Monsanto cannabis yes or no? The DNA Protection Act of 2013

Genetically Engineered Cannabis yes or no?

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Harrekin

Harrekin

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DNAprotection said:
Frank the point is that people dont know enough about anything to really know what is 'trash' or not and that greed/fear etc driven superior (ignorance) mentality is at the height of its destructive potential when aplied to genetic engineering imo...
Seems that while I was sleeping another vote came in for no GE cannabis...:clap:
Meanwhile Doer is still lost at sea forever in search of the island of validation :hug:
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And when the time comes people can smoke GM cannabis or not, Im a believer in labelling and consumer choice.

What Im not into is forced "tree-huggery" and forced bullshit overpriced "organic" produce...oh and the obstruction of scientific advancement.

See how you want to restrict other people's choices against their will, yet I want to give them the labelled choice to vote with their wallet...

Yet I'm the unreasonable one.

Cool story, DNAfuckwit.
 
DNAprotection

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Molokai MOM - Standing Up to GMO



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"Big News For Bees! Oregon to Ban Pesticides After Latest Bee Die Off"

Posted on July 6, 2013


According to the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA), the state is temporarily restricting the use of 18 pesticides containing dinotefuran while it investigates the death of thousands of bees near Portland this month. Dinotefuran is a neonicontinoid, a class of pesticides that have been linked to honeybee die-offs.
In a report entitled “In the wake of large bee kills, ODA takes steps in an abundance of caution,” we find that the ODA restricts use of certain dinotefuran pesticides. They are restricting the use of 18 pesticide products containing the active ingredient dinotefuran while it continues the investigation of a large kill of bumblebees in Wilsonville and Hillsboro this month. By adopting a temporary rule, ODA is taking action, in an abundance of caution, to avoid the potential of similar large bee kills this summer due to specific pesticide applications.
“I have directed the agency to take this step in an effort to minimize any potential for additional incidents involving bee deaths connected to pesticide products with this active ingredient until such time as our investigation is completed and we have more information,” says ODA Director Katy Coba. “Conclusions from the investigation will help us and our partners evaluate whether additional steps need to be considered.”
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The ODA restriction focuses on ornamental, turf, and agricultural pesticide products that are used by both professional applicators and homeowners. Products with the active ingredient dinotefuran registered in Oregon for other uses, such as flea and tick control on pets or home ant and roach control, are not affected by the restriction. ODA’s concern is focused on those uses that may impact pollinators.
By statute, ODA has legal authority to establish limitations and procedures deemed necessary and proper for the protection of bees and other pollinating insects. The temporary rule, which goes into effect immediately, will be enforced for 180 days, by which time ODA is expected to complete its pesticide use investigations of the Wilsonville and Hillsboro incidents. Those investigations will determine if the pesticide applications were in violation of state and federal pesticide regulations, and will assist ODA in addressing any potential future actions.
ODA’s Pesticide Program has established a website with more information on the dinotefuran restriction, including a list of specific products affected as well as instructions for those who may have purchased these products. Go to the Oregon government website.
Here’s a list of consumer products that contain neonicontinoids via Beyond Toxics. For more on honeybees and neonics and local efforts to save the bees go to Beyond Toxics’s website.
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tokeprep

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DNAprotection said:
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I was curious, so I clicked it. You know how we know Monsanto bought Blackwater? Because Monsanto paid a few hundred thousands bucks over several years for services from an unrelated company that was connected to Blackwater, and someone bought Blackwater. The only logical conclusion, the article declares, is that Monsanto must have been the buyer. Even as they go on to describe the actual buyers...

Yeah, I'm convinced. This ranting article goes on and on and on, and that's all the proof they've got. All the rest of this is surely bunk too.
 
DNAprotection

DNAprotection

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215 votes for no GE cannabis8)...275 votes total...great turn out! :clap:

http://rt.com/news/monsanto-europe-gmo-food-309/
[h=1]No more GMO: Monsanto drops bid to approve new crops in Europe[/h] Get short URL
Published time: July 19, 2013 12:10
A corn field in Godewaersvelde, northern France. (AFP Photo / Philippe Huguen)



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The world’s largest seed corporation says it has dropped its bid to get more genetically modified crops onto the European market due to the wide-spread popular opposition. The biotech giant says it will expand its share of the natural seed market instead.
“We will no longer be pursuing approvals for cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe. Instead, we will focus on enabling imports of biotech crops into the EU and the growth of our current business there,” the US-based company said in an email statement.

