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In China, over a million poplar trees have been planted since 2002 to combat deforestation. But the move has not been widely applauded by everyone. The poplars, which are genetically engineered, are China's first foray into the world of transgenic forestry -- or "frankenforests" -- and other countries are not far behind.
The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected four key Monsanto patents related to genetically modified crops that PUBPAT challenged last year because the agricultural giant is using them to harass, intimidate, sue - and in some cases literally bankrupt - American farmers.
its vacation time kids, and its time to charitably go do our christian duty and help the people left bereft by American companies like Shell and Chevron and religious right diamond mines. What they can't do we will pityingly and charitably take care of. After that all bets are off on the continent of africa... ready to give AIDS....?????????
Personal research of the Rain and Snow that has been falling has shown thousands of known and unknown elements here in the high mountains of Colorado. Samples of the fallout have shown numerous Morgellons, Designer Bugs,nano tech, polymers, molds, fungus, reflective cobwebs, etc.
On June 1, 2007 the United States Justice Department gave the green light for Monsanto's $1.5 billion takeover of the world's largest cotton seed company, Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) --
the US company that developed and patented the world's first Terminator seed technology.
"I want to ask a question. I don't care whether you answer me or not. I just need to ask this aloud... The question that I have to ask is: what if the worst and most horrifying attack in this country's history was not the work of religious extremists?
"...If our own government was responsible--was responsible for the deaths of almost 100,000 people, would you really want to know?" -- Detective Finch from the movie "V for Vendetta"
Tell FDA: No Food From Cloned Animals
FDA has granted a 30-day extension for public comment! All comments are now due by May 3rd. Take action here:  http://ga3.org/campaign/Cloning
Good comments at the previous article links as well.
A new international coalition of farmers' unions,
development and environmental NGOs today is calling for a global prohibition of patents on seeds and farm animals. Farmers increasingly become dependent on multinational corporations, which own patents on seeds and animals.
You are invited to Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering's annual spring Seed and Plant Swap.
The Zapatista community is selling GMO-free Mayan corn. The seed is being sent all over the world in an effort to save an old lineage. Mutated corn seed is being planted by corporate interests to destroy this old lineage. The money from the sale of the corn will be used to build Chiapas schools.
The Univerity of Pennsylvia Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB has temporarily suspended the Genographic Project in response to a formal complaint filed by the Alaska Native Medical Center IRB.
It is so disturbing to hear about the FDA's Dec. 28, 2006 determination that cloned livestock byproducts are claimed to be "substantially equivalent", a scientifically discredited "analogy" myth already disproven in their previous attempt to use this myth with rBGH, Monsanto's Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, in the milk supply. Instead of "equivalent", it led to human cancer spikes and human reproductive damage. FDA first unveiled the commercially motivated lie of "substantial equivalance" back in 1993 when it railroaded through approval of recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). Now we know from a real scientific study (May 2006 Journal of Reproductive Health) that milk induced through genetic engineering is NOT the same...but, because of FDA's irresponsible rubberstamping, U.S. consumers now suffer reproductive problems from...rBGH dairy products with elevated levels of Insulin Like Growth Factor - 1 (IGF-1). False statements by government officials and biotech apologists that cloned animals are "simply genetic twins" is a commercially motivated lie, instead of a public health statement. They ignore numerous studies showing cloned animals suffer higher than normal morbidity & deformity rates. According to leading cloning researcher, MIT Prof. Rudolph Jaensich, "You can not make normal ["equivalent"] clones...." --- Average clone never sees the light of day, since 90% of cloned fetuses die before birth--along with up to 25% of the forced surrogate mothers. To keep damaged genetic clones alive along with forced surrogate hosts that naturally attempt to reject them bodily, "cloning" really is a covert process of using (and selling) higher than usual animal hormone and antibiotic treatments--with damages passed on to YOU. Deadline for public feedback: April 2nd, 2007. Refer to Docket 2006P-0145.
Following an initiative last March by the Traditional Native American
Farmers' Association and others, Santa Fe County, NM has passed a landmark "Declaration of Seed Sovereignty," addressing GMO contamination in context of the specific threats it poses to indigenous agricultures.
Clones cannot be perfect copies, and health difficulties arising from clones get transferred into the food chain: you. Yet another open air experiment on your health, thanks to the corrupt FDA, just like their corrupt open air experiment without notification concerning GMOs.
"...clones are far from perfect copies. All clones are defective, in one way or another, with multiple flaws embedded in their genomes. Rudolf Jaenisch, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estimates that something like 4-5% of the genes in a cloned animal's genome are expressed incorrectly. These often subtle genetic defects can have tangible consequences. Cloning produces an extraordinarily high number of deaths and deformed animals. Some clones have been born with incomplete body walls or with abnormalities in their hearts, kidneys or brain function, or have suffered problems like "adult clone sudden death syndrome" and premature ageing."...who knows how this is transferred to YOU. Nothing has been done in research on these issues of long term exposure. Cloned animals demote biodiversity and in practice would yield more health dangers to you from wider 'monocropped animals' in factory farm conditions, with more loads of crowd diseases risk, stress, and antibiotics given to them all the while, which gets transferred to you as well, as well as leads to pathogens becoming immune to antibiotic treatment. Cloned meat is anti-consumer and anti-animal on every level.
.S. Reps. Xavier Becerra (CA-31), Assistant to the Speaker and the only congressional member from Southern California on the House Committee on Ways and Means, today introduced the Genomic Research and Accessibility Act, a bill that once
enacted, would put an immediate end to the practice of patenting any and all portions of the human genome. Rep. Dave Weldon, M.D. (FL-15) joined Rep. Becerra as the co-author of the legislation.
Precedent-setting Decision May Block Planting, Sales of Monsanto Alfalfa
A little advice from someone who has been there...
