OT: More good news - GM food nightmare looming

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" Don't be afraid to try new things. After all, the Ark was built by

amateurs, and the Titanic was built by professionals "

-Unknown

 

 

ISIS Press Release 09/03/07

 

 

GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham

 

 

Regulator agencies like the European Food Safety Authority and the UK Food

Standards Agency have been ignoring the precautionary principle,

manipulating and corrupting science, sidestepping the law, and helping to

promote GMOs in the face of massive public opposition and damning evidence

piling up against the safety of GM food and feed

 

These charges are made in a devastating report [1] ( HYPERLINK

" http://www.i-sis.org.uk/pdf/GM_Science_Exposed.php " GM Food Nightmare

Unfolding and the Regulatory Sham ) released today by the Institute of

Science in Society*. The report has been submitted to the European Food

Standards Agency, the World Health Organisation/ Food and Agriculture

Organisation Expert Consultation on GM Food Animals, and the UK Food

Standards Agency, and it has been accepted for publication in a

peer-reviewed scientific journal.

 

The 19-page report contains more than 130 references. It draws together

evidence from all over the world indicating that GM fo od and feed may be

inherently hazardous to health, regardless of the plant species or the

genetic modification involved. For example,

 

* Female rats fed Roundup Ready soybeans gave birth to many severely

stunted pups, with over half of the litter dead by three weeks, and the

surviving pups were sterile; Roundup Ready soya has been approved worldwide

for food and feed since 1996

* Farmers and workers exposed to Bt cotton and Bt maize have suffered

serious allergy-like symptoms

* Livestock feeding on Bt crops and crop residues became ill and died

in large numbers

 

“The evidence has stacked up to such an extent that our regulators should be

answering a charge of criminal negligence at the very least in failing to

ban GM crop and continuing with their campaign of denial and disinformation,

and worse, helping to promote even more dangerous GM produce from the

industry,” said Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. Dr Ho is the director of ISIS and lead

author of the report co-authored with Joe Cummins , e meritus Professor of

Biology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and Peter Saunders,

emeritus Professor of Mathematics at King's College, London University.

 

That Bt toxins can cause serious immune reactions was known long before they

were widely incorporated into maize and cotton crops. Similarly, evidence

that pieces of genetically modified (GM) DNA can be taken up and

incorporated into the genomes of other cells – a process called horizontal

gene transfer - has been steadily accumulating since the mid 1990s, when the

ISIS scientists first sounded their warning to the regulators.

 

“GM DNAs often contain antibiotic resistance marker genes and other genes

from bacteria and viruses that cause diseases. In addition, they have strong

control signals - ‘promoters' - that force the cell to express a foreign

gene at high levels,” Dr. Mae-Wan Ho explains. “As a result, horizontal gene

transfer not only spreads antibiotic resistance genes to harmful bacteria,

it can create new bacteria and viruses that can cause epidemics. And if the

strong promoter jumps into the wrong place in the genome of animal cells, it

can boost the expression of oncogenes and cause the cells to multiply out of

control, or cancer by another name.”

 

Europe and the UK are required by law to abide by the precautionary

principle. Both have signed up to the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety

regulating GMOs, and a string of other international treaties for protecting

health and the environment based on the precautionary principle. But

systematic manipulation of scientific evidence and abuse of science by the

regulatory authorities has meant that the precautionary principle is never

invoked.

 

“GM food/feed looks like joining asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),

BSE, tobacco and many others as yet another example of the government

relying on bad scientific advice and ignoring the precautionary principle,

with devastating consequences,” said Prof. Peter Saunders.

 

In three recent cases, American courts have ruled that the US Department of

Agriculture failed to carry out proper environmental impact assessment

before giving approval for releases of GM crops to the environment, and that

the releases are therefore illegal.

 

“Regulation of genetically modified food crops in North America is a

complete sham. It's time for a shake up. The regulatory agencies must

represent the law and the people not just corporate interests,” said Prof.

Joe Cummins

 

For further information:

 

*The Institute of Science in Society is a UK London-based not-for-profit

organisation dedicated to providing critical public information on cutting

edge science, and to promoting social accountability and ecological

sustainability in science.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Sort of ties in with the Codex due to kick in Dec 2009

http://www.winhs.org/

 

We are the only counrty of 5 left on the ole roster. :-/

Should take care of all the herbals, but then the DSHEA should

protect the placebo affect pharmacy vitamins and minerals.

A friend of mine is a message therapist. They were notified recently

that they will probably not have to go through any retraining so to

speak, but they will have their oils will have to comply. What they

mean is FDA approved oils only and no herbs. I wish I would have kept

the form she emailed me, I would post it here. Maybe I can have her

resend it.

 

Anyway, the GMO thing will give the pharmacies the right to FINALLY

sell food and herbs because they will be altered and DNA owned. All

they have to do is take herbs away from everybody else first. It will

probably not be that bad in the beginning though, I heard they only

removed 1,600 rememdies over night in Australia due to the guidlines

of the codex.

 

The new and up and coming medicines are what scare me the

most...human DNA with rice..yummy

 

bt'

 

 

, " David Lambert " <dlmbrt

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> HYPERLINK

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sis.org.uk/GM_Food_Nightmare_Unfolding.php " http://www.i-sis.or

> g.uk/GM_Food_Nightmare_Unfolding.php

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> " Don't be afraid to try new things. After all, the Ark was built

by

> amateurs, and the Titanic was built by professionals "

> -Unknown

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> ISIS Press Release 09/03/07

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> GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham

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¶ Anyway, the GMO thing will give the pharmacies the right to FINALLY

sell food and herbs because they will be altered and DNA owned. All

they have to do is take herbs away from everybody else first.

 

[Dave]: Trying hard to find a silver lining here...they'll never stop us

from wildcrafting and growing things in pots. They sure haven't stomped out

marijuana growers nor made a real dent in the cocaine and poppy crops.

Herbalists will become more respected than ever before, and there will be a

great deal of contraband flora shipped inside hollowed-out candles and

false-bottomed cartons. Light will always overcome darkness because the

dark is not a positive force but simply a vacuum. As world leaders turn

more and more to the dark side, more and more people are turning from them.

Sooner or later a critical mass will be reached, and then the flood of

change will be irreversible. I really think, for purely non-mystical

reasons, that the world we know is now getting close to being swept away.

 

 

 

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I was reading a page on Social justice and came across this paragraph.

 

Patenting Human Genes

 

Most of the world does not have genetic diseases! To allow the

medical and pharmacutical establishment to patent our genes for " good

purposes " and then charge exhorbitant prices for their services and

drugs -- and consequently own the rights to our bodies, our genes,

our chromosomes, our micro-organisisms, our plants, our animals so

they can sell the world's " common wealth " that has been freely given,

exchanged, researched since the human species began!!!! -- is NOT

ACCEPTABLE! Help to repeal the NEW patent laws that allow for the

patenting of human genes, et al.

 

 

now THIS is scary, and scarier yet, there are MANY who believe this

is a good thing. :0

 

bt'

 

" We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang

separately. "

- Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

mass will be reached, and then the flood of

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mystical

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away.

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