@MonsantoCo #roundup chronic low doses caused #kidney damage in rats

4.19: news.pol/healthcare/roundup/
chronic low doses might cause kidney damage:
summary:
. low-dose Roundup might cause kidney damage?
this had caught my eye because recently
I had blamed the increasing kidney damage on
dramatically increasing use of fructose;
but also there has been increasing use of Roundup
(it contaminates much of the water supply now;
it might even be your rain).
and this study says low-dose Roundup in rats
was associated with slow kidney damage
(occurring over years not months).
. tests for gmo's and their associated pesticides
are usually short term (eg, 90-day) studies,
whereas any damage may take several years.

#gmo academics is not compromised

9.9: news.pol/healthcare/gmo/academics is not compromised:
gmwatch.org folta-affair-exposed-in-the-new-york-times
Folta was revealed by Freedom of Information requests
to have accepted $25,000 from Monsanto,
even though he had repeatedly denied having any Monsanto funding.

nytimes.com/2015/09/06
There is no evidence that academic work was compromised,
but emails show
how academics have shifted from researchers to
actors in lobbying and corporate public relations campaigns.

National Academy of Sciences` postmarketing surveillance of #GMO foods

8.29: news.pol/healthcare/gmo
/National Academy of Sciences` postmarketing surveillance of GMO foods:
The New England Journal of Medicine 2015:
by Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., and Charles Benbrook, Ph.D.
[cornucopia.org 2015]

[Genetically modified (GM) policy is ignoring the science.]
. unlike traditional selective breeding,
genetic engineering vastly expands the range of traits
that can be moved into plants.
Foods produced from GM crops have become ubiquitous.
And unlike regulatory bodies in 64 other countries,
the usa's FDA does not require labeling of GM foods.

. the argument that [gm foods are equivalent to non-gmo]
misses the point that GM crops are now
the most heavily treated with herbicides
and that two of these herbicides may pose risks of cancer.

closer to genetically modified humans

5.10: news.pol/healthcare/gmo/closer to genetically modified humans:
. germline editing is the only solution for
getting rid of inherited diseases
without a eugenics mandate .
. we are getting closer to such technology,
but scientists worry about public opinion
claiming only the god should create new life .

#organic means non-#gmo

12.31: web.pol/healthcare/organic means non-gmo:
it's complicated but:
organic basically means non-gmo:

"USDA sought to include GMOs in organic systems
because federal policy takes the position that
the safety evaluation of food is based on the
properties of the product,
not on the manner in which it was produced.
However, after receiving more than 275,000
public comments opposing the allowance of GMOs,
USDA revised its proposed rule
and released an updated version in March 2000.
As a result, the NOP standards,
adopted by USDA in a final rule
published in December 2000
and fully implemented in October 2002,
prohibited the use of GMOs in the
production and handling of organic products
certified to national organic standards."

Medical Conspiracy Theories and Health Behaviors

4.29: news.pol/gemini/Medical Conspiracy Theories and Health Behaviors:

JAMA Intern Med/Research Letter | March 17, 2014
Medical Conspiracy Theories and Health Behaviors
in the United States 
summary by anh-usa.org:

Science is challenging because
you have to carry around a lot of uncertainty;
and there is a lot of money to be made
from corrupting the science .

#trehalose is not a #slowcarb !

12.1: health/hormonics/#trehalose is not a #slowcarb !:
. trehalose should be presented as
a healthy alternative to popular sugars
(which includes not only sucrose,
but also high-fructose corn syrup);
however,
the reason it is a better sweetener
is not because it is digested more slowly
but because it has no fructose
-- and nothing could be healthier
than ending the use of high-dose fructose .
. it also has some other health benefits .

trehalose is hardly a #slowcarb:

. when compared to pure glucose
its raising of blood sugar levels
is 33% lower than pure glucose,
(isn't that an index of 66? -- like bread!)
and the extent to which it raises insulin
is only 14% lower than pure glucose
-- that is hardly in the zone!

