Thread: Monsanto & Bayer GM Crops Damage Wildlife

I thought the following article would interest you Judy since I've heard you discuss genetically modified crops before.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/513572/


Genetically Modified Maize Not Found in Southern Mexico

Newswise â€â€

In 1998, the Mexican government imposed a six-year moratorium on the release of genetically modified maize in the country. However, farmers in Mexico are allowed to grow genetically engineered crops such as cotton and soybeans.

Thank God Mexico stopped it in time it appears. But for the moratorium, I wonder what would have happened. Eeeeek!! It's ToxiMaize!!

The Mexican government might approve the cultivation of GM maize at some point in the future – meanwhile, transgenic seeds can easily enter Mexico from the United States, and more cases of wandering transgenes seem likely.

I sure hope they never approve trangenic maize. As they know there wil be more cases of "wandering transgenes" without growing it...it'll blow in from the US.

This research was supported in part by the College of Biological Sciences at Ohio State and by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF).

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITY????

WHAT IS THAT?

Creeeeeepy!!

Thanks Brian, great article. Amazing isn't it, we're eating this stuff everyday in the USA and feeding it to our children who will have a build up over a lifetime of these toxic sterile plants in their bodies.

Hey Judy, I don't know if your still reading the forum but thought you might find this article interesting.

http://www.record-bee.com/Stories/0,141 ... 09,00.html

Technology has consequences


Saturday, September 03, 2005 -

On the issue of genetically engineered (GE) crops, the ownership of seed is at issue. The seed must be purchased yearly from Monsanto for a legal crop to be grown, yet Monsanto can provide no safeguards against its seed being carried by birds, the wind or other means into adjacent agricultural areas.

Monsanto has the right to sue anyone whose land is found to be growing the seed without paying them their use tax, whether it was planted intentionally or not. Farmers in Canada and the U.S. have been destroyed by the deep-pocketed suits from Monsanto as a result of these unintentional drifts. Farmers who purchase GE seeds sign contracts requiring that they not save seed from one crop to the next. Thus farmers using GE seeds must purchase new seed yearly, making them dependent upon whatever transnational corporation owns the patent.

As with most technological "miracle cures," there are serious consequences to worldwide agriculture inherent in the technology. Today's GE crops can't guarantee that farmers won't save seeds. Corporations intent on preventing seed-saving must hire agents. Such monitoring is expensive. To avoid the need for monitoring, and to gain 100 percent control over farmers, the GE corporations have developed a new technology terminator genes in some of their crops. Terminator genes prevent a crop from reproducing itself unless certain "protector" chemicals are applied to the crop. Any farmer using terminator seeds must buy the "protector" chemicals each year.

In the remote region of Oaxaca, Mexico, GE is illegal. Scientists had hoped to keep Oaxaca's rich diversity of corn uncontaminated by GE strains because Oaxaca retains the wealth of genetic varieties developed during 5,500 years of indigenous corn cultivation. Scientists now say that aggressive forms of GE corn, let loose in Oaxaca, may drive native species to extinction, causing the loss of irreplaceable cultivars.

Never accept the claims of people who will profit from those claims.

James BlueWolf

Lakeport