• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

Michelle's blog

Food allergy and food intolerance, freefrom foods, electrosensitivity, this and that...

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • FreeFrom Food Awards
  • Foods Matter
  • Walks & Gardens
  • Salon Music
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • FreeFrom Food Awards
  • Foods Matter
  • Walks & Gardens
  • Salon Music

Could GM soya cause infertility?

06/08/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

In an appropriate footnote to yesterday’s post about organically grown tomatoes being healthier, I have just seen an article in an April issue of The Voice of Russia about research, carried out by Russia’s National Association for Gene Security and the Institute of Ecological and Evolutional Problems, in which they fed GM soya to hamsters.

They divided the hamsters into four group and fed one group with their normal food, one with non-GM soya, one with limited amounts of GM soya and the fourth with an increased amount of GM soya. By the time the hamsters had reached the third generation, not only had those on the highest GM soya grown much more slowly and matured sexually much more slowly, but they failed entirely to produce any cubs at all.

To add insult to injury, these third generation, high-GM-eating hamsters had also grown hair in their mouths….

9th August. Just noticed that the BBC Countryfile magazine is running a poll on whether or not GM crop trials should be allowed to go ahead in the UK. If you wish to have your say you can do so here.

close

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Category: Environmental Issues, FoodTag: Countryfile magazine, Genetic modification, GM, GM crop trials in the UK, GM soya, GM soya and infertility, hamsters, infertility, Institute of Ecological and Evolutional Problems, National Association for Gene Security, Voice of Russia

Previous Post: « Organic tomatoes really are better for you…
Next Post: How honest do you want/expect a review to be? »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Jeemboh

    06/08/2012 at 11:00

    As certifiably GM free soya is now hard if not impossible to obtain, the sensible solution is probably not to eat soya at all.

  2. Michelle

    06/08/2012 at 11:08

    Well, there are those who would say that we should not be eating unfermented soya at anyhow. All classic Far Eastern soya dishes and condiments have undergone significant fermentation processes making them far more acceptable to the human gut that the ‘straight’ beans that are used for making soya milk, yogurt etc etc.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Novel food proteins – do they pose a risk to food allergics?
  • The dairy wars
  • In memory of Pat Schooling
  • FSA – on the allergy case
  • Homeopathy – a second string to our vaccination bow?

Search this blog

ARCHIVES

Blogroll

  • Allergy Insight
  • Better brains, naturally
  • For Ever FreeFrom
  • Free From (gluten)
  • Freefrom Food Awards
  • Gluten-free Mrs D
  • Natural Health Worldwide
  • Pure Health Clinic
  • Skins Matter
  • The Helminthic Therapy Wiki
  • Truly Gluten Free
  • What Allergy?

TOPICS

Homeopathy – a second string to our vaccination bow?

Cuba has always had a very individualistic– and on the whole very successful – approach to public and population health. The hard line socialist nature of their politics, especially in early days after the revolution, resulted in very high levels of education and medical care – but also in isolation from much of the developed …

Sad, sad news

Yesterday evening, Lisa Acton – co founder, with her husband John Burke, of the Irish FreeFrom Food Awards – finally lost a long and heroic battle with cancer. To my regret I had only met her a few times. A couple of years ago when John brought the whole family to a FreeFrom Food Awards …

Are COVID vaccines safe for those with allergies?

Allergy reactors are, understandably, worried as to whether they should accept a vaccination if and when it is offered. After consultation with the BSACI (British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology) the MHRA (Medicines  and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) have updated their original warning that those with allergies to vaccines, drugs and food should not …

Disastrous Brexit fallout for medical cannabis users

Thanks to the tireless campaigning of a group of  ‘epilepsy mothers’, lead by Hannah Deacon, the mother of Alfie Dingley, and her consultant, neurologist Professor Mike Barnes, a change in the law in 2018 allowed the prescription of medical cannabis for children with certain rare types of epilepsy, those in chronic pain and for those …

The trouble about gluten-free oats

Oats are delicious – oats are nutritious – they contain high levels of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and are an excellent source of fibre – they do not contain the protein gliadin, the gluten fraction that coeliacs need to avoid – they add texture to gluten free baking and are easy to cook with. Few …

Happy, if distanced, Christmas!

After this very strange and, for many people, horribly difficult year I wanted to wish you all a very peaceful, safe, healthy and hopefully happy Christmas. And offer you a little allergic chortle. Those of you who used to receive the FoodsMatter magazine will remember all of Christopher’s wonderful allergy related cartoons – the caption …

Copyright © 2021 · Michelle's Blog · Michelle Berridale Johnson · Site design by DigitalJen·