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En grupp av multinationella bioteknikföretag har nyligen öppnat en webbsajt med forum för att bekämpa det stora globala motståndet mot genmanipulerad mat och biotech-produkter i allmänhet.
Bakom den nya sajten, www.GMOAnswers.com, står enligt Reuters bl.a. Monsanto, DuPont och Dow AgroSciences.
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http://rt.com/news/gmo-giants-anti-biotech-790/
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- Förra året satsade Monsanto och deras kompanjoner inom genmanipulerad mat över 40 miljoner dollar för att deras produkter INTE ska behöva märkas i affärer i Kalifornien.
- Konsumenterna ska hållas ovetande om att de äter genmanipulerade produkter...***
Last year, Monsanto and other industry members spent $40 million to defeat a ballot initiative in California to require labeling of GMO food, Reuters reported.
The Natural Products Association, the nation's largest association for natural products representing 1,900 food industry players, has recently called for all foods containing genetically-modified organisms to be accurately labeled under a uniform standard, so consumers can “make educated decisions about foods they purchase”.
In March, grocery retailer Whole Foods announced that by 2018, all products in US and Canadian stores must be labeled if they contain GMOs. This is the first national grocery store to set a deadline for genetically modified ingredients labeling.
“We are putting a stake in the ground on GMO labeling to support the consumer’s right to know,” co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, Walter Robb, said. “The prevalence of GMOs in the US paired with nonexistent mandatory labeling makes it very difficult for retailers to source non-GMO options and for consumers to choose non-GMO products. Accordingly, we are stepping up our support of certified organic agriculture, where GMOs are not allowed, and we are working together with our supplier partners to grow our non-GMO supply chain to ensure we can continue to provide these choices in the future,” he added.
In June, Chipotle Mexican became the first US restaurant chain to reveal GMO ingredients after it begun labeling all the ingredients the grill burrito group uses that contain genetically modified organisms.
http://rt.com/news/gmo-giants-anti-biotech-790/
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- Spionerar Monsanto på dig?
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Publicerad den 29 jul 2013
Abby Martin talks to Alexis Bayden Mayer about a recent revelation from a German newspaper that Monsanto is working in concert with the US government to spy on anti-GMO activists and researchers. They talk about GMO myths, labeling laws, and the recent Monsanto buy-out of Beeologics.***
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Vidareläsning:
http://undermattans.blogspot.ch/2013/05/media-morkade-massiva-globala-protester.html
http://undermattans.blogspot.com/2013/05/over-tva-miljoner-manniskor-i-52-lander.html
http://undermattans.blogspot.com/2013/05/monsanto-foretaget-som-vill-kontrollera.html
http://undermattans.blogspot.com/2013/05/monsanto-presenterar-den-genetiska.html
http://undermattans.blogspot.com/2013/05/globala-protester-planerade-mot.html
http://undermattans.blogspot.com/2013/04/monsanto-tar-patent-pa-maten-snart.html
http://undermattans.blogspot.com/2013/03/genmanipulerad-mat-pa-foretagens.html
http://undermattans.blogspot.ch/2013/07/monsanto-vann-matens-nobelpris.html
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Monsanto-backed GMO giants launch website to combat anti-biotech sentiment
RT 2013-07-30A group of biotech seed companies have launched an online forum to rebuff disapproval of genetically modified foods across the world. Activists and consumer groups are skeptical, saying the industry has a ‘track record of being anything but transparent’.
The website is said to be partly backed by the biotech US giant Monsanto, DuPont and Dow AgroSciences, according to Reuters, as well as by other companies whose products feature ingredients that have been genetically altered in ways the companies claim improve food production.
Founders of www.GMOAnswers.com say the website was created “to do a better job answering your questions — no matter what they are — about GMOs.” Its launch is part of the biotech industry’s campaign to respond to concerns for GMO food labeling and tighter regulation in the US.
One user from Newtown, Pennsylvania identified as Sorgfelt posted a question on the website asking whether he could trust any research done on GMOs that has the imprimatur of the Missouri-based Monsanto.
He query was prompted after learning “from practical experience that, in order to get a job with Monsanto, or do any research that is supported by Monsanto, or even to publish research on Monsanto seeds, that all of my work would have to be approved by Monsanto.”
“This makes it very difficult to have legitimate third party research to rely on,” Sorgfelt, whose question has yet to be answered, added.
Meanwhile, biotech industry players say all they want is dialogue on the issue.
"- This... is an effort to increase the dialogue. That is all we want," Paul Schickler, president of DuPont Pioneer told Reuters. "Dialogue is good. Over time I think we'll come to a common understanding."
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- Activists argue that the newly-established website won’t help stop the consumer backlash against genetically engineered foods that has been brewing for years.
“…the industry has a track record of being anything but transparent. They spend millions in marketing and lobbying against popular GMO labeling efforts.
Their control of patents has prevented research from being done on the long-term impacts of biotech crops and food products.
This latest public relations blitz is just more of the same from an industry that is struggling to combat popular sentiment that genetically engineered foods are unlabeled, untested and unsafe,” Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, Wenonah Hauter, said on Monday.
“More claims from the biotech industry about the safety of genetic engineering are not a replacement for the clear labeling that consumers are demanding,” he added.
Concerns over safety of genetic engineering
Protests against Monsanto have become a frequent event across the globe. Earlier this month the world's largest seed-maker said it would drop its bid to grow some of its genetically modified crops in Europe after a number of European countries, including France, Germany and Italy, established bans against genetically-modified organisms.http://rt.com/news/gmo-giants-anti-biotech-790/
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Publicerad den 7 sep 2012
Abby Martin calls out Monsanto for their agricultural failures.Publicerad den 7 sep 2012
Monsanto is the biggest producer of pesticides and genetically modified seeds in the world, and one of their arguments is that they save farmers a ton of money and improve crop yields. But are their GMO foods only serving to create super-bugs that are practically invincible?
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Monsanto ska lära världen att älska GMO och bioteknikprodukter på ny webbsajt
-3 Signs That Anti-GMO Activism Is Working In Europe-
SvaraRaderaJuly 24, 2013
Source: Waking Times
There are days that Monsanto’s efforts to dominate the food supply through its patenting of GMO seeds seem so malicious and abhorrent, that any possibility of regular people and family farms taking back control over agriculture and our food source appears insurmountable. Yet, there are also days when it appears the efforts of activism from regular citizens is succeeding in exposing Monsanto as an ego-driven, malevolent organization that can easily be opposed, undermined and cast out.
These days a new global activist movement is emerging where small victories in countries around the world – such as India and Peru – illustrate the power that we the people have, when united, to stop Monsanto and the agro-chemical giants, and put an end to the raping and poisoning of nature and our earth.
Europe offers a few great examples of triumphs driven by anti-GMO activism, which could easily fuel the drive of citizens in other countries who are tired of seeing Monsanto seed overtaking farm lands and tired of food suppliers selling unlabeled genetically modified products.
#1 – Hungary Burns 1000 Acres of Corn to Eradicate GMO Seed[...]
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/07/23/3-signs-that-anti-gmo-activism-is-working-in-europe/
http://www.blacklistednews.com/3_Signs_That_Anti-GMO_Activism_Is_Working_In_Europe/27592/0/0/0/Y/M.html