I appreciate your investigation; but I'd hope you'd vote yes and then work for better laws to rid, or restrict, and label all GMO use.
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I appreciate your investigation; but I'd hope you'd vote yes and then work for better laws to rid, or restrict, and label all GMO use.
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this is important information. cost benefit agricultural policy turns the world into a large lab experiment. bad primates will be punished. if the smart primates organize resistance by demanding information then the experiments are simply changed. human evolution is actually quite rapid.
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New Prop 37 ad
Right to Know: Vote Yes on Prop 37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB1xHFwSYIg
Click here to help us get this ad on the air: https://fwwat.ch/Right2KnowTVAD
To learn more about Prop 37 and Food & Water Watch's campaign to make GE Labeling the Law, visit www.foodandwaterwatch.org/yeson37.
"What makes you think you have the right to know?" asks Danny DeVito in a witty, ironic public service announcement by the political action committee sponsored by consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch in support of Proposition 37. California's ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods. A diverse, all-star cast joins DeVito in the "Right to Know" PSA, including Bill Maher, Dave Matthews, Jillian Michaels, Emily Deschanel, John Cho, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, KaDee Strickland and Kristin Bauer van Straten.
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U R a funny advanced primate Rossman.
We are the paradigm shifters we've been waiting for.
Get set for Warp Speed Evolving. All hope is not lost - hurray! :waccosun:
Just Label It - the GMO labeling song by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEVw5Jl4c2g
HealthRanger YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthranger
Love that commercial & this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB1xHFwSYIg
No on 37 ad pulled: https://www.carighttoknow.org/no_on_..._source=prop37
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thank you for your thoughtful and eloquent post, rosa.
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Traindays - I think that meat is not included because the animals are not genetically modified. They eat GMOs and we are getting the GMOs second hand. That is another issue. I think you may find this article by Michael Pollan informative. https://www.organicconsumers.org/art...icle_26403.cfm Ruth
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hi rosa. sorry for the time lag. i am not able to come here every day. i am also sorry if i offended you, or others. it was not intentional.
i have some links for you here. sometimes the connections are easy to untangle and sometimes not. by design. i can demonstrate big corp funding for some orgs and the orgs for whom i finally gave up, fooddemocracynow! and carighttoknow (slowfood & slowmoney) are splinter groups from the larger orgs, though there is some info on 'slow' orgs. they are funded by the larger groups. given enough time i could do it. but i do not care to. i am tired of coming up with links and connections. if you are not content with what i offer, do it yourself.
you say you know what agenda 21 is. it is this but not that. but to most people it is about really good and important issues like climate change control and sustainable development and saving the earth, being green. who could argue with that? it can't possibly be deceptive about something like labeling gmos. well, how could it possibly be deceptive about something as important as living sustainably and saving the earth? i do not think we have the time to pick and choose. as i stated - if it is un it is bad. i have been researching the un and ngos, climate change, rockefeller and other tax-free foundations and their connections to population reduction through, for one, gmos, for about seven years now. i know what the un is about. i know who the founders and funders are, because it is easy enough to determine. but that is what i say. i am willing to agree to disagree.
since you are up on agenda 21 nomenclature some of the wording on the websites might be more meaningful to you than, perhaps, it would be to others. the first link is the most important. i believe it supercedes all the others in significance and importance. at any rate, i hope you find them interesting and informative. thanks again for your patience. and just fyi and re gmos: i spend a great deal of time researching possible cures for type 1 diabetes. my little dog is diabetic - i suspect from vaccines. a month or so ago i discovered that the life-saving human insulin, the only kind available in this country since the natural insulins have been discontinued, i am giving him twice a day is gmo. though it states it right on the bottle, i somehow missed it for two years. his body is rejecting it - no surprise there. i am fighting to save his life. while i believe anything can be cured naturally, type 1 diabetics at this time rely on insulin to keep them alive (thought i fully intend to find alternatives). that the insulin they are offered is gmo is beyond evil. clever if you are a sociopath, but....
here we go.
much love,
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/doomsday-seed-vault-in-the-arctic/
don't be culled by the UN's green agenda
https://ymlp.com/zYKsgk
every 'endorser' here is connectable to the united nations except for the democratic party (?), mercola, though i am working on that, and whole foods which i have connected to the un but not as an outright ngo. under "consumer" every org is un.
https://www.carighttoknow.org/endorsements
food day: sponsored by monsanto
https://www.organicconsumers.org/art...icle_24507.cfm
food freedom betrayal
https://farmwars.info/?p=5032
founding members of slowmoney(un). organic valley's george siemon was mentioned in the link above. please check out
the credentials and associations (un) of these entrepeneurs etc.
