Posted on 05/30/2013 8:00:45 PM PDT by Ron C.
Japan, the largest market for U.S. wheat exports, suspended imports from the United States and canceled a major purchase of white wheat on Thursday after the recent discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon.
How the altered crop made its way to the Oregon field remains a mystery. The strain was developed by Monsanto to make wheat resistant to the company’s own industry-leading weed killer. Monsanto tested the type of altered seed in more than a dozen states, including Oregon, between 1994 and 2005, but it was never approved for commercial use.
Yet the Agriculture Department reported that recent tests identified the strain after an Oregon farmer trying to clear a field sprayed Monsanto’s herbicide, Roundup, and found that the wheat could not be killed.
The report rattled U.S. wheat markets. In addition to Japan’s action, the European Union, which imports more than 1 million tons of U.S. wheat a year, said that it was following developments “to ensure E.U. zero-tolerance policy is implemented.” It asked Monsanto to help detection efforts in Europe.
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The home farmer right? These people are evil.
GMO foods would be unlikely to fall into a criminal situation because of extensive testing for all the issue mentioned on this thread but if they did, just like the bug spray chemistry tampering the event would draw a swift case of justice which includes the death penalty.
I think we can handle a situation like that because everything we have it at risk every day for tampering, poisoning, even genetic warfare that destroys entire food systems. Not just Monsanto does this work...and frankly speaking, the company is not all that profitable so they sure are not screwing anyone.
Yes, the home farmer. The legislation didn’t pass. If it had, the homes of such farmers may have been raided along with other facilities on their places.
Serve it up.
Little correction of my comment here. None of the legislation attempts passed without amendments exempting small farmers.
It’s almost time to take our country back.
Down with Monsanto.
Agree with you here. There are a bunch here who believe the government and the media. They trust government to grow government to protect us from another fake crisis ( this time monstanto). So why not the fake crisis of adam lanzas or fake global warming. They should go protest with green peace.amazing. They don’t realize government is the problem . And they believe the liberal media.
A lot.
I deal with native plant habitat restoration. I get rid of weeds, some 125 species of weeds. Our property is the cleanest piece of land on the West Coast of the US. I did it to establish in law the superiority of private environmental management as an alternative to government regulation and to serve as a research center for study of native plant systems. I'm saying this because I want you to understand that I'm something of a weed expert, albeit in a non-industrial setting.
Historically, I used a fair bit of RoundUp in addition to half a dozen other herbicides. Glyphosate (the active ingredient in RoundUp) is the DDT of herbicides: cheap, effective, and safe, a once-in-a-century invention. The people of the United States granted Monsanto a patent on glyphosate that the people enforced for 34 years. Glyphosate is now public domain.
With the development of RoundUp Ready genetics, Monsanto is cross pollinating all sorts of weeds with RoundUp Ready genes. So far, what it has meant is that people have to use more RoundUp for it to be effective. We have already seen those genes showing up in compositae such as horseweed. Compositae are among the most genetically plastic of plants. Among them are dandelions, thistles, and the tarweed tribe, the latter of which includes plants that are toxic on range land, especially Senecio and Dittrichia. Yet over the long term, this development represents a potentially devastating impact to weed control with serious implications for crop production and habitat on a continental scale.
Monsanto has dealt a mortal blow to the value of that now public good, thus forcing everyone to buy more RoundUp or their newer patented, more hazardous, and less effective alternatives. In a way, what they have done is just like what Zeneca did with DDT when that patent ran out. They got Ruckleshaus to ban DDT despite an official finding that it was virtually harmless to non-target species. That forced everybody to buy organophosphate on which Zeneca had a patent. Organophosphate is far more toxic, so now that it's running out and has been shown destructive to workers they've sold that patent to a shell corporation in Arizona.
And so it goes. Worse, Monsanto has been suing producers who have had their crops pollinated by Monsanto's genes! So in effect, they have been a bully and a bad neighbor. As things are, American exporters have been harmed by this development and I hope they sue the hell out of Monsanto.
Yet the final player in all of this is the FDA and the USDA, who approved of these products. Then there's the EPA which mandated totally unnecessary gasoline oxygenates. Control of these regulations has been a feeding trough of corporate interests at the expense of the public. So the real message is, don't expect a politicized regulatory system that socializes risks to deliver cost effective and objective judgments.
Those are some serious dosages you are talking about.
Citation please.
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Glyphosate-based herbicides are toxic and endocrine disruptors in human cell lines. Gasnier C, Dumont C, Benachour N, Clair E, Chagnon MC, Séralini GE. SourceUniversity of Caen, Institute of Biology, Lab. Biochemistry EA2608, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 Caen cedex, France. Abstract Glyphosate-based herbicides are the most widely used across the world; they are commercialized in different formulations. Their residues are frequent pollutants in the environment. In addition, these herbicides are spread on most eaten transgenic plants, modified to tolerate high levels of these compounds in their cells. Up to 400 ppm of their residues are accepted in some feed. We exposed human liver HepG2 cells, a well-known model to study xenobiotic toxicity, to four different formulations and to glyphosate, which is usually tested alone in chronic in vivo regulatory studies. We measured cytotoxicity with three assays (Alamar Blue, MTT, ToxiLight), plus genotoxicity (comet assay), anti-estrogenic (on ERalpha, ERbeta) and anti-androgenic effects (on AR) using gene reporter tests. We also checked androgen to estrogen conversion by aromatase activity and mRNA. All parameters were disrupted at sub-agricultural doses with all formulations within 24h. These effects were more dependent on the formulation than on the glyphosate concentration. First, we observed a human cell endocrine disruption from 0.5 ppm on the androgen receptor in MDA-MB453-kb2 cells for the most active formulation (R400), then from 2 ppm the transcriptional activities on both estrogen receptors were also inhibited on HepG2. Aromatase transcription and activity were disrupted from 10 ppm. Cytotoxic effects started at 10 ppm with Alamar Blue assay (the most sensitive), and DNA damages at 5 ppm. A real cell impact of glyphosate-based herbicides residues in food, feed or in the environment has thus to be considered, and their classifications as carcinogens/mutagens/reprotoxics is discussed.
legal limit in the US is 5ppm, btw.
rotten rye
As depressingly common in such “augh! the poison!” studies, no way is suggested of tying dietary levels to in vitro equivalent exposure.
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Doesn’t sound good does it.
I agree. Thanks for the response.
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