GMO, värt att veta - finns numera i EU,

[tomas]

Först,

Tråden är "dedikerad" till ”GMO Marit Paulsen”,

Många vet inte att Marit numera varmt lobbar för GMO, (partitillhörighet spelar ingen roll när det gäller detta)
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=gmo+marit+paulsen

GMO,
Som jag ser det så är det största hotet mot mänskligheten någonsin GMO eftersom man använder vår biosfär som experiment låda.

Glatt kombinerar man olika DNA till nya grödor och planterar dessa under bar himmel, problemet är att man inte vet vad man skapat eller hur den långsiktiga påverkan i naturen ser ut dessutom kan man aldrig någonsin ångra sig om något går fel för en gång ute i naturen för alltid ute i naturen.
Lite som att öppna en låda som innehåller ny kunskap fast i det här fallet så är jag helt övertygad om att i det längre perspektivet kommer det att visa sig vara en "Pandoras låda".

Bara för att en GMO tomat ser ut som en tomat innebär inte detta att den är i harmoni med naturen eller att den ens passar som föda, och riktigt skrämmande är bristen på riktiga tester ur födosynpunkt eller vad det innebär när man använder GMO grödor som djurfoder.

Dessutom så kämpar man för att hålla konsumenterna ovetande genom att ex.vis i USA motarbeta allt som har med märkning att göra vilket också försvårar upptäckten av sidoeffekter som allergier (känt problem) med mera.

De dominerande bolagen är så pengastinna och mäktiga att vilka resultat som helst kan fås från politiker/forskning och pinsam och ”skadlig” press undertrycks.

Det finns en stark lobby verksamhet för att släppa skräpet fullt ut i EU, och det finns redan experiment odlingar i Sverige för potatis och en hel del andra odlingar i Tyskland och Frankrike.

Jag postar en del videos och artiklar i den här tråden som borde få en att tänka till lite. (tyvärr på engelska)

Börja med denna föreläsning, (lite ”torr” men väldigt intressant, se åtminstone från 25.30 och framåt)
Dangers of Genetically Modified Food - Jeffery Smith,

The Dangers of Genetically Modified Food - Jeffery Smith Lecture - FULL VERSION

Reserv länk1,
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/647.html
Reserv länk2,
http://vids.rationalveracity.com/v/157,the-dangers-of-genetically-modified-food-jeffery-smith-lecture.html


Bin,
En del av er har kanske hört talas om bi döden, men få av er har nog läst vad den berodde på vilket är resultat av "god kontroll av media", en del talade tidigt om mobiltelefoner men dom har funnits långt innan det här problemet,

Mass Bee Deaths in Germany Spur Ban on Pesticides,
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2008/2008-08-25-01.asp
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_12469.cfm
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/05/30/bayer-blamed-for-honeybee-losses-clothianidin-banned-in-germany/
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/24/9177/
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/138555/index.php
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_13388.cfm

Google,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=sv&q=monsanto+bayer+imidacloprid+bee
http://www.google.com/search?hl=sv&q=monsanto+bayer+clothianidin+bee
http://www.google.com/search?hl=sv&q=monsanto+bayer+neurotoxins+bee


De stora,
Nu när vi ändå är inne på ett av de största bolagen i branschen (länkar ovan) så rekommenderar jag att titta på den här videon, (se denna om du ska se något)
World According to Monsanto,

Controlling Our Food

Reserv länk,
http://vids.rationalveracity.com/v/459,the-world-according-to-monsanto.html

Kontroll,
Aptiten på kontroll och pengar är stor och detta tycker jag är ett bra exempel,
http://fdralloveragain.blogspot.com/2009/03/soon-illegal-to-grow-your-own-food.html

Illegal to Grow Own Food,
Congress is about to make it illegal grow your own food, or for any farm not to purchase and use government mandated chemicals, additives, and pesticides on all food consumed in the United States, violations are subject to a $1,000,000 dollar fine.
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HR 875
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
(sponsored by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto)........Mera

Eller det här där man försöker patentera livets byggstenar,
Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.1 of 5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ouf_gmA5o

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.2 of 5)

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.2 of 5)	LQ | LQ+ | HQ

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.3 of 5)

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.3 of 5)	LQ | LQ+ | HQ

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.4 of 5)

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.4 of 5)	LQ | LQ+ | HQ

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.5 of 5 End)

Monsanto Patent for a Pig (Pt.5 of 5. End)	LQ | LQ+ | HQ

För att inte tala om Codex Alimentarius, går att läsa om den här,
http://www.scooterforum.se/forum/index.php/topic,121.0.html

Pengar är inget hinder och lobbyn är stark, och att Marit nu tagit sida för detta är otroligt tråkigt men inte speciellt förvånande, vi måste alla vara lite vakna för att få behålla det vi har däribland hälsan.

