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