The pending applications for GM crops – 6 types of corn, a soybean variety and a modified sugar beet – will be withdrawn shortly, the biotech giant stressed.

Currently, only two GM crops are approved in Europe, the MON810 maize and a modified potato created by BASF, a German biotech company. However, much of the allowed genetically modified produce is delivered to Europe as animal feed.

Europe has long expressed its concern over the effects of GM food produce on human health.

Several EU member states, including France, Germany, Austria, Spain, have banned the cultivation of genetically-modified crops.

Last September, French scientists from the University of Caen released a study showing that rats fed on a diet containing NK603, a corn seed variety resistant to Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer, along with those given water mixed with the product at levels permitted in the United States, died earlier than those on a standard diet.

Protests against Monsanto are frequent all over the globe, online and on the streets.
In mid-June, the latest initiative against the corporation was launched. Monsanto Video Revolt was set to bypass the corporate media blackout on GMO foods and bring the issue to world’s attention. The campaign was announced by the Global Healing Center, Natural News and Natural Society, which have united to counter GM produce and the huge amounts of poisonous herbicides and pesticides being dumped all over the world.

In May, an estimated two million people, many of them in Europe, turned out for global anti-GM rallies.

Anti-genetically modified organism activists gather on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel tower during a demonstration against GMOs and US chemical giant Monsanto on May 25, 2013 in Paris. (AFP Photo / Fred Dufour)

In the UK, a YouGov poll released last month shows that only 21 percent of Britons are in favor of growing GM crops, with 35 percent opposed to the technology.

However, senior officials in Britain have been stepping up the campaign to bring large-scale farming of genetically-modified crops into Europe. In June, UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson asked the EU to loosen existing controls due to the risk of being “left behind.”

Monsanto noted that they will invest in its European non-GMO seed business instead to boost the corporation’s sales.

The company’s seed business in Europe accounts for over 98 per cent of its $1.72 billion turnover in Europe.

"Conventional seeds is the area where we are focusing at this time in Europe, and we are funding the business in a way that we haven't done for more than 15 years," Monsanto’s President and managing Director for Europe, Jose Manuel Madero, indicated to Reuters.

The corporation is already investing $300 million to boost its seed production in France, Romania, Hungary and Turkey, with a mind to cashing in on "several hundred million dollars" more over the next five years, Madero says.

A significant part of that money – an initial investment of $150 million which could double to $300 million within a couple of years – is to be directed to Ukraine, a major global grain producer. Monsanto stressed that the total area sown with its seeds in Ukraine doubled between 2012 and 2013.

Madero wasn’t so optimistic about the corporation’s prospects in Russia, though, as there are no production facilities there.

GM crops not currently grown in Russia or in Ukraine, with the corporation stressing they are not currently seeking to push for such cultivation in those markets.

Despite harsh European opposition, Monsanto-produced GM crops and agro-chemicals are widely used in the US and in other parts of the world.
 
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Bombur

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What is wrong with people choosing monsanto weed? Monsanto and GMO in general have done amazing things for agriculture. If you want organic, buy organic, but don't try to shove your baseless fears down my throat. I bet nearly every person who voted "No" eats monsanto products daily without even knowing. Eat anything that contains corn? Soy?

My point is, unless there is definitive proof of GMO's being harmful, you have no right to outlaw them. Labeling is another story..
 
Harrekin

Harrekin

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DNAprotection said:
215 votes for no GE cannabis8)...275 votes total...great turn out! :clap:

http://rt.com/news/monsanto-europe-gmo-food-309/
No more GMO: Monsanto drops bid to approve new crops in Europe

Get short URL
Published time: July 19, 2013 12:10
A corn field in Godewaersvelde, northern France. (AFP Photo / Philippe Huguen)



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Europe, Food, GMO, Health, Protest, Scandal, USA

The world’s largest seed corporation says it has dropped its bid to get more genetically modified crops onto the European market due to the wide-spread popular opposition. The biotech giant says it will expand its share of the natural seed market instead.
“We will no longer be pursuing approvals for cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe. Instead, we will focus on enabling imports of biotech crops into the EU and the growth of our current business there,” the US-based company said in an email statement.