https://slowmoney.org/founding-members
tulsans for sustainable freedom: the ngo scam
(lots of interesting info here)
https://tulsansforsustainablefreedom.com/L12.html
socialism, taxes & castro: mission rio+day 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9iZ...eature=related
US Agents of Subversion Deride Russian NGO Bill
https://globalpoliticalawakening.blo...e-russian.html
gives an idea of the scope of power/enforcement that un has usurped. never before has it been laid out so openly, here & elsewhere, the intention of a group of sociopaths who wish to rule the world and more shocking - the fact that they intend to absolutely control every facet of our lives and the lives of animals and plants.
https://www.un-documents.net/csdngo/es2ngo.htm
just for fun
https://www.blacklistednews.com/UN_Sustainability_Summit_Exposed%3A_Big_Business,_Dictators,_and_NGOs/20467/0/38/38/Y/M.html
linking endorsers to united nations:
california nurses association
https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/ref...best-local-ngo
california labor federation
https://productstewardship.us/displa...articlenbr=235
united farm workers of america
https://www.bamco.com/sustainable-fo...rker-inventory
https://fairtradeusa.org/fair_trade_for_all
california council of churches
https://www.unodc.org/ngo/list.jsp#C
consumer federation of america
https://stopgamblingonhunger.com/endorsements/
public citizen
https://www.iisd.org/tkn/about/resources.asp
food democracy now!
https://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...stamping_GMOs/
american public health association
https://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy...lt.htm?id=1375
i hope i did not leave anything out.
it is my understanding that agenda 21 is all inclusive.
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Just want to emphasize that Post #52 in this thread is the best explanation for why Prop 37 is written the way it is. Rosa R. gives the exact reasons why, legally and procedurally. That's the post I refer others to when sharing this discussion outside of Waccovia.
I do not agree with Rosa about the dangers of "Agenda 21" but I'm in synch with her explanation for why there are "loopholes" in this proposed legislation. Please read or reread it carefully. She covers a lot of ground with her economical use of words.
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I agree, Handy ~ Steer clear of Canola. If one thoroughly researches the ill-health effects of cooking with / eating canola, it's darn scary.
Canola is genetically engineered, grown with organic practices or not. I'm voting YES! on Prop 37 labeling of GMO / GE ingredients in our foods.
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Kudos Mad Miles.
Ditto here. I agree that Prop 37 is not perfect legislation. But considering that if Prop 37 looses it is a defeat for labeling of our foods and a win for Mighty Monsanto. Therefore, I must, in my best conscience, cast my vote for prop 37. Though a nice explanation Laurel, I am going to side with Europe's need to know and my need to know. And well even if not perfect, it is a start. And at least it will get some people thinking about this subject who were oblivious before. And they are out there. Not everyone is from west county. Ferngirl
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Hey! Everyone,
Laurel isn't the only person dismayed with Prop 37's exceptions. Spoke with at least 3 farmers at the Original Santa Rosa Farmers Market last Saturday, plus a good friend, who also are considering OR have decided on a NO vote. (Though I'm still talking with them, hoping to influence their understanding and support...think I've won one person over.)
Prop37 was written with GREAT CARE and CONSIDERATION to make its passage likely. Here is an excellent info graphic that explains the LabelGMOs exceptions. Take a look. Please share it with anyone else who may be undecided or hesitant or confused by the TV barrage of misinformation by LabelGMOs opponents.
IMO this isn't just a Political issue. This is a matter of survival. Please look at this 1 minute video and if you want more detail, the second one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDdn...Y&feature=plcp (Which generation? my children or my grandchildren?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHCw36wIhs And I like this one by a GMO farmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOB...layer_embedded They say it better than I can. With this pre-prop 37 info and the recent research from France on the long term effects of GMOs, they should be banned.
message from a friend ...
Aloha Waccovians,
In answer to your question Laurel, re: the trans fat (trick)...yes, I am definitely aware and only because I took a medical nutrition class at the JC, years ago. I appreciate your time-spent writing about this, as you are moving. Mahalo for your dedication toward food safety & nutrition and for sparking more needed discussions on Wacco, both pro & con.
Thank you gardenqueen for working overtime with your volunteer efforts to bring more awareness to our still slumbering public, many of whom still know nothing much about what we are all exposed to and eating. I'm happy to know our once-trusted Whole (Deception) Foods and other brand name food companies are being flushed out as Prop 37 brings more deception to light, demanding more truth. Thank you for the links & important facts.
