re: House Gives Thumbs Up to GMO; Bill Goes to Obama

Dr.jeffrey dach — 7/15/2016 6:16:08 AM

In recent remarks on the senate floor, Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D) ND urges the members to

“Stop denying science and accept the fact that GMO ingredients are just as healthy as any other ingredient.”

In all due respect, I have a few questions for Senator Heidi Heitkamp:

1) If GMO ingredients are so healthy, then why has Russia, Japan, China and 60 other countries banned or restricted GMO production in their countries Why has Europe rejected GMO food, with no GMO products on store shelves in Europe?(26)

2) If GMO food is so healthy, why did the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization classify Glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen” on March 2015?(37) Glyphosate is Monsanto’s Round-Up Herbicide, applied in great quantities to GMO Corn and Soy. Glyphosate is also copiously applied to wheat fields and other crops as a pre-harvest drying agent.

3) If GMO ingredients are so healthy for us, then why did the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) release a position paper in 2009 on Genetically Modified foods stating that “GM foods pose a serious health risk” and calling for a moratorium on GM foods? (44)

4) If GMO ingredients are so healthy, why did the US courts rule in 2004 that GMO food is a “public nuisance” ?(39-41) August 2004, Aventis settled a class-action lawsuit and paid farmers 110 million dollars for genetic contamination of farmers fields with the Aventis Starlink Corn. A separate settlement paid 9 million dollars to consumers who had heath problems from consuming the genetically modified Starlink corn. The courts considered the GMO Starlink Corn a “public nuisance”.

5) Many of us in the US are unaware we are feeding our children GMO breakfast cereals. Why do the Chinese consider feeding GMO food to children without parental consent unethical medical experimentation ?

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