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Dow and Monsanto's Plan to Increase the Toxic Pesticides Sprayed in America
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Thanks for the article Logic.
"The EPA has stated that the chemical could have "endocrine disruption potential""
On top of the fact that some form of corn is in a majority of our processed foods...wow
GOD HELP US
"The EPA has stated that the chemical could have "endocrine disruption potential""
On top of the fact that some form of corn is in a majority of our processed foods...wow
GOD HELP US
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It's called capitalism, gotta keep the share holders happy.
For the corporation by the corporation.
For the corporation by the corporation.
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lots of scary stuff going on at Monsanto...
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/02/16/monsantos-roundup-diluted-by-450-fold-is-still-toxic-to-dna/
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/02/16/monsantos-roundup-diluted-by-450-fold-is-still-toxic-to-dna/
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jeez, now im hoping dec 21 2012 comes correct, so we don't have to deal with this bullshit.. haha
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somethin new everyday. wow! 42o
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Hidden "Agent Orange" Chemical They Want to Sneak into Your Food Posted By Dr. Mercola | February 12 2012
Dow AgroSciences (a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals) has developed a new generation of genetically modified (GM) crops -- soybeans, corn and cotton -- that are engineered to resist an herbicide called 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), which was a major ingredient in Agent Orange
Once the 2,4-D resistant seeds are released, it will mean farmers will be spraying massive amounts of the herbicide onto U.S. farmland; health effects linked to 2,4-D include birth defects, blood, liver and kidney toxicity
The 2,4-D-resistant crops are being touted as a solution to Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, which have triggered the creation of super weeds; however, the new crops will likely only add to the problem of herbicide resistance, while even greater amounts of herbicides are sprayed onto U.S. farmland, exposing millions to their harmful effects.
You have until February 27, 2012 to comment on Dow’s application for “non-regulated status” of its 2,4-D-resistant corn. This is a rare opportunity to let your opinion be heard that you do not support products that will increase the use of this toxic chemical once used in Agent Orange.
By Dr. Mercola
Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War.
During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese sick, with countless numbers of their children suffering birth defects, and a still growing group of U.S. veterans with related diseases ranging from cancer to Parkinson's disease.
Agent Orange was a horrific chemical concoction that never should have been used, and if you want to see some of its effects on children who were exposed in the womb, you can do so here -- but I warn you the photos are very graphic and upsetting.
Agent Orange is no longer produced -- so why am I bringing it up now?
Because Dow AgroSciences (a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals), who was one of the original manufacturers of Agent Orange (AO), has developed a new generation of genetically modified (GM) crops -- soybeans, corn and cotton -- that are designed to resist a major ingredient in AO: the herbicide called 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D).
The use of 2,4-D, however, is not new, as it is actually one of the most widely used herbicides in the world.
What is new – and disturbingly so – is that now that staple crops like soy and corn have been engineered to be resistant to 2,4-D, it may soon be applied to U.S. arable land on an unprecedented scale -- not unlike its indiscriminate application during Vietnam.
The whole point of engineering resistance to an herbicide within a GMO plant, of course, is so that you can "carpet bomb" an entire field, leaving only your "Frankenfoods" standing, without having to exert even a fraction of the effort required raise crops organically and sustainably.
In fact, if 2,4-D resistant crops receive approval and eventually come to replace Monsanto's failing Roundup-resistant crops as Dow intends, it is likely that billions of pounds will be needed, on top of the already insane levels of Roundup now being used (1.6 billion lbs were used in 2007 in the US alone!).
Agent Orange Ingredient to be Used in GMO Crops
Dow's new GM product, dubbed "Enlist," is a three-gene, herbicide-tolerant soybean that has been engineered to be resistant to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's popular Roundup herbicide, along with glufosinate and 2,4-D. The company expects to earn $1.5 billion in additional profit in 2013 by selling these triple herbicide-resistant seeds. As noted by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs:
"The two active ingredients in the Agent Orange herbicide combination were equal amounts of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), which contained traces of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)."
Ironically, while Dow's new crops would seriously escalate the use of 2,4-D, Monsanto is currently facing a class-action lawsuit involving the other Agent Orange ingredient, 2,4,5-T. The suit alleges that homes and schools near one of its 2,4,5-T chemical plants are now contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, a byproduct of the manufacturing process. This should be a wake-up call to those considering widespread application of any toxic Agent Orange ingredient.
Dow, however, is touting the new product as a solution to Monsanto's Roundup Ready GM crops, which currently dominate the GM seed market but are now being overshadowed by problems with weed resistance (not to mention that glyphosate itself is also incredibly toxic, and has been linked to infertility, among other serious health problems).
Where Monsanto has failed, Dow and other chemical rivals like DuPont, Syngenta, and Bayer (which are also working on their own herbicide-resistant GM seeds) see opportunity. So Dow has trotted in on their white horse to offer a new variety of GM crop, which they say will not pose the "superweed" problem that Roundup Ready crops have created.
This is not so, according to an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in which researchers state that suggesting 2,4-D will not lead to widespread weed resistance "misrepresented the potential for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)–resistant weeds in 2,4-D–resistant cropping systems and exaggerated the sustainability of their approach to addressing glyphosate-resistant weed problems in agriculture."
