacterial dsRNA. Plants modify dsRNA with 2'Me making more stable.<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413517521484914688">December 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> Do bacteria? Don't think so."Plant miRNAs 2′-O-methyl modified 3/4<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413517966160838656">December 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> on terminal nucleotide, which renders them resistant to periodate4/5<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413518188605751296">December 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tibbsy07">@tibbsy07</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a>
So, if this citation was supposed to be reassuring Adam, it wasn't!<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413518902572773377">December 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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First, no data on how fast the dsRNA disappears from the stomach, nor anywhere else. It was bacterial dsRNA, not plant dsRNA. Nor was this a paper measuring acid stability, but enzymatic stability.<br />
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No relevance to how fast the dsRNA disappears and whether or not it is rendered inert during digestion time under physiological conditions.<br />
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I did eventually get a citation to a second study on degradation of dsRNA in the stomach kindly posted by Dr David Tribe aka GMOpundit.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> <a href="http://t.co/ns0rXhSsJ2">http://t.co/ns0rXhSsJ2</a> Fig 3. u cld ave usd Google scholar<br />
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The trouble is that Dr Tribe's study actually showed that dsRNA is stable for extended periods of time relative to time in stomach (10 to >24 hours) and is not more unstable at pHs that might be relevant to human digestion (5)<br />
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It turns out there might not have been any science evidence to back up that assumption/ hypothesis/belief.<br />
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As far as I can see in this little melodrama, <u><b>NO studies showing these novel stable RNA molecules that we've never eaten- showing it gets degraded in the human gastro-intestinal tract - were cited at all.</b></u><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/gmopundit">@gmopundit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> Confused David. "Simply put, the relevant wheat RNA molecules 1/2<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413843182271492096">December 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/gmopundit">@gmopundit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> will be rapidly digested in the gut to harmless simple nutrients."<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413843746791247872">December 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/gmopundit">@gmopundit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> <a href="http://t.co/L7Y5ODQjH3">http://t.co/L7Y5ODQjH3</a> Yet, yer cited paper does NOT show dsRNA 3/4<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/gmopundit">@gmopundit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chrisatmosphere">@Chrisatmosphere</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prometheusgreen">@prometheusgreen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyScientist">@SuzyScientist</a> instablity in the human stomach!
What gives, David? :)<br />
— Dogctor (@beachvetlbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc/statuses/413844400028934144">December 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
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I am of the mindset now that some "scientists" either have never questioned their deeply held assumptions, maybe since high school. Someone way smarter than myself once said: <i>"assumptions are called ASSumptions because they make ASSes out of us". Or </i>they are willfully selling illusions they<i></i> know nothing in common with science, and much more in common with <i>religious beliefs</i>.<br />
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<b>Unfortunately, the unconscionable denial of risks of RNAi is hindering promising medical research! </b> <a href="http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-12640-muzzled-by-monsanto.html" target="_blank">http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-12640-muzzled-by-monsanto.html</a>, which is most definitely very tragic.<br />
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References:<br />
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1. Securing the safety of genetic modification<br />
Dr Jack A. Heinemann<br />
<a href="http://theconversation.com/securing-the-safety-of-genetic-modification-13102" target="_blank">http://theconversation.com/securing-the-safety-of-genetic-modification-13102</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. The complex exogenous RNA spectra in human plasma: an interface with human gut biota?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>PLos One 2012;7(12):e51009. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051009. Epub 2012 Dec 10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. Non-Target Effects of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)-Derived Double-Stranded RNA (dsRNA-GFP) Used in Honey Bee RNA Interference (RNAi) Assays</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">5. RNAi-Based Insecticidal Crops: Potential Effects on Nontarget Species<br />Jonathan G. LundGren and Jian J. duan</span><br />
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7. Environment International 37 (2011) 1285–1293<br />
Review Molecular profiling — a tool for addressing emerging gaps in the comparative risk<br />
assessment of GMOs.<br />
Jack A. Heinemann a,b,⁎, Brigitta Kurenbach a,b, David Quist b<br />
a School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand b GenØk – Centre for Biosafety, Tromsø, Norway<br />
Table 1<br />
<u>Expert views on profiling.</u><br />
Method Positive perspectives on profiling<br />
