GMO

[nononsensemumof2]

Morrisons, Siansburys, Co-Op and M&S have joined Tesco in allowing GMO fed chickens on their shelves.! This is the tip of the ice burg.!
There is an International protest against GMO on 25th May, I urge you all to organise to join in, if you value choice about what you eat, because if GMO is allowed into our food chain, we will have let the genie out of the bottle, forever.!
Cross contamination and patented law suits will be the order of the day, if we allow Monsanto to get a foot hold on our food supply.
Not only is this vile virus a health hazard to humans, but it is destroying our environment too, re bees, etc.
Plus it is attempting to own Mother Nature via its patented seeds, thereby selling us dangerous produce with a corporate stamp.!
We must all wake up to this onslaught against nature and our right to chose. Please get out in force and demand an end to this profit lead evil against nature now.

The public don't want it, but the mega corporations do.

Sorry, but you can't extrapolate from your opinion to that conclusion. Some members of the public don't want it. Some clearly do (as otherwise there would be no market for the mega corporations). The rest don't care so long as it's cheap and tastes good.

What about fathers who don't know? Don't they count?

(I think Monsanto is American - that address is for the UK branch).

Hazardous chemicals? Please explain.

Monsanto is not British. It has a UK office, but it is not British.

I corrected my self, Endo. International is what they are.

A huge Multinational, true. But don't blame it on them being Americans.

Blame it on people not wanting meat to cost £20 a kilo.

claig, I thank you for patronising me only as much as absolutely necessary .

I was involved in some of the protests in the 90s, I am reasonably well informed on the subject and I don't even disagree on how we are all being held hostage by multi-national cooperations. 'Tis more of a political debate, really, rather than one of health concerns IMO.

And from previous experience, I don't think that your and my political views overlap much, claig.

@ Goodwin's Law - what an own goal, OP!

Freddie it might be dihydrogen monoxide. You've got to watch out for that in your food.

'Sorry, but you can't extrapolate from your opinion to that conclusion. Some members of the public don't want it. Some clearly do (as otherwise there would be no market for the mega corporations). The rest don't care so long as it's cheap and tastes good.'

That is why nononsensemumof2 is informing us, so that we do care. It looks like lots of people on this thread are not as well informed as the OP and haven't got a clue. some even think that Monsanto is British!

'Some clearly do (as otherwise there would be no market for the mega corporations).'

Governments are lobbied to relax the laws against it. The EU kept the percentage that can be used down for years, but of course the lobbies and mega corporations will eventually get their way.

@ Dihydrogen Monoxide - v good

Pacific, i amglad you know about it.

'Tis more of a political debate, really, rather than one of health concerns IMO.'

I think you are wrong and nononsensemumof2 is right. Of course it is played out in the public sphere as an issue of politics, where phony movements pretend to oppose it politically. But it is really about health.

On this issue, we are united, even if you think it is about politics, and I think it is about health.

Why are we still talking about this? OP lost the debate when she dragged Hitler into it.

Go peddle your scaremongering to people who can't read the internet for themselves and make up their own minds.

Like claig.

They not only wish to contaminate our natural food but wish to sell it back to us at inflated prices, once ownership via patents on their hazardous chemicals are found in the DNA.!

That's not how patent law works. If their product is found in the DNA of natural food then they don't become the owner of that natural food. They would have to sue Mother Nature for patent infringement and damages.

Tee, browse Monsanto on the internet and you will find that they are not British. Learn from nononsensemumof2 and be grateful that she has alerted you.

Wait, Westie, you mean the OP is wrong?! And misinformed?

::faints from shock::

Tee why do you do :: instead of

Anyway

::mops Tees brow and provides smelling salts::

I wonder if the OP knows that patents only last 20 years. After that you get to keep your GM DNA.

Freddie

Tee, please stop calling me a sock puppet, it is against MN guidelines. Just because people agree with nononsensemumof2 and disagree with your lack of knowledge on the topic - such as your view that Monsanto is British - does not make them sock puppets.

See, Tee, I did learn something from this fred: I never knew that about

The OP doesn't know a lot about how GM works, either - she thinks it's a chemical. Or a virus. Or something.

Endo, she has some facts wrong. But she is not a scientist.

The introduction of chemicals to help growth, what, like fertilizer