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Meta-Study On Genetically Modified Food: Virtually All Independent Scientists Are Concerned
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Tufts University’s Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute (Timothy Wise) points out:
There is no … consensus on the safety of GM food. A peer-reviewed study of the research, from peer-reviewed journals, found that about half of the animal-feeding studies conducted in recent years found cause for concern. The other half didn’t, and as the researchers noted, “most of these studies have been conducted by biotechnology companies responsible of commercializing these GM plants.”
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The only consensus that GM food is safe is among industry-funded researchers.
By way of background, genetically engineered foods have been linked to obesity, cancer, liver failure, infertility and all sorts of other diseases (brief, must-watch videos here and here).
And genetically-engineered meat isn’t even tested for human safety.
And a leading risk expert says that genetically modified foods could wipe out the global ecosystem.
But government agencies like the FDA go to great lengths to cover up the potential health damage from genetically modified foods, and to keep the consumer in the dark about what they’re really eating. (Indeed, the largest German newspaper – Süddeutsche Zeitung – alleges that the U.S. government helped Monsanto ATTACK THE COMPUTERS of activists opposed to genetically modified food.)
Indeed – as Tufts’ Timothy Wise notes – huge sums of money are being poured into shutting down all honest scientific debate about the risks from GMOs:
Biotechnology companies and their powerful advocates, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are succeeding in a well-planned campaign to get GM safety declared “settled science.”
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An indicator was a quiet announcement in the press last summer that the Gates Foundation had awarded a US$5.6 million grant to Cornell University to “depolarize” the debate over GM foods. That’s their word. The grant founded a new institute, the Cornell Alliance for Science.
“Our goal is to depolarize the GMO debate and engage with potential partners who may share common values around poverty reduction and sustainable agriculture, but may not be well informed about the potential biotechnology has for solving major agricultural challenges,” said project leader Sarah Evanega, senior associate director of International Programs in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
Got it? The Gates Foundation is paying biotech scientists and advocates at Cornell to help them convince the ignorant and brainwashed public, who “may not be well informed,” that they are ignorant and brainwashed.
“Improving agricultural biotechnology communications is a challenge that must be met if innovations developed in public sector institutions like Cornell are ever to reach farmers in their fields,” added Kathryn J. Boor, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of CALS.
It’s kind of like depolarizing an armed conflict by giving one side more weapons.
Update:
Jane Goodall and Steven Druker Expose US Government Fraud Over GMOs
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The crazy thing is that theres a big tragedy waiting to happen. The so called strong right wing Government led by Modi in its mad rush to try and propel India into the first world, thinks an appropriate solution would be to promote the growing of GMO crops enmasse . Modi is that kind of a person who can be very easily duped by the nerds/scientists et al. He may not be corrupt, but his cronies are sure as corrupt as hell. So it will not be hard for Monsato to push its stuff all over India. Right now, the only widely grown GMO stuff is Bt-cotton, and ironically a lot of farmer suicides are basically bt-cotton farmers - moreso since they are dependent only on this single crops and when it fails, they can't deal with the debt load. I am pretty much sure that Monsanto is growing some other gm-stuff illegally in collusion with the politicians and others, but hopefully that is not widespread for now. Ever since 2012, the process to approve GMO crop field trials has been fast fowarded, inspite of the negative comments of the Supreme court and even some commisions that were set up to study the issue. The Govt is hell bent on fast tracking these trials, and I fear it will be so. Theres a lot of opposition by the farmers unions, even those attached to the ruling party - but you know like how Government works - once they decide to do something, they just do it, no matter what people say or whether it is illegal. Modi has pretty much given the green signal. Or atleast you can decipher the smoke signals from all the planted/pushed stories on fast foawarding the GM crop trials/benefits of growing GM crops etc (done in collusion by the editors and Monsanto/Government/corrupt politicians). So I very much fear for the day when they start growing this shit all over India.
"Peer reviews" are inherently flawed....Silence skeptics by taking away grant money, refusing publication, many tricks of the trades.
One example: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/03/07/silencing-skeptics-financing-alarmists/
Biggest offenders against real science: tax-free foundations and government.
Jeffrey M. Smith's Genetic Roulette and his www.responsibletechnology.org have long given well documented overview of subject. The canard that without GMO people would starve is incorrect: GMO quality is crap and quantity is roughly comparable to conventional. Organic agriculture is actually far more efficient than conventional if one takes into account energy in for benefit out, including a clean environment and enhanced health. Toronto could be growing all their veggies and exporting the surplus: Down with lawns! It takes water, warmth, fertility, seeds, time, smarts, space and effort.
