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Move to Put GMO Foods Back in Europe

GMOEuropean Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has stated that unless Europe reassesses its long skepticism towards genetically modified (GMO) foods, it is likely to risk more international lawsuits.

European Union governments have not authorized new GMO products since 1998.

However, since 2004, there have been a small number of authorizations by the European Commission, which is empowered to make such decisions when member states fail to come to a decision within a certain time limit.

Some countries, such as Britain, Finland and the Netherlands, almost always vote in favor of approving new GMOs, but they are blocked by a group of states including Austria, Greece and Luxembourg, which vote against GMOs and force a stalemate.

The World Trade Organization has ruled that the EU's resistance to GMO imports constitutes "undue delay" and violates trade rules.

Reuters June 14, 2007


Dr. Mercola's Comment:

The European Union (EU) has historically been against genetically modified (GMO) foods, even as other nations, like the United States, have embraced them full-heartedly without any proof of their safety.

Not surprisingly, multinational food giants were not happy when Europe banned GMO foods, especially considering that this country is a major producer of GMO crops. Unfortunately they launched legal challenges to force the EU to sell GMO seeds and crops in Europe, and they seem to be working.

I am actually strategically working with Jeffery Smith, the leader of the anti GMO movement in the US, to facilitate the end of GM foods in the US in the next two years.

If you still believe that GMO foods are relatively rare, think again. In the U.S., at least seven out of 10 items at your neighborhood grocery store contain them, and it's getting harder and harder for farmers to keep GMO seeds and crops from
contaminating non-GMO varieties.

It's not yet known what strange effects GMO foods will end up having on the human race and the environment, but what is known is that GMO foods definitely cause damage to your body.

Hopefully the people in Europe will continue to take a stand against this wild food experiment. For those of you here in the United States, your best bet to avoiding GMO foods is still to buy organic, locally grown foods. If you feel you can't afford to buy organic foods, please read Colleen Huber's excellent piece on how you can do so on your current budget.

Until we are able to eliminate these foods from the US here are some other steps you can take that will help you steer clear of GMO foods:

  • Reduce or Eliminate Processed Foods. Some 75 percent of processed foods contain GM ingredients.

  • Read Produce and Food Labels. GM soybeans and corn make up the largest portion of genetically modified crops. When looking at a product label, if any ingredients such as corn flour and meal, dextrin, starch, soy sauce, margarine, and tofu (to name a few) are listed, there's a good chance it has come from GM corn or soy, unless it's listed as organic.

  • Look at Produce Stickers. Those little stickers on fruit and vegetables contain different PLU codes depending on whether the fruit was conventionally grown, organically grown or genetically modified. The PLU code for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers, organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine, and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.

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Posted On Jun 14, 2007
GMO is madness! People need to know, and have the right to know, what they are putting into their, and by extension their families', bodies. Imagine a peanut allergy being triggered by a bite into a tomato, as an example.

 
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Posted On Jun 14, 2007
MONSANTO = Mostly Overtly Nasty Scientists And Nefarious Terror Operatives


 
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Posted On Jun 15, 2007
Interresting Russ--After 9/11 George Bush got on national TV and said the American people has the right to protect themselves from terrorist. He must not have made that same speach inside washington to our reps. about all the terror we incounter with GM food, drugs, you name it!

 
 
 
Posted On Jun 14, 2007
I just want to know where is the scientific evidence that GM foods are safe.  The little I have seen says they are not safe.

Mary

 
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Posted On Jun 14, 2007
If you listen to Monsanto, Dow, ADM, Cargill and other petro chemical FRANKENFOOD promoters, why GMO food is better than mother's milk.

In point of FACT, GMO crops are designed to KILL natural selection and natural variety strains, and are not self procreating; meaning you must buy new seed every year from the purveyors (Pioneer, Monsanto, etc.), driving UP the cost of crops, and creating single source suppliers, and less or no competition.

Argumentation that GMO crops create disease resisitance for more crop yield and reliablility are a FLAT OUT LIE!

Additionally, GMO crops, ingredients, and processed food, in use ZERO initial or long term human safety records, and in animal feeding, there is extremely well documented evidence of primary gene mutation, at low dosage levels, to the point, that rats start growing 5, 6, 7, & 8 limbs out of their backs, torsos, necks (CBS 60 Minutes Documentary), and that GMO raised farm salmon grow at 5 times the rate, for higher yields, but are loaded with cancerous tumors and lesions.

Is any GMO safe?  NO!!!!


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Posted On Jun 06, 2009

There is no scientific evidence.  You have Monsanto's WORD for what it's worth.

Monsanto created 99% of the PCB's that have contaminates animals and animals products, including  every man, woman, and fetus on the planet, human or otherwise.  Yet, Monsanto has always claimed that PCBs would not harm us.  Science has shown otherwise.

Monsanto was one of the companies who created Agent Orange, used in Viet Nam to wipe out the jungles and protection against our enemy at the time.  Agent Orange has destroyed the lives of the Vietnamese, the American soldiers, and their families, causing cancers, immune damage, reproductive damage and sterility.  Yet, Monsanto claims Agent Orange saved thousands of lives.  They ignore the rest, even today.

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine has called for an immediate moratorium on genetically modified foods.  www.aaemonline.org/pressrelease.html

stating that "GM foods pose a serious health risk" and calling for a moratorium on GM foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes "there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects" and that "GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health." The AAEM calls for:

   * A moratorium on GM food, implementation of immediate long term safety testing and labeling of GM food.

   * Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the public to avoid GM foods.

   * Physicians to consider the role of GM foods in their patients' disease processes.

   * More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data to investigate the role of GM foods on human health.

"Multiple animal studies have shown that GM foods cause damage to various organ systems in the body. With this mounting evidence, it is imperative to have a moratorium on GM foods for the safety of our patients' and the public's health."


 
 
 
Posted On Jun 14, 2007
Money, Money, Money! Sorry, but I live in the UK, which unfortunately is part of the EU and have had to deal with an increasing amount of red tape and junk as a small scale farm, all originating in the EU, and boosted by our very own Tony Blair!

I live in a very rural area, about 50 times more sheep than people, but one thing I know, people here do NOT want GMO's. It seems strange that the EU cannot decide for itself what it will allow in it's own territory, or can, but wants to tell us that they can't, because as usual money is involved. Over here there is a growing number of multi million backhanders making it into the news. The surprising thing is that they allseem to vanish very quickly. I wonder why? <ore money changing hands perhaps? Or is that too sceptical.

Ray

 
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Posted On Jul 03, 2007
I feel for you! This is the way they have put farmers out of business here in the U.S. by mandating this and that. By forcing them to use this or that, by forcing orange juice and cider manufacturers to "pasturize" all juice to "protect" us from e-coli. When will food terrorism stop. I lost 40 lbs. without doing anything living in Africa, I ate anything I wanted and did virtually no exercise. This  is PROOF to me that the food here is betond tainted. I have moved my children there not only because of the poison being wholesaled to us here but the vapid lifestyle as well.

 
 
 
Posted On Jun 14, 2007
The so-called scientific evidence that declares the GMO products are safe seems to come from the same type of evidence that has the public believing that flouride is not only safe but beneficial to one's health.  This is a myth that has been foisted upon the minds of so many people and has contributed to so much ill health.  Anything that can be done to stop this corruption of the food supply must become a priority.  I have often thought that it might be nice to live in a country that did not allow "frankenfoods!"

 
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