Monsanto plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood experiment on the American and Canad

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Monsanto's GMO perversion of food
Byron J Richards
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In the 2010 growing season Monsanto plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood experiment on the American and Canadian public, a new version of genetically mutated corn with eight abnormal gene traits called Genuity SmartStax corn. It is the culmination of an astonishing scandal that has been steadily building over the past decade. During this time Monsanto’s mutated seeds have grown to 90% of the U.S. soy crop and 85% of the corn crop – and wheat is next on their agenda. Their efforts have been marked by corporate bullying and have drawn the attention of the Justice Department who is conducting an antitrust investigation. All the while they have been spending millions on lobbying to fast track their agenda before the American public even realizes what hit them. Monsanto is making an ominous power play to corner the worldwide market on food and seeds. In the process they are adversely altering the very nature of food itself.

Few people would eat Monsanto’s “food” if they understood what it was or knew that they were eating it. President Obama and his family won’t eat it. Neither did the Bush family. Even a Monsanto employee cafeteria rejects it. This is no laughing matter. Your health and the health of your children and grandchildren are at stake. It seems more like a scene from a horror flick than something happening in modern day America. Imagine your digestive tract turned into a Roundup Ready herbicide factory and other warped genetic signals slowly and progressively rotting away your health. Unlike acute food poisoning from infectious E.coli, it is a slow and insidious poisoning.

Why GMO Food is Dangerous

Monsanto’s GMO (genetically modified organism) technology inserts non-food genes, genes from other species, into the DNA of food, altering the very nature of food itself. In some cases these genes make the crops more tolerant to the Roundup Ready herbicide made by Monsanto and in other cases the genes abnormally cause the DNA of food cells to produce toxic proteins that act as pesticides.

Most people are not comfortable with the concept of altering the nature of food in a grand genetic experiment with unknown consequences. The idea of food producing its own internal toxin is equally abhorrent. After all, who wants to eat toxic food? Even fewer trust this technology in the hands of Monsanto, a company with a history of blatant disregard for human health. It was Monsanto that knowingly poisoned the planet with toxic PCBs.

The process of making GMO seeds also poses health risks. Viral promoter genes are used during this production process and become part of the DNA mix, posing a risk for new types of viral disease. An unintended side-effect of this production technology is chronic activation or suppression of normal genes in the modified plants. This alters the actual nutrient structure of food and the function of the proteins within that food – a very serious matter.

The entire process of producing GMO seeds is also unpredictable. It creates multiple random genetic events in every food cell invaded by the mutant genes. Because each gene doesn’t just do one thing and is highly interactive with other genes, the production of GMO food is not consistent and therefore safety cannot be guaranteed – especially when you understand that our scientific knowledge of gene interdependencies is in its infancy.

Eating food that is mutated by other non-food species is a grand experiment to say the least. GMO mutants can transfer to the living bacteria in your digestive tract, as has been shown in animal experiments. This can adversely change the way your gut bacteria behave so that they create pesticides and become more resistant to your immune system and medical treatments. If the GMO mutants were to transfer to an existing infection in your digestive tract then it could create your own superbug.

Because the proteins in GMO food are structurally different than normal food they significantly increase the risk for allergy. Allergy is one form of inflammation that is likely to result from GMO food, but there are many other potential sources. These include the mis-metabolism of the food, the inherent toxicity of the food, and the pesticide residues on the food. These inflammatory problems of GMO food will additively contribute to other forms of inflammation such as pollution and stress and add to the total inflammation burden sets the stage for many diseases. It is likely that GMO food will have a significant impact on pregnancy problems and developmental problems in children. At this time nobody can rule out GMO as a possible causative factor in Autism, as the rates of both have risen together. A recent re-evaluation of data provided by Monsanto showed that various types of GMO corn caused significant inflammatory organ damage to rats.

It has now been shown that the health consequence of eating high amounts of Roundup Ready residue that is being sprayed in ever-higher amounts on GMO crops is the disruption of your endocrine system. A recent study shows that these residues of Roundup Ready are highly interactive with sex hormones and significantly disrupt their function.

A 2008 Austrian government study showed that feeding GMO corn to mice for multiple generations resulted in fertility issues and weakened kidneys, as well as changes in metabolic pathways involved with inflammation, cholesterol, and protein. Here is a link to the 105 page report.

