Posted on 06/30/2013 2:03:25 PM PDT by opentalk
GM foods are banned from restaurants in the Houses of Parliament despite government claims it is ‘probably safer’ than other meals.
Government ministers are demanding that ordinary families should abandon their reluctance to eat genetically modified food, however they are banned from MPs’ plates. This week the food and farming secretary, Owen Paterson, launched an extraordinary propaganda campaign to encourage the nation to accept GM crops and farming.
He bolstered his campaign with claims that some seven million children in the Far East could have been saved from blindness or death in the last 15 years if only people had opened the door to a new form of GM ‘Golden Rice’.
However, his efforts were unravelling today amid evidence that GM food is banned from the dinner tables of MPs, while his claims for the GM rice proved to be bogus. The House of Commons Catering service today confirmed that the ban on GM ingredients which dates back to 1998 remains in place as a matter of ‘customer choice’. It said: ‘In line with its procurement policy, the House of Commons Catering Service avoids, wherever identifiable, the procurement of foods that contain genetically modified organisms.
... As a result, the minister and fellow MPs leave themselves open to accusations of hypocrisy and complaints that they are telling people to ‘do as I say, not as I do’.
Speaking earlier this week, Mr Paterson said: ‘The use of more precise technology and greater regulatory scrutiny probably makes GM organisms even safer than conventional plants and food.
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He’s a peach!
… The World Food Prize has been criticized in the past for favoring industrial agriculture. The foundation that administers the prize has received contributions from companies,including a $5 million pledge from Monsanto in 2008.
sounds like the World Food Prize awarded to Monsanto is funded by Monsanto.
Monsato is very good at manipulating public policy and law for their benefit.
Well if Al “The Earth Has a Fever” Gore, Jimmy “Blame the Jews” Carter, and obama can get Nobel Prizes . . .
Looks like one out of eleven winners, since 2008, works for Monsanto. The Monsanto guy this year is one of three sharing the prize. Why doesn't Monsanto, or GMO, get 100% of the winners? LOL!
PR stunt
You’re really going to claim intellect debating a Costco worker?
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