As promised, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), the Congressman from Koch Industries, has introduced a federal bill to keep labels off GMO-contaminated foods. And he’s recruited a few fellow clowns, um, colleagues to stick out their necks along with him.
In a call promoting the bill, Pompeo said the “scientific community has spoken with one voice.” He went on to say: “There is not a single example” of anyone getting sick after eating food made with GMOs.”
Either Rep. Pompeo lacks the intelligence required to understand what “long-term” negative health impact means. Or he thinks you do.
The scientific community has not spoken with one voice.
Genetic engineering is not what’s needed to feed the world.
Genetic engineering has led to an increase in the amount of pesticides and herbicides used to grow food.
When you buy a certified organic product, you know it’s GMO-free—because genetic engineering isn’t allowed in organic.
You also know the product and its ingredients haven’t been irradiated. Because irradiation is also banned from the USDA Organic certification rules.
But here’s something you probably don’t know. USDA Organic rules do allow something called mutagenesis in organic. Even though mutagenesis is a form of genetic modification. Involving radiation.
Mutagenesis is a method of plant breeding that involves subjecting plants to radiation, or dousing them in chemicals, in a way that scrambles their genes in order to produce new traits. The goal is to produce plants suitable for modern industrial agriculture, where crops are grown in vast monocultures with the aid of chemicals and machinery.
If that sounds a lot like genetic engineering, it’s because it is.
We don’t think mutagenesis should be allowed in organic. But if we want it out, we have to convince the National Organic Program to change its mind—and call for a change in the regulations governing organics.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if you spray pesticides, and the wind is blowing, those pesticides are gonna drift.
A group of Minnesotans calling themselves the Toxic Taters Coalition is tired of putting up with toxic chemicals and pesticides drifting into their yards, schools and farms—the result of the frequent spraying of potato fields by companies growing non-organic potatoes.
The coalition says it’s time for McDonald’s—the largest buyer of potatoes in the U.S.—to keep the promise it made in 2009 to reduce pesticide use in the production of the company’s famous fries. How? By demanding that the companies that supply its potatoes, like R.D. Offutt Company (RDO), change their ways.
McDonald’s buys more than 3.4 billion pounds of U.S.-grown potatoes every year. The multi-billion dollar fast food chain has the power to create change in potato-producing regions all across the country. All it has to do is require its potato suppliers to implement proven strategies to reduce the use of pesticides.
It’s time to get potatoes off of the list of the top 10 toxic fruits and vegetables. And McDonald’s can help.
Monsanto has a long and storied history of discrediting (and silencing) any scientist who dares expose the company’s lies about the “safety” of its genetically engineered crops.
It’s a little tougher for the Biotech Bully to silence consumers. At least, not without spending a lot of money.
We saw it in California. We saw it in Washington State. Two citizen ballot initiatives to require mandatory labeling of GMOs, narrowly defeated. By $70 million of industry money.
Now the money is pouring into Jackson County, Ore., where citizens wanting to protect their farms and families have launched an initiative to ban GMO crops. $455,000 so far. In a county with a population of under 207,000 people.
Monsanto and friends will keep digging into their pockets. Because they’re terrified we’re going to win.
And we are. Sooner or later. In one state, one county, after another.
It’s only a small pilot study. But the numbers are alarming. And the implications profound.
In the first testing done of its kind, Moms Across America and Sustainable Pulse found high levels of glyphosate, the key active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, in the breast milk of American women.
The pilot study has led to funding for further, more extensive testing. But the key take-away is this. For years, Monsanto has claimed that Roundup does not accumulate in human tissue. This study contradicts that claim.