The pending applications for GM crops – 6 types of corn, a soybean variety and a modified sugar beet – will be withdrawn shortly, the biotech giant stressed.

Currently, only two GM crops are approved in Europe, the MON810 maize and a modified potato created by BASF, a German biotech company. However, much of the allowed genetically modified produce is delivered to Europe as animal feed.

Europe has long expressed its concern over the effects of GM food produce on human health.

Several EU member states, including France, Germany, Austria, Spain, have banned the cultivation of genetically-modified crops.

Last September, French scientists from the University of Caen released a study showing that rats fed on a diet containing NK603, a corn seed variety resistant to Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer, along with those given water mixed with the product at levels permitted in the United States, died earlier than those on a standard diet.

Protests against Monsanto are frequent all over the globe, online and on the streets.
In mid-June, the latest initiative against the corporation was launched. Monsanto Video Revolt was set to bypass the corporate media blackout on GMO foods and bring the issue to world’s attention. The campaign was announced by the Global Healing Center, Natural News and Natural Society, which have united to counter GM produce and the huge amounts of poisonous herbicides and pesticides being dumped all over the world.

In May, an estimated two million people, many of them in Europe, turned out for global anti-GM rallies.

Anti-genetically modified organism activists gather on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel tower during a demonstration against GMOs and US chemical giant Monsanto on May 25, 2013 in Paris. (AFP Photo / Fred Dufour)

In the UK, a YouGov poll released last month shows that only 21 percent of Britons are in favor of growing GM crops, with 35 percent opposed to the technology.

However, senior officials in Britain have been stepping up the campaign to bring large-scale farming of genetically-modified crops into Europe. In June, UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson asked the EU to loosen existing controls due to the risk of being “left behind.”

Monsanto noted that they will invest in its European non-GMO seed business instead to boost the corporation’s sales.

The company’s seed business in Europe accounts for over 98 per cent of its $1.72 billion turnover in Europe.

"Conventional seeds is the area where we are focusing at this time in Europe, and we are funding the business in a way that we haven't done for more than 15 years," Monsanto’s President and managing Director for Europe, Jose Manuel Madero, indicated to Reuters.

The corporation is already investing $300 million to boost its seed production in France, Romania, Hungary and Turkey, with a mind to cashing in on "several hundred million dollars" more over the next five years, Madero says.

A significant part of that money – an initial investment of $150 million which could double to $300 million within a couple of years – is to be directed to Ukraine, a major global grain producer. Monsanto stressed that the total area sown with its seeds in Ukraine doubled between 2012 and 2013.

Madero wasn’t so optimistic about the corporation’s prospects in Russia, though, as there are no production facilities there.

GM crops not currently grown in Russia or in Ukraine, with the corporation stressing they are not currently seeking to push for such cultivation in those markets.

Despite harsh European opposition, Monsanto-produced GM crops and agro-chemicals are widely used in the US and in other parts of the world.
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I love how your group of protestors picture doesn't show the "crowd".

You know why?

That photo shows ALL the protestors.

Another fail of yours, delivered as well as always.
 
Someacdude

Someacdude

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Monsanto is a company, they care less about quality and more about quantity.

During Vietnam they introduced a new engineered type of rice, this rice could be harvested twice as quickly.
By helping those poor downtrodden unknowing people they doubled their rice crop, they also started having problems with,,,,malnutrition.

Americans are obese BECAUSE of the fda , ama, etc. Our diet doesnt even resemble nutrition.
Why do our 13 year old girls look 23, steroids in the meat? More good old intervention from bean counters.

Years ago you ate your food,because even with a refrigerator it would still go bad.
Today our food is full of chemicals , preservatives, no real nutritional value at all and as a result our bodies feel like they are starving so,,,,they hold onto fat.
Even vegans arent immune anymore, unless you grow it yourself and even then we come into contact with over 50,0000 chemicals every single day.

The last thing i want is anymore chemicals or anymore laws regarding what we can and cant eat.

Comfrey is an unbelievably useful herb for burns or really any other skin conditions, unfortunately its illegal in the states because some idiots ate it and died , but asprin is still legal,,,oh yeah , they can tax that.
 
DNAprotection

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/24/gm-crops-ghana-us-genetically-modified-food
"GM crops: campaigners in Ghana accuse US of pushing modified food"...