Past Trials on Genetically Engineered Creeping Bentgrass Ruled Illegal
Far-Reaching Decision Requires More Rigorous Environmental Review For Future Trials
Anuradha Mittal, internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights, democracy, and agriculture issues and executive director of The Oakland Institute will be in Portland!
A new report to be released tomorrow shows that
genetically modified (GM) crops have failed to address the main challenges facing farmers in most countries of the world, and more than 70% of large scale GM planting is still limited to two countries (U.S. and Argentina).
The recent decree by Roberto Requião, Governor of the state of Paraná, to expropriate the Syngenta corporation's experimental site in Santa Tereza do Oeste has become a powerful symbol for all interests in the struggle over the future of Brazilian agriculture.
An open letter was sent
yesterday to the European Parliament, The European Commission, The Governments and Citizens of The European Union, in which several networks from Latin American countries expressed their "deep concern over the policies that are probably to be adopted to favour the use and import of biofuel as an alternative to fossil fuels, whose disproportionate use is one of the main causes of global warming".
Are radical environmentalists wackos, terrorists, or prophets warning against environmental catastrophe?
Safeway, Starsmuck's, Dean Foods and Walmart are all going rBGH free while Monsanto squirms.
rBGH is on its way out of our food supply, let's keep up the pressure.
Anuradha Mittal, internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights, democracy, and agriculture issues and executive director of The Oakland Institute will be in Portland!
URGENT: On 31st January 2007 there's a major hearing in the Supreme Court in India on the writ petition over GM crops.
The organisers of this petition want to be able to show that there's massive worldwide support for calling a halt to the problems being inflicted by GM crops on India. They can only do that with your support. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AND PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES: link to www.gopetition.com
Please post on elsewhere.
Calling All Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians, Converge at the Northeast Anarchist Consulta this February 24th and 25th to strategize and organize for a massive Week of Resistance this May, from our participation in May Day (May 1st) and the movement for migrant workers' rights to the Biotech Convention (coming to Boston May 6-9) and the movement in defense of the earth.
A new paper points out that many scientific questions concerning the health effects of GMOs that were raised 20 years ago still remain unanswered. The paper discusses - in remarkably clear and readable terms - the health hazards related to GM plants used as food or feed, with mention of GM vaccines including si RNA- and nanobio-technologies.
Read at BBC World News Science & Technology News today
> PAN Latin America partners in Paraguay seek global
> solidarity in response to the death of 11-year-old > Silvino Talavera from pesticide spraying. The men > responsible for Silvino's death have yet to be > brought to justice, but Silvino's mother, Petrona > Villasboa, continues to press forward, "One has to > have strength to struggle. I will struggle to the > very end, because I think of the large number of > children that live in my community." The case is > currently scheduled to expire in December. Your > action is needed to help keep the case and court > process moving forward.
Pigs were invented by Monsanto, the Earth is a cube, GM Foods are good for you, and governments are good for you.
Of course.......and my mother is still a virgin.
Come to Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering's annual fall Seed + Plant Swap.
The National Park Service (NPS) took a giant step in September toward
further commercialization of the natural resources in our National Parks. Specifically, the Park Service released an environmental impact statement that could clear the way for corporations to "bioprospect" for microorganisms and other wildlife in national parks like Yellowstone. If the Park Service gets its way, corporations will be allowed to mine, exploit, patent, and profit from the lands and wildlife that we are all supposed to be stewarding.
This is a rancher's dream come true, cow-boys that can herd themselves to
market, and not rely on handouts of hay and grain.
The National Park Service (NPS) took a giant step in September toward
further commercialization of the natural resources in our National Parks. Specifically, the Park Service released an environmental impact statement that could clear the way for corporations to "bioprospect" for microorganisms and other wildlife in national parks like Yellowstone. If the Park Service gets its way, corporations will be allowed to mine, exploit, patent, and profit from the lands and wildlife that we are all supposed to be stewarding.
September 22, 2006, the National Parks Service (NPS) finally acquiesced
to a seven-year-old court order to publish an environment assessment of its controversial plans to allow commercial bioprospecting in the U.S. National Parks.
E-coli and spinach? My son worked at a biopesticide research lab in 1998-1999 as an assistant researcher. He has illness/diseases because of this employment. He has gotten the "shaft" in all areas of trying to expose this. The company "discovers" microbes from all over the world. Why do we innoculate to visit another country when microbes are brought into the U.S.?
ACTION ALERT: Stop the Destruction of Native Forests, Wildlife
Habitat and Indigenous Communities MAJOR INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES AND INDUSTRIAL TREE PLANTATIONS OCTOBER 10-13, 2006, CHARLESTON, SC JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
So now the EPA has scientifically proven that GE Creeping Bentgrass is a danger to Oregon's third largest agricultural commodity (our grass seed industry contributes $373.5 million dollars to our state economy) but what is the government doing about it?
NOTHING!
An experimental variety of genetically engineered bentgrass has escaped from
its test plot in Oregon and has been found growing in the wild as far as three miles away, according to scientists from the U.S. EPA.
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 14th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing here with the possibility that Mad Cow Disease resulted primarily from genetically-engineered cattle feed.
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM, GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 13th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing here with Toxic Oil Syndrome which afflicted Spain in 1981 and involved one of today's big 4 GM crops -- Canola (oilseed rape).
Think of a few seeds, the size of a pin head, being able to grow in a bucket of rocks, using only water and sunlight together with the minerals in the rock to produce for you fine, savory, tender quality steaks, nutritious celery, cabbage, lettuce and avocado all from the same fast growing tree? Table quality vegetables and delicious, tender, ready to fry, broil or bake, Vmeate steaks for your family and all from a hardy, beautiful, growing tree!
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