The Science is on Our Side: Sorry, Monsanto

[Judi Lynn]

Weekend Edition March 27-29, 2015
The Science is on Our Side

Sorry, Monsanto

by KATHERINE PAUL


A few weeks ago, I spoke by phone with Cathleen Enright, executive vice president of the Biotech Industry Organization (BIO). (Long story).

During the course of our conversation, when we touched on the subject of the science behind the debate over whether or not GMOs are “safe” (me arguing that there’s no scientific consensus http://www.enveurope.com/content/pdf/s12302-014-0034-1.pdfon safety) Enright said, “Then you must not believe in climate change, either.”

I glossed over that accusation, though it struck me as odd. And random. Until less than a week later, on March 9 (2015), an article appeared in the Guardian under this headline: “The anti-GM lobby appears to be taking a page out of the Climategate playbook.”

That’s when I realized what I should have known. Enright’s comment wasn’t random at all. It’s just a new twist on an old talking point—from an industry on the verge of crumbling under the weight of an avalanche of new credible, scientific evidence exposing not only the dangers of GMO crops and the toxic chemicals used to grow them, but the extent to which both Monsanto and U.S. government agencies like the EPA, FDA and USDA have covered up those dangers. (Side note: Turns out the authors of the Guardian piece all have ties to, surprise, the biotech industry).

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/27/sorry-monsanto/

[GreatGazoo]

1. The "benefit" of GMO food is that it can be sprayed with mega poison.

That ain't Natural News -- that's what Monsanto says the benefit is. Don't need 200 studies to tell us that more poison isn't what we want.

It isn't a benefit for the consumer so they don't want to label GMO foods as such. The public debate is not about the science (because Monsanto can't win that debate), it is about marketing hence the spurious conflation of GMO and climate change or vaccines.

Shark Tank guy goes through most of the industry talking points here. 14 YO girl shoots down every one of them:

&