Slideshow: genetically modified foods
If you have been to our office in Northfield you may have seen this slideshow. Informative information from Mercola.com, 2/21/2009. Source ...
Genetic engineering: The world's greatest scam?
heritage of humankind, and one of our world's fundamental keys to survival. ... GE GMO GM "genetic engineering" "genetic ...
The Attack on our Seeds
(NEW DELHI) - Once again, our seeds are under attack. Trans-national seeds companies like Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer are pushing genetically modified [GM] seeds in India without proper biosafety assessment. It is now scientifically known that when GM seeds are sown and plants flower, non-GM plants are contaminated through cross-pollination, and all life forms are contaminated through horizontal transfer of genetic traits. The contamination is irreversible. Once our seeds are contaminated with GM organisms, the contamination is In perpetuity .
Genetic engineering of seeds
Genetic engineering [GE] technology allows patenting of seeds; it has no other purpose. Natural seeds are taken and their genes spliced by one of several methods. The altered genetic trait in a natural seed is then patented. These seeds neither increase yield nor enhance nutritive content of foods; nor do they increase yield by reducing crop losses due to pest attacks or helping plants withstand vagaries of weather. But patented seeds ensure huge profits for multinational corporations.
GM Food biodiversity News
The Attack on our Seeds
If the stored seeds are genetically modified the treaty does not protect this common asset; it becomes the property of unscrupulous firms. The European parliament, despite growing opposition to GM foods, decided [6 Nov 2006] to support biotech firms ...
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GM crops banned in Peru In a bid to protect its local food producers, the country has approved a law establishing a moratorium on income and production of genetically modified organisms. Peru's President Ollanta Humala said the decision was made after hearing 'the cries of ... |
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No therapy in retail When food is treated as a commodity, it does not matter how it is produced — whether GM seeds were used or not, whether it is produced chemically or organically. But how food is produced does determine what happens to our soil, biodiversity and water; ... |
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Health test crucial for GM pilot crop The genetically modified corn was tested and proved safe to the biodiversity and environment surrounding the fields. We has only just finished the phase of implementing the pilot crop of genetically modified crops on a large scale and proved its safety ... |
Why Deny Biotech to a Hungry Africa?
AGRA, whose chairman is former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, says that the group "does not fund the development of GM crops." Africa grows a diverse range of crops as staple foods: not just corn, rice and wheat but cassava, yams, black-eyed peas and ...
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