From farmers to MPs, debate over seed ownership and the role of foreign influences on agriculture is causing divisions in Ghana


Women sweep rice at a processing plant in the northern Ghanaian town of Bolgatanga. Photograph: Finbarr O'Reilly /Reuters

The US embassy in Accra held a roundtable on biotechnology this month. The discussion, designed to promote candid dialogue between biotechnology supporters and sceptics, was attended by experts and campaign groups on both sides of the GM foods debate.
But one Ghanaian campaign group refused the invitation. "Our call for a moratorium on GM foods was met with an invitation to a closed-door discussion," said Duke Tagoe, of Food Sovereignty Ghana, which campaigns for greater transparency about GM foods. "We are deeply worried about what seems like an imposition of genetically modified foods on the good people of Ghana without any meaningful public discourse, compounded by attempts to stifle any opposition."
Food Sovereignty Ghana and other domestic organisations accuse the US and other foreign donors of promoting GM foods to west African countries, and tying aid to implementation.
According to a leaked cable, the US government was heavily involved in drafting Ghana's 2011 Biosafety Act, which provided a framework for the introduction of GM foods. The US aid department provided technical assistance and some funding.
The cable said biotech products were being sold in Ghana and GM seeds from neighbouring countries were likely to have migrated over its borders. US companies have begun requesting permission to conduct trials.
The US embassy in Accra declined to respond to a request by the Guardian to comment on its stance on GM food in Ghana, but claims about the arrival of GM are supported by public officials.
Duke Tagoe of Food Sovereignty Ghana. Photograph: Joy News TV "GM foods are used in agriculture. This is something you cannot wish away because it has come and it is in practice," said John Odame Darkwa, acting chief executive officer of Ghana's Food and Drugs Authority (FDA). "We ensure that any food imported into the country is safe."
But campaigners say trials of GM foods, which the FDA admits have been carried out in Ghana, are a violation of the law, which states trials require the written approval of a new body, the National Biosafety Authority. The problem, they say, is that this authority does not exist yet.
"Trials are being conducted, but there isn't any framework in place," said Kweku Dadzie, from Food Sovereignty Ghana. "We are calling for a ban on the importation, cultivation, consumption and sale of genetically modified foods and crops, until the people of Ghana are satisfied that such an important and irrevocable decision is a sound and proper one to make."
Dadzie points to a lack of public debate surrounding the passing of the Biosafety Act. Maxwell Kofi Jumah, MP for Asokwa, recently admitted on local radio that ministers lacked understanding of the issues.
Many opponents of GM crops have pointed to the role of multinational companies that sell GM "hybrid" seeds that do not self-pollinate, compelling farmers to buy new seeds from the same companies each year, as well as their pesticides and herbicides.
Tagoe said: "Farmers in Ghana have had their own way of keeping seeds year after year. If these policies are allowed to manifest, Ghanaian farmers will have to change money into foreign [currency] in order to purchase seeds from overseas firms. The economic impact on the lives of the farmers will be disastrous. The origin of food is seed. Whoever controls the seed controls the entire food chain. These seeds are not owned by any African entity, they are owned by American companies."
However, experts say there are advantages to the technology. The chief executive of CGIAR Consortium on agricultural research, Dr Frank Rijsberman, said: "Private companies could develop self-pollinating seeds that also provide higher yields, but they don't because it's not profitable.
"But at the same time, the quality of seeds that pollinate themselves is often not that great. It can be difficult for farmers to select the best seeds. The job of seed companies is to select seeds that will have a bigger yields. The best hybrid rice, for example, produce about 20% better yields than the best self-pollinating seeds."
Some say that, instead of looking at yield increases through GM, the focus should be on improving access to markets for the crops that are already being grown by greater investment in extension services and low-technology improvements in farming.
"There is huge potential to increase yields using low-cost and existing technologies," said Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, speaking at the Africa Agricultural Science Week in Accra last week. "In Africa, only about 6% of the total cultivated land is irrigated … It is estimated that irrigation alone could increase output by up to 50% in Africa.
"Small increases in fertiliser use in sub-Saharan Africa can produce dramatic improvements in yields. Post-harvest grain losses in sub-Saharan Africa average $4bn every year. This is food that could meet the nutritional needs of around 48 million people."
Rijsberman said farmers needed better seeds, but also required better access to inputs, access to markets, farming systems and livelihood strategies. "These things would go a long way to improving yields and incomes in a country like Ghana," he added.
 
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