GM Foods; Monsanto etc

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GM foods kept off the menu at Westminster

The House of Commons is continuing to bar genetically modified food from its restaurants and cafés, despite a drive by ministers for the technology to be more widely accepted.

GM foods kept off the menu at Westminster - Telegraph

 

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20 June 2013

GM even safer than conventional food, says environment secretary

By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News

GM crops are probably safer than conventional plants, according to the Environment Secretary.

Making the strongest call yet for the adoption of the technology, Mr Paterson told the BBC that that GM has significant benefits for farmers, consumers and the environment.

He said the next generation of GM crops offers the "most wonderful opportunities to improve human health."

But green groups say this new push is dangerous and misguided.

The environment secretary has never made a secret of his support for GM technology. Speaking to the BBC ahead of a major speech in favour of GM, Mr Paterson said it was being adopted by the rest of the world and the UK and Europe risked being left behind.

He dismissed criticisms that GM could pose problems to human health.

BBC News - GM even safer than conventional food, says environment secretary

 

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The One Vegetable You Should NOT Be Eating

...But the corn we are eating today is extremely different from the original, ancient vegetable that once nourished our ancestors long ago. The vast majority of modern-day corn planted in the U.S. – approximately 88% of it – has undergone extensive genetic modification (known as genetically modified organisms, or GMO). GMO corn is a crop that has been artificially engineered for agricultural warfare, designed to survive through lethal attacks of weed-killers and to murder marauding insects by destroying their intestines upon ingestion.

But while the North American governments continue to protect—and to even subsidize—the growth and consumption of GMO corn products, a growing body of research is revealing that these vegetable super soldiers aren’t just conquering the laws of nature. Studies on the effects of GMO corn are showing that these Franken-stalks are also quietly conquering our own health, and could possibly lie at the heart of growing mass-epidemics of illness, disease and cancer...

The One Vegetable You Should NOT Be Eating

 

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Downing St refuses 10 times to say if David Cameron would eat GM food

Downing Street has refused to say whether David Cameron would eat genetically modified food or feed it to his family, despite being asked about its safety 10 times.

Downing St refuses 10 times to say if David Cameron would eat GM food - Telegraph

 

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'Back GM food or children will die': Stark warning from Environment Secretary as row grows over controversial crops

Owen Paterson said children are dying because GM food isn't being adopted
17million farmers now grow GM products around the world
But resistance to so-called 'Frankenstein foods' has slowed uptake in the EU

By TIM SHIPMAN and MATT CHORLEY

PUBLISHED: 23:41 GMT, 19 June 2013 | UPDATED: 11:36 GMT, 20 June 2013

Owen Paterson: 'Back GM food or children will die' | Mail Online

 

[RickShafer]

Ha,ha,ha! - "Back GMO food or children will die!" - (too slow)

I wonder how much that guy got for selling his opinion?

It's amazing the hyperbole that is used, for a little cash cow.

Maybe they have something on him.

Tip O'Neil - (the former speaker of the House of Representatives), once told a new congressman not to stay in Washington alone even for a week, because he would be compromised.

Same goes in London and Berlin I guess.

 

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HOW THEY DO IT 9 minutes

[video=youtube;FZ5OxdIq5DY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FZ5OxdIq5DY[/video]

Monsanto: Extinction

Uploaded on Sep 9, 2008
GMOs are made by manipulation of extremely deadly viruses & bacteria (such as E. coli) that have been engineered to be IMMUNE TO ANTIBIOTICS (Pause video at 8:08). Monsanto spends millions of dollars each year in order to "sugar" coat the facts of what GMOs actually are and more importantly, how they are made.

This video straight-forwardly explains the scientific facts on how Monsanto manufactures their GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) by simply removing all the corporate propaganda, the "smoke & mirrors" if you will.

Monsanto's greed, combined with their quest to monopolize all aspects of food & seed on the planet, has knowingly allowed the proverbial Reaper free upon the world.

GMOs are now acting much like the deadly virus and pre-cancer type cells they are made from... by infecting other organisms that were once pure and healthy.

We as a people should demand Monsanto be held for crimes against humanity, for the atrocities they have committed and what can be reasonably seen as the start of the end to all life as we know it.

The Bee disappearance is in perfect unison with the time line of Monsanto's uncontrolled release of GMOs into the environment; but due to Monsanto's influence & corruption in governments across the globe, any scientist that tries to inform the public and raise the alarm about the Bee's & GMO's is destroyed financially, as well as their careers'.