GMO crops are also drastically and adversely altering soil quality. In fact, soil animals such as earthworms are now found to have incorporated GMO mutant corn genes into their cells. This finding is of extreme importance to potential human health problems. There is certainly nothing preventing this from happening to humans.

For more information on the devastating health consequences of consuming GMO foods read Jeffrey Smith’s books, Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette.”

You may be wondering the obvious; if GMOs are so dangerous to eat then why are they allowed in the food supply?

Corporate Cronyism - A Corrupt FDA Places the Public in Danger

We now know that FDA scientists originally working on the issue of the safety of GMO food had considerable concerns that included allergies, toxins, adverse nutritional effects, and new diseases. They urged long-term studies but were ignored by FDA management who instead decided that GMO food was “substantially equivalent” to normal food. In 1992 these managers issued the following policy statement in the Federal Register, “The agency is not aware of any information showing that foods derived by these new methods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way.” In retrospect, that policy, which stands to this day, was a flat out lie and a treasonous betrayal of the public trust.

Court cases have forced into public view the documents expressing the concerns of the FDA scientists. You can read them all at this link to the BioIntegrity.Org website. In fact, rushing GMO foods to market also represents a serious breach of scientific integrity by the overall research community.

Conclusion in next post

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Today, the FDA is a world leader in proteomic technology, the advanced analysis of protein structure and function. Italian researchers using proteomics have already proven beyond any question that GMO food is so genetically different from normal food that it cannot possibly be considered substantially equivalent. Certainly the FDA could discover this fact for themselves in a matter of hours. Why are FDA scientists in handcuffs and not taking action?

Part of the FDA management team’s culture of corruption is a revolving door with the various companies they are supposed to be regulating, the very definition of corporate cronyism. These shenanigans have had the net effect of the FDA acting primarily as a police force bully representing various powerful lobbies that buy protection and marketing favors, while stomping on the rights of the little guys like organic family farms and consumers. In the case of food, Monsanto wins the gold medal for influence pedaling at the expense of human health.

One of the more egregious examples of cronyism is Michael Taylor. He was an FDA staff lawyer and Executive Assistant to the FDA Commissioner from 1976 to 1981. From 1981 to 1991 he worked at the law firm of King and Spaulding, acting as Monsanto’s lawyer and lobbyist. He was a major proponent for overturning the Delaney Clause, a 1958 law prohibiting the introduction of known carcinogens to processed foods, a law Monsanto hated and which was eventually overturned by Clinton in 1996. His main responsibility during this time was gaining regulatory approval of Monsanto’s genetically modified cancer-causing bovine growth hormone (rBGH).

To complete his efforts on the bovine growth hormone issue Taylor went back to work for the FDA in 1991 with the title Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration. He was directly responsible for writing the FDA policy on “substantial equivalence” which initially ushered in the rBGH era and to this day enables Monsanto to market its GMO mutated food with no appropriate oversight by the FDA as to safety. He also formulated policy that prevented milk producers from informing consumers that their milk was free of bovine growth hormone – intentionally preventing consumers from being able to tell what was in the milk product they were consuming.

After accomplishing his dirty work, he left the FDA in 1994 and went to work for Monsanto as Vice President for Public Policy, working on Monsanto’s long range plans. More recently, he became a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and Director of the Risk, Resources and Environmental Management division. In this role, he strategized how to get Monsanto’s GMO crops into Africa, working closely with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He also worked closely with the Bush Administration, and is the point man in helping an elite agenda to spread GMO seeds and biotech dependence around the world.

You guessed it – now he is back at the FDA in a new position the Obama Administration created – Senior Advisor to the Commissioner, working primarily on issues of food safety! “I am pleased to welcome Mike Taylor back to the FDA,” Commissioner of Food and Drugs Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., said in announcing Taylor’s appointment. “His expertise and leadership on food safety issues will help the agency to develop and implement the prevention based strategy we need to ensure the safety of the food we eat.”

As Monsanto, in anti-competitive collusion with Dow, takes their new GMO toxic and mutated corn to market, stacked with eight genes, it should come as no surprise that absolutely no safety testing is being required by the FDA. Never before have there been eight genes altered simultaneously within the cells of food. One gene is bad enough. Three is horrendous. But eight?

