Sick Patients Used As Guinea Pigs In GM Foods Experiment

Patients have been fed genetically modified (GM) Russet Burbank potatoes in an experiment to determine their nutritional effects on the human body. Developed by Monsanto, a multinational biotech company, the potatoes, modified to resist Colorado beetles, were dispensed to Russian heart and blood pressure patients as part of a recent study. This experiment is detailed in an unpublished report by the Nutrition Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Science. The report describes the patients as "volunteers" and states that they are "suffering from hypertensive disease and ischemic heart disease." According to the research, rats that ate similar potatoes suffered reductions in the weight of their hearts and prostate glands, but all changes were "within permissible physiological fluctuation." These same rats suffered "increases of kidneys' absolute weight" when compared to ones fed conventional potatoes.