Soy-Based Lunch Kills 22 children in India: Have GMOs and Pesticides Become Instant Killers?
The tainted lunches,
which were loaded with genetically-modified (GM) soybeans and pesticide
chemical residues, were given to the student victims as part of a
U.K.-based government meal program similar to the one currently being
implemented in the U.S. by Michelle Obama for American public
schoolchildren.
The U.K.'s Independent reports that the culprit meals contained a blend
of rice, soybeans and potatoes, and had apparently been doused with an
unidentified new cooking oil that was later determined to be tainted
with toxic crop insecticides. Early on, the school's cook warned her
superiors that the new oil appeared "discolored and dodgy," but her
concerns were ignored when school officials insisted that the oil was
safe.
Not long after students ate the first
meal served with the new oil, dozens of them began to vomit profusely
and some developed severe diarrhea. Several of them had to be
immediately rushed to the hospital for emergency care, which sent the
school's headmaster running for the hills -- according to reports, she
literally fled the school after first learning that students were
becoming ill from eating the food.
"We feel that some kind of insecticide
was either accidentally or intentionally mixed in the food, but that
will be clear through investigations," said R.K. Singh, the medical
superintendent at the local children's hospital in Patna, Bihar's
capital. "We prepared antidotes and treated the children for organic
phosphorus poisoning," he added, noting that early tests identified the
presence of a toxic organophosphate chemical in the tainted food.
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