<b>High throughput sequencing</b>. High-throughput sequencing proved to be a powerful and quantitative method to sample transcriptomes deeply at maximal resolution. In contrast to hybridization, sequencing showed little, if any, background noise and was sensitive enough to detect<br />
widespread transcription in N90% of the genome, including traces of RNAs that were not robustly transcribed or [were] rapidly degraded. (Wilhelm et al., 2008)<br />
<b>Proteomics </b>Therefore, DIGE [DIfference Gel Electrophoresis] is highly appropriate for comparative profiling of knockout, transgenic, or isogenic germplasm as well as defined pharmacological or stress induced responses as recent reports suggest. Another important consideration is that quantitative studies using 2-D gels in general, and 2-D DIGE in particular, can be performed with any plant<br />
species and are not restricted to plants with sequenced genomes. (Thelen and Peck, 2007)<br />
Proteomics Inter-experimental reproducibility is not good using 2-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis approaches, however, an excellent differential display technique (DIGE) allows multiple samples to be compared on the same gel and is a powerful tool in biomarker discovery for laboratory exposure studies which is quantifiable. (Van Aggelen et al., 2010)<br />
<b>Metabolomics</b> [Catchpole et al. (2005)] demonstrated the compositional similarity between GM and non-GM potatoes using mass spectrometric fingerprinting as a primary screen, which was then amended by detailed quantitative profiling analyses. This approach (i.e. combining non-targeted and targeted analytical methods) appears feasible even for screening large numbers of transgenic plants, and the application of both supervised and unsupervised data analysis techniques ensures independency from statistical bias. (Rischer and Oksman-Caldentey, 2006)<br />
Metabolomics [The Catchpole et al. (2005) study was] the first report of a large scale metabolomic analysis of field grown GM potato plants, and it highlights the importance of analytical technology and appropriate data analysis for the safety assessment of GM crops. (Colquhoun et al., 2006)<br />
Metabolomics The work reviewed here demonstrates that the tools that are currently available for metabolite profiling are mature and robust enough to facilitate their use in the investigation of biological processes.(Schauer and Fernie, 2006)<br />
Metabolomics In particular, an impressive number of natural foods, spices and beverages have already been the subject of detailed metabolomic-based component analysis, including milk, grapes, tomatoes and tomato juice, rhubarb, beer, celery seeds, coriander as well as many other herbs and spices. These analyses used a combination of NMR, GC–MS, LC–MS and CE techniques<br />
to identify up to 100 different phytochemicals or 200 different carbohydrates in selected fruit, vegetable or beverage samples. (Wishart, 2008)<br />
<b>Mass spectrometry</b> [It is now] possible to choose from a variety of techniques, such as flow injection electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (FIEMS), Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which facilitate rapid fingerprinting of crude extracts, [to provide profiles of chemical compositions of GM plants].(Rischer andOksman-Caldentey, 2006)<br />
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8. <a href="http://www.hfsp.org/frontier-science/awardees-articles/triggering-secondary-sirna-production-plants-role-mirna-structure">http://www.hfsp.org/frontier-science/awardees-articles/triggering-secondary-sirna-production-plants-role-mirna-structure</a><br />
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9. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">A comparative evaluation of the regulation of GM crops or products containing dsRNA and suggested improvements to risk assessments</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: blue; color: white;">(+) </span></u></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Technically, the Arctic Apple was created by inserting a new piece of DNA. The new piece is designed to be transcribed like any other gene making a single stranded (ss)RNA. The ssRNA has internal complementarity, so once it is made it forms a stem loop structure (see Fig 1C of the paper I link to above). This structure is then a substrate for DICER (or Drosha) and can subsequently enter the RISC complex that directs it to mRNA targets (intended or not). [9] </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="http://www.nature.com/nrg/multimedia/rnai/index.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">See cool video here</a></h4>
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Who Let The Mites OUT? Allergies.... Again</h3>
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Man....I wish I didn't suck at immunology. The last time I studied the subject, the Gipper was President.<br />
A one-hit-wonder was topping the charts having us walk like an Egyptian. The juiciest affair of the era wasn't between a President and an aide wearing a blue dress, or a Twitter flurry of penis images- it was the Iran-Contra affair involving an exchange of weaponry. Genesis described the era best- it really was a land of confusion.<br />
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Needless to say, those long forgotten lessons did not make me an immunologist, and I hate playing one on the net. But a recent Twitter conversation with Nathanael Johnson, a food reporter writing<a href="http://grist.org/food/the-genetically-modified-food-debate-where-do-we-begin/" target="_blank"> a long series on GMOs on Grist</a>, prompted me to dig around for whatever remnants of immunology I've not yet forgotten- to explain the scientific reasons I am seeing allergic reactions to GMO ingredients in my patients, clinically- in real life. </div>
