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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=7818
Every year, a greater and greater percentage of our food supply sources back to genetically modified ingredients. Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont and the other biotech giants have made GMOs into a multi-billion dollar industry and unsurprisingly have launched one of the largest pr campaigns in the history of the food industry to convince the public that their products are safe, healthy and beneficial.
Let's examine five of the main claims of this PR campaign and see how they stack up to reality.
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Every year, a greater and greater percentage of our food supply sources back to genetically modified ingredients. Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont and the other biotech giants have made GMOs into a multi-billion dollar industry and unsurprisingly have launched one of the largest pr campaigns in the history of the food industry to convince the public that their products are safe, healthy and beneficial.
Let's examine five of the main claims of this PR campaign and see how they stack up to reality.
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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6029
In the face of yet more scientific evidence of the adverse health effects of genetically modified foods, country after country is working to ban, limit or restrict the cultivation and testing of GM crops.
But as the biotech giants gear up the PR war against their opponents, the question of what people can do to avoid GMO foods is becoming more important than ever.
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In the face of yet more scientific evidence of the adverse health effects of genetically modified foods, country after country is working to ban, limit or restrict the cultivation and testing of GM crops.
But as the biotech giants gear up the PR war against their opponents, the question of what people can do to avoid GMO foods is becoming more important than ever.
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http://undermattans.blogspot.com/2013/05/over-tva-miljoner-manniskor-i-52-lander.html
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Allt du behöver veta om GMO:s och Monsanto på 5 minuter (video)
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Allt du behöver veta om GMO:s och Monsanto på 5 minuter (video)
-GMO corn FAILing to protect fields from pests - Reuters report-
SvaraRaderaAugust 29, 2013
Source: Reuters
Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn, a combination of measures that are supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report.
"It's very alarming," said Joe Spencer, an insect behaviorist with the Illinois Natural History Survey who is researching the issue.
Evidence gathered from fields in two Illinois counties suggests that pest problems are mounting as the rootworms grow ever more resistant to efforts to fight them, including crop rotation combined with use of the biotech corn, according to the report issued by Michael Gray, a professor of crop sciences at the University of Illinois, in conjunction with Spencer.
Farmers across "a wide swath of Illinois" could face formidable challenges protecting corn crops from the hungry insects, Gray said in the Aug. 27 report.
The crop damage was found in fields where the specialized biotech corn had been planted in a rotation following soybeans, a practice that typically helps beat back the rootworm problems as western corn rootworm adults typically lay eggs in cornfields and not in soybean fields.
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http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINL2N0GT1NV20130828?irpc=932
http://www.blacklistednews.com/GMO_corn_FAILing_to_protect_fields_from_pests_-_Reuters_report/28503/0/38/38/Y/M.html
-‘Monsanto Protection Act’ quietly extended by Congress-
SvaraRaderaSeptember 12, 2013
Source: RT
A budget provision protecting genetically-modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks was extended for three months in an approved US House of Representatives’ spending bill on Tuesday evening.
Called “The Monsanto Protection Act” by opponents, the budget rider shields biotech behemoths like Monsanto, Cargill and others from the threat of lawsuits and bars federal courts from intervening to force an end to the sale of a GMO (genetically-modified organism) even if the genetically-engineered product causes damaging health effects.
The biotech rider first made news in March when it was a last-minute addition to the successfully-passed House Agriculture Appropriations Bill for 2013, a short-term funding bill that was approved to avoid a federal government shutdown.
The current three-month extension is part of the short-term FY14 Continuing Resolution spending bill.
The Center for Food Safety, a vocal opponent of the rider, released a statement expressing dismay that the measure once again avoided proper legislative process while usurping the power to challenge GMO products in court.
“The rider represents an unprecedented attack on US judicial review, which is an essential element of US law and provides a critical check on government decisions that may negatively impact human health, the environment or livelihoods,” they wrote. “This also raises potential jurisdictional concerns with the Senate Agriculture and Judiciary Committees that merited hearings by the Committees before its consideration.”[...]
http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-protection-extended-house-741/
http://www.blacklistednews.com/%E2%80%98Monsanto_Protection_Act%E2%80%99_quietly_extended_by_Congress/28795/0/38/38/Y/M.html
-Total GMO Ban To Be Considered By Russia Within Weeks-
SvaraRaderaSeptember 30, 2013
Source: Natasha Longo
As one of the few nations in the world with a GMO-free platform,
http://preventdisease.com/news/12/053112_Most-Nations-in-the-World-Have-No-GMO-Free-Platform-To-Protect-Their-Citizens.shtml
Russia does not allow any cultivation of GMOs for commercial purposes. Their regulatory agencies recently suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. The Russian Prime Minister has now ordered the same agencies to consider a possible ban on all GMO imports into Russia.
The Russian Federal Environmental Assessment Commission has not adopted any commercialized GM varieties for agricultural use.
The recent decision by the Russians to suspend authorisation for American GM corn threatens to trigger a transatlantic commercial and diplomatic row.
http://preventdisease.com/news/12/092612_Russia-Upholds-Its-GMO-free-Platform-Suspends-Import-of-American-GM-Corn.shtml
A growing body of scientific research - done mostly in Europe, Russia, and other countries – showing that diets containing engineered corn or soya cause serious health problems in laboratory mice and rats.
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/050613_Former-Pro-GMO-Scientist-Speaks-Out-On-The-Real-Dangers-of-Genetically-Engineered-Food.shtml
Experts at the University of Caen conducted an experiment running for the full lives of rats - two years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2205509/Cancer-row-GM-foods-French-study-claims-did-THIS-rats--cause-organ-damage-early-death-humans.html
The findings, which were peer reviewed by independent experts before being published in a respected scientific journal, found raised levels of breast cancer, liver and kidney damage.
Russian Prime Minister Announces Possible Ban On All Imports [...]
http://preventdisease.com/
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Total_GMO_Ban_To_Be_Considered_By_Russia_Within_Weeks/29244/0/0/0/Y/M.html