GMO Soy Produces Altered Milk and Stunted Kids

The quality of the milk those kids are drinking would be much lower if their mother was fed on GMO soy, stunting their growth. Photo-Lawrence Wright via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND).Mother goats fed on 'Roundup-ready' GMO soy produce milk that's much lower in fat, protein and antibodies than non-GMO controls, writes Jonathan Latham, and contains traces of GE DNA. The milk also stunts their kids' growth. Publishing in the journal of Small Ruminant Research, the researchers were testing the results of supplementing the
feed of female goats with Roundup Ready GE soybeans.

Roundup Ready soybeans are engineered to resist the herbicide Roundup and are sold by agribusiness giant Monsanto. They are some of the most widely grown soybeans in the world. The reduced growth of the goat kids was attributed by the researchers to their observation that the milk of the GE-fed mothers was significantly less nutritious and contained less of the IgG antibodies important for early growth.

"This was a carefully conducted study", commented Dr Judy Carman, Director of the Institute of Health and Environmental Research, Australia. She was not involved in the research, but told Independent Science News: "The differences in the composition of the colostrum between the mothers fed the GE soy and the non-GE soy were particularly
striking. The colostrum from the GE-fed mothers contained only 2/3 of the fat, 1/3 of the protein and close to half of the IgG of the mothers fed the non-GM soy."...