We in the media rarely lie to you.
But that leaves plenty of room to take
things wildly out of context.
That's where most big scare stories come
from, like recent headlines about GM foods. GM means "genetically
modified," which means scientists add genes, altering the plant's DNA, in
this case to make the crop resistant to pests.
Last week, Poland joined seven other
European countries in banning cultivation of GM foods.
The politicians acted because headlines
screamed about how GM foods caused huge tumors in rats. The pictures of the
rats are scary. Some have tumors the size of tennis balls.
What the headlines don't tell you,
though, is that the female Sprague-Dawley rats used in the test usually develop
tumors -- 87 to 96 percent of the time.
It's a similar story with chemicals that
the media constantly tell us to fear.
More often than not, rats get…
Source: Town Hall
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