Monsanto Protection Act

Snapper1985

It's been shown that GMO wheat is the cause of gluten allergies and celliac (sp?) disease.. so yes.. let not even hold them liable for the harm they knowingly cause

Not to mention it takes away the power of the supreme court and the right for people to sue.

And clearly you know the risks, so by eating anything GMO you accept those risks. Looks like you've surrendered your ability to win a lawsuit even if you did have the right to file one.

Confuzzled4ever

It's been shown that GMO wheat is the cause of gluten allergies and celliac (sp?) disease.. so yes.. let not even hold them liable for the harm they knowingly cause

Not to mention it takes away the power of the supreme court and the right for people to sue.

And clearly you know the risks, so by eating anything GMO you accept those risks. Looks like you've surrendered your ability to win a lawsuit even if you did have the right to file one.

No quite.. since it's not label or disclosed that what I am getting has been subject to GMO.. nor is it "required" to be lableeld.

CoachReddy

It's been shown that GMO wheat is the cause of gluten allergies and celliac (sp?) disease.. so yes.. let not even hold them liable for the harm they knowingly cause

Not to mention it takes away the power of the supreme court and the right for people to sue.

And clearly you know the risks, so by eating anything GMO you accept those risks. Looks like you've surrendered your ability to win a lawsuit even if you did have the right to file one.

LOL this is the WHOLE POINT

GMO foods aren't required to be labeled as such, so we DON'T know that we're eating GMOs and HAVE NOT accepted those risks!

oh, Americans...

upgetupgetup

I think we should let half of the world's population starve to death. Really. There's just no need for the advances in agriculture that we've seen for the last several decades.
All those nasty modified crops that survive on less water and fewer pesticides...ditch that crap. Let's go back to cyclical famine! Yea, that's be great.

Wrong. Yeah, that's what was promised, but the "modified" crops actually use more water, fertilizers etc. and much more negative impact on the environment and as a result, on all humans.

To the people who can't see their hand in front of their face and don't think that the taking control of the world's food supply by a handful of companies is a 'real issue"; time to wake up. Food/water security is pretty much the ONLY issue.<b> Being aware and doing what we can to support/boycott certain industries is something we can all do immediately with just a little bit of effort. Yeah, I know, that's just too "hard", and isn't the government protecting us? LMAO</b>

Edit: So how do you feel about your family starving to death? Oh, right, you probably just meant people in Africa and Asia. Yeah, they don't love their kids at all! The Green Revolution was bad, but do some research on what the WTO has been up to lately... they are making sure that previously self-sufficient third world countries are forced into slavery by growing cash crops and relying on food imports that are neither affordable, culturally appropriate, nor healthy. Yes, evil really exists. And most of us here in NA who are sitting in front of our tv, pumped full of pharmaceuticals and non food, don't have a clue and don't care and ridicule anyone who tries to point out the atrocities happening all around us.

It kind of IS too hard. There's just too much information, too much ambiguity, too many vested interests, too many overwhelming (and anxiety-provoking) phenomena for people to devote serious headspace to staying on top of things. So when we can bother, we turn to sources we trust, which we trust because they conform to our existing beliefs. When we don't have enough cognitive resources (because, jobs, families, etc), we settle on decisions that feel right (and they feel right because)...

I'm all for making choices easier. People recycle because it's easier now than it was 20 years ago. A guy comes to my door and takes my three bins away. All I have to do is put the right things in the right bin. And I get fined a buck for every miscategorized piece of garbage, so I took the time to figure out which were the right bins. And, I got a nice chart from the city to tell me what's what. That's thanks to the work of activists and (good) politicians and people having conversations.

So thanks, and carry on talking, to make things easy for me.

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CoachReddy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/science/earth/soaring-bee-deaths-in-2012-sound-alarm-on-malady.html?_r=1

A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, commercial beekeepers say, wiping out 40 percent or even 50 percent of the hives needed to pollinate many of the nation’s fruits and vegetables. A conclusive explanation so far has escaped scientists studying the ailment, colony collapse disorder, since it first surfaced around 2005. But beekeepers and some researchers say there is growing evidence that a powerful new class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, incorporated into the plants themselves, could be an important factor.

The work of GMOs - produce country-wide will start costing more and more because of these pesticides. And honey's going to be as rare as gold.

Confuzzled4ever

The reason wheat isn't GMO is because it doesn't take well to it, not because they are worried about the health of the people. They were successful with GE, that does not mean they created something better, just something different, that is more hardy and more resistant to weather, pests, whatever. They do not care if it is better for the people they are feeding it to or if it has a negative impact on the environment as long as it makes them money.

It is very hard to separate the truth from the lies. But when I hear "injecting pesticides into the seeds of the plants" how can anyone think it's ok just because the government says so? or hasn't said otherwise. It doesn't' take a lot of smarts to know injecting pesticides or herbicides is bad. It's why we wash our food prior to eating it.

