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In reply to the discussion: Farmers Rally at White House to Protest Monsanto's GMO Empire [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)you are being ridiculous and baseless. are you saying big M should be fought without using money?
you obviously aren't a (misguided)farmer, so why the hell else would you defend the MOST HATED corporation on the planet?
do you believe in dinosaurs? anything a scientist says is to be poo-poo'd?
on one side:
John Fagan, PhD is a leading authority on sustainability in the food system, biosafety, and GMO testing. He is founder and chief scientific officer of one of the worlds first GMO testing and certification companies, through which he has pioneered the development of innovative tools to verify and advance food purity, safety and sustainability. He co-founded Earth Open Source, which uses open source collaboration to advance sustainable food production. Earlier, he conducted cancer research at the US National Institutes of Health. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology from Cornell University.
on the other side:
a guy with a fake name on the internet who can't even manage a quality childish insult.
who to believe??
i do like where the money goes (from your link): (someone has to regulate the crap, no?)
The Global ID Group (GIDG) is an international family of companies headquartered in Fairfield that is dedicated to supporting the production of safe, ethical and sustainable food. GIDG has 100 employees spread across its offices and labs in Iowa, Brazil, Germany, Japan and United Kingdom. Dr. John Fagan founded Global ID (under the name of Genetic ID) in 1996 to develop technologies to accurately detect the presence of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Today, GIDG's subsidiary laboratories are global leaders in offering testing for every commercialized variety of GMOS, and serve every sector of the international agribusiness industry from farmers to processors to manufacturers and retailers. GIDG subsidiaries include Genetic ID companies that offer both GMO and other food safety testing, its CERT ID companies that offer a range of third-party food safety certification services, and FoodChain Global Advisors that provide technical and advisory services.
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Since 1997, RR soy production has increased from 5 to 30 million hectares of land in the US alone [1]. Soybeans have been found to contain glyphosate residues up to 10 times as high as the doses that caused foetal malformations in chick and frog embryos.
With such widespread use of the herbicide, and the EU considering approval of GM crops tolerant to glyphosate for cultivation in Europe, there is an urgent need for a proper review of the herbicide, which is in line with the more stringent new EU pesticide regulation that came into force in June 2011.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EU_Regulators_Monsanto_Glyphosate_Toxicity.php