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LinkedInHere's another one for your GMO scrapbook. Apparently independent scientists in France(yes, they still have them there), have conducted a study demonstrating a possible link between GMO modified plants and various cancers, and this one has to be seen to be believed: New Study Finds GM Corn and Roundup Causes Cancer In Rats Here's the paragraphs that jumped out at me(in addition to the pictures): "The results of this new study are doubly concerning. Not only has the consumption of a genetically modified food crop (NK603 maize, which is approved in the US for human consumption) now been … [Read more...]
EUROPEAN UNION EVEN LOONIER THAN AMERICA ON GMOS
May 17, 2013 By 20 Comments
You may recall a couple of days ago I blogged about the protests scheduled around the world against Mon(ster)santo and GMOs. And there I suggested that the whole real motivation behind the exercise was patentable seeds and food, and hence, control over the human food supply. Well here's one shared with me by quite a few of you, and it seems the EU has the right idea (if you're into corporate welfare, tyranny, and fascism of the loonier variety): why not just require all seeds and plants to be registered with the government (i.e., the Euronazis in Brussels)? Sounds neat, huh? Sounds … [Read more...]
RT: PROTESTS AGAINST MON(STER)SANTO
May 15, 2013 By 15 Comments
Russia Today reported that on May 25 of this year protests were scheduled against American "agribusiness" giant Mon(ster)santo. The article is here: Monsanto protests scheduled in 36 countries What I find disturbing here is, predictably, Mon(ster)santo's attitude, best summed up in the encyclical pronunciamenti of its CEO, Hugh Grant: "They're the most-tested food product that the world has ever seen. Europe set up its own Food Standards Agency, which has now spent €300 million ($403.7 million), and has concluded that these technologies are safe,” Grant said in January. “France … [Read more...]
MON(STER)SANTO’S “SCIENCE”: EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES ISN’T BUYING
April 15, 2013 By
Normally I am about as skeptical of The New York Times, The Washington Post and other mainstream rags as I am about the Warren Commission and other "official" explanations. But this one is so interesting I have to pass it along, and it comes courtesy of Jon Rappaport's website: Even the NY Times is now rejecting Monsanto GMO science Now, I have to admit to a certain amount of "I told you so" gloating here. For one thing, I was the enfant terrible in my middle and high school biology classes, always asking the unwanted question of our Darwinian textbooks: if the giraffe evolved a … [Read more...]
GMOs AGAIN: NEW STUDIES, GROWING BOYCOTTS, AND …
March 27, 2013 By
Well...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 TWO: HUNGARY SAYS NO TO MON(STER)SANTO
March 18, 2013 By
I've been trying to follow the increasing pressure developing throughout the world against GMO foods in general, and more particularly, the corrupt mercantilist business practices that American "agribusiness" has sponsored in its revolving door between corporate personnel and federal agency staffers. In that respect, I've reported on the growing list of countries in Europe and elsewhere that, on the basis of various scientific studies, are either partially or completely rejecting America's "agricultural" products as harmful to the health and well-being of their citizenry. It began with … [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...]