MONSANTO: USDA Approves GMO Alfalfa Despite Scientist Warning

USDA Approves GMO Alfalfa Despite Scientist Warning

“I believe the threat we are facing from this pathogen is unique and of a high risk status. In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.”

MONSANTO: USDA Approves GMO Alfalfa Despite Scientist Warning

USDA Approves GMO Alfalfa Despite Scientist Warning

“I believe the threat we are facing from this pathogen is unique and of a high risk status. In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.”

Court overturns order to destroy GM sugar beets

Court overturns order to destroy GM sugar beets

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has overturned a previous ruling to destroy genetically modified (GM) sugar beets, ruling in favor of Monsanto and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Court overturns order to destroy GM sugar beets

Court overturns order to destroy GM sugar beets

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has overturned a previous ruling to destroy genetically modified (GM) sugar beets, ruling in favor of Monsanto and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Monsanto in the News: Local and organic food, farming: Here's the gold standard

Local and organic food, farming: Here's the gold standard

Often, growers at farmers markets will say, "I don't use pesticides, I only use chemical fertilizers." Sadly, what many people do not realize is that chemical fertilizers are extremely hazardous.

Frequently, local chemical farmers claim that they only use "less toxic" pesticides or herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup. Unfortunately, "less toxic" is a dangerously relative term! Roundup is a powerful weed-killer, and is now sprayed so heavily on the nation's 150 million acres of genetically engineered crops that it is poisoning our water supplies, killing the soil, and creating superweeds that can only be killed with super-toxic herbicides such as 2,4 D, arsenic and paraquat.

Farmers in the U.S. have used everything from arsenic, lead, cyanide, fluorine, DDT, and nerve poisons since the 1860s, and they still use massive amounts. More than 80 percent of all the pesticides currently used in vegetable, fruit, and flower production are nerve poisons that were used on insects and also on concentration camp victims during the first and second World Wars.

Unfortunately, meat, dairy, or eggs coming from CAFOs in North America are not required by law to be labeled as such. Greenwashing CAFO products as "natural" or "local" is a major source of profits for Wal-Mart, Cargill, Conagra, Perdue, Land O' Lakes, Kraft, McDonalds, KFC, Monsanto and chemical/GMO farmers and ranchers. Organic consumers, farmers, and retailers need to educate the public about the hazards of factory farms and CAFOs.

Millions of consumers are still in the dark about how "conventional" foods - especially the cheaper brands of animal products, processed, fast, and fake foods - are produced. We must educate the public about the need to fight for Truth-in-Labeling so that CAFO products, derived in great measure from Monsanto's GMO crops, are no longer greenwashed as "local" or "natural."

Fortunately, locally and nationally, farmers have worked out strategies of how to grow fresh foods in the middle of the winter with better technology and a minimum of heat, even in extremely cold places like Maine, Vermont, Minnesota, and Montana. Consequently, farmers and consumers are growing and storing food throughout the year so that they are not responsible for so many food miles on their tables.

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Chemical farmers are not inspected or reprimanded by the federal or state governments as to their use or abuse of pesticides or fertilizers unless there is an accident, whether they are local farmers or factory farmers from California, Florida, or China. By contrast, organic growers are inspected every year and can be inspected at any time the certifying agency or the federal government (USDA) deems it appropriate.

Monsanto in the News: Local and organic food, farming: Here's the gold standard

Local and organic food, farming: Here's the gold standard

Often, growers at farmers markets will say, "I don't use pesticides, I only use chemical fertilizers." Sadly, what many people do not realize is that chemical fertilizers are extremely hazardous.

Frequently, local chemical farmers claim that they only use "less toxic" pesticides or herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup. Unfortunately, "less toxic" is a dangerously relative term! Roundup is a powerful weed-killer, and is now sprayed so heavily on the nation's 150 million acres of genetically engineered crops that it is poisoning our water supplies, killing the soil, and creating superweeds that can only be killed with super-toxic herbicides such as 2,4 D, arsenic and paraquat.

Farmers in the U.S. have used everything from arsenic, lead, cyanide, fluorine, DDT, and nerve poisons since the 1860s, and they still use massive amounts. More than 80 percent of all the pesticides currently used in vegetable, fruit, and flower production are nerve poisons that were used on insects and also on concentration camp victims during the first and second World Wars.

