While We Were Sleeping...GM Food and the Brink of No Return

[happy_liberal]

(SALEM, Ore.) - The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in April, for the first time, about the safety of genetically engineered (GE) crops and their potential for contamination of nearby conventional crops in Geertson Seed Farms V. USDA and Monsanto.

Owner of Geertson Seed Farms, Idaho farmer Phil Geertson is the lead plaintiff in the case. The 2006 lawsuit was filed by the Center for Food Safety on behalf of Geertson and other farmers who worry about GE crop contamination of their conventionally grown alfalfa.

Only now are millions of Americans waking up to the fact that an estimated seventy-five percent of our processed foods contain some form of genetically modified (GM) ingredients according to the Center for Food Safety.

Many consumers don’t understand the process used to develop these GM foods that have been deemed “substantially equivalent” to other foods by executive order, and therefore bypassed with little regulation to the public without their knowledge or consent.

The process behind genetically modified food involves a careful re-configuration of genes combining e-coli bacteria, soil bacteria and the cauliflower mosaic virus that causes tumors in plants. They add an antibiotic and then artificially force it into plant cells with a gene invasion technique. (Watch the process below)<2>. All this is so farmers can douse nearly unlimited amounts of Roundup Herbicide on the crops and the plants won’t die.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march012010/monsanto_as.php

[Junkdrawer]

1. K&R

[Newest Reality]

2. I love to see exposure on this matter!

And lo, he said unto them: A great and malicious giant will rise up under the Eagle. It's evil talons will embrace the Earth and corrupt all manner of grains and crops, saying, "Thou shalt eat of my harvest only if thou payest exorbitant fees unto me!" And none could grow without the trademark and by paying homage to the fierce and toxic demon, Roundup. There was weeping and gnashing of the teeth the people had left, and they became as lepers, with boils and deformations within and without, sickened by that desecration of nature. Beware the abomination! it's name is Monsanto.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. The problem is the Supreme Court will rule on the legal aspect of the preceding cases,

not the question of fact of whether GM foods are safe to be consumed.

[Webster Green]

4. Not everyone has been sleeping.

Here's some pics I took at a GMO protest in Sacramento, CA in June, 2003. Big shot GMO fuckers were in town for a conference. We spent about 4 days there protesting and attending workshops. We also liberated (well, for 2 days) a downtown park that had been a community garden site, and was then shut down by the city.

We went to many workshops and heard farmers from all over the world, telling horror stories of their experiences with Monsanto.

We confronted armed to the teeth Sacramento Pigs, who were ready to commit violence at a moment's notice.

Not sleeping.

[MineralMan]

5. Who burned the flag?

[Webster Green]

6. I didn't see who did it.

I saw the remains laying there and took a pic.