The alleged correlation is actually between this list of diseases from annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124649 and glyphosate, to be specific. Here is the url for the study itself: organic-systems.org/journal/92/JOS_Volume-9_Number-2_Nov_2014-Swanson-et-al.pdf I dont know how to go about seeing if this study has endured peer-review. Any tips on how to determine whether this study is substantiated would be very appreciated. Im no scientist, and Im not so sure the people who conducted this study are either. It seems to at least partly lean on the assumption that eating dna from fish and plants in the same mouthful, for example, is unnatural because they were combined in a lab instead of on a dinner plate. Im not sure what that has to do with glyphosate and this list of diseases, but they went out of their way to make sure their study included notes like this: The GMO industry claims that genetic engineering is no different than plant hybridisation, which has been practiced for centuries (FDA, 1992). It is the reason they gave, which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted, for not having to submit GE food to rigorous safety testing to obtain FDA approval. This distortion of the facts needs to be corrected. One critical issue is that multiple genes are being transferred across taxonomical kingdoms in ways that do not occur by natural breeding methods (Bohn et al., 2014). All living things are classified according to a ranking system that starts with species and sub species. Closely related species are grouped together under a rank that is called a genus. Closely related genera are grouped together under the rank of family. There are seven ranks. Starting with the highest they are: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, species. Plants, animals, fungi, viruses and bacteria belong to separate kingdoms. Natural inter-breeding can take place between some species that belong to the same genus and very occasionally between species of different genera. However, species that belong to different families do not inter-breed and definitely species that belong to different kingdoms such as plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and viruses do not inter-breed in nature. Plants, for example, do not inter-breed with animals, bacteria or viruses. Genetic engineering allows for the transfer of genes between kingdoms in a way that does not occur naturally.
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