“Oh the horror. The trial lawyers will be starving in the streets.”
I’m concerned about my family and not the trial lawyers. And I’m also concerned about giving any global corporation like Monsanto immunity from accountability. If they have the right to genetically experiment on what they can produce as “food” without any accountability, then they need to disclose it as genetically modified on the label...but they aren’t.
Forget the trial lawyers and shareholder funded civil suits. When stuff happens we need to see the CEOs held criminally accountable when they cause problems for others as did a Wall St, that Obama let slide by.
I’ll predict that there would be rightful public backlash to this type of food if it was disclosed as GMO on labels. Where is the free market so we can all freely decide if we wish to buy and consume it? I don’t trust FDA, government and these companies to tell the truth. Do you?
GMO on a label for many would be a skull and cross bones because there are no long term tests and results. Full transparency is what we need, but instead the lobbyists buy off the pols to give us what makes them most profit. Safe food should not be a political issue.
Despite their animus history, Barack Obama seems to be warming to the K Street corporate lobbyists he once adamantly denounced.
In 2009, in a classic revolving-door move, President Barack Obama appointed former Monsanto VP and head lobbyist Michael Taylor as Deputy Commissioner for the FDA — the board tasked with regulating Taylor’s own industry.
Taylor joins the growing list of public officials formerly employed by Monsanto, a worldwide food giant oft-criticized for its poor environmental record and repeated aggressive legal action against small farmers over copyright issues.
“I don’t take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won’t find a job in my White House,” Obama said in a 2008 campaign speech. A little research, however, shows that claim to be a questionable one.
While the FDA’s headquarters are technically located in Maryland and not the White House, this appointment took place just seven months into the Obama presidency, with few noticing until this online petition gained popularity this weekend.
“I’ll predict that there would be rightful public backlash to this type of food if it was disclosed as GMO on labels. Where is the free market so we can all freely decide if we wish to buy and consume it? I don’t trust FDA, government and these companies to tell the truth. Do you?”
Hallelujah! Someone gets it.
There was a French study that shocked a lot of people, but it was reportedly debunked....
But Pollan pointed out that Seralini’s two year study was rejected as unscientific while Monsanto’s 90 day effort was sufficient for EU approval, even though Seralini used the same elements and animals Monsanto used. But mainstream media outlets accept corporate research over independent research. (emphasis mine - tbp)
There is growing anecdotal evidence that the 2nd & 3rd generation of animals fed on GMO feeds are experiencing some severe reproductive problems.
Genetic engineering is not the same as Gregor Mendel's peas. It's forcing combinations that would never occur naturally with no real undersstanding of the long term effects.
Some one has said that GMO stands for "God, Move Over". I agree. God created things to reproduce after their own kind. Genetic engineering definitely goes against this natural low. Just chalk it up to the test tube version of gay marriage.