Update: The DARK Act, making mandatory GMO labeling ‘illegal,’ has passed the House. It must now be voted on by the Senate, which is the last hope for defeating the bill.
Statewide GMO labeling has been ruled ‘illegal’ as the House of Representatives decides to pass the notorious ‘DARK Act,’ which puts a halt to all mandatory GMO labeling initiatives around the United States.
I’ve been warning you about this secretive bill (officially titled the ‘Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act’) since its inception, which I believe could go down in history as one of the largest attacks on the food supply in recent history. After all, the only reason that Monsanto-backed lobbying groups are so excited about this bill is because it’s their last hope. They know that they’re losing the ideological battle when it comes to the public’s opposition to GMOs and Monsanto’s cancer-linked herbicides.
Quite frankly, the DARK Act is a last ditch effort by these groups to silence the opposition through use of legislative force.
We’re talking about a bill that was drafted up by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), and pushed on us by all the usual suspects. All the ones who are afraid of you actually knowing what’s in your food. Because even if you don’t care about the genetic alteration of your food, you most certainly should be concerned as to whether or not it has been doused in Monsanto’s cancer-linked herbicides.
The GMO-loaded processed food industry is scared, and they know they’re losing the battle for the food supply. This new bill is yet another example of the tricks they will use to take away our ability to know what we’re putting in our mouths. I for one will take a stand against this resurrected ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ that could become law unless the Senate defeats it.
As Reuters reports:
“The House of Representatives was set to vote Thursday on a hotly debated measure that would block mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically engineered crops, including pre-empting a state law set to take effect next year in Vermont… House passage would mark a victory for food and agricultural companies that have lobbied for the bill, and a blow to opponents, which include consumer, health and environmental groups and organic food industry players.”
Will you stand against the DARK Act with us?
I just want to friggn’ scream!!!
I agree, but let’s hold back that joy until it is actually signed into law!!
You have noticed that you are the only one commenting that is uneducated enough to think this law is a good idea????
I guess I’m with the majority of the voters in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona (other states as well, they just haven’t had the change to have a say)
Polls show 90% nationwide oppose this bill…that’s all states
Sorry, polls are always accurate, but the election results are fact. Of course except in Arizona where they couldn’t even get the signatures to get it on the ballet. You would think that with your ninety percent that wouldn’t be a problem. Someday you will are up and see that the ones trying to profit from your stupidity aren’t Monsanto, but sites like this and industries like the organic food industry.
no polls are not always accurate but the fact is public majority would rather eat non GMO food….
Yes I’m sure you asked everyone personally.
hahahahahahahaha…you are as funny as you are senseless..see I can be childish too…
Nice comeback when you can’t come up with one of your usual lies.
I am a truthful man..you are an anonymous ignorant coward.
An idiot can be truthful if he is dumb enough to believe what he is saying. Thanks for clearing that up about yourself.
the problem is too many people are unaware or don’t vote….. that is why we have so many laws that should never have been put forth. It would be great if it were illegal to attach any unrelated item to a bill being voted on so that we would not keep having to fight this kind of sneaky crap
LOL this wasn’t sneakily attached to some other bill. Is that today’s excuse why you lost? It is always something isn’t it? I bet according to you all your life’s problems are someone else’s fault.
more childish insults….I bet you were an abused child
I bet you are as cowardly in life as you are online
Isn’t that big coming from someone online.
WOW this is unbelievable
I’m so glad my represenitive voted NO. I think 250+ need to be fired and bank accounts frozen. Publicly flogged.
you bet we put them there we can take them out !
Stop fooling yourself frankie….. nothing works that way… even if the back lash is massive, they will just append what they want passed in a bill you never heard of… like the “Highway Bill”…. and it will be hidden in 2,146 paged of gobbeldy gook..
