This was the same SVYNSTVO article my sister sent to us, about the mice
running
wildly around after being force fed GM food. The "control" mice were
allowed to
eat normally but the GM mice got it shoved down their throats. Wouldn't YOU
run
like hell from a 17 year old who was jamming food (ANY food) down your
throat?
Nice well balanced scientific design study, I say.


THE ECOLOGIST, vol. 32, #5, June 2002
page
33 The mice it would appear are brighter than the supermarket
shoppers.!

The mice didn't believe the politicians - all too often the sheeple

do.

GE food study done by Dutch teen

Mice Reject Genetically Engineered Food

Following is from a British journal (June 2002) excerpt:

"While the International scientific community spares no effort in
branding GM food as "substantially equivalent' to conventional food

(essentially so as to prop up the ailing biotech industry), a
17-year-
old Dutch undergraduate has created scientific history with some
simple
& disturbing experiments on mice."

by Devinder Sharma

Excerpt:

"Hinze Hogendoorn conclusively demonstrated that not everything
endorsed
by Nobel laureates & other so-called authorities like the UK's
Royal
Society is scientifically correct. Hogendoorn may not find a place
of
honour in the pro-GM stuffed Royal Society, but he has surely put
the
august body to shame.

Following basic scientific conventions, H. conducted his
experiments
on
mice. He picked up 30 female 6-week-old mice from a herpetology
centre.
These rodents were originally bred to feed snakes.

Then, like any other net-savvy teenager, he searched the web for
information on how to take care of mice. Accordingly, he bought
some
rodent mix, some Kellogg's and Quaker cereals and some oatmeal that

was
specified to be 'GM-free'. H. also bought some GM maize and soya.
These foodstuffs were to form the staple diet for the mice.

The mice were let loose in big cages with 2 piles of food--one GM
and
one non GM--stacked in 4 bowls. Unaware of received opinion on the

virtues of GM 'functional foods', the mice delivered their own
verdict.
They completely emptied the bowls containing the non-GM food. The
bowls
with GM food remained untouched.

But H. was still not satisfied. He conducted a series of other
tests
to
find out what would happen when the mice were force-fed with GM
foods.

Significantly, but for unknown reasons, one of the mice died. The
other
GM-fed mice initially appeared heavier, but by the end of the
experiment
they had actually lost weight. A rival group of mice was fed a
non-GM
diet.

These mice ate less and gained more weight, and continued to gain
weight.

Equally sorrying were the behavioural changes that the diet induced
in
the mice. The GM-fed mice 'seemed less active', more nervous &
distressed'and were completely at a loss. 'Many,' Hogendoorn was
quoted
as saying, 'were running round and round the basket, scrabbling
desperately in the sawdust, & even frantically jumping up the
sides--something I'd never seen before.'

The Royal Society has so far refrained from commenting on H's
experiments........................As a face-saving device, it has
drawn
attention to the potential risks GM foods pose for babies. The
latter
are particularly susceptible to changes in the nutritional make-up
of
food.

But the Royal Society report is full of contradictions. It states
that
consumption of genetically modified DNA has no effect on human
health.
Are babies not human?"

from article in THE ECOLOGIST, vol. 32, #5, June 2002 page 33