Sist,
Några fler länkar,

Monsanto's seeds of destruction,
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto-s-seeds-of-destructio

Monsanto is destroying farmers' lives around the world,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=sv&q=monsanto+destroying+farmers

Monsanto's Bt Cotton Kills the Soil,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=sv&q=kills+the+soils

Farmer suicides in India,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=sv&q=bt+cotton+farmer+suicides

Worst Companies in the World: US, Monsanto, Peabody and Barrick,
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2008/12/worst-companies-world-us-monsanto-peabody-and-barrick

France 24  ‘Superweed’ explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands  France 24,
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18150.cfm

EU Commission Fails in Push for Genetically Modified Corn,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,610852,00.html


-Tomas

[tomas]

GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food in Humans,
http://www.voltairenet.org/article162087.html

GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food in Humans
by F. William Engdahl

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.


Germany will ban cultivation and sale of genetically modified (GMO) corn despite European Union rulings that the biotech grain is safe, its government said on Tuesday. The ban affects U.S. biotech company Monsanto’s MON 810 maize which may no longer be sown for this summer’s harvest, German Agriculture and Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner told a news conference.

An editorial in the respected American scientific monthly magazine, Scientific American, August 2009 reveals the shocking and alarming reality behind the proliferation of GMO products throughout the food chain of the planet since 1994. There are no independent scientific studies published in any reputed scientific journal in the world for one simple reason. It is impossible to independently verify that GMO crops such as Monsanto Roundup Ready Soybeans or MON8110 GMO maize perform as the company claims, or that, as the company also claims, that they have no harmful side effects because the GMO companies forbid such tests!

That’s right. As a precondition to buy seeds, either to plant for crops or to use in research study, Monsanto and the gene giant companies must first sign an End User Agreement with the company. For the past decade, the period when the greatest proliferation of GMO seeds in agriculture has taken place, Monsanto, Pioneer (DuPont) and Syngenta require anyone buying their GMO seeds to sign an agreement that explicitly forbids that the seeds be used for any independent research. Scientists are prohibited from testing a seed to explore under what conditions it flourishes or even fails. They cannot compare any characteristics of the GMO seed with any other GMO or non-GMO seeds from another company. Most alarming, they are prohibited from examining whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended side-effects either in the environment or in animals or humans.

The only research which is permitted to be published in reputable scientific peer-reviewed journals are studies which have been pre-approved by Monsanto and the other industry GMO firms.

The entire process by which GMO seeds have been approved in the United States, beginning with the proclamation by then President George H.W. Bush in 1992, on request of Monsanto, that no special Government tests of safety for GMO seeds would be conducted because they were deemed by the President to be “substantially equivalent” to non-GMO seeds, has been riddled with special interest corruption. Former attorneys for Monsanto were appointed responsible in EPA and FDA for rules governing GMO seeds as but one example and no Government tests of GMO seed safety to date have been carried out. All tests are provided to the US Government on GMO safety or performance by the companies themselves such as Monsanto. Little wonder that GMO sounds to positive and that Monsanto and others can falsely claim GMO is the “solution to world hunger.”

In the United States a group of twenty four leading university corn insect scientists have written to the US Government Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding the EPA force a change to the company censorship practice. It is as if Chevrolet or Tata Motors or Fiat tried to censor comparative crash tests of their cars in Consumer Reports or a comparable consumer publication because they did not like the test results. Only this deals with the human and animal food chain. The scientists rightly argue to EPA that food safety and environment protection “depend on making plant products available to regular scientific scrutiny.” We should think twice before we eat that next box of American breakfast cereal if the corn used is GMO .

F. William Engdahl

-Tomas

[tomas]

Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control,
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19777.cfm

Bayer Blamed at Trial for Crops ‘Contaminated’ by Modified Rice,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aT1kD1GOt0N0

Bayer Blamed at Trial for Crops ‘Contaminated’ by Modified Rice
By Andrew M. Harris

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bayer CropScience AG is responsible for financial damage sustained by Missouri farmers when their rice crops were contaminated by genetically modified seeds, the growers’ lawyer told a federal court jury in St. Louis.

