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Horrific Results of New GMO Food Study Reveal Obama Has Abandoned FDA Regulation to Chemical Industry Profits, Says Occupy Monsanto

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Increases in Tumors & Disease in Rats Fed GMO Food Discovered in First Long Term Peer Reviewed Study

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Occupy Monsanto, a decentralized network of food activists who organized 65 protests at GMO manufacturer Monsanto facilities across the globe this week, is calling on the Barack Obama Administration to clean house of appointed former Monsanto executives who intentionally ignore the serious health impacts of eating genetically engineered food due to their conflict of interest. A new GMO food study released today gives alarming evidence of GMO-induced lethal health complications in rats. The data casts an ominous shadow on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where imperative consumer regulation of GMOs is handled by former Monsanto executives. Read the new European GMO study at http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf .

"Activists are renewing their push for the FDA to review the long term safety of GMO food prior to its introduction to the food supply," says Occupy Monsanto spokesperson Gene Etic. "European researchers confirmed today rats fed GMO food developed tumors and other serious health problems at an alarming rate compared to the control group. It isn't too soon to pull GMOs out of the food supply based on today's news. The FDA has an obligation to protect people from unhealthy food but as long as former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor is running food safety for Obama nothing will be done to protect Americans."

Absent a new approach by the Obama Administration, the new study will fuel more GMO protests that are increasingly becoming disruptive as demonstrated last Wednesday, September 12 ,when activists calling themselves the Genetic Crimes Unit (GCU) shut down shipping and receiving access points at Monsanto's massive Oxnard, California GMO seed factory. By peacefully blockading the exit and access points at the factory, the group shut down the distribution of genetically engineered (GMO) seeds for a day.

"If the government refuses to stop the distribution of deadly GMO seeds in the food supply, more and more activists will engage in acts like last week that stopped GMO seed distribution for about 6 hours in the state of California," says Ariel Vegosen who was arrested with 8 others in Oxnard and charged with trespassing.

Monsanto is the largest producer of GMO seeds. Actions officially started on September 17, a year since Occupy Wall Street movement began and took place throughout the world including the 45 protests in the U.S. alone and many others in Germany, Canada, India, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Russia, Peru and Japan. More info as well as video available for media use with credit of the GMO protests can be found at http://Occupy-Monsanto.com

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http://news.yahoo.com/horrific-results-gmo-food-study-reveal-obama-abandoned-174100738.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/gmcrops-safety-idUSL5E8KJAGN20120919
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I wonder how much of this great food they eat at the white house?


It's definitely in our cupboards though.
 
Not sure, but Monsanto has those self pollinating crop seeds:rofl:


RIP to the bee population. :smh:


By the way, peeps in Cali need to vote YES for Prop 37.
 
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my problem is i dont know what foods exactly use GMO's. I feel like everything that is cheap food wise is going to kill you or something
 
sbib1130 said:
my problem is i dont know what foods exactly use GMO's. I feel like everything that is cheap food wise is going to kill you or something
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You won't know because they aren't labeled. Think about it like this, Corn and Soybean are highly subsidized and are used in pretty much everything eg high fructose corn syrup, soy lectchin, corn starch, ect. and 98% of both grown in the U.S. are GMO.
 
^ I agree. My feeling is that it's ubiquitous. It's bad, like Umbrella Corp. bad :smh:. They have to do something to stop this though. Or is it part of strategy???
 
Mystery of the disappearing bees: Solved!
By Richard Schiffman
April 9, 2012

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If it were a novel, people would criticize the plot for being too far-fetched – thriving colonies disappear overnight without leaving a trace, the bodies of the victims are never found. Only in this case, it’s not fiction: It’s what’s happening to fully a third of commercial beehives, over a million colonies every year. Seemingly healthy communities fly off never to return. The queen bee and mother of the hive is abandoned to starve and die.

Thousands of scientific sleuths have been on this case for the last 15 years trying to determine why our honey bees are disappearing in such alarming numbers. “This is the biggest general threat to our food supply,” according to Kevin Hackett, the national program leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bee and pollination program.

Until recently, the evidence was inconclusive on the cause of the mysterious “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) that threatens the future of beekeeping worldwide. But three new studies point an accusing finger at a culprit that many have suspected all along, a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

In the U.S. alone, these pesticides, produced primarily by the German chemical giant Bayer and known as “neonics” for short, coat a massive 142 million acres of corn, wheat, soy and cotton seeds. They are also a common ingredient in home gardening products.

Research published last month in the prestigious journal Science shows that neonics are absorbed by the plants’ vascular system and contaminate the pollen and nectar that bees encounter on their rounds. They are a nerve poison that disorient their insect victims and appear to damage the homing ability of bees, which may help to account for their mysterious failure to make it back to the hive.

Another study published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology journal implicated neonic-containing dust released into the air at planting time with “lethal effects compatible with colony losses phenomena observed by beekeepers.”