Unfortunately, meat, dairy, or eggs coming from CAFOs in North America are not required by law to be labeled as such. Greenwashing CAFO products as "natural" or "local" is a major source of profits for Wal-Mart, Cargill, Conagra, Perdue, Land O' Lakes, Kraft, McDonalds, KFC, Monsanto and chemical/GMO farmers and ranchers. Organic consumers, farmers, and retailers need to educate the public about the hazards of factory farms and CAFOs.

Millions of consumers are still in the dark about how "conventional" foods - especially the cheaper brands of animal products, processed, fast, and fake foods - are produced. We must educate the public about the need to fight for Truth-in-Labeling so that CAFO products, derived in great measure from Monsanto's GMO crops, are no longer greenwashed as "local" or "natural."

Fortunately, locally and nationally, farmers have worked out strategies of how to grow fresh foods in the middle of the winter with better technology and a minimum of heat, even in extremely cold places like Maine, Vermont, Minnesota, and Montana. Consequently, farmers and consumers are growing and storing food throughout the year so that they are not responsible for so many food miles on their tables.

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Chemical farmers are not inspected or reprimanded by the federal or state governments as to their use or abuse of pesticides or fertilizers unless there is an accident, whether they are local farmers or factory farmers from California, Florida, or China. By contrast, organic growers are inspected every year and can be inspected at any time the certifying agency or the federal government (USDA) deems it appropriate.

MONSANTO in the News: Do you believe genetically modified foods should be labeled?

Do you believe genetically modified foods should be labeled?

If you have been affected by agent orange then you should be concerned about what Monsanto is doing now. Once the largest producer of agent orange Monsanto is now the leader of the genetically modified food industry. Monsanto continues to use the same kind of tactics they have have always used to avoid taking responsibility for the harmful products they continue to produce. GMOs are not safe and we should have the right to know if they are in the products we buy.

If you believe in the 'Right to Know' then follow the link above and vote.

MONSANTO in the News: Do you believe genetically modified foods should be labeled?

Do you believe genetically modified foods should be labeled?

If you have been affected by agent orange then you should be concerned about what Monsanto is doing now. Once the largest producer of agent orange Monsanto is now the leader of the genetically modified food industry. Monsanto continues to use the same kind of tactics they have have always used to avoid taking responsibility for the harmful products they continue to produce. GMOs are not safe and we should have the right to know if they are in the products we buy.

If you believe in the 'Right to Know' then follow the link above and vote.

MONSANTO: Pathogens Allegedly Found in Major U.S. Food Staple

Pathogens Allegedly Found in Major U.S. Food Staple

Two weeks before the FDA deregulated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfafa, Dr. Don Huber, a plant pathologist and retired Purdue University professor, alerted the FDA to a possible connection between Monsanto’s herbicide and livestock infertility.

Huber’s letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack notes:

“A team of senior plant and animal scientists have recently brought to my attention the discovery of an electron microscopic pathogen that appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings. Based on a review of the data, it is widespread, very serious, and is in much higher concentrations in Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and corn—suggesting a link with the RR gene or more likely the presence of Roundup. This organism appears NEW to science!”

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MONSANTO: Pathogens Allegedly Found in Major U.S. Food Staple

Pathogens Allegedly Found in Major U.S. Food Staple

Two weeks before the FDA deregulated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfafa, Dr. Don Huber, a plant pathologist and retired Purdue University professor, alerted the FDA to a possible connection between Monsanto’s herbicide and livestock infertility.

Huber’s letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack notes:

“A team of senior plant and animal scientists have recently brought to my attention the discovery of an electron microscopic pathogen that appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings. Based on a review of the data, it is widespread, very serious, and is in much higher concentrations in Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and corn—suggesting a link with the RR gene or more likely the presence of Roundup. This organism appears NEW to science!”

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Dealing with the Agent Orange Legacy in America

Reuben Perry, our two daughters; Danielle and Lisbeth
VVA Faces of Agent Orange - Sharon Perry

When are we going to deal with the agent orange legacy in America? When? I know my children and grandchildren have been affected by my husband's exposure to agent orange when he served in Vietnam. Although I knew this in my heart. It took his death to compel me forward in order to fight for the rights of my children and grandchildren.