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In people atopy causes hay fever, asthma and eczema, while food<span style="color: blue;"> allergies</span> are an undeclared<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <a href="http://vimeo.com/73910827" target="_blank">emerging epidemic</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The job of the immune system is to detect and destroy "bugs" </span><i style="text-align: justify;">out to kill us</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> while leaving our own tissues alone, known as tolerance. <a href="http://beachvethospital.blogspot.com/2012/07/allergiesrashes-and-hot-spots.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Allergies are seen when the immune system gets "confused"</span> </a>and overreacts to harmless stuff like pollen or dust mites (allergen/ antigen) reacting to them as if they were lethal invaders. </span>When the immune system declares nuclear war on the body, the result is a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction. </div>
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An <a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/allergy2.htm" target="_blank">allergic reaction</a> typically occurs when an antibody known as IgE binds the antigen, activating mast cells to release inflammatory chemicals, the most famous of which is histamine.<br />
Common anti-histamines like Benadryl work by preventing their release. Thus, when testing for allergies is done, what immunologists are usually testing is the antibody IgE.<br />
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Did you know that an allergy to birch tree pollen can cause allergies to apples and other fruits? It is true. This is due to an antigen is known as bet v 1. And allergy to cockroaches or dust mites could make you more prone to allergies to shrimp due to a shared tropomyosin. And if you were to develop an allergy to latex you might become allergic to kiwis and chestnuts.<br />
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Cross- reactivity refers to the ability of the<a href="http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=8&sub=16&cont=54" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">IgE antibody</span></a> to react with more than one allergen/antigen from different sources due to shared antigenic components, such as those between birch pollen and fruit, or grasses and grains, or dust mites and shrimp. Good list of <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://ainotes.wikispaces.com/Pollen+Food+Allergy+Syndrome" target="_blank">cross-reacting allergens</a>.</span><br />
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Cross reactions arise because the binding site on the allergen-- known as an<b> epitope--</b> the business end of the allergen made up of a chain of folded amino acids--fits the IgE antibody, like a lock and key in three dimensions.<br />
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First, I'd like to introduce you to some microscopic critters billions of whom share our homes, our beds, couches and live on your pet's kibble. They are known as dust mites. Nasty looking critters, aren't they? Another type of mite called storage mites, just as ugly as these, also live on cereals and your pets' dry food.<br />
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<i>Because house dust mites are microscopic the general feeling about them among clients could be <a href="http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dvm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=807418" target="_blank">"How much harm can they cause my pet or me?"</a></i></blockquote>
<i><b><span style="color: #990000;">In fact, the most common allergen in dogs and cats (and in people, too) is dust mites</span>.</b> Anyone who is allergic to dust mites can attest to the miserable symptoms this condition can cause. It seems our domestication of dogs and cats (i.e., bringing them into our households and beds) also succeeded in sensitizing them to this common allergen</i>.....so; they suffer from them just like we do.<br />
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The most common commercialized GMOs are Round Up resistant: corn, soy, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa. They were engineered to be herbicide resistant by insertion of a <a href="http://cera-gmc.org/index.php?evidcode%5B%5D=MON89788&auDate1=&auDate2=&action=gm_crop_database&mode=Submit" target="_blank">transgene</a> known as Cp4 EPSPS which produces a protein EPSPS (<b>E</b>noyl <b>P</b>yruvyl<b> S</b>hikimate <b>P</b>hosphate<b> S</b>ynthase), isolated from a bacteria found growing in an herbicide waste tank, which rendered it resistant to the herbicide- Round Up -Agrobacterium CP4.<br />
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It turns out that Cp4 EPSPS shares a window of similarity of 7 amino acids with common house dust mites, an allergen known as der. p.7. ( abbreviation of <i style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><b>Der</b>matophagoides<b> p</b>teronyssinus). </i><br />
It isn't the only one.<br />
If you look at Table 4 and Table 5 in the link below, you will notice other potential allergenic matches between new genes being spliced in and known allergens, which I haven't checked. The decision tree is also graphically illustrated in the article linked below.<br />
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<i><b><br /></b></i> <b>And the answer is: no, not really</b>.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> Thanks! Is this what you were talking about? <a href="http://t.co/znW9L404cO">http://t.co/znW9L404cO</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> so confused. Are you actually <a href="https://twitter.com/JonEntine">@JonEntine</a>? Or did you give me the wrong link?<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/beachvetlbc">@beachvetlbc</a> I found what you meant - the comments. But sure, no need to ask permission.<br />
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<b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>While GMO advocates quote these authoritative bodies to support their safety, as you will soon find out--the basic safety guidelines established by these bodies are not followed! </i></b><br />
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Ruling out cross-reactivity between the dust mite allergen and the new protein coded by the transgene, an<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1797810/" target="_blank"> ELISA inhibition assay is required</a> on 25 serum samples from patients with high titers to dust mites-- according to a <a href="http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/en/ec_jan2001.pdf" target="_blank">global panel of allergy experts assembled by the World Health Organization</a>. Since allergies to dust mites are so incredibly common, it should be exceedingly easy to locate serum samples.<br />
