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

[tomas]

EU Commission tries to destroy zero tolerance policy for GMO food contamination,
http://www.naturalnews.com/031224_GMOs_contamination.html

EU Commission tries to destroy zero tolerance policy for GMO food contamination

The European Union (E.U.) Commission, at the behest of lobbyists from the biotechnology, food, and animal feed industries, is proposing to undo a long-held "zero-tolerance" policy that protects the European food supply from contamination by unapproved genetically-modified organisms (GMO). If successful, the Commission's efforts will open wide the floodgates for imported GMO foodstuffs to further contaminate its food supply.

The E.U.'s zero-tolerance policy states that any imported food or feed material cannot contain even trace amounts of GMO substances that have not been approved by the E.U. Council. This includes many of the GMO food crops grown in the U.S. and Canada.

Several varieties of GM soy, corn, cotton, potato, sugar beet, and canola (rape seed), however, are currently approved for planting and use in the E.U. So GMOs are already pervasive in the European food supply, despite the policy. Nevertheless, the elimination of the zero-tolerance policy will make things worse, particularly in consumers knowing which products contain GMOs and which ones do not.

Unlike the U.S., the E.U. has restrictions in place that require GMO food products to be labeled as such. This mandate gives consumers the ability to know exactly what they are buying, and allows those wishing to avoid GMOs the opportunity to make educated and informed buying decisions. But with the import restrictions lifted, identifying the difference between GMO and non-GMO products will likely become more difficult.

A recent poll in Europe found that as many as 95 percent of Europeans view GMOs with some type of skepticism. Seventy percent said GMOs are fundamentally unnatural, and 60 percent said the "Frankencrops" are a threat to public health.

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Genetically engineered alfalfa isn't necessary,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021504823.html

Alfalfa's roots go deep in the soil and deep in history. Prized by the ancient Persians, this high-protein "Queen of Forages" is still treasured. It is the fourth-largest crop grown in the United States, primarily for feeding cattle. And it is the latest one to fall to the Empire of Monsanto.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's recent decision to deregulate the use of Monsanto's Roundup Ready Alfalfa (RRA) has alarmed many in the farming community, and beyond, who expected better from this administration. I suppose the kindest thing you could say about this genetically engineered seed - developed to allow the plant to withstand applications of Roundup herbicide - is that it's unnecessary.

Alfalfa competes well with weeds in a well-managed system. But when RRA is grown, weeds will develop resistance to Roundup, as they have with the other crops that carry the Roundup Ready gene, such as corn, soybeans and cottons (sugar beets are next). This resistance could lead to the introduction of yet more powerful transgenic remedies that, in turn, would fail.

Polling has shown that most Americans dislike the idea of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) being introduced into the food supply, which is why the agricultural lobby blocks the labeling of products containing them. And no one fears the galloping GMO trend more than farmers - organic or otherwise - who bank on selling GMO-free alfalfa hay, or meat from animals not tainted by eating RRA..............mera

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Monsanto's Roundup Ready Crops Contain Organism Causing Animal Miscarriages, Scientist Says,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/monsanto-roundup-ready-miscarriages_n_827135.html

Recent research claims that Monsanto's Roundup Ready genetically modified crops contain an organism, previously unknown to science, that can cause miscarriages in farm animals. This disturbing find comes on the heels of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's decision to deregulate Roundup Ready Alfalfa (RRA). Roundup Ready is designed to survive Roundup, Monsanto's weed-killing chemical............mera

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Monsanto's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health,
http://www.naturalnews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

The following article reveals the devastating and unprecedented impact that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide is having on the health of our soil, plants, animals, and human population.

On top of this perfect storm, the USDA now wants to approve Roundup Ready alfalfa, which will exacerbate this calamity.......mera

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German TV exposes the horrors of toxic GM soy,
http://www.naturalnews.com/031382_GM_soy_GMOs.html

Widespread environmental pollution; poisoning and contamination of agriculture; countless injuries, deformities, and deaths in humans -- these and many other horrific events are a result of cultivating genetically-modified (GM) crops, and GM soy in particular. A recent news documentary short that aired on German television exposes the massive destruction being caused by GM soy cultivation, and warns consumers that the food chain is more loaded with GM materials than they might think.