The biggest obstacle in my way was fighting the thought that perhaps, what was happening to our oldest daughter, wasn't real. Especially when you consider the all the years the doctors, school officials, counselors, and other professionals, supposedly helping our daughter, believed her illness was all in her head. That notion gnawed at me more than almost any of the other things combined. All of it ruined our oldest daughter's life.

Danielle Reyes, our oldest daughter and her daughter, Carole.
Danielle has been plagued with illness all of her life.

My husband's death, however, was very real. It was his death that rocked my world. I feel as though the proof is in the pudding, the gig is up, the final nail in the coffin has been laid, or any other semblance of cliques one can muster up, sums it up for me.

His death made all of this a reality. It didn't matter what others had to say or have said. They won't change my mind.

Reuben 'Bud' C. Perry III - 8/2/1948 - 6/3/2005

The final blow came when, after my husband's death, our daughter began to experience new symptoms from illnesses. Illnesses which were physiological and not psychological. Those two things: my husband's death and our daughter's new health problems propelled me into action.

I was 'burned out' and utterly devastated by all the years of suffering caused by my husband's untreated PTSD, survivor's guilt and bitterness toward a country that mistreated him when he came home. Our family life was enveloped in it, yet there was more: including suspicious illnesses which plagued our daughter and my husband - over the years.

Finally, in the last six years of his life, a plethora of illnesses robbed my husband of his independence, his identity and his dignity; right up until his death.

Reuben Perry, our grandson at Junior Special Olympics Event - 2010.
Reuben was diagnosed with autism at age 2.

Our youngest struggled with severe learning problems while growing up. Only to give birth to a son who was diagnosed with autism by age 2. Our grandson's diagnosis lead to his mother's diagnosis of Aspergers at age 26. All of this - is - all to real to be dismissed off hand by those who should be helping us find answers not ignore the problem(s).

Lisbeth Perry, our youngest daughter diagnosed with Aspergers.
Lisbeth is also plagued with many other undiagnosed health problems.

What will it take for the families of Vietnam veterans, their children and grandchildren to come forward? I don't know but what I do know is that our suffering has been ignored. If we don't do something about it we will continue to be ignored.

It's time to be heard!!

Take the risk. Tell us how agent orange has affected your life!! If you are the child or grandchild of a Vietnam veteran exposed to agent orange; Then you have a story to tell.

Be sure to visit Heather Morris Bowser's website: Agent Orange Second Generation Victim and member of Agent Orange Legacy to read her story!! Heather has been very active and vocal about her own life and struggle as an American agent orange victim.

Agent Orange leaves its mark on the life of Heather Bowser: Unfinished Business

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Dealing with the Agent Orange Legacy in America

Reuben Perry, our two daughters; Danielle and Lisbeth
VVA Faces of Agent Orange - Sharon Perry

When are we going to deal with the agent orange legacy in America? When? I know my children and grandchildren have been affected by my husband's exposure to agent orange when he served in Vietnam. Although I knew this in my heart. It took his death to compel me forward in order to fight for the rights of my children and grandchildren.

The biggest obstacle in my way was fighting the thought that perhaps, what was happening to our oldest daughter, wasn't real. Especially when you consider the all the years the doctors, school officials, counselors, and other professionals, supposedly helping our daughter, believed her illness was all in her head. That notion gnawed at me more than almost any of the other things combined. All of it ruined our oldest daughter's life.

Danielle Reyes, our oldest daughter and her daughter, Carole.
Danielle has been plagued with illness all of her life.

My husband's death, however, was very real. It was his death that rocked my world. I feel as though the proof is in the pudding, the gig is up, the final nail in the coffin has been laid, or any other semblance of cliques one can muster up, sums it up for me.

His death made all of this a reality. It didn't matter what others had to say or have said. They won't change my mind.

Reuben 'Bud' C. Perry III - 8/2/1948 - 6/3/2005

The final blow came when, after my husband's death, our daughter began to experience new symptoms from illnesses. Illnesses which were physiological and not psychological. Those two things: my husband's death and our daughter's new health problems propelled me into action.