Their trial is the first of a series the Bayer AG unit is defending against farmers from five states making similar claims. More than 1,200 such cases have been filed.

“Bayer was supposed to be careful,” attorney Don Downing told the jury of four men and five women during his opening statement yesterday. “Bayer was not careful and that rice did escape into our commercial rice supplies.”

The farmers, who grow rice in southeastern Missouri, claim the export market for their crops was curtailed when the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2006 announced that trace amounts of the genetically modified rice, designed by Bayer to be herbicide resistant, were found in U.S. long-grain stocks.

Bayer and Louisiana State University had been testing the rice, which hadn’t been approved for human consumption, for resistance to the company’s Liberty herbicide.

Bayer’s genetically modified strains “contaminated” more than 30 percent of U.S. ricelands, Downing told jurors.

Rice Futures Fall

Within four days of the USDA announcement, a decline in rice futures cost U.S. growers about $150 million, according to a consolidated complaint filed by the farmers. News of that contamination caused futures prices to fall about 14 percent.

As a result, farmers like plaintiffs Ken Bell and Johnny Hunter got less cash for their crops than they otherwise could have, Downing said. The men haven’t asked for specific money damages.

Exports also fell, the growers said, as the European Union, Japan, Russia and other overseas markets slowed for testing or stopped their imports of the U.S.-grown long grain rice.

Defense lawyer Mark Ferguson said Bayer CropScience wanted to do right by its farmer clientele.

“Everyone at Bayer regrets that this happened. Farmers are Bayer’s customers,” Ferguson told jurors during his opening remarks. “The one thing that they were trying to avoid, happened.”

Claims Disputed

The Bayer unit said biotech rice, called LibertyLink, posed no food safety issues.

Ferguson disputed claims that U.S. rice growers are still suffering financially from the release of Bayer’s LibertyLink rice, arguing that crop prices have since recovered and exceeded pre-contamination levels.

Bayer’s containment protocols were equal to or exceeded industry standards when the test rice escaped into the general supplies, the defense lawyer said.

“Even the best practices can’t guarantee perfection,” Ferguson said.

The USDA deregulated one of the two grains implicated in the lawsuits in November 2006, approving it for human consumption, the company has said. The strain has never been commercially marketed.

Farmers in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri filed separate lawsuits against Leverkusen, Germany- based Bayer and its CropScience unit, which were consolidated before U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry for pre-trial proceedings.

The farmers’ lawyers told the jury Bayer was rushing its herbicide-resistant rice through testing to compete with St. Louis-based Monsanto Co., which was developing its own herbicide-resistant crop seed varieties.

‘Very Profitable’

“If you’re first to the market with a new product, it can be very, very profitable,” Downing told the jury. The evidence will show that in its haste, Bayer became sloppy, the lawyer said.

“Bayer did not keep track of its genetically modified seed,” Downing said later.

“This is a living, growing organism,” plaintiffs lawyer Grant Davis, Downing’s co-counsel, said in his opening statement. “That’s why you have to be so careful.”

Ferguson disputed that his client was rushing, telling jurors Bayer withheld from the market a different FDA-approved herbicide-resistant rice because of concerns it would adversely affect growers’ ability to sell their rice on the world market.

‘Reasonable Precautions’

“Safety is not an issue in this case,” Ferguson said. From a food-standpoint, Bayer’s LibertyLink rice is ‘no different than conventional rice,” he said.

“Bayer did fulfill its duty to take reasonable precautions” against contamination, he said..

Ferguson said only a lack of regulatory approval prevents it from being imported into the nations of the European Union, which he blamed on “political opposition” to genetically modified foods.

Testing of one of the LibertyLink strains at Louisiana State University was completed in 2001. While there has never been a specifically identified contamination event, Ferguson said, studies suggest an event of cross-pollination with ordinary rice or a mixing of regular and genetically modified seed occurred then.

Perry in August 2008 rejected the farmers’ bid to proceed as a single injured class, subdivided by state, finding there were too many ways for them to market their crops, meaning they weren’t all injured in the same manner.

Public Nuisance

Perry last month threw out the farmers’ claim that Bayer had created a public nuisance, as well as Bayer’s defense that there could have been an intervening cause, other than negligence, that led to the contamination.

