An interview in the Independent with Dr Michael Antoniou, a reader in medical and molecular genetics at King’s College London, revealed that feeding animals GM crops is detrimental to their health.

Amongst the conditions caused by GM potatoes, soya and maize are intestinal lesions, liver cell changes, premature death in the young and problems with the kidneys and blood system.

As GM crops become cheaper, farmers are switching to them, which not only causes suffering to the animals but possibly to those who eat the meat from these animals as well. The wider impacts of GM include environmental, social and economic factors, but the fact that they damage the health of animals is not widely known. Who exactly is benefiting from GM? I think we all know the answer, and it isn’t us, the animals or the local communities and wildlife whose homes are being destroyed by monoculture GM plantations.

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It’s shocking that there is no EU law that makes it mandatory for meat from animals raised from GM crops to be clearly labelled. Most GM crops are fed to animals and the environmental, social and health impacts of these GM monoculture plantations have made many people think twice before buying any GM foods. But under European Union regulations, meat from animals fed imported GM feed does not need to be labelled as GM and the feed origin does not need to be identified.

Ministers in Finland have now raised this issue following an announcement from two Finnish meat producers that they intend to import GM soy for animal feed. Already GM soy is cheaper than non-GM making the switch very attractive to greedy farmers looking for a bigger profit. Sadly, with this increased demand, more soy farmers in Brazil are switching to GM soy.

The meat industry continues to fuel GM soy farming and the forests and savannah of South America, along with all the animals and people who live there, are suffering because of it. If you haven’t already, stop eating meat.

You can read more about the issues with soy on the A SEED website.

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