The whole Darwinian thing, of taking genes from one plant and combining them with another isn't as bad, although I do not think we should be messing with nature's design. The crux of this is how do you know if they combined it with something that is harmful or with pesticides as well? When you see GMO on a label (not that you do.. but you do nee non-GMO on labels or ingredient lists occasionally) how do you know what they did to it? I'm not gonna stand in the store googling everything. I'm just not going to buy it.

JustEsh

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karelisabit

If you are to lazy to look it up or don't know where to look:

http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-fda/

"Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto-funded Danforth Plant Science Center, is the director of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Islam Siddiqui, Vice President of the Monsanto and Dupont-funded pesticide-promoting lobbying group, CropLife, is the Agriculture Negotiator for the US Trade Representative.
Rajiv Shah, former agricultural-development director for the pro-biotech Gates Foundation (a frequent Monsanto partner), served as Obama’s USDA Under Secretary for Research Education and Economics and Chief Scientist and is currently the head of USAID.
Elena Kagan, who took Monsanto’s side against organic farmers in the Roundup Ready alfalfa case, is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Ramona Romero, former corporate counsel to DuPont, is the General Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Agriculture."


Tumors in rats:
http://www.ijbs.com/v05p0706.htm

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/pdf/GM_food_nightmare.pdf

Terminator seeds
http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/terminator.shtml

I'm writing for my speech class. This is the topic that was given to me.

spamantha57

Anytime I see the words Monsanto or GMO I feel like I'm going to morph into a 100ft rabid monster.

Monsanto is one of the most evil companies in the world, & GMOs are disgusting for billions of reasons I won't get into.
Some people think I'm jumping on a fad bandwagon, when I've been continuously learning about this stuff going on 7 years now. I came across all this when I was trying to be more healthy, and what a world of difference my health is in now. GMOs etc are a HUGE reason why I decided to continue learning more about health & nutrition & make a career out of it. No, the world might not end because of it, but thousands & millions get diseased & sick & that's important enough to me to get in a hissy fit about it.

PaleoPath4Lyfe

Make sure to eat locally, local is the new organic! Many local farms practice organic farming but do not advertise as organic because they do not want to pay for the certifications. Talk to your local farmers! Learn about their practices, put a face to your food! You have a much higher chance of avoiding GM seeds by supporting your local farmers, and you are more likely to recieve higher levels of nutrition. You also cut thousands of transportation miles from the farm to your plate, which reduces the carbon footprint of your eating habits (for those of us that care). Farmers markets and CSA's are there for you to take advantage of and allow you to "vote with your dollars". We can all complain about Monsanto and talk about how evil the corporation is but in reality, most of us are supporting their practices by shopping at the grocery store!

Exactly!!!

PaleoPath4Lyfe

I think we should let half of the world's population starve to death. Really. There's just no need for the advances in agriculture that we've seen for the last several decades.
All those nasty modified crops that survive on less water and fewer pesticides...ditch that crap. Let's go back to cyclical famine! Yea, that's be great.

How is there less pesticides when they are injecting herbicides and pesticides directly into the seed???????

If anything there is more because that can not be washed away.

PaleoPath4Lyfe

Make sure to eat locally, local is the new organic! Many local farms practice organic farming but do not advertise as organic because they do not want to pay for the certifications. Talk to your local farmers! Learn about their practices, put a face to your food! You have a much higher chance of avoiding GM seeds by supporting your local farmers, and you are more likely to recieve higher levels of nutrition. You also cut thousands of transportation miles from the farm to your plate, which reduces the carbon footprint of your eating habits (for those of us that care). Farmers markets and CSA's are there for you to take advantage of and allow you to "vote with your dollars". We can all complain about Monsanto and talk about how evil the corporation is but in reality, most of us are supporting their practices by shopping at the grocery store!

Let's just hope that all of those local farmers know the list of seed companies owned by Monsanto/Seminis.

Because it's crazy-long. And still growing.

In my area most local farmers that grow produce and such all harvest their own seeds and have for generations.

PaleoPath4Lyfe

First world: "I want food...that is, organic, locally grown, clean, unprocessed, etc."
Third world: I want food..."

So simply because of the fact that I was born in a first-world country I shouldn't give a *kitten* about what I'm putting in my body?

Care about whatever you wish. I believe it is a waste of time and energy to be worried in that direction. In any case, I don't think it does any good to vilify the people and processes that allow us to feed so many billions of people.

If they were purely in it to do what you stated above, I would be fine with that. But the fact that they're putting their "miracles" into food without telling people and buying out company after company for profit has me thinking that they're in it for more than saving the world.

Of course they are in it for profit. Thank god for profit. Nothing else could motivate the advances we see every day.
I work for a medical device company. A few hundred thousand people live longer/better lives because of our products, which we would not have developed and would not make were it not for profit.

I suppose my intention was misconstrued. They're in it for the profit, masking themselves as the world's savior.

I can't say I've seen monsanto advertising. I can tell you that we certainly advertise the life saving benefits our products bring. I don't think that means we're representing ourselves as "saviors." It means we need people to think favorably of us.
In Monsanto's case, that's likely in an attempt to offset all the vilification of the type we see here.

Come to the Midwest............billboards like this are all over the place.

PrimalSiren

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