Jury selection was completed Nov. 2. The trial may last until early December, Perry said.

The case is In Re Genetically Modified Rice Litigation, 06-md-01811, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis).

To contact the reporter on this story: Andrew Harris in St. Louis federal court in at aharris16@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: November 4, 2009 00:01 EST

[tomas]

The Effects Of Genetically Modified Foods On Animal Health
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235930727-the-effects-of-genetically-modified-foods-on-animal-health

The Effects Of Genetically Modified Foods On Animal Health
Posted on Tuesday, January 05 at 09:44 by Milton

The Committee of Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN) and Universities of Caen and Rouen studied Monsanto’s 90-day feeding trials data of insecticide producing Mon 810, Mon 863 and Roundup® herbicide absorbing NK 603 varieties of GM maize.

The data “clearly underlines adverse impacts on kidneys and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, as well as different levels of damages to heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system,” reported Gilles-Eric Séralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen.

Although different levels of adverse impact on vital organs were noticed between the three GMOs, the 2009 research shows specific effects associated with consumption of each GMO, differentiated by sex and dose.

Their December 2009 study appears in the International Journal of Biological Sciences(IJBS). This latest study conforms with a 2007 analysis by CRIIGEN on Mon 863, published inEnvironmental Contamination and Toxicology, using the same data.

Monsanto rejected the 2007 conclusions, stating:

“The analyses conducted by these authors are not consistent with what has been traditionally accepted for use by regulatory toxicologists for analysis of rat toxicology data.”

[Also see Doull J, Gaylor D, Greim HA, et al. “Report of an expert panel on the reanalysis by Séralini et al. (2007) of a 90-day study conducted by Monsanto in support of the safety of a genetically modified corn variety (MON 863).” Food Chem Toxicol. 2007; 45:2073-2085.]

Séralini explained that their study goes beyond Monsanto’s analysis by exploring the sex-differentiated health effects on mammals, which Doull, et al. ignored:

“Our study contradicts Monsanto conclusions because Monsanto systematically neglects significant health effects in mammals that are different in males and females eating GMOs, or not proportional to the dose. This is a very serious mistake, dramatic for public health. This is the major conclusion revealed by our work, the only careful reanalysis of Monsanto crude statistical data.” [communication to author]

Other problems with Monsanto’s conclusions

When testing for drug or pesticide safety, the standard protocol is to use three mammalian species. The subject studies only used rats, yet won GMO approval in more than a dozen nations.

Chronic problems are rarely discovered in 90 days; most often such tests run for up to two years. Tests “lasting longer than three months give more chances to reveal metabolic, nervous, immune, hormonal or cancer diseases,” wrote Seralini, et al. in their Doull rebuttal. [See “How Subchronic and Chronic Health Effects can be Neglected for GMOs, Pesticides or Chemicals.” IJBS; 2009; 5(5):438-443.]

Further, Monsanto’s analysis compared unrelated feeding groups, muddying the results. The June 2009 rebuttal explains, “In order to isolate the effect of the GM transformation process from other variables, it is only valid to compare the GMO … with its isogenic non-GM equivalent.”

The researchers conclude that the raw data from all three GMO studies reveal novel pesticide residues will be present in food and feed and may pose grave health risks to those consuming them.

They have called for “an immediate ban on the import and cultivation of these GMOs and strongly recommend additional long-term (up to two years) and multi-generational animal feeding studies on at least three species to provide true scientifically valid data on the acute and chronic toxic effects of GM crops, feed and foods.”

Human health, of course, is of primary import to us, but ecological effects are also in play. Ninety-nine percent of GMO crops either tolerate or produce insecticide. This may be the reason we seebee colony collapse disorder and massive butterfly deaths.  If GMOs are wiping out Earth’s pollinators, they are far more disastrous than the threat they pose to humans and other mammals.

-Tomas

[tomas]

Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html

Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
Katherine Goldstein/Gazelle Emami  Posted: 01-12-10 05:30 PM



In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto's GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.

According to the study, which was summarized by Adam Shake at Twilight Earth, "Three varieties of Monsanto's GM corn - Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603 - were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities."

Monsanto gathered its own crude statistical data after conducting a 90-day study, even though chronic problems can rarely be found after 90 days, and concluded that the corn was safe for consumption. The stamp of approval may have been premature, however.