Prop 37 is not an exercise in honesty, Laurel. It's a hard fought necessarily strategic campaign to create public awareness and help ensure that our political process in these concerns is still intact; we're in for the long haul whether this wins 'or not'. It will only take much longer for the groups who write the ballot measures opposing GMO's, to complete all the subsequent work that needs to be done. If it doesn't win, then the road we'll need to travel to help salvage what's left of our environment & children's health won't be the scenic route. I don't want to think about what the 'or not' could possibly spawn.
Personally, it would be a great relief to know that talking about GMO foods in the ways we have on Wacco, is only the beginning of many more thought-provoking talks that move us toward generating more focused political activism to eventually address the larger danger at the roots.
Yes, Paul I agree whole-heartedly; we need to ban GMO's altogether. The public should not be forced to eat disgusting scientific experiments passed off as 'edibles' or 'foods'. But how are we to rise to the occasion of banning GMO's when the majority of our populace has no idea what GMO is, nor what it implies in terms of health when, especially our children eat this biotoxic mess? In fact, the "M" in GMO standing for "modified", helps to conceal from public knowledge--that the science of Genetic Engineering includes the crossing of the species barrier. It's NOT a simple modification; it has never been what anyone considers to be food. I find that eating human and animal DNA in engineered plants is disgusting, as most of us probably do.
And...I've inadvertently eaten a lot of it, without buying GMO products. By living in GMO contaminated environments, I became extremely ill. I had to learn very quickly how to make myself well. It took 3 frightening years to reclaim my health, and from what knowledge I gained, I now am able to help others in identifying illnesses related to "GMO saturation" (a term I've coined). Living in such GMO polluted environments takes its toll before one really knows what's happening.
I appreciate the voices of those who've volunteered hours of their time and energy to help us understand all the more complex details involved in the authoring of Prop 37. Thank you for saving us the hours of research, and thank you for your passionate work.
If any of us lack a spirit of determination to help pass 37, it will be to the greater detriment of the whole. The sad and shocking truth of the matter is that there are still far too many people who are not aware of GMO products, what they are, and the threat they pose to our collective health. If Prop 37 were only to serve in making the greater American public more aware, then that is where we need to begin. We will still need to create more ballot measures that address individual laws to govern more particular food safety needs, i.e., all the issues that Prop 37 does not and can not cover. There is an urgent need to keep GMO/GE practices and toxins out of our foods, food mills, backyards, supermarkets, restaurants, school lunch programs, federal food programs, etc., etc., etc. But we can't even get close to addressing where this all stems from if people don't know it exists or worse yet, that we've been eating science experiments for quite some time now!
If Sonoma County is legally allowed to engage in GMO agriculture, then we may be left scrambling to help protect ourselves after too much damage has been done to our natural environment. Life in GMO environments leaves one with no options to protect from exposure and inadvertently "eating it" by way of the pollen, no matter how much organic food we grow, purchase or eat. Locally grown "organic" crops and carefully made organic food "choices" by reading labels will simply not be a luxury afforded to those of us living in Sonoma County.
This may come as a surprise for most of us who have never lived in the vicinity of GMO open-air field test plots, but the growers are not legally obligated to inform the public about what types of GMO test plots are being grown, nor where they are planted. When people and animals are exposed to the pollens of such crops, there are very different physiological/biological reactions in the body, than those that occur with more well-known allergies.
Labeling GMO foods is a major attempt in only Raising Awareness of the General Public. Labeling is not a "simple first step". It is our very First Opportunity to Collectively Speak Up and A CRITICAL FIRST STEP in standing up for the quality of life we want to protect locally in Sonoma County, California, nationally and globally; it's about protecting the quality of our children's lives by letting the GMO industry LIE out of the bag. This action could possibly lead to more activism brought about by many more concerned U.S. citizens; we need the collective power of vast numbers of people to stop the growing of GMO crops in the first place!
Without our critical first step in actually being able to open our mouths via Prop 37, in a belated yet roaring refusal to Monsanto, et al., we are pretty well screwed. I feel outraged by the fact that Monsanto wants all of us to REMAIN SILENT. They cannot be challenged in the media. They persecute and then prosecute the small farmer and ethical scientists who've spoken up--to the ruination of their lives. They take our power from us while demanding our silence, insisting we continue to pay with everything precious we've got--quality of life in the health of humans, soil, air, lands, water, medicinal plants, food crops, animals, insects...the foundation of our remaining freedoms--choices.