“THEY” don’t CARE what you want… it is a big club and YOU ain’t IN IT.. to quote George Carlin.
actually what’s going to happen to them soon; but keep fighting: Abusers Apocalypse:
Abusers Apocalypse
they are no longer for the people.. they only pass anything anymore if you give them the most money in their pockets.. they all need to be fired
“No longer”? Please! 🙂 They sold us out decades ago. You’re just realizing it now… Oh well, better late than never. I hope more people wake up and see Washington for what it is – a bunch of puppets serving Big Industry at the expense of people’s health and freedom.
Part of the problem is NIMBY. Nobody knows anything until if hits them or their interests, if they get their heads out of the idiot box long enough. It’s getting so there is just so much to protest about.
They, big industry, are trying to annialate (sp?) the ignorant. That may very well be a disproportionate number of US citizens. They’re killing folks with pharma, they’re killing blacks with police brutality, they’re forcing imminent domain, they make food labeling illegal, they’re turning Americans against each other raising the head of prejudice AGAIN, sending our troops into wars we have nothing to do with, so on and so forth.
All part of the NWO plan. And the other countries laugh at us.
You missed a couple “minor” ones. 1. Mandatory vaccination and 2. Fluoridated municipal water.
What conspiracy?
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
They are upholding the constitution, not giving into public whims that have no scientific basis.
I’m against nukes. Therefore, I’m anti-science.
Being against nuclear weapons doesn’t mean you are against everything nuclear. Just like being against fast food doesn’t mean you are against gmos.
Being against GMOs does not mean you are anti-science. There has not been any study of how GMOs affect a person over the course of his lifetime. GMOs could be the cause of the Zombie Apocoplyse.
Sure it could, LOL. You can say that about any new product that enters the market. GMOs have been tested more than any food ever, and they have passed every test. Farms animals HAVE eaten them for their entire lives over many generations for the past twenty years with zero side effects.
but our honey bees and other beneficial insects are dying off
Yes and they have already ruled out gmos. If they discover it is from cell pjones are you ready to give yours up?
yep, and again you are wrong GMO’s have not been ruled out.
Oh, I’m sorry, only real scientists have ruled them out. LOL, but by all means let’s blame the corn even though bees don’t pollinate that crop let’s blame it anyway because it looks good to do so.
blah, blah, blah you love GMO’s and refuse to listen or heed any warnings..go ahead and eat your food like substances..I’ll eat natural thanks
If you don’t want to eat them that’s fine eat organic, just leave the progressive ones that are smart enough to to understand the research and not want to pay a fortune for our food alone.
You are a fool if you blindly trust the contents of what you are eating. In today’s corporate society where nothing matters but the bottom line, we would all be eating chemically flavored cow dung if it were not for constant public outrage attempting to halt the short term profitable long term deadly result of unsafe food additives. Our increasing public health costs are one concern but the more immediate damage is the loss of our honey bees and other beneficial insects to insecticide producing fields of GMO crops. Wake up and quit sucking up.
Who said anything about food additives? Maybe you shove you face full of them, but I eat fresh gmo sweet corn and gmo feed beef straight off the farm. As for the bees, they will adventually find out the real cause and it wont be from gmos. You can’t even make a good case on that subject.
Adding genetically altered food to my meal is a food additive in my book. Sure GMO crops make the farmers life easier and puts more of his profit back in the account of Agri-business however the lazy way is quite often not the best way and I’ll take my organic sweet corn and grass fed meat over your GMO anyday.
Take them that’s your right and both can already be labeled as such so why change. Don’t try to fix what isn’t broken by adding more red tape and raising food cost for people that don’t want it labeled and can’t afford it.
what? this law prevents states from labeling food correctly, it’s not fixing what is not broke that’s the issue. Chemical farming raises food costs more than this bill will.
Non gmo corn uses not only more, but more expensive chemicals than gmos do. Don’t tell me you one of the fools that thinks non gmo and organic are the same? You would be about that smart.
Not glysophate. The same regulatory system for organic applies. Chemistry is everywhere – we just don’t want the chemicals that will kill us or have long line genetically impaired issues throughout generations i.e. agent orange.
first of all agent orange isn’t available, and if it isn’t organic there are multiple chemicals that will have been applied whether gmo or not. The difference is the really dangerous ones are applied to non gmos.