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Unfortunately, a targeted screen utilizing <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687731/" target="_blank"> inhibition ELISA was performed on a pooled sample of 4</a> in one of the studies cited by Nathanael. Interestingly, it did show minimal cross-reactivity. But pooling a sample reduces its accuracy while a sample of four has a very low probability of detecting cross-reactivity.<br />
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Additionally, the studies cited were performed on patients in Korea, Portugal and Japan---countries where GMOs are neither as prevalent as in the US nor sold unlabeled. There is not a single study done on a statistically significant number of samples (>10) from Americans with the longest and highest level of exposure to GMOs. </div>
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Thus, if you, your child or your pet is sensitized to mites, dust mites or storage mites, the allergies might be exacerbated by foods containing some or all Round Up Ready crops: <b><i> soy, corn, canola, sugar beets ( beet pulp)</i></b>. Remember, with allergies it isn't the quantity or the amount--it is exposure to an allergen.<br />
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<li><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; line-height: 28px;">Allergic cross-reactivity is often encountered as</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28px;"> a reaction without prior exposure</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;">A very</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;"> common public misunderstanding is that people and pets express allergies on the first time they are exposed to an allergen. This is very rare, as normally sensitization over a long period is required to have allergy symptoms. </span></i></li>
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If you or your pet are sensitized to dust mites of which we have an unbelievable amount <a href="https://www.beachvethospital.com/about_us">in Long Beach California</a>, or storage mites, does it mean that they or you will automatically be allergic to these foods? No, it does not. Even if there is cross- reactivity between the new gene in these foods and mites, cross-reactivity alone does not mean a clinical allergy. It isn't as simple as that. But being aware will allow you to watch yourself or your allergic pet for exacerbation of allergy symptoms with exposure to these ingredients or improvement when they are eliminated, and acting accordingly.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span> <span style="text-align: center;">[1] Email I sent to Nathanael- I never received a response. </span><br />
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<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437278602320_5245" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I believe that GMOs are allergenic based on seeing patients for many years who improve when they are removed from their diets or deteriorate when added to their diets.Allergies are veterinarians' bread & butter out here in dusty Southern California and after 24years of practicing I think I've gotten pretty good at them.</span></i></div>
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<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437278602320_5248" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> As I shared with my friend Kevin Folta, I see a case or two a week, whose allergic flare ups, I suspect, are triggered by GMOs. The last one was 2wks ago--the owner switched food, and the dog broke out on his face and feet within 48hrs. The only difference was that the new food had beet pulp, most likely RR. Someone who isn't aware of GMOs would never notice the connection and most vets are clueless about them. Plus they are much easier to treat with immunosuppressive drugs, then dig around for the cause. I suspect, but don't know, that the same level of ignorance is also true of the human medical profession--which is even worse because specialization so compartmentalizes it.</span></i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Of course, my observations are anecdotal, but if I am right, there is a whole lot of suffering and pain these foods could be contributing to. The immune system is incredibly complicated, there is more we don't know than we do, and there isn't a fine line between an allergy, seen as a nuisance, and devastating inflammatory/ autoimmune diseases in the genetically-vulnerable.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i style="font-style: italic;">The studies in your link are a mess. They are not standardized; they are poorly done and hard to follow, and none of them do a serum test on 25 patients with allergies to</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic;">Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (der. p.). Some do skin prick tests rather than serum tests; others are made up of small sample sizes (10). There is no standardization of methodology.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> The safety tests of GMOs are a mess, in general. It is like that example you gave off different people feeling different parts of an elephant. So while you are reading a study that examines the elephant's trunk or his tusk, it says absolutely nothing about the whole darn beast. </span></i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The best that can be said about them is that they are pilot studies and that studies on a much higher number of people need to be done.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i style="font-style: italic;">The Goodman affair I linked on Genetic literacy was to show clearly that Dr. Goodman, who is the director of the biotech allergy database, as well as the new editor of the journal most of the GMO literature is published in, I believe, could not provide a study which fulfills the WHO-established allergy testing standards. Neither could Rod Herman of Dow, who rewrote the GMO- allergy rules, likewise, in the comments in your series. Either because they do not exist. Or they do exist,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><i style="font-style: italic;">since it is a relatively simple test, and it showed that EPSPS and dust mites do cross react, and these companies know it.