They, in fact, note 28 species across 16 plant families that have already evolved resistance to similar herbicides to 2,4-D. Further, as stated on GreenMedInfo, the new Enlist crops are setting the stage for even greater and simultaneous herbicide use, the health ramifications of which are completely unknown:
"Instead of learning from Monsanto's colossal mistakes (which happens when you play geneticist-as-God and use a broad spectrum poison to kill all but your "chosen" plants) Dow AgroScience's solution is to multiply the problem by a factor of three, creating the "first-ever, three-gene," herbicide-tolerant staple crops.
What this means is that instead of using only one highly toxic herbicide (Roundup), three will be used simultaneously, further increasing the risk of serious exposures, and setting up the conditions for synergistic toxicities – something that toxicological risk assessments on singular herbicide ingredients, which establish "an acceptable level of harm," never account for."
Studies Show Increases in Cancer, Birth Defects With Use of 2,4-D
What is known about 2,4-D so far is not reassuring, considering the devastation caused by Agent Orange. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding 2,4-D specifically:
"Health effects of chronic or acute 2,4-D exposure reported for adults included blood, liver, and kidney toxicity. Specific effects included a reduction in hemoglobin and red blood cell numbers, decreased liver enzyme activity, and increased kidney weight. Acute exposure can result in skin and eye irritation. Acute exposure to very high concentrations of 2,4-D can cause the following clinical symptoms: stupor, coma, coughing, burning sensations in lungs, loss of muscular coordination, nausea, vomiting, or dizziness.
Experimental animal studies of chronic oral exposure have reported adverse effects on the eye, thyroid, kidney, adrenals, and ovaries/testes. In addition, some experimental animal studies have reported teratogenic effects (birth defects) at high doses, including increased fetal death, urinary tract malformation, and extra ribs.
When adult female experimental animals were exposed to 2,4-D during their pregnancy and lactation periods, their exposed offspring exhibited neurological effects, including delayed neurobehavioral development and changes in several neurotransmitter levels or binding activities and ganglioside levels in the brain. Delayed neurobehavioral development was manifested as delays in acquisition of certain motor skills such as the righting reflex."
The glaring problem, of course, is that with approval of Dow's new GM crops, the use of 2,4-D could skyrocket out of control. As reported by The Cornucopia Institute:
""The concern is that, just like Monsanto's genetically engineered corn that is resistant to RoundUp™ (glyphosate) herbicide, the approval of a cultivar resistant to 2,4-D will cause an exponential increase in the use of this toxic agrichemical," says Mark A. Kastel, senior farm policy analyst with The Cornucopia Institute.
And again, as the EPA acknowledges, this is far from a benign chemical. The Cornucopia Institute continues:
"2,4-D is a chlorophenoxy herbicide, and scientists around the world have reported increased cancer risks in association with its use, especially for soft tissue sarcoma and malignant lymphoma. Four separate studies in the United States reported an association with chlorophenoxy herbicide use and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
… Research by the EPA found that babies born in counties with high rates of 2,4-D application to farm fields were significantly more likely to be born with birth defects of the respiratory and circulatory systems, as well as defects of the musculoskeletal system like clubfoot, fused digits and extra digits. These birth defects were 60% to 90% more likely in counties with higher 2,4-D application rates. The results also showed a higher likelihood of birth defects in babies conceived in the spring, when herbicide application rates peak."
Weed Scientist Says, "We Told You So"
In the same way that Dow is now certain that its new three-gene, herbicide-tolerant soybean will not spur the creation of more herbicide-resistant "super weeds," Monsanto was also historically adamant that Roundup Ready crops would not cause weed resistance either.
Of course, now that the die has been cast, the United States is reaping the consequences with 13 resistant weed species covering more than 11 million acres, mostly those planted with Monsanto's GM soy, corn and cotton crops. Around the world, 21 weed species are now resistant to glyphosate, up from zero in 1996.
The weeds are making Monsanto's promises that their GM crops would reduce pesticide use completely laughable -- since farmers are being forced to use multiple, and more, pesticides to keep weeds in their GM crops under control -- and are turning out to be a very big thorn in Monsanto's proverbial side.
Monsanto's solution is similar to Dow's … add more herbicide-resistant genes to the plants so even more potent herbicide cocktails can be poured over U.S. farmland! According to Monsanto Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grant, who was interviewed in Business Week, the company plans to add resistance to Dicamba, another weedkiller, to Roundup Ready crops by 2015, noting that:
"The cavalry is coming."
The cavalry is coming indeed … unfortunately they are working for the wrong side, with their "war on weeds" causing massive collateral damage to environmental and human health alike. William G. Johnson, a weed scientist at Purdue University, told Business Week, these new technologies may control Roundup-resistant weeds and leave us in "wedded bliss for 10 or 15 years" but "they do select for their own failure:"
"Now that it has kind of blown up, it's like, 'We told you so,'" he says.
Adding further insult to injury, Johnson explains that "Dicamba and 2,4-D both tend to volatilize, turning the chemicals into vapor that can drift onto neighboring land … " accidentally killing nearby crops and exposing greater expanses to its toxic effects.
Let us also not forget that all the "weeds" these herbicides were designed to kill represent biodiversity, without which we would be left with only a handful of staple crops -- upon which our entire subsistence now precariously depends. Only because we do not find obvious value in a plant, does not mean it is not there.
