May This Year be the Year of Change for the Better!
Here is some straight dope that you wouldn't find in the mainstream media. Why do we have genetically engineered corn, soy, wheat, and canola? rBGH Growth Hormone in your milk and these things are known to be harmful yet we have no labeling laws, and those who attempt to label their products as non-GMO and non-rBGH milk get attacked.
This article explains how the industry and the FDA work together to approve specific agendas while CEOs work for the FDA and then go back to work for the industry that one just approved the desired laws for. Talk about conflict of interest or outright criminality. Call it what you want, this is what they get away with.
It is important that you understand the politics behind the scene. The following web link is a very good read.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/obamas-team-includes-dang_b_147188.html
Healthy Dairy Cow
Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone & Unhealthy Milk
Michael Taylor was in charge when the FDA approved Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST). Dairy products from treated cows contain more pus, more antibiotics, more growth hormone, and more IGF-1--a powerful hormone linked to cancer and increased incidence of fraternal twins (see www.YourMilkonDrugs.com.) The growth hormone is banned in most industrialized nations, including Canada, the EU, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. But under Michael Taylor, it was approved in the US, without labeling.
rBGH Dairy Cow. Note the size of its udder in comparison to the photo above
As more and more consumers learn about the health risks of the drug, they shift their purchases to brands that voluntarily label their products as not using rbGH. Consumer rejection of rbGH hit a tipping point a couple of years ago, and since then it has been kicked out of milk from Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Kroger, Subway, and at least 40 of the top 100 dairies. In 2007, Monsanto desperately tried to reverse the trend by asking the FDA and FTC to make it illegal for dairies to label their products as free from rbGH. Both agencies flatly refused the company's request.
But Monsanto turned to an ally, Dennis Wolff, the Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture. Wolff used his position to single-handedly declare rbGH-free labels illegal in his state. Such a policy would make it impossible for national dairy brands to declare their products rbGH-free, since they couldn't change packaging just for Pennsylvania. Wolff's audacious move so infuriated citizens around the nation, the outpouring caused the governor to step in and stop the prohibition before it took effect.
Dennis Wolff, according to www.unbossed.com, is being considered for the position of Obama's USDA Secretary.
Although Pennsylvania did not ultimately ban rbGH-free labels, they did decide to require companies who use the labels to also include a disclaimer sentence on the package, stating that the according to the FDA there is no difference between milk from cows treated with rbGH and those not treated. In reality, this sentence contradicts the FDA's own scientists. (Is this sounding all too familiar?) Even according to Monsanto's own studies, milk from treated cows has more pus, antibiotics, bovine growth hormone, and IGF-1. Blatantly ignoring the data, a top FDA bureaucrat wrote a "white paper" urging companies that labeled products as rbGH-free to also use that disclaimer on their packaging. The bureaucrat was Michael Taylor. Betting on biotech is "Bad-idea virus"
For several years, politicians around the US were offering money and tax-breaks to bring biotech companies into their city or state. But according to Joseph Cortright, an Oregon economist who co-wrote a 2004 report on this trend, "This notion that you lure biotech to your community to save its economy is laughable. This is a bad-idea virus that has swept through governors, mayors and economic development officials." He said it "remains a money-losing, niche industry."
One politician who caught a bad case of the bad-idea virus was Tom Vilsack, Iowa's governor from 1998-2006. He was co-creator and chair of the Governors' Biotechnology Partnership in 2000 and in 2001 the Biotech Industry Organization named him BIO Governor of the Year.
Tom Vilsack was considered a front-runner to become Obama's USDA secretary. Perhaps the outcry prompted by Vilsack's biotech connections was the reason for his name being withdrawn.
Change, Truth, Hope
I don't know Barack Obama's position on GMOs. There are clues that he has not been able to see past the biotech lobbyist's full court spin.
- His top scientific advisers during the campaign included Sharon Long, a former board member of the biotech giant Monsanto Co., and Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate who co-chaired a key study of genetically engineered crops by the National Academy of Sciences back in 2000. - [Obama] said biotech crops "have provided enormous benefits" to farmers and expressed confidence "that we can continue to modify plants safely."
On the other hand, Obama may have a sense how pathetic US GMO regulations are, since he indicated that he wants "stringent tests for environmental and health effects" and "stronger regulatory oversight guided by the best available scientific advice."
There is, however, one unambiguous and clear promise that separates Obama from his Bush and Clinton predecessors.
Mandatory labeling of GMOs is Something That Will Have to be Forced into Existence.
Favored by 9 out of 10. Americans, labeling is long overdue and is certainly cause for a shoulder to shoulder effort to make it happen.
Please sign a petition asking President Obama to make his GMO labeling plan comprehensive and meaningful.
Jeffrey M. Smith is the author of Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating and Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods from Chelsea Green Publishing. Smith worked at a GMO detection laboratory, founded the Institute for Responsible Technology, and currently lives in Iowa-surrounded by genetically modified corn and soybeans. For more information, visit Chelsea Green.
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Well, we have arrived to the front door of the year of 2010 where the Dawn of the New Millennium officially begins. The old regime is madly trying to end itself and with all the new hopes, heightened spirituality awareness, heightened responsibility for the environment and for one's fellow man.
2010 is truly a year to behold! So, let's all flourish and prosper and create the new Millennium where righteous men have rights and where men can live free without war, without poverty, where all have a right to pursue their goals in life.
Flourish and Prosper and Let's Create a Better Tomorrow Together!
Life is in us today, and we make our tomorrows. So let's flourish and prosper together!
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