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Under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, there were no regulations [of genetically modified organisms] ...
But there could have been a choice. In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration produced a policy that it had been working on for many years. In that policy, it said, "We will treat them for the most part as substantially equivalent. Only under certain circumstances will we add any required regulatory mechanisms."
Thousands of people commented and said, "This is not strong enough. We want labeling. We want required food safety testing. We want these to be treated like chemical additives." Well, the Food and Drug Administration ignored those thousands of comments, and proceeded to treat these products really as ordinary food, except under unusual circumstances. As a result, there is only a voluntary scheme. The FDA has yet to require a single test of any foods on the market. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/viewpoints/regulated.html
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Madrid| Doctors of the Carlos III hospital confirmed this morning in a press conference, the first case of human death caused by the ingestion of genetically modified food. Juan Pedro Ramos died from anaphylaxis after eating some recently developed tomatoes containing fish genes, which provoked a violent and lethal allergic reaction. http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/doctors-confirm-first-human-death-officially-caused-by-gmos/
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To take a gene from a bacterium, virus or animal that would never normally crossbreed with the target plant, biotechnologists have to do more than just insert the desired gene. A package of genes from bacteria, viruses and the gene from the donating organism is built, according to ecologist Susan Borowitz, writing for Terrain, the magazine of the Berkeley Ecology Center. The genes from the bacteria and viruses serve two functions: They break down barriers between species and they make sure the desired gene can be identified.
"Scientistas," Borowitz writes, "have to build a tool to trick plant cells into accepting and incorporating genes from unrelated species." The tool includes a "promoter," virtually always a gene from the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus, to allow the new genes to work within the host organism. Organisms normally repress, or "silence," new genes: The presence of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus makes this defense less effective. Geneticist Cummins said he fears this promoter gene could recombine with other genes (bacteria and dormant viruses) to create new pathogens that could be harmful or lethal to plants, animals or people. https://www.organicconsumers.org/old_articles/ge/genemarker.php
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https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120521170741AAnQyMw
http://althealthworks.com/2366/what-is-the-difference-between-natural-fluoride-and-the-artificial-kind-in-our-water-supply/
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/democracy
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. In English: the wealthy few move policy, while the average American has little power. The two professors came to this conclusion after reviewing answers to 1,779 survey questions asked between 1981 and 2002 on public policy issues. They broke the responses down by income level, and then determined how often certain income levels and organised interest groups saw their policy preferences enacted. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
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June 15, 2015 (Washington, D.C.) - Center for Food Safety (CFS) today expressed strong opposition to Representative Pompeo’s newly revised genetically engineered (GE) food labeling preemption bill (H.R. 1599), which now has been greatly expanded to not only prohibit all labeling of GE foods, but also to make it unlawful for states or local governments to restrict GE crops in any way. These new provisions would not only prohibit any future state and local laws, but also undemocratically nullify GE crop regulations that have existed in numerous counties across the country for over a decade. The bill would also further weaken already weak federal regulation of GE crops, while at the same time forbidding local communities from opting to protect their citizens, their farmers, and their environments. The bill draft will be discussed at a House hearing on Thursday. “The Monsanto Protection Act is back, and it’s even worse than before. This bill would strip away a state or local government’s basic rights of local control, and hands the biotech industry everything it wants on a silver platter. No Member of Congress that cares about the rights and concerns of his or her constituents should support this bill,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director at Center for Food Safety. http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/1044/rbgh/press-releases/3961/the-monsanto-protection-act-is-back-and-worse-than-ever
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They keep coming up with more and more evil crap to benefit monsatan and other giant interests while screwing the public. They ban trans fats to make it look like they are protecting us and then do all this other shit. 1 thing right and 1000 things wrong.
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Re: This is why we need GMO labeling [Re: Stonehenge]
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The shit doesn't have a life by itself they have to keep propping it up, like the French language.
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Re: This is why we need GMO labeling [Re: sweeper54]
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“The Monsanto Protection Act is back, and it’s even worse than before. This bill would strip away a state or local government’s basic rights of local control
Got to believe this would have to be Unconstitutional.
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Re: This is why we need GMO labeling [Re: sweeper54]
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There is no Monsanto Protection Act.
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Re: This is why we need GMO labeling [Re: Enlil]
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Enlil said: There is no Monsanto Protection Act.
GMO Labeling Bill 2015: Monsanto Supports Proposed National Law For Voluntary Disclosure Of Genetically Engineered Foods http://www.ibtimes.com/gmo-labeling-bill-2015-monsanto-supports-proposed-national-law-voluntary-disclosure-1967037
This is one of Monsanto's tactic to exhaust the fund of their opponent. They has plenty of money to burn, and which I believe that they use it instead of fire logs for their fire place. But the only way we can fight back is not to buy their products, just go organic; but then, they might has investments in organic crops as well. But one thing that I do know is that they are making plenty of money from their chemicals that were used in wars; they just cannot let them stay on the shelves and rot.
By 1905 Monsanto began to make profit by selling vanilla and caffeine. In 1906, the US governments started regulating and inspecting meat products but somehow even up to today companies like ConAgra and Monsanto are exempt from regulations since they pay and donate for politicians, research facilities, schools and even USDA framework.
During WW2, Francis Queeny couldn’t import chemicals from Europe and stared manufacturing its own chemical products. In 1929, Monsanto went public and became the largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Although PCBs were banned in 1970s, they still remain in water along Dead Creek in Sauget where Monsanto had its plant for manufacturing PCBs. PCBs were widely used as lubricants, cutting oils and hydraulic fluids until scientific evidences showed that PCBs are one of the deadliest carcinogens and chemicals tlinked to anuto immune system disorder, birth defects, cancer and fatal death.
- See more at: http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/dark-history-monsanto/#sthash.dCx2fxoN.dpuf
Pretty soon this is how the this country is going to look compared to other countries. Unless Monsanto get all of the rest of the country to join in, especially Cuba. I wonder what it is going to be added in their trade agreement of reconciliation. They cannot leave any proof about how things looked before, or they will uncovered and hunted down as the way they had hunted Sadaam.
other Source. https://www.facebook.com/nongmoproject
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That does nothing to undercut my statement.
Also, why should gmos have to be labeled? Since they're safe and not significantly different from non-gmo, why does it matter?
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Re: This is why we need GMO labeling [Re: Enlil]
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Why shouldn't a state be able to label if they pass a law saying they want that?
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Re: This is why we need GMO labeling [Re: sweeper54]
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Because the freedom of speech includes the freedom not to speak. Forced labeling is forced speech. In order to limit the freedom of speech, the government needs a compelling interest and the law has to be narrowly tailored to that interest.
What possible compelling government interest does forced GMO labeling serve?
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