Monthly Archives: March 2014

Kerala, INDIA: GMO TRIALS NOT PERMITTED IN THE STATE OF KERALA

KERALA, home of the enlightened “hugging saint”  Ammaji…GMO-FREE

Field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops would not be permitted in the State of Kerala under any circumstances, said Minister for Agriculture K.P. Mohanan.

The Minister made the statement in the wake of the approval given by the Union Environment Ministry for the decision of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) to permit field trials of GM crops, including rice, wheat, and maize. At the same time, Environment Minister M. Veerappa Moily also clarified that the field trials would be subject to consent of the respective State.   Read more…

VLA COMMENT:  Jai Guru Deva!

 

CHINA CANCELS US CORN – FILM ON GMOS TO BE PRESENTED TO PEOPLE’S CONGRESS 3/5/2014

Cui Yong-yuan’s visit USA interview film – first version on Internet. This is 1st version, rushed to be shown before the People’s Congress on March 5.Further versions will be produced later, including an English version with English subtitles of what is said/wrote in Chinese.

Mr. Cui invites all of you to visit the film, most inEnglish, thanks all of you for your contribution, including those we were not able to interview due to schedule and route. Very much appreciate your comments and suggestions. Watch rough edit film…

China cancels U.S. corn purchases as GMO dispute drags on…

Feb 6 (Reuters) – Chinese importers canceled purchases of four cargoes of U.S. corn this week, after one cargo was diverted to Vietnam last week, U.S. government data showed on Thursday, as a dispute over an unapproved genetically modified strain remained unresolved. READ MORE…

VLA COMMENT:  Why are we complaining about China who is smart enough to stock gold, buy United States debt from Federal Reserve; virtually owns JP Morgan; buys Smithfield, US biggest swine producer to ensure that it is not tainted with Ractopamine, a drug that the FDA has approved but is banned in 160 countries.

EPA Approves Exemption for GMO Bt toxin in soy foods and feed & FDA & Ractopamine feed

Final rule Feb. 12, 2014: “In what could easily be classified as one of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) worst decisions yet, a final rule released by the EPA earlier this month creates an exemption for residue tolerance levels of genetically modified (GM) Bt toxin in GM soy foods and feed.1 Essentially, the Agency has approved unlimited residues of GM Bt toxin in your food!”

In 2011, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of:

  • 93 percent of pregnant women tested
  • 80 percent of umbilical blood in their babies
  • 67 percent of non-pregnant women

GM corn is present in the vast majority of all processed foods and drinks in the form of high fructose corn syrup, corn oil, and other corn products. They also suggested that the toxin may have come from eating meat from animals fed Bt corn, which most livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations. (CAFOS)

These shocking results also raise the frightening possibility that eating Bt corn might actually turn your intestinal flora into a sort of “living pesticide factory,” essentially manufacturing Bt toxin from within your digestive system on a continuing basis through the transference of the Bt-producing gene to your gut bacteria.  Read more…

VLA Comment:  In1999 the FDA approved the use of the drug Ractopamine in the feed of poultry, beef and swine.  Ractopamine is banned in over 160 countries.  So add that to the meat your are eating and the “natural” thyroid pill you are taking. Moreover, China purchased Smithfield, the USA’s largest swine producer.  Read more…

Taipei: Workers carry US beef with traces of ractopamine to a furnace in downtown Taipei yesterday. A total of 7,490kg of beef was destroyed. The Democratic Progressive Party ((DPP) reaffirmed its zero-tolerance policy on the controversial animal feed additive ractopamine with a statement and an amendment proposing that local governments be given more power to regulate food safety.