Emerson once said: "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Indeed, when we target as "the enemy" any living plant that does not bear the favored qualities of a GM plant, and use the slash-and-burn, herbicidal approach to eradicate any competing plant life form, we are basically declaring war on the biosphere itself, and thereby setting up the future conditions for the collapse of our entire food production system, as well as poisoning ourselves in the process. Without biodiversity, monoculturing puts "too many eggs in one basket," virtually guaranteeing future crop collapses and famine. In a nutshell, industrial herbicides (and the GM plants designed to thrive when exposed to them), are a dead end – both figuratively, and literally.
Now's the Time to Take Action!
Dow has applied for non-regulated status of its 2,4-D-resistant corn, and you have until February 27, 2012 to comment on the petition. Please let your opinion be heard that approving more herbicide-tolerant crops is not the solution to ending "super weeds"; the real solution lies in eliminating the genetically modified crops that created them in the first place!
As Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides told The Cornucopia Institute:
"In 2012 the USDA is proposing approving a new GE corn variety that is resistant to a different toxic herbicide, escalating the toxic treadmill in chemical-dependent agriculture. This is nothing more than a band-aid solution to a serious problem, and will only give rise to more superweeds, more herbicide pollution in our environment, more herbicide poisoning, while likely leading to the need for even more toxic herbicides a couple of years down the line. This foolish circle has to end."
It's quite clear that genetically engineered foods are not only threatening the food supply with the creation of herbicide-resistant weeds, but they can also pose potentially serious threats to animal and human health when consumed. Fortunately, now you, too, can let your opinion be heard on this issue. Several organizations, including Mercola.com, the Organic Consumers Association, the Institute for Responsible Technology, and the Environmental Working Group, are working to generate a tipping point of consumer rejection to make GMOs a thing of the past.
Hidden "Agent Orange" Chemical They Want to Sneak into Your Food Posted By Dr. Mercola | February 12 2012
Dow AgroSciences (a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals) has developed a new generation of genetically modified (GM) crops -- soybeans, corn and cotton -- that are engineered to resist an herbicide called 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), which was a major ingredient in Agent Orange
Once the 2,4-D resistant seeds are released, it will mean farmers will be spraying massive amounts of the herbicide onto U.S. farmland; health effects linked to 2,4-D include birth defects, blood, liver and kidney toxicity
The 2,4-D-resistant crops are being touted as a solution to Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, which have triggered the creation of super weeds; however, the new crops will likely only add to the problem of herbicide resistance, while even greater amounts of herbicides are sprayed onto U.S. farmland, exposing millions to their harmful effects.
You have until February 27, 2012 to comment on Dow’s application for “non-regulated status” of its 2,4-D-resistant corn. This is a rare opportunity to let your opinion be heard that you do not support products that will increase the use of this toxic chemical once used in Agent Orange.
By Dr. Mercola
Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War.
During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese sick, with countless numbers of their children suffering birth defects, and a still growing group of U.S. veterans with related diseases ranging from cancer to Parkinson's disease.
Agent Orange was a horrific chemical concoction that never should have been used, and if you want to see some of its effects on children who were exposed in the womb, you can do so here -- but I warn you the photos are very graphic and upsetting.
Agent Orange is no longer produced -- so why am I bringing it up now?
Because Dow AgroSciences (a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals), who was one of the original manufacturers of Agent Orange (AO), has developed a new generation of genetically modified (GM) crops -- soybeans, corn and cotton -- that are designed to resist a major ingredient in AO: the herbicide called 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D).
The use of 2,4-D, however, is not new, as it is actually one of the most widely used herbicides in the world.
What is new – and disturbingly so – is that now that staple crops like soy and corn have been engineered to be resistant to 2,4-D, it may soon be applied to U.S. arable land on an unprecedented scale -- not unlike its indiscriminate application during Vietnam.
The whole point of engineering resistance to an herbicide within a GMO plant, of course, is so that you can "carpet bomb" an entire field, leaving only your "Frankenfoods" standing, without having to exert even a fraction of the effort required raise crops organically and sustainably.
In fact, if 2,4-D resistant crops receive approval and eventually come to replace Monsanto's failing Roundup-resistant crops as Dow intends, it is likely that billions of pounds will be needed, on top of the already insane levels of Roundup now being used (1.6 billion lbs were used in 2007 in the US alone!).
Agent Orange Ingredient to be Used in GMO Crops
Dow's new GM product, dubbed "Enlist," is a three-gene, herbicide-tolerant soybean that has been engineered to be resistant to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's popular Roundup herbicide, along with glufosinate and 2,4-D. The company expects to earn $1.5 billion in additional profit in 2013 by selling these triple herbicide-resistant seeds. As noted by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs:
"The two active ingredients in the Agent Orange herbicide combination were equal amounts of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), which contained traces of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)."
Ironically, while Dow's new crops would seriously escalate the use of 2,4-D, Monsanto is currently facing a class-action lawsuit involving the other Agent Orange ingredient, 2,4,5-T. The suit alleges that homes and schools near one of its 2,4,5-T chemical plants are now contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, a byproduct of the manufacturing process. This should be a wake-up call to those considering widespread application of any toxic Agent Orange ingredient.
Dow, however, is touting the new product as a solution to Monsanto's Roundup Ready GM crops, which currently dominate the GM seed market but are now being overshadowed by problems with weed resistance (not to mention that glyphosate itself is also incredibly toxic, and has been linked to infertility, among other serious health problems).
