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In reply to the discussion: The Great GMO Legitimation Crisis [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)47. Then there's this...
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07388551.2013.823595
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/gmo-labeling-ama-american-medical-association_n_1616716.html
http://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-board-directors-legally-mandating-gm-food-labels-could-%E2%80%9Cmislead-and-falsely-alarm
http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-funded_gmo_research.pdf
http://www.genetics.org/content/188/1/11.long
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/1/2.full
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-genetically-modified-food/
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/areas_work/food-technology/faq-genetically-modified-food/en/
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/Y5160E/y5160e10.htm#P3_1651The
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n9/full/nbt.2700.html
http://www.interacademies.net/File.aspx?id=6749
http://www.isaaa.org/kc/Publications/htm/articles/Position/fas.htm
http://www.siga.unina.it/circolari/Consensus_ITA.pdf
http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8180.pdf
http://www.icsu.org/publications/reports-and-reviews/new-genetics-food-and-agriculture-scientific-discoveries-societal-dilemas-2003/
Yet despite the overwhelming consensus of US and international science based organizations along with virtually every regulatory agency in the developed world declaring GMO is perfectly safe, we must discard all of this and believe web sites that publish information from discredited sources along with other pseudo-science gibberish like vaccine conspiracy theories, AIDS denialism, water memory, and other assorted nutbaggery.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/gmo-labeling-ama-american-medical-association_n_1616716.html
http://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-board-directors-legally-mandating-gm-food-labels-could-%E2%80%9Cmislead-and-falsely-alarm
http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-funded_gmo_research.pdf
http://www.genetics.org/content/188/1/11.long
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/1/2.full
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-genetically-modified-food/
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/areas_work/food-technology/faq-genetically-modified-food/en/
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/Y5160E/y5160e10.htm#P3_1651The
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n9/full/nbt.2700.html
http://www.interacademies.net/File.aspx?id=6749
http://www.isaaa.org/kc/Publications/htm/articles/Position/fas.htm
http://www.siga.unina.it/circolari/Consensus_ITA.pdf
http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8180.pdf
http://www.icsu.org/publications/reports-and-reviews/new-genetics-food-and-agriculture-scientific-discoveries-societal-dilemas-2003/
Yet despite the overwhelming consensus of US and international science based organizations along with virtually every regulatory agency in the developed world declaring GMO is perfectly safe, we must discard all of this and believe web sites that publish information from discredited sources along with other pseudo-science gibberish like vaccine conspiracy theories, AIDS denialism, water memory, and other assorted nutbaggery.
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TPP or whatever comes next will be mighty handy for Monsanto, ADM and Big Agra.
Octafish
Mar 2015
#28
The article is about power and politics, and how they're used by the GMO industry,
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#14
Monsanto's been saying one thing to the regulators, and another to the farmers fooled into buying
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#23
Yes, they were saying herbicides must be used continuously. Of course, they were!
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#36
The better way is for crops and herbicides to be rotated, not for one crop and one herbicide
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#37
Aloha pnwmom... I just made a comprehensive post on this thread .. how I feel about Monsanto
Cha
Mar 2015
#57
So you're going for guilt-by-association. Who cares? Drucker's just one person mentioned in the beginning of the article,
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#13
Monsanto's goal is to collapse the natural ecosystem and get exclusive rights to our food supply,
whereisjustice
Mar 2015
#7
propaganda doesn't just get believed or buys time, each bit contributes to a larger overall
MisterP
Mar 2015
#11
Bangladeshi farmers learn the hard way it's not wise to put much stock in the pro-GMO propaganda.
JohnyCanuck
Mar 2015
#29
There is nothing misleading about correct labeling. And the food manufacturers have zero credibility
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#59
Why wouldn't it be? I wouldn't object to the disclosure of the type of fertilizer used, including manure.
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#64
There is a profound difference between simple and clear labeling and scaremongering.
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#66
Not a damn thing.. but you will get a Lot of Hot Air from those defending Not Labeling GMO.
Cha
Mar 2015
#58