In the conclusion of the IJBS study, researchers wrote:

"Effects were mostly concentrated in kidney and liver function, the two major diet detoxification organs, but in detail differed with each GM type. In addition, some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells were also frequently noted. As there normally exists sex differences in liver and kidney metabolism, the highly statistically significant disturbances in the function of these organs, seen between male and female rats, cannot be dismissed as biologically insignificant as has been proposed by others. We therefore conclude that our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal toxicity....These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown."

Monsanto has immediately responded to the study, stating that the research is "based on faulty analytical methods and reasoning and do not call into question the safety findings for these products."

The IJBS study's author Gilles-Eric Séralini responded to the Monsanto statement on the blog, Food Freedom, "Our study contradicts Monsanto conclusions because Monsanto systematically neglects significant health effects in mammals that are different in males and females eating GMOs, or not proportional to the dose. This is a very serious mistake, dramatic for public health. This is the major conclusion revealed by our work, the only careful reanalysis of Monsanto crude statistical data."

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Report: Monsanto Corn Causes Organ Damage in Mammals,
http://twilightearth.com/environment/report-monsanto-corn-causes-organ-damage-in-mammals/

Report: Monsanto Corn Causes Organ Damage in Mammals



A report released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences states that three types of Monsanto corn, cause cancer and organ damage in mammals....mera

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-Tomas

[tomas]

Förvånansvärt mycket rätt förutom de ekonomiska aspekterna.

Nordeas klimatfond köpte aktier i miljöbuse
http://www.e24.se/pengar24/aktier-och-fonder/nordeas-klimatfond-kopte-aktier-i-miljobuse_1797065.e24

Nordeas klimatfond köpte aktier i miljöbuse
2010-01-18 | Publicerad 08:07  |  Uppdaterad 2010-01-19, 16:44
 

Nordeas Klimatfond har investerat i ett av världens mest kritiserade företag när det gäller miljö: kemijätten Monsanto.

Nordeas Klimatfond har investerat i det multinationella kemiföretaget Monsanto. Bolaget har dömts ut av en mängd miljö- och människorättsorganisationer och har också svartlistats av den ledande etikkonsulten GES Investment. "Klimatfonden omfattas inte av de riktlinjer vi har när det gäller socialt ansvarsfulla investeringar", säger Sasja Beslik på Nordea.

”Välj ett klimatsmart sparande!”. Så låter Nordeas slogan för den nya klimatfonden; en marknadsföring tydligt riktad mot miljömedvetna sparare.

Dessa sparare har idag cirka 360 miljoner kronor i Nordeas klimatfond men vad de med all säkerhet inte känner till är att en av fondens största investeringar är i det multinationella kemiföretaget Monsanto.

Monsanto är en av världens största tillverkare av bekämpningsmedel och den klart största tillverkaren av genmanipulerade växter och grödor. Bolaget är ökänt i miljökretsar och har kritiserats både av miljömyndigheter och av miljöorganisationer för dess påverkan på miljön.

Bolaget fick mycket negativ publicitet för ett par år sedan i samband med att man vägrade bekosta upprensningen av ett område i Wales i Storbritannien. Platsen hade under många år använts för dumpning av bolagets gifter.

Monsantos produkter påstås också spela en avgörande roll i den våg av självmord bland bönder som drabbat den indiska provinsen Maharashtra. Bakgrunden är att hundratusentals småbönder skuldsatt sig för att köpa genmodifierad gröda, framför allt från Monsanto.

Monsanto har i sin marknadsföring utlovat större skördar men användningen av de nya grödorna har varit mer komplicerad än vad bönderna känt till och många av dem har drivits till självmord när de inte kan betala sina skulder.

Vissa organisationer påstår att mer än 100 000 bönder tagit sina liv till följd av detta men uppgifterna tillbakavisas av Monsanto och även av vissa myndigheter.

Nordea säger i en kommentar att Monsanto inte hör hemma i en fond som följer riktlinjerna för SRI (Social Responsible Investment).

- Man kan inte säga att Monsanto hanterar alla sina processer för miljö och sociala aspekter på ett ansvarsfullt sätt, säger Sasja Beslik, analyschef med ansvar för ansvarsfulla placeringar inom Nordea Fonder.

Men hur kan det då komma sig att er klimatfond placerat 2,5 procent av sina tillgångar i Monsanto?