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">If you want to know why I am spending this much time on the subject it is really very simple. I have unique training. As a veterinarian I took an oath which obligates me to prevent pain and suffering and watch out for public health. I don't take oaths lightly, and I feel an allegiance to the taxpayers of the state of California who spent a quarter million to educate me. Besides, if someone, somewhere, doesn't do something, Monsanto et. al. will destroy the field of biotechnology--they have already turned it into a dirty word. </span></i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thanks for listening.</span></i></div>
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<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437278602320_5270" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Please do your best to do some good. With all the smoke & mirrors, combined with how very complicated this subject really is, some intelligent dogged reporting is sorely needed.</span></i></div>
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<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437278602320_5267" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thanks very much,</span></i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;">Of course my observations are anecdotal, but if I am right, there is a whole lot of suffering and pain these foods could be contributing to. The immune system is incredibly complicated, there is more we don't know than we do, and there isn't a fine line between an allergy, seen as a nuisance, and devastating inflammatory/ autoimmune diseases in the genetically-vulnerable.</i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;">The studies in your link are a mess. They are not standardized, they are poorly done and hard to follow and none of them do a serum test on 25 patients with allergies to</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic;">Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (der. p.). Some do skin prick tests rather than serum tests, others are made up of small sample sizes (10). There is no standardization of methodology.</i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;"> The safety tests of GMOs are a mess, in general. It is like that example you gave of different people feeling different parts of an elephant. So while you are reading a study that examines the elephant's trunk or his tusk, it says absolutely nothing about the whole darn beast. </i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;">Having said all that, I hope you are a "good guy", might have some room to maneuver and can do some public good.</i></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic;">Please do your best to do some good. With all the smoke & mirrors, combined with how very complicated this subject really is, some intelligent dogged reporting is sorely needed.</i></div>
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Recently, an animal much more likely to end up on your breakfast plate than to receive cutting edge veterinary treatment is in the news. Nemo, the rescued pig, is getting chemotherapy for his lymphoma. It is being administered through a surgically implanted catheter at Cornell University. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nemo was soon diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma - a blood cancer. Cornell vets then had to come up with a new treatment plan for their massive, mud loving patient.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"We have treated other large animals, we treated a horse with lymphoma years ago but most of the time we mainly treat dogs and cats for cancer," said oncologist Cheryl Balkman.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Balkman and a team of doctors had to determine how much chemotherapy Nemo could handle safely and what dosages of medication would work. Nemo is believed to be the first ever documented case of lymphoma treatment in a pig. His chemotherapy drugs are delivered though a catheter behind his ear. Cornell doctors say the innovative method could help treat other large animals.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"That was a huge breakthrough because I think that was one of our biggest concerns - how do we administer the chemotherapy without harming us as well as most importantly him," said Balkman.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The doctors say Nemo's treatments are showing progress. His appetite is back and his energetic play gets some interested looks from the rest of the patients. After a big meal he takes his medicine and a few Tums before settling in for a nap. Nemo weighs more than three average NFL offensive linemen but his doctors say he's been a model patient and a gentle giant.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"We're fortunate to be able to take care of him and hope to publish our results so people can follow in our footsteps down the road if they can," said Dr. Emily Barrell.</span><br />
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[March 19, 2013; Philadelphia, PA]</strong> – With Easter rapidly approaching, the veterinarians at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine would like to remind pet owners that Easter lilies are highly toxic to cats, with the potential for causing kidney failure. All parts of the plant are considered poisonous, so lilies should be kept away from cats at all times.<img align="right" alt="Easter lilies" border="0" height="225" src="http://www.vet.upenn.edu/Portals/0/images/News/lilies_lg.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="300" /></div>
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• Easter lily<br />• Tiger lily<br />• Rubrum lily<br />• Japanese show lily<br />• Day lily</div>
