This is an incredible lecture given by Dr. Vandana Shiva, one of the pre- eminent authorities on seeds, sustainable agriculture, GMOs, water scarcity, and environmental democracy. The danger about them is that there were no - NONE independent tests done on them before the FDA approved them. All they went by were "tests" supposedly done by Monsanto themselves, and even though subsequent testing has shown differences in how they react with the environment and other species, they were passed under the "substanital equivalence" principle to keep them from being labelled precisely because they are different, and Monsanto even knows that once people know these organisms are in their food they will not buy or eat them, and with good reason!
These unstable organisms were simply let out into our environment like a genie from a bottle and deregulated by corrupted agencies without knowing the true consequences of them interacting with the environment, other species, and our bodies. In other words, the Earth is being used as a petrie dish by Monsanto and other biotech companies while they buy up all seeds and patent traits to own our food system. For anyone who may be new to this site or anyone who doubts this is indeed happening, there is two years plus work and research on this at the Monsanto tag here, or you can go to the Sustainable Agriculture Group here to see it.
And one more comment. I am not the topic of discussion here and have tried very hard to stay out of the personal comments being placed here by the same poster who only comes into threads to rock the boat, divert the topic, and do whatever they can to make it uncomfortable for people to post here. This is an important topic regarding our biodiversity and food security and it is very serious to me. I also do not LIE, am not a "hippie" and have no other ulterior motive here but to give information people can use to be forewarned and to better their lives because to me THAT is what this site is about, and I'm not going anywhere.
So to get back to the topic, please read the petition and speak out to keep GM sugarbeets out of our environment to not contaminate more of our seeds and fight their threat to our biodiversity which is a threat to our health. We cannot live in a MONOCULTURE world and survive.
http://current.com/news/92621422_dna-from-transgenic-plants-found-in-milk-and-animal-tissue.htm
DNA is also crossing species.
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