- Klimatfonden är ingen klimatfond på det sättet att den investerar i företag vars verksamhet har med klimatfrågan att göra. Det är en temafond som placerar i aktier som kan förväntas tjäna på ett större fokus på klimatfrågan. Fonden omfattas inte heller av våra interna riktlinjer för SRI, säger Beslik.

Tror du inte att de sparare som satt pengar i Nordeas klimatfond skulle bli förvånade över att ni har investerat i Monsanto?

- Jag håller med dig om det och vi har diskuterat namnet internt eftersom det kan uppfattas på fel sätt.

Monsanto har funnits i Nordeas Klimatfond sedan 2008. Samtidigt har bolaget funnits på internationella analysföretaget GES Investments så kallade aktivitetslista för företag med tvivelaktig status i etiskt hänseende.

- Vi hade Monsanto på vår lista från våren 2007 till våren 2009. Orsaken var markområden i Wales som hade förgiftats av produkter från Monsanto och ett antal andra företag, säger Magnus Furugård, vd på GES Investment.

Efter många års förhandling, gick Monsanto slutligen med på att börja samarbeta med de walesiska miljömyndigheterna och bolaget togs då bort från GES aktivitetslista.

Nordeas Klimatfond hade enligt den senaste fondrapporten från halvårsskiftet 2009 aktier i Monsanto för drygt 6 miljoner kronor. Det motsvarar 2,5 procent av fondens tillgångar.

Klimatfonden har också investerat i Syngenta, ett annat hårt kritiserat kemiföretag, och i uranbrytningsföretaget Uranium One.

Joel Dahlberg
joel.dahlberg@e24.se
08-13 54 67

-Tomas

[tomas]

 

Fury as EU approves GM potato,
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/fury-as-eu-approves-gm-potato-1915833.html

Fury as EU approves GM potato
Thursday, 4 March 2010
By Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts

Critics claim plant could spread antibiotic-resistant diseases to humans


BASF's genetically modified Amflora potato, which has just been approved by the European Commission, contains genes that are resistant to antibiotics

The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics, it was claimed last night.

German chemical giant BASF this week won approval from the European Commission for commercial growing of a starchy potato with a gene that could resist antibiotics – useful in the fight against illnesses such as tuberculosis.

Farms in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic may plant the potato for industrial use, with part of the tuber fed to cattle, according to BASF, which fought a 13-year battle to win approval for Amflora. But other EU member states, including Italy and Austria and anti-GM campaigners angrily attacked the move, claiming it could result in a health disaster.

During the regulatory tussle over the potato, the EU's pharmaceutical regulator had expressed concern about its potential to interfere with the efficacy of antibiotics on infections that develop multiple resistance to other antibiotics, a growing problem in human and veterinary medicine. Amflora contains a gene that produces an enzyme which generally confers resistance to several antibiotics, including kanamycin, neomycin, butirosin, and gentamicin.

The antibiotics could become "extremely important" to treat otherwise multi-resistant infections and tuberculosis, the European Medicines Authority (EMA) warned. Drug resistance is part of the explanation for the resurgence of TB, which infects eight million people worldwide every year.

"In the absence of an effective therapy, infectious Multiple Drug Resistant TB patients will continue to spread the disease, producing new infections with MDR-TB strains," an EMA spokesman said. "Until we introduce a new drug with demonstrated activity against MDR strains, this aspect of the TB epidemic could explode at an exponential level."

After member states become deadlocked on the potato's approval, the European Commission approved it for use in industries such as paper production, saying it would save energy, water and chemicals. Once the starch has been removed, the skins can be fed to animals, whose meat would not have to be labelled as GM.

The EC, whose decision was backed by the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa), said there was no good reason for withholding approval. Health and consumer policy commissioner John Dalli said: "Responsible innovation will be my guiding principle when dealing with innovative technologies."

"Stringent" controls would ensure none of the tubers were left in the ground, ensuring altered genes did not escape into the environment. Opponents fear bacteria inside the guts of animals fed the GM potato – which can cause human diseases – may develop resistance to antibiotics.

Some member states were furious. "Not only are we against this decision, but we want to underscore that we will not allow the questioning of member states' sovereignty on this matter," said Italy's Agriculture Minister, Luca Zaia. Austria said it would ban cultivation of the potato within its borders, while France said it would ask an expert panel for further research.

Campaigners accused Brussels of failing to follow the precautionary principle. Friends of the Earth's Heike Moldenhauer said: "The commissioner whose job is to protect consumers has, in one of his first decisions, ignored public opinion and safety concerns to please the world's biggest chemical company."