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A cat may vomit, lose its appetite or become lethargic within a few hours of eating a dangerous plant. If this happens, see your veterinarian immediately.</div>
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In addition, pets should not ingest onions, macadamia nuts or alcohol, as they are toxic to both dogs and cats. Pets also should never be fed chocolate, as it contains the heart stimulant theobromine, which can cause severe heart arrhythmias or seizures if ingested in large doses.</div>
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Some days physicians' jobs seem like cake walk. Notwithstanding the fact that M.D.s only work on one single species (human), while vets are licensed to medicate and surgicate on everything else- starting with a tarantula and extending east of a rhino; and the fact that M.D.s often specialize in just one organ--gallbladders, for instance--while the majority of us are generalists doing everything from manicures to chemotherapy; the fact that our patients can't speak to us and describe their symptoms actually makes the most profound difference. For a vet the skill of history gathering is a science and an art, sometimes taking circuitous routes into strange lands.<br />
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I can tell the precise time and day when my history taking skills hit their zenith. At 6:57pm on a Friday night, as Natalie was tucking in the patients in the back of the hospital and as I picked up the car keys, my nose and palate already tasting the bouquet and rich flavor of a 7 year old Pinot Noir I had at home, the hospital phone rang.<br />
"Bellflower Veterinary Hospital"<br />
Distressed, sobbing female caller on the other side of the line. " Hi. My name is Shelly Smith. I think my dog Herb has a brain tumor. He has been having seizures for half an hour. We are on the 91 Freeway--can you please see us?"<br />
"A brain tumor? How old is your dog, Shelly?"<br />
" He is two." A little too young for a tumor, I thought to myself.<br />
" I am so sorry. If your dog is having seizures, you are probably better off taking him to the ER because he will need overnight care and we close in three minutes"<br />
The woman sounding more agitated: "I don't know this area at all....we are from Washington state ....drove down to show Peaches and Herb at the Eukanuba International dog show in Long Beach tomorrow. I don't know where the ER is II am really very worried about Herb. Please! Is it Ok if we bring Herb in- we are on the off ramp to your clinic?"<br />
" Well, OK. We'll see you in a minute"<br />
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Natalie came up to the lobby looking puzzled at the sight of the intravenous catheter and fluids set up.<br />
"Natalie. I am very sorry, we need to see a seizing patient. Can you please get the valium out of the drug safe?".<br />
"Sure, not a problem. Didn't have grand plans for tonight anyways"<br />
Four minutes later Natalie and I greeted a worried woman, tears welling up in her eyes, clutching the cutest Cairn terrier we've ever seen. Herb would put Toto to shame.<br />
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I quickly examined Herb in Natalie's arms, while Shelly filled out our admission forms.<br />
His mucous membranes were pink and he was well hydrated. The chest sounded normal on auscultation, though his heart was racing. His pupils were dilated and responsive to light and he was visual. Except for his eyes rapidly exploring the lobby around him as if surrounded by swarms of invisible fairies, there were no signs of abnormalities on a brief exam. Herb was not seizing but there was something a little different and odd about him. Cairn terriers are normally very busy little dogs, but this one looked busier than normal.<br />
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"Most dogs with brain tumors are geriatric Ms. Smith Lets not panic, OK?<br />
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"Is it possible that Herb got into something", asked Natalie,"a toxin of some sort.... could he have gotten into the garbage, eaten some<a href="http://www.greenbrier-emergency.com/blog/2012/03/podcast-tremorgenic-mycotoxins/" target="_blank"> moldy food</a>, insecticides,<a href="http://www.pethealthnetwork.com/dog-health/organophosphate-toxicity-dogs" target="_blank"> pesticides</a>, human drugs?"<br />
"No, it isn't possible. We have Peaches and Herb crated when they aren't being directly observed."<br />
"Nat... could you please put Herb down on the floor so we can evaluate his gait?"<br />
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She set the adorable little terrier on the ceramic tile. The scruffy little thing proceeded to ricochet from the counter to the chairs to the walls chasing invisible hockey pucks in our lobby.<span style="text-align: center;">"</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> Has Herb been eating well, Ms. Smith?</span><br />
"Yes"<br />
"Vomiting, diarrhea, coughing, sneezing, drinking excessively?"<br />
"No"<br />
"Is he normally this active and busy, Ms. Smith?"<br />
" Well..... yes and no. He seems to have more energy than normal"<br />
" Have you noticed him circling to one side, head tilt, any signs of gait abnormalities....acting blind before this incident?"<br />
"No. He was completely normal until about an hour ago".<br />
"So what happened an hour ago, Shelly... where was Herb?"<br />
"We unpacked our stuff and let him out of his carrier in our hotel room. He went under the bed for a few minutes"<br />
"Where was Peaches while Herb was sniffing around under the bed?<br />
"She was in her crate in the hotel room"<br />
"How is she?"<br />
"Peaches is fine. She happens to be the number one Cairn terrier in the country... won Westminster last year. The Eukanuba show was going to be Herb's first show... we had high hopes for him until he got the brain tumor"<br />
"So Herb was OK until he went exploring under the bed. Peaches was crated and she is perfectly fine.<br />
How much did you pay for your hotel room, Shelly?"<br />
"Excuse me?"<br />
"Was it over a hundred dollars.... under a hundred dollars, less than fifty dollars?'<br />
" I don't understand why that would make any difference to you, Doctor. What does the cost of my hotel room have to do with Herb's brain tumor?"<br />
