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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I did a little more reading about these GMO’S..and it does appear these are affecting not only other insects and birds...but seems to be concern on how these affects humans who consume these.
Apparently much of this is done in order for 3rd world countries to grow their own food without the usual problems which affect their crops...thus since childbirth rates are so much higher this will enable them to further increase their populations....healthy....or so they say.
Oh, oh, Monsanto mission control, we have a problem!
Thanks.
The fact that autism, formerly grouped into the retardation pot was prevalent prior to vaccinations even being developed has no bearing on populist public opinions...
The concern over GM crops only have validation if someone failed or intentionally avoided testing and compliance regulations and standard practices, and sold or contaminated the food supply with something that could be dangerous, like a grain with known detrimental effects as a result of manipulating the genetic code.
This concern is very overblown, in similar ways as the flash irradiated meats are. But we can do without irradiated meats, we cannot do without enough grains to feed the population of the world. So GM products are being developed for upcoming needs, and one could say present needs because of drought and pests and the aversions to pesticides also promulgated by a ignorant public we are beginning to have shortages.
It's not just the publics fault....however the governments they elect have been burning a prime food source, namely corn to make rather expensive subsidized ethanol which prompts farmer to switch from other grains to corn to reap better profits in a high demand sector.
This high priced ethanol does nothing but make some people feel go about themselves, destroys rubber seals and gaskets in the auto engines, takes years off the useful lives of lawnmowers, tractors and small powered implements, causes food shortages, feed shortages and that results in sky high prices for meats and poultry.
So just keep it up......
On the other hand.....if we don't have enough food, then the populations will shrink and according to some this will make mother earth very happy.
So be careful what side of this argument you decided to support. Public populism is being manipulated by the highest governmental and non governmental groups located all over the planet. The initial anti GM moves were made in Europe and Asia, all of whom exercise a higher degree of public control over what their public thinks is important than we do. Unapproved thinking is outlawed in much of this region and it is quite obvious to a outsider looking in. Unfortunately this sort of governing is spreading to the US like a wildfire.
It's not a coincidence that these regions have the highest population densities on the planet and it has been problematic for decades. Lower populations, or at least population control is the unmentioned policy in a background of all of this, in my opinion. Even the US is involved with planned parenthood type NGO’s being funded now in these regions. It's just a matter of months perhaps years before we too are totally controlled even without the need for covert manipulation of public opinion. Seems to me that GM foods, ethanol, the pesticide argument, all this whole food, free range chicken, gluten free diets, and other useless corny public endeavors like abortion, reductions in space exploration, increase in domestic paramilitary power under the guise of security, changes to the electoral college......(need I go on!) are all linked in some way to the leftist drivel that the earth is in danger and we are all gonna die unless we prevent it.
Then kindly explain why all of the population control wackjobs (gates, soros, buffet, etc) are heavily invested in the GMO companies like Monsanto.
Do you think they want all 7B+ of Earth’s inhabitants to be healthy, long lived and fertile?
Why are they (gates foundation) assiduously storing all the NON GMO seeds in a giant vault in the Arctic at Svalbard?
In other words, it's cleistogamous. The problem is that it produces pollen anyway that infects target species.
Read this one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/16/india-rice-farmers-revolution
“In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages?”
Go to Google Scholar Search and input "glyphosate," "mammalian," and "toxicity." You'll get about at 3,000 hits.
RoundUp Ready Potatoes are on their way. I can't wait. /s
It's 2008 high was around 145 dollars per share, and it dropped to 45 dollars and has risen gradually back to 101 dollars today so it follows that if the creek don't rise, it should regain it's former highs at some point in the future...Other might disagree and say Monsanto is fairly priced now. They might be right.
But Buffet is not a whackjob Lib and neither is Gates because all they think about is the net worth of something they cherish. Gates and his foundation, and Buffet and his holding company.
As to the whack jobs desires for the health and well being of the world.
No, they want the populations of the world to shrink. They are working furiously at it.
Common sense tells you that more food means more people. people like animals will breed in a general relationship to resources available. This does not affect their sex lives, but it affects the offspring survival rates.
Less food means lower survival rates so whenever some new scientific advance occurs to increase food supplies, the lib whackjobs have a cow....It's bad for the mother planet!
Don’t worry about what Soros , Gates, and Buffet invest in. Money is blind. It's what they spend their profit on that is important. Investment to them is just a means to a end.
As to your seed storage comment....LOL....All I can say is that you have totally read that wrong. The storage repositories and there are more than one, are designed to save the original natural seed supply of the world in case of a planet wide extinction event where some survivors make it through. They would not be interested in GM to feed a vast population and if they wanted to they can always modify those seeds they saved or at any point they can re institute the program.
