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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,”....
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.
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.
“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.
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
Monsanto Faked Data for Approvals
What's wrong with our Food...the Inconvenient Truths -blog*
How corporate farming has endangered America's food supply
How Many Ag Scientists Truly Support Industrial Ag.
U.S. scientific establishment throws down gaunlet to Big Ag
Grain
GM Foods : Fooling the World
Seeds of Destruction
Islands at Risk : GMO in Hawaii
USD admits GMO contamination is inevitable
The hidden link between factory farms and human illness
Concerns growing over superbugs in our food
Earthlings
The Jackasses Did It: HR 2749 – Seizure of the US food Supply and Production – Passed the House
Nelson Rockefeller : Biography
A Thousand Suns
Food Crisis Links
Fesces Farming and You
Agriculture is one of the most dangerous and polluting industries
Hogwash : confined animal feeding operations
Multiple threats mounting to world food supply
Destroying Africa's Agriculture
Amazon Rainforest - Evils of Deforestation
International Paper Treads Monsanto's Path To Frankenforests
Food needs 'fundamental rethink'
Maine in quandry over GM crops
Farmwars | Surviving the middle class crash
Food Freedom
Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food
A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom
Biopiracy,GM Seeds and Rural India : Over 100,000 farmers have committed suicide
Seeds of Deception
Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety
Seed Control
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'The Watchers' Links on 'recycling' pollution and disease into the food supply
http://thewatchers.us/1_index-pandemics.html
http://thewatchers.us/
http://deadlydeceit.com/
http://sludgevictims.com/
http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/sludgewatch-lhttp://www.sludgefacts.org/IJOEH_1104_Snyder.pdf
http://sludgefacts.org/
http://sludgenews.org/
http://www.prwatch.org/tsigfy.html
Sourcewatch Portal : Toxic Sludge
SourceWatch clearinghouse on toxic sewage sludge issues maintained by the Food Rights Network.
Sally Brown is a research associate professor at the University of
Washington. Her column in the March 2011 issue attacks as
"ecoterrorists" the Organic Consumers Association and others who led the successful movement that on March 4, 2010 stopped the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
from giving away sewage sludge as “organic biosolids compost” for home
and school gardens. Sally Brown wrote: “Here, six ecoterrorists have
the City of San Francisco quaking in its boots, leading officials to
stop a compost giveaway program that was making hundreds happy." Climate Change Connections: "Compost Security." Brown, Sally, BioCycle Magazine, March 2011.
Brown advocates growing food in sewage sludge which she calls by its PR euphemism biosolids. Her sludge promotional campaign has included feeding the public food grown in Seattle's own sewage sludge) "compost" product called GroCo
http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/Sludge/Newsolutions.pdf
http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/Sludge/incidents.htm
CLUSTERING OF INCIDENTS REPORTED HEALTH INCIDENTS BY LOCALITY (revised 042208)
CWMI has compiled this matrix that includes
information on the reported health incidents that citizens associate
with the application of sewage sludges to land. The matrix includes
the locations, the number of persons and the symptoms reported. It
has not been confirmed by scientific investigation that these persons
became ill due to land application of sludges. A wide array of
sources provided the information contained in this matrix including
newspaper articles, government reports and other sources. We hope that
the information may be useful to the full range of stakeholders
concerned about the reported illnesses. CWMI invites those with
additional information on these or other incidents to send it to us at
cwmi@cornell.edu.
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