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Farmer Blames GMO Feed For Pig Deformities And Deaths
A Danish pig farmer is blaming genetically-modified (GMO) ingredients in feed for terrible deformities in his hogs and piglets. Ib Pedersen, the farmer, is also convinced that GMO feed caused serious health problems and still births in some of his pigs.
Pedersen made the conclusion after experimenting with both natural and genetically modified feeds. The farmer conducted the experiments after noticing lots of deformities, sickness, deaths and infertility among his 13,000 hogs.
“When using GM feed I saw symptoms of bloat, stomach ulcers, high rates of diarrhea, pigs born with the deformities,” Pedersen said, “but when I switched (to non-GMO Feed), these problems went away, some within a matter of days.”
Pedersen stirred up a major controversy in his homeland of Denmark when he wrote an article for a leading agricultural magazine that outlined his conclusions. In particular, he attracted attention when he stated that the threat from genetically modified foods could be far worse than that from thalidomide (a drug that caused deformities in as many as 10,000 babies in the 1960s).
His allegations were summarized by The Ecologist.
Herbicide glyphosate to blame, he says.
Most of the deformities and stomach problems in the pigs, Pedersen alleges, were caused by genetically modified soy that had been sprayed with the herbicide glyphosate.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/12/18/farmer-blames-gmo-feed-for-pig-deformities-and-deaths/