Natalie and I inflated the Doppler cuff and checked his blood pressure... 140mmHg.<br />
"Ms Smith -Herb's blood pressure is OK. We will perform an EKG to be sure he isn't having any heart issues and run some blood-work on him. Is that OK?"<br />
"Sure, do whatever you need to do"<br />
After getting a blood sample and recording a lead II EKG strip we put Herb in a cage to do happy little figure eights racing with the lollipop guild. Fifteen minutes later, our blood tests were completed. <br />
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"Shelly.... Fortunately Herb's lab-work, chemistry, electrolytes and heart are fine. His red blood cell count was a bit high, and the EKG showed a sinus tachycardia which is understandable. He has a bit of a respiratory alkalosis probably due to hyperventilation. Things look better than we have a right to expect. I totally understand that this makes no sense to you, but did you pay less than $60 for your hotel room?"<br />
"Well, yes... we don't know this area, but we found a little motel a few miles from here for $49 a night"<br />
"I don't know much about Washington, Shelly, but do you know who tends to use $49 motel rooms in Southern California?"<br />
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"No...who?"<br />
"Hookers and drug users"<br />
Shelly stared at me as if a unicorn horn just sprouted from my skull. " Have you heard of meth- the most common of all street drugs? It would take a few particles licked off the carpet under the bed for a little creature to do just what you are seeing. I am afraid Herb is tweaking"<br />
"He is doing what?" It felt like the horn on my head just grew a few inches.<br />
"Tweaking. Tweaking is slang for being high on methamphetamines. Your doggie, Herb, has gone way over the<a href="http://www.conncoll.edu/ccacad/zimmer/GFP-ww/cooluses0.html" target="_blank"> rainbow</a>".<br />
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"Is he going to be OK?"<br />
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"I think he needs to be monitored for hypertension and for arrhythmias until the drug wears off. We are going to give him some IV fluids for supportive care. <br />
I sure hope he will be OK--he is a cutie and I really want him to do well tomorrow".<br />
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We heard from Shelly a few days after the show- Peaches earned first place.<br />
Herb was better than OK--he earned second place in a national dog competition on his first time out--we will never know if illicit drugs had anything to do with it.<br />
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If you believe your pet got into toxins or drugs, please do let your veterinarian know. Our job is to help your pet. You could help us greatly in this effort by being observant. Although often there are no specific antidotes available to ingestion of illicit drugs and toxins, please be honest with us even if it makes you a bit uncomfortable. We are not the police and we will not report you-- being informed enables us to optimize patient care increasing chances of a good outcome for you and your pet.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><i>"If your dog ate your pot, it is really important that you tell the doctor that your dog ate your pot. THC is toxic to dogs. If your dog ate any prescription medication (legally obtained or otherwise), tell your vet. If your dog ate a condom that SOMEHOW has peanut butter inside it, tell your vet. Vets are also bound by doctor-patient confidentiality, so they’re not going to narc on you. They will report abuse however, such as people drugging their pets to “see what would happen.” Don’t do that." </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.xojane.com/relationships/how-not-to-be-a-dick-at-the-vet-hospital" target="_blank">http://www.xojane.com/relationships/how-not-to-be-a-dick-at-the-vet-hospital</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://petdoctormom.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/moldy-walnuts/" target="_blank">http://petdoctormom.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/moldy-walnuts/</a><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Pancreatitis. </span> <span style="color: #b45f06;">Much more common in cats then we realize.</span> </h3>
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The pancreas performs two important and different jobs<br />
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<li>The exocrine pancreas produces <span style="color: #b45f06;">digestive enzymes</span> to break down and aid digestion of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. These chemicals are very caustic to normal tissues and cause tremendous damage if they leak out into the belly in the course of pancreatitis, literally causing digestion of organs. They are secreted inside the small intestine ( duodenum) through a tube known as the pancreatic duct, which in cats joins the common bile duct from the liver. </li>
<li>The endocrine part of the pancreas makes<span style="color: #b45f06;"> hormones</span> such as insulin ( the absence of which causes <a href="http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/40302.htm" target="_blank">diabetes</a> ), as well as glucagon and somatostatin. </li>
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<a href="http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/Health_Information/pancreatitis_serious.cfm">Pancreatitis</a> means inflammation or infection of the pancreas.</h4>
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Cats unlike people and dogs can have <span style="color: #b45f06;">very subtle and vague signs</span>. </div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">In dogs and people the disease produces extreme abdominal pain and nausea but these signs are absent in cats. Often cats with pancreatitis are presented with symptoms we like to call ADR ( ain't doing right).</span><br />
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<li>toxins and drugs: potassium bromide, L-aspraginase, sulfa drugs, azathioprine</li>
<li>obesity</li>
<li>hyperlipidemia -familial in miniature Schnauzer</li>
<li><b>high fat or spicy meals--- getting in the garbage</b></li>
