GMO FOODS. Monsanto / Topics / Resources. Students greet the President of Monsanto Canada testifying at Agriculture Committee hearings in Guelph, Feb 9, day of the vote on Bill C-474.
Monsanto Quick Facts Monsanto • is the largest seed company in the world (accounted for 23% of the world’s commercial seed market in 2007). (ETC Group) • Owns the seed planted on approximately 85% of the GE crop acres in the world (in 13 countries). • Sells the top selling global herbicide Roundup (glyphosate). • Owns the patent and research on Terminator technology (Monsanto bought Delta & Pine Land in 2006) - Terminator seeds are genetically engineered to be sterile after first harvest to stop farmers from saving and reusing seed. • Monsanto now accounts for over 57% of the US cotton seed market.
(ETC Group) For background and details see Monsanto: A Corporate Profile , Food & Water Watch US, May 2013. Risks of Monsanto's SmartStax Eight-Trait GM Corn Remain Unexamined Background: Health Effects of Monsanto's Herbicide Roundup Order your buttons today! Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize. This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal ( The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracts the article “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize,” which was published in this journal in November 2012.
This retraction comes after a thorough and time-consuming analysis of the published article and the data it reports, along with an investigation into the peer-review behind the article. The Editor in-Chief deferred making any public statements regarding this article until this investigation was complete, and the authors were notified of the findings. Genetically modified mosquitoes may soon be released in Florida. (NaturalNews) In an effort to help eradicate dengue fever and the mosquitos that spread it, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) is seeking federal and state approval to release hundreds of thousands of genetically-modified (GM) mosquitos designed to kill off the natural Aedes aegypti variety of the fly throughout Key West, Florida.
The agency, which already routinely performs aerial sprayings of the area with anti-mosquito chemicals, believes it will save money in the long run by releasing the GM mosquitos. Rather than spend $400,000 or more a year to conduct the aerial sprayings, FKMCD says it would instead only have to spend $200,000 to $300,000 a year on the GM mosquitos. Created by U.K. -based insect eradication company Oxitec, the GM mosquitos have been created with an added gene that, unless they are given the antibiotic tetracycline, will automatically kill them.
Sources for this article include: Compliancecampaign. On issues ranging from U.S. drone warfare to economic human rights to fair elections, protesters against the Republican National Convention this week and the Democratic National Convention the following week are highlighting a host of U.S. violations of international norms.
How the police handle the demonstrations will showcase whether the United States respects another important international obligation of the U.S. government – respecting the right to assembly. Protests related to the RNC in Tampa, Florida, kicked off on Thursday with more than 100 peace activists demonstrating at the local Raytheon plant, stressing the company’s role in manufacturing unmanned aerial drones used by the U.S. to bomb countries such as Pakistan. The demonstration fell on the same day that Pakistan had summoned U.S. embassy officials to the Foreign Office to lodge protest over U.S. drone strikes in North Waziristan.
10 IRREFUTABLE evidence that GMO can harm you. Nature is a living organism that functions through every cell and organ that is working together.
There is nothing isolated in nature and everything is connected with one another. All these years, science has been trying to discover and explore complexity that exists in nature. However even the most advanced 3D engineering modeling and analysis cannot fully understand all the parameters and complexities that exists within the universe and sometimes the results aren’t even half close to reality. Although technology, industrialization and innovation have been revolutionary in human being’s life, at the same time they have resulted in dysfunction, scarcity and even destruction of our planet. In the last few decades one of the crisis that our planet has been facing is modern agricultural. Only 3% of US farm lands are planted with fruits and vegetables while 50% of farms are used for planting soy and corn.