GMOs & Things

What do these countries know that our Monsanto bought and paid for that our political operatives don't?   Quote: "European nations are leading the world in rejecting genetically modified organisms in food and crops, with two more countries recently joining the list: Italy and Austria.  As reported by Nation of Change, Italian ministries have opted to utilize the newly created European Union rules that permit member countries to opt out of growing GM crops. Austrian officials joined in as well, with both nations making the decision to stop growing eight varieties of GM maize, which essentially amounted to a complete ban on GM crops."    http://www.naturalnews.com/051573_GMO_ban_food_supply_agriculture.html   Here is some background on the long history of the bullying tactics used by Monsanto.  http://www.naturalnews.com/051568_Monsanto_GMOs_farmers.html   And here is the link to the last sentence of the previous item.  After you read it tell me that Monsanto's science is not bought and paid for to solely support their cause.  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-enlisted-academics-in-gmo-lobbying-war-emails-show.html?

This is an item for those who think Monsanto's (other companies like them) motives in promoting their GMO products are as pure and innocent as freshly driven snow.  Quote: "One of the truly fascinating revelations in the recent Freedom of Information Act emails acquired from university professors who whore themselves out to Monsanto is the fact that mainstream media journalists are also Monsanto prostitutes.  These Monsanto operatives pretending to be journalists write for The Washington Post, New York Times, Discover, Slate, Nature and various "science" websites. Many of them openly admit to being paid by Monsanto and gladly accepting the money. Then they turn around and write stories attacking clean food activists or hawking whatever GMO propaganda Monsanto is pushing that day."    http://www.naturalnews.com/051393_Monsanto_operatives_Keith_Kloor_Jon_Entine.html

This adds to the above item dealing with the efforts Obama's disastrous Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and how it benefits Monsanto and other mega-businesses.  You will be surprised to know how long Monsanto has known that Round Up is harmful - well okay, for four decades.  As the article says "Where is the US Justice Department?  Nowhere.  Where is Obama, who is desperately pushing for passage of the TPP?  Nowhere."  I would add where has congress and previous administration's been?  Nowhere. 
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/the-tpp-and-gmos-whats-so-bad-about-death/

Quote: "The Monsanto public relations machine has done a stellar job in recent years of reducing the GMO debate to one that pits “pro-science advocates” against “anti-science climate-denier types”—with Monsanto portrayed as being squarely planted in the pro-science camp.  But that well-oiled machine may be starting to sputter.  Turns out that Monsanto executive solicited pro-GMO articles from university researchers, and passed the “research” off as independent science which the biotech giant then used to prop up its image and further its agenda.  We know this, thanks to thousands of pages of emails obtained by US Right to Know, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). And because a host of news outlets—including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg, the StarPhoenix and others—are now running with the story."    https://www.organicconsumers.org/essays/emperor-has-no-clothes-and-neither-do-monsanto%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98scientists%E2%80%99

Can anyone tell me this Monsanto product is good for the soil, food products, human health and the environment???   California thinks it is bad and is attempting to ban its use.  At least California has got one thing right.    http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/2-6-billion-pounds-of-monsantos-roundup-sprayed-on-us-farmland-in-20-years/

Read these two quotes and you will understand why all of us should avoid GMOs.  Quote: "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.”  and,  "The only consensus that GM food is safe is among industry-funded researchers."   http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/03/meta-study-genetically-modified-food-virtually-independent-scientists-concerned.html