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LinkedInWell...they're at it again, the lovely folks at Duponzanto and Mon(ster)santo and all the other wonderful folks in agribusiness promoting the joys of GMOs. Let's start here: GMO Corn Found in Humans Creates a “Living Pesticide Factory” Now I have covered the Bt toxin story here previously, and how the wonderfully mercantilist revolving door between the corporate world and the FDA enabled these muck-peddlers to "buy the science" and "reassure" everyone that their products were safe. Except, as the article reminds us, "The agency meant to protect consumers and the world’s largest … [Read more...]
GMOs, MON(STER)SANTO, AND BRICS: BANS, SLAVERY, AND LAWSUITS, PART ONE: A MODEST PROPOSAL
March 17, 2013 By
This story is more than a year old, but patience, there's method in my (postponed) madness, and by "madness" I mean to indicate anger, not insanity, and though there may be insanity in this blog, it is not my own, but our good "friends" in one of the world's most corrupt "businesses" (that would be "agribusiness" and "GMOs"), and one of its most breathtakingly unscrupulous, corrupt, and anti-human corporate representatives, Mon(ster)santo. Check out this article from January 2012: Busted: Monsanto Abusing Illegal Workers in ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions Well, a belated "three cheers" for … [Read more...]
TIDBIT: COSTA RICAN OPPOSITION TO GMOs GROWS
March 17, 2013 By
This is an important little article on the growing opposition to GMOs, and the threat they pose to centuries of agronomic seed development: Latin American Communities Fight to Protect Heirloom Seeds From Monsanto … [Read more...]
THE GMO STORY JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE, OR, I’LL HAVE A BILDERBURGER, WITH CHEESE, HOLD THE MAYO
February 24, 2013 By
Just when you thought you had heard it all in terms of the health dangers posed by GMOs, or, for that matter, new all time lows in corporate greed, hypocrisy, and inhumanity, there's this one, and it concerns Mr. Bill Gates and his ownership of a tidy amount of Mon(ster)santo stock: Bill Gates Dodges Questions on Why He Owns 500,000 Shares of Monsanto Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/bill-gates-dodges-questions-owns-500000-shares-of-monsanto/#ixzz2KhiXmuwV Now, it's bad enough that companies like Duponzanto use what amounts to child slave labor. But let's remember, they were doing so … [Read more...]
VIRUS HIDDEN IN GMOS… AND SOME WIDER CONTEXTUAL IMPLICATIONS
February 13, 2013 By
Well there's more news on the GMO front which many of you kindly shared with me, including our friend at The Byte Show, George Ann Hughes. It seems there may be a nasty virus in many GMO foods and crops: Hidden deadly viral gene found in commercial GM cropsHidden, deadly viral gene found in commercial GMO crops Now in case you missed it, the culprit, once again, would appear to be in the main our the good fiends... er.... friends, at Duponzanto: This alteration is present in most of the widely-grown GMOs in commercial use today, including both NK603 and MON810 corn, as well as … [Read more...]
ONE FOR THE TRANSHUMANIST SCRAPBOOK?: A PREGNANT EWE IN NIGERIA DELIVERS… SOMETHING
February 12, 2013 By
Well here's one for the transhumanist scrapbooks, if true. Apparently in Nigeria a pregnant ewe was found to have a...well, partially human feotus: Sheep delivers 'human' foetus in Minna Now, while I tend to be skeptical of such stories on the one hand, it doesn't take one very long to search on the internet for serious articles on genetic engineering of chimerical "manimals" and "humanplants" and so on. This one caught my eye, however, for a rather different reason. Let's assume, for a moment, the article is true, and indulge in some speculation. As the article indicates, it is the … [Read more...]
TIDBIT: IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, EATING GMOS IS POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH
January 28, 2013 By
...oh by the way, in case you haven't heard, eating GMOs is looking to be increasingly hazardous to your health: Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops And consider the following two paragraphs carefully: "The researchers themselves concluded that the presence of segments of Gene VI “might result in unintended phenotypic changes”. They reached this conclusion because similar fragments of Gene VI have already been shown to be active on their own (e.g. De Tapia et al. 1993). In other words, the EFSA researchers were unable to rule out a hazard to public health … [Read more...]
GMOS: THE LATEST: INDIA NOW REQUIRES GMO FOOD LABELING
January 20, 2013 By
Well there is a bit of good news on the GMO front, at least in Asia, for India has now passed laws requiring that GMO food products be appropriately labelled: India Signs Mandatory GMO Labeling into Law As the article notes, India joins a growing list of countries - Poland, France, Hungary, Germany, Canada, to name but a few - whose governments appear at least semi-responsive to their citizenry and the common sense concerns over GMOs. But then there's this said commentary: "In the wake of crippled labeling attempts inside the United States thanks to Monsanto-backed corporate deception, … [Read more...]
RT REPORTING ON A CASE INVOLVING MON(STER)SANTO
January 18, 2013 By
Well, if you've been holding your breath waiting for the Amerikan lamestream media to report anything about the GMO foods debate, you're probably turning purple by now. And here's a story that you probably didn't hear about while you were holding your breath: Farmers demand an appeal in Monsanto GMO case The essence of this lawsuit is here: "Last February, District Court Judge Naomi Buchwald dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association in which the plaintiffs sought legal protection from Monsanto, a billion-dollar corporation that has grown exponentially … [Read more...]
POLAND JOINS GROWING LIST OF NATIONS BANNING GMOS
January 15, 2013 By
Well....now it's Poland. This nation has joined the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that are displaying some rationality and caution with respect to Duponzanto and Mon(ster)santo and the bland corporate and US government assurances that GMOs are entirely safe, when a growing body of evidence suggests that there are indeed horizontal transfers from GMOs to those organisms consuming them. In any case, back to Poland. Here is the article: Poland Bans Genetically Modified Crops Now, let's look at something from this article carefully. Imagine reading the following … [Read more...]