In Germany and throughout the European Union (EU), food products that contain GMOs must be properly labeled as such. As a result, there are few GM products on store shelves because, when made aware of their presence, consumers almost unanimously reject them. But what many people fail to realize, both in Europe and in the U.S., is that conventional livestock is often fed GM soy and corn, which ultimately ends up on store shelves in the form of conventional meat, milk, and eggs..........mera

GM Soy in animal food - Greetings from Monsanto	DQ

-Tomas

[tomas]

HuffingtonPost - Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/roundup-birth-defects-herbicide-regulators_n_872862.html

Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds
Lucia Graves
First Posted: 06/ 7/11 07:48 PM ET
Updated: 06/ 9/11 11:05 AM ET



WASHINGTON -- Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday.

The report, "Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?" found regulators knew as long ago as 1980 that glyphosate, the chemical on which Roundup is based, can cause birth defects in laboratory animals.

But despite such warnings, and although the European Commission has known that glyphosate causes malformations since at least 2002, the information was not made public.

Instead regulators misled the public about glyphosate's safety, according to the report, and as recently as last year, the German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, the German government body dealing with the glyphosate review, told the European Commission that there was no evidence glyphosate causes birth defects.

Published by Earth Open Source, an organization that uses open source collaboration to advance sustainable food production, the report comes months after researchers found that genetically-modified crops used in conjunction Roundup contain a pathogen that may cause animal miscarriages. After observing the newly discovered organism back in February, Don Huber, an emeritus professor at Purdue University, wrote an open letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting a moratorium on deregulating crops genetically altered to be immune to Roundup, which are commonly called Roundup Ready crops.

In the letter, Huber also commented on the herbicide itself, saying: "It is well-documented that glyphosate promotes soil pathogens and is already implicated with the increase of more than 40 plant diseases; it dismantles plant defenses by chelating vital nutrients; and it reduces the bioavailability of nutrients in feed, which in turn can cause animal disorders."

Although glyphosate was originally due to be reviewed in 2012, the Commission decided late last year not to bring the review forward, instead delaying it until 2015. The chemical will not be reviewed under more stringent, up-to-date standards until 2030.

"Our examination of the evidence leads us to the conclusion that the current approval of glyphosate and Roundup is deeply flawed and unreliable," wrote the report authors in their conclusion. "What is more, we have learned from experts familiar with pesticide assessments and approvals that the case of glyphosate is not unusual.

"They say that the approvals of numerous pesticides rest on data and risk assessments that are just as scientifically flawed, if not more so," the authors added. "This is all the more reason why the Commission must urgently review glyphosate and other pesticides according to the most rigorous and up-to-date standards."

-Tomas

[tomas]

Toxin from GM crops found in human blood: Study,
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/toxin-from-gm-crops-found-in-human-blood/1/137728.html

Toxin from GM crops found in human blood: Study
Dinesh C. Sharma  | New Delhi, May 11, 2011 | Updated 09:30 IST


Bt toxin is widely used in genetically modified crops.

Fresh doubts have arisen about the safety of genetically modified crops, with a new study reporting presence of Bt toxin, used widely in GM crops, in human blood for the first time.

Genetically modified crops include genes extracted from bacteria to make them resistant to pest attacks.

These genes make crops toxic to pests but are claimed to pose no danger to the environment and human health. Genetically modified brinjal, whose commercial release was stopped a year ago, has a toxin derived from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis ( Bt).

Till now, scientists and multinational corporations promoting GM crops have maintained that Bt toxin poses no danger to human health as the protein breaks down in the human gut. But the presence of this toxin in human blood shows that this does not happen.

Scientists from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, have detected the insecticidal protein, Cry1Ab, circulating in the blood of pregnant as well as non-pregnant women.

They have also detected the toxin in fetal blood, implying it could pass on to the next generation. The research paper has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the journal Reproductive Toxicology. The study covered 30 pregnant women and 39 women who had come for tubectomy at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) in Quebec.

None of them had worked or lived with a spouse working in contact with pesticides.

They were all consuming typical Canadian diet that included GM foods such as soybeans, corn and potatoes. Blood samples were taken before delivery for pregnant women and at tubal ligation for non-pregnant women. Umbilical cord blood sampling was done after birth.

Cry1Ab toxin was detected in 93 per cent and 80 per cent of maternal and fetal blood samples, respectively and in 69 per cent of tested blood samples from non-pregnant women. Earlier studies had found trace amounts of the Cry1Ab toxin in gastrointestinal contents of livestock fed on GM corn. This gave rise to fears that the toxins may not be effectively eliminated in humans and there may be a high risk of exposure through consumption of contaminated meat.