. also keep in mind the risks of
genetically modified foods;
trehalose comes from maltodextrins;*
and "most maltodextrin is manufactured from corn"
and of course,
USA corn is mostly GM (genetically modified) .
. I'm not sure anything is wrong with GM sugar
but I can't be sure about the dangers of GM
because the science is corrupted by Big Money,
-- and by Big Religion:
we need to keep feeding a population
that won't stop growing !

yeast infections love trehalose:
. after tsp/4 trehalose before bed,
I woke up with an inflamed mouth
which I understand was a mild yeast infection,
since I'm quite prone to that .

. but that could happen on trehalose itself,
not just the breakdown into glucose,
since the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
can use trehalose as a carbon source for growth;
and, Candida albicans synthesizes Trehalose
in order to avoid stress-induced apoptosis,
so perhaps that yeast also can grow in trehalose .

. yeast is usually controlled by bacteria,
so I will mix the trehalose in my peas,
where I keep the probiotics .
. that will lower the glycemic index too!

* trehalose from maltodextrins:

"In 1994, two patents were issued by
Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories Inc. (Okyama, Japan)
disclosing a novel non-reducing
saccharide forming enzyme
(maltooligosyl trehalose synthase,
MTSase; EC 5.4.99.15)
and a trehalose releasing enzyme
(maltooligosyl trehalose trehalohydrolase,
MTHase; EC 3.2.1.141)
obtainable from the culture of
microorganisms such as Rhizobiumsp. M-11
and Arthrobacter sp. Q 36 ...
The first enzyme acts on reducing maltodextrins
having a polymerisation degree (DP) higher than three
and catalyses the conversion of the α-1,4 linkage
at the reducing end to an α-1,1,
the second enzyme specifically acts on
the α-1,4 linkage adjacent to the α-1,1
liberating trehalose and a
lower molecular weight maltooligosaccharide
[ an oligosaccharide derived from glucose monomers
linked as in maltose;
maltose is converted to glucose by maltase.]
...
The enzymatic synthesis of trehalose
is currently obtained using the
MTSase and the MTHase described above
by Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories Inc"

AquaBounty salmon #gmo #fishoil

news.pol/healthcare/gmo#AquaBounty salmon:
. the new gmo fish has an elevated potential
to be allergy-causing, [ consumersunion.org ]
and elevated levels of the IGF-1 growth hormone,
which is linked to colon, prostate and breast cancers;
but how much of that risk
would be in the fish's oil?

the spirits and molecules of autism

6.22:
. this file started out as a political issue
-- 5.20/pol/energy/Autism related to Coal's mercury --
but mercury policy has improved
while autism rates have increased,
so, it's been reassigned as a health issue .
7.10:
. however, it may also be a socioeconomic issue
as worsening underemployment
increases reliance on children's disability payments .
. nevertheless,
even if parents were encouraging the diagnosis
for collecting child disability payments,
there is still evidence of increased autism risk
from environmental pollutants
(pcb's, pesticides, estrogenics, mercury)
and a degraded food supply quality
(increased use of gmo's, pesticides,
and herbicides -- thanks to gmo's;
non-organic farming creates a lack of
selenium in food
which is needed to counteract mercury).
7.9:
. another theory explaining increased autism
is what I call two-headed dominance syndrome
where one of the heads tends to submit
in order to let the other head take control .
. likewise, in sociology,
when a population starts to feel
a loss of economic opportunities
there may tend to be more silent tension,
and an increase in dependent personalities .

. at the same time, unique to our times
is a tendency to demand much more of students;
whereas, in the past,
the developmentally challenged may have been
understood to be simply a rowdy or lonely laborer .

6.22: web: autism is on the rise:

#gov nutrition label for allergenic #gmo:

proj.pol/gmo/#gov nutrition label for allergenic #gmo:
Subject: Docket No. FDA-2011-P-0723
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
President Barack Obama
(emailed by gefoodlabels.org)
. I write in support of the Center for Food Safety's
Legal Petition to FDA to Require Labeling
of Genetically Engineered Foods
(Docket No. FDA-2011-P-0723).
FDA believes that GE foods are
“of the same or equal quality”?
how can random shifts in genetic code
not create inequal amounts of
random new proteins,
including allergens ?! this is appalling .
. if you put it on the label,
then people who think they have allergies
can try non-gm and see it was gm .
. that nutrition label needs an upgrade anyway:
you need the food's glycemic index,
glycemic load, and the amount of
any sugars that require liver processing,
especially fructose .