I've been concerned for quite awhile. Just because you can do it, should you? Millions of years of evolution did not produce these bastardized offsprings of nature. What happens when one of their genetic mutations crosses with something in nature to produce food that makes you sick? Suddenly you can't eat anything made with corn? I mean, these guys discover it, and can't wait to stick it in a box and sell it. it will be our undoing.
As we all should be. Alltering the human genome & DNA is probable not a good idea. Ya think ?
Roundup Ready Alfalfa is the crop to look at for anyone who doubts that the FDA has been totally co-opted by Monsanto and ADM. Alfalfa naturally grows so thick, that it doesn't need Roundup. But the FDA approved it for use despite major outcry from organic beef and dairy farmers, cattle breeders,and the equine industry.
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Funny that GMO funder Bill Gates comes from a family background of population control as his father was a former head of UN Family Planning. While population reduction and industry food profits are suspect, the handicapping of the public I believe is the primary motive.
A public with disabled health are far less likely to investigate and possibly remove a parasitic foreign banking cabal known as the Fed. The Fed is the foreign cabals greatest money maker.
Toxic injury from fluoridated water, vaccines, and GMOs produce a helpless, dependent, weak public that displays a blind loyalty to the Establishment.
GMOs create sheeple and our hidden Jesuit, Masonic and Zionist rulers know this. It's a program of handicapping and capturing the public through an emotional dependence and search for a safe haven to heal from toxic injury that drives this blind capture and loyalty.
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Are you the guy who claimed Bill Gates's father was involved in creating Planned Parenthood? That's another canard I've seen elsewhere and which isn't true.
Listen, this is not a nutty conspiracy about population control, the Masons or the Jews (the Gates are Christians), it's a conspiracy for corporations to make money while screwing us over.
Corporations like Monsanto do not care if we live or die. The Fed is an American creation and they are not stealing us blind because of fluoridated water.... You have some serious mental health issures.
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A google search produces, “interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, Bill Gates admitted that his father used to be the head ..... of family planning into all “humanitarian” efforts by using funds from the UN”.
Population control is not the primary motive in promoting this poisoning campaign. As I said “While population reduction and industry food profits are suspect, the handicapping of the public I believe is the primary motive”. That’s the most logical motive if you follow the far bigger money of Fed Counterfeiting scams like Fractional Reserve Banking and Interest Bearing Money Creation.
You imply I’m implicating the “Masons or the Jews” in this conspiracy. High Level Masons and some high level Jewish (Zionist) leadership is involved. At the top is a group of families involved in organized crime that use the Jesuits, high level Masons and Zionists as their agents.
You claim “The Fed is an American creation”. Apparently you aren’t familiar with the revelations of historians Eustace Mullins, Eric Jon Phelps, G Edward Griffin and Karen Hudes. The Fed was a European Cabal operation using stolen Vatican gold for original funding to Rothschild agents JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller among many others to secretly take over America in 1913 in the Fed Act.
You claim, “they are not stealing us blind because of fluoridated water.” And you suggest I have mental health issues to suggest it.
Did you know that Hitler fed fluoridated water to concentration camp inmates in the 30s to keep them docile.
I’m claiming this cabal is handicapping the public precisely in order to steal us blind and they have done it - with poisons from fluoridated water, vaccines and GMOs among many other poisoning schemes.
I recommend you start educating yourself on all of these poisoning methods by researching the many articles at naturalnews.com.
I also recommend you research the hidden history of this cabal that was censored out of our media and education. Did you know there were over 6000 suppressed books before 1900 warning America of the Jesuit Conspiracy to take over America researched by Eric Jon Phelps. Looks like you got some reading to do.
I'm not aware that any so-called food product sold in any grocery store has actually been tested for human or animal safety! I'll bet none are!
We all be rats in one grand chemistry experiment.
I always think the answer is quite simple. Don't eat this shit.
Why would you believe what anyone with a vested interest says. The debate goes back and forth - same old, same old, and then the industry just blithely carries on.
I don't want or need this shit - of course we do not need GMO to feed the future population rises - it's all just BS
We haven't eaten GMO for years - we cook our own food rather than buying processed shit - and it is ALL shit - look at the ingredients list. We do not eat crap that has flown half way round the world to turn up in our local supermarket - we just eat good local shit, and when it's out of season, we don't eat it.
