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Mean Joe Green #61: Monsanto Grows a Genetically Modified Blogger

Joe Mohr — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:31:59 +0000

Monsanto, the company that brought you saccharine, aspartame, herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, Agent Orange, a variety of plastics including polystyrene, synthetic fibers, bovine growth hormone (BST, rBGH), PCBs, nuclear weapons, the potentially carcinogenic RoundUp, a variety of maize that may cause liver and kidney toxicity, lawsuits against small farmers who do not want to use their products, a myriad of environmental disasters, and genetically modified crops that are introduced into our food system without proper labelling or proper testing for safety–now offers up in its defense their very own genetically modified blogger.

Before we get to said blogger I’d like to link this passage from Wikipedia, offering a very small taste of Monsanto’s activity in the US (I have linked to much more information after the cartoon).

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Urgent: Sign USDA Petition Demanding Stronger Regulations for Genetically Engineered Crops!

Derek Markham — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:02:53 +0000

The comment period for proposed rule changes on Genetically Engineered Organisms ends on Monday, November 24th.

Sign the Center for Food Safety’s petition and make yourself heard on genetically modified foods and pharmaceutical crops issues!

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Genetically Modified Food: Americans Don’t Want it–

Katy Farber — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:25:22 +0000

Just a day or two after my posts about GM foods, I received an email newsletter from the Organic Consumers Association.

They report in this article Fifty-Three percent of Americans Say they Won’t Buy Genetically Engineered Food, from a CBS/NY Times poll:

“53%: Percentage of polled Americans who say they won’t buy food that has ingredients from genetically engineered (GE) plants.
65%: Actual percentage of products on grocery store shelves that contain unlabeled GE ingredients (usually soy or corn derived).
90%: Portion of U.S. grown soybeans that are genetically engineered.
99%: Estimated likelihood that the U.S. sugar supply will start to be sourced from genetically engineered plants this year.”

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How to Avoid Genetically Modified (or Engineered) Foods-

Katy Farber — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:21:39 +0000

On my blog, Non-Toxic Kids, I posted an article yesterday that shares some background about genetically modified foods, especially soy, and the environmental and health risks involved with eating and growing GM crops. You can read the full article here.

There was way to much information for just one post! So I decided to write here about how to avoid eating genetically modified foods. Which presents a challenge, since they are everywhere and in the majority of food in conventional grocery stores.

Thankfully, Greenpeace Canada has created an extensive, printable shopping list of companies that have no GM ingredients in their foods (happy face), companies that are working to eliminate GM foods from their products but aren’t there yet (neutral face), and companies that are most likely to contain GMO ingredients (sad face). This is a handy list, and I am thrilled to have found it and to share it with you here.

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