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Occupy Wall Street U.S. plans to hike allowed glyphosate levels in food supply Natural Food Certifiers in the US has announced that any food product that contains GMOs is no longer eligible to be certified as kosher. This story emerged back in April this year. EXCERPT: “Recent studies show that GMOs may cause various kinds of health problems from digestive disturbances to food allergies, and that GMOs require more herbicides, which is really the opposite reason why GMOs were touted to be so environmentally helpful in the first place,” Rabbi Flamer [said]. “For all of the many reasons that GMOs raise a red flag, consumers simply don’t want them in their foods, and our clients want to accommodate their customers.” One group after another is denouncing the genetically modified poison on grocery store shelves, adding to the chorus of voices demanding real untainted food. Natural Food Certifiers has announced today that any food product that contains GMOs is no longer eligible to be certified as kosher under their “Apple K” kosher certification program.

Occupy Monsanto GreenPeople Home ListingFeatures Add,RenewUpgrade Green Coupons Banner Advertise Linkto Us About Sign In Green Seal Contact Find local health food stores, organic food, green products, solar power supplies, green landscaping, organic baby products, doulas, natural pet care, natural beauty products, health and wellness services, green lifestyle products. Advertisers Add listing | Edit listing | Upgrade Your Listing | Banner advertising | Direct Mail Marketing | About us | Link to us | is OUR community project. Monsanto Losing Its Stranglehold on European Crops Thanks to Public Opposition, Moving Efforts to US Instead Just one week after Italy told Monsanto exactly where they can plant their GM maize, Monsanto has come out with a statement saying they will no longer appeal to the European market for GM crop approval. Monsanto, will instead, invest "several hundred million dollars" in Europe over the next 10 years to expand conventional seed production and breeding. Just last year the Agribusiness giant, BASF also halted its GM crop development in Europe and moved its plant research headquarters to the US. Numerous types of GM crop applications will be withdrawn from Europe according to Monsanto, including: · 6 types of GM corn · several soybean varieties · and modified sugar beets “We will no longer be pursuing approvals for cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe. Europe is not just basing bans on public opposition, but also on the real, non-Monsanto funded science that points to GM crops being less than safe.

Occupy Monsanto AnonOps Communications One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Blogger Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google EPA to Increase Allowable Glyphosate (Chemical in Monsanto’s Herbicides) in US Food Crops With names like the Environmental Protection Agency or the Food and Drug Administration, it would be nice to think these regulatory agencies had our best interests in mind—that they existed to help protect the people and the earth all at once. But, they are arms of the U.S. Government and they are just as easily bought and sold as your local politician. Case in point: the EPA’s recent decision to allow even more of Monsanto’s dangerous pesticide glyphosate in your food. The new rule allowing for even greater use of this damaging ingredient would take existing limits on glyphosate and dwarf them with new, higher ones. These limits would truly only work to benefit the interests of one, and it’s not the American people, but Monsanto – the giant corporation who is making millions off of genetically modified crops and the destruction of agriculture and human health. The EPA made this announcement on May 1 and gave until July 1 for people to weigh in with objections and requests for hearings.

Seed contamination Foreign seeds can be caught anywhere, including these harvested flax seeds Seed contamination is the mixing of seeds used for agriculture with other seeds which are not desirable or soil (which may carry seeds). An example would be mixing corn seed with weed seed. These contaminant seeds can be either common weeds or other crop seeds. In genetic engineering, seed contamination may refer to unwanted genes found in a seed, or pieces of DNA from other genetically engineered seeds. Contamination in genetic engineering[edit] Contamination in this area is most likely caused by other genetically engineered seeds cross pollinating with unchanged seeds. Prevention[edit] Preventing seed contamination in agriculture is fairly difficult, almost impossible. Machines, such as this tractor, help gather seeds. Preventing seed contamination in genetic engineering is simply a matter of separating "pure" seeds from contaminated ones. References[edit]

bayer's aventis cropscience - public enemy no. 1 in the UK undefined "In the future, only a few companies will be able to shape the developments in this industry - Aventis CropScience… will be one of them" So said Jurgen Dormann, Aventis CEO when Aventis (formerly AgrEvo) was created in December 1999 by the merger of Germany's Hoechst (AgrEvo was their joint company with Schering) and France's Rhone-Poulenc's Agro. However, following a series of fiascos, marked by a continuing failure on Aventis' part to either play by the rules or to tell the truth (see the Aventis' Pants on Fire Award), Aventis agreed in October 2001 to sell off its agricultural biotech sector Aventis CropScience to German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer. The principal goal of Aventis CropScience has been the global take-up of GM crops. Who are Bayer? Bayer named as 1 of the 10 worst corporations Bayer/Aventis/AgrEvo NEWS Protesters disrupt Bayer shareholders meeting (April 2002) GM protesters blockade Bayer GM safety tests 'flawed' [on Bayer/Aventis GM crop] Who are BAYER?

Do GMO Crops Really Have Higher Yields? According to the biotech industry, genetically modified (GM) crops are a boon to humanity because they allow farmers to "generate higher crop yields with fewer inputs," as the trade group Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) puts it on its web page. Buoyed by such rhetoric, genetically modified seed giant Monsanto and its peers have managed to flood the corn, soybean, and cotton seed markets with two major traits: herbicide resistance and pesticide expression—giving plants the ability to, respectively, withstand regular lashings of particular herbicides and kill bugs with the toxic trait of Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. Turns out, though, that both assertions in BIO's statement are highly questionable. Washington State University researcher Charles Benbrook has demonstrated that the net effect of GMOs in the United States has been an increase in use of toxic chemical inputs. That may be true, but it's a long way from "generating higher crop yields with fewer inputs."

how to avoid GM foods Just say no to those GMOs! a guide to avoiding genetically modified (GM) foods Why avoid GM foods? Hardly any research into the safety of GM foods has been published in the normal peer reviewed scientific literature in the last 15 years and these foods have had NO long term safety testing. GM foods contain randomly inserted genes from foreign organisms. These often include genetic elements of viruses and bacteria. In some cases an antibiotic resistant gene is also included. These foods may have unpredictable side efffects including allergenic or toxic properties. According to geneticist Dr Mae-Wan Ho, “The soil bacterium [in GM soya], Agrobacterium sp. Some of the implications for health may be long term and so we will only come to discover their full impact on human health over time, and even that will be difficult to track in the absence of clear compulsory labelling. For more information on the safety concerns about GM foods see the statements on food safety made by scientists. Gerald B.

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The Great American Genocide | We’ve reached the point that any person with critical thinking skills can no longer deny that we are being deliberately poisoned. Nearly everything that is reasonably priced to eat or drink is actually toxic. The glowing health claims and the stamps of approval from the EPA, the FDA, and USDA, are fraudulent smoke and mirrors – people are actually being deceived into spending money to purchase the substances that will lead to disease and demise. A chemical warfare has been declared on us. The battlefields are our homes, the grocery stores, the pharmacies. Turning on the tap in many places releases a toxic stream into your glass or your shower. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Chlorine: This removes disease-causing bacteria, which is great, but it also creates numerous toxic by-products, like chloroform and trihalomethanes. According to Dr. Ammonia: Fluoride: The consumption of fluoride lowers IQs, causes infertility, has been linked to cancer and causes hardening of the arteries.

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