Bill Maher: ISIS Can't Kill You, But Monsanto Can and Is

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Guatemala Rejects U.S. Trade Law Protecting Monsanto and GMOs

Heather Callaghan

Big Biotech's promise to feed the world, by squeezing out every other choice against the will of the impoverished people intended as the target - is beyond cruel and exploitative. It is another way that the U.S. occupies other countries. How else are other people in these countries supposed to view multiple soft-sanctions on food, but as an act of war?

The people of Guatemala caught on to the deceptive nature of a U.S. Trade Agreement with Central America which was marketed as a way to "modernize" them. It also pretends to protect new seed varieties and paints the seed bearers in need of protection as small farmers. It is actually a way for big biotech and seed companies like Monsanto, DuPont, Duwest, Syngenta, etc. to assume power and immunity as owners of their food supply.

Guatemala is calling it "Monsanto Law." It does bear resemblance to the "Monsanto Protection Act" which was a rider slipped into a U.S. financial bill last year, now considered dead.

Jeffrey Smith Challenges Neil deGrasse Tyson on GMOs

Heather Callaghan

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson made waves last week with a video and Facebook letter aimed at critics of genetically modified organisms in food. His argument spun the idea that the process to achieve a GMO is exactly the same as traditional agricultural techniques.

There were writers who called him out on enmeshing genetically engineered organisms (transgenics) in crops with traditional practices of selective breeding. In "round three" of Tyson's statements he continues the enmeshment. Jeffrey Smith, founder of Institute for Responsible Technology, has challenged that basis below.

To use an analogy from Brandon Turbeville in Codex Alimentarius: The End of Health Freedom:

...This argument would be akin to claiming that breeding of humans of different ethnic backgrounds is the same as breeding between humans and horses.

Obviously, you can see that "genetic modification" holds two completely different meanings in that context. But Tyson wants everyone to believe it is all the same practice "for tens of thousands of years." That people concerned about the GMO method are rejecting all of history's agricultural gains due to lab-phobia.

Neil Young: Chemical Factory Farming Threatens the "Garden of the World"

Heather Callaghan

While people have been torn over beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's recent comments on genetically modified organisms, another beloved Neil took a stand - largely unnoticed.

While Tyson claims he never took a side, he still holds that genetic engineering is no different than what we've been doing for tens of thousands of years. One gets the impression from his view that corporatism and science become one for survival - despite negative consequences - and anyone who objects can go back to...being backward? Neil Young took an entirely different point-of-view, putting himself in the boots of that oft-forgotten group that gets left holding the bag in this mix: the farmer! Did his speech inspire them? Not at first...

Did he really suggest that Monsanto, the chemical conglomerates, industrialists and the big bankers are responsible for...? His argument below is unique, to say the least.

Monsanto Paid Female Bloggers to Attend Panel

Heather Callaghan

Writers are often barraged with email invites to attend conferences to become better writers with promises that, in time, their efforts will produce a lucrative income. There are niche writing workshops as well, such as "food blogging." The hitch, of course, is that one must pay for tickets to enter said workshop.

In a notable flipside, however, Monsanto recently paid female bloggers $150 if they attended "an intimate and interactive panel." The goal here not being a way to a successful writing career, but rather an incentivized way to shape public opinion.

The invite target? Women ... Perhaps those of the ever-growing "Mommy Blogger" persuasion?

Monsanto/FDA: 2 crime families, trillion-dollar hustle

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Jon Rappoport

“The propagandists who actually decide the content of mainstream news have done a bang-up job on Monsanto. They’ve made it seem that the science for and against GMO crops is a swamp of uncertainty no one can decipher. Therefore, leave it alone. Don’t step into it. This omits one stunning circumstance: exactly how GMO crops were permitted into the US food supply in the first place.”(The Underground, Jon Rappoport) 

Perhaps you remember the Just-Label-It campaign. A number of activist groups petitioned the FDA for a federal regulation that would make labeling GMO food mandatory all across America. 

The petition amassed over a million signatures. But the FDA decided only 394 of these were legitimate, because all the others were electronically submitted in one document. 

