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GMO Bananas To Be Tested On American Students
There’s a lot of back and forth debate about GMOs, whether they’re safe or not, and the jury is still out in terms of longer term tests, because they haven’t been conducted yet. What we can say for sure is that American college students, female students in particular, shouldn’t be the test subjects for GMO banans.
These bananas are modified to contain artificially high levels of beta-carotene. The biggest problem we see is that the bananas have not been tested previously on animals, so researchers have no way of knowing what the impacts are going to be. The Des Moines Register reports that there will be 12 students of 500 called to volunteer for the trial.
This project is being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is intended for cultivation in poorer countries where vitamin A deficiencies are widespread. What’s insane is that you can eat two or three medium sized carrots and have your vitamin A for the day, but I guess that’s beside the point.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/10/gmo-bananas-to-be-tested-on-american-students/