Where Monsanto has failed, Dow and other chemical rivals like DuPont, Syngenta, and Bayer (which are also working on their own herbicide-resistant GM seeds) see opportunity. So Dow has trotted in on their white horse to offer a new variety of GM crop, which they say will not pose the "superweed" problem that Roundup Ready crops have created.
This is not so, according to an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in which researchers state that suggesting 2,4-D will not lead to widespread weed resistance "misrepresented the potential for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)–resistant weeds in 2,4-D–resistant cropping systems and exaggerated the sustainability of their approach to addressing glyphosate-resistant weed problems in agriculture."
They, in fact, note 28 species across 16 plant families that have already evolved resistance to similar herbicides to 2,4-D. Further, as stated on GreenMedInfo, the new Enlist crops are setting the stage for even greater and simultaneous herbicide use, the health ramifications of which are completely unknown:
"Instead of learning from Monsanto's colossal mistakes (which happens when you play geneticist-as-God and use a broad spectrum poison to kill all but your "chosen" plants) Dow AgroScience's solution is to multiply the problem by a factor of three, creating the "first-ever, three-gene," herbicide-tolerant staple crops.
What this means is that instead of using only one highly toxic herbicide (Roundup), three will be used simultaneously, further increasing the risk of serious exposures, and setting up the conditions for synergistic toxicities – something that toxicological risk assessments on singular herbicide ingredients, which establish "an acceptable level of harm," never account for."
Studies Show Increases in Cancer, Birth Defects With Use of 2,4-D
What is known about 2,4-D so far is not reassuring, considering the devastation caused by Agent Orange. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding 2,4-D specifically:
"Health effects of chronic or acute 2,4-D exposure reported for adults included blood, liver, and kidney toxicity. Specific effects included a reduction in hemoglobin and red blood cell numbers, decreased liver enzyme activity, and increased kidney weight. Acute exposure can result in skin and eye irritation. Acute exposure to very high concentrations of 2,4-D can cause the following clinical symptoms: stupor, coma, coughing, burning sensations in lungs, loss of muscular coordination, nausea, vomiting, or dizziness.
Experimental animal studies of chronic oral exposure have reported adverse effects on the eye, thyroid, kidney, adrenals, and ovaries/testes. In addition, some experimental animal studies have reported teratogenic effects (birth defects) at high doses, including increased fetal death, urinary tract malformation, and extra ribs.
When adult female experimental animals were exposed to 2,4-D during their pregnancy and lactation periods, their exposed offspring exhibited neurological effects, including delayed neurobehavioral development and changes in several neurotransmitter levels or binding activities and ganglioside levels in the brain. Delayed neurobehavioral development was manifested as delays in acquisition of certain motor skills such as the righting reflex."
The glaring problem, of course, is that with approval of Dow's new GM crops, the use of 2,4-D could skyrocket out of control. As reported by The Cornucopia Institute:
""The concern is that, just like Monsanto's genetically engineered corn that is resistant to RoundUp™ (glyphosate) herbicide, the approval of a cultivar resistant to 2,4-D will cause an exponential increase in the use of this toxic agrichemical," says Mark A. Kastel, senior farm policy analyst with The Cornucopia Institute.
And again, as the EPA acknowledges, this is far from a benign chemical. The Cornucopia Institute continues:
"2,4-D is a chlorophenoxy herbicide, and scientists around the world have reported increased cancer risks in association with its use, especially for soft tissue sarcoma and malignant lymphoma. Four separate studies in the United States reported an association with chlorophenoxy herbicide use and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
… Research by the EPA found that babies born in counties with high rates of 2,4-D application to farm fields were significantly more likely to be born with birth defects of the respiratory and circulatory systems, as well as defects of the musculoskeletal system like clubfoot, fused digits and extra digits. These birth defects were 60% to 90% more likely in counties with higher 2,4-D application rates. The results also showed a higher likelihood of birth defects in babies conceived in the spring, when herbicide application rates peak."
Weed Scientist Says, "We Told You So"
In the same way that Dow is now certain that its new three-gene, herbicide-tolerant soybean will not spur the creation of more herbicide-resistant "super weeds," Monsanto was also historically adamant that Roundup Ready crops would not cause weed resistance either.
Of course, now that the die has been cast, the United States is reaping the consequences with 13 resistant weed species covering more than 11 million acres, mostly those planted with Monsanto's GM soy, corn and cotton crops. Around the world, 21 weed species are now resistant to glyphosate, up from zero in 1996.
The weeds are making Monsanto's promises that their GM crops would reduce pesticide use completely laughable -- since farmers are being forced to use multiple, and more, pesticides to keep weeds in their GM crops under control -- and are turning out to be a very big thorn in Monsanto's proverbial side.
Monsanto's solution is similar to Dow's … add more herbicide-resistant genes to the plants so even more potent herbicide cocktails can be poured over U.S. farmland! According to Monsanto Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grant, who was interviewed in Business Week, the company plans to add resistance to Dicamba, another weedkiller, to Roundup Ready crops by 2015, noting that:
"The cavalry is coming."