Infuriating? Of course. But that was nothing. 

Brazil's GM Soy Tied Up Over Trade Dispute With Monsanto

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Heather Callaghan

Brazil is the world's number one exporter of soy. It is Monsanto's biggest market after the United States. The USDA expects Brazil to break records next year with 91 million tons of soybean production, but has said the U.S. could replace Brazil as the world's top soybean exporter.

Could that have anything to do with a current trade dispute?

Monsanto wants commodity trading companies to make sure farmers pay up. Royalty fees, that is. 

There's just one problem...

The trading firms don't want to get involved.

MUST SEE: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent

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Futurama Pimps Out Young Audience to Monsanto

Daisy Luther

If you wanted to reach an audience of smart, hip young people, how would you do it? If you wanted to convince the young, energetic idealists that something was a good idea, how would you target them?

One way to reach such a group would be through a fast-paced funny bit of “light entertainment” geared towards a slightly geeky, intelligent, and witty teen and young adult audience. A simple animated television program.

Take the show Futurama, for example.

Aired at different points on Fox, the Cartoon Network, and Comedy Central, this show is from the creators of the iconic pop culture hit, The Simpsons.

Often messages that are destined to change our perceptions are subliminal. Not so with the recent episode, Leela and the Genestalk. (Aired on Aug 7, 2013) Subtlety is NOT really what they’re going for here.

Synopsis:

After a rare condition causes Leela to grow tentacles, she stumbles upon a secret genetic engineering facility.

Monsanto can sue farmers when GMO contamination goes over one percent of their crop

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At the Justice Begins with Seeds biosafety conference held in Seattle August 2-3, it was announced that a recent court decision prevented Monsanto from suing farmers for patent infringement when their crops become genetically contaminated with lab-engineered patented seeds. But the ruling is insufficient to protect farmers in the real world, where contamination events are often much higher than only one percent of a field, as specifically prescribed in the ruling.

The June 2013 decision dismissing OSGATA v. Monsanto discussed in the letter by Jim Gerritsen, president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, protects farmers from being sued for “inadvertent contamination” of “approximately one percent” of their crops. Gerritsen sent the letter in lieu of his appearance.

That letter, reproduced at Good Food Web, has now gone viral, leading to some misunderstanding about the significance of the court’s decision and the protections afforded US farmers.

Top 5 GMO Myths Debunked

Heather Callaghan

What do you say to your friends and family who want to know why you are passionate about growing your own, buying local organic, and refusing genetically modified ingredients?

What do you say to the increasing amount of pro-GMO activists who call anti-GMOers dumb, heartless, and lacking real information?

Author Chris Kanthan of San Francisco has covered the five most common myths surrounding the propagation of GMO foods. This interesting video brings up some arguments we never thought of: read more about the points below, and don't be another brick in the wall!



What do you think of these top five GMO myths below? Do you have any more to add to the list?

Monsanto Baseball: Escaping Accountability in Corporate America

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Failure of Monsanto Seed Leads to New Rootworm Insecticide Surge

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Heather Callaghan

Are farmers getting disillusioned?

In the Midwest states like Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, farmers are baffled by a resurgence of corn rootworm that Monsanto technology promised to protect against. A lot of new insight comes from independent farm consultant Dan Steiner whose phone rings off the hook after a storm where farmers face blown over crops because rootworm larvae have destroyed the root systems.

Let it be known that, for awhile, biotech crops did seem to rescue farmers around 2003. Bt corn delivered results with initially satisfactory yields, pest control, and limited chemical use. This has been shortlived, however, and has created more issues than the original problem of decreased crop yields - but still more money for Monsanto in the way of increased insecticide use.

EPA to Raise Allowable Glyphosate Pesticide Levels in Food Crops by 3,000%!

Another win for biotech giant Monsanto equals another loss for humanity.

