Flooding Brazil with GMO soya has increased Amazon deforestation

Sucks. Gotta find a sustainable way to eat sustainable foods that aren't meat. It's getting tough.

Floods... dangerous floods are due to lack of trees in the jungle.... the soil can not hold rains and water.... the roots of the trees hold the water and contain them in the soil... the trees also hold soils from erosion... without trees that have roots to protect the soils, the water overflow and floods came....

somtimes i think only the devil would cut down the rainforest. because the devil would know that it would be the end of life on the planet.
the worst part is that im sure there taken the people who used to live in the forest and convinceing them that they need to cut it down for there farms.(check out the mud huts)
so what next? after a rainforest thats been hear longer then us is compleatly gone? humans arent next on the exstinction list but we are the runner up!

My God, they are truly out to kill agriculture as we know it. Thanks for this.

I found this paper pertaining to glyphosphate and it reads pro-GMO, and It's rather long and detailed, but I included a piece from it.

My opinion is: it PROVES the contamination of non-GMO crops with Monsanto's crap.
Thanks, Jan.

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jaeger/genetically_modified_foods.htm

FTA:
Plants have been genetically engineered to be tolerant of a wide variety of herbicides. For the simplicity of this paper, glyphosphate-tolerant plants will be used as an example.
Glyphosphate is a synthetic herbicide and is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup®. Glyphosphate works by inhibiting the enzyme 5-enolpyruvyl-3-phosphoshikimic acid synthase (EPSPS), resulting in a disruption of the plants’ biosynthesis and ultimately death.
A two-fold method has been used to produce crops that are glyphosphate-resistant. One part of the method uses recombinant DNA techniques to introduce plants that encode a glyphosphate-resistant EPSPS enzyme and the other introduces an enzyme that inactivates glyphosphate, glyphosphate oxidoreductase (GOX). (OCDE, 1999) Since crops are highly sensitive to glyphosphate, it was normally used as a pre-crop emergence herbicide. These new resistant cultivars will allow application both before and after crops emerge, with little to no crop damage.

Plants that have been field-tested include beets, corn, cotton, lettuce, poplar, potato, rapeseed, soybean, tobacco, tomato, and wheat.

There is a variety of other herbicide tolerant plants that exist or are currently being developed for similar use or for use as selectable markers to identify transformed plants. Other types of herbicide tolerance that has reached field-testing stages in the U.S. are listed in Table 1.

Monsanto just purchased a Brazilian/sugarcane ETHANOL company for 290 million dollars. They would have land cleared in the Amazon to grow fake corn to use as ethanol while people starve and climate change persists. And no outrage.

No frankenstein food. Growing more of our own will torment the big agroproducers!

Lula pushes GMOS despite social opposition. And it isn't the 'science' they care about.
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More genetically-modified products have been authorized under Lula´s administration than any other government. The first was transgenic soy by agricultural giant Monsanto, which entered the country in 1998 under the 1994-2002 government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

The other authorizations mostly took place under Lula, when the National Biosafety Technical Commission, or CTNBio, was reorganized. The CNTbio was once the seat of strong opposition to transgenics, but gradually changed its stance, and in 2008 alone, approved seven of 12 licenses approvals since it began working 10 years ago.

“The CTNBio has authorized transgenics in a worrying manner for the health of the population and the Brazilian environment,” says Mohamed Habib, head of the Community Affairs Department of the State University of Campinas, and one of Brazil’s staunchest critics of GMOs.

The first change within the CTNBio dates back to March 2007, when it lowered the commission´s quorum requirements for votes on genetically-modified products.

But it did not come without opposition.

In October 2007, the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency and the Brazilian Environment and Renewable Resources Institute, or IBAMA, a branch of the Environment Ministry, sought to block the approval of transgenic corn MON 810 by Monsanto at the Biosecurity Council, an inter-ministerial body.

They argued that the approval of MON810 for commercial use in Spain, Argentina and the United States, and other countries, had caused the contamination of conventional corn varieties with genetically-modified corn and led to social and economic problems.

“The lack of segregation, identification and effective procedures led to the contamination of conventional varieties with transgenic varieties,” they said.

But the Biosecurity Council, voted in favor to authorize this corn in February of this year, regardless.

Biodiversity and health risks
According to the Advisors and Services for Alternative Agriculture organization, or AS-PTA, MON 810 poses a list of 10 problems, including the fact that the Brazilian government did not carry out environmental studies to figure out whether there were any possible risks to the country´s ecosystems should the seeds be sold in the country.

Habib says the Brazilian government, and the CTNBio in particular, are not taking precautions that are recommended by scientists and environmentalists around the world.

“The path they are taking is mistaken and dangerous, exactly what happened with the agrotoxins that were presented as the solution for farming, and are today recognizably harmful,” Habib says. “The use of agrotoxins has even increased with the use of transgenics, unlike what its defenders´ say.”

According to IBAMA, between 2000 and 2004, the use of glyphosate, an agrotoxin used widely for transgenic soy, increased by 95 percent in Brazil, as the area of soy grown jumped by over 71 percent. In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, home to the country´s largest area of transgenic soy, glyphosate use increased 162 percent and the area grown by 38 percent.

GMOs are NOT sustainable. I wonder what "leaders" like Lula are getting in return for selling out their people, their countries, their environment, and the Amazon rainforest now? To think Monsanto, Syngenta, and other companies can control even the lungs of this Earth is beyond words.