OscailtGM potatoes in Ireland and Europe – The Patent HoldersTracking the money and power behind the science.
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2012-09-12T10:34:11+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=102409http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifTailoring the corporate message for Europeanshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102409#comment2921712012-09-12T10:34:11+00:00Concerned DubThank you for that.
You touched on something I've noticed myself - repeated cal...Thank you for that.<br />
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You touched on something I've noticed myself - repeated calls that this is about the science and that 'we should leave the scientists to get the impartial answers from scientific research so that the citizens can make informed choices'. <br />
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While in the background, the appointments of Chief Science officers and senior scientific policy personnel in Ireland and the EU are raising more eyebrows and concerns, whether it's their flippant disregard for the precaurionary principle, shameless self service or the sheer number of them with connections to the International Life Sciences Institute. 'Oh we need the best talents but sometimes they come from industry.' <br />
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There was even a shill site set up, Sense About Science, with industry backing, hosting a video of scientists making an earnest and convincing plea to activists to not destroy the Rothamstead GM wheat trials earlier this year, so they could provide independent data. I fell for it. Stephen Fry fell for it.<br />
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Previously, when scientists (and they were usually pro GM like Profs Puztai and Traavik) discovered problems with transgenic crops, they were demonised, sacked and otherwise 'made an example of' but it was almost becoming a cliche. Now it seems the reports are either ignored by other scientists or scientists have to carefully word their reports to say that nothing untowards was found, even though the charts and data say otherwise.<br />
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P.S. 'cisgenics' is a subset of 'transgenics', ie. still transgenics. Another marketing trick.Shocking Revelations -new resarch shows GM food can cause cancer and early deathhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102409#comment2923162012-09-20T09:14:25+00:00ArtThe Tegasc director Mr Gerry Boyle has just published an article in the Irish Fa...The Tegasc director Mr Gerry Boyle has just published an article in the Irish Farmers Journal saying “We need a grown up debate on the costs and benefits of GM” and “ Let the real debate begin.”<br /><br />
No better time for Mr Boyle and the editor of the IFG who is also an advocate of GM to express their views on the recent shocking revelations just announced and reported in the Daily Mail today with the headlines.<br /><br/>
<b>Cancer row over GM foods as study says it did THIS to rats... and can cause organ damage and early death in humans</b> and it shows a picture of one of the deformed rats from the research
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Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller Roundup suffered tumours and multiple organ damage, according to a French study published today. A full version of the article can be read in the Daily Mail at the link below.<br />
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Ireland should immediately cease all GM use North and South and try to maintain a GM free status, otherwise trying to survive in farming will be like trying to stop the tide coming in with a grape. Farmers need also to ask why the Dairy, Pig and other sectors that used imported GM feed are now on their knees.<br />
GM inevitable?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102409#comment2923202012-09-20T13:28:20+00:00JohnGM food is the logical next step if we insist on sticking to the industrial farm...GM food is the logical next step if we insist on sticking to the industrial farming model. It's the latest "solution" to overuse of pesticides and herbicides put forward by the same companies using the same thinking as caused the problems in the first place. We need more and smaller farms with more people physically engaged with their landscape and ecosystems and less reliance on machines and technology..<br />
We are being fed the notion that it is inevitable for us humans to be a negative force in our environment and that we have no choice but to go down this road. <br />
This is a lie that will become true unless we create the alternatives and take personal responsibility for our food needs. Which means getting out from our computers and getting sweaty.Revealed: Monsanto GM corn caused tumors in ratshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102409#comment2923252012-09-20T15:47:44+00:00pat cI wouldn't agree totally with the anti-GM campaign but was shocked by this story...I wouldn't agree totally with the anti-GM campaign but was shocked by this story and will have to think again. But the very fact that a foodstuff is tested on animals should be reason enough to oppose it.<br />
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<em>French scientists have revealed that rats fed on GMO corn sold by American firm Monsanto, suffered tumors and other complications including kidney and liver damage. When testing the firm’s top brand weed killer the rats showed similar symptoms.<br />
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The French government has asked its health and safety agency to assess the study and had also sent it to the European Union's food safety agency, Reuters reports.<br />
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"Based on the conclusion…, the government will ask the European authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal health, measures that could go as far as an emergency suspension of imports of NK603 maize in the European Union," the French health, environment and farm ministries said in a joint statement.<br />
Researchers from the University of Caen found that rats fed on a diet containing NK603 – a seed variety made tolerant to amounts of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller – or given water mixed with the product, at levels permitted in the United States – died earlier than those on a standard diet.<br />
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The research conducted by Gilles-Eric Seralini and his colleagues, said the rats suffered mammary tumors, as well as severe liver and kidney damage. The study was published in the journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology and presented at a news conference in London.<br />
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Fifty percent of male and 70 percent of female rats died prematurely, compared with only 30 percent and 20 percent in the control group, said the researchers.</em><br />
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Mitt Rommy and Obama eat Organic food only yet support Monsanto ...http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102409#comment2927152012-10-18T23:45:00+00:00TListening to a recent Gary Null show he was pointing out that both Mitt Rommy an...Listening to a recent Gary Null show he was pointing out that both Mitt Rommy and Obama families <u>only</u> eat organic food. They clearly know all the other stuff is bad for you long term and both of them have regularly promoted GM companies like Monsanto and allowed some very dubious bills to pass Nearly Half of All US Farms Now Have Superweeds Resistant to Monsanto's herbicide Rounduphttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/102409#comment2945192013-02-14T23:21:23+00:00TIn a report Feb 6th Mother Jones magazine has a report covering the fact that ne...In a report Feb 6th Mother Jones magazine has a report covering the fact that nearly half of all farms in the US are resistant to Monsanto's herbicide Roundup. This has happened because of the widespread use of GM crops which are purely designed to be able to grow in the presence of heavy spraying of the Roundup herbicide. Monsanto sells both the GM crops and Roundup.<br />
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Monsanto's answer is to create even more deadly herbicides to spray on the crops and to add even more genes to resist these.<br />
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All I can say is thankfully the genomes of the weeds are flexible enough to adapt to this shit and out maneuver it<br />
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Full report at the link below