‘Altered Genes, Twisted Truth’, a
new Book by US Public Interest Lawyer Steve Druker.
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 commercialization
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.
If the FDA had heeded its own experts’ advice and publicly
acknowledged their warnings that GM foods entailed higher risks than their
conventional counterparts, Druker says that the GM food venture would have
imploded and never gained traction anywhere.
He also argues that that many well-placed scientists
have repeatedly issued misleading statements about GM foods, and so have
leading scientific institutions such as the US National Academy of Sciences,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the UK’s
Royal Society.
Druker states that contrary to the claims of biotech advocates,
humans have indeed been harmed by consuming the output of genetic engineering.
The technology’s first ingestible product (a food supplement of the essential
amino acid, L-tryptophan) caused dozens of deaths and seriously sickened thousands
of people (permanently disabling many of them). Moreover, the evidence
points to the genetic alteration as the most likely cause of the unusual contamination
that rendered the supplement toxic.
He explains that laboratory animals have also suffered
from eating products of genetic engineering, and well-conducted tests with
GM crops have yielded many troubling results, including intestinal abnormalities,
liver disturbances, and impaired immune systems.
Druker says: “Contrary
to the assertions of its proponents, the massive enterprise to reconfigure
the genetic core of the world’s food supply is not based on sound science but
on the systematic subversion of science – and it would collapse if subjected
to an open airing of the facts.”
Eminent environmentalist and anthropologist Jane
Goodall has written the foreword to the book and states that Steven Druker is
a hero for exposing this massive fraud and is worthy of a Nobel prize for
lifting the lid on the truth about GM.
She goes on to state that the industry worked to: “convince the public and government officials,
through the dissemination of false information, that there was an overwhelming
expert consensus, based on solid evidence, that the new foods were safe. Yet
this, as Druker points out, was clearly not true.”
Goodall adds that the companies have spread disinformation
to try and win public support. She states: “Druker describes how amazingly successful the biotech lobby has
been – and the extent to which the general public and government decision
makers have been hoodwinked by the clever and methodical twisting of the
facts and the propagation of many myths. Moreover, it appears that a number
of respected scientific institutions, as well as many eminent scientists,
were complicit in this relentless spreading of disinformation.”
Jane Goodall is best known for her 55-year study of social
and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park,
Tanzania. She holds many awards for her environmental and humanitarian
work, including the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the French
Legion of Honour, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, Japan’ s
Kyoto Prize and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
She describes Druker’s work as one of the most important
books of the last 50 years, and adds: “It will go a long way toward dispelling the confusion and delusion
that has been created regarding the genetic engineering process and the
foods it creates. Although this book tells a story that’s in many ways distressing,
it’s important that it has finally been told because so much confusion has
been spread and so many important decision-makers have apparently been
deluded.”
Steven Druker gave a press conference in London on Wednesday
and has challenged Britain’s Royal Society to apologise for its pro-GM
stance and its part in rubbishing scientists who have safety doubts over
the crops and food. (Perhaps the likes of Owen Paterson and Anne Glover
should too for their role in dismissing legitimate concerns about GMOs,
especially Paterson for his recent tirade against critics
see this and this.)
His work highlights research which has found tumours, liver
and kidney harm in animals given GM feed in trials. And he complains, that
researchers who dare to raise these problems have been pilloried.
He said: “Contrary
to the assertions of its proponents, the massive enterprise to reconfigure
the genetic core of the world’s food supply is not based on sound science but
on the systematic subversion of science – and it would collapse if subjected
to an open airing of the facts.”
With the TTIP having the potential to open the floodgates
to allow GMOs into Europe, Pat Thomas, director of the campaigning group
Beyond GM, said:
“Steven Druker’s investigation
into the history of fraud and deceit that ushered in the era of GM deserves
serious consideration before we take actions that will irreversibly alter
the European food supply.”
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