The cavalry is coming indeed … unfortunately they are working for the wrong side, with their "war on weeds" causing massive collateral damage to environmental and human health alike. William G. Johnson, a weed scientist at Purdue University, told Business Week, these new technologies may control Roundup-resistant weeds and leave us in "wedded bliss for 10 or 15 years" but "they do select for their own failure:"
"Now that it has kind of blown up, it's like, 'We told you so,'" he says.
Adding further insult to injury, Johnson explains that "Dicamba and 2,4-D both tend to volatilize, turning the chemicals into vapor that can drift onto neighboring land … " accidentally killing nearby crops and exposing greater expanses to its toxic effects.
Let us also not forget that all the "weeds" these herbicides were designed to kill represent biodiversity, without which we would be left with only a handful of staple crops -- upon which our entire subsistence now precariously depends. Only because we do not find obvious value in a plant, does not mean it is not there.
Emerson once said: "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Indeed, when we target as "the enemy" any living plant that does not bear the favored qualities of a GM plant, and use the slash-and-burn, herbicidal approach to eradicate any competing plant life form, we are basically declaring war on the biosphere itself, and thereby setting up the future conditions for the collapse of our entire food production system, as well as poisoning ourselves in the process. Without biodiversity, monoculturing puts "too many eggs in one basket," virtually guaranteeing future crop collapses and famine. In a nutshell, industrial herbicides (and the GM plants designed to thrive when exposed to them), are a dead end – both figuratively, and literally.
Now's the Time to Take Action!
Dow has applied for non-regulated status of its 2,4-D-resistant corn, and you have until February 27, 2012 to comment on the petition. Please let your opinion be heard that approving more herbicide-tolerant crops is not the solution to ending "super weeds"; the real solution lies in eliminating the genetically modified crops that created them in the first place!
As Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides told The Cornucopia Institute:
"In 2012 the USDA is proposing approving a new GE corn variety that is resistant to a different toxic herbicide, escalating the toxic treadmill in chemical-dependent agriculture. This is nothing more than a band-aid solution to a serious problem, and will only give rise to more superweeds, more herbicide pollution in our environment, more herbicide poisoning, while likely leading to the need for even more toxic herbicides a couple of years down the line. This foolish circle has to end."
It's quite clear that genetically engineered foods are not only threatening the food supply with the creation of herbicide-resistant weeds, but they can also pose potentially serious threats to animal and human health when consumed. Fortunately, now you, too, can let your opinion be heard on this issue. Several organizations, including Mercola.com, the Organic Consumers Association, the Institute for Responsible Technology, and the Environmental Working Group, are working to generate a tipping point of consumer rejection to make GMOs a thing of the past.
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The End
I regretfully say after reading the linked articles above I completely agree....Im walking outside if the shit goes down.....
Durr,
2DW:sad0104:
I regretfully say after reading the linked articles above I completely agree....Im walking outside if the shit goes down.....
Durr,
2DW:sad0104:
baba G
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UvbhF5raXQ
people have been saying things for years and now finally people are starting to listen, some wild shit people are capable of...
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people have been saying things for years and now finally people are starting to listen, some wild shit people are capable of...
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baba G
bean sprouts are tasty
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how do you embed these vids??
Brings a whole new meaning to you are what you eat...
We are what we spray...
Brings a whole new meaning to you are what you eat...
We are what we spray...
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Hahahah honestly one of the most priceless looks I have ever rec'd in my life was from a 60 yr old pesticide/seed salesmen catering to large scale farmers (corn, soys, red wheat...etc --Typical idiots)..While I was doing a little "consulting" for the farmers I just couldn't help myself to fuck with these people a bit...I really was basically just analyzing finances...
So this old man starts to pitch us this huge plan on how they are gonna provide us with a full weed management plan for the round up ready soys and our planned corn with a "fucking refuge field"....I stop him mid sentence and say "Sir, have you ever read the pesticide conspiracy by Robert Van Den Bosch" Then I briefly enlightened him on my limited knowledge of integrated pest management.... Speechless is an understatement... and he finally stammers "son I've been doing this for 25 years and I promise you corn won't be growing in your fields with an approach like that"
The problem is so fundamental....
2DW
So this old man starts to pitch us this huge plan on how they are gonna provide us with a full weed management plan for the round up ready soys and our planned corn with a "fucking refuge field"....I stop him mid sentence and say "Sir, have you ever read the pesticide conspiracy by Robert Van Den Bosch" Then I briefly enlightened him on my limited knowledge of integrated pest management.... Speechless is an understatement... and he finally stammers "son I've been doing this for 25 years and I promise you corn won't be growing in your fields with an approach like that"
The problem is so fundamental....
2DW
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What next,soylent green?
ttystikk
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You bet- it's the next step after privatisation of prisons and the 'libralisation' of death penalty laws, gotta get rid of the bodies somehow...
Instead of 'Chicken in a biscuit', it'll be 'Charlie in a biscuit!' 'Betty in the baked goods!'
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Man I really will be glad when I get my property set up and can have my own garden and raise my own live stock! I`m looking into herloom seeds for my veggie garden! Fuck those corperate food molesters!
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I have said it before and I will say it again.....
Agenda 21- United Nations De-populatation Agenda
Codex Alimentarius : Control The Food, Control The People
Written by: Wally Paul
republicdefiance.com
The UN plan to eradicate organic farming & to destroy the Natural Health Industry.
“Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship . . . denying equal privileges. All such laws are un-American and despotic . . . “ Benjamin Rush, Physician, Signer of Declaration of Independence
-”If you control the food supply, you control the people” – Henry Kissinger
The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “food code” or “food book”) is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety. Its name derives from the Codex Alimentarius Austriacus. Its texts are developed and maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body that was established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Commission’s main aims are stated as being to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the international food trade. The Codex Alimentarius is recognized by the World Trade Organization, (The United States of America has been a WTO member since January 1, 1995) as an international reference point for the resolution of disputes concerning food safety and consumer protection.
Codex has been around for a long time. It is very important to understand and most Americans have no idea what it is about. Most Americans do not know about bill S510. This bill is the instrument they are using to implement Codex in America. The media does not talk about these things. S 510 and the implementation of Codex will do more harm to our American way of life and our health than anything else. Bill S510 is a WMD. This is all part of the eugenics agenda as described on the Georgia Guidestones. (Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature, the first Guidestone principle).
Codex is a UN agency that wants to control the food of the world. It operates with the goal to destroy the vast majority of the world’s population. They want to rid the world of, “Useless Eaters”. Eighty percent of the food consumed by Americans is now genetically modified food. This is the food codex loves. They are eugenicists, not agriculturists. S510 and its Codex Alimentarius component must be stopped. Wake up. The survival of our species is at stake. You can stay in denial like I once was, but it won’t change the fact the global mafia wants total genocide through food, air, water, vaccines, and any means possible. They are trying to achieve full spectrum dominance through their stealthy plan of ever increasing incrementalism. The plan is accelerating and we are spinning into chaos. We must identify the enemy. Identify their tactics and stand together against their evil.
Someone called me a tinfoil hat wearer the other day. Look brother if you can’t see what is happening now you will never wake up. The global plan has now become an open conspiracy and is in plain view. I don’t like what I see, but I see it, and I will fight like hell against the ever encroaching tyranny.
The Codex Alimentarius agenda, which has long metastasized in the recesses of closed board rooms and governmental chambers, is now coming to light. This is the paramount issue of our times, yet few know about it. If Codex standards ever replace the current laws in the U.S. governing food and dietary supplements, it will affect not just Americans’ right to choose supplements, but our right to grow crops with untampered seeds, to buy pure organic food, and to live free of the tyranny of Big Agro-Chem-Pharma-Med, through health-destructive FDA rules enacted and enforced by a pro-corporate government that cares nothing about our health freedom. In other words, the “natural health” industry will perish. Now more than ever, we must exercise our democratic duty and be vigilant in protecting that freedom, the health and survival of the Earth, and all her creatures demands our full attention.
We’ve been assaulted for over fifty years with water fluoridation. We’ve been robbed through a corrupt money system run by the robber barons of the 19th century. We have been lied to in order to stoke the flames of false patriotism. The lies have led us to blindly fight wars, where the real goal and outcome is to enslave other countries through a corrupt money system in the Global Mafia system of control. At last, as Stalin once said, a population is controlled through its stomach.
Codex is the enemy of everyone except those who will profit from it. Codex has an association with those who committed crimes during the Nazi regime. At the end of World War II, the Nuremberg tribunal judged Nazis who had committed horrendous crimes against humanity and sentenced them to prison terms. One of those found guilty was the president of the megalithic corporation I.G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. His company was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, and had extraordinary political and economic power and influence with the Hitlerian Nazi state. Farben produced the gas used in the Nazi gas chambers, and the steel for the railroads built to transport people to their deaths.
While serving his prison term, Schmitz looked for an alternative to brute force for controlling people and realized that people could be controlled through their food supply. When he got out of prison, he went to his friends at the United Nations (UN) and laid out a plan to take over the control of food worldwide. A trade commission called Codex Alimentarius (Latin for food code) was re-created under the guise of it being a consumer protection commission. But Codex was never in the business of protecting people. It has always been about money and profits at the expense of people.
Fritz ter Meer – in 1947 sentenced by the Nuremberg Tribunal, was also a big player in the establishment of Codex Alimentarius.
He was a member of the Managing Board of IG Farben from its inception to its dissolution. As the Wartime Manager, he was responsible for IG Auschwitz.
In the Nuremberg Tribunal, ter Meer stated: “Forced labor did not inflict any remarkable injury, pain, or suffering on the detainees, particularly since the alternative for these workers would have been death.”
In 1948, ter Meer was sentenced by the Nuremberg Tribunal to seven years in prison for plundering and slavery.
In 1952, his sentence was commuted, due to the influence of powerful friends.
From 1956-1964, he was reinstated as a member of the Managing Board of Bayer AG.
In 1962, ter Meer was one of the architects of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and one of the main designers of the schemes that would profit from human suffering.
The deceptive title “Codex Alimentarius” is no accident. It was devised by the same firms and indeed the same individuals, who gave the Auschwitz concentration camp inmates the deceptive slogan “Arbeit mach frei” (“Work makes you free”).
“Codex Alimentarius, in simple terms, is a code of law for food. What it actually means to each and everyone of us is a threat to our health and the health of every human being on this planet.
The future availability and legal status of herbs, vitamins, amino acids, minerals and all other supplements in the U.S. and throughout the world, may be determined by a committee made up of 146 nations called the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which operates in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO).
It is under the guise of protecting public safety through the standardization of food and botanical codes that the commission may be a tool of the international pharmaceutical industry that is intent on making ALL SUPPLEMENTS – herbal or otherwise – available by prescription only.