After watching these videos, will you knowingly look the other way and FEED your family GM foods; even though you now know you could be killing or permanently harming your child/family?

If you are OUTRAGED at Monsanto's poisoning our food and with it our health; Please do the following actions... make a difference:

1) Call and WRITE (pen & paper) your Legislators

Demand:

2) That they FULLY endorse: "H.R. 6636 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD RIGHT TO KNOW ACT"

3) An immediate moratorium on all GMOs and their Byproducts!

4) FDA change their findings on GMOs as being "Generally Recognized As Safe"! This was done with ZERO testing by the FDA!

5) Demand a full investigation into the criminal conflicts of interest as it pertains to the head personnel of Monsanto and the FDA being one in the same.

6) Demand congress pass a "whistle blowers protection" for all professional scientists in order to end direct or indirect intimidation by Corporations, Universities, Colleges or Government. Science should never be a result of intimidation.

Public Library of Science
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...


National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Library of Medicine)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/ent...[author]%20AND%20Epidemiology%20of%20sta*phylococcal%20res istance.


Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...


Journal of the American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/...


Science Direct:
ScienceDirect.com | Search through over 11 million science, health, medical journal full text articles and books....


CDC (Center Disease Control):
Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC...


MRSA Wikipedia
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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PUBLIC RELATIONS: Who Owns Monsanto?

Monday, Jan. 30, 1939

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Edgar Monsanto Queeny is president of $61,000,000 Monsanto Chemical Co.. which his father founded in 1901 on an original investment of $5,000. Monsanto is a family name (President Queeny's mother's), but Monsanto Chemical is not a tightly-owned family business. This week the Company's house journal devoted 39 pages to a survey showing that thousands own, millions have an interest in the business.

Favorite sports of handsome Edgar Queeny are shooting moose and ducks, sniping for new divisions and—dearest of all—knocking off public relations stunts. He calls public relations "business manners and morals," espouses complete candor.

Read more: PUBLIC RELATIONS: Who Owns Monsanto? - TIME

 

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Monsanto Company History Overview

Monsanto is a US based agricultural and pharmaceutical monopoly, Monsanto Company is a producer of herbicides, prescription pharmaceutical drugs, and genetically engineered (GMO) seeds. The global Monsanto corporation has operated sales offices, manufacturing plants, and research facilities in more than 100 countries. Monsanto has the largest share of the global GMO crops market. In 2001 its crops accounted for 91% of the total area of GMO crops planted worldwide. Based on 2001 figures Monsanto was the second biggest seed company in the world, and the third biggest agrochemical company.

Historically Monsanto has been involved with the production of PCBs, DDT, dioxins and the defoliant / chemical weapon ‘Agent Orange' (sprayed on American troops and Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War). Originally a chemical company, Until the late 1990s Monsanto was a much larger ‘lifesciences' company whose business covered chemicals, polymers, food additives and pharmaceuticals, as well as agricultural products.

All of these other chemical business areas have now been demerged or sold off. Monsanto sold its chemical business in 1997 to build a presence in biotechnology, developing NON-ORGANIC GMO soybeans and corn (classified as a pesticide and banned in the EU) to resist the poisonous effects of its Roundup herbicide. Monsanto's key business areas are now agrochemicals, seeds and traits (including GMO crops), Monsanto also produced NutraSweet, a GMO sugar substitute. Monsanto recently sold it's GMO bovine growth hormones monopoly to Eli Lilly, and sold it's aspartame business to Pfizer.

Monsanto's business is currently run in two parts: Agricultural Productivity, and Seeds and Genomics. The Agricultural Productivity segment includes Roundup herbicide and other agri-chemicals, and the Animal Agriculture business. The Seeds and Genomics segment consists of seed companies and related biotechnology traits, and a technology platform based on plant genomics. In reality of course these two segments are inseparable, since the agri-chemicals are becoming increasingly dependent on the seeds segment for sales.


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Monsanto's Early 20th-Century Origins

Monsanto traces its roots to John Francisco Queeny, a purchaser for a wholesale drug house at the turn of the century, who formed the Monsanto Chemical Works in St. Louis, Missouri, in order to produce the artificial sweetener saccharin for Coca-Cola.

John Francis Queeny (August 17, 1859 - March 19, 1933) started work at age 12 for a wholesale drug company, Tolman and King. He attended school for 6 years until the Great Chicago Fire forced him, at the age of 12, to look for full-time employment, which he found with Tolman and King for $2.50 per week.