test GE Fish on pet food for 20 years

co.gov/health/GE Fish:
to my congressional rep's:
. instead of worrying about labeling,
why don't you feed the fish to pets first?
. if 20 years of that does ok,
(eno' time to see intergenerational affects)
then people won't care that it's GE .
. when you properly label food,
you become a better person,
in a better gov .
naturalnews.com/029933_GE_salmon_Frankenfish.html
consumersunion.org/pdf/CU-comments-GE-salmon-0910.pdf
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on August 25, 2010, that it will potentially approve a transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption. In response, nearly 400,000 public comments were sent to FDA from citizens demanding the agency reject this application and require mandatory labeling should it decide to approve it. Additionally, over 300 environmental, consumer, health, and animal welfare organizations, along with salmon and fishing groups and associations, food companies, chefs and restaurants signed joint letters to the FDA opposing approval of the GE salmon.
FDA's decision to go ahead with this approval is misguided and dangerous. It is time for Congress to take action. Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Representative Don Young (R-Alaska) recently introduced bipartisan legislation in Congress that would ban GE fish (S. 230/H.R. 521) and require mandatory labeling for consumers if approved (S. 229/H.R. 520).
The legislation has been endorsed by 64 consumer, worker, religious and environmental groups, along with commercial, recreational and subsistence fisheries associations, and food businesses and retailers. Those groups include the Center for Food Safety, Ocean Conservancy, Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development, the Alaska Trollers Association, Food and Water Watch, the National Cooperative Grocers Association and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations among others.
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genetic engineering done right, wrong, and ugly

2.20: web.health/gmo/seeds of deception:

. a local radio station just interviewed the author of
[seeds of deception].book;
he recommended a site responsibletechnology.org .

. googling for more info, I found a video of the author
detailing how his book needed to be written
because (at least at the time)
random genetic insertions were being carelessly used;
ie, done without being tested by anyone with
the consumer's interest genuinely in mind .

. the video champions The Campaign To Label Genetically Engineered Foods,
but,

"(the principal organizer passed away July 3, 2009
after a long bout against cancer .
. The fight for a sane genetically engineered foods policy
continues at such excellent organizations as the
Institute for Responsible Technology.)

. the youtube entry has this intro:
This lecture was created by combining the 6 pieces
posted on YouTube by The Kick Them All Out Project.
This project shows you how we can take back control of Congress
from the special interests that control it now
and put an end to things like GMO foods.
This lecture by Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception,
summarizes the contents of his book .

. according to that video,
the reason of being cautious about gmo's
is that gov't is assuming gmo's are safe until proven guilty;
but, the nature of gmo`tech had been
(if it isn't still currently the case)
involving unpredictable changes in a plant's biochemistry
that warrant treating it like a complete alien
in need of quaranteen until multi-generational studies have been done .

. gmo's and biotech do offer the world a lot of potential
(like engineering high-intelligence organisms
that won't poison the planet with over-population);
but, we need labeling that assures testing:
(eg, what strains a food is coming from,
and links to proof of 3rd-party testing for that strain .)
--(. again, that's assuming genetic engineering is still done by
random gene insertions .)

. the problem with the monsanto method
of genetic modification
-- the method (at least at the time?)
that touches the majority of our foods
through the inclusion of the these crops:
soy, corn, sugar beets, and certain veg'oils (cottonseed, canola) --
is that it results in gene shifting,
which can potentially change the meaning or scheduling
of all the genes that got shifted by the insertion .
. it is this random widespread changing
that can result in creation or increased dosages of
allergens, anti-nutrients, carcinogens, and toxins .
. another side-affect of the commercial gmo process
is antibiotic resistant organisms;
because, the economical way to tell
when a gene insertion has taken place,
is to include with the insertion
an antibiotic resistance gene,
so then after applying the gene and then antibiotics,
only the gmo's are left .

fda knew genetic modified bacteria poisoned tryptophan:
. the most shocking assertion by the video
is that fda claimed the tryptophan poisoning
couldn't be due to gmo's
because the responsible manufacturer
was not using gmo's at that point,
but some leaked documents showed that
fda did have a receipt of legal documents
showing earlier use of gmo's by that manufacturer .
. the fda tried to blame it on
the manufacturer using cheaper toxin-catching filters;
but if the fda had admitted to
knowing about gmo's being in use,
the question they would have then been held to is
how are gmo's creating these toxins in need of filtering?
. see the video . see some brief text .

