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The Fluoride Deception exposes the truth about water fluoridation and the phosphate mining industry

Shock findings in new GMO study: Rats fed lifetime of GM corn grow horrifying tumors, 70% of females die early

What's really in vaccines? Proof of MSG, formaldehyde, aluminum and mercury

The GMO debate is over; GM crops must be immediately outlawed; Monsanto halted from threatening humanity

Ignorance Is Power - exposes FDA censorship of nutritional science

UK doctors soon forced to hand over private patient data to government

By Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
February 6 - It used to be that a patient's relationship with his doctor was a private affair. But in the new world of government-run healthcare, this doctor-patient confidentiality arrangement is adding a new member to the mix -- Big Brother. As reported by the U.K.'s Daily Mail...

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Did Monsanto Trick California Voters?

This is a guest blog post from Ocean Robbins, co-host and CEO of the Food Revolution Network.

Can This Farmer Finally Defeat Monsanto?

Australia is set to see the first case of an organic farmer proactively seeking compensation from a GM farmer when his rights have been violated by a biotech invasion.

Corporate Giant Comes Out Against GMOs

Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed healthcare organization in the United States, has advised its members against GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in food.

In its Northwest Fall 2012 newsletter, Kaiser suggested membership limit exposure to genetically modified organisms.
“GMOs have been added to our food supply since 1994, but most people don’t know it because the United States does not require labeling of GMOs,”....

The GM Lobby and Its Seven Sins Against Science

GM soya seeds are not 'science' – they are a commercial product. .....the geneticists were ignoring relationships that genes have with other genes and relationships that groups of genes have with other groups elsewhere in an organism’s DNA. The geneticists were ignoring the other factors that effect the regulation of gene expression.

..... transferring genes (usually at random) from one plant to another is a far more uncertain, unstable and disruptive process than was originally thought. In order to avoid the costly and time-consuming safety testing of foods produced through this new technology, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – a body devoted not to public health but to facilitating international trade – came up with the concept of 'substantial equivalence'. This assumes that if relatively simplistic chemical analyses of, say, a GM sweetcorn's protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, find values that can also be found within the range of non-GM sweetcorn varieties, then the GM sweetcorn is deemed to be indistinguishable from, and therefore as safe as, non-GM sweetcorn.

Substantial equivalence was used to deny the need for any biological or toxicological safety testing of GM foods, because GM food was now assumed to be the same as the equivalent food that people had been eating for hundreds of years. This was a political and commercial decision, taken in consultation with, and on behalf of, a small number of large GM companies. It had nothing to do with science. We now know it was opposed by some scientists in the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA), but it was pushed through by political appointees to the FDA. The same approach has spread to many other countries, although some are now less enthusiastic, and the European Union avoids using the term “substantial equivalence”, redefining it as the “comparative assessment” process. However, proponents of the European concept of “comparative assessment” admit that it has much the same meaning as “substantial equivalence”.

An increasing number of detailed biological tests comparing GM and equivalent non-GM crops have now been carried out, not just looking at gross values but rather the spectrum of different types of proteins and other biochemical components. These studies, though few in number, clearly show major differences between the GM and non-GM plants, demonstrating that they are not substantially equivalent. This science invalidates the use of substantial equivalence to assess the safety of GM crops and food, but it is still used in the USA and forms the basis of safety assessments of GM crops in Europe.

Scientific American in August 2009 said:

“It is impossible to verify that genetically modified crops perform as advertised. That is because agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers. Not once anywhere in the world has a pro-GM scientific body or GM company responded to a scientific study they do not like, by doing what anyone who cared about science should do – repeating the experiment.

Re-evaluation of the industry raw data shows that the scientists involved selectively studied only a few questions, and interpreted what little evidence they had in ways that favoured corporate interests.

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1745491/the_gm_lobby_and_its_seven_sins_against_science.html
This article was first published in Mother Earth, the Soil Association's journal of organic thought and policy.

UK, Australia Take Action to Fight Superbugs

Obesity 'may lead to lack of vitamin D'

The Hundred Year Lie

-The Slippery Slope Index

David Kirby on "The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment"

Failure to Yield

Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops

People's Food Policy Project

Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011 For the first time
in Canadian electoral history, the edible is political. Each of the
country’s federal parties have included strategies in their electoral
platforms that, to varying degrees, highlight food

People's Food Policy due to Launch April 18th

After 2 years of hard work, we are getting
ready to launch the culmination of 3500 people talking about food -
Resetting the Table: A People's Food Policy for Canada.

National Conference to End Factory Farming

From October 27-29, 2011 nearly 350 environmental, animal protection,
and public health advocates and professionals gathered in Arlington,
VA, for the first National Conference to End Factory Farming!
Participants arrived motivated to increase their awareness about the
negative impacts of modern animal agriculture, and to set in motion new
ideas and collaborative actions to put an end to factory farming.
Here, you will find exclusive photo and video from the 2011 Conference, as well as an important call to action!

Say No to GMOscban - Canadian Biotechnology Action Network

The World According to Monsanto - YouTube Video