Friday 6th March 2015
‘This is not what the GMO industry wanted to see: banner headlines
today in major newspapers and across the internet exposing the fraud
behind GMOs. But this constitutes much more than a PR nightmare. The
story behind the headlines shakes the very foundations upon which the
industry is built.
‘Altered Genes, Twisted Truth’ is a new book by the US public
interest lawyer Steve Druker. The book is the result of more than 15
years of intensive research and investigation by Druker, who initiated a
lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that forced
it to divulge its files on GM foods.
Those files revealed that GM foods first achieved commercialisation
in 1992 but only because the FDA covered up the extensive warnings of
its own scientists about their dangers, lied about the facts and then
violated federal food safety law by permitting these foods to be
marketed without having been proven safe through standard testing’
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