Catering firm running Monsanto facility canteen bans GMO foods.

[Anti Federalist]

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If It's Not Healthy for Monsanto, Why Is It Healthy for Us?

Posted by David Kramer on March 10, 2012 04:20 PM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/107379.html

One of the canteens of the world's largest producer/promoter of genetically-modified food, Monsanto, has banned genetically-modified food from the canteen on the grounds that genetically-modified food is unhealthy.

The firm running the canteen at Monsanto's pharmaceuticals factory at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, serves only GM-free meals, Friends of the Earth said. In a notice in the canteen, Sutcliffe Catering, owned by the Granada Group, said it had taken the decision "to remove, as far as practicable, GM soya and maize from all food products served in our restaurant. We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve."

 

[Kotin]

Great find AF.. geeze..


Monsanto= real attack of killer tomatoes

 

[donnay]

That of course speaks volumes to me! If GMO's were so good, then no one would think twice about eating them!

 

[Jonathanm]

Monsanto: Fucking people over since before you were born.

 

[Kluge]

Any botanists around? Can we squeeze out the forced GMO by planting massive amounts of similar heirloom plants close by?

Just a thought--I've contemplated that the gov't can't make pot illegal if it grows everywhere, including on their property. Is it reasonable to take action against Monsanto's tinkering by sowing similar non-GMO crops near where they're growing? Cross-pollination could throw a monkey-wrench into things.

 

[wrestlingwes_8]

Any botanists around? Can we squeeze out the forced GMO by planting massive amounts of similar heirloom plants close by?

Just a thought--I've contemplated that the gov't can't make pot illegal if it grows everywhere, including on their property. Is it reasonable to take action against Monsanto's tinkering by sowing similar non-GMO crops near where they're growing? Cross-pollination could throw a monkey-wrench into things.

Nope, it doesn't work like that..

Whenever a GMO crop crosses with an heirloom variety, the offspring will always be sterile, like the GMO parent. This is a huge problem in Mexico and Central America where the indigenous people have cultivated over 1,000 different varieties of corn for hundreds of years. Ever since GMO corn has been introduced into the region, farmers have been seeing a drastic reduction in the diversity of corn and find it harder and harder to save their seed year to year. In many cases, the GMO wasn't even intentionally planted; corn pollinates via anemophily (wind) so people are seeing the GMO varieties show up even where they shouldn't be.

ANY FARMER THAT PLANTS ANY GMO OR HYBRID VARIETY OF SEED SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. THEY ARE NOT FARMERS, THEY ARE MORONIC TOOLS OF THE EVILEST CORPORATION TO EVER WALK THIS EARTH. period.

 

[Voluntary Man]

Electric Chair manufacturers don't put electric chairs in their break rooms. Duh.

The ironing is delicious.



If It's Not Healthy for Monsanto, Why Is It Healthy for Us?

Posted by David Kramer on March 10, 2012 04:20 PM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/107379.html

One of the canteens of the world's largest producer/promoter of genetically-modified food, Monsanto, has banned genetically-modified food from the canteen on the grounds that genetically-modified food is unhealthy.

The firm running the canteen at Monsanto's pharmaceuticals factory at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, serves only GM-free meals, Friends of the Earth said. In a notice in the canteen, Sutcliffe Catering, owned by the Granada Group, said it had taken the decision "to remove, as far as practicable, GM soya and maize from all food products served in our restaurant. We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve."

 

[Kluge]

Nope, it doesn't work like that..

Whenever a GMO crop crosses with an heirloom variety, the offspring will always be sterile, like the GMO parent. This is a huge problem in Mexico and Central America where the indigenous people have cultivated over 1,000 different varieties of corn for hundreds of years. Ever since GMO corn has been introduced into the region, farmers have been seeing a drastic reduction in the diversity of corn and find it harder and harder to save their seed year to year. In many cases, the GMO wasn't even intentionally planted; corn pollinates via anemophily (wind) so people are seeing the GMO varieties show up even where they shouldn't be.

ANY FARMER THAT PLANTS ANY GMO OR HYBRID VARIETY OF SEED SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. THEY ARE NOT FARMERS, THEY ARE MORONIC TOOLS OF THE EVILEST CORPORATION TO EVER WALK THIS EARTH. period.

I thought that GM crops weren't sterile, hence the lawsuits against farmers who've saved the seeds. I understand that they tried to push terminator seeds, but that it didn't fly.

I could be wrong, but why would they sue people who saved and planted the seeds if they weren't viable?

 

[donnay]

I thought that GM crops weren't sterile, hence the lawsuits against farmers who've saved the seeds. I understand that they tried to push terminator seeds, but that it didn't fly.

