GM Food Safety
Question: I'm doing a project for geography and i need some answers because i can't find them anywhere :P and if you can, can you please answer these as well, or atleast some of them? how can they cause human health risks, economy concerns, and foreign exploitation of natural resources Answer: High levels of arsenic in the water can be harmful when mixed with food and/or people.
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The result of this high Roundup use on human health is unclear - some studies show negative effects, many do not. But the effect on environmental health is a concern.
Here are my reasons for voting yes on Prop 37:
Monarch decline and milkweed: A well-publicized study by the University of Minnesota documented a large decline of monarch eggs and milkweed, the plant the monarch requires for laying its eggs.
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What’s more is the company not only ‘hired’ all of the workers illegally, but prevented them from leaving the farm premises and withheld their salaries . The information came to light following a raid by Argentina’s tax agency known as AFIP, where it was revealed that the farmhands were being forced to work almost twice as long as legally permissible and given no compensation. Amazingly, AFIP says that it will hold Monsanto responsible for the slave-like conditions.
This is not the first time Monsanto has abused workers, or even farmers dedicated to using the company’s GM seeds. In fact, Monsanto’s previous crimes against the human race are arguably even more despicable. In 2008 it was revealed that thousands of farmers were committing suicide after using GMO crops. Due to failing harvests and inflated prices that bankrupt the poor farmers, they began to kill themselves oftentimes drinking the very same insecticide that Monsanto supplied them with....
The controversy surrounding Genetically Modified foods and food ingredients refuses to die down though activists opposing these foods based on safety and environmental considerations are being smothered by the money power of the GM lobby. GM foods derived through transgenic process is mired in disputes between those who feel they are safe and others taking the stand that sufficient scientific evidence does not exist guaranteeing its safety. As far as environmentalists are concerned there is a potential danger in cultivating GM crops which may cause cross contamination of normal crops thus destroying the traditional normal crops. It is a pity that these two warring groups cannot sit across a table and thrash out their differences to evolve a consensus on the issue. There are many countries in the world where cultivation of GM crops are totally banned or restricted by local regulations. The US is the only country which has allowed a free run to the GM crop industry to produce foods which...
Next Generation of Genetically Modified Foods May Affect Human Health
And microRNA is the same genetic material that biotech companies hope to use in their next round of GM foods, reported Tom Laskawy, founder and executive director of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, on Grist.org. In current GM foods, ...
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Initiative on GMO labeling could change how we eat. Genetically engineered foods have absolutely no benefits for consumers or the environment. For the last 17 years, consumer GMO truth-in-labeling laws have never gotten a public discussion, much less come to a vote in Congress. By moving the battle from ... |
GMO Food: Monsanto Weed Killer compared to AIDS
Glyphosate was first introduced as a weed killer in 1974, prior to the introduction of genetically modified crops. According to Dr. Huber, it has been so overused for the past 30 years that many essential soil organisms have been eradicated. ...
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The Attack on our Seeds
[d] Impact on human health: It has been documented that farmers using GM seeds have experienced mild to severe reaction merely by working in the fields. The hazard of transgenic organisms has been described for humans, animals and the environment in ...
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Christie Wilcox Takes On Anti-GMO Scaremongering In The Atlantic There is no need to test the safety of DNA introduced into GM crops. DNA (and resulting RNA) is present in almost all foods. DNA is non-toxic and the presence of DNA, in and of itself, presents no hazard. Given what we know, that stance is arrogant. ... |