The Institute for Responsible Technology asks readers to email Clinton, Vilsack and Sebelius before a Codex meeting, arguing US negotiators are pushing the position that GM foods are no different from conventional ones, which could undercut GMO and non-GMO labeling worldwide.
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Genetically modified foods, labeling and the debate around them.
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Politics
Monsanto Under Investigation by Seven U.S. States
At least seven state attorneys general are investigating whether Monsanto abused its market power over seed, through rebates for excluding rival seeds, limits on combining traits, and incentives to move farmers to costlier varieties. The Justice Department is also reviewing its marketing.
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Engineered Poison Lurking in Your Everyday Food?
Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, argues in this interview that genetically modified foods cause health problems and that the FDA, government and GMO industry have covered it up. He points to the only published human feeding study, in which seven volunteers ate Roundup-ready soybeans.
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GM Foods Are More Dangerous For Children Than Adults
Excerpted from Jeffrey Smith's Genetic Roulette, this argues children face more risk from GM foods because nutrition changes hit fast-growing bodies harder, and because children are three to four times more prone to allergies than adults, with gut and immune barriers still maturing.
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If You Find Problems with Genetically Modified Foods: Watch Out!
Dr. Mercola recounts how biologist Arpad Pusztai, hired to design the UK's GMO safety testing protocols, found rats fed GM potatoes developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller organs and damaged immune systems. Days after he said so on TV he was fired and his team dismantled.
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From School Lunches to Antibiotics, Consumer Are Handing Agribusiness its Lunch
Michael Taylor, who legalized bovine growth hormone during an earlier FDA stint, angered agribusiness as deputy commissioner of foods by not warning it that the FDA would back a bill limiting farm antibiotics. rBGH milk is already out at Wal-Mart, Kroger, Costco and Chicago public schools.
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Company Research On Genetically Modified Foods Is Rigged
Mercola recounts how a 2004 British Food Journal study reporting shoppers preferred GM corn was staged: the non-GM bin carried a sign asking “Would you eat wormy sweet corn?” Reporter Stuart Laidlaw described the setup, and ethicist Richard Jennings called the study flagrant fraud.
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10 Reasons to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods
Dr. Mercola lists his reasons: a 2008 World Bank report blamed biofuels for rising food prices, GM crops have not raised yield potential, U.S. data show pesticide use went up, a UN/World Bank report found GM has little to offer, and long-term safety testing is lacking.
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The Health Hazards of GM Corn
Reanalysing the data Monsanto submitted to regulators, Gilles-Eric Seralini's team reports signs of toxicity from three GM corn varieties, saying the kidneys and liver showed problems in every case. Mercola argues independent researchers had to dig the finding out.
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GM Potatoes Damages Rats
An excerpt from Genetic Roulette: rats fed potatoes engineered to make their own insecticide developed potentially precancerous growth in the digestive tract, partial liver atrophy, enlarged pancreases and intestines, and immune damage. It blames the engineering, not the insecticide.
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Monsanto Pulls GM Corn Amid Serious Food Safety Concerns
Monsanto withdrew its applications for GM maize LY038 and the stacked LY038 x MON810 rather than supply the extra safety data European regulators requested, and asked for all dossier material back, putting it beyond independent review. Some scientists suspect safety, not commerce, drove the move.
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Potential Health Dangers from GM Foods: Q&A
A question-and-answer piece drawn from Jeffrey Smith's Genetic Roulette argues GM foods may cause new diseases, allergies and antibiotic resistance. It says only one human study exists, that no one monitors human health effects, and cites animal research reporting organ and immune damage.
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Vilsack Earns Boos for Pushing GM Food
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack drew moans, hisses and boos at the Community Food Security Coalition conference after answering a GMO question by citing the need to feed a growing world population. Mercola says GM foods have been linked to organ and immune damage.
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Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods
Dr. Mercola introduces a Jeffrey Smith video arguing that genetically modified foods are dangerous, citing studies linking GMOs to toxins, allergies and infertility, fired whistleblowers, and an estimate that 75 percent of US grocery foods contain unlabeled GM ingredients.
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US Consumers Given False Sense of Security About Food Safety
The piece argues the FDA sets no safety testing requirements for genetically modified foods and leans on industry research, citing 44,000 internal agency documents released by a lawsuit in which FDA scientists warned GM crops could bring unpredictable allergens, toxins and nutritional problems.
Biotech
Chickens Not Fooled by GM Crops
Dr. Mercola relays a report that Strilli Oppenheimer's chickens refused the maize in their feed, and testing confirmed it had been engineered to produce proteins toxic to insects and weeds. He cites earlier claims that animals avoid GM feed and an Austrian study of mice fed GM corn.
Biotech
GMOs in foods
A primer on genetic engineering: how genes are moved between unrelated species in ways conventional breeding cannot achieve, and what combinations have been tried, from spider genes in goats to fish genes meant to give tomatoes and strawberries frost tolerance.
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You’re Appointing WHO? Please Obama, say it’s not so!
An opinion piece argues that the newly appointed US food safety czar helped clear the way for genetically modified foods over FDA scientists who warned in internal memos of toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies and hard-to-detect allergens.
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