GMO-poisons? The real end of the Séralini affair

Do you remember ? These spectacular images of rats with invasive cancers, so big that you can see balls under their hair. Exhibited on television. Broadcast in film, book, resounding articles. And this formidable press campaign launched by the shock title of the Obs: “ Yes, GMOs are poisons” .

Yes, you remember. But did you know that on December 10, the journal Toxicology Sciences published one of the research papers showing it to be non-toxic? Certainly not.

Let us return to this day of September 2012. The weekly then publishes a thick file in support of its title. But a strange dossier: his only sources of information are the team of Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, main author of an experiment published the same day, and activists opposed to the use of transgenic plants. As if the Nouvel Observateur team of journalists mobilized for this press stroke did not need anyone, in particular other experts on the subject, to judge the solidity of the thesis presented by the biologist’s team. Strange since this thesis is directly opposed to a number of studies already published. By asserting that rats fed on corn genetically modified to tolerate glyphosate – the active ingredient of the herbicides most used in the world by farmers, including the famous Round Up invented by Monsanto – suffer to death.

More at blog of Sylvestre Huet, journalist, Le Monde