Purdue University entomologists observed bees at infected hives exhibiting tremors, uncoordinated movement and convulsions, all signs of acute insecticide poisoning. And yet another study conducted by scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health actually re-created colony collapse disorder in several honeybee hives simply by administering small doses of a popular neonic, imidacloprid.

But scientists believe that exposure to toxic pesticides is only one factor that has led to the decline of honey bees in recent years. The destruction and fragmentation of bee habitats, as a result of land development and the spread of monoculture agriculture, deprives pollinators of their diverse natural food supply. This has already led to the extinction of a number of wild bee species. The planting of genetically modified organism (GMO) crops – some of which now contain toxic insecticides within their genetic structure – may also be responsible for poisoning bees and weakening their immune systems.

Every spring millions of bee colonies are trucked to the Central Valley of California and other agricultural areas to replace the wild pollinators, which have all but disappeared in many parts of the country. These bees are routinely fed high-fructose corn syrup instead of their own nutritious honey. And in an effort to boost productivity, the queens are now artificially inseminated, which has led to a disturbing decline in bee genetic diversity. Bees are also dusted with chemical poisons to control mites and other pathogens that have flourished in the overcrowded commercial colonies.

In 1923, Rudolph Steiner, the German founder of biodynamic agriculture, a precursor of the modern organic movement, predicted that within a hundred years artificial industrial techniques used to breed honey bees would lead to the species’ collapse. His prophecy was right on target!

Honey bees have been likened to the canaries in the coal mine. Their vanishing is nature’s way of telling us that conditions have deteriorated in the world around us. Bees won’t survive for long if we don’t change our commercial breeding practices and remove deadly toxins from their environment. A massive pollinator die-off would imperil world food supplies and devastate ecosystems that depend on them. The loss of these creatures might rival climate change in its impact on life on earth.

Still, this is a disaster that does not need to happen. Germany and France have already banned pesticides that have been implicated in the deaths of bees. There is still time to save the bees by working with nature rather than against it, according to environmentalist and author Bill McKibben:

“Past a certain point, we can’t make nature conform to our industrial model. The collapse of beehives is a warning – and the cleverness of a few beekeepers in figuring out how to work with bees not as masters but as partners offers a clear-eyed kind of hope for many of our ecological dilemmas.”
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We need to pass the California proposition about labeling this stuff. If we do then every state will follow in suit and we can hurt Monsanto. Maybe just a little, but it will definitely begin to spread awareness of this issue. This company is pure evil and fully supported by our government in any way necessary.


Yes folks, the government is poisoning us on purpose if you are not aware.



I must sound like a lunatic. Does this guy?
 
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Ny> Cali

But for real though. Next time I hit up a 3rd world country im getting me some seeds and growing my own
 
But wait, GM foods are the solution to world hunger idiots!!!

And yet, where is the majority of GM food going???


:rolleyes :smh:
 
Wait I thought the only seeds you could buy here are Monsanto seeds or something like that? The things that this company is getting away with are criminal and seemingly nothing is being done about it. :smh:
 
rashi said:
Not sure, but Monsanto has those self pollinating crop seeds:rofl:


RIP to the bee population.
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By the way, peeps in Cali need to vote YES for Prop 37.
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Mystery of the disappearing bees: Solved!

April 9, 2012 @ 10:37 pm

By Richard Schiffman

If it were a novel, people would criticize the plot for being too far-fetched – thriving colonies disappear overnight without leaving a trace, the bodies of the victims are never found. Only in this case, it’s not fiction: It’s what’s happening to fully a third of commercial beehives, over a million colonies every year. Seemingly healthy communities fly off never to return. The queen bee and mother of the hive is abandoned to starve and die.

[sup][1][/sup]Thousands of scientific sleuths have been on this case for the last 15 years trying to determine why our honey bees are disappearing in such alarming numbers. “This is the biggest general threat to our food supply,”  [sup][2][/sup]  according to Kevin Hackett, the national program leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bee and pollination program.

Until recently, the evidence was inconclusive on the cause of the mysterious “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) that threatens the future of beekeeping worldwide. But three new studies point an accusing finger at a culprit that many have suspected all along, a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids  [sup][3][/sup].

In the U.S. alone, these pesticides, produced primarily by the German chemical giant Bayer and known as “neonics” for short, coat a massive 142 million acres of corn, wheat, soy and cotton seeds. They are also a common ingredient in home gardening products.

Research published last month  [sup][4][/sup]  in the prestigious journal Science  shows that neonics are absorbed by the plants’ vascular system and contaminate the pollen and nectar that bees encounter on their rounds. They are a nerve poison that disorient their insect victims and appear to damage the homing ability of bees, which may help to account for their mysterious failure to make it back to the hive.

