Monsanto Going to Trial for Crimes Against Humanity

[lemonskunk]

How would you be more happy:

Imagine having to buy all your weed from one guy and its always the same. He controls the price and quality. He purposefully employs tactics to cut costs and lower quality so that you need to consume more to get the effect. Its always pretty much the same so you get tolerant and have to buy more. He buys all his weed from farmers that stole and deforested land in the jungles of Indonesia and the Amazon because its cheaper that way. All the weed is contaminated with pesticides and preservatives. If you want to smoke weed (lets imagine smoking weed is required for life) you have to buy his he controls your weed source. (I didnt even work Monsanto's greedy roundup or GM'ed roundup ready seeds business model into this analogy but go ahead)

OR...

You grow your own or buy from a friend that grows and smokes his/her own. It is grown organically or with the most pure salts available whatever makes you happy. You have a choice of strains that you rotate smoking so you have low tolerance and its more cost efficient. It is grown in the most environmentally sustainable possible. You have control.

 

[stoned-trout]

don't worry be happy.....yeehaw

 

[Betterhaff]

 

[trichrider]

Ten things you need to know about the Séralini study

http://www.gmoseralini.org/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-seralini-study/

Why this study now?

Séralini designed his 2012 study as a direct followup of a previous study on the same NK603 maize conducted by Monsanto to support its application for regulatory authorization.

Monsanto’s study was a 90-day rat feeding trial on NK603. Monsanto published the results of its test in 2004,1 the same year that the maize was authorized in the EU. Differences were found in the GM-fed rats, but the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) claimed that the differences were “of no biological significance” and that the maize was as safe as non-GM maize.2

Séralini’s team obtained Monsanto’s raw data and re-analyzed it. They found signs of liver and kidney toxicity in the GM-fed rats, publishing their findings in a peer-reviewed journal in 2009.3

Séralini carried out his 2012 study on NK603 maize and Roundup to see whether these initial findings of potential toxicity really were of no biological significance, as EFSA claimed, or whether they developed into more serious disease.4

The overall experimental design was similar to Monsanto’s, in order to make the two experiments comparable. The differences were that Séralini’s experiment was longer (two years to Monsanto’s 90 days) and far more detailed in scope. Séralini’s experiment measured a larger number of health effects and was designed to separate out the effects of the GM maize from those of the herbicide it is engineered to tolerate, Roundup. This was the first study on a GM crop to distinguish effects in this way.

The findings

Séralini’s findings were alarming: both GM maize NK603 and Roundup caused serious kidney and liver damage and an increased and earlier development of tumours, leading to an increased rate of mortality.4

These serious effects had not shown up in Monsanto’s 90-day test because it was too short. Serious diseases like organ damage and tumours take time to develop and become obvious.

An objective analysis of Séralini’s study would conclude that long-term chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity studies are needed on all GM foods before they are commercialized.

What does the study say about the way GM foods are regulated?

Séralini’s is the first long-term peer-reviewed toxicity study on the health impacts of GM NK603 maize and the commercial herbicide formulation it is engineered to be grown with.

GM food crops are authorized on the basis of short (a maximum of 90-days) feeding studies, usually carried out in rats. Long-term studies are not required by regulators anywhere in the world.

But in Séralini’s study the first large tumours were only seen four months into the trial in the case of males and seven months in the case of females. Most tumours were only detected after 18 months.

This shows that the 90-day tests routinely done on GM crops are not long enough to detect serious health effects that take time to develop, such as cancer and organ damage.

Ninety days in a rat is equivalent to only 7–9 years in human terms5 – yet human beings could eat a GM food and residues of Roundup over a lifetime.



References:

1. Hammond B, Dudek R, Lemen J, Nemeth M. Results of a 13 week safety assurance study with rats fed grain from glyphosate tolerant corn. Food Chem Toxicol. Jun 2004; 42(6): 1003-1014.

2. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms on a request from the Commission related to the safety of foods and food ingredients derived from herbicide-tolerant genetically modified maize NK603, for which a request for placing on the market was submitted under Article 4 of the Novel Food Regulation (EC) No 258/97 by Monsanto (QUESTION NO EFSA-Q-2003-002): Opinion adopted on 25 November 2003. EFSA Journal. 2003; 2003(9): 1–14.

3. de Vendomois JS, Roullier F, Cellier D, Séralini GE. A comparison of the effects of three GM corn varieties on mammalian health. Int J Biol Sci. 2009; 5(7): 706–726.

4. Séralini GE, Clair E, Mesnage R, et al. Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize. Food and Chemical Toxicology. November 2012; 50(11): 4221-4231.

5. Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Degli Esposti D. Cancer prevention: The lesson from the lab. In: Biasco G, Tanneberger S, eds. Cancer Medicine at the Dawn of the 21st Century: The view from Bologna. Bologna: Bononia University Press; 2006:49–64.

http://www.gmoseralini.org/faq-items/why-this-study-now/

"fuck dude"

i know huh? those little facts getting in the way.
tech will save us...

and since when was truth propaganda?

... skepticism in science is what makes proof necessary, it isn't consensus driven.

fuck dude , i'm not trying to poison minds.

a little enlightenment goes a long way.

 

[lemonskunk]

Monsanto is full of douchebaggery.

How bout them suing farmers for "using their seed" when it was heirloom seed the farmers have bred but because the farmers neighbour once grew roundup ready the pollen got into the wind and Monsantos patented DNA was found in the farmers seed.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Corporations are never driven by greed.. er, um.. shareholder due.

I'm sure they wouldn't sacrifice a few lives for innumerable profiteers...

Why would that happen?

It's a perfect utopia if they just carried out their mission statement.

Crime?

It's really swell they're just a single individual.

They can't all get caught but they all get paid.

Easy enough.

 

[LostTribe]

They will ultimately buy their way free and continue on as the machine does and continues to do. STOP THEM should you dare to stand against them!

Just insist on usda organic food stuffs when you purchase your groceries and you will begin to make the needed push to slay the dragon that is Monsanto!

 

[lemonskunk]

USDA certifies milorganite as organic. Its just dehydrated human waste water. In mexico they just spread the human waste on the fields.