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Take Action to Get GMOs Out of the Food Supply
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 by: Kim Evans, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) According to Jeffery Smith, a leading GMO activist, when a critical number of consumers abandon GMO foods and brands, it will be enough to force them out of common products and get them out of our food supply. Want to help? Print this food guide http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/... and this article http://www.responsibletechnology.or.... Then, share them with your friends, family and coworkers. Share them with dozens of people who might not otherwise have access to this information and be sure your contacts also have easy access to both URLs. If they feel the information is important, ask them to print it and pass it along too.
The second article details all of the deaths in farm animals that GMOs have caused, as well as a considerable amount of research showing the infertility, organ damage and other tragic health consequences they create. The dangers of GMOs are hard to deny - even if government officials and the GM industry keep doing so.
To be part of the solution, you'll also need to avoid GMOs and brands that use them. For an even greater impact, send a quick note to the companies producing the brands you plan to drop and let them know that GMOs are the reason. Hundreds of these notes coming in each day are bound to make an impact, and probably quickly.
Most mainstream grocery stores line their shelves with foods containing GMOs, so if a natural GMO-free grocery store is in your town it would be a good idea to frequent it instead. You can also drop your former grocery store a line to let them know that the GMO brands they carry are the reason you're making the switch. Pressure from all sides can help produce change and if grocery stores refuse to carry GMOs, many manufacturers will be forced to change or go out of business.
It also wouldn't hurt to pick up the phone and call your government representatives. Let them know what you really think about GMOs currently being in 90 percent of all processed foods - and fed to the large majority of farm animals those meat or dairy end up on dinner tables. Then, send them the second article above and ask them how exactly they think they're protecting the public or the food supply by allowing genetically mutant DNA into the food supply. Let them know that creating disease is never considered protecting the public and that you're following their actions on this matter closely - and you should actually do that too.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Drug and chemical giant Bayer AG has admitted that there is no way to stop the uncontrolled spread of its genetically modified crops.
"Even the best practices can't guarantee perfection," said Mark Ferguson, the company's defense lawyer in a recent trial.
Two Missouri farmers sued Bayer for contaminating their crop with modified genes from an experimental strain of rice engineered to be resistant to the company's Liberty-brand herbicide. The contamination occurred in 2006, during an open field test of the new rice, which was not approved for human consumption. According to the plaintiffs' lawyer, Don Downing, genetic material from the unapproved rice contaminated more than 30 percent of all rice cropland in the United States.
"Bayer was supposed to be careful," Downing said. "Bayer was not careful and that rice did escape into our commercial rice supplies."
The plaintiffs alleged that in addition to contaminating their fields, Bayer further harmed them financially by undermining their export market. When the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the widespread rice contamination, important export markets were closed to U.S. producers. A report from Greenpeace International estimates the financial damage of the contamination at between $741 million and $1.3 billion.
Bayer claimed that there was no possible way it could have prevented the contamination, insisting that it followed not only the law but also the best industry practices. The jury disagreed, finding Bayer guilty of carelessness in handling the genetically modified crops. The company was ordered to pay farmers Kenneth Bell and Johnny Hunter $2 million.
"This is a huge victory, not only for Kenny and me, but for every farmer in America who was harmed by Bayer's LibertyLink rice contamination," Hunter said.
According to Hunter, the company got "the wake-up call they deserved."
Bayer is still being sued by more than 1,000 other farmers from Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.