(Coffee excepted)
It's all shit - I can't believe I've actually posted a comment on here about it, normally I can refrain.
Just stop buying it.
Sophia Smallstorm on biotechnology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSQ-dp1sV5w
This white rabbit is going deep in the hole.
blame dan quaile.
The way I see this GMO issue is … we’ve got 7 billion people to feed … and not only that, they need to be fed inexpensively ….
And compounding the problem incomes are dropping for everyone…
Organic methods cannot produce enough food for 7B --- and it is an expensive way to farm because it is labour intensive… (check the prices at Whole Foods… hehe)
Chemical based fertilizers and pesticides, GMO, etc… are the innovations that have allowed us to increase food production and keep the costs down … kicking the Malthus problem down the road and allowing populations to soar --- and at the same time as we are seeing with GMO, there are toxic side effects (also the chemical inputs destroy the soil)…
We absolutely cannot go back to organic farming (at least not without killing off billons) --- too many people, soil is dead without chem inputs…
We are at the rock and hard place phase of things….
Either get into the 1% and buy everything at Whole Foods --- or grow your own (and eat root vegetables all winter)
GMO is a step beyond conventional agriculture.
The three main modifications are glyphosate tolerance (RoundUp Ready), bacillus thurengis production in the plant, and nicotinoid production in the plant.
So the RR crops are soaked in glyphosate. Even cursory research will point out how bad that is. And returns are diminishing as weeds have become resistant.
The BT and nicotinoid producers contain substance that kill caterpillars and insects. You can't wash it off, or even peel it off. It is inside the plant.
Utter nonsense, you can purchase organic or non-GMO food at most markets at nearly the same cost. You warped the arguement by comparing to Whole Foods that is more expensive, because, it is more expensive.
If you want to be another Gates sucker, that's your problem.
Eat Americans. We could fatten them up on hormone-treated beef and then "mow the grass" like the Israelis do and can them for export. Big fat Americans would be a food resource for the world. Boiling them up would separate the fat from the protein and they could be rolled into Jimmy Dean sausage.
There is a huge prospect to recycle obesity to feed the hungry
Only one problem with your suggestion. Americans are Heavily armed. Not all of us are fat either, just usually the ones at Wal-Mart on EBT day
Not all of us are fat either, just usually the ones at Wal-Mart on EBT day...
Those carts are pushed by folks shaped like basketballs.
The carts contain enough chemicals and toxins to kill off a small suburb.
The folks pushing the carts get free medical care.
Labor intensive farming sounds like a good fix to me. Put all those obese couch sows and beer bellied lounge lizards out in the fields growing their own food. If they drop dead in the fields - so be it. Churn em into the dirt. Would cure all sorts of societal ills.
what i don't understand about the gmo and pesticide issue is why aren't the people who unleash this stuff on the public afraid of being exposed to the maladies themselves? do the people who developed aspartame use it? the roundup guys use that stuff around the house? do the pharma guys take the heart and blood pressure and cholesteral drugs that riddle the patient with debuilitating side effects. my favorite is the heart medicine with a side effect of a heart attack.
i won't eat gmo food(if i know it is possibly gmo tainted). i only eat food clearly marked nongmo including meat not fed gmo corn. it has doubled my food budget but i am healthy.
an aside. my doctor has described me in her notes as a noncompliant patient because i refuse to take the drugs prescribed by her. i used to be borderline diabetes type 2, with high blood pressure and high cholesteral. i managed to manage all three with my new diet. the key is the almost total absence of refined sugar products, and organic food.
even though all my numbers are well within normal my doctor will not acknowledge in her notes that i repaired myself without drugs.
You are not only noncompliant, but you are probably a terrorist and need to be sent to a re-education facility.
In your defense, though, your non-compliance is probably due to faulty genetic inheritance from those terrorists that rebelled against King George in the 1770s.
You are going to eat a plant which has been internally modified by monkeys with razor blades to produce poison?
You have to be working with only a few marbles to think that is going to be a good idea.
Somehow, the poison you are now eating as part of your food is said by the same people who produced it to be safe.
Meanwhile, after the third generation of bt corn, mice have tumors as large as their body, and hamsters eating the gmo soy have hair growing out of their mouths.
Maybe GMO is all just a big eugenics program, and the smart people are supposed to figure out not to eat it?
Maybe that explains why they do not serve GMO food in the Monsanto cafeteria. The people making it know better than to eat it.
Here is the top federal authority for food in the country. Turns out he's a friggin' lawyer, not a scientist, in charge of regulating stuff that is inherently rooted in biochemistry and molecular genetics. He never met anything genetically modified that he didn't love. Good boy. Goooood boy.
