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Posted: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:06 pm
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(UPDATE 12) Opponents of engineered crops will say or do anything to get their points across. Many of them feign philanthropy, and glorify dishonesty -- and for them, the simple lure of profit operates in the stead of a functioning conscience. Even so, there are others who seem stranded in a nightmare realm, where fact and fantasy play equal roles. But which are which? All we know for sure is that none of them are embarrassed, and all of them want our attention...
"They develop and sell GMO (genetically modified organisms) seeds. Seeds that have live animals cells in them." - Deborah Reckmeyer, in "Monsanto Seeds to Avoid", Thrive Right Now, July 3, 2009
"We all know that homicides from guns are just a fraction of how many are caused by the New World Order’s most cherished industries: Big Pharma, tobacco, alcohol, war, and heart disease and heart attack (which is caused more these days by eating genetically modified animals that have far higher fat content than just be meat consumption)" - Jeffrey Grupp, in "The Most Powerful Military Force in the World is the American People", Restore the Republic, June 30, 2009
"Genetic modification is a psycho-scientific process that takes our God-given food from the field to the laboratory where it is twisted into various monstrosities that are designed to make big corporations richer at any cost to public health." - Jennifer Bové, former field biologist and author of The Back Road to Crazy, in "Just Say No to GMO", The View From My Boots, June 2009
"Never mind that these genetically modified crops are being grown in nutrient deficient soil that produces nutrient deficient plants to be consumed by us who are then by consequence nutrient deficient." - Lenny Russo, owner of the Heartland Contemporary Midwestern Restaurant, in "The myth of cheap food", Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, June 27, 2009
"Cows can’t digest corn so the bulk of it remains with them and festers. Add in the fact that today’s grain is genetically modified and grain-fed cows are bloated, unhealthy animals that are housed tightly together in pens." - Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist, in "Healthy Food Buyer's Guide - how NOT to be poisoned by Big Food", Greco Roman Wellness, June 26, 2009
"The results were so worrisome that GM opponents called for an immediate ban of all GM foods and GM crops in order to protect the health of humankind and the fertility of women around the world." "The Genetic Conspiracy -- Are Genetically Engineered Foods Dangerous?", Joseph Mercola, of Dr. Mercola's Natural Health Center, Mercola.com, June 25, 2009
"As these genetically altered foods are created in the laboratory in order to alter the DNA of these food proteins in an effort to enhance profitability for the food industry, new proteins and new allergens are created in the process. The costs of testing all of these new proteins and allergens is prohibitive, so here in the United States, we simply assume that these newly engineered food proteins are not dangerous." Naomi Starkman, food policy media consultant to Consumers Union, in "Interview with Robyn O’Brien: The Unhealthy Truth", Civil Eats, June 25, 2009
"Even after thousands of years, organic and non-organic cannot mate, to put it bluntly. They can never produce an offspring together." - Daniel Ocampo, of multinational EU lobby group Greenpeace, in "GMO Debate: 'It's about ethics, nature's law'", Visayan Daily Star (Philippines), June 23, 2009
"Once planted outdoors, GM crops cannot be controlled or recalled. They proliferate and multiply, as living things will." Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, director of the Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety, in "Frankencrop Experimentation in the Caribbean - Puerto Rico: Biotech Island", CounterPunch, June 23, 2009
"Any produce that is now seedless is GMO'd." - Elyse Nuff of Live raw Kitchen, in "Are We Are Eating GMO'd Foods?", EzineArticles.com, June 20, 2009
"Try to stay away from peas and carrots as they are genetically modified." - Cleo & Patra Canine Cuisine, in "Is it healthy to feed my dog homemade food?", June 19, 2009
"Scientists from Russia's Ministry of Health are warning in a secret report to Prime Minister Putin that they have discovered a 'critical link' between the H1N1 influenza (Swine Flu) virus and genetically modified amylopectin potatoes that are consumed in massive quantities nearly exclusively by Westerners and sold in fast food restaurants as French Fries." Sorcha Faal, "Russian Scientists Warn Of Genetically Modified Fast Food Link To Pandemic Flu", WhatDoesItMean.com, June 17, 2009
"Prophet Adam and Eve were cheated by Satan and had to give up paradise; the situation with GMOs is very similar to that. In the end, what use is it to have a watermelon modified by [adding genes from] a red bug?" - Kemal Özer, chairman of the Health and Food Safety Movement, in "Experts agree Turkey needs a bio-security law, but clash over content", Sunday's Zaman (Ankara), June 14, 2009
"When we eat an apple, our bodies are able to recognize the apple since both are parts of the program. But if the apple is modified, our bodies are not able to recognize it." - Ismail Köksal, Firat University faculty of theology, in "Experts agree Turkey needs a bio-security law, but clash over content", Sunday's Zaman (Ankara), June 14, 2009
"Here comes into play the promotion of ‘global warming’. By claiming global warming will affect all nations and all peoples, and coupling the supposed climate hazard to the necessity of GM-crops lest the third world starve and die by the lack of it, the different pieces of this diabolical puzzle come together." Jurriaan Maessen, in "Beyond Golden Rice: The Rockefeller Foundation’s long-term agenda behind Genetically Modified Food", Center for Research on Globalization, June 11, 2009
"Also, doctors have already pointed out that bandages and gauze made out of Bt Cotton for use in hospitals may pose a health hazard for patients.” - Debjeet Sarangi and Jagannath Chatterjee of SwissAid-supported Living Farms, in Fight against legalisation of GM cotton strand, orissaindia.com, June 8, 2009
"The FRA [Zambian Food Reserve Agency] last February detected GMO maize which was imported into the country by GIA International and was subsequently sent back to South Africa under military escort." From FRA completes maize imports, The Lusaka Times (Zambia), June 6, 2009
"Dresden is GM-free. That's the way it should be, since nobody needs genetically manipulated apple trees." - Claim of responsibility for the destruction of a German field trial of GM apple trees by a group calling itself 'Obelix', quoted in "Öko-Anschlag in Pillnitz", Bild (Germany), June 3, 2009
"Clearly, GMOs are either an arrogant blend of controlling life through food or an insidious plot for population control." - Gregory Damato, who "runs a Quantum Biofeedback clinic treating various clients ranging from autism to cancer", in "GM-Soy: Destroy the Earth and Humans for Profit", NaturalNews.com, May 27, 2009
"Spraying chemtrails ensures the continued use of medications to treat the resulting discomfort, makes it harder for natural foods to grow, resulting in the prevalence of GMOs, and lets the government manipulate global warming trends to best suit its needs." - Dr. Edward Group of the Global Healing Center, in "Are Chemtrails Making Us Sick?", Global Healing Center Natural Health & Organic Living Blog, May 25, 2009
"I looked back at my Irish experience. We used to have these massive potato fields, and then suddenly in 1845, one pathogen wiped them out." - Columban Missionary Fr. Sean McDonagh, in "GMOs are going to create famine and hunger", National Catholic Reporter, May. 19, 2009
"We might even burn [Mexico's GM maize field trial] plots". - Miguel Colunga, leader of the EU-sponsored Democratic Campesino Front of Chihuahua, in "Cradle of Maize Rocked by Transgenics", Inter Press Service, March 16, 2009
"Since we are currently facing the global takeover of our food supply by genetically modified organisms (GMO), I feel it is time to reprint my article on the link between GMO and Morgellon's Disease." - Barbara Peterson of Farm Wars, in "GMO and Morgellon's Disease", Speak Truth 2 Power, March 12, 2009
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