Another study  [sup][5][/sup]  published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology  journal implicated neonic-containing dust released into the air at planting time with “lethal effects compatible with colony losses phenomena observed by beekeepers.”

Purdue University entomologists observed bees at infected hives exhibiting tremors, uncoordinated movement and convulsions, all signs of acute insecticide poisoning. And yet another study  [sup][6][/sup]  conducted by scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health actually re-created colony collapse disorder in several honeybee hives simply by administering small doses of a popular neonic, imidacloprid.

But scientists believe that exposure to toxic pesticides is only one factor that has led to the decline of honey bees in recent years. The destruction and fragmentation of bee habitats, as a result of land development and the spread of monoculture agriculture, deprives pollinators of their diverse natural food supply. This has already led to the extinction of a number of wild bee species. The planting of genetically modified organism (GMO) crops – some of which now contain toxic insecticides within their genetic structure – may also be responsible for poisoning bees and weakening their immune systems  [sup][7][/sup].

Every spring millions of bee colonies are trucked to the Central Valley of California and other agricultural areas to replace the wild pollinators, which have all but disappeared in many parts of the country. These bees are routinely fed high-fructose corn syrup instead of their own nutritious honey. And in an effort to boost productivity, the queens are now artificially inseminated, which has led to a disturbing decline in bee genetic diversity. Bees are also dusted with chemical poisons to control mites and other pathogens that have flourished in the overcrowded commercial colonies.

In 1923, Rudolph Steiner, the German founder of biodynamic agriculture, a precursor of the modern organic movement, predicted that within a hundred years artificial industrial techniques used to breed honey bees would lead to the species’ collapse  [sup][8][/sup]. His prophecy was right on target!

Honey bees have been likened to the canaries in the coal mine. Their vanishing is nature’s way of telling us that conditions have deteriorated in the world around us. Bees won’t survive for long if we don’t change our commercial breeding practices and remove deadly toxins from their environment. A massive pollinator die-off would imperil world food supplies and devastate ecosystems that depend on them. The loss of these creatures might rival climate change in its impact on life on earth.

Still, this is a disaster that does not need to happen. Germany and France have already banned pesticides  [sup][9][/sup]  that have been implicated in the deaths of bees. There is still time to save the bees by working with nature rather than against it, according to environmentalist and author Bill McKibben:

“Past a certain point, we can’t make nature conform to our industrial model. The collapse of beehives is a warning – and the cleverness of a few beekeepers in figuring out how to work with bees not as masters but as partners offers a clear-eyed kind of hope for many of our ecological dilemmas.”

PHOTO: A bumblebee sits on a rhododendron bloom on a sunny spring day in Dortmund, Germany, March 28, 2012. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

[1] Image: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/files/2012/04/RTR3000M_Comp.jpg

[2] “This is the biggest general threat to our food supply,”:http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/10/are-bees-the-ne.html

[3] a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids: http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/03/bayer-pesticide-bees-studies

[4] Research published last month:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/recent

[5] Another study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22292570

[6] yet another study: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0405-hance_colonycollapse_pesticides.html

[7] poisoning bees and weakening their immune systems: http://non-gmoreport.com/articles/apr07/gm_crops_killing_bees.php

[8] would lead to the species’ collapse: http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1032682

[9] have already banned pesticides:http://www.greenrightnow.com/wabc/2...-geneticist-urges-us-ban-would-save-the-bees/
 
when i think of genetically modified food, i think of strawberries the size of apples. not this kind of madness. shut em down now.
 
This is potentially the most important thread on the forum in regards to your well being. Does anyone have anything to say about GMO being fed to you?


If you don't know, then ask questions
 
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This is potentially the most important thread on the forum in regards to your well being. Does anyone have anything to say about GMO being fed to you?
If you don't know, then ask questions
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Much like most other goods, people in general don't care were stuff comes from. Just the overall presentation right before item is consumed/ purchased. Sorta like how ppl don't really care for history.
 
European researchers confirmed today rats fed GMO food developed tumors and other serious health problems at an alarming rate compared to the control group.
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That's an INCREDIBLY broad statement

Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen and colleagues said rats fed on a diet containing NK603 - a seed variety made tolerant to dousings of Roundup - or given water containing Roundup at levels permitted in the United States died earlier than those on a standard diet.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/gmcrops-safety-idUSL5E8KJAGN20120919
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These articles are vague. Were these rats fed ONLY the GM corn and nothing else? If that's the case, it's no wonder they developed health problems when they're being fed an empty calorie food with no supplements. Were they given the GM corn watered with Roundup or just the GM corn that were given only water? I ask because I really doubt that GM foods themselves are causing tumor growth and the tumor growth is an effect of Roundup.

I don't support GM foods, btw. Just playing devil's advocate.
 
The reality is their are plenty of people starving in countries that would love some GMO food.

You get what you pay for I assume. GMO food versus McDonalds Dollar menu. Tough choice.....
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