Consumer Self-Defense: 12 Ways to Drive GMOs and Roundup off the Market

[Judi Lynn]

Consumer Self-Defense: 12 Ways to Drive GMOs and Roundup off the Market
January 6, 2015
Organic Consumers Association
by Ronnie Cummins

Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food," said Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications. "Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." - New York Times, Oct. 25, 1998

&quot GMO) Labeling advocates say the issue is about transparency, not safety. Scott Faber, head of the national Just Label It campaign, testified that consumers want to know what they are buying and how the food was produced. He said advocates are not seeking a warning label, but a “factual, non-judgemental disclosure” on the back of all food packages that contain GMO ingredients.” Mary Clare Jalonic, Associated Press, December 14, 2014

“Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto's flagship herbicide, Roundup. 80% of GMO crops are engineered to withstand Roundup and GMO crops now make up 90% of the United State's corn, soy, sugar, canola, and cottonseed. Roundup is also used as a desiccant (drying agent) at harvest on 160 conventional crops. It is in our soil, in our food, and in our bodies.” GMO Free Lancaster County

“… Monsanto literature regarding Roundup encourages… farmers to apply… Roundup applications on many crops – including wheat, feed barley, oats, canola, flax, peas, lentils, and dry beans – right before harvest….” WashingtonsBlog, November 17, 2014


The technology of agricultural genetic engineering (GE) is the controversial practice of gene-splicing and disrupting the genetic blueprints of plants and trees in a lab, to produce patented seeds. The seeds are generally one of two types. One type, which includes Monsanto’s Roundup-resistant crops, produces plants that survive the spraying of poisons, while all the other plants around them die. The other type produces a plant that manufactures its own pest-killing poison, designed to target a specific pest.

More:
https://www.organicconsumers.org/essays/consumer-self-defense-12-ways-drive-gmos-and-roundup-market

[DeSwiss]

1. K&R

Republished study: long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize

[handmade34]

2. K&R

thanks… these steps in particular… (mostly educate ourselves and others!)


1. Stop Congress from passing the Pompeo bill (HR #4432) in 2015, which would take away states rights to pass mandatory GMO food labeling bills...

2. Stop Congress from “fast-tracking” and passing secretly negotiated “Free Trade” agreements (the TPP-Trans-Pacific Partnership, and TTIP-Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)...

3. Pass more state laws requiring mandatory labels on GMOs…. and Support Vermont, Maui (Hawaii), Jackson and Josephine counties (Oregon) in their federal and state legal battles to uphold their laws requiring labels and/or bans on GMOs.

6. Educate the public on the dangers and cruelty of GMO-fed, factory-farmed meat, dairy and egg products, and organize a “Great Boycott” of all factory-farmed foods.

8. Pressure retail natural food stores and coops to follow the lead of Whole Foods Market and the Natural Grocer to label and/or ban all GMO-derived foods

10. Support consumer efforts to test for Roundup/glyphosate contamination in drinking water

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. "2.Stop Congress from “fast-tracking” and passing secretly negotiated “Free Trade” agreements (TPP &

2. Stop Congress from “fast-tracking” and passing secretly negotiated “Free Trade” agreements (the TPP-Trans-Pacific Partnership, and TTIP-Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) that would weaken consumer and states rights to label and safety test GMO and factory-farmed foods.

https://www.organicconsumers.org/essays/consumer-self-defense-12-ways-drive-gmos-and-roundup-market

[djean111]

4. Yes - stop the TTP and TTIP and other Investor State world takeovers. n/t

[KoKo]

5. We have to keep working on this...every effort we can.