Not knowing what the environment will be like in the future, a GM seed designed today would be worthless. For example, I don't think a plant that is roundup resistant would be very important after a cataclysmic event.......Do You??????
Use your head for something other than a hat rack.....
You are exactly right.
Nothin special, huh? Then why the Monsanto protection act that was just passed? Monsanto must be pretty special to have legislation in place that protects their GMO Frankencrops.
As far as the allegation that they are “fighting like hell with competition”, they bully their competition. That is a fact. A simple Google search will prove that.
You’re a stockholder in a very evil company with some very evil investors (Soros, Gates, et al)
Wheat is wind pollinated, not by insects.
Exactly right. And the implications of this are that cross-hybridization as likely occurred in Oregon could recur anywhere where there is.... wind.
Nothing to do with glyphosphate or ‘roundup’.
Everything to do with something assumed to be safe based on short term or in vitro studies later being found in fact to be very detrimental using longer term multigenerational studies.
Let’s do a search for ‘glyphosphate’ and ‘microbiome toxicity’.
The bugs in your gut run the whole show. A petri dish with this or that cell line isn’t the whole story wrt exposures via diet. There are literally thousands of microbes in your gut. We’ve cataloged very few of them. And what we’ve found is revolutionary. As it turns out, we need them for our own genetic expression and health.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23010679
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22968153
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22688187
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22162969
(I can give you hundreds if not thousands of similar research articles. all published within the past 5 years. it’s a brand new field) (and I don’t use google for scientific research, I prefer pubmed)
What, precisely, do these compounds do to the bugs in our guts? Where are the long term, multigenerational studies of these genetically modified ingredients?
Haven’t seen any.
So, my question isn’t whether WE have a metabolic pathway problem with glyphosphate. My question is whether or not any of the microbes we depend on in our gut have a problem with glyphosphate.
And that hasn’t even been asked. Much less answered.
The population control wackjobs have enough stock to sit on the board of directors.
Ask Fox News how that reporting of Islamic terror changed once Al-Waleed bin Talal bought enough to sit on the board of directors.
The entire function of the Gates Foundation is population control. Because there are too many OTHER people. Bill’s DNA is just fine. That’s why he has THREE children. You however only need one but preferably none.
Gates, Buffet and Soros are all obsessed with making abortion easily available worldwide. Buffet is absolutely obsessed with this. He also supports the estate tax. Not a conservative position. He was also a biggie supporter of The won. Also not a conservative position.
It wouldn’t be the first time there was a large corporation with an agenda. Cigarettes had sutff added to the formulation to make them even more addictive. And the corporations denied that for generations. Except they’d really been doing it all along.
Excellent post! I’m a probiotics queen myself since I think gut bugs are the key to good health.
It does make me wonder what these Frankenfoods do to intestinal flora. One has to ask why all the strange & sudden allergies to common foods over the last 10 to 15 years. My guess is with Monsanto’s power & money, these questions will never be explored because someone somewhere already knows the answers, and they ain’t good.
....and you are thinking with your butt..
Monsanto Corporation, as a corporation has the rights of a individual to petition congress regarding it's desires and grievances.
There is nothing evil about that.
As to the internet....There have been issues with seed and chemical suppliers and their farmers since the association between the two was invented some centuries ago....These farmers are their customers, not their slaves. The farmer, if his contract is fulfilled, can make another contract with who ever he pleases or go independent. The same relationship exists for chicken farmers and Tyson, for example.
If you believe everything you read on the internet, then you will see Tyson bullying and badgering it's customers as well.
These are contractual disputes, nothing more or less. But when one occurs and they are not all that common when you look at the acreage Monsanto services and the disputed amount, it is insignificant.
The problem is that you believe and side with people who are invested in damaging Monsanto. But you don't understand why they are.
Frankly, that is how Obama got elected.....twice. And why he could even run for a third term...It's actually possible to contemplate it because there are so many ignorant people who claim they know so much.
All the available scientific papers I have read indicate there is nothing wrong with GMOs. We have been consuming such for about 2 decades without ill effects in humans and animals. The fear-mongers are largely led by crooked lawyers making money from bogus lawsuits—of course, what is new here. We have been genetically modifying plants for thousands of years in the field and just because we move to a more efficient and selective method by doing the same on a bench-top in a lab is little different.
Again, lawyers bringing bogus, but money-making, lawsuits is the biggest driver for opposing GMOs.
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