Corporate greenwash and food crisis producing a media GM agenda
truth about GM | 30.07.2008 10:14
Worryingly, the corporate media and even Indymedia is getting posts undermining very serious concerns about GM food technology. Surveys shows that the majority of the UK public reject GM foods alongside other Europeans and there is a growing movement in the US. Blair and Brown refused to adopt what is called the precautionary approach, which says lets test these foods before allowing their use. The precautionary approach is recommended because GM food is based on lab experiments not natural foods we have lived with for many years. Instead, Blair and Brown have done the opposite and constantly tried to undermine protection of human health and food sustainability in favour of big agri-business companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) trying to push the GM agenda.
Here are some facts
The GM issue is very serious as it raises issues about human health, the access to ordinary non-GMO foods which have proved beneficial to human health as well as the detrimental impact on the environment, wildlife and ecology.
The four serious points are as follows:
GM foods are not ordinary foods and are therefore inherently different to what we have been eating. They are created in laboratories using genes which are synthetic versions of the originals.
GM foods are not safe and have been proven not to be so for by independent research scientists at the Institute of Science in Society. See url
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/index.php
These scientists are not in the pay of organisations who are interested in a profit sector which leaves the control of food, the ecology in the hands of lab technicians.
GM companies are not being ensured for this experimentation on the environment, organic farming or on human health via their GM foods because no one is prepared to underwrite the risks.
GM foods lead to more pesticide problems as pests have proven to build up resistance.
Most people do not want to experiment with human health and are also not prepared to underwrite the health and other risks which companies like Monsanto, propoents of Agent Orange, want to leave with consumeers and taxpayers. The European Union must take action to protect the citizen from the harmful impacts of a technology sector that is ripe for abuse and monopolisation of the human food chain.
GM foods are found in most foods unless they are certified organic. There are doubts about Italian food following accusations that authorities will certify anything.
The GM issue is very serious as it raises issues about human health, the access to ordinary non-GMO foods which have proved beneficial to human health as well as the detrimental impact on the environment, wildlife and ecology.
The four serious points are as follows:
GM foods are not ordinary foods and are therefore inherently different to what we have been eating. They are created in laboratories using genes which are synthetic versions of the originals.
GM foods are not safe and have been proven not to be so for by independent research scientists at the Institute of Science in Society. See url
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/index.php These scientists are not in the pay of organisations who are interested in a profit sector which leaves the control of food, the ecology in the hands of lab technicians.
GM companies are not being ensured for this experimentation on the environment, organic farming or on human health via their GM foods because no one is prepared to underwrite the risks.
GM foods lead to more pesticide problems as pests have proven to build up resistance.
Most people do not want to experiment with human health and are also not prepared to underwrite the health and other risks which companies like Monsanto, propoents of Agent Orange, want to leave with consumeers and taxpayers. The European Union must take action to protect the citizen from the harmful impacts of a technology sector that is ripe for abuse and monopolisation of the human food chain.
GM foods are found in most foods unless they are certified organic. There are doubts about Italian food following accusations that authorities will certify anything.
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