do you know what a Gen-M is?

[ensho]

http://counterpunch.com/cummins06212010.html


Why We Need Labels on GM Foods
Generation Monsanto


Gen-M, the first Monsanto Generation of humans force-fed genetically modified foods hasn't reached reproductive age yet (they were born in the late 1990s). But, if a critical mass of animal feeding studies are any indication, the millennial generation, reared on Food Inc.'s unlabeled "Frankenfoods" can look forward to a long-term epidemic of cancer, food allergies, learning disabilities, sterility, and birth defects.

Corn (85% of U.S. production is GM), soy (91% GM), cotton (88% GM), canola (85% GM) and sugar beets (95% GM) are all genetically engineered by Monsanto to withstand massive doses of the company's glyphosate herbicide RoundUp, or else to exude their own pesticide, Bacillus Thuriengensis (Bt). RoundUp, the favorite weedkiller poison of non-organic farmers and gardeners, causes brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses. And scientists warn that RoundUp, the most extensively used herbicide in the history of agriculture, "may have dire consequences for agriculture such as rendering soils infertile, crops non-productive, and plants less nutritious." In addition, hundreds of thousands of US dairy cows are injected with genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (developed by Monsanto) in spite of studies linking BGH with cancer, and longstanding bans on the drug in the EU, Japan, Canada, and other industrialized nations.

With genetically modified foods and crops threatening public health and the environment, not to mention the next generation's reproductive capacity, why isn't there a massive consumer outcry to restrain Monsanto's biotech bullying and ban genetically engineered foods and agriculture?

The answer is disturbingly simple. Collusion between Monsanto and elected public officials (including the current Obama Administration) has obscured the fact that almost all non-organic foods in the US contain GMOs. Despite poll after poll indicating that 85-95% of US consumers want mandatory labels on foods containing GMOs, Congress has heretofore listened to Monsanto and corporate agribusiness, rather than their own constituents. In the European Union, Japan, or South Korea, where GM foods must be labeled, there are no GM foods on grocery story shelves (and little or none served in restaurants), since most consumers would not buy them and a significant number would complain if they saw GMO labels on products. Consequently there are very few GM crops being cultivated in the EU (mainly a small amount of corn in Spain for animal feed).

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We need genetically modified food labeled now!
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I hope some university or group will be studying the Gen-M ers.
I would think the parents of Gen-M ers would/will need extra help too.
and milk drinkers.

whoever, is right. this is the age of service workers, starting with the medical world.

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Just the good ol' skull & crossbones universal "poison" symbol would probably work

Anything that brings attention to the toxicity of this shit is fine with me though.

Maybe Billy Idol can put a new band together and call it GenM?

[NoNothing]

2. Wouldn't a pesticide/herbicide label be more useful?

After all, not all GM crops have been chemically treated, and not all chemical treatments are applied to GM crops. If it is chemicals that cause problems, then that ought to be the target of the labeling, it seems to me.

[ensho]

4. the seed of the crop is changed which also caused negative problems

and some of the seeds will no reproduce. the farmer has to buy seeds every year, where with natural seeds, the farmer harvested them for the next yr.

but the worst problems is that the changed seeds, plant are harmful to humans.

The Gen-M are human guinea pigs. proof of the toxic pudding.

[Angry Dragon]

3. The US can become the land of mutants

[ensho]

5. the fish in our rivers have already mutated example is the male fish

that produce eggs.

more and more hermaphrodite fish and various combinations of that.

happening with humans too. many genital abnormalities.

[Angry Dragon]

11. I find it ironic that we are destroying

the human race through greed.

They tell us that they are just trying to make our lives better.

Perhaps a new ad campaign is needed ...... "A better life through destruction"


edit: added link http://news.discovery.com/animals/more-hermaphrodite-fish-in-us.html

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. So what happens when "Gen-M" turns out to have no ill effects whatsoever?

Unless, of course, Monsanto (or should I say Monsatan?) is suppressing the effects of indigo children, and that's why indigo children can't be observed in a controlled environment?

[ensho]

7. but they are already showing ill effects

this isn't a 'what if', its a 'what is'. they are just beginning to chart the ill effects.

they can't chart the 'fertile or not' until the Gen-M ers try to reproduce.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. No, they're not.

[SpiralHawk]

8. We will know for sure that corporate moles fudged and posted the so-called 'results'

as usual.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Sounds like classic paranoia.

[SpiralHawk]

14. ...but, it is just good old-fashioned reality

Based on the track record already well established by the company you call MonSatan. Funny about that. Both Monsanto and BP exhibit massive symptoms of Republicon Family Pharisse Values. As a consequence, human beings and the natural world suffer grievous injury that a few fatcats might massively profit.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. No, it's irrational paranoia.

Think about what you're saying for a second.

You're making the extraordinary claim that GM food is secretly making people sick. Then when asked why there's no evidence to support your claim, you invent a conspiracy theory that biotech companies are suppressing all the evidence.

That's ridiculous, and I think you know it.

[SpiralHawk]

16. Your apology for Monsanto's mutant crap, sounds a lot like the Republicon apolgies to BP

Your extraordinary claim that this untested (except by GM-corporation funded 'scientists') and occultly unlabeled mutant food 'product' is safe, just does not stand the Seven Generations Test.

The Mutant GMO corporate crapola already out there widely is producing mutant Superweeds, and Mutant soil organisms.

Help yourself to heaping shovelsful of mutant 'food product' if you wish. That's your right. Apologize to Monsanto all you want.That's your right, too, just like the republicons have the right to grovel before BP.

I will have none of it. And as a citizen of These United States I demand the right to know what the Hell the MultiNational corporations are doing to my food. Unlabeled Mutant GMO occult food-facsimile processed 'product' -- as common sense makes plain to anyone who's brain has not already been addled by eating the mutant crap -- is a poor bet.

As with my ancestors, I rest upon the Seven Generations teaching.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. See? Now I'm part of the conspiracy.

I shoot down your logic. Therefore, I'm part of the Illuminati. Or Free Masons. Or whatever.

[librechik]

18. since no long term studies have ever been done on any of these products, how can you claim to know

they are harmless?

I guess your board name is a clue...

To your (iffy) health.

:puke:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. My health is fine.

So is "generation M's"

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. Unless we are allowed to know we are eating it...

we'll never be able to prove or disprove anything.

Just the way Monsanto wants it.

[Hannah Bell]

13. it's not labeled on purpose.