据每日邮报报道，近日一则非常有争议的爆炸性消息横空出世。此前一直备受关注的高科技生物领域：转基因食物到底有没有致癌性；以及国际转基因行业的巨头公司-孟山都(Monsanto)公司在全球致力于转基因食物的研究与推广，是否损害了全球人民的健康。
研究报告来自法国，该实验小组一直关注与全球转基因食品行业的各种问题，其中人吃了转基因的食物是否会有健康隐患，他们走在世界前列。
该份实验报告详细记录了实验过程和结果：将一群老鼠关于实验室中，给予老鼠创造任何可能适宜的环境，就只改变一项条件，长期喂养转基因玉米，而且这个转基因玉米正是市场上最畅销的。经过一段时间之后，这些老鼠很多都患了乳腺癌，而且内部遭受了很严重的肝和肾脏等器官的严重损害。
转基因种子市场上，美国的孟山都公司是一个耀眼的垄断巨头，在玉米、大豆、棉花等多种重要作物的转基因种子市场上，占据70%至100%的份额。全世界超过90%的转基因种子，都使用它的专利。2009年逆势增长，在美国《财富》杂志评选的“顶住衰退：全球100家增长最快的公司”中排第41 名。
这个实验也引起了相关领域的专家的兴趣，穆斯塔法-迪加哥兹(Mustafa Djamgoz)是英国伦敦皇家学院生物癌症系的教授，他表示："这个实验的结果令人无法相信，居然吃转基因的玉米和患癌症有关。民以食为天，这个行业我们需要非常地关注，我自己是在分子级别研究癌症的，我确实研究出一些结果，我们所吃的会影响我们基因的构造以及基因的排序，复制，我绝不是危言耸听，但是我们的确需要更多的研究和分析。"博士朱利安-里特(Dr Julian Little)是农业生物技术委员会的成员，他说：“转基因食物这个行业是安全的，因为这个行业把每一个健康因素都考虑进去了，只要涉及到这个转基因的食品行业，就是精挑细选，严格对待，绝不容许任何马虎，所以这个行业是非常安全的。”
图为做实验患癌症巨大肿瘤老鼠的照片
纽约时报2012年09月20日消息：
法国“研究发现，喂食转基因玉米的老鼠，有高达50%的雄性和70%的雌性未老先死……，约 50%-80%的雌鼠出现肿瘤，肝肾损伤的几率提高了数倍。”
Published: September 19, 2012
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But in California, proponents of a ballot measure that would require genetically modified foods to be labeled immediately seized on the study as support for their cause. The French government ordered a review of the findings, saying they could possibly result in the suspension of European imports of that type of corn.
The study, which is being published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, was led by Gilles-Eric Séralini at the University of Caen in France. He is also a leader of the Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering, which sponsored the research.
The study followed 200 rats for two years, essentially their entire lives, far longer than the typical 90-day feeding studies used to win regulatory approval of genetically engineered crops in some countries. While there have been some other long-term studies, none has involved as many animals or as many detailed measurements.
“The results were really alarming,” Dr. Séralini said in a telephone news conference conducted by an organization in Britain opposed to genetically modified crops. He said that the tumors did not develop until well after 90 days, meaning they might have been missed by shorter studies.
The rats in the study were split into 10 groups, each containing 10 male and 10 female rats. Six of the groups were fed different amounts of a corn developed by Monsanto to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup. In some cases the corn had been sprayed in the field with Roundup.
Three other groups were given different doses of Roundup in their drinking water, with the lowest dose corresponding to what might be found in tap water in the United States, the authors said.
The 10th group, the control, was fed nonengineered corn and plain water.
The study found that in groups that ate the engineered corn, up to 50 percent of the males and 70 percent of the females died before they would have from normal aging, compared with 30 percent of the males and 20 percent of the females in the control group.
Some 50 to 80 percent of the female rats developed tumors compared with only 30 percent of the controls. And there were several times as many cases of liver and kidney injury in the exposed rats .......