I had the experience of attending a Monsanto sponsored conference at the U. of Hawaii. Before we were seated, I was informed we would not be allowed to ask questions or to make comments as members of the audience. It felt like a gag-order that Monsanto had put on us, and sent a creepy feeling through me, and the more I thought about it, my anger started to grow. At that point, I raised my voice to object in conversation with my friend. The louder I became, the more nervous Monsanto's moderator became, to the chagrin of my friends. As I continued objecting loudly to their message of "sit down, and remain silent" before it began, my outrage mounted. It was unthinkable that none of us would be able to ask questions of the panelists who represented Monsanto, the genetic engineers and organic growers. Because my loud mouth persisted, Monsanto Woman grabbed a handful of small note cards, quickly stepped up to the mic and explained that they thought it might be better if each of us could be given a card; we would be allowed to write a maximum of 3 questions each on the card. In order to qualify for an answer, we had to write the name of the panelist to whom we wanted to field our question, before the talks began. Not all questions would be read out loud--they would be randomly picked (and obviously not chosen if too controversial, I might add).
My questions of course, were not chosen; they were to Monsanto: "Do you think it's important to shelter the food corn from the pollen of pharmaceutical corn, as pharmaceutical corn contains STD's, part of the AIDS virus & blood thinners?" To The GMO Engineer: As it refers to human DNA in food crops: "What part of whose ancestor are we EATING and WHY? Does the crossing of the species barrier imply that humans may begin contracting diseases that were only known to occur in animals, and vice-versa?"
I discovered AFTER I settled on the Big Island, that Hawaii had the largest number of GMO open-air field test plots in the U.S. Until then, I had no idea what GMO fields were about, nor had it ever occurred to me that I would live in a GMO contaminated environment and that I would be sacrificing the gift I was born with--unusually strong health.
I had run away from Alexander Valley, Healdsburg where I lived for over 20 years, partly to escape the more invasive vineyard practices there--the threat of applying a nerve gas to our private lands without our knowledge and without our consent if an outbreak of the Glassy-winged sharpshooter insect was found in our surrounding vineyards. I was told by the So. Co. Board of Supervisors that I could vacate my property if I found out my organic garden, well water, children and self had been affected by the nerve gas. They told us that "the little person is in the way" of the vineyard industry--meaning the property owner.
I hadn't any idea what it would cost to live in such a toxic GMO environment in Hawaii. Who knew? It was news to me; no one I knew had any knowledge about it. Even now, not nearly enough people are speaking up about the perils of living in locally contaminated GMO ag environments. How will we manage as a community if we want to ban GMO crops locally? What will happen if 37 doesn't pass, and people still aren't aware of GMO foods, because they never read it on a "food" label, like so many other people are able to do in other countries? How do we gain support to rally against Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Syngenta, et al.? These corporations were my neighbors in Hawaii. They are the employers of the many Hawaiian locals who prefer working in agriculture to slaving in the hotel industry on the other tourist-centered islands. There is little tourism on Molokai, where I lived.
On Molokai, the wind carries the pollen (and there is considerable pollen in corn). The pollen contains and carries all the genetic markers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, bacterium, including E. coli, viruses, mycotoxins, blood thinners, STD's, and part of the AIDS virus, etc., on the wind. All of this biotoxin lodges into the mucus membranes of eyes, nose & mouth in humans and animals. It very quickly enters the bloodstream and settles in the intestinal tract. One does not have to buy GMO foods and eat them in order to be poisoned! When the body absorbs invisible GMO pollens on the air through eyes, nose & mouth, serving portions aren't possible to calculate. One does not chew, intentionally swallow or drink it--except maybe in the water. Many of us in the small community who attended a permaculture weekend workshop at an organic farm, began comparing health stories to find that we had been feeling like we had been eating loads of poison and were sharing the same symptom pictures and were sick for the first time in really odd ways. I had lost my ability to eat and do anything productive. Even though I could feel hunger and wanted to eat, I also felt sick to my stomach. It would occur in waves and I couldn't keep food down; so I lived for months on fermented poi until I finally left the island of Molokai where I lived for 9 months.
I now have a little knowledge helpful to others who suffer from digestive tract disorders, former medical patients who have been through the "medical mill" and can't be helped. Some symptoms are inclusive of dehydration from bowel incontinence, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, bone loss, weight loss, and Morgellons Syndrome. Most of my clients are facing financial ruin from doctor visits, lab tests and loss of employment--all stemming from what I recognize as GMO saturation. The thing is, my work with clients begins by teaching people to reclaim their health by informing them of the existence of GMO products first. Because of Prop 37, there is a plethora of scientifically backed information from leading experts in the field that has recently made it easier for me to educate my clients. I highly recommend seeing the interview of Dr. Don M. Huber, by Food Democracy Now! I consider it to be the very best information for understanding what we may be facing in terms of diseases and deficiencies that could soon affect larger numbers of animals and humans and cause more devastating environmental degradation, especially if Obama turns a deaf ear on Dr. Huber's plea to withhold planting more GMO crops & alfalfa.