What could go wrong?
Michael R. Taylor was named deputy commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2010.
... Other positions held by Mr. Taylor include senior fellow, Resources for the Future; professor, School of Medicine, University of Maryland; partner, King & Spalding law firm; and vice president for public policy, Monsanto Company.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor
Its a revolving door. The former CDC person under Bush went and worked for Merck vaccine after her term was finished. It just shows that these clowns are bought and paid for...
What do we know for certain? Nothing. What we know about food results from thousands of years of experimentation. Wasn't smoking determined to be good until we saw different long term results? Are tests done on rats,living very short lives, indicative of the long term results in humans?
Are the results from eating the fruits of the tomato plant, projectable to other fruits of plants in the nightshade family?
The great stupidity of mankind is the trust given to its kings, government bureaucracies, and scientists with credentials and their ilk. What does debate prove? Who debates better, or who the controller of the debate favors. What are the longer term results from any new food, GMO or found wild in nature? We have to wait a lifetime for the usable results.
What we or "they" know is nothing, or worse a lie. Trust means a lack of personal knowledge to decide. Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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How come nobody worries about eating the genes of a pig, or a cow, or a fish when they sit down for dinner?
I ate lots of bugs and stuff as a kid, I'm sure. Swallowed a few mosquitos, too!
Aside from that blood-sucking thing I do with the snorkle that comes out of my throat, I'm fine.
Proteins, foods et cetera, do not pass through your gut like that.
You've been watching too many comic movies.
That said, I just read this,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/throwing-biotech-lies-at_b_8...
We've been lied to and lied to and lied and lied to and lied for so long, who knows?
I'm going with my gut on this one. And pass the chicken genes!
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The genes are not the problem. They indeed are denatured with cooking. The problem is the gene products, and in addition, the fact that the herbicide resistance genes allow the farmers to saturate the ground with herbicides. Pick your poison.
Are these the same "scientists" that tell us that we can fix Global Warming® (since rebranded Climate Change®, since rebranded CO2 Pollution®, since rebranded Climate Disruption®) by drastically raising taxes and having governments control even more of people's lives?
Global Warming® (since rebranded Climate Change®,
Do people even realize the genius behind what they did there? "Climate change" can incorperate warming, cooling, softening, hardening,
more snow less snow, more rain, less rain, ETC ETC ETC.
If the climate changed! we must be TAXED!
The same scientists that said the 100 mpg car was unpossible? Yep.
Why aren't you just special...
http://smatterist.com/6289/18-predictions-from-100-years-ago-that-didnt-...
You've got some work to do, don't you...
VW XL1 goes way past 100 mpg. On 1980s tech.
Heck, my 1981 diesel VW pickup gets 50 mpg and people are impressed with hybrids getting that mileage thirty years later.
I still have one of those trucks. Not the diesel one tho. But I put one of those turbo diesel rabbit motors in my 69 vw fastback. Interestingly it gets better mpg the faster it goes. Im sure there are limits but its not really a good idea to go that fast in that car. But it does prove the concept well.
Creepy if you work on it yourself I got a cool trick for getting better power out of it. Retard the cam 3 degrees and it will pull right up to the rev limiter. A smidg more injection timming and a tad more fuel. A light flywheel helps too.
Yes, I do all of the work myself. I haven't retarded the cam. I'll have to give it a try. Right now I have a leaking head gasket that I need to replace. I had the block rebuilt last year. I put a head for an 11mm head bolt block on my 12mm block. I dropped the head off to have the head bolt holes opened up for 12mm bolts and the shop did it with something like a hand grinder. Totally screwed it up - holes are not centered, etc. I thought they were going to have the machine shop simply bore them out so it would fit well. I put the head on (probably a mistake, not getting the holes opened up properly) and now have to figure out how to get it off with the studs snug in many holes.
Pretty cool, a diesel in a fastback. Not an easy swap, I would guess, swapping the flat four for a straight diesel.
I was gonna go electric with it. But the math on the TD swap was way better. Batteries are pain in the ass and heavy as hell. The swap was not that hard. Kennedy eng had the adapter plate and clutch kit. The guys at the muffler shop made up the motor mounts for free cus its such a cool swap.
Where'd you put the radiator?
In the front where the spare was the spare now sits on top of the gas tank. The coolant lines are copper and run right down under the car. I do have to blead the air out regular tho. Ill take some pics if you want?
