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.

[Tee2072]

Oh look at that, deleted. What a surprise.

[EndoplasmicReticulum]

Takver - no need to apologise for being logical, coherent and knowing what you are talking about.

[nextphase]

OK, I'll retract the improved yields comment, Takver. Thanks for the well referenced quotes

[claig]

"Therefore, by sylly logic, you must be the OP and you and a sock."

I suppose that makes sense.

[Tee2072]

Thank you Takver.

OP - That's how it's done. But why get facts in the way of hysteria?

[ClayDavis]

A mammoth but informative post, Takver.

[Tee2072]

So along with not knowing what DNA is, you don't know what syllogistic logic is.

Pity.

Oh wait, that wasn't you. That was the OP. Who is you.

::head explodes::

[PacificDogwood]

Oh why do I always miss a good bunfight? If only I cared for my poor offspring a bit less... .

Facts vx DM... hmmm, let me think - quote of the day for me

I have huge reservations what some multinational argricultural companies are up to and what power they hold, but hysteria and scaremongering rarely help.

Takver, thanks for taking the time for that post, v interesting.

[claig]

independentsciencenews.org/news/transgenic-corn-ly038-withdrawn/

[JulieMumsnet]

We know that you're all excited about Eurovision being on the TV, but we'd like to remind you all of our marvellous Talk Guidelines

[Tee2072]

Julie did Olivia take the night off and leave you with us? I hope she's left the gin for you.

[claig]

Article by Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch


Across the Western world, governments and food agencies are proving too supine to challenge the spread of GM technology.

Brave words about protecting the consumer have turned out to be empty. Resistance to those who wish to manipulate what we eat and drink is giving way to collusion.

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These retailers had initially seemed reluctant to sell us these products, but they are beginning to cave in to pressure from the global food industry.

Asda and Morrisons sell chickens that have been reared on genetically modified feed produced from GM soya made by U.S. company Monsanto, and last week three of the other big chains ? Tesco, Marks & Spencer and the Co-op ? announced they are going to do the same.

Worse still, they will not even label this meat as ?GM fed?.

At Sainsbury?s, just one brand of chicken will be free from GM input. Indeed, the only supermarket resisting the slide into this troubling new world is Waitrose.
The move by most retailers towards an embrace of GM foods represents something serious as it undermines consumer choice
The move by most retailers towards an embrace of GM foods represents something serious as it undermines consumer choice. Without proper labelling, shoppers can?t avoid eating GM-fed animals.
It also opens the way to the domination of the food industry by biotech companies. Chicken feed is just the start.

Once that precedent is established, the big firms will move on to all other types of livestock, in the process building a monopoly over feed supplies, as natural feed suppliers are forced out of business.
This will make a mockery of the claim that GM technology will lead to lower prices. Once a monopoly or a cartel is created, there will be no real competition. We will all be at the mercy of the GM stranglehold.



www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2310267/How-genetically-modified-foods-disturbing-reality-lives.html

[claig]

It is going to move up the political agenda. We will all be hearing much more about it soon.

nononsensemumof2 is ahead of the curve, but we will all catch up with her soon


"Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association, said: 'Owen Patterson says that people are eating meat from animals fed of GM feed without realising it.
'That is because the British Government has consistently opposed moves to label to give consumers accurate information, and he should put that right by immediately introducing compulsory labelling of meat and milk from animals fed on GM feed.'

Friends of the Earth's senior food and farming campaigner Clare Oxborrow said: 'GM crops are not the solution to the food challenges we face.
'They are largely being developed to benefit multinational biotech firms that are gaining control of the seed industry, not to feed poor people in developing countries.'




www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256511/PR-drive-launched-shake-Frankenstein-food-image-GM-crops.html

[claig]

"Indeed, the only supermarket resisting the slide into this troubling new world is Waitrose."

That's it. They are going to open a new Waitrose in my area. After this news it will be packed solid, but I will queue up with the rest of the public.

[Tee2072]

It won't be packed solid. Most people really won't care.

But thanks for the information.

[EdwiniasRevenge]

Oh shit....I didn't realise deoxyribonucleic acid was such a dangerous chemical....we are all doomed.....doomed I tell ya!


Anyone no how to get rid of this dangerous chemical which is so detrimental to life on earth :o???

[claig]

nononsensemumof2 is right. Protests do help becuse the publicity puts pressure on the retail outlets.

Remember how they some of the supermarlets apologised about horsemeat and sent letters to customers etc.

If there is enough publicity. If the Daily Mail makes it a hot topic, then some of them may have to change their policies.

[SchroSawMargeryDaw]

I keep wandering into bloody bizarre threads this week.

I don't have a Waitrose near me so I guess I am probably going to have to just eat the drugged meat. :)

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

I never realised the Daily Mail's core demographic was the well informed organic wholefood crusader. Bugger me. When did that happen?

[claig]

Schro, don't worry, Waitrose will do really well. In fact, does anyone know if they are quoted on the stock market, because their shares wil rise as the queues in their stores lengthen, and then they will open more new branches.

[claig]

MalcolmTuckersMum, it's been like that forever.

Back in the early 90s, I was also reading the Mail and they were the ones that galvanised the nation in that week when the public could have ended the rise of GM.

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

There really are some gaping holes in your general knowledge aren't there claig

[claig]

We were ready to march. I phoned one of the large green movements and said when is the march in London being held? And their waste of time answer was we aren't holding one, contact your local area, and it all fizzled out.

[SchroSawMargeryDaw]

Claig I think Waitrose already do pretty well and tbh most people wont really care about this.

[claig]

There was no internet in those days. You had to phone to find anything out. The Daily Mail reader was ready to protest, but it all fizzled out.