<li>high calcium levels</li>
<li>hypothyroidism</li>
<li>Cushing's disease</li>
<li>blunt force trauma</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">abdominal pain</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">loss of appetite</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">nausea, diarrhea</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">weakness</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">dehydration</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">shock</li>
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<li>blunt force trauma- rare</li>
<li>high calcium-rare</li>
<li>viral infections : FIP, calici, herpes</li>
<li>parasitic: Toxoplasma, flukes</li>
<li><b>high fat meals not implicated</b></li>
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<li><span style="color: #b45f06;">inflammatory bowel disease</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06;">hepatic lipidosis-</span> can be seen since pancreatitis can lead to loss of appetite and mobilization of fat</li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06;">cholangitis/ cholangiohepatitis</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06;">diabetes</span></li>
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<li>lethargy</li>
<li>depressed appetite</li>
<li>weight loss</li>
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Less commonly seen, unlike dogs are: abdominal pain in less than a quarter of cats and vomiting in less than half of cases. </div>
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<b>Blood Count</b> changes are<span style="color: #b45f06;"> non specific.</span></div>
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anemia ( low red blood cell counts), elevation and decrease of white blood cells in less than 1/4 of cases</div>
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depressed platelet counts especially in the more severe cases leaning to D.I.C. ( disseminated intra-vascular coagulation)</div>
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<li>elevated bilirubin</li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06;">elevated liver enzymes</span></li>
<li>electrolyte abnormalities</li>
<li>azotemia: elevated BUN due to dehydration</li>
<li>low calcium due to saponification of fat in severe cases</li>
<li>glucose can be elevated due to stress/ concurrent diabetes- or- depressed</li>
<li>amylase is of no utility in cats</li>
<li>Lipase of 2-3 times normal range is specific for pancreatitis in dogs, but not in cats</li>
<li>Pancreas Specific Lipases:</li>
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<a href="http://www.2ndchance.info/diabetesdog-cPLtest.pdf"><span style="color: #b45f06;"></span></a><span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">spec cPL</a></span> is a sensitive test (93%) of pancreatitis in dogs , while <a href="http://www.cuvs.org/pdf/AdvancesinInternalMedicineDiagnosticTesting.pdf"><span style="color: #b45f06;"></span></a><span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">spec fPL</a></span> is slightly less sensitive test of pancreatitis for cats. While when elevated these tests help diagnose pancreatitis, absence of elevation doesn't rule it out completely.</div>
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<b>Radiographs (X-rays)</b> are helpful in diagnosing pancreatitis about 25% of the time, but they are often performed to rule out other causes of vomiting such as obstructions and foreign bodies. </div>
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<b>Abdominal ultrasound</b><span style="color: #b45f06;"> is a very useful tool in diagnosing pancreatitis if performed by a skilled, experienced ultrasonographer using newer and more sensitive equipment.</span><br />
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There is no specific treatment for pancreatitis, and the patients are typically hospitalized for supportive symptomatic care, and it consists of: </div>
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<li>Intravenous fluids to correct dehydration, improve blood flow to the pancreas and correct acid-base and electrolyte abnormalities</li>
<li>Anti-emetics to control nausea</li>
<li>Analgesics to control pain, which can be extremely severe requiring opioid pain relievers.</li>
<li>Plasma transfusions in some cases to provide anti-proteases, clotting factors and macroglobulins and/ or synthetic colloids to improve pancreatic perfusion ( blood supply).</li>
<li>Antacids if there is evidence of gastrointestinal bleeding</li>
<li>Dogs are fed small amounts of bland fat-restricted diets, while in cats fat- restriction is not needed and is not effective. Cats sometimes required feeding tubes to prevent or treat coexisting hepatic lipidosis ( fatty liver disease).</li>
<li>B12 vitamin deficiency is common in cats with intestinal disease, so it is often supplemented</li>
<li>Corticosteroids which used to be thought of as a cause of pancreatitis are now being used to treat chronic pancreatitis in cats due to high frequency of coexisting inflammatory bowel disease and inflammatory liver diseases. </li>
<li>Insulin is administered if pancreatitis has progressed to diabetes mellitus. </li>
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References:<br />
<a href="https://www.idexx.com/files/small-animal-health/products-and-services/reference-laboratories/spec-fpl-treatment-for-feline-pancreatitis.pdf">Treatment Recommendations for Feline Pancreatitis </a><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>In most dogs and cats where dietary indiscretion, such as ingestion of garbage or a fatty/spicy meal has been ruled out, the cause is unknown</b><b>.</b></span><br />
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A <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17197622" target="_blank">recent study</a> found evidence of pancreatitis in 67% of the cats admitted to a teaching hospital for various unrelated causes on autopsy, though remarkably in the 90's the disorder was diagnosed in less than 1% of cats. So either we are much better at diagnosing this illness, or there has been a profound environmental change since the 1990s predisposing cats to pancreatitis.<br />
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