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Judge cites ‘risk of environmental harm’ in order to destroy genetically modified crop

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 -- 12:44 pm A federal judge in California has ordered the... more

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GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING: The World According to Monsanto (VIDEO)

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F.D.A. No Labels For Genetically-Modified Salmon

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GM salmon Frankenfish

Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) It's that time of year again, when the FDA gathers its experts to decide what new horror to unleash into the food supply. This year it's genetically modified salmon, a "frankenfish" pumped up with extra growth hormone genes that make it rapidly grow into a kind of super-Schwarzenegger creature that's triple the size of a regular salmon.

And you're supposed to eat this, by the way. In fact, the FDA will almost certainly allow this to be sold without any warning labels, so now when you buy salmon at the store, you'll have no way to tell whether it's normal salmon or frankenfish GM salmon.

This is just the latest form of "food quackery" to receive the FDA's endorsement. Well, technically the FDA hasn't officially decided to approve it yet, but FDA officials have already announced -- ahead of the public meeting -- that they believe GM salmon is safe. It's a good bet they intend to allow it to enter the food supply.

Genetically modified salmon is "is as safe as food from conventional Atlantic salmon," according to an FDA statement on its website. "There is a reasonable certainty of no harm from consumption of food from this animal."

But even if that's true, that's not the only worry here: The other major concern is about the environmental impact of GM salmon escaping to the wild (or their eggs escaping) and genetically polluting the world's salmon stocks. Now, sure, the company creating these frankenfish promises that will never happen. They insist on it. But gee, have you ever heard of industrial accidents? That's where things go wrong that everybody promised would never go wrong. Bhopal, India comes to mind. Or Chernobyl.

There are seemingly countless cases where companies that promised nothing would go wrong end up apologizing when things went terribly wrong. How can we be sure GM salmon won't one day turn into another large-scale disaster?

One way would be to conduct safety testing before pursuing full-scale production. But that isn't being done. To my knowledge, there are no rigorous environmental or human health safety tests being conducted on GM salmon whatsoever.

So, in effect, we are the experiment. The FDA, if it approves GM salmon, will be launching a brand new game called "let's play genetic roulette with the whole world and see what happens."

It's a stupid way to proceed with something as potentially dangerous as genetic pollution because if it escapes into the wild, it is irreversible. You can't take it back.

Tell the FDA what you think

The FDA's three-day panel starts this weekend! Sign up to attend the meeting and express your thoughts on the matter at the following link:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029769_GM_salmon_frankenfish.htmlComments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) It's that time of year... more

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Genetically Modified Salmon Soon Available?

A salmon that grows at twice the normal rate is set to be the first genetically... more

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The GM food debate: why meddle with genes at all?

Plants that kill insects. Corn that thrives even after being sprayed with chemicals... more

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Can we control genetically modified plants in the environment?

We can create seeds that produce plants that cannot reproduce, so-called terminator... more

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GM Food Crops: Why make toxic plants?

What effects could GM plants have on humans and other life forms? Bacillis... more

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Genetically modified food crops: Who can we trust?

Today, corporations own patents on the plants that feed us. Is it a slippery slope?... more

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Genetically modified foods: Not so black & white

It's easy to get fired up--even self-righteous--about genetically modified foods.... more

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Buyer Beware: Monsanto’s New GM Soy To Contain Omega-3s

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http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/11/24-nov-gm-foods.html

Articles noted by the GMO group at Care 2

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Grains, Beans & Pasta - Non-GMO Shopping Guide

Other than corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for 100 percent wheat... more

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GM Peas - Now On Our Side of the Atlantic

German researchers have successfully transferred a fungal resisting gene found in... more

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Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food

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Organic foods. sorry, really i wished it was true too.

Myth one: Organic farming is good for the environment

The study of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for the UK, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, should concern anyone who buys organic. It shows that milk and dairy production is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). A litre of organic milk requires 80 per cent more land than conventional milk to produce, has 20 per cent greater global warming potential, releases 60 per cent more nutrients to water sources, and contributes 70 per cent more to acid rain....

Myth two: Organic farming is more sustainable

Organic potatoes use less energy in terms of fertiliser production, but need more fossil fuel for ploughing. A hectare of conventionally farmed land produces 2.5 times more potatoes than an organic one.

Heated greenhouse tomatoes in Britain use up to 100 times more energy than those grown in fields in Africa. Organic yield is 75 per cent of conventional tomato crops but takes twice the energy – so the climate consequences of home-grown organic tomatoes exceed those of Kenyan imports...

Myth four: Pesticide levels in conventional food are dangerous

The proponents of organic food – particularly celebrities, such as Gwyneth Paltrow, who have jumped on the organic bandwagon – say there is a "cocktail effect" of pesticides. Some point to an "epidemic of cancer". In fact, there is no epidemic of cancer. When age-standardised, cancer rates are falling dramatically and have been doing so for 50 years...

Myth five: Organic food is healthier

To quote Hohenheim University: "No clear conclusions about the quality of organic food can be reached using the results of present literature and research results." What research there is does not support the claims made for organic food.

Large studies in Holland, Denmark and Austria found the food-poisoning bacterium Campylobacter in 100 per cent of organic chicken flocks but only a third of conventional flocks; equal rates of contamination with Salmonella (despite many organic flocks being vaccinated against it); and 72 per cent of organic chickens infected with parasites...

i want to be on your side... i really do. (i hate companies like monsanto and those massive feed lots)
but the science i know about shows different.Myth one: Organic farming is good for the environment The study of Life Cycle... more

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Anti-consumer safety quote of the week: they eat them like Skittles

Heath says, plucking one of the bulbs and popping it in his mouth...

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Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research?

Unfortunately, it is impossible to verify that genetically modified crops perform as advertised. That is because agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers.

To purchase genetically modified seeds, a customer must sign an agreement that limits what can be done with them. (If you have installed software recently, you will recognize the concept of the end-user agreement.) Agreements are considered necessary to protect a company’s intellectual property, and they justifiably preclude the replication of the genetic enhancements that make the seeds unique. But agritech companies such as Monsanto, Pioneer and Syngenta go further. For a decade their user agreements have explicitly forbidden the use of the seeds for any independent research. Under the threat of litigation, scientists cannot test a seed to explore the different conditions under which it thrives or fails. They cannot compare seeds from one company against those from another company. And perhaps most important, they cannot examine whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended environmental side effects.

Research on genetically modified seeds is still published, of course. But only studies that the seed companies have approved ever see the light of a peer-reviewed journal. In a number of cases, experiments that had the implicit go-ahead from the seed company were later blocked from publication because the results were not flattering.
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It would be chilling enough if any other type of company were able to prevent independent researchers from testing its wares and reporting what they find—imagine car companies trying to quash head-to-head model comparisons done by Consumer Reports, for example. But when scientists are prevented from examining the raw ingredients in our nation’s food supply or from testing the plant material that covers a large portion of the country’s agricultural land, the restrictions on free inquiry become dangerous...

by Editors of Scientific AmericanUnfortunately, it is impossible to verify that genetically modified crops perform as... more

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Genetically modified crops get the Vatican's blessing

THE Vatican seldom approves of scientists meddling with God's creation. So the... more

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It’s spring 2009, the flowers are in full bloom, but where are all the bees?

I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It’s 29 April 2009, well over a... more

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