Not true , we don’t use any
Because you don’t farm, that is obvious from your uneducated responses.
more lies from our ignorant inflamatory cowardly friend GMO Roberts. nonsensical insulting statements with nothing to say……anonymous comments from an uneducated coward.
While you add nothing but excuses to the discussion. Like we believe that is your real name as well.
blah blah blah…more B.S. you don’t want to have a conversation you just want to bully and rant…go eat your GMO crap since your are soooooo smart…what an amoeba
Let’s see you didn’t answer the question do you really don’t know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FkY8tKS1uo&feature=youtu.be
hope that links correctly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ztZGbLEJ0
Not only are you a troll, but you are a bad one.
If it’s your desire to eat such things, knock yourself out.
I encourage it. As for the rest of the world who has no idea what they are getting into it is OUR job to fight for fair labeling so people can make a choice. But I would advise you not to put your eggs in one basket. The bottom WILL drop out.
Sorry there ruthy, but gmos are not only here to stay, but will only keep increasing. Your kind of lies will never win.
If that’s so, and since you are here to represent the ugly face of Monsanto, why is that Monsanto employees won’t eat GMO food? Don’t tell me I’m FOS because I know two biotech engineers who work for Monsanto, they know full well that GMO is unhealthy and they won’t eat it themselves.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However out of the thousands of employees two hardly makes up all of them.
There are not thousands of Monsanto biotech engineers. These are the people who create GMO’s. How many biotech engineers do you know? Opinions are formed from data… or just formed out of the clear blue. Your opinions are scripted and bought, this doesn’t make them true or better or even relevant.
Scripted? You have no clue as to who I am so don’t even go there Robbie. I have met a few biotech people, none with Monsanto though, not really a big Monsanto fan. As far as your stated opinions you really haven’t said anything worth while. We have your “claim” that you know people. Now there’s a real winner. What I have listed are verifiable facts, of course verifying them would mean you would actually have to look something up. I bet you stick to your cute little stories and your whining.
You’re right, I have no clue who you are because your Disqus account is private, protected by a snotty little bot that says, “Deal with it!” I see you have made 1994 comments, all on GMO, because when I went looking for sources to disprove your claim that GMO is safe, I found you freaking everywhere, with all kinds of comebacks and insults and not a single provable fact. For instance this one:
http://www.naturalnews.com/050395_GMO_corn_pesticide_use_neonicotinoids.html
So I’m very glad you are dosing yourself with GMO corn because, gosh darn it, corn is corn! Fact! Please continue to do so at every available opportunity.
well capitalism! what’s wrong with trying to make more profit for yourself? Within the guidelines you are allowed to cause turmoil AS LONG AS YOU benefit.
core belief of capitalism :
“Every individual… neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it… he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”
As far as this goes nothing is wrong.
Corporations using government is not capitalism its called fascism ok read a book.
Well at least products can still say NON GMO, Right (?)
Nope, that will be dismantled as well.
Wrong the bill sets up a system for companies to be non gmo if they wish just like the certified organic.
You are incorrect. The bill creates a voluntary Non-GMO certification program, just like the USDA certified organics program. Also nonprofit certification programs, like the non-gmo project, would not be impacted.
No. The bill actually does the exact opposite.
Seriously?
I guess organic is our only label that assures Non GMO.
only buy organic …that’s labeled
Yes but if it’s ‘illegal’ to label…
Vote with your dollar. There’s a reason Monsanto & McDonald’s are both losing profits.
LOL, did you see Monsanto’s 3Q report? Earnings were up over 30% from a year ago.
Yes, but their net income for the first fiscal 9 months of 2015 is 3% lower than 2014…so they are not exactly killing it this year.
http://www.monsanto.com/investors/documents/2015/2015.06.24_mon_q3f15_earnings.pdf
SONS OF B*STARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT DOES IT I’M MOVING TO RUSSIA!!!
