老闹子,如果你多从不同的途径去了解下关于转基因食品的知识,而不是仅限于某美国生物博士的网站和博克,你就会知道,转基因食品不但包含不同品种,而且这些不同品种的安全性也根本不一致。具体而言,转基因大米和转基因玉米(也就是你声称自己天天吃的转基因食品源)的安全性根本不在一个级别上。
看看这封3年前全球22位科学家联名给美国这次做黄金大米试验的大学系科负责人写的公开信里是怎么写的。别忘了,这三年对于黄金大米的各种潜在毒性并没有得到有效证明说它们不存在。
http://big5.39kf.com/focus/spaq/genetically-modified-food/2012-09-16-835739.shtml
Scientists Protest Unethical Clinical Trials of GM Golden Rice
Professor Robert Russell,
Professor Emeritus, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University School of Medicine
711 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111-1524
Email:
rob.russell@tufts.edu
Dear Professor Russell,
TUFTS UNIVERSITY INVOLVEMENT IN GOLDEN RICE FEEDING TRIALS
We are writing to express our shock and unequivocal denunciation of the experiments being conducted by your colleagues which involve the feeding of genetically modified Golden Rice to human subjects (adults and children.) We are all senior scientists / academics with a professional interest in the health and environmental effects of GMOs. We refer to three trials described on the US Clinical Trials web site:
1. Project NCT 00680355.(10) Bioavailability of Golden Rice Carotenoids in Humans.
2. Project NCT 00082420. Retinol Equivalence of Plant Carotenoids in Children.
3. Project NCT 00680212. Vitamin A Equivalence of Plant Carotenoids in Children.
We wish to remind you that the variety of Golden Rice used in these experiments (GR2) is inadequately described in terms of biological and biochemical characterisation on the Clinical Trials web site and indeed anywhere else in the publicly available literature, and has woefully inadequate pre-clinical evaluation. It is a genetically modified product which has not been shown to be distinctive, uniform and stable over time. It has never been through a regulatory /approvals process anywhere in the world. There is now a large body of evidence that shows that GM crop/food production is highly prone to inadvertent and unpredictable pleiotropic effects, which can result in health damaging effects when GM food products are fed to animals (for reviews see Pusztai and Bardocz , 2006; Schubert, 2008; Dona and Arvanitoyannis, 2009). More specifically, our greatest concern is that this rice, which is engineered to overproduce beta carotene, has never been tested in animals, and there is an extensive medical literature showing that retinoids that can be derived from beta carotene are both toxic and cause birth defects.
In these circumstances the use of human subjects (including children who are already suffering illness as a result of Vitamin A deficiency) for GM feeding experiments is completely unacceptable. The three Projects listed breach the Nuremberg Code / medical ethics code on a number of counts, and we urge you to call them to a halt immediately. They should not be resumed unless and until the researchers can demonstrate that a full range of laboratory and animal feeding trials have been completed and published for the Golden Rice strain being used, and unless and until appropriate regulatory bodies have had an opportunity to come to a view on the health and safety issues about which we are very concerned.
We can assure you that such trials would not have been approved within the European Union in the absence of safety information, which highlights yet again the flaw of the USDA and FDA regulatory system in considering GM crops/foods as hypothetically “generally recognised as safe – GRAS” in the absence of hard experimental data.