Campaigners suspect Brussels is in favour of the widespread planting of GM crops despite opposition by some member states. Yesterday it also announced its intention to allow states more leeway in backing GM organisms.

-Tomas

[tomas]

Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage,
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/three-approved-gmos-linked-to-organ-damage/

Russia says genetically modified foods are harmful,
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/04/16/6524765.html

Varför är detta intressant?
Flera grödor på väg ut i EU regionen.


-Tomas

[tomas]

Nu börjas det på allvar 10x

Striden om GMO-maten kan börja
Nu blir det upp till varje land att bestämma om man vill tillåta GMO, genmodifierade växter. Det föreslår EU-kommissionen.
Genmanipuleringens kritiker anser att Sverige tillhör det GMO-vänliga blocket i Europa........mera
http://www.expressen.se/Nyheter/1.2081025/striden-om-gmo-maten-kan-borja

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Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality,

"This study was just routine," said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.

After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They also suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups.......mera

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=4888#hair



-Tomas

Om du tycker detta är lika angeläget som jag gör,
Ta då och skicka länken till detta vidare, så kanske vi kan öka medvetenheten hos Svenska folket en smula och i bästa fall kan vi kanske få våra folkvalda att tänka efter före.

Kodstycke:

http://www.scooterforum.se/forum/index.php/topic,218.0.html

[tomas]

Dags för GMO lax, och vi kan vara helt övertygade (i alla fall jag) att det kommer hit också.



GM salmon may go on sale in US after public consultation Environment The Guardian,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/25/gm-salmon-us-fda-consultation

Scientists create GM 'Frankenfish' which grows three times as fast as normal salmon Mail Online,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1287084/Scientists-create-GM-Frankenfish-grows-times-fast-normal-salmon.html

I skenet av detta så finns det de som förutom problemen generellt med GMO (se posten innan) hävdar man att rymmer dessa GMO laxar från farmen så är det naturliga beståndet utslaget inom 40 lax generationer, se länk nedan och videon sist i posten,

Company says FDA is nearing decision on genetically engineered Atlantic salmon,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/01/AR2010080103305.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzhead
.........A Purdue University study using a computer model -- and widely criticized by the biotechnology industry -- showed that if 60 transgenic fish bred in a population of 60,000 wild fish, the wild fish would be extinct in 40 generations. ..........

Wenonah Hauter Genetically Modified Salmon Jeopardize Environment, May Endanger Consumer Health,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wenonah-hau

Och rymmer gör dom,

30,000 farmed salmon escape off B.C. coast, endangering wild stocks Grist,
http://www.grist.org/article/salmon9/

CBC News - British Columbia - 40,000 salmon escape B.C. farm,
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/10/23/bc-salmon-farm-escape.html

Kika på den här dokumentären,

Unnatural Selection - genetically modified organisms worldwide,
http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/259048/1923020

Man kan nog vara rätt övertygad om att när man väl fått igång allt detta i EU kommer man precis som i USA börja arbeta för att förhindra märkning av GMO produkter, allt för de stackars böndernas och farmarnas skull........

Sist ett par kommentarer på någon artikel som jag tyckte var bra,

The PTB are very aware of the mechanisms of biological reproduction and fertility. By the (faked and staged) laws of biology, there should be no problem with these fish, after all, we are nothing but bits we eat, right? But why is it that people are so uncomfortable with the GM food issue. Well, to start GM foods have not been "vetted" by nature. Normally survival of the fittest and nature itself tests DNA in the real world, in REAL WORLD CONDITIONS. But not this stuff, WE are the test for it. If an animal is sterile, and you are eating it, it IS ALREADY FAILING those tests of nature, IE, IT IS BEING FLUSHED from the natural scheme of life.

All life on this planet grows up to the "golden ratio" of proportions. They grow according to the programming of their DNA in the field of life around us. TIME allows new life to stay or go. Over millions of years, life you see now, is the most stable for the current conditions of earth.
Do you want THAT UNTESTED TISSUE in your body?

-Tomas

Om du tycker detta är lika angeläget som jag gör,
Ta då och skicka länken till detta vidare, så kanske vi kan öka medvetenheten hos Svenska folket en smula och i bästa fall kan vi kanske få våra folkvalda att tänka efter före.

Kodstycke:

http://www.scooterforum.se/forum/index.php/topic,218.0.html