| The recent report by Drew Kershen that | | | | in Africa.Here is some more positive news |
| pointed out the the links between the | | | | closer to home. Beef cattle in Australia are |
| consumption of mouldy insect damaged corn | | | | being feed GM cotton seed meal and leaves |
| containing mycotoxins such as fumonisin and | | | | expressing Bt protein which protects the |
| Neural Tube Deformities in children in | | | | cotton against insect attack and subsequently |
| Mexico, Chile, and South Africa has lead to | | | | contain low or no levels of mycotoxins |
| the rational suggestion that GM maize | | | | produced by associated fungi.So the cotton |
| expressing the insecticidal Bacillus toxin | | | | seed meal our feed suppliers are providing |
| (or Bt maize) should be labelled.But not with | | | | our cattle is beneficial to the animals |
| biosafety hazard signs that anti-GM forces | | | | health and in turn to us. Bt cotton thus has |
| would prefer but with a health food label | | | | beneficial effect not only to the environment |
| indicating that by eating Bt maize | | | | because we need to spray less pesticides but |
| particularly pregnant women and their unborn | | | | also directly on our animals and indirectly |
| children will be protected from spina bifida | | | | on us.GM is the healthy choice at least when |
| and other serious neurological afflications | | | | it comes to Bt maize and cotton and will |
| that arise from the block in uptake of folate | | | | increasingly be the case when health |
| in humans caused by the presence of elevated | | | | promoting vegetable oils , high in oleic oil |
| levels of fumonisin in the food.This is a | | | | and low in transfat oils, from different |
| message that should please the organisations | | | | sources hits our supermarket shelves within |
| distributing food in form of maize meal and | | | | the next 12 months.David Tribe is an expert |
| the recipients of such food aid in subsaharan | | | | in molecular genetics, biochemistry (genetic |
| countries. The Bt maize has proven beneficial | | | | engineering), and infectious diseases. |
| health effects on humans in the Americas and | | | | |