At the University of Hawaii Monsanto conference I spoke of previously, we met the scientist who inserted E. coli into papaya DNA. His explanation for using it as a marker was because "E. coli is a naturally occurring substance; why not?" The room went silent for a moment, as we held our breath waiting for a panel member to respond. (Are you remembering here that we were told not to speak?) Well........these were some very tense, long moments until the organic farmer who had enough courage to finally speak was able to respond. He began in a guarded tone, by agreeing that E. coli is in fact a "naturally occurring substance" and that it is "naturally" found in only one place in the body. His body lurched forward a little towards the table after he spoke. There was nothing left to say. The energy in the room said it all. No other panelist dared speak to that.
Mr. brilliant GMO scientist had gone through all the trouble of preparing a huge bowl of chunky E. coli papaya for us to eat as a tasty mid-morning snack. Yum! It looked plenty juicy to me, but I don't recall anyone rushing over to serve up a big plate of E. coli with papaya. At least one other person from our Wacco community was in attendance that day! Do you remember?
I learned that what had once been organic papaya seed on the Big Island tested positive for GMO contamination. So much for going "local" and organic farming. How many of us take papaya enzymes for digestive purposes? Have you read your labels today? I won't eat papaya from anywhere in the world.
Thanks to research done by Food Democracy Now!, I have updated my knowledge of facts that are important to me: The American public is eating GMO foods, which are grown on 165 million acres across our nation. Worldwide, at last count, there were 365 million acres of GMO seed crops (Roundup Ready). We are a world-class leader. Does anyone know how many GMO acres are planted in Sonoma County?
This may sound trivial here, but where else can we find cross contamination of nasty GMO corn pollen? Well, having lived inside this hot mess of intensely toxic ecosystem, I can be absolutely positive that there is pollen residue on the outside of GMO packaging, especially on GMO corn products and corn starch, which sits right up against organic corn products and corn starch on the shelves at Whole Foods in Coddingtown. I brought this to the attention of an employee, who was not a cashier. I was asked to help support the community and employees of Whole Foods, by writing to upper management and corporate offices about my concerns. So there are at least 2 Whole (Deception) Foods employees who felt concerned enough to ask me to please support them in their positions. Whole Foods employees also struggle personally to inform the public more honestly about Whole Foods policies & practices, in regard to our 'right to know' as consumers and supporters of this food chain. You can pitch in too to help support the employees, if you shop there.
This is a first time wake-up call--TO VOTE, and I hope it won't be our last. If we think we may always have a right to vote about anything in regard to Monsanto/GMO/Genetic Engineering--I would think again.
California needs to voice some solidarity on this one. Labeling has been taken to the Supreme Court and failed miserably; I know better than to take an opportunity to vote for GMO labeling for granted.
Perhaps because GMO industry is generated from within our own country, on a global note, we are unfortunately and very sadly lagging behind the progress of other nations! Fewer people around the world eat the frightening stuff we eat. Many governments and their populations aren't remaining silent and stuffing this revolting, invisible filth down their gullets. To vote NO on Prop 37 is a vote that keeps us all "Eating in the Dark" (you can read the book by Kathleen Hart). We continue paying the very high price of our own loss of health and life within our devastated ecosystems--not because WE don't know in our Wacco community--but because so many others simply do not yet know or don't know enough to take it seriously. Can we please take a little time to help put other folks on the same page?
As the whole world looks to America to see what's really happened to our health, our children and environment, the way we vote is sending a big message about, at least, our dignity! Are we going to take what looks like a small step now, however incomplete or inadequate that may seem to some, or...can we see the bigger picture and prepare to take more meaningful steps forward as a nation, beginning in our own community? Are we to sit by becoming more cynical and complaining about the few organizations, which work so hard on behalf of the People, and not do our small part to say Yes? Can we bring the invisible, which can easily be denied--into print? Can we use Prop 37 as a stepping-stone to get to the root of our GMO travesty? I know we're capable of thinking beyond the illusion of "safety" we believe we have by simply "reading labels".
