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Using Genetic Engineering to Stop Corporate Pollution

Using Genetic Engineering to Stop Corporate Pollution

There's a bit of humor in seeing science used to defeat an unfair claim based on a scientific tenet. ... When it comes to the massive damage being wrought by corporation-produced toxins on the health of humanity and the earth, the mere fact of association should be more than adequate to remove these products from the market.

April 26, 2012 with 1 Comment
Losing the Right to Knowledge: Monsanto Controls Access to Information

Losing the Right to Knowledge: Monsanto Controls Access to Information

There's a lesson to be learned from Monsanto's threat to sue the people of Vermont over GM labeling, but it isn't that the governor isn't brave or is selling out. It's that our right to information was stolen, and the US government supports that theft.

April 23, 2012 with 2 Comments
FDA Counts Million Signatures for GMO Labeling As Only One:  WTO Treaties Are the Reason

FDA Counts Million Signatures for GMO Labeling As Only One: WTO Treaties Are the Reason

The rights to choose our own food, buy food from sources we choose, and manage our health as we see fit: All of these are on the verge of disappearing. Nations, including the US, are kneeling to the powers that created them, not to their own people.

March 31, 2012 with 1 Comment
The Science Behind Herd Immunity – And an Extension to GMOs?

The Science Behind Herd Immunity – And an Extension to GMOs?

I must admit that the temptation to produce a blank page with only the above title was almost uncontrollable. But I've managed—though the simple fact is that there is no science behind it.

March 12, 2012 with 21 Comments
Protestor Gets the Podium at Monsanto Shareholders Meeting (video)

Protestor Gets the Podium at Monsanto Shareholders Meeting (video)

A protestor introduced a resolution at the Monsanto shareholders meeting that 'addresses serious risks associated with Monsanto’s GMO crops, toxic chemicals applied to these crops, and related civil liability.' (video)

February 19, 2012 with 0 Comments
The Future of Food: It’s Up to You (video)

The Future of Food: It’s Up to You (video)

Agribusiness doesn't care about your health, food quality or choice. They care only about profits. To this end, they're buying and stealing every aspect of our food supply, from the land to the seeds to the genes themselves.

February 18, 2012 with 1 Comment
Monsanto and BASF Pull Out of Europe: Good News or Sleight of Hand?

Monsanto and BASF Pull Out of Europe: Good News or Sleight of Hand?

Monsanto and BASF have no reason to care whether the people of Europe want their GM garbage. They're on the verge of total victory. Their poisons will be sold everywhere with impunity. Here's how.

February 2, 2012 with 5 Comments
The Big Guys of Faux Organics Are Cramming Coexistence with GMOs Down Our Throats

The Big Guys of Faux Organics Are Cramming Coexistence with GMOs Down Our Throats

Whole Foods Market, Stonyfield Farms, and Organic Valley are selling out organics to genetically modified products - and want us to help them do it.

February 1, 2012 with 7 Comments
Genetic Engineering Gets Extreme. Now Comes Synthetic Genetic Modification

Genetic Engineering Gets Extreme. Now Comes Synthetic Genetic Modification

Synthetic genetic engineering - synthetic biology or SynBio - is the creation of synthetic life. It's the act of treating life as if it were simply a form of mechanical object.

January 26, 2012 with 2 Comments
Former Agribusiness Farmer Loses Biz to GMOs: Now Promotes Organic

Former Agribusiness Farmer Loses Biz to GMOs: Now Promotes Organic

Jerry Rosman believed in the GMO hype. He made a point of buying the latest and greatest products coming down the GMO pipeline. That is, he did until he lost his business to it. (video)

January 23, 2012 with 3 Comments
Disease Producing Bacteria Genetically Engineered to Make Biofuel from Algae

Disease Producing Bacteria Genetically Engineered to Make Biofuel from Algae

Genetically engineered bacteria can convert seaweed sugar into ethanol.That has the biofuel industry salivating. But no one is considering the risks involved in grafting genetic material from one known-pathogenic bacterium into another that easily mutates into a deadly pathogen.

January 20, 2012 with 2 Comments
Fake Meat Is Coming, Fresh from the Lab

Fake Meat Is Coming, Fresh from the Lab

Lab-grown meat is already being portrayed as a "real animal flesh product". I suppose it is, in the same sense that one can purchase a genuine copy of a fake Dior, as was versified by satirical songwrite Allan Sherman. Scientists are on the verge of mass-producing genuine fake meat. Yummm!

November 12, 2011 with 7 Comments
GM Potatoes Headed for Europe’s Supermarket Shelves

GM Potatoes Headed for Europe’s Supermarket Shelves

There is no legitimate reason to allow even the testing of the Fortuna GM potatoes. There is no need for them. Therefore, there is no legitimate reason to accept the risks inherent in genetically engineered potatoes. The only one who stands to benefit is BASF.

November 7, 2011 with 3 Comments
Genetic Engineering in Medicine: Vaccines, Blood Albumin from Rice

Genetic Engineering in Medicine: Vaccines, Blood Albumin from Rice

Chronic illness in our children keeps mounting—while the authorities wear blinders, clap their hands over their ears, and chant, "It's safe it's safe it's safe it's safe..." as if saying it often enough, loudly enough, and with the right inflection of condescension makes it so.

November 1, 2011 with 0 Comments
‘The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes’ – Report Puts the Lie to GMO Claims

‘The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes’ – Report Puts the Lie to GMO Claims

The GMO Emperor Monsanto has no clothes. Sold as a miracle, the solution to hunger and pests, genetically engineered crops have proven to be the opposite. They have brought us diseases, crop die offs, super weeds, and more. The promises were—and still are—a pack of lies

October 21, 2011 with 2 Comments
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