Keep Toxic New Agent Orange GMOs off Your Plate! A copy of this petition will be delivered to the EPA: Docket No.
EPA-HQ-OPP-2014-0195-0427 Dear EPA Administrator McCarthy, I am writing to urge you to reject the approval of Dow’s genetically engineered Enlist corn and soybeans, designed to survive repeated spraying of the toxic herbicide 2,4-D, a major component of Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. military in Vietnam, and glyphosate, the main chemical in Monsanto's best selling herbicide Roundup.
The scientific community has sounded alarms about the dangers of 2,4-D for decades. Commercial approval of Dow’s soy will trigger a large increase in 2,4-D use, but the USDA has not conducted a meaningful review of the consequent harm to native ecosystems, crop injury from 2,4-D drifting onto neighboring fields, or the evolution of weeds resistant to 2,4-D. 2,4-D is already the number one culprit in drift-related crop injury complaints, and the huge increase in its use with 2,4-D soy will exacerbate these harms.
Sincerely, Vermont, food industry begin court fight over GMO label law. Tiny Vermont this month boldly went where no US state had gone before, enacting a law to require food producers who treat their products with genetically modified organisms to let consumers know that on the packaging.
Now, the state is going, perhaps just as boldly, to court. A lawsuit filed Thursday challenges Vermont’s GMO-labeling law on grounds that it usurps federal regulatory authority and negatively affects interstate commerce. The new law, moreover, is arbitrary given the dearth of scientific evidence that GMOs have negative health effects, argues the coalition of industry groups that brought the federal suit, including the Snack Food Association and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). “The proscriptions … are beyond Vermont’s power to enact,” the industry groups argue in their brief. “The State is compelling manufacturers to convey messages they do not want to convey, without anything close to a sufficient justification.” Not all experts agree. Dr. Sen. Vermont’s landmark GMO-labelling law target of lawsuit by food trade groups. Yes on 522. GMO, yeah? 5 surprises from an otherwise boring look at genetically modified crops. Researchers at the USDA’s Economic Research Service have stepped back to look at the effect of genetically engineered crops since they were introduced in the U.S.
It’s a pretty dry and unsurprising document, but when read carefully a few interesting things jump out. Here’s five. 1. Understand what GMOs do to your body! RoundUp and Monsanto are killing us! How to Detox GMOs. Understanding I-522 — Will Vote For Food - We say Yes on 522. Non GMO Project. Human Metabolism, Energy, Nutrients China Rejects Another shipment of GMO Animal Feed trying to be slipped in. 601,000 tons rejected last year. China is not accepting GMO corn/feed/food in any way.
They rejected another shipment that tried to be slipped in for animal feed from the U.S. Last year they rejected 601,000 tons of GMO corn. This shipment was 21,800 tons of corn from the U.S. Why is it the U.S. is about the only country that allows GMO food? Why haven't our 'leaders' protected us as the leaders protect their citizens in other countries. List of GMO foods. Shopping Guide to Avoiding Organic Foods with Carrageenan. Learn more about carrageenan.
If you suffered from gastrointestinal symptoms that improved or disappeared after cutting carrageenan from your diet, fill out a questionnaire to help us and medical researchers better understand the effects of carrageenan on public health. Always check ingredient lists carefully, and note that ingredients are not required by law to be listed on alcoholic beverages, which may contain carrageenan.
In fact, carrageenan is commonly used to clarify beer but is not listed on the label. If you come across organic products and/or brands utilizing carrageenan that are not yet listed, please forward specific information to us by emailing cultivate@cornucopia.org. Howtoavoidgmo. Find Out Which Companies You Support When Buying Organic. So you and your family and friends have been buying organic food at the grocery store for several years now.
When you’re at your parents’ house, suddenly you find organic kale in the fridge instead of canned green beans in the cupboard. Your sugar, flour, milk, and butter all bear the USDA’s seal certifying that they were produced in accordance with the federal organic standards. You’re not alone! You and your health-conscious cohort are part of a near quadrupling of the organic food market that’s taken place over the past decade.
In 2000, when the National Organic Program regulations were finalized, it represented $7.8 billion in annual sales; in 2012, consumers purchased $28 billion in organic products. GMOs will unleash global killer 'ecocide' across the planet, warns prominent scientist. (NaturalNews) A top scientist and "risk engineering" expert is now publicly warning that GMOs pose a dire, genuine threat to the continuation of life on Earth.
Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, says that GMOs have the potential to cause "an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet. " His full explanation is presented in this public paper which describes how even a small risk per crop species can still result in global ecocide if pursued with abandon. As Taleb explains, "The risk of ruin is not sustainable, like a resource that getsdepleted in the long term (even in the short term). By the ruin theorems, if you incur a tiny probability of ruin, as a "one-off" risk, survive it, then repeat the exposure, you will eventuallygo bust with probability 1. " (Where "probability 1" means a 100% chance.) "We The People, Genetically Modified?" Tell Congress: Don’t Sponsor an Industry-Crafted Federal GMO Labeling Bill that Would Preempt States’ Rights to Enact Mandatory GMO Labeling Laws!