"Generated data will help regulatory agencies responsible for the protection of human health to make better decisions", noted researchers Aziz Aris and Samuel Leblanc.

Given the potential toxicity of these environmental pollutants and the fragility of the foetus, more studies are needed, particularly those using the placental transfer approach, they added Experts have warned of serious implications for India. Cottonseed oil is made from seeds of genetically modified cotton and thus Bt toxin may have already entered the food chain in India.

"Indian regulators should be immediately called for detailed toxicological studies to know the extent of contamination of the human blood with Bt toxins coming from cottonseed oil, and also ascertain its long term health impacts," said Devinder Sharma, an anti-GM activist.

Inte dagens, men väl intressant i alla fall.


-Tomas

[tomas]

Peru’s Congress approves 10-year GMO ban,
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2011/11/perus-congress-approves-10-year-gmo-ban/

Peru’s Congress approves 10-year GMO ban
Posted by AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE on November 5, 2011


Genetically Modified maize / Courtesy Lexpress

LIMA, Nov 5 – Peru’s Congress announced Friday it overwhelmingly approved a 10-year moratorium on imports of genetically modified organisms in order to safeguard the country’s biodiversity.

The measure bars GMOs — including seeds, livestock, and fish — from being imported for cultivation or to be raised locally.

Exceptions include the use of GMO products for research purposes in a closed environment, but those will be closely monitored, the legislature’s official news service said.

The bill, approved late Thursday, now goes to President Ollanta Humala to be signed into law. Humala, who has been in power since late July, has repeatedly said he opposes GM programs.

According to the Agriculture Ministry, Peru is one of the world’s leading exporters of organic food, including coffee and cocoa, with $3 billion a year in revenues and 40,000 certified producers.

Congress approved a similar 10-year moratorium in June, but outgoing president Alan Garcia, who was seen as being favorable to GM, did not ratify the ban.

There was friction over GM in the previous government’s ministries of agriculture and environment.

The head of Peru’s Consumer Agency, Jaime Delgado, said the moratorium is long enough to learn from scientific studies that will emerge on the effects of GMO products.

The country’s leading group representing farmers and ranchers, the National Agrarian Convention, said that by this measure Peru “defends its biodiversity, its agriculture, its gastronomy and its health.”

-Tomas

[tomas]

Läs den på original stället via länken, många inbäddade länkar till ytterligare information i artikeln.

China Rejects Genetically Modified Rice in Opposition to GMO Crops
http://naturalsociety.com/china-rejects-genetically-modified-rice-gmo-crops/

China Rejects Genetically Modified Rice in Opposition to GMO Crops
Andre Evans, NaturalSociety, February 2, 2012



As awareness of genetically modified food and the dangers associated increase, actions are being taken to eliminate the issue entirely. With countries destroying their GMO crops, scientists showing the facts, and individuals voicing their discontent on the matter, there is a large and growing contingent across countries that are taking action to preserve the integrity of our food supply. China is the latest nation to take a stand against GMO crops.

China recently suspended the distribution of genetically modified rice within its commercial food supplies.

Rice, being perhaps the most common and prominently used food within Chinese diet makes its safety and reliability very significant. Acting as a staple food for over 1.3 billion Chinese people, any compromise to the integrity of their food supply should be accordingly assessed and acted against based upon the interests of the population.

This action helps to preserve the sovereignty and safety of their food supply, something that largely must still be addressed in our own country. In the United States GMO foods are not only accepted by loose regulation standards, but are not even labeled appropriately.

The dangers of GMO foods are so great that they are still not — and may never be — fully assessable. With a large number of documented negative effects on its consumers, GMO foods are a highly dangerous threat to individual health alone.

If this weren’t enough, genetically engineered crops actually threaten the integrity of the food supply altogether by devastating the environment with powerful superweeds and mutant bugs. The nature of genetic engineering is so volatile that unless properly handled, the integrity of the entire world food supply could be ruined.

As such, any form of action that a government takes to prevent or eliminate GMOs from the equation is significant. Reassessing the nature and scale of the threat in light of new evidence should compel even more action in even more locations around the world.

En annan länk som var lite intressant,
Vatican Condemns Monsanto Genetically Modified Crops as “New Form of Slavery”
http://naturalsociety.com/vatican-condemns-monsanto-genetically-modified-crops-as-new-form-of-slavery/


-Tomas