All week I’ve been distracted by this picture of a rat with
an obscene tumor. It’s been sitting on my desk freaking me out on an hourly
basis. The rat in question was part of a French study of GMO round-up ready
corn. I’ve written about my own concerns about GMO corn before. In case you
aren’t aware (and you wouldn’t be because the USDA refuses to require labeling)
about 90% of the corn in the US is GMO corn, and most of it is grown from
Monsanto’s Round Up Ready GMO seed. And that corn is all over your grocery
store, vending machines, restaurants, and school cafeterias.
The study has gotten an awful lot of official people,
agencies, and lobbyists in a tizzy. They are busy pointing out all the errors
in the methodology of the study. If you read a few of their postings on line,
you will soon be thoroughly confused and certain that the study has nothing to
do with GMO corn, rats, or cancer. They’ll have your head spinning so fast
you’ll begin to doubt global warming, gravity, and whether you put your socks on
this morning.
In honor of this poor mouse who is still gazing my way as I
write, let me break it down for you.