. while fda knew the gmo process had poisoned tryptophan,
they insisted it was due to "(health fraud schemes)
and relegated all tryptophan to prescription only .

. if the tryptophan poisoning hadn't created such bizarre symptoms,
they never would have been attributed to food,
and thereby fallen into the labeling wastebasket
of "(succumbing to the modern high-stress lifestyle) .
. between 1994 and 2001,
when many new gmo products were introduced,
the number of food-relatable illness doubled .

seedsofdeception @ amazon
. one critic of the book suggests a more "(even-handed) alt':
as it

"(deftly swats aside several of the well-known studies
that purport to show risks associated with genetically modified crops
(such as Dr. Pusztai's rat
and John Losey's Monarch butterfly studies)) .

. my response to his critics
is that the authors case is not based
primarily on Dr. Pusztai's rat study
but on simple facts about the effects of
random gene insertions causing unpredictable changes
by shifting nearby genes:
shifting a gene can change its function .
. none of his critics address that concern .

seedsofdeception.com
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first gm crop europe liked: Calgene Flavr Savr tomato
United States, Canada, and Argentina together grow 80 percent of all biotech crops

. why did tech nation radio (2010-02-02)
recently razz a solar energy advocate, Rifkin,
about the Flavr Savr tomato? minute 33:
. the context was that "vintage Rifkin" was known for dark predictions,
so it was curious that his newest book is The Empathic civilization .
. and it's not just a matter of empathy,
but the fear of economic failure moving toward green too fast .
. Rifkin said the problem is the older generation
keeping alive the classic American Dream of cowboys
not empathizing globally (eg, natives)
the European Dream envisioned by esp'ly some West Coast Americans
is biosphere conscious
rather, they resist investing in a move from oil to solar .
. she laughed that someone referred to Rifkin as
"(isn't he that guy with the gmo tomato?)
. he gives context to that:
he took on monsanto for using gmo's based on gene splicing
[@] recombinant DNA tech
-- at the time he thought a much better approach to gmo
was marker-assisted selection,
which is just now replacing gene splicing .
. it's not engineering across species lines,
but cross-breeding within a family
. that's a good example for what he's talking about
when cheering on solar over oil:
just because it's the first tech doesn't mean it's the best .

. then he started getting into something that seem confused:

. the 3rd industrial revolution has a good chance
but conservatives will say empathy is collectivism,
liberals will say, individualism is selfishness .

[
but wouldn't that be a confusion with definitions?
I think he's stretching to not frame it as
a conservative vs liberal thing,
but the "(individualism) that empathy requires
refers to breaking out of the
group identification that is typically fueling religious wars;
eg, when Americans can see their self as
an individual rather than a christian,
that's a prerequisite to seeing the {arab, semite}
as an individual rather than a {muslim, jew} .
. I'm quite sure that real liberals
are all for moving to the solar economy
because, even without global warming being a real danger,
pollution with coal and oil is selfishly living
high at the expense of future generations .
. furthermore, the sooner we invest in it,
the sooner it becomes self-generating:
by using some of today's solar energy
to convert ever more land to solar energy collection,
we can soon have the energy to completely
wipe out water shortages,
and cover the globe with free internet
that empowers the 3rd world countries to
rethink their population growth policies .
. upon the convergence of free energy and robust robotics,
the world will soon have worldwide free robotics
with robots producing robots with free solar energy
-- it's all free .
. but it all depends on free solar energy
-- energy controlled by every home owner,
not aloof oil cartels .

. on the other hand, if global warming is indeed a real threat,
not acting soon will make it more difficult
to use the globe for solar:
tornadoes and hurricanes will often blow away expensive equipment .

. the current green tech is based on cereals fertilized by oil;
whereas, the world would be much more health eating legumes,
and using legumes as fertilizer .
. with huge amounts of free energy to de-salt water,
and to properly cook legumes,
there will be good health, strong teeth, and free food .
. furthermore, cows fed all legumes are healthier source of meat
than those finished with grains .
. they would have less saturated fat
and more omega-3 oils, like fish .
. it's too expensive now only because
cooking beans for livestock
is too energy-intensive until energy is free .]

