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The claims that "There is no difference between GMO corn and NON Gmo corn" are false. Yesterday while on a playdate at the lake, Vince from De Dell Seed Company, Canada's only NON GMO corn seed company called me to support the march and Americans finding out about GMOs. He emailed me this stunning report, clearly showing the nutritional value difference between GMO corn and NON GMO corn. I was floored. And at the same time, not totally surprised because Glyphosate draws out the vital nutrients of living things and GMO corn is covered with it.

herewith the full article:

I'm certainly not a GMO fan, but last time I saw that kind of hyperbole was the Austrian with the magic mushroom compost that extracted / neutralized fallout from Chernobyl.

who conducted these "tests"?

quote "Chemical content ppm" what 'chemical'?
sheer stupidity; toss out a bunch of big words and see who's dumb enough to believe.

quote: "Brix is a quality measurement. The higher the number the more nutrition, energy and protein in the feed sample."
well, problem. the Brix scale measures sugar content.

it's this kind of bogus "science" that gives anti-GMO a bad name.

Dillbert wrote:I'm certainly not a GMO fan, but last time I saw that kind of hyperbole was the Austrian with the magic mushroom compost that extracted / neutralized fallout from Chernobyl.

who conducted these "tests"?

quote "Chemical content ppm" what 'chemical'?
sheer stupidity; toss out a bunch of big words and see who's dumb enough to believe.

quote: "Brix is a quality measurement. The higher the number the more nutrition, energy and protein in the feed sample."
well, problem. the Brix scale measures sugar content.

it's this kind of bogus "science" that gives anti-GMO a bad name.

not sure mate as I'm still trying to understand all this ....

what I do know, is that many people (including farmers are anti GMO .... so perhaps you know more? ... share your knowledge and enlighten us)

Dillbert wrote:who conducted these "tests"?

That was the firs thing I looked for...even before reading the entire article. I don't care what study it is and whether I already have an opinion one way or another I will look for some kind of reference first. If I don't find any - I have no choice but to completely discredit it.

It's also a little weird that this "study" was supplied by "Canada's only NON GMO corn seed company"...

if this "report" is based on Dr Don Huber's work, I suggest you do an internet search on his name.
you will find a lot of "headlines" citing world famous, world reknown, leading expert, etc.

question: who, other than the good doctor, says he is? just because he is a retired professor does not mean he's not a bit quirky.

and then there's this problem,,,, there's likely tens of thousands of academics / researchers / scientists who are anti GMO. why are these people not jumping onto all his "research"?

try:
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/02/p ... VM-Ezd6u9J
https://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/Glyphosate4-11.htm
for a hint.

that Dr Huber apparently refuses to release any of his "work" / "studies" for peer review
smells very much like a very large bit of quackerooism.

not sure if you have any kind of technical background, but let me ask you this:
how many horsepower does a bushel of corn contain? that's the ERG thing....
make sense to you? it's not a conventional measure of anything food related.

which is the "in your face" insanity of many "points" made the cited article

quote: 'The important thing to note in these deficiencies is that these are exactly the deficiencies in a human being that lead to susceptibility to sickness, disorders and cancer."
this guy needs to go work for NIH - since he knows the reasons for all these diseases - he seems to know everything about everything medical - science has been looking for these answers for a long time.

quote: "people who have cancer are low in maganese (sic)."
and people with aluminum in the brain die from Alzheimer.
a 1950's UK "Doctor" got that started, it's been disproven by all the research since, but it's still "true"
sheer quackery / scare tactics

quote: " because Glyphosate draws out the vital nutrients of living things."
can you understand what that means? sounds like 1000% gobblygook to me.

don't get me wrong - I'm not fond of the GMO trend - I think there's a lot we don't know about it. but this kind of 'science' / information does more harm than good in the effort to get the discussions taken seriously.

many farmers are anti-GMO. one of the reasons is the cost of the seed, plus the seed cannot be 'saved' - that's illegal. plus many farmers have had their crops contaminated by GMO strains then been sued for having GMO crops. (don't ask, doesn't make sense to me either - you plant a non-GMO corn field, it gets contaminated by somebody else's GMO cornfield, you get held legally liable because you now have GMO corn in the non-GMO field you planted . . . only in America.....)

It's important to research information you receive as there is a LOT of bogus information spreading through Facebook and email. Clearly the cited article is not a good source of information. I am locking this discussion because it is important that the information posted on this forum be of good quality. The information in the cited article falls short of our standards of quality.