I was 'burned out' and utterly devastated by all the years of suffering caused by my husband's untreated PTSD, survivor's guilt and bitterness toward a country that mistreated him when he came home. Our family life was enveloped in it, yet there was more: including suspicious illnesses which plagued our daughter and my husband - over the years.

Finally, in the last six years of his life, a plethora of illnesses robbed my husband of his independence, his identity and his dignity; right up until his death.

Reuben Perry, our grandson at Junior Special Olympics Event - 2010.
Reuben was diagnosed with autism at age 2.

Our youngest struggled with severe learning problems while growing up. Only to give birth to a son who was diagnosed with autism by age 2. Our grandson's diagnosis lead to his mother's diagnosis of Aspergers at age 26. All of this - is - all to real to be dismissed off hand by those who should be helping us find answers not ignore the problem(s).

Lisbeth Perry, our youngest daughter diagnosed with Aspergers.
Lisbeth is also plagued with many other undiagnosed health problems.

What will it take for the families of Vietnam veterans, their children and grandchildren to come forward? I don't know but what I do know is that our suffering has been ignored. If we don't do something about it we will continue to be ignored.

It's time to be heard!!

Take the risk. Tell us how agent orange has affected your life!! If you are the child or grandchild of a Vietnam veteran exposed to agent orange; Then you have a story to tell.

Be sure to visit Heather Morris Bowser's website: Agent Orange Second Generation Victim and member of Agent Orange Legacy to read her story!! Heather has been very active and vocal about her own life and struggle as an American agent orange victim.

Agent Orange leaves its mark on the life of Heather Bowser: Unfinished Business

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Follow our blog to get the latest agent orange news and related topics.

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Report has new details on Agent Orange tests

Report has new details on Agent Orange tests

Military records are shedding new light on Agent Orange testing decades ago at Maryland military installations and raising new concerns about health hazards from the Vietnam War-era chemical defoliant.

The Army says it also tested Agent Orange outdoors at the former Fort Ritchie near Cascade, a disclosure that is expected to further delay redevelopment of the property by its private owner, Corporate Office Properties Trust.

Report has new details on Agent Orange tests

Report has new details on Agent Orange tests

Military records are shedding new light on Agent Orange testing decades ago at Maryland military installations and raising new concerns about health hazards from the Vietnam War-era chemical defoliant.

The Army says it also tested Agent Orange outdoors at the former Fort Ritchie near Cascade, a disclosure that is expected to further delay redevelopment of the property by its private owner, Corporate Office Properties Trust.

CALIFORNIA: Toxic chemical rules are on Brown's agenda

Toxic chemical rules are on Brown's agenda

As Congress struggles to reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, California in the next few months is expected to issue comprehensive rules curbing chemicals in consumer products such as toys, cosmetics and plastics.

Under current law, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has required testing on just 200 of the nearly 80,000 existing chemicals, and restricted only five.

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families - a coalition of nearly 300 health groups - is urging federal restrictions on substances already known to be dangerous, including persistent and bio-accumulative chemicals. It wants the government to require that industry provide health and safety information for all chemicals in order for them to enter or remain on the market. And it wants a guarantee that peer-reviewed science - including the latest recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences - is used to assess risks.

Chemicals are more strictly regulated in Europe than in the U.S. and many international companies have changed their products to conform to European Union rules. But the chemical industry is mounting ferocious opposition to stricter regulation in the U.S.

CALIFORNIA: Toxic chemical rules are on Brown's agenda

Toxic chemical rules are on Brown's agenda

As Congress struggles to reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, California in the next few months is expected to issue comprehensive rules curbing chemicals in consumer products such as toys, cosmetics and plastics.

Under current law, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has required testing on just 200 of the nearly 80,000 existing chemicals, and restricted only five.

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families - a coalition of nearly 300 health groups - is urging federal restrictions on substances already known to be dangerous, including persistent and bio-accumulative chemicals. It wants the government to require that industry provide health and safety information for all chemicals in order for them to enter or remain on the market. And it wants a guarantee that peer-reviewed science - including the latest recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences - is used to assess risks.

Chemicals are more strictly regulated in Europe than in the U.S. and many international companies have changed their products to conform to European Union rules. But the chemical industry is mounting ferocious opposition to stricter regulation in the U.S.