. he wrote a book condemning gmo's in 1999:
The Biotech Century by Jeremy Rifkin (Paperback - April 5, 1999)

. that book is related to that tomato by
Featured History of FOET Biotech Initiatives: Pure Food Campaign

In 1992, the Pure Food Campaign (PFC) was established,
a coalition of organic farmers and restaurateurs,
consumer and environmental groups, and animal welfare organizations
opposed to the use of genetic engineering in food.
The PFC organized protests and litigation under the banner of
“An International Boycott of Genetically Engineered Foods”,
opposing the use of an engineered form of a bovine growth hormone (rBST) in dairy cows,
and the market entry of the genetically engineered “Flavr-Savr” tomato.
As well, the group demanded mandatory labeling of all genetically modified food products.

types of genetic engineering
. a history of biotech .
http://www.gmo-safety.eu/en/gene_transfer

gmo's transferring genes to bacteria

2.8: news,web,co.health/gmo/transferring genes to bacteria:

from Health and Wellness Product Information Group
date Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:36 AM
I invite you to join our group: Contra Agro-Biotech.
Further reading and references:
http://www.thiele-und-thiele-consult.de/science-review-letters/science-review_us/309_us.html

my reply:
. a member of group "(Contra Agro-Biotech)
offered this link to read:
http://www.thiele-und-thiele-consult.de/science-review-letters/science-review_us/309_us.html
. after reading the link, and related,
http://www.thiele-und-thiele-consult.de/api-review-letters/351_us.html
I was alarmed to hear that
genes can transfer from rot
to the intestinal bacteria
on which our health so heavily depends .
. here are quotes I found from the given reference
and its reference .
"(

[pieces of] the gene inserted into GM soy
transfers into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines
/and continues to function/. [*]
*: Netherwood et al,
“Assessing the survival of transgenic plant DNA in the human gastrointestinal tract,”
/Nature Biotechnology/ 22 (2004): 2.

) [@] www.botanischergarten.ch/Food/Netherwood-Assessing-Human-2004.pdf
"(

. there was no indication that the complete transgene
had been transferred to the prokaryones
... nevertheless,
the observed survival of transgenic DNA
from a GM plant during passage through the small intestine
should be considered in future safety assessments
of GM foods .

) .

genetically modified alfalfa looms over grassfed animal products

2.24: news.pol/gmo/USDA must not approve GE alfalfa:

from Center for Food Safety
date Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM
subject Tell Congress to Hold USDA Accountable!

Call your Senators and Representative today and say
USDA must not approve GE alfalfa!

Monsanto wants to sell its genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa
and wants the USDA to approve its permit application,
but consumers, farmers, dairies, and food companies
dont want GE alfalfa plants and seeds released into the environment.

USDA's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) admits
that if GE alfalfa is approved:
* GE Contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa crops will occur
* GE contamination will economically impact small and family farmers
* Foreign export markets will be at risk due to rejection of GE contaminated products
* Farmers will be forced to use more toxic herbicides to remove old stands of alfalfa

Yet, unbelievably, USDA has decided that these impacts are insignificant!
And, USDA intends to approve Monsanto's Roundup Ready GE alfalfa anyway.

Call your Congressional Representatives today
and ask them to hold USDA accountable
by contacting Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack
and urging him to deny approval of Monsanto's GE alfalfa!

Tell them that you DO NOT support the deregulation of GE alfalfa,
for the following reasons:
* GE contamination of non-GE and organic crops would be inevitable
* You won't buy products that are GE-contaminated
* Alfalfa is a major food source for livestock
and GE alfalfa would destroy the integrity of organic dairy products
* You support the rights of farmers to grow the crops of their choice,
and GE contamination makes that impossible
* Ask your Representative and Senators to contact Secretary Vilsack
and urge him to deny USDA approval of Monsanto's GE alfalfa

Then email us at info@truefoodnow.org
and tell us who you called
and let us know what kind of response you got!