There are those who will think: If GMO foods are so harmful, why don't they put a label on it? I want to ask you how you would feel if your children ate the GMO plants growing in the fields, not knowing they're eating a mouthful of biotoxins. Kids in Hawaii do run through the fields, grabbing corn off the stalks which unknown to them may be Pharmaceutical corn. It's outright dangerous. Corn and other agricultural crops have always been edible, not drugs, chemicals and sources of human and animal diseases.
A Yes Vote on 37 that forces the GE industry and Monsanto to become visible is not an every day opportunity. It all depends where you happen to live, who you are, and what you're doing...that we are allowed to speak up to Monsanto and be heard--unless you're buying into their products.
Prop 37 is an intense, short match of 'hardball' that, at least, challenges Monsanto and former government officials within their "revolving door" Corporate Poison Foods Industry to square off with the presence of a greater number of us now, to see whose information will ultimately stand as the more publicly credible--us, or the big "M"?
Any little thing GMO industry is required to do on our behalf because we signed it into law, means we are still able to exercise some small amount of political power that our government has outright stolen from us. This is a test.
In closing, I also want to express my deepest appreciation and regard for the integrity and ethics of Dr. Don M. Huber. I hope that his life work in plant pathology is not destroyed by our government, along with his reputation and livelihood, as has been the case for so many others before him. I pray the Obama Administration will find the dignity to respect and value his dedicated work; his warnings and his respect-worthy care for the well being of human, animal and environmental health.
Mahalo,
phyllis bala
doctor of indigenous medicine
Scientist that discovered GMO health hazards immediately fired, team dismantled
https://www.naturalnews.com/037665_G...an_damage.html
Free 'Seeds of Freedom' Screening and Prop 37 Discussion (Richmond 10/24, Menlo Park 10/27 & Berkeley 11/2)
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Nutiva Presents...
SEEDS OF FREEDOM
Free Screenings and Yes on Prop 37 CA Right To Know Discussion
Wednesday, October 24 - Richmond
Saturday, October 27 - Menlo Park
Friday, November 2 - Berkeley
In the spirit of the health and well-being of all Americans, Nutiva is presenting free public screenings of the film “Seeds of Freedom,” a 30-minute film, produced by the Gaia Foundation and African Biodiversity Network, about the affect of GMO seeds on global farming in support of the November 6, 2012 PROP 37 RIGHT TO KNOW. Following each screening are panel discussions about the integrity of our food system, featuring speakers supporting the Campaign to Support ‘THE RIGHT TO KNOW’ and YES on CA PROP 37.
Seeds of Freedom, narrated by Jeremy Irons, charts the story of seed from its place at the heart of traditional, diversity-rich farming systems across the world, to its transformation into a powerful commodity, used to monopolize the global food system.
Community and sponsoring partners include LabelGMO.org, Institute for Responsible Technology, Bioneers, Earth Island Institute, Food Shift, The Gaia Foundation, African Biodiversity Network, Richmond Grows, Women’s Earth Alliance and Wiser Earth.
Admission is FREE (Space is limited. Registration in advance suggested.)
For more information & free registration, please visit www.Nutiva.com/films.
Screening Dates, Venues and Speakers:
Date: Wednesday, October 24
Time: 6:00pm
Location: East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 339 11th Street, Richmond
Free Registration: www.Nutiva.com/films
Discussion with:
- John Roulac, CEO, Nutiva, Inc.
- Pamm Larry, Initial Instigator and Northern California Director, LabelGMOs.org
- Claire Cummings, Environmental Lawyer, Author
Date: Saturday, October 27
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Trinity Church
Address: 330 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park
Free Registration: www.Nutiva.com/films
Discussion with:
- John Roulac, CEO, Nutiva, Inc.
- Pamm Larry, Initial Instigator and Northern California Director, LabelGMOs.org
Date: Friday, November 2
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The David Brower Center
Address: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
Free Registration: www.Nutiva.com/films
Discussion with:
- John Roulac, CEO, Nutiva, Inc.
- Gary Ruskin, Campaign Director, Prop 37
- Grant Lundberg, CEO, Lundberg Foods
I am not sure why or how this happened, but more than one of my friends heard I was against proposition 37.
Let me be very clear; I am strongly against all genetically modified foods. Even if Prop. 37 has some flaws in it; I stand in complete support of the labeling of all GMO products.
In fact, I worked for GE Free Sonoma County to get a 10 year moratorium against GE crops grown here on the ballot; which was sadly defeated. Due in part to false advertising by the opposition in misquoting a public official.
If I could find the funding, I'd lead the way for a GE Free California!
If only the public officials here supported our organic agriculture, with the same vigor and funding they do for the wine grape growers; we'd be a lot healthier and better prepared for transition towards self reliance.
