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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton GOES TO BAT For GMOs At Biotech Conference [View all]proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)67. Dr Arpad Pusztai endorses GMWATCH.org so I follow & trust their vetting by virtue of his life story.
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11801-pusztai-to-receive-stuttgart-peace-prize
Dr Pusztai on the 10th anniversary of GM safety scandal
The following is an email - of 10 August 2008 from Dr Pusztai to Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews of GMWatch, in which Dr Pusztai comments on the 10th anniversary of the television interview.
Dr Pusztai on the 10th anniversary of GM safety scandal
The following is an email - of 10 August 2008 from Dr Pusztai to Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews of GMWatch, in which Dr Pusztai comments on the 10th anniversary of the television interview.
Dear Claire and Jonathan,
I thought that I should write to you on the 10th anniversary of my 150 seconds of TV "fame" and tell you what I think now. It is very appropriate to write to you because you have provided the most comprehensive service to inform people about the shenanigans of the GM biotechnology industry and its advocates.
On this anniversary I have to admit that, unfortunately, not much has changed since 1998. In one of the few sentences I said in my broadcast ten years ago, I asked for a credible GM testing protocol to be established that would be acceptable to the majority of scientists and to people in general. 10 years on we still haven't got one. Instead, in Europe we have an unelected EFSA GMO Panel with no clear responsibility to European consumers, which invariably underwrites the safety of whatever product the GM biotech industry is pushing onto us.
All of us asked for independent, transparent and inclusive research into the safety of GM plants, and particularly those used in foods. There is not much sign of this either. There are still "many opinions but very few data"; less than three dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers have been published describing the results of work relating to GM safety that could actually be regarded as being of an academic standard; and the majority of even these is from industry-supported labs. Instead we have the likes of Tony Trewavas and others writing unsupported claims for the safety of GM food and defaming people like Rachel Carson who can no longer defend herself; not that she needs to be defended from such nonentities.
In normal times one would not pay much attention to such people desperately trying to be seen as the advocates of true science, but these are not normal times. The mostly engineered (GM engineered) food crisis gives the GM biotech industry and its warriors an opportunity to come to the fore with claims that GM is the only way to save a hungry world; a claim not much supported by responsible bodies, such as the IAASTD. The advocates of GM also now think that they have found a chink in the armory of people's resolve that they can exploit by telling us that we would not be able to feed our animals without GM feedstuffs. In this way, they hope to bring in GM by the backdoor. Please remember that whatever our animals eat, we shall also get back indirectly. Rather ominously, there has been no work whatever to show the safety of the meat of GM-fed animals.
We must not underestimate the financial and political clout of the GM biotechnology industry. Most of our politicians are committed to the successful introduction of GM foods. We must therefore use all means at our disposal to show people the shallowness of these claims by the industry and the lack of credible science behind them, and then trust to people's good sense, just as in 1998, to see through the falseness of the claims for the safety of untested GM foods.
Let's hope that on the 20th anniversary I shall not have to write another warning letter about the dangers of untested GM foods!
Best wishes to all
Arpad Pusztai
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11801-pusztai-to-receive-stuttgart-peace-prize
Pusztai to receive 2009 Stuttgart Peace Prize
We've just heard that Dr Arpad Pusztai and Dr Susan Bardocz will be presented with this year's Stuttgart Peace Prize. The award is for their tireless advocacy for independent risk research. Both have made an essential contribution to a broader understanding of the dangers of genetic manipulation. The award also honours their courage and scientific integrity as well as their undaunted insistence on the public's right to know.
The award will take place on 18 December with a Film and Book launch at 4 pm and a Peace Gala at 7:30 pm, at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
More details (in German) here:
Below is a profile of Dr Pusztai and how he changed the GM debate:
Pusztai to receive 2009 Stuttgart Peace Prize
We've just heard that Dr Arpad Pusztai and Dr Susan Bardocz will be presented with this year's Stuttgart Peace Prize. The award is for their tireless advocacy for independent risk research. Both have made an essential contribution to a broader understanding of the dangers of genetic manipulation. The award also honours their courage and scientific integrity as well as their undaunted insistence on the public's right to know.
The award will take place on 18 December with a Film and Book launch at 4 pm and a Peace Gala at 7:30 pm, at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
More details (in German) here:
http://www.gentechnikfreies-europa.eu/
Below is a profile of Dr Pusztai and how he changed the GM debate:
http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Arpad_Pusztai
Everyone should be familiar with this information.
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A lot of my DU friends strongly support HRC, but I cannot accept her past choices.
NYC_SKP
Jul 2014
#1
Well, she has evolved from being dead broke to millionaire by entertaining the corporations.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2014
#39
H. Clinton has made it clear that she is the corporate choice for the Democratic nomination.
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#3
You are lucky. But that kind of thinking will continue to see the lower classes decline.
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#62
Put your faith in Monsanto, Sygenta and their ilk - they control the "science" you swallow
Crowquette
Jul 2014
#38
why would anyone give your opinion on this any weight when you don't even know the
cali
Jul 2014
#118
"Who gives a shit... that doesn't matter... you don't need people's opinion on a fact"
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#119
EXCITING NEW PRESS RELEASE - "Republication of the Séralini study: Science speaks for itself"
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#54
Dr Arpad Pusztai endorses GMWATCH.org so I follow & trust their vetting by virtue of his life story.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#67
No parallel, no MSM support anywhere. Imagine witnessing this whirlwind as a scientist or living it.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#74
WHO, AMA, The Royal Academy of Medicine, European Commission, etc. are not working Monsanto
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#95
Platitudes don't cut it though they sell stuff. Nuanced, but demonstrably and irrefutably wrong x5.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#97
No, Gung Ho GMOers are the left's Climate Change Deniers.. if you want to bring in Climate Change.
Cha
Jul 2014
#80
So? Science says GMO makes frankenfood and is full of Scientific Poison not Good for the Environment
Cha
Jul 2014
#83
the activists that claim all the resistance to such is because monsanto has something to hide.
redruddyred
Jul 2014
#117
If money matters, anyone can be a corporate shill and still tell you otherwise. Always watch
roguevalley
Jul 2014
#5
HRC: Blue Dog, Corporate ConservaDem, War Hawk, Triangulation/Bi-partisanship, DLC/Third Way, finger
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2014
#7
I see your corporate meme, and raise you one from human beings, not corporate citizens
Crowquette
Jul 2014
#30
NEW: Study suggests potential association between "soy formula" and seizures in children with autism
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#75
Embedded link I included states 90% of US soy is GMO but, of course, actual verification needed.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#92
"actual verification needed" if those who believed in such woo-hoo would actually live by that.
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#96
Oh, it's both. Where are the long term animal feeding studies demonstrating safety?
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#45
They probably were done some or even many but when the test data dosn't come out like they wanted
nolabels
Jul 2014
#70
do you have any proof WHO, AAAS, AMA, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Medicine....
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#102
so you avoid the question and instead give more conspiracy speculation and anecdotes.
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#113
Thanks for speaking truth. "drought resistance" is a standard lie of GMO propaganda pimps !!!
Crowquette
Jul 2014
#100
unfortunately, what with hmos and such, there have been a number of bad incentives in medicine
redruddyred
Jul 2014
#65
walked by a drug store this morning and looking in the front door the first thing you see is Pepsi
KurtNYC
Jul 2014
#32
No doubt, Hillary is so impressed with GMO foods, and their benefits, she backs lableling them.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2014
#37
When I saw the article a few days back about Warren campaigning for Grimes, I wondered
winter is coming
Jul 2014
#78