Background
In 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS)
sued the Department of Agriculture (USDA)
for its illegal approval of Monsanto's
genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa.
USDA failed to conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS)
before deregulating the crop, as required by law.
An EIS is a rigorous analysis of the potential significant
environmental, health, and economic impacts of a federal decision,
mandated under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
The federal courts sided with CFS
and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed
the impacts of the GE plant on the environment, farmers, and the public
in an EIS.

USDA released its draft EIS on December 14, 2009.
A 75-day comment period is now open until 3 March, 2010.
CFS has begun analyzing the EIS
and it is clear that the USDA,
in its recommendation to approve GE alfalfa,
has not taken into consideration the concerns of
non-GE alfalfa farmers, dairies, exporters, retailers or consumers ...
In fact, their [current] EIS states that consumers
don't care if their organic food is GE contaminated
and neither do organic farmers,
as long as farmers employ the organic practices required
under the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA).
Obviously, this is not true
and we need to push our Congressional representatives
to call upon USDA to deny the approval of GE alfalfa.
. review the EIS and other documents .

USDA must not approve GE alfalfa Tell-a-friend!

2.24: web.health/alfalfa/toxins that could get worse under gmo?:
. one of the hazards when gmo's involve gene shifting
is that the toxins and allergens already in the plant
can become more potent or effectively administered .
. natural toxins from alfalfa include medicarpin and Canavanine .
. medicarpin is useful for reducing plant population densities;
it's found in soils of the mature plant .
. Canavanine, an arginine analog,
is practically found only in the seed currently .


2.25: pol/gmo/gm-alfalfa invading organics:
. instead of beating the dead horse of anti-gmo,
we should push organics toward adopting
greenhouse technology,
both as a way of controling insects physically,
and for protecting crop genetics by
filtering out pollen vectors .

2.26: co.pol/gmo/linkedin.com/gm-alfalfa invading organics:
"(

If you want to avoid GMO's in Canada and USA
you need to buy organic since we don't label them here.
There are lobby groups trying to get the government to
label food products as GMO
but the companies against it have stronger lobby boards
that argue it will cause unnecessary fear among citizens.

)
my reply:
. If you want to avoid GMO's you need to buy organic ?
that won't work in the usa soon:
they are now approving GE alfalfa
(see Center for Food Safety)
. this is sure [to] end organic meats
unless organic turns to air-filtered greenhousing
[2.28: or gmo can be considered organic].

2.28: pol/gmo/organic meat is not grassfed:
. organic meat is not worth fighting gmo's about
because really healthy meat should be
completely grass fed,
whereas organics can be grain-feed .
. grassfed will not be an economic reality until
the entire world downsizes population -- faght chance --
so, instead of worrying about gmo silage,
the health-conscious among us
should instead be resigned to a meatless future;
(see legumes offering complete protein
-- black beans and kidney beans);
however, as with solar energy,
the production of eggs is within the grasp of homeowners,
and we should structure locals law so as to
encourage the production of homegrown grassfed eggs .
. most homes are far away from the industrial farmers
where most of the gmo silage usage will be contracted,
therefore, they are the best place to raise healthy eggs .

santa man v1.0 -- a walk through the monsanto park

1.27: santa man v1.0 -- a walk through the monsanto park

. Health and Wellness Product Information Group asks:
should we eat gmo's?
should gmo's eat us!
-- look at this vid: Controlling Our Food
"(

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television
- a documentary that Americans won’t ever see.
The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto
is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity
which has served mankind for thousands of years.

)
. gmo is about patentable seeds,
so you know when you don't have gmo because
really only when the seed sale is free of
contracts prohibiting saving crops for seed .
[1.30: ... and when there is
no similar gmo crop growing upwind .]
. in processed food things won't be labeled in usa,
though they are in europe .
. in 1992 George Bush Senior signed an executive order
that genetically engineered food
be equal to non-genetically modified food .
. the FDA was able to classify gmo's as GRAS
and under this category,
doesn’t require any additional testing or labeling.

. this film convincingly reminds us
that when there's a lot of money involved
the chances that science gets fudged
become exponentially more likely and tenacious .
. Monsanto is the main target of the film
simply because they have been at the forefront of gmo tech,
and they were the main source of money
behind the USA`admn's current policy on gmo regulation .