The fact that the FDA is not requiring extensive safety testing by independent sources of this highly unpredictable and dangerous technology is unthinkable. It is a grim day when the fox is in charge of the henhouse.

There Is No Good Reason for Monsanto’s GMOs

If you listen to Monsanto and their business cohorts such as Cargill, they state they are trying to feed the world. In reality, the world could eliminate Monsanto’s mutated food tomorrow and it would be a better place. It could also do without Cargill acting as an unregulated food banker, profiting on the manipulation of food sales at the expense of farmers in a way that is every bit as bad as the worst of Wall Street. There is no need for Monsanto’s GMO mutated seeds. They offer no advantages. It is an industry being propped up by unelected bureaucrats and elected officials on the receiving end of Monsanto’s multi-million dollar lobbying operation.

Michael Taylor is one example of corporate crony influence, there are many others. The USDA is profiting from Monsanto’s seeds that cannot be used the next growing season (the Terminator aspect of the problem). The EPA’s failure to regulate the amounts of Roundup Ready used on food is yet another scandal. It’s all about profits and control – while undermining the world’s farmers and the biodiversity and sustainability of crops.

Contrary to the Monsanto and Cargill propaganda, GMO technology does not increase crop yields, as has been fully documented in the Union of Concerned Scientists report titled Failure to Yield. And GMO crops are very bad for the carbon footprint.

The fact that the Obama administration is actively forwarding Monsanto’s efforts should be a grave concern to every American. Of course, the last 16 years of Clinton and Bush also did everything in their power to help Monsanto. No wonder Americans are fed up. Politicians in both parties are beholden to the golden idol, not the best health interests of its citizens.

Take Back Our Food – Join the Fight

We the people can have a huge impact and we can change this serious threat to human health. Don’t buy GMOs food. GMOs permeate corn and soy products, beet sugar is now mutated, and wheat is next in line. If you aren’t sure how to avoid GMO foods and brands then follow the advice given on Jeffrey Smith’s Non-GMO shopping guide. Demand from your political representatives that all GMO food be labeled as containing GMOs. This isn’t just a political issue – this is about your personal health and the future of food.

Source: http://gnosis474.blogspot.com/2010/0...erversion-of-f...
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[Kritters]

Posey, This is great because it encompasses everything in one article....great to send on to people!

This is another reason for people to not eat PROCESSED foods because HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) is in just about everything and where do you think they'll get the syrup? From the GM corn!

I think there should be a week declared 'WW GM FOOD REJECT" or something like it and have the word spread through the internet that no one purchase anything with the numeric sticker which identifies that it is GM.

Thanks for posting this.

Kritts

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Sadsack just posted another Mon$hito article that scared the crap out of me "The Terminator Gene" ?! - I am not trying to get everyone here to agree with my theory on agrobacterium (in U.S. pesticides since 1979) as the cause of Morgellon's but the more I see here/talk to you folks:
It sounds like we need go grab & save any documentation that is out there on Bayer Agro Science, Monsanto and Max Plank Society SHARING A PATENT on the technology for agrobacterium after years of legal battle.
I firmly believe the timing is right for said patent battle to have held up our Centers for Disease Cover Up investigation on Morgellon's. Also, it makes the timing right for when the cover up began. CDC had to know in 2001 agrobac was piercing lab gloves and that it could cross phylums (only bacteria I've read of that can infect plants, animals, people, soil - all living things). That's when they took IT nto a lab and found out what IT was a Big Pharma Cash Cow.
What we were wondering on the CDC Study Thread, if they using the study participants to test a Big Pharma treatment and maybe a vaccine before any announcement: They'd have to have the causing patent in place to make a Big Pharma fix from that cause - for the new patent, right? (they let it infect for a while, dragged this out as long as they could).
- Also, I've been wondering: I heard rumors of Tom Vilsack's corrupt ties to Mon$hito. They call him Father Frankenfood. Now that he is U.S. Sec of Agriculture and hearing that he is key leading up the New Healthy School Lunch Program. If that's really true that agrobac was in the swine flu vaccine (nanotransformation.com) and it turns out to be The Cause of Morgellon's, we have big problems in the U.S. What perked my ears up in the 'Healthy' School Lunch Program "More Produce and Grains in School Lunches"

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I went over the article again and where do you see about a numeric sticker declaring it is GMO? Or is this just something I don't know about yet.