In 1891, he moved to St. Louis to work for Meyer Brothers Drug Company. John was inducted into the Knights of Malta order. His first business, a sulfur refinery in East St.Louis, was destroyed by fire on its first day of operation in 1899. The process of refining beet sugar in 1900, led to Monsanto Corporation's first artificial sweetener, the following year. Butter substitute, MSG and partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening were all soon to follow.

John Francis Queeny married Olga Mendez Monsanto with whom he had two children, one of whom was Edgar Monsanto Queeny, who would later serve as Chairman. n 1901, John then established his own chemical company to produce the sweetener, saccharin, which was only available in Germany at that time. He named the company Monsanto after his wife´s maiden name, Olga Monsanto Queeny.

Queeny was a member of the Missouri Historical Society and was a director of the Lafayette-South Side Bank and Trust Company. "He was also known for his many philanthropic endeavors." [Final Resting Place, p. 83, The St. Louis Portrait, p. 221]


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Monsanto Reinvents Itself in the 1990s

Monsanto expected to see growth in its agricultural, chemical, and biotechnological divisions. In 1993, Monsanto and NTGargiulo joined forces to produce a (GMO) genetically altered tomato. As the decade progressed, biotechnology played an increasingly important role, eventually emerging as the focal point of Monsanto's operations. The foray into biotechnology, begun in the mid-1980s with a $150-million investment in a genetic engineering lab in Chesterfield, Missouri, had been faithfully supported by further investments in the ensuing years. Monsanto's efforts finally yielded tangible success in 1993, when BST was approved for commercial sale after a frustratingly slow FDA approval process. In the coming years, the development of further biotech products moved to the forefront of Monsanto's activities, ushering in a period of profound change. Fittingly, the sweeping, strategic alterations to Monsanto's focus were preceded by a change in leadership, making the last decade of the 20th century one of the most dynamic eras in Monsanto's history.

Toward the end of 1994, Mahoney announced his retirement, effective the following year in March 1995. As part of the same announcement, Mahoney revealed that Robert B. Shapiro, Monsanto's president and chief operating officer, would be elected by Monsanto's board of directors as his successor. Shapiro, who had joined Searle in 1979 before being named executive vice-president of Monsanto in 1990, did not waver from exerting his influence over the company he now found himself presiding over. At the time of his promotion, Shapiro inherited a company that ranked as the largest domestic ACRYLIC manufacturer in the world, generating $3 billion of its $7.9 billion in total revenues from chemical-related sales. This dominant side of Monsanto's business, representing the foundation upon which it had been built, was eliminated under Shapiro's stewardship, replaced by a resolute commitment to biotech.

Between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, Monsanto had spent approximately $1 billion on developing its biotech business. Although biotech was regarded as a commercially unproven market by some industry analysts, Shapiro pressed forward with the research and development of biotech products, and by the beginning of 1996 he was ready to launch Monsanto's first biotech product line. Monsanto began marketing herbicide-tolerant GMO soybeans, genetically engineered to resist Monsanto's PATENTED Roundup herbicide, and insect-resistant GMO BT cotton, beginning with 2,000,000 acres of both crops. By the fall of 1996, there were early indications that the first harvests of genetically engineered crops were performing better than expected (yet WORSE results than traditional and organic crops). News of the encouraging results prompted Shapiro to make a startling announcement in October 1996, when he revealed that Monsanto was considering divesting its chemical business as part of a major reorganization into a life-sciences company.

By the end of 1996, when Shapiro announced he would spin-off the chemical operations as a separate company, Monsanto faced a future without its core business, a $3 billion contributor to Monsanto's annual revenue volume. Without the chemical operations, Monsanto would be reduced to an approximately $5-billion company deriving half its sales from agricultural products and the rest from pharmaceuticals and food ingredients, but Shapiro did not intend to leave it as such. He foresaw an aggressive push into biotech products, a move that industry pundits generally perceived as astute. "It would be a gamble if they didn't do it," commented one analyst in reference to the proposed divestiture. "Monsanto is trying to transform itself into a high-growth agricultural and life sciences company. Low-growth cyclical chemical operations do not fit that bill." Spurring Shapiro toward this sweeping reinvention of Monsanto were enticing forecasts for the market growth of plant biotech products. A $450 million business in 1995, the market for plant biotech products was expected to reach $2 billion by 2000 and $6 billion by 2005. Shapiro wanted to dominate this fast-growing market as it matured by shaping Monsanto into what he described as the main provider of "Agricultural Biotechnology".

