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54. obviously you need education- glyphosate applied on GE foods

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:07 AM

Mar 2015

is known to cause cell damage at concentrations 100,000x more dilute than shelved product. Go ahead and eat this toxic substance through the food chain and let us know when the cancer shows up or your children are born with birth defects

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22331240

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2176082/deformities_sickness_livestock_deaths_the_real_cost_of_glyphosate_gm_animal_feed.html

Crystal Gammon and Environmental Health News, Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weed-whacking-herbicide-p/ Jun 23, 2009

Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25426-one-little-piggy-had-birth-defects-is-monsantos-roundup-to-blame. Aug. 8, 2014

“Studies conducted on rats and rabbits since the 1980s have shown an astonishing spectrum of birth defects associated with glyphosate, including absent kidneys, missing lobes of the lungs, enlarged hearts, ventricular septal defects (holes in the heart), extra ribs, and deformed and absent bones of the skull, spine, ribs, sternum and limbs.”

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FDA approves genetically engineered potatoes, apples as safe [View all] Omaha Steve Mar 2015 OP

You can always count on the gubbermint to look out for us! d_legendary1 Mar 2015 #1

Not LBN: The apple story is a month old. The potato story is several months old. HuckleB Mar 2015 #2

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the genetically engineered foods Omaha Steve Mar 2015 #3

From LBN in November. HuckleB Mar 2015 #4

Please reread to get more clarity cosmicone Mar 2015 #8

They were approved before the McDonald's article. HuckleB Mar 2015 #9

Things are approved in stages cosmicone Mar 2015 #13

You know that this is a technicality. HuckleB Mar 2015 #15

It is not a technicality cosmicone Mar 2015 #16

Why are you making baseless claims about GMOs? HuckleB Mar 2015 #5

I don't like olives, mushrooms or GMO food. It's my choice. You eat what you want and I won't tell GoneFishin Mar 2015 #6

That's funny. HuckleB Mar 2015 #10

Because they're new and thus scary. So clearly they will kill us all. (nt) jeff47 Mar 2015 #7

Mutation breeding is new, too, but it can be organic so it's not scary! HuckleB Mar 2015 #11

If people need a reason to be frightened, they should google Triticale Major Nikon Mar 2015 #24

LOL! Indeed! HuckleB Mar 2015 #31

seems that the clown car has spilled it's cargo SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #40

I know, right? Those three are on EVERY single GMO thread. Coinky-dinky-ental, huh? closeupready Mar 2015 #59

They aren't that new anymore Major Nikon Mar 2015 #22

You mean like in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? cstanleytech Mar 2015 #36

We shouldn't oppose GMO claiming they're unsafe -- they are not. cosmicone Mar 2015 #12

Conventional and organic seeds are also patented. HuckleB Mar 2015 #14

How about some links to back up what you are saying? Omaha Steve Mar 2015 #41

As I recall, those studies were later discredited NickB79 Mar 2015 #42

Study ties GMO corn, soybeans to butterfly losses (Updated: March 16, 2012 - 9:37 PM) Omaha Steve Mar 2015 #43

And that's not related to the original study you posted NickB79 Mar 2015 #44

I agree with that Omaha Steve Mar 2015 #45

read my links and there are lots more if you want to educate yourself wordpix Mar 2015 #56

It's the glyphosate, a systemic poison wordpix Mar 2015 #55

No argument from me on Monsanto Omaha Steve Mar 2015 #58

obviously you need education- glyphosate applied on GE foods wordpix Mar 2015 #54

"nothing wrong"---yeah, you go eat glyphosate through the food chain wordpix Mar 2015 #53

Yay! geomon666 Mar 2015 #17

Tasteless CountAllVotes Mar 2015 #18

have you tasted them? Bradical79 Mar 2015 #46

Enjoy your Roundup Ready CountAllVotes Mar 2015 #50

Who is Michael Taylor Man from Pickens Mar 2015 #19

This is the problem - O has not cleaned house in agencies like FDA, EPA, Dept. of AGritoxins wordpix Mar 2015 #60

What could possibly go.. jimmydwight Mar 2015 #20

52 Congress members sign letter warning of GMOs killing monarch butterflies (March 18, 2015) Omaha Steve Mar 2015 #21

Who needs butterflies, anyway? There's no money in them. Zorra Mar 2015 #23

Are milkweed seeds available to buy? Doremus Mar 2015 #25

Yes: EX500rider Mar 2015 #26

Free Butterfly Garden Seeds, Quick Seed Purchases and Contributions for the Cause Omaha Steve Mar 2015 #27

Thank you!! <3 Doremus Mar 2015 #48

Neither of these are the "bad" kinds of GMO's. Hold those jerking knees. Xithras Mar 2015 #28

Yes, they are the "bad" kind of GMOs. bananas Mar 2015 #30

There is nothing wrong with the technology. Xithras Mar 2015 #33

No, they transfer a chunk of dna which contains the gene. bananas Mar 2015 #35

The purpose of this GMO is to deceive people. bananas Mar 2015 #32

Nope Xithras Mar 2015 #34

The beginning of the end. bananas Mar 2015 #29

source? Bradical79 Mar 2015 #47

Risk Expert: GMOs Could Destroy the Global Ecosystem bananas Mar 2015 #49

+1! RufusTFirefly Mar 2015 #51

more about toxic glyphosate used on GMOs wordpix Mar 2015 #57

People helping people : El Shaman Mar 2015 #37

they better have a date stamped on the apples that never brown. :P Sunlei Mar 2015 #38

K&R DeSwiss Mar 2015 #39

K&R for that reply. (n/t) Nihil Mar 2015 #52