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Originally Posted by posey

I went over the article again and where do you see about a numeric sticker declaring it is GMO? Or is this just something I don't know about yet.

Here's an explanation. It wasn't in the article, Posey...

Food labels what do the numbers mean? | Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Find Articles at BNET

Kritts

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I get e-blasts now from that Organic Consumers Assoc.. think it came from that Health Freedom group that Jonsi posts of (they rock!)
Here's a shopping guide (think this is actually on that responsibletechnology.org) if ppl can't afford organics and still want to TRY to avoid GMOs:

Download the Guide - Non-GMO Shopping Guide

From the sounds of things, we should all boycott any company that uses GMOs, but I think we should also send them a letter/email/fax letting them know why we are boycotting and warning others about their products and hopefully they'll change their ways! If money's all a company cares about, then that's what you take.

[Enviro Girl]

2003 Agrobacterium found in humans..interesting

[Enviro Girl]

Friday, February 4, 2005

Joint Press Release
Bayer CropScience, Max Planck Society and Monsanto Company resolve Agrobacterium patent dispute
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Monheim (Germany) – Bayer CropScience, Monheim, the Max Planck Society and their affiliate Garching Innovation GmbH, both based in Munich, Germany and Monsanto Company, St. Louis, USA, announced today that they have reached an agreement that resolves long-standing patent interference or other proceedings in different countries involving the use of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to create transgenic crops. Agrobacterium transformation technology allows scientists to transfer DNA to plant cells.

Under the agreement, Max Planck Society, Bayer CropScience, Garching Innovation, and Monsanto will cross license their respective Agrobacterium-mediated transformation technologies worldwide. Bayer CropScience, Max Planck’s exclusive licensee, and Monsanto will provide each other, in selected areas of the world, non-exclusive licenses related to the development, use and sale of transgenic crops. Monsanto will also provide Max Planck Society with a license in the United States for research purposes.

Additional details of the agreement were not disclosed.

"This agreement secures freedom for the involved parties in the field of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation technology, thereby ensuring present and future market access for their respective technologies in the United States and Canada," said Dr. Bernward Garthoff, member of the Bayer CropScience Board of Management, responsible for R&D.

"This is a positive development for agricultural biotechnology as a whole," said Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Monsanto. “Through the agreement, the parties recognize the global contributions of the Max Planck and Monsanto scientists who invented this technology. This agreement enables their respective agricultural innovations to reach consumers and farmers without hindrance.”

Bayer CropScience, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of about EUR 5.8 billion (2003), is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of about 19,000 and is represented in more than 120 countries, ensuring proximity to dealers and consumers. Further information is available at Bayer CropScience - one of the world's leading innovative enterprises in crop protection, seeds, biotechnology and non-agricultural pest control. .

Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, one of Germany’s largest non-profit research organizations, comprises 78 individual institutes, each of which conducts research in areas of the natural sciences and the humanities. As the technology transfer agency for the Max Planck Society, Garching Innovation GmbH fosters and manages the commercialization of inventions and know-how discovered or created at Max Planck institutes. Further information is available at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Website der MPG.

Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a leading provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products that improve farm productivity. For more information on Monsanto, see: Monsanto ~ Home.


Monheim, February 4, 2005

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Thursday, November 20, 2003 (Post 1/2 of article)

The Molecular Future of Crop Quality

Science Forum 2003: Bayer CropScience promotes scientific dialog

Monheim (Germany) - Bayer CropScience has held the first Science Forum to foster scientific dialog and promote open discussion with its principal partners.
Dr. Bernward Garthoff, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Bayer CropScience commented at the international event attended by 100 scientists in Monheim: "A challenge for developing and using cutting-edge technologies is that people need to understand why this is a good idea." The CTO of Bayer CropScience made it very clear that the company´s science and technology will bring significant benefits to society globally and improving the production and quality of food, feed and fiber.

The Science Forum is a core event of key representatives in the field of science and technology: academia and researchers, food industry and media from more than 12 different countries. "We are convinced that only by running a credible communication, it will be possible to build up the level of confidence which is needed for implementing new technologies in future." Garthoff said.

