Monsanto and Dow to stack GM genes in corn to give you more poison for your dollar

The Elite don't care if GM grown food is dangerous or not its all about profit! Not long ago I obtained a list of all food products using GM and the amount of our food polluted with this stuff amazed me! We the people must put a stop to it! DON"T BUY GM PRODUCTS! Protest! We out number them! We must put a stop to big business who have no regard for us.Its not enough for them to pollute our envioment in the name of profit they pollute our bodies too! Who knows how many cancers have been caused By GM food products?

When you have to buy your seeds from Monsanto and no one else, you have no choice but to grow Monsanto. These grains will not reseed themselves, in fact there are few if any seed crops left that you can reseed. Labeling was such a simple thing and congress had a chance of passing it in 2004 but the food industry made it clear that that would be cost prohibitive. Huh? They have to label the stuff anyway. Make someone accountable and write the elected to stop accepting lobby money because your are the constituent who will put the silly bastard back in office.

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Doesn't do anything huh!

I often wonder if monsanto, dow, and gm are responsible for the mass BEE extinction. If you want to control plant genes, You cant have Mother Nature randomly doing whatever she wants.These guys want to turn our planet into a test tube. Nice and sterile where they can control what genes get passed on and what genes don't. They are playing Russian Roulette with the Earth. mow maaooow maaaaaaaaaaoooooooow

Let's start with the labeling. Make them put the information in the ingredients and place(company) of origin.

Thanks for your response. I was beginning to think this site had been deserted by those who actually give a damn about important issues. Labelling our foods to denote GM ingredients and even better, listening to the doctors who have called for a moratorium on them is really what should be happening, not going in the other direction.

I want to know if I'm eating GM. Absolutely, no doubt about it.

Neither US nor Canadian health officials have assessed the human health safety of Monsanto's and Dow AgroSciences' new "SmartStax" genetically engineered (GE) corn with eight novel genes inserted into corn DNA, said the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), an non-governmental organization based in Ottawa, Canada.

"Health Canada did not conduct or require any testing for this new eight-trait GE [also called genetically modified, GM or GMO] corn

and did not even officially authorize it for release into the food system," said Lucy Sharratt, CBAN's coordinator. Health Canada is the federal department responsible for "helping Canadians maintain and improve their health", according to its web site.

"People will be eating corn with eight novel traits without any assessment of the potential health risks. Questions about risks are being ignored," Sharratt told Inter Press Service.

According to Sharratt, Canadian regulators did not do health or environmental risk assessments simply because the novel traits had been approved on an individual basis previously. Even though this is the first time a corn variety combines all of these, it gets a free pass by regulators.

"It's a fundamental misunderstanding of basic biology and the complexity of biotechnology," she said. It also points to a fundamental flaw in the Canadian regulatory system.

"Health Canada has entirely abdicated its responsibility and just shrugged off the potential health risks of eating eight GE traits in one corn flake," she said.

SmartStax combines or "stacks" previously approved GE traits of herbicide tolerance [Roundup and glufosinate herbicides] and insect resistance into one seed variety for the first time, providing the most comprehensive insect and weed control, according to a Monsanto press release.

The new GE corn is the result of a collaboration between Monsanto Company and Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.

"This is a key early step in our commitment to helping farmers sustainably double yields by 2030 to meet the increasing demands for grain for food, feed and fuel," said Robb Fraley, Monsanto chief technology officer and executive vice president, in a statement.

Next year's "product launch would represent the largest introduction of a corn biotech seed product in the history of agriculture", the company claims. Up to 1.6 million hectares could be planted with SmartStax seed in Canada and the US in 2010.

CBAN said Canada immediately withdraw last week's authorization to sell the new GE seed because safety assessments of multi-trait crops are part of the guidelines adopted by the Codex Alimentarius - a United Nations body that develops food safety guidelines.

"Combining many GE traits together can give rise to unintended effects which could adversely affect health, such as creating new allergies or toxins, or exacerbating existing allergies," said Michael Hansen of the Consumers Union, a US-based NGO and leading global expert on the potential health risks of GE.

"This GE crop should have gone through a new safety assessment, as recommended by Codex," Hansen said in an interview.

However, US regulations do not require any health and safety assessments because GE crops are considered the same as regular crops, even when novel traits are combined, he said. "The Food and Drug Administration didn't even take the slightest look at SmartStax," Hansen said.

Any studies on safety and nutrition done by Monsanto and Dow do not have to be made public or shown to regulators, who are entitled only to a summary. Moreover, no independent studies can be done without the companies' permission. "It is illegal for a farmer to give researchers seeds to test without the companies' permission," he said.
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"It is illegal for a farmer to give researchers seeds to test without the companies' permission,"

Farmers need to shun this now.