. the film documents Monsanto's history of careless science
with what turned out to be some very hairy problems:
pcb's, dioxin use as free as 60's love ...
. pcb's are not only a cause of cancer,
but are reducing IQ, thyroid, and sex hormone function .
. pcb's are spreading world-wide,
[and this is one reason why fat in the diet causes cancer
even when a high fat diet
protects us from cancer in other ways .]

[. Monsanto might seem like an
obvious villain at this point;
but, as you saw from
the finance industry's deregulation causing
yet another worldwide depression:
we all love privacy (virtually deregulation)
even though it's proven year after year
that private parenting is sure to leave some children
exposed to molestation;
and likewise,
we feel our businesses deserve privacy
even though they are sure to devastate
some unlucky generation(s) .
. who can you trust?
first, be sure to trust no one who says
we can be trusted until proven guilty
(wouldn't that be you?) .]

. tryptophan's EMS disorder was said to be a gmo problem,
[but it was also said by others
to be a different type of biotech problem:
when you are growing organisms to produce chemicals,
you have to be constantly vigilant with testing
to insure you still have the same vector working for you
-- something like the need for testing software:
it's all really created by the devil
(the creator of emotions and imagination);
-- no matter who the human face's name is --
and, it's all got to be walk-through'ed and tested .]

. gmo soy has been modified to survive roundup .
. roundup was recently shown in French courts
to not be as biodegradable as they once asserted
[... and, it doesn't have to be!
the world's agriculture will soon be
entirely roundup ready
and everything else is simply expendible! .]

. gmo corn is cross-polinating with mexican organics;
and, that is feared to be the end of organics for corn
as the transgenics don't do well without
high-tech fertilizers and pesticides .
[ but I fear it will be the population crush
looking for a quick fix,
that is really going to encourage the use of
exactly those "(accidental) hybrids
that do well with the cheapest treatments
only to grow larger populations that require
yet greater yields -- demanding ever more from science .]

. India has a different problem with gmo's:
the cotton is advertised as resistant to some insect,
only to be more vulnerable
to something else (like some sort of jungle rot) .
. the naive borrow money to start the technocrop
only to go bankrupt and fold with a suicide .
. one social worker points out that patented "(transgenics)
are being tried on every crop that India is growing:
they are literally being carpet-bombed with patents
as there will not be any corner of agriculture
that will not be lured into the trap of quick bucks
and unstable futures ...
[and with accidental crossbreeding,
what crops will they not own
-- what genome will they not degenerate into
dependence on high-tech methods?]

. in several places there were pitiful instances where
a farmer's neighbors had all started growing gmo's
leaving them on the edge of spraying operations
with pesticide poisoning their ducks
-- and their children .

. in Paraguay, after the leakage of gmo seeds
into their agriculture, it was ironically
Europe's gmo labeling requirements
that forced the Paraguay gov't
to legalize gmo crops
-- otherwise, they couldn't sell to any place
that respected either patents or gmo-phobic labeling .

. Europe's gov't was no different than usa
in the force with which it was swayed by cash,
but they had a scientist tell on prime-time tv
that animal experiments showed that
our state of genetic engineering
was a lot more complicated and unstable
than what the corporate giants were maintaining .

. Europe's public was swayed by tv coverage of
genetically engineered potatoes
that got a snowdrop gene,
which produced an aphid resistance .
lectins often serve as natural insecticides;
but this lectin was considered non-toxic to humans
yet became toxic when inserted into the potato:
. rats eating the potatoes suffered from
hormonal imbalances (fatty organs) .
"(

. increasing a proliferative response in the gut .
thereby having an adjuvant effect
on any chemically induced tumor .

)
. it caused the rat`immune system to
go into high gear;
and, the study's head doctor interpreted this
as meaning that the immune system
was "(identifying the potatoes as alien) .
. it was apparent that the
gene insertion was causing the problem
rather than whatever was being inserted .
. on aug 10 '98, for live news, he reported:
"(

I found it's very very very unfair
to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs .

)
[. doesn't it seem like having that labeling
is like being told
yet another neighor's house is on fire?
. the question should be not whether
your dollar is ignoring the latest gmo effort,
but
what are your tax dollars doing
to counteract gmo cross-pollination
by developing totally glass-housed growing methods? ]