Established in 1963 for the purpose of setting international standards and codes for foods, the Codex Commission is over-whelmingly composed of German and International Pharmaceutical Corporations. Over 90% of the international organizations ALLOWED to send delegates to the meetings represent giant multinational pharmaceutical corporations. The only consumer organization is the International Organization of Consumer Unions. NEITHER THE NATURAL HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY NOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC HAS ANY REPRESENTATION AT THE CODEX MEETINGS.
Spearheaded by the German pharmaceutical corporations, this Codex Commission plans to ban – on a worldwide basis – any health statement in relation to any non-prescription supplement, preventive, therapeutic, or otherwise. Moreover, any formulas which would still be available would have to meet the arbitrary restrictions of the Codex Commission. Those nations that do not comply with these restrictions are faced with economic sanctions.
Catherine Bertini, the head of the UN food programs in 1995, paraphrased the famous Kissinger statement, “Food is power. We use it to change behavior.”
Is this the first time you have heard of “Codex Alimentarius?” That’s not unusual because Codex is an “open secret.” The information is available if you want to look for it but the corporate controlled media isn’t going to tell you about it until its already too late.
Monsanto, Big Pharma, Chema and Agra have convinced most companies “Codex is a non-issue”, and that they will actually gain market share when Codex is implemented.
republicdefiance.com
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alimentarius Codex Alimentarius
2. http://educate-yourself.org/cn/codexalimentarius15jan09.shtml Codex Alimentarius:
Monstrously Toxic Power Play for Control of the Global Food Supply & Natural Health Industry
3. http://www.thedarknessexposed.com/2...dly-poison-melamine-an-acceptable-contaminant Codex Alimentarius Delegation makes Deadly Poison Melamine an “Acceptable” Contaminant
4. http://www.mindsyntropy.com/index.php/component/content/article/133-UN-Codex-Alimentarius Masters of Population: UN Codex Alimentarius
5. http://www.naturalnews.com/026731_CODEX_food_health.html Codex Threatens Health of Billions
6. Codex Alimentarius and What It Means To You
7. http://thetruthorthefight.wordpress...he-global-elite-will-control-your-food-supply Codex Alimentarius – How the global elite will control your food supply
Agenda 21- United Nations De-populatation Agenda
Codex Alimentarius : Control The Food, Control The People
Written by: Wally Paul
republicdefiance.com
The UN plan to eradicate organic farming & to destroy the Natural Health Industry.
“Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship . . . denying equal privileges. All such laws are un-American and despotic . . . “ Benjamin Rush, Physician, Signer of Declaration of Independence
-”If you control the food supply, you control the people” – Henry Kissinger
The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “food code” or “food book”) is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety. Its name derives from the Codex Alimentarius Austriacus. Its texts are developed and maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body that was established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Commission’s main aims are stated as being to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the international food trade. The Codex Alimentarius is recognized by the World Trade Organization, (The United States of America has been a WTO member since January 1, 1995) as an international reference point for the resolution of disputes concerning food safety and consumer protection.
Codex has been around for a long time. It is very important to understand and most Americans have no idea what it is about. Most Americans do not know about bill S510. This bill is the instrument they are using to implement Codex in America. The media does not talk about these things. S 510 and the implementation of Codex will do more harm to our American way of life and our health than anything else. Bill S510 is a WMD. This is all part of the eugenics agenda as described on the Georgia Guidestones. (Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature, the first Guidestone principle).
Codex is a UN agency that wants to control the food of the world. It operates with the goal to destroy the vast majority of the world’s population. They want to rid the world of, “Useless Eaters”. Eighty percent of the food consumed by Americans is now genetically modified food. This is the food codex loves. They are eugenicists, not agriculturists. S510 and its Codex Alimentarius component must be stopped. Wake up. The survival of our species is at stake. You can stay in denial like I once was, but it won’t change the fact the global mafia wants total genocide through food, air, water, vaccines, and any means possible. They are trying to achieve full spectrum dominance through their stealthy plan of ever increasing incrementalism. The plan is accelerating and we are spinning into chaos. We must identify the enemy. Identify their tactics and stand together against their evil.
Someone called me a tinfoil hat wearer the other day. Look brother if you can’t see what is happening now you will never wake up. The global plan has now become an open conspiracy and is in plain view. I don’t like what I see, but I see it, and I will fight like hell against the ever encroaching tyranny.
The Codex Alimentarius agenda, which has long metastasized in the recesses of closed board rooms and governmental chambers, is now coming to light. This is the paramount issue of our times, yet few know about it. If Codex standards ever replace the current laws in the U.S. governing food and dietary supplements, it will affect not just Americans’ right to choose supplements, but our right to grow crops with untampered seeds, to buy pure organic food, and to live free of the tyranny of Big Agro-Chem-Pharma-Med, through health-destructive FDA rules enacted and enforced by a pro-corporate government that cares nothing about our health freedom. In other words, the “natural health” industry will perish. Now more than ever, we must exercise our democratic duty and be vigilant in protecting that freedom, the health and survival of the Earth, and all her creatures demands our full attention.