:waccosun: A Sante!,
(To health)
Colleen Fernald
Sebastopol's Constitutional Candidate
For Peace Through Justice
Organic + Bio Dynamic Food & Water Security
www.campaignforpeace.org
Vote "YES" on 37... Puts us on the right livelihood road. Corollary: The SF Giants won the National League Pennant. Now, in the World Series to win that too. Without a Pennant, no Series... :wink2: :thumbsup:
Laurel,
I just read the first few paragraphs of your blog here - due to time factor - but what you say about prop 37:
does not apply to restaurants and food bars, or that meat, milk, and eggs from animals fed or injected with GMOs will not be labeled. And do we really trust the processed food industry to tell us the truth about their products? These kinds of exemptions are in direct ethical conflict with the points outlined in Prop 37’s own Findings and Declarations. If the dangers of GMOs are so great that the people have a right to know which foods contain them, they should have a right to know in ALL cases, not just a select few.
backers KNOW all this - the reason being, if you know any of the history of the issue is that the big ag. companies already take issue with it but it is a START in the right direction. If we tried to ban GMOs like in the past, it would never fly - this is STEP 1. We are in a process. It is an education of the public and it is calling great attention to the issue. While it is not perfect, it is a start.
I urge you to do more research and talk to people at carighttoknow.org before you cast your vote! or check out democracynow.org October 24 - go 9 minutes into the show.
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TRANSGENTIC ENGINEERINGModifying organisms is a way of modifying the world. The scientific, business andpolitical communities are organized to cross engineer that which is natural also knownas genetically modify. There are six companies on the planet involved in geneticengineering and 90% are controlled by Monsanto. Currently all soy is GM and isincluded in almost all processed foods including baby and dog food. The gamble is ifnatural creation such as humans, animals, insects, soil and plants will be able to adaptor simply perish? The news has recently reported the latest victims of the GM squad;coffee and cow’s milk. Instead of processing coffee beans after harvesting todecaffeinate them, they are genetically modifying the beans to be decaffeinated from thestart. Children allergic to cow’s milk have been growing in numbers they have cloned acow (without a tail) to make GM milk without the allergens in it. Why the push to produceGM foods? We are told the GM crops with built-in pesticides will obliterate starvationfrom the planet. Scientists have exposed that to be false.
CAN DNA CHANGE YOUR MOOD?Research from Canada published in the journal of Biological Psychiatry found thatproteins can modify DNA and affect your mood. The Canadian study wanted to find outwhy depressed individuals commit suicide and found that protein chemicals in the braincan modify mood called epigenomic regulation.What do you suppose will happen to humans who consume lettuce spiced with spiderDNA? We are told the lettuce will provide more vitamin C with spider DNA in it. Tomatois spliced with fish genes to make them more resistant to cold and won’t freeze. Withfood modification changing nutrition and protein we have to ask what kind of impact willthat have on the 40,0000 genes in each human cell? Chemical modification in the brainor other areas of the body may be difficult or impossible to reverse. The Alliance forNatural Health reports that genetically engineered food becomes part of the bacteria inthe human digestive tract. So, if Monsanto is altering seeds for crops to grow producingtheir own insecticides and pesticides; then these organisms will become part of thehuman gut and produce these chemicals continuously. Even after stopping theconsumption of GM foods, these proteins are already deposited. This was based on alimited human study using GM soyhttps://www.anh-usa.org/genetically-engineered-foodalters-our-digestive-systems/
OUR POOR PLANTSThe Institute for Responsible Technology reports that the genetic engineering processcauses “massive collateral damage” throughout the plant’s DNA. Think about what thescientists are doing. They are taking God’s copyright and modifying it to take possession.Not a good idea to steel from God. The process of modifying genes will delete orpermanently turn off or on proteins creating hundreds of changes. Inserting a foreigngene can damage or rearrange proteins and trigger allergies or promote diseases suchas cancer. Remember the recent two-year French study feeding rats Monsanto’s cornand they grew massive cancerous tumors and died younghttps://truthout.org/news/item/11639-french-study-finds-tumors-and-organ-damage-in-rats-fedmonsanto-corn . The problem having GM genes living and reproducing inside our gut isit can create more antibiotic-resistant diseases. The Bt toxins in GM foods making thempesticide factories can make us pesticide factories as well and penetrate ourbloodstream (93%) and also the unborn babies (80%). Don’t forget the Canadian study Ijust mentioned because there is great concern in the scientific community that GM foodswill alter our human DNA and brain chemicals causing more people to become34schizophrenic or have various mood disorders. There is also the concern that the GMfoods will exacerbate this problem in people already diagnosed with emotional disorders.There is also the concern that GM foods will promote leaky gut syndrome making ussusceptible to various diseases.
