Posted on 05/26/2013 8:26:53 AM PDT by opentalk
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizers said.
Organizers said "March Against Monsanto" protests were held in 52 countries and 436 cities, including Los Angeles where demonstrators waved signs that read "Real Food 4 Real People" and "Label GMOs, It's Our Right to Know."
… The U.S. Senate this week overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would allow states to require labeling of genetically modified foods.
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A liberal judge decides they may pose a risk?
Sounds like a good reason to destroy billions of dollars in value.
Ethanol subsides for a start. Monsanto reaps huge benefits from subsides to corn farming for ethanol production. There is much more. The new bill in Congress proposes protection from lawsuits.
..Whole Foods says there is growing demand for products that don't use GMOs, with sales of products with a "Non-GMO" verification label spiking between 15 percent and 30 percent.
Exactly. This should be a Conservative issue ... if more conservatives would get their heads out about what centralization of EVERYTHING means.
Smaller is better. More local is better.
I thought Conservatives were supposed to be for more local control and less top-down control.
Centrally controlled food production should terrify Conservatives.
Oh please. Ethanol subsidies don't give Monsanto any taxpayer funds. You're really stretching. Any more realistic proof of your claim?
There is much more.
I'll wait for your proof.
The new bill in Congress proposes protection from lawsuits.
Can you be more specific in the protection you think they get?
“They would rather let Africans and Asians starve then modify food. Sometimes I wonder if starvation isn’t the real left wing agenda.”
Exactly what I was thinking.
I don’t think that is quite right. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a Monsanto supporter.
The GMO foods are resistant to the weed killer in Round-UP. In other words, it makes it possible to spray the weeds and not kill the crop along with the weeds. The problem is that no one really believes that Round-Up is not harmful to humans.
GMO foods enable farmers to grow more crops on less land. There is a huge push to open up land in the Pacific Northwest to growing grain and soybeans to ship to China, land which has been banned from growing anything by the federal government. GMO crops are the back-up crop for some of those new “coal” terminals that the Obama administration is pushing, with the support of of Republicans and TeaParty members. According to some of the representatives of the Gateway Pacific Terminal (Goldman Sachs), the Chinese have told them that they don’t want our sub-bituminous coal, they want grain and soy beans. (but coal is the product that earns the support of the Republicans).
Why are you here posting?
Shouldn’t you be marching with the rest of the clowns?
Hey, I like that solution! There’s nothing to stop companies from labeling their food NON-GMO.
I didn’t see any mention of the fact that the TeaParty was the original backer of this anti-Monsanto demonstration. I heard this because the local left, which has been opposing GMO foods for a long time, backed out of the local event when they found out that it was connected to the TeaParty.
Teach me. Use facts, not feelings.
So you are for ethanol subsidies?
Why should any industry get Federal subsidies?
Why does Monsanto need Federal laws to protect it from competition. If it has such great products, then why can’t they stand on their own?
That’s interesting (and encouraging) about the tea party opposition to Monsanto. Got any links to this?
Once they control all the seeds they control the entire food producion chain. Africans and Asians would be at their mercy if they didn’t want to starve.
Slavery is coming back.
Centrally controlled food production should terrify Conservatives.
You’re right. But some conservatives see some lefties protesting and automatically shut their minds.
Not now, not ever, never.
You said Monsanto couldn't survive without the subsidies they get. They were around a long time before the idiot politicians gave us these idiotic ethanol subsidies.
Why should any industry get Federal subsidies?
I agree, get rid of them. What does that have to do with your claim about Monsanto.
Why does Monsanto need Federal laws to protect it from competition.
You need to be more specific. What law protects them from competition?
Teach yourself.
I don’t shut my mind when I see ignorant conservatives protesting alongside ignorant liberals.
It’s easy to demonstrate against GMO foods when you’re a low information luddite who has never been hungry a day in your life or watched family members die of starvation.
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