Showing posts with label GMO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GMO. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Monday, November 17, 2014
Starbucks Joins Monsanto’s Suit to Queer Up Food Labeling Law in Vermont
The
legendary rocker announced that he's boycotting Starbucks over the coffee
monolith's alleged involvement in a lawsuit in Vermont regarding the labeling
of genetically modified ingredients.
"I
used to line up and get my latte everyday, but yesterday was my last one,"
Young wrote on his website earlier this week. "Starbucks has teamed up
with Monsanto to sue Vermont, and stop accurate food labeling."
Young's
referring to a law Vermont passed last spring that will require food labels to
specify whether they're made with genetically modified ingredients by July 1,
2016.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monsanto is God! Only Monsanto patented seeds are allowed to create life. More like the work of the devil. Supreme Court bows to Corporation god unanimously.
…But the Indiana farmer, Vernon Hugh
Bowman, who had signed such contracts for his main crop, said he discovered a
loophole for a second, riskier crop later in the growing season.
For that second crop, he bought seeds from a grain elevator filled
with a mix of seeds in the reasonable hope that many of them contained
Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready gene.
Seeds from grain elevators are typically sold for animal feed,
food processing or industrial uses. But Mr. Bowman planted them and sprayed
them with Roundup. Many plants survived, and he replanted their seeds.
Monsanto sued, and a federal judge in Indiana ordered Mr. Bowman
to pay the company more than $84,000. The United States Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, upheld that decision,
saying that by planting the seeds Mr. Bowman had infringed Monsanto’s patents.
Justice Kagan agreed, suggesting that Mr. Bowman had been too
clever for his own good.
Mr. Bowman’s main argument was that a doctrine called patent
exhaustion allowed him to do what he liked with products he had obtained
legally. But Justice Kagan said it did not apply to the way he had used the
seeds.
“Under the patent exhaustion doctrine, Bowman could resell the
patented soybeans he purchased from the grain elevator; so too he could consume
the beans himself or feed them to his animals,” she wrote.
“But the exhaustion doctrine does not enable Bowman to make
additional patented soybeans without Monsanto’s permission,” she added, and
went on to say that “that is precisely what Bowman did.”
(Oh you unworthy worthless humans, bow your heads to the new religion of the new perfect creator, the Corporate God!)
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Monsanto GMO*- MON810 Maize (Corn) Banned in France
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The shit they, the corporations, feed the 47% on Food Stamps in the United States is now banned in France and in effect all EU Europe as well.
The poor in America, a large part of the hated by the elites 47%, without easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables, eat corn chips, corn flakes, fast food fried in CORN OIL and drink sodas full of a processed industrial waste product aka High Fructose CORN Syrup. Maize = Corn.
The poor in America, a large part of the hated by the elites 47%, without easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables, eat corn chips, corn flakes, fast food fried in CORN OIL and drink sodas full of a processed industrial waste product aka High Fructose CORN Syrup. Maize = Corn.
Who would have thought when Charles de Gaulle told NATO and the United States to fuck off in the sixties, he might one day by his actions in creating an independent French Mindset, that he would be considered the indirect salvation of a greater future Europe in protecting the food supply from foreign domination, experimentation and contaminaton.
In another massive victory against Monsanto and the
spread of genetically modified crops, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraul
has announced that the nation will be maintaining a key ban on the only
remaining GMO currently allowed in Europe.
Known as Monsanto’s GMO maize crops, or MON810
maize, the original ban was brought forth back in March following the French
court’s previous annulment on a November ban.
Thanks to activism by French citizens and serious political
outcry, Monsanto is now effectively blocked from Europe’s gigantic marketplace.
This is even more true when you consider the fact
that France is the largest grower of crops in all of Europe, making it an
agricultural behemoth of sorts. With this move by such a large and influential
nation, it will surely lead to similar legislation to pop up and succeed
throughout the rest of the globe. Of course like with most other decisions
regarding Monsanto, even Reuters admits (see first link) that France was under
large amounts of pressure to ‘soften’ its stance on GMOs.
This is due to the fact that Monsanto has
significant pull when it comes to government around the globe, with the United
States in particular being the ‘launch pad’ for the biotechnology movement. We
now know thanks to WikiLeaks, in fact, that United States ambassadors have
actually threatened nations opposed to Monsanto’s GMO maize crops, going as far
as to threaten them with ‘military-style trade wars’. When considering that
this is but one leak, it is very concerning.
(Reuters) - 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 on Wednesday.
Although the lead researcher's past record as a
critic of the industry may make other experts wary of drawing hasty
conclusions, the finding will stoke controversy about the safety of GM crops.
In an unusual move, the research group did not allow
reporters to seek outside comment on their paper before its publication in the
peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and presentation at a news
conference in London.
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GM=Genetically Modified and or Genetically Mutated
GMO=Genetically Modified Organism and or Genetically Mutated Organism
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Brazil Court Orders Nestles to Label its Monsanto GM Genetically Modified/Mutated Foods
The creeping arm of the
Corporate Food Monster has been set back a bit in Brazil regarding GM
(genetically modified/mutated) Food and GMOs (genetically modified/mutated
organisms).
After a long legal battle in Brazilian court, Swedish food corporation Nestlé has lost and will be forced to label their food products sold within Brazil as containing genetically modified ingredients.
As a major purchaser of Monsanto’s genetically modified crops, many, if not the majority of, Nestlé’s products contain ingredients from genetically modified food. The court ruling mandated that the food giant be required to label anything containing more than one percent genetically modified ingredients accordingly.
This comes shortly after Poland banned GMO corn and Peru banned GMOs completely.
Talk of Nestlé’s loss has been all over Facebook and twitter, and has fed the fire of debate over the safety of GMO food. The U.S. government has been a huge advocate of GMOs and Monsanto, but concerned citizens of California have put Proposition 37 on the ballot for the November election.
Prop. 37 would require that genetically modified foods sold within the state of California be labeled accordingly to protect consumers and allow them to make informed choices about their food. Concern surrounding the safety of GMOs is at an all-time high, and Nestlé has failed to engage in the conversation via social media – even as their brand has been at the center of the debate, lately.
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