Sounds pretty cool. I'd imagine just the pipes from the back to the front of the car would cool the engine pretty well by themselves.
My little fastback vw sporting a turbo diesel. I drove it for a year and parked it for when my daughter starts driving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iNHyspixwY
Yep thats an old Porshe trick. It sucks in the summer tho.
Old Monsanto had a farm
Evil GMO
And on this farm they sprayed some Roundup
Evil GMO
With a superweed here and a superweed there
Here a triffid, there a triffid
Everywhere another triffid
Old Monsanto had a farm
Evil GMO.
Those are both canned answers that I have seen way to many times.
It is not my job to prove anything. I have the doubts.
i recall the brouhau over DDT. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. now its been a while since DDT was banned, and curiously the incidence of sea birds, pelicans and such along the CA coast is increasing, along with schools of anchovies, sea lions, and the great white sharks which eat the sea lions. there are many more large birds of prey than there were even 50 years ago i would say. it certainly proves that man does not necessarily crowd out the other species, in the prescence of urban sprawl, if he is careful. the problem is not what GMO does to our food, its what it does to the environment. one economic benefit so far is there are more choices among organic foods, and the cost of organic foods is not much different than non-organic (although meat products are a lot more) collaterally, the introduction of GMO has created an organic food industry, although third world people are going to be the subjects of the experiment, (and poor urban americans) there has always been a double standard on chemicals used in third world countries and its a problem. we officially recognize Agent Orange Syndrome in veterans, but nobody really pays much attention to the people of Vietnam, who are living with that compound. its a double standard, and the real problem with GMO, are we going to ignore the problem and go home and eat our organic filet mignon, until the enviroment is altered (as it was with DDT). so far there is only a vague connection between the effects of GMO on the environment, its not an enviromental problem.
While the GMO's themselves may or may not directly be causing environmental disasters, the conditions and practices they support and were developed for are causing quite a bit of harm. The ability to indiscriminatly spray herbacides (roundup) directly on and around crops is causing harmful side effects (and this is not addressing the human consumption of food doused with Roundup).
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/cfs-monarch-report_2-4-15_design_05341.pdf
Does anyone remember FLAVR SAVR tomatoes in the early 90's? I do, because I bought them and they were not cheap. I remember them being pretty tasteless like most store bought tomatoes. Turns out that there was a bleeding stomach problem in the studies that seemed to not get mentioned. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/throwing-biotech-lies-at_b_8...
There are probably "safe" and "unsafe" areas to insert new genes into. Safe areas get you what you want. Unsafe areas generate problems.
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YOu remember "Olestra"??? My older brother would buy them...he stopped buyng them after shitting his pants a few times. Walk a joke. This shit in this country ..if you have money...gets put directly on the market...everyone is a lab rat.
This report is propaganda. It uses weasel words which don't prove a thing. It makes spurious allegations. Saying health problems are linked to GMO is proof of nothing.
If anti-GMO activists had proof, they wouldn't need such weak arguments and slurs. They do not provide scientific citations which back up their claims. We are supposed to accept their arguments on faith.
Opposition to GMO is political rather than scientific. The article makes the argument that half of the scientific literature is paid for by biotechnology companies, as if they meant anything. What if the other half, which does not approve of GMO, is being paid by Environmentalist and communists?.
Your argument could be equally applied to those that are pro-GMO.
That they do not if clearly in the right begs the question does it not why do pro-GMO people not fully declare their research. Produce the papers with your name attached so they can be ratified or debunked.
Common sense is avoid it now because the pro-GMO do not want to do this it means you put your name on the line.
Think it is easy now, produce your findngs and turn it over to peer review then the whole argument / concept is a non-issue.
Now these people are not dumb so why not do this?
On an aside:-
One part of GMO I disagree with is making the seed infertile so when the crops of Indian farmers fail with no sale they cannot afford the next years crop and commit suicide. Go research this issue, it is staggering.
The anti GMO crowd is light on science. And the pro GMO is light on the science as well. There is no question. Is this due to malfeasance (money), incompetence or just not wanting to know the answers? Nature and the environment have always modified plants but is that the same as done in labs? All questions to be answered by clear headed, objective science.
There are a plethora of dubious claims and hyperbolic rhetoric on the anti GMO side. On the pro side they make arguments like the one I made above, that nature has always genetically modified itself. But the question remains, is that the same as being modified in the lab. I have heard the arguments made on both sides and am only left with more questions. On both sides there is a gap between claims and proven, demonstrable science.