http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... sfeed=true



Lena

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'Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.' Confucius.

Given the current situation, I think it would be good to label GMO foods, but we should also focus on ending all the subsidies that make the GMO giants so big in the first place. They would not survive on the market without them. We should also stop buying GMO foods whenever possible and demand that the stores that sell them label them regardless of the labeling laws. Someone could start a third party company that reviews name brand foods and rates them, one of the categories being GMO.

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I eat ego's for breakfast!
Sincerely, Ego.

One idea I had over coffee with people who work with this stuff was a food production and product characteristic label that would display the products status regarding many factors, such as

GMO, Natural, Organic, vegan, vegetarian, fair trade, nutrient concentration, paleo rating...and so on

Imagine a dart board, and each slice of the board is one of these characteristics, and each slice is colour coded, like green for ok, yellow for caution, red for not ok

So, if you glanced at the label, a very " good" product would be very green, and a very, "bad" product would be very red

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Does this PMR make my butt look big?

Monsanto's Bt kills kidneys cells

http://www.infowars.com/monsanto%E2%80% ... ney-cells/

Monsanto plans massive biotech experiment in the US
http://rt.com/usa/news/monsanto-biotech-us-seed-683/

The US government has for the first time signed off on a large-scale experiment involving genetically modified crops, which will lead to biotech big shot Monsanto introducing an engineered corn seed across America from South Dakota to Texas....

Monsanto ‘Biotechnology Book for Kids’ Caught Brainwashing Children
http://www.infowars.com/monsanto-%E2%80 ... -children/


...."In a last ditch effort to potentially sway public opinion, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has launched the “Biotechnology Basics Activity Book” for kids.".....

Not the same, but related. http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/201 ... 203240378/ A judge bans the use of antibiotics in feed and water for the purpose of growth enhancement in the livestock. This only took 35 years.

Steps set for ban on widely used livestock antibiotics

"intended to prevent penicillin and tetracycline, widely used antibiotics, from losing their effectiveness in humans because of their bulk use in animal feed to promote growth in chickens, pigs and cattle."

"In a separate move, the FDA is expected to issue draft rules within days that ask drug makers to voluntarily end the use of antibiotics in animals without the oversight of a veterinarian.

But neither the judge’s order nor the FDA’s expected rule changes are likely to fundamentally alter the large-scale agricultural uses of antibiotics because farmers and ranchers now say the drugs are being used to prevent animal diseases, not to promote growth. The FDA has so far refused to propose restrictions on antibiotic uses to prevent disease even when the drugs are delivered in feed or water, and Katz’s order does not extend to disease prevention uses."

So there will probably be little to no change.

Ted

Hokay,

Things are a bit worse than I thought.
Here's a coasttocoast interview with 2 separate fellows on the topic of food.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/04/03

James Colquhoun, director of the film Food Matters, along with health and nutrition expert, Daniel Vitalis, offered insight on why food companies purposely make you addicted to their food, and how eating the right things can make you healthy and stave off illness. There have been a lot of different food fads and diets that have come and gone, said Vitalis, and people are really confused about what to eat. "Either by design or a grand pattern, there's a food conspiracy now," and people out there are starving to death, even though they keep eating and eating, he continued, explaining that many processed foods lack nutrients and are detrimental to health.

Artificial sweeteners like aspartame, and flavor enhancers such as MSG are particularly addictive, as well as unhealthy, said Colquhoun, which suggests to him that these additives are put into our food for economic reasons. The FDA doesn't really protect the consumers' interests, but rather, is there rather to facilitate various substances into the marketplace, he added. Vitalis addressed the problem of diet foods, noting that while they may have reduced calories, they have low nutrition. To lose weight, he suggested people increase their nutrient to calorie ratio. Colquhoun also talked about the problems of sugar being abundantly used in food processing and manufacturing, and the rise of GMO foods.

You can listen to it here:
http://www.cjob.com/other/audiovault.html

Set the date for April 4,
the hours for 1AM 2AM 3AM

GMO Food & Issues


Dramatic Health Recoveries Reported


By Patients Who Took Their Doctor’s Advice and Stopped Using GMO Foods
http://vitalitymagazine.com/article/dra ... -reported/

"Are genetically modified (GM) foods making you sick – I mean really sick? Up until recently, all that we could say was thank goodness you’re not a lab rat; GM feed messes them up big time. GMOs (genetically modified organisms) appear to trigger the immune systems of both mice and rats as if they were under attack. In addition, the gastrointestinal system is adversely affected, animals age more quickly, and vital organs are damaged. When fed GM foods, lab animals can also become infertile, have smaller or sterile offspring, increased infant mortality, and even hair growing in their mouths. Have I got your attention?"

It appears that GMO foods are not the only problem coming from human manipulation of materials in the environment. It now has been proven by agricultural research that man made 'nano materials' that inevitably get into the soil are detrimental to the crops and eventually will get into our food supply. Research reported is discussed on this page. http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Soybeans_Susceptible_to_Man_Made_Materials_in_Soil_999.htmlThis has now been observed as detrimental, not just speculated about.

Ted

Poison on the Platter (Full Version)

(video)

http://undergrounddocumentaries.com/?p=965

Added Later: Apparently that film has been taken down.... I have no explanation for this. Maybe it will re-appear, but meanwhile I will leave the link up as there are some other films there that MAY be of interest to some folks.

A film narrated by Mahesh Bhatt. Poison On The Platter looks at the GM issue through the lens of activists, scientists and ordinary citizens. It brings alive the various shades of the GM issue such as the scientific evidences against GM food from lab rat studies, the GM disasters such as L-Tryptothan, the story of Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India and protests across the world against GM food.