ICELAND: People Tested for Dioxin Pollution

People Tested for Dioxin Pollution

Dioxin is created, among other ways, by the production of chemicals that contain chlorine, waste burning—mostly when hospital waste is burned—in the recycling of aluminum and in various other metal industries.

As reported in January, dioxin pollution from Funi measured 20 times over the authorized limit in 2007. Meanwhile, the waste burning station at Kirkjubaejarklaustur emitted 95 times more dioxin than permitted and the dioxin emission from the waste burning station in the Westman Islands was 84 times higher than the allowable limit.

Briem explained that a medical examination of people from these municipalities will be conducted to determine whether their health may have been compromised by the dioxin pollution. “The execution of the procedure has not been planned in detail but it will be conducted in consultancy with scientists at the University of Iceland.”

ICELAND: People Tested for Dioxin Pollution

People Tested for Dioxin Pollution

Dioxin is created, among other ways, by the production of chemicals that contain chlorine, waste burning—mostly when hospital waste is burned—in the recycling of aluminum and in various other metal industries.

As reported in January, dioxin pollution from Funi measured 20 times over the authorized limit in 2007. Meanwhile, the waste burning station at Kirkjubaejarklaustur emitted 95 times more dioxin than permitted and the dioxin emission from the waste burning station in the Westman Islands was 84 times higher than the allowable limit.

Briem explained that a medical examination of people from these municipalities will be conducted to determine whether their health may have been compromised by the dioxin pollution. “The execution of the procedure has not been planned in detail but it will be conducted in consultancy with scientists at the University of Iceland.”

MONSANTO: Kraft Admits It Uses Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone

Kraft Admits It Uses Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone

Thank you to the OCA activist who shared a recent e-mail she received from Kraft Foods which admits "We are not rejecting milk from BGH/BST supplemented herds." BGH/BST is the genetically modified Bovine Growth Hormone developed by Monsanto and now marketed by Eli Lilly.

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MONSANTO: Kraft Admits It Uses Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone

Kraft Admits It Uses Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone

Thank you to the OCA activist who shared a recent e-mail she received from Kraft Foods which admits "We are not rejecting milk from BGH/BST supplemented herds." BGH/BST is the genetically modified Bovine Growth Hormone developed by Monsanto and now marketed by Eli Lilly.

Tell Kraft You're Joining the Boycott of their Genetically Modified Foods!

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MONSANTO: Climate Change & Agriculture

Combat Monsanto

Climate Change & Agriculture

Genetic engineering is embedded in an industrial model of agriculture based on fossil fuels. It is falsely being offered as a magic bullet for dealing with climate change.

Monsanto claims that Genetically Modified Organisms are a cure for both food insecurity and climate change and has been putting the following advertisement across the world in recent months.

9 billion people to feed.
A changing climate
Now what?
Producing more
Conserving more
Improving farmers lives
That’s sustainable agriculture
And that’s what Monsanto is all about.

All the claims this advertisement makes are false.

Introducing toxins into a plant through herbicide resistance or Bt. Toxin increases the “yield” of toxins, not of food or nutrition.

Monsanto’s GMOs, which are either Round Up Ready crops or Bt toxin crops do not conserve resources. They demand more water, they destroy biodiversity and they increase toxics in farming. Pesticide use has increased 13 times as a result of the use Bt cotton seeds in the region of Vidharbha, India.

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MONSANTO: Climate Change & Agriculture

Combat Monsanto

Climate Change & Agriculture

Genetic engineering is embedded in an industrial model of agriculture based on fossil fuels. It is falsely being offered as a magic bullet for dealing with climate change.

Monsanto claims that Genetically Modified Organisms are a cure for both food insecurity and climate change and has been putting the following advertisement across the world in recent months.

9 billion people to feed.
A changing climate
Now what?
Producing more
Conserving more
Improving farmers lives
That’s sustainable agriculture
And that’s what Monsanto is all about.

All the claims this advertisement makes are false.

Introducing toxins into a plant through herbicide resistance or Bt. Toxin increases the “yield” of toxins, not of food or nutrition.

Monsanto’s GMOs, which are either Round Up Ready crops or Bt toxin crops do not conserve resources. They demand more water, they destroy biodiversity and they increase toxics in farming. Pesticide use has increased 13 times as a result of the use Bt cotton seeds in the region of Vidharbha, India.

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