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USDA Approves Contaminated GM Rice Strain

Earlier this year, I warned you about a genetically modified (GM) and long abandoned species of rice (Liberty Link 601) created by Bayer that had contaminated long-grain rice shipments meant for Europe.

To no one's surprise, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service took advantage of the distractions provided by the long Thanksgiving weekend to announce its deregulation of LL601. Some 300 farmers in Arkansas and Missouri may make Bayer pay heavily for tainting their rice, however, as a class-action lawsuit has been filed.

In the meantime, Bayer slipped past typical regulatory and safety testing required by other companies in ruling LL601 is similar to varieties of biotech rice already approved but never marketed by Bayer because farmers didn't want them. By the way, the bacterial gene in LL601 is also found in other approved varieties of GM corn, canola and cotton.

Isn't it wonderful how our elected officials give multi-national companies like Bayer a free pass to contaminate our foods, as always, at the expense of your health? By the way, Europe reiterated its ban on U.S. rice due to the "Frankenfood" snafu.

Before you head for the grocery store the next time, I urge you to review some tips I posted earlier this year that will help you separate the fake food from the real thing.

Washington Post November 25, 2006





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BY PepperR23   
  
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[ Posted on November 27, 2006 ]
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I am outraged that our government is continuing to allow the contamination of our food supply.  I too have cured myself of a great many health problems such as,  chronic ulcer disease, diverticulitis, duodinitis, high blood pressure, obesity, (I have lost 50lbs.), heart-valve disease, recovery from a mild heart-attack, severe arthritis and more.  I have done it with the help of websites such as Dr. Mercola's and others.  The large amount of medication that I was on, only worsened the above conditions.  How can we have a quality of life if we don't have food that has not been contaminated? The sad thing is that the average person is unaware of what they are consuming.  We have to spread the word find a way to make a difference!
 

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BY homeschool123   
  
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I am ouraged at Corporate America. I am ouraged at how our society has become such a society of "greed" at the expense of it's people. And what do you think all of this GMO garbage is doing to young childrens' bodies! They should be ashamed of themselves! People are unknowingly eating this GMO mess and are unknowingly becoming ill from it. Shame on you Corporate America!

 
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BY Jimmy   
  
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Dr. Mercola,

In your opinion how long will this injustice continue because of corporate greed at the expense of innocent people's health or will it ever change for that matter. I am someone who cured himself of Multiple Sclerosis through alternative methods and to say the least it angers me how they get away with it all. I'm speaking also of  pharmaceutical drugs. I'm sure I would have been dead by now if I had stayed on them. I feel it is my obligation to let the masses know about this but unnfortunately I have limeted resources...Your opinion would be greatly appreciated as to how long this will continue. Nick Scognamiglio


 
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BY friendly curmudgeon   
  
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[ Posted on November 27, 2006 ]
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What a major headache!  I know it's but a drop in Bayer's bucket, but I can voice my protest by refusing to purchase products made by Bayer and by recommending to my friends (all 2.5 of them) that they, too, boycott and girlcott Bayer.  For one, I now take an 81 mg. Bayer aspirin each morning.  That remedy can be remedied and replaced with a more benign brand.

As for backdoor holiday moves like this, the playbook is dogearred and familiar by now.  Yes, it IS typical.  If there are any other actions that we can take to counter this move, let's share the knowledge.  In the meantime, Bayer's now on my list (which is headlined by Monsanto and is getting longer by the day... seems the simple act of shopping for food is getting to be like homework!).



 
            
 
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BY Dr. Matthew J. Loop   
  
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[ Posted on November 28, 2006 ]
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Bayer "takes the taco" when it comes to corporate greed and crimes against humanity! I outline this very well and provide a wealth of investigative research in Cracking the Cancer Code. Many have stated the entire GMO movement was brought about to meet the demand for the massive, ever-growing world population. While I agree that starvation and malnutrition are very real problems, they are precipitated by unequal distribution of wealth, not by food scarcity.

According to the United Nations World Food Program, there is currently more than enough food produced to feed everyone on the planet an adequate and healthy diet. The reason that approximately 800 million people go hungry each year is that they don’t have access to food by either being able to afford it or grow their own. Biotechnology, by turning living crops into intellectual property, increases corporate control over food resources and production. Rather than alleviate world hunger, biotechnology is likely to exacerbate it by increasing everybody’s dependence on the corporate sector for seeds and the materials. Ronnie Cummins outlines the numerous health hazards of GMO’s in his informative book entitled Genetically Engineered Food. ‘Franken-Foods’ will never be as perfect for the body as real living foods from the earth as given by our Creator.

- Dr. Matthew J. Loop

www.matthewloop.meta-ehealth.com


 
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