Monsanto's Dark History 1901-2013


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[jerusalem]

this is nothing less than chemical and biological warfare.......against civilians. monsanto has been banned in nearly all european countries yet the largest petition in known history has been ignored in the u s a to ban it here. over 2 million people signed. we are allowing our children to be murdered by not putting a stop to this. what you do while uninformed is one thing.....what you neglect to do afterward is another.

 

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Saul S. Friedman on the Monsanto Family of Louisiana.
interesting.

 

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New book finds many U.S. foods banned overseas for cancer links

New book finds many U.S. foods banned overseas for cancer links - Washington Times

 

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Monsanto’s Claims on GMO Food Undermined by Scientific Research

By Jill Richardson /AlterNet / June 25, 2013

Oops. The World Food Prize committee’s got a bit of egg on its face—genetically engineered egg. They just awarded [3] the World Food Prize to three scientists, including one from Syngenta and one from Monsanto, who invented genetic engineering because, they say [4], the technology increases crop yields and decreases pesticide use. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Monsanto and Syngenta are major sponsors [5] of the World Food Prize, along with a third biotech giant, Dupont Pioneer.)

Monsanto’s Claims on GMO Food Undermined by Scientific Research

 

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Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) shown to cause organ damage in new study

FOOD NEWSJUNE 11, 2013BY: JUDSON PARKER

A new peer-reviewed study released today by Dr. Judy Carman of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia shows that pigs were harmed by the consumption of animal feed containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

GMOs are crops that have been engineered in a lab to produce their own pesticides or to resist heavy applications of chemical pesticides like Roundup (produced by the Monsanto Company).

Pigs that ate the genetically modified feed in the study had a markedly higher instance of stomach inflammation than pigs on a non-GMO diet. Female pigs in the study had on average a 25 percent heavier uterus than non-GMO-fed females, an indicator of disease that requires further investigation

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) shown to cause organ damage in new study - National food safety | Examiner.com

 

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HUH? "Sooner or later, somebody is going to insist that the Bible be studied, and then there will be disunity."- Gary Summers
Didn't God give us the Bible so that IF we studied it, we would be instructed in his ways and therefore, united with Him and Christ? Christ insisted on studying the scriptures himself and he insisted that we study them. NOT use the idea of them to cause division, because that's how satan uses the scriptures. OH! Is anyone surprised that satan not only KNOWS the scriptures he uses them to twist truth and lead people away from God and even blame and turn against God.
Who is Gary Summers anyway that his ill understanding of God's purpose for the Bible is quoted to Christians on CC?

 

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HUH? "Sooner or later, somebody is going to insist that the Bible be studied, and then there will be disunity."- Gary Summers
Didn't God give us the Bible so that IF we studied it, we would be instructed in his ways and therefore, united with Him and Christ? Christ insisted on studying the scriptures himself and he insisted that we study them. NOT use the idea of them to cause division, because that's how satan uses the scriptures. OH! Is anyone surprised that satan not only KNOWS the scriptures he uses them to twist truth and lead people away from God and even blame and turn against God.
Who is Gary Summers anyway that his ill understanding of God's purpose for the Bible is quoted to Christians on CC?

had a look in the Bible Discussions forum lately?

 

[Angela53510]

All I know is if I ingest the tiniest bit of corn, I am sick for 2 days now. Coincidentally, 100% of all corn available in Canada is GMO.

As for Monsanto, did you know the Secretary of Agriculture of the US, Tom Vilsack, was the Vice President of Monsanto? Unfortunately, it is not in his bio. You know, I read it on the internet somewhere! But it is true.

This is my biggest conspiracy. I also read that crops can be pollinated with Monsanto GMO's up to 13 miles away. So the evil spreads. There are a few really good videos that explain the process of substituting genes from an insect or animal into plants, to make them "hardier" etc, and how our bodies were not designed (or evolved, depending upon the source!) to ingest these fabricated plants.

And I live in an area where the GMO canola is blooming goldenrod all around me right now. Canola is a big crop, but has the undesirable side effect of growing into culverts and rain run off troughs and clogging them, and it cannot be killed by any known herbicide. Monsanto made sure of that - because it is their herbicides and pesticides that the farmers use to grow this near perfect monster crop.

 

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GM foods kept off the menu at Westminster


The House of Commons is continuing to bar genetically modified food from its restaurants and cafés, despite a drive by ministers for the technology to be more widely accepted.

GM foods kept off the menu at Westminster - Telegraph

I think they are wise to keep it out.