RACTOPAMINE UPDATE

(2015) Pigs Using Muscle Drug Means U.S. Missing China Pork-Import Boom  Smithfield Foods, purchased by Hong Kong-based WH Group in 2013, has been working to remove ractopamine from all company-owned animals, it said in a May 22 statement. Smithfield is the world’s largest hog producer and pork processor. Last year, several U.S. plants were disqualified […]

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 […]

Pigs: Genetic alteration

Not only have pigs been fed Ractopamine for years in the USA, which makes them leaner but may give humans a heart attack.  What’s more the drug is banned in 160 countries including China.  Since China took over Smithfield, the leader in USA hog production, one would only hope that they have eliminated the practice.  […]

Breaking News House Votes to Remove Country-of-Origin Labels on Meat Sold in U.S.

The House voted late Wednesday  (300-131)to remove country-of-origin labels on beef, pork and chicken sold in the U.S.,  WSJ VLA comment:  Of course this also makes sense since China now owns the largest swine production in the United States having bought Smithfield.  The interesting good news is that Smithfield was using Ractopamine, a dangerous drug […]

PIGS ON EXLAX: Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms VAST Open cesspools

Read more… VLA comment: THE CESSPOOLS are open air 4 football fields in size then sprayed all over other farms and neighbors. Smithfield is now owned by a Chinese Corporation.  When it was owned by Smithfield approximately half of the pig production facilities fed the drug Ractopamine to their swine.  Ractopamine is banned in 160 […]

Enviropig-Standardizing GMO Pig Breeds

Enviropig: Standardizing GMO Pig Breed The Enviropig™ was developed using specific gene sequences from mouse and e coli DNA, which were further modified to work in a pig. In combination, the genetic code would trigger the production of a digestive enzyme (secreted into the saliva) not found in domesticated hogs. The genetic material was inserted […]

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 […]

Banned in 160 Nations… Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?

A livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs has been approved by the FDA in 1999, Ractopamine is also known to affect the human cardiovascular system, and is thought to be responsible for hyperactivity. It may also cause chromosomal abnormalities and behavioral changes “…seeking information […]