I could be wrong, but why would they sue people who saved and planted the seeds if they weren't viable?

Farmers are not permitted to reuse seeds by Monsanto. This is considered patent infringement. They have been doing it for years in India. They also have done this in Iraq. Once a farmer is under contract with Monsanto, s/he is held in the clutches of a perpetual downward spiral. The farmers are then no longer allowed to reuse their seed and must year after year purchase GM seed from Monsanto.

http://truefood.org.au/newsandevents/?news=34
http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm
http://www.nelsonfarm.net/
http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
http://www.banterminator.org/News-U...onsanto-Announces-Takeover-of-Delta-Pine-Land
http://www.nongmoreport.com/articles/mar08/rBGH-free_labeling_U.S.php
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/bgh.htm

 

[donnay]

 

[donnay]

This was posted before but it needs to be re-posted again.

 

[wrestlingwes_8]

I thought that GM crops weren't sterile, hence the lawsuits against farmers who've saved the seeds. I understand that they tried to push terminator seeds, but that it didn't fly.

I could be wrong, but why would they sue people who saved and planted the seeds if they weren't viable?

A lot of GMOs are also hybrids, thus making them sterile. Even if it is just a GMO variety, it would still pass it's traits on when crossed with an heirloom variety, making the offspring a GMO as well. The second instance I mentioned is where you see farmers being sued for patent infringement.

 

[Kluge]

A lot of GMOs are also hybrids, thus making them sterile. Even if it is just a GMO variety, it would still pass it's traits on when crossed with an heirloom variety, making the offspring a GMO as well. The second instance I mentioned is where you see farmers being sued for patent infringement.

It would water down the GM traits, would it not?

I'm looking for a technical answer, not a political one. GM crops are all over the place, and I'm interested in whether or not it would help for people to plant heirloom plants nearby to water down the GM effect on the gene pool of various edible crops. This is something that anyone could do without lawyers, government or a lot of money.

 

[wrestlingwes_8]

It would water down the GM traits, would it not?

I'm looking for a technical answer, not a political one. GM crops are all over the place, and I'm interested in whether or not it would help for people to plant heirloom plants nearby to water down the GM effect on the gene pool of various edible crops. This is something that anyone could do without lawyers, government or a lot of money.

What I gave you was a technical answer. That would be like adding pure spring water to a pitcher of water with arsenic in it. No matter how much good water you add to it, there is still arsenic in it...

You would be better off educating people about the dangers of GMOs and encourage them not to plant anything but heirloom, organic seeds.

 

[wrestlingwes_8]

It would water down the GM traits, would it not?

I'm looking for a technical answer, not a political one. GM crops are all over the place, and I'm interested in whether or not it would help for people to plant heirloom plants nearby to water down the GM effect on the gene pool of various edible crops. This is something that anyone could do without lawyers, government or a lot of money.

Another point I was thinking about today while I was driving. There are literally thousands upon thousands of acres of GMOs planted here in the Midwest. In my area it is not uncommon to see a single field consisting of 1,000 acres alone. Mathematically there isn't enough land to overwhelm the GMOs with heirloom plants. Plus, these plants are annuals and are plowed under at the end of each year and planted new again in the spring; so it won't make a difference until we change people's way of thinking.

 

[Kluge]

What I gave you was a technical answer. That would be like adding pure spring water to a pitcher of water with arsenic in it. No matter how much good water you add to it, there is still arsenic in it...

You would be better off educating people about the dangers of GMOs and encourage them not to plant anything but heirloom, organic seeds.

Just asking a question. And I'd rather drink water with 1 ppb of arsenic than 1 ppm of it.

 

[wrestlingwes_8]

Just asking a question. And I'd rather drink water with 1 ppb of arsenic than 1 ppm of it.

Sorry didn't mean to sound snide. But anyway, if that was our only option it would work but fortunately we have facts on our side and eventually we will see the elimination of GMOs. Not through out-competing them with heirlooms but through educating the masses of the dangers of GMOs and getting farmers to realize their wrong-doings. Farmers always use the excuse "but we hafta feed the growing world population, that's why we need GMOs". That is such an illogical statement but it is sooo hard to make them see that. They could produce 1,000 acres of their GMO corn and I could feed, at the very least, 3 times the people on 50 acres using a mix of permaculture and forest gardening while applying biodynamic farming principles to the plants. They don't realize that their system of chemicals, fertilizers and raping the land of everything it's worth is not only unsustainable but it's the least productive. But, as we all know, people are so stuck in there ways it's near impossible to make them change. I can't stand the mentality of "my grand-daddy did it this way and don't you tell me what's right or wrong"; it is ignorance at it's finest.