We’ve been assaulted for over fifty years with water fluoridation. We’ve been robbed through a corrupt money system run by the robber barons of the 19th century. We have been lied to in order to stoke the flames of false patriotism. The lies have led us to blindly fight wars, where the real goal and outcome is to enslave other countries through a corrupt money system in the Global Mafia system of control. At last, as Stalin once said, a population is controlled through its stomach.
Codex is the enemy of everyone except those who will profit from it. Codex has an association with those who committed crimes during the Nazi regime. At the end of World War II, the Nuremberg tribunal judged Nazis who had committed horrendous crimes against humanity and sentenced them to prison terms. One of those found guilty was the president of the megalithic corporation I.G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. His company was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, and had extraordinary political and economic power and influence with the Hitlerian Nazi state. Farben produced the gas used in the Nazi gas chambers, and the steel for the railroads built to transport people to their deaths.
While serving his prison term, Schmitz looked for an alternative to brute force for controlling people and realized that people could be controlled through their food supply. When he got out of prison, he went to his friends at the United Nations (UN) and laid out a plan to take over the control of food worldwide. A trade commission called Codex Alimentarius (Latin for food code) was re-created under the guise of it being a consumer protection commission. But Codex was never in the business of protecting people. It has always been about money and profits at the expense of people.
Fritz ter Meer – in 1947 sentenced by the Nuremberg Tribunal, was also a big player in the establishment of Codex Alimentarius.
He was a member of the Managing Board of IG Farben from its inception to its dissolution. As the Wartime Manager, he was responsible for IG Auschwitz.
In the Nuremberg Tribunal, ter Meer stated: “Forced labor did not inflict any remarkable injury, pain, or suffering on the detainees, particularly since the alternative for these workers would have been death.”
In 1948, ter Meer was sentenced by the Nuremberg Tribunal to seven years in prison for plundering and slavery.
In 1952, his sentence was commuted, due to the influence of powerful friends.
From 1956-1964, he was reinstated as a member of the Managing Board of Bayer AG.
In 1962, ter Meer was one of the architects of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and one of the main designers of the schemes that would profit from human suffering.
The deceptive title “Codex Alimentarius” is no accident. It was devised by the same firms and indeed the same individuals, who gave the Auschwitz concentration camp inmates the deceptive slogan “Arbeit mach frei” (“Work makes you free”).
“Codex Alimentarius, in simple terms, is a code of law for food. What it actually means to each and everyone of us is a threat to our health and the health of every human being on this planet.
The future availability and legal status of herbs, vitamins, amino acids, minerals and all other supplements in the U.S. and throughout the world, may be determined by a committee made up of 146 nations called the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which operates in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO).
It is under the guise of protecting public safety through the standardization of food and botanical codes that the commission may be a tool of the international pharmaceutical industry that is intent on making ALL SUPPLEMENTS – herbal or otherwise – available by prescription only.
Established in 1963 for the purpose of setting international standards and codes for foods, the Codex Commission is over-whelmingly composed of German and International Pharmaceutical Corporations. Over 90% of the international organizations ALLOWED to send delegates to the meetings represent giant multinational pharmaceutical corporations. The only consumer organization is the International Organization of Consumer Unions. NEITHER THE NATURAL HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY NOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC HAS ANY REPRESENTATION AT THE CODEX MEETINGS.
Spearheaded by the German pharmaceutical corporations, this Codex Commission plans to ban – on a worldwide basis – any health statement in relation to any non-prescription supplement, preventive, therapeutic, or otherwise. Moreover, any formulas which would still be available would have to meet the arbitrary restrictions of the Codex Commission. Those nations that do not comply with these restrictions are faced with economic sanctions.
Catherine Bertini, the head of the UN food programs in 1995, paraphrased the famous Kissinger statement, “Food is power. We use it to change behavior.”
Is this the first time you have heard of “Codex Alimentarius?” That’s not unusual because Codex is an “open secret.” The information is available if you want to look for it but the corporate controlled media isn’t going to tell you about it until its already too late.
Monsanto, Big Pharma, Chema and Agra have convinced most companies “Codex is a non-issue”, and that they will actually gain market share when Codex is implemented.
republicdefiance.com
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alimentarius Codex Alimentarius
2. http://educate-yourself.org/cn/codexalimentarius15jan09.shtml Codex Alimentarius:
Monstrously Toxic Power Play for Control of the Global Food Supply & Natural Health Industry
3. http://www.thedarknessexposed.com/2...dly-poison-melamine-an-acceptable-contaminant Codex Alimentarius Delegation makes Deadly Poison Melamine an “Acceptable” Contaminant
4. http://www.mindsyntropy.com/index.php/component/content/article/133-UN-Codex-Alimentarius Masters of Population: UN Codex Alimentarius
5. http://www.naturalnews.com/026731_CODEX_food_health.html Codex Threatens Health of Billions
6. Codex Alimentarius and What It Means To You
7. http://thetruthorthefight.wordpress...he-global-elite-will-control-your-food-supply Codex Alimentarius – How the global elite will control your food supply
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The Forces of Darkness at work. Why the majority of people throughout the world cannot understand what is really happening is beyond me. Interesting times for sure.
But as Beatle, George Harrison sang "All things must pass"
But as Beatle, George Harrison sang "All things must pass"
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I try to inform my friends about the bullshit that goes on in this industrial food world all the time....now they just look at me like im some crazy stoner...
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That is why I often avoid trying to inform others. That is also why I don't argue or debate about it either.
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