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USDA Breaks Environmental Laws By Approving GM Crop

In a refreshing turn away the unethical biopharming of America, a U.S. District Court judge in California ruled the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated environmental laws when the agency approved a genetically modified (GM) kind of alfalfa developed by Monsanto without calling for an environmental impact statement.

But that's only one of two court cases that have gone against the GM tsunami in the past two weeks (the other from a different U.S. District court ordered the USDA to be more thorough in reviewing applications to plant experimental GM crops).

Many experts believe court cases like these are merely speed bumps in the way of agribusiness giants like Monsanto, that's already setting its sites on approval of its second generation of GM soybean crops (MON 89788) built to tolerate the company's Roundup herbicide.

These ruling make me hope Americans may be getting a little bit smarter and wiser as Europeans already are about the blight of GM foods that have likely contaminated the nation's rice supply.

If you still have any doubt about the harm GM foods can do to your body, devote an hour to watching this brilliant documentary, Genetically Modified Food -- Panacea or Poison, very soon.

Food Navigator USA.com February 15, 2007

Reuters February 14, 2007

Washington Post February 7, 2007




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BY Russ Bianchi   
  
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[ Posted on February 15, 2007 ]
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Genetically Modified Organisms folks ARE NOT SAFE, never were SAFE, and are unlikely to be SAFE, because there have been few, or no, human ingestion studies, for any reasonable period of time, over a randomized and empirically scrutinized large population base, that has not been funded by the proponents of these dangerous crops, with replicable data for lack of harm or allergenicity.

This is why GMO is BANNED in the European Union.

Argumentation that GMO crops are "just fine" because of animal ingestion studies, run by the promoters of such FRANKEN FOODS, is the equivalent of saying if is no adverse short term reaction in laboratory rodents, or larger mammals, there will be no adverse reaction in any humans.

Such argumentation has been proven false already in rats eating genetically modified potatoes growing 5, 6,7, and 8 limbs from their heads, necks, backs and torsos, within weeks of ingestion, as well as farm raised high yield weight gain salmon forming many carcinogenic tumors.

This repeatedly FAILED logic is a return to the 'bad old days' of such an argument for phalidimide deformed human infants, or DES (diethylstibestrol) pregnant mothers of the 40's, 50's and 60's!!!

I encourage all readers of this site, as well as telling your family and friends, to watch 'The Future Of Food', that was available on this web site for FREE, or is available elsewhere on the internet, for FREE.

Is the approval process for the food chain broken, corrupted, and harmfully effecting America's health? Yes.

What can each of us do about it?  Refuse, just like single individuals, and then groups, followed by countries, did in an OUTCRY to get these horrifically bad for you products banned here also.

Remember, arrogant US agribusiness corporations here, and in South America, lost BILLION$ in EU market share in seeds, crops and oils when the EU said "NO ".  YOU have the same economic leverage.

 
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[ Posted on February 16, 2007 ]
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Can you imagine what the GMO food is doing to the young children who are going to be exposed to it for an entire lifespan! This angers me!
 

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BY Russ Bianchi   
  
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Author of the Article [ Posted on February 17, 2007 ]
 
Tell every person you know and some you don not, YOUR food is being intentionally poisoned for PROFIT and YOUR government does not give a DAMN about your healthand will do NOTHING to alter the course of this mass population POISONING until they are sued, boycotted and these CROOKS shut down.

 
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BY vince   
  
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 There is a serious problem developing in our food supply. We are on the one side being  asked to serve as subject for the effects of genetically modified foods cloned meats ect.. No one can say with any certainty that these foods wont have serious effects when used long term. We really don't no how equivalent these foods will be .But while our experts are giving the green lit here . I think that there is also going to be an assault on safe organic food has anyone noticed the overreaction to some random cases on salmonella from spinach or onions or peanut butter . This stuff is generating more publicity then it should. The fda approves a spray composed of  viruses to prevent wisteria on lunch meat. In a recent article in the NEJM a doctor suggested that all raw vegetables be irradiated. I wonder what that will do to our health.

 
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[ Posted on February 16, 2007 ]
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The Japanese Government is waiting ten years before making a decision on GMO's. Their comment was that they will watch to see what happens to America's children in that time. Our children are guinea pigs in this debate!