For Bayer CropScience, an open and fair communication with all stakeholders will be beneficial to the business. Garthoff further highlighted: "The public at large is not always well informed, where revolutionary ideas and technical innovations come from - what science and technology are about and what the real inventions mean, inventions shaping their life on earth."

New steps into the future with innovative technologies

Several presentations and a panel of respected experts debated about key requirements for the implementation of innovative technologies. One of the prominent speakers was Prof. Dr. Carl Batt, Director of the Nanobiotechnology Center, Department of Food Science, Cornell University, New York, USA with his presentation: 'Too Small to See: The Promise and the Fear of nanotechnology'. Nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology are instrumental tools that will accelerate advances in areas such as genomics, combinatorial chemistry, high throughput robotic screening, compound discovery, high throughput sequencing and bioinformatics. This has the potential to lead to an evolution of entirely new industries in health care, medicine, agriculture, food and nutrition, environmental management and chemical synthesis.

The best combination of Research Technology

For the first time, a company like Bayer CropScience provided more transparency on technology platforms established in research. "Our aim is to develop products with a superior biological and environmental profile and an increased product quality at the same time," explained the CTO. Bayer CropScience has a unique research platform to identify crop protection compounds with novel modes of action.

"We would like to show, how we operate in the field of cutting-edge technologies, how we combine technologies, how we pursue innovation, and how we develop new solutions for crop production with the vision to improve crop quality and finally, get acceptance for our products and solutions," Garthoff said. New product developments in recent years and new market introductions in the coming years are the key factors enabling the company to achieve its objectives.

Revolution in transforming the ideas

New catalysts and materials, machines the size of a molecule and molecular electronics will revolutionize present computer systems. Several research labs are actively working to transform these ideas into reality. Garthoff explained, that scientists will systematically analyze principles of natural biological functions in order to utilize them commercially. "Material specialists and chemists, architects, engineers and automobile constructors will look further into nature's toolbox."

He sees the information technology (IT) as an important tool for generating masses of information. Bayer CropScience screening facilities handle and manage those masses of data with the IT.

Focussing on innovation

The lead time from invention of a molecule to launching the product in the market has now reached an average of 8 years, according to Garthoff. "High-throughput- technologies have been added to the discovery process of crop protection products, using input from genomics, proteomics, informatics, miniaturization and combinatorial chemistry. At present, robots are being developed which can test on a nanoliter scale." These technologies will support the chemists and biologists decisively in their quest to invent highly specific active substances.

Bayer CropScience has some very promising cooperations in the field of research. Garthoff stated: "We will announce a licensing deal together with Max-Planck-Society, following the grant of a European patent on Agrobacterium transformation of plants and the successful outcome of a US patent dispute."

The chance of changes

The fundamental changes in technology, driver of the industrial growth, have had lag phases of about 50 years. "It is essential to note that innovation cycles of the related technologies are becoming shorter and shorter," explained Garthoff. This implies that decisions have to be taken faster, more often and that society has to cope with more changes in their life triggered by new technologies. "There is no doubt, that a focus on this will be relevant for further progress in implementing new technologies."

The use of microelectronics, from the smart-chip and the cell phone to the tiny digital hearing aids and many other practical developments, have helped many people to an improved or more pleasant way of life. Garthoff said: "This is one of the amazing fields of innovation and it will be possible in 20 or 50 years from now. The accelerating rate of innovation of computing power has meanwhile reached the capacity of the brain of a spider - this may sound deceiving, but in 2025 the computing power supposedly could reach the level of a human brain."

Garthoff sees the genomic research in future as a key area in agricultural gene technology. "The post-genomic era in biological research will take for granted the on-line access to huge amounts of genomic data bases.

Within the next 10 years, a computer model of a 'virtual plant' that simulates the molecular functioning of a common plant may be used to understand plant physiology and select genetic modifications for establishing favorable traits in a more purposeful way," Garthoff said.

Plant Biotechnology offers additional opportunities to produce - on a renewable basis - crops with improved qualities and even to manufacture specific plastics, proteins, pharmaceutical products, starches and oils. "At Bayer CropScience, we clearly see this field of opportunities and we have this very much in our research focus to maintain technological leadership," added Garthoff.