Posted on 01/25/2012 4:18:20 PM PST by Olog-hai
Monsanto has announced it will scrap plans to sell an insect-resistant maize in France, the second move in a week by biotech company to retreat from the genetically modified foods market in Europe.
Monsanto's announcement on Tuesday (24 January) came a week after Germany's BASF said it would suspend the development of GM crops in Europe and move its plant science arm to the United States.
BASF's move is a particular blow for Europe, said Carel du Marchie Sarvaas, director of agricultural biotechnology at EuropaBio.
"The BASF decision is not good for Europe because I think it is the reaction of a quintessentially European company to what is a stifling political and regulatory environment,” said du Marchie Sarvaas, whose Brussels organization represents agricultural technology companies.
“Research, jobs, money will go to where it is welcomed. In this case it will be somewhere else. It's a bad day for Europe."
Monsanto said it would not resume sales of MON810, a maize genetically modified to improve pest resistance, despite a French court ruling in November that overturned a 2008 government ban on the sale of MON810. …
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As they continue to GM our seeds how musch nutrition is really left?
There are many reasons to avoid trusting big ag and its “green revolution.”
As of January 2009 there has only been one human feeding study conducted on the effects of genetically modified foods. The study involved seven human volunteers who had previously had their large intestines removed. ——Hardly a ringing endorsement.
I plant corn so some of those seeds are indeed bought and paid for by me. If you plant corn it is true for you too
Look I am not against genetically modifiying my food sources. Over the years it has been a good thing giving us stronger, hardier, and even mor nutritious food products. But the truth is I am not interested in a cantalope that never really ripens, or a tomatoe that remains hard. Some of the GM thayt goes on is solely for big agrabusiness profitability not for the improvement of the food or growing it.
Not our seeds? They certainly used to belong to farmers who grew crops and saved seeds. I count myself as at least a customer of those farmers, thus our seeds..
Increasingly, I buy organic. Many people are doing so, with the result that organic produce continues to drop in price.
Monsanto is not your friend, unless you hold their stock. But if you eat food grown from “their” seeds, you may not live long enough to determine the dreadful effect GMO “food” has on people everywhere.
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Name two.
What the....?
The Green Revolution, led by Norman Borlaug and "big ag," is credited with saving anywhere from hundreds of millions to more than a billion people from starvation, the majority of which were children and infants.
Only someone who knows nothing about the most important American no one knows about (Borlaug), and genetic modification, could make such a ridiculous statement.
Most of the food you eat has been genetically modified in some manner. Mother Nature regularly takes genetic code from unrelated organisms and splices it together. Rather than letting it happen randomly, we are now able to direct the process for our own needs in much less time. The results of such endeavors is the ability to feed people who might otherwise starve. And you don't "trust" the people who made this possible? You Luddites are a trip.
Nonsense. Monsanto has the best R&D organization in the industry. They are one of the best managed companies in the world and they consistently grow their profits every year. They are the envy of the industry. They didn't get there by not creating products that people want and need. They didn't become the industry leader by not creating value. If they weren't producing a product that allowed others to better manage their business and make a profit, Monsanto would be an also ran like so many of their competitors.
Mindlessly demonizing successful American industry is the MO of Obama and his radical left minions. This is what they do, and they do it because they are anti-capitalists and because they hate the fact that our system allows for winners and losers. Conservatives shouldn't be joining them.
You've been eating GMO food all your life. You have no choice. How long have you lived? What "dreadful effects"are you currently suffering from?
B. GM has brought more nutrition to more people than almost anything else short of the invention of the sod-busting plow, manufactured inorganic fertilizers, and pesticides.
The moves by big ag in partnership with big government (e.g., S.510) to monopolize farming is one. The regulation racket by big corporates against small business is one of the worst kinds of rackets. Older varieties of plants (often lower yielding) are likely generally stronger—more resistant to disease, etc. The bio-genetic wizards can’t see every possibility in advance, and only one mishap could cause a worldwide famine.
...another. I can grow more per acre in a small operation and maintain soil better. Big operations are a waste of soil.
Yes! Dirty, scrawny and expensive vegetables are much better than the other kind. Don't get E. Coli!
Total BS. I have every right in the world to think and say that Monsanto sucks if that is what I believe. I can't say that I have never eaten or don't eat their poison, but I'm not happy about it, and try to avoid it as much as I can. Buying organic is pretty easy these days, and that's what I do.
Yeah, what God didn't get right, Monsanto does better. /sarc
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