Melissa Melton

Just days ago, RT.com reported that the U.S. Environmental “Protection” Agency is set to raise the allowable limits of Monsanto’s best-selling glyphosate pesticide Roundup in our nation’s food crops to ridiculously high levels:

Through the EPA’s new standards, the amount of allowable glyphosate in oilseed crops such as flax, soybeans and canola will be increased from 20 parts per million (ppm) to 40 ppm, which GM Watch acknowledged is over 100,000 times the amount needed to induce breast cancer cells. Additionally, the EPA is increasing limits on allowable glyphosate in food crops from 200 ppm to 6,000 ppm.

Supposedly they were able to do this because a two-month open comment period that began May 1st drew little public resistance.

This is in spite of a flurry of new studies coming out just this month demonstrating the detrimental effects of pesticide on the environment and all manner of things living in it:

Oakland moves forward with citywide surveillance center despite data collection, privacy controversy

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Madison Ruppert

Ignoring the concerns surrounding data collection and privacy, Oakland continues to push forward with their federally funded, citywide surveillance project known as the Domain Awareness Center.

Other cities have launched “Domain Awareness”programs, including New York City, where Mayor Bloomberg said that New Yorkers will “never know where our cameras are.”

The project in Oakland will link everything from ever-controversial license plate scanners to surveillance cameras to gunshot detectors, Twitter feeds, and more.

It began as a joint project between the city and the Port of Oakland, part of a nationwide initiative to make ports more secure by placing and networking cameras and other sensors around the port.

So Monsanto Says Its GMO Pollen Can’t Drift…

Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton

Pro Tip: Pollen drifts … that is how pollen works.

So wildfire embers can travel over a mile, huh? Interesting tidbit.

Here’s another. Back in 2002, in the midst of Monsanto carrying on trials for its Roundup Ready GMO wheat in 16 states across the nation, Danny Gigax, Monsanto’s representative for wheat research partner relationships, claimed in an interview that, “Outcropping or pollen drift is less than .01 percent because the pollen is relatively heavy.” (Source: OrganicConsumers.org)

Mind you, this guy’s full-time job was preventing Monsanto test wheat from contaminating natural wheat crops.

Employee Bonus: Teens Working For Monsanto Sprayed by Crop Duster

Daisy Luther

Remember when farm work was a wholesome summer job for kids looking for a little extra pocket money?

Back in the day, teens could work outside, learn about farming, and do some healthy physical labor without major health risks. Working on a farm built physical strength, skills, and character.

Now, with the advent of toxic agricultural practices, farm work can be deadly because of exposure to glyphosate and other deadly chemicals.

Nearly 80 teenagers working for Team Corn, a Princeton, Ill.-based company that contracts for Monsanto were sent to the hospital yesterday after a crop-duster sprayed fungicide on the field where they were working.

Monsanto Drops Bid to Advance New GM Crops in Europe

Freda Art

Activist Post

Monsanto announced today that they are quitting their effort to get more genetically modified crops approved in Europe. 

"We will no longer be pursuing approvals for cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe," the biotech company said in a statement.

"Instead, we will focus on enabling imports of biotech crops into the EU and the growth of our current business there," Monsanto added.

Only two genetically modified crops are allowed to be grown in the European Union (Monsanto's MON 810 maize and BASF's Amflora potato). 

Government is funding biotech while GMO is tainting our food

Admittedly contaminating the food supply and increasingly everywhere — genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a risky government venture, and taxpayers are funding their own destruction.Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton

What’s the net effect of countless lobbyists wining and dining federal government officials to approve genetically modified foods at an alarming pace and even provide grant money for its creation?

The answer, of course, remains unknown. Maybe hindsight will make it clear. Perhaps it is already evident in the sharp rise in food allergies, which now effect some 15 million Americans and are increasing steadily, as in the case of gluten sensitivity.

Nevertheless, the basic corruption of subsidizing GMO seems pretty obvious.

UK pushes GMO despite fears of global Monsanto monopoly

Britain is calling on the EU to ease its tight regulations on genetically modified food with the country's Environment Secretary saying GM farming is actually safer than many of the alternatives. Anti-GM activists are raising the alarm, they warn of side-effects ranging from simple allergies to devastating immune problems.


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