MORE ALLERGIESAllergies are on the rise in the US and spiked by 50% with the introduction of GM soy inthe UK. Nothing was done. In 1989 Japan had an outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgiasyndrome which was traced to a Japanese company which produced a tryptophansupplement using their genetically engineered bacteria. You need to steer clear of GMbacteria, especially in the new generation of yogurt. Your herbal products have stricterpurity standards than the genetically engineered products. One of the first scientists tospeak out against genetic engineering is the late George Wald.
“Recombinant DNA technology (genetic engineering) faces our society withproblems unprecedented, not only in the history of science, but of life on theEarth. Now whole new proteins will be transposed overnight into wholly newassociations, with consequences no one can foretell, either for the host organismor their neighbors. For going ahead in this direction may not only be unwise butdangerous. Potentially, it could breed new animal and plant diseases, newsources of cancer and novel epidemics.” George Wald, Nobel Laureate inMedicine or Physiology 1967SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT
Some scientists have been sounding the alarm and paying the price. Biochemist ArpadPusztai worked in the field of genetic engineering at Scotland’s Rowett ResearchInstitute. He worked on the GM potato pumped full of Bt toxin. He and his teamdiscovered that what they were told about the expected outcome was in direct conflict totheir results. The GM potato caused severe health damage in lab rats. They released theinformation to the news networks and paid the unemployment price for betraying theirindustry and government-backed sponsors. Some of the changes Pusztai noted in thelab animals were; shrinking kidneys, changes in liver, spleen and malignant tissues,hemorrhages in kidneys and intestine. Brain function was also altered affecting memoryand learning. Researchers in Egypt also corroborated Pusztai’s findings involving GMsoy, corn, wheat and canola.WHERE THIS LEADSThe GM food industry is designed solely to establish a new food source in order tocontrol the masses through food. The intent is to phase out the organic food sourcemaking it as illegal as marijuana. You see precursors of this with certain townshipsacross American implementing laws outlawing organic gardening. These laws arecommunicated as to protect the public from salmonella. The Chemtrail phenomenon hasbeen said to control the weather. If that can be accomplished; control the rain to fall onlyon areas with compliant with GM crops or make the rain suitable only for GM crops andtoxic to organic, then you could control masses of people through food and water. I willbe interviewing environmental safety and health expert Therese Aigner on Herb TalkSaturday 10/27/12 at 7 am on GCN about this topic. If you miss the live broadcast,check the archives later for this show.
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Dear Friends and waccobb members,
Many of you know that I have been a big supporter of Yes on Proposition 37 – the effort to require the labeling of genetically engineered food. Right now the No on 37 Campaign is blanketing the airwaves with lies and distortions. These ads are designed to confuse you and steer you away from the fact that you have the right to know what’s in your food.
It’s important that you understand who the “No on 37” actually is. The two largest contributors to the No on 37 Campaign – multinational agrichemical corporations Monsanto ($8.1 million) and Dupont ($4.9 million) – are the same corporations that told us Agent Orange and DDT were safe. You can find out more about Monsanto by watching this. Then there are the junk food companies helping to bankroll the opposition such as Cocoa Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and Kellogs. There are in fact zero donations from actual people to the No side– they are all contributions coming from multi-billion dollar corporations.
Proposition 37 was co-written by manufacturers, distributors, food safety lawyers, consumer groups, and farmers. It was put before grocers and independent certifying groups before filing. It is written to protect businesses and to pass legal scrutiny. The Proposition covers food on supermarket shelves.
We have thousands of endorsers such as the California Nurses Association, United Farm Workers, California Council of Churches, the Sierra Club and thousands of other endorsers you can see here.
- No cost to consumers: Adding a few words to labels costs nothing. Labeling didn’t raise costs in 61 other countries and won’t raise costs here. Read the Truth about Cost.
- Exemptions are common sense: Prop 37 exempts products that have no ingredient labels, such as restaurant food and alcohol. But it will cover meat from genetically engineered animals. The opposition is trying to confuse voters about exemptions. Read the Truth about Exemptions
Sixty-one countries around the world - representing more than 40% of the planet's population - already require GMO labeling, including all of Europe, Japan, India and China.
The right to know what is in my food and your food is not just important enough for me to vote for Prop 37 but it's why I've dedicated my time to this campaign. Voting YES on Prop 37 will help ensure that Californians can make informed decisions about the foods we eat and feed our children. Please vote YES and encourage others to do the same.
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