Food Industry Giants to Wage Legal Battle to Defeat Vermont's Landmark GMO Labeling Law. Photo: Antoine.Couturier/cc/flickrAs pro-labeling advocates were cheering Vermont's passage of a GMO labeling bill on Thursday, a powerful food industry lobbing group announced its plans to file a federal lawsuit to overturn the law.
Governor Peter Shumlin's signature yesterday marked a landmark moment as Vermont became the first state to enact a no-strings attached law mandating the labeling of genetically modified food and preventing GMO foods from being labeled as "natural. " In response, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents food and beverage industry giants like Pepsico and Cargill and poured millions into defeating measures in California and Washington, said it would sue the state — likely an unsurprising development to Vermont, which has already set up a Food Fight Fund site to "mount a powerful defense" against legal battles. "In light of this fact, in the coming weeks GMA will file suit in federal court against the state of Vermont to overturn the law.
" 10 Years of Failure: New film documents struggle of farmers deceived by biotech industry. (NaturalNews) It has been 10 years since the Philippine government approved the country's first genetically modified (GM) crops for commercial cultivation, and its farmers are now far worse off becauseo f it.
In the new documentary film 10 Years of Failure, Farmers Deceived by GM Corn, the farmer advocacy group Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development, or MASIPAG, reveals the plight of GM corn farmers in the Philippines who were hoodwinked by the biotechnology industry and are now suffering from massive debt, poor yields and even starvation as a result. The 25-minute film, which is available for free viewing on YouTube, was released on so-called "World Food Day," the day that Monsanto and Syngenta were given awards by the World Food Prize Foundation for their abominable transgenic creations. On the contrary, GM crops, and particularly GM corn in the Philippines, has all but destroyed the traditional maize industry in this southeast Asian country.
Sources for this article include: California senator introduces new GMO labeling bill providing greater clarity than Prop 37. (NaturalNews) Under the current agricultural paradigm in America, food grown from lab-engineered seeds is accepted, labeled and sold like its real, whole food.
There is no mention on the label of its synthetic origins or the potentially dangerous doses of herbicides used.Organic food, on the other hand, has to go through rigorous and expensive verification and certification processes just to prove that it's real. The mere presence of genetically modified organisms and herbicides in the food supply has made real, whole food scarcer, making the price of organic go up. This GMO-stranglehold on food herds many consumers to buy the cheaper, herbicide-ridden GMOs, which pale nutritionally in comparison to real organic food. This, in turn, weakens the immune system of the general populace, causing some to look to gimmicks like flu shots for protection, while self-empowering, immune-system-building nutrition is disregarded. How to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods: 8 steps. Edit Article Edited by Serj Sagan, Sondra C, Maluniu, Krystle and 66 others Genetically modified(GM) foods - are they safe or harmful? While regulatory authorities have approved GM food that is on the market, some people are concerned that there is a risk of harm.
Most foods we eat may contain ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Complete List of Non-GMO Food Brands. Genetically modified foods have been linked to a number of health and environmental dangers over the years. Frankly, many people simply don’t trust them and this is for good reason. Although science offers data on both sides of the equation, GMOs have not been around long enough to call them safe with long term use. There is no stopping the GMO labeling movement, admits mainstream media. (NaturalNews) It is a war for the truth, and NationalGeographic.com writer Laura Parker seems to think that the people are winning it. Awareness about the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is clearly on the rise nationwide, and in the midst of this knowledge boon comes the admission by some in the mainstream media that mandatory GMO labeling is no longer a question of if, but of when. Numerous states have attempted to pass GMO labeling legislation in recent years, but only a few have been successful.
Both California and Washington come to mind, as voters narrowly rejected two pieces of legislation, Proposition 37 in California and Initiative 522 in Washington, that would have required full disclosure of GMO ingredients in foods sold at the retail level. Most Nations in the World Have No GMO-Free Platform To Protect Their Citizens. May 31, 2012 Most Nations in the World Have No GMO-Free Platform To Protect Their Citizens Unless you live in the dozen or so nations in the world who have declared GMO (genetically modified organism) bans, then you're likely eating GMO. SCRIPT TO CALL CONGRESS. FAST TRACK (a.k.a. TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY) “Vote NO on Fast Track” It is critical that we STOP FAST TRACK NOW.
To do this, our U.S. congress members need to know that “We the People” are paying attention to what they are doing in Washington, D.C. We must pressure our elected congress members (CM) to do their “paid job” of making sure that we are protected from bad legislation. Study: Roundup Ready GM soybeans accumulate poison more than equivilant non-GM soybeans. GMO labeling to be outlawed? Grocery Manufacturers Association unveils deviously evil plan to silence us all. Maine governor signs GMO food labeling bill. (NaturalNews) Food labels aren't telling the whole story. The G.M.O. Boycott List. GMO Food Finder/Tracker. This page is dedicated to tracking the spread of Genetically Modified Organisms around the world. The engineering of a food aid crisis. Search results for "BETTER DEAD THAN GM FED" Force feeding the world.
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