is the end of monsanto near? prop 37 succeeding as nations ban GMO

[proverbialwisdom]

46. You might wish to reconsider the monstrous implications of your post which I doubt you meant.

Posted by NNadir

Do you know what another word for genetic modification is? It's called E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N.

When evolution is manipulated for human uses - as has been done for many millennia - it's called Breeding.

Those words are not used when the processes you describe are applied to human subjects. Those processes are not ethically or legally applicable to human populations, in fact.

Do you know the reason why PEOPLE OVER PROFITS will prevail? Too many children are ill. Consider that as a population American children are the sickest in history and that GMO foods introduced in the 1990's top the list of potential contributing environmental causes.

Here's a chance for the industry to reboot - remove food from the biotech world and carry-on with miracle drug development.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2012-09-28/candidates-mum-autism?v=1348871764


COMMENT: http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2012/9/24/californias-preparation-for-treating-adults-with-autism-in-question.aspx

“About 60,000 residents currently receive state-funded services for developmental disabilities, a significant increase from the fewer than 5,000 residents who received such services in the mid-1990s.

“A large percentage of such residents are people younger than 22, the age when they no longer qualify for special education services in public schools.

“In the next three years, thousands of young adults with autism in California will reach that age threshold.”

How long can our nation survive with an increasing population of dependent adults? Our federal health officials have watched autism overwhelm a generation of children and done nothing to stop it. Officials still can’t say for sure how much of the exponential growth in autism is a real increase or just “better diagnosing.” When will they know? When the rate is one in every 10 children?

If the candidates are so worried about the economy, they should consider what autism is going to cost us.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism


COMMENT: There are more childen with autism today than all the other childhood diseases mentioned here including cancer, downs syndrome etc. It is the fastest growing disability. Perhaps you don't know that 25 years ago the number affected was 1 in 10,000. Now it is 1 in 54 boys in this country. It's 1 in 29 boys in New Jersey.

1 in 5 children in school has a developmental disability.

There is no other illness in the US that is increasing as quickly as autism. That is why it needs special attention. Autism classes are bursting at the seams and the schools cannot handle the size or the cost. If we don't stop this epidemic now-we will all be paying for them in our taxes forever because the majority will never be able to support themselves. We are losing generations of children to autism. That's why the president and congress must do something now. You talk about national debt-how about supporting 3-4 million children with autism 10 years from now or sooner?

Oh, yeah, this, too: http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/09/age-of-autism-weekly-wrap-lacrosse-drinks-brian-deer-koolaid.html#more
(includes excerpt of testimony under oath by fully exonerated pediatric gastroenterologist and co-founder of the field, '...we were finding a new disorder. … We were beginning to see a new syndrome, fairly clear features of children [with regressive developmental disorders] presenting with diarrhoea, very often abdominal pain which often was not diagnosed by other doctors. ...There is a characteristic symptom pattern...')