Only in America …. Deep pockets buy legislated forced compliance…..WTF?
Monsanto’s motto: if you can’t beat ’em, ban their right to know!
Nope–not only in America. Canada doesn’t require GMO labeling either. Or Mexico. Or most of South America. And very few African countries do…
not requiring it is different than what has happened here. our elected officials have blatantly ignored the will of the public in favor of one large corporate contributor. this is criminal.
If this bill passes, it will end mandatory labeling in all states, meaning states can’t require it. So how is that different from not requiring it?
Huh? Whaaat? Duhhh?
That’s what I thought…
The U.S. can’t stop a state law without constitutional authority, which is lacking.
Labeling isn’t the only issue. Some countries ban GMOs outright, which also keeps the label less cluttered.
Those countries you mentioned are heavily influenced by US commerse. This means they have no choice but to accept the US standard which is capitolism over the population. How many countries would constitute most of Europe. They dont allow GMO’s. Include Australia and New Zealand too.
So forget name calling and blaming. What can actually be done from the consumer’s side of the equation? I already grow the majority of my own veggies (which I generally buy as starters from local farmers but some I’ve managed to make reproduce every year.) But being an apartment dweller, there is simply too many things I cannot do for myself. I would really like more info on what I need to look for in stores.
Best thing I can say is know exactly what is in the ingredients list. If it’s filled with chemicals, then no. As for meats, I don’t know what to say because all the labels would likely be removed.
This comment is filled with absolute stupidity, Unless you are not eating period it is impossible to not consume chemicals
Bingo.
Well the Food Babe did say “There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.” …Guess Vani doesn’t drink water . Or even breathe…
Great idea. Or how about this; The entire nation boycott the purchase of corn and all products containing corn. That would wake them up!
Another reason to support the ONLY anti-GMO presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders.
I’ll make sure not to…
What was the first reason? He’s a socialist.
NO “president” is going to make one iota of difference.
Wake UP!….. the candidates ALL work for the same cabal, regardless of what rhetoric they spew out or what cute little donkey or elephant pin they wear on their lapel~!!!
Contact the office of Mike Pompeo,Wichita Kansas hes one of the senators pushing the bill.tell him what you think.
Absolutely, it’s essential that we start voicing our opposition and make it a national issue, as it’s the only way we can hopefully force Senators to vote ‘no’ on this bill.
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
Edmund Burke
They are upholding the constitution, not giving into public whims that have no scientific basis.
Then why not make it public if there is nothing wrong with GMOs?
Why label them differently? Corn is corn. Each different hybrid is not listed on the list so why this? Corn that is sprayed with Atrazine isn’t singled out and labeled differently so why should this be? Especially when there is zero scientific evidence for doing so.
God your such a corpoRATe piss boy Bobo! So what kind of a government do we have?? That’s right, A plutocracy or a kakocracy! The 1% wins every time! Don’t forget to drink your fluoride and get vaccinated!
The Depopulation Agenda For a New World Order Agenda 21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-62uxbMBM
Hybrid and genetically altered are very different.
So what it is my RIGHT to know as a consumer nothing else matters. LOL, two different hybrids have fewer genes in common than a gmo and its non gmo counterpart.
that’s not true and I think we’re done. I’ll agree to disagree and pity your stubborn ill informed position.
What’s not true? Or should I say what don’t you understand this time?
“hybrids have fewer genes in common than a gmo and its non gmo counterpart.” this statement is not true…..or could be true with certain combinations but either way is totally irrelevant to the conversation. What is unnaturally added to the DNA of the plant is the problem…I really don’t have time to bring you up to speed. Sorry for that. Take some time and do some research.
First of all you don’t know much about plant genetics that is obvious or you would be making such stupid statements. Since you have not a clue I will bring you up to speed on how a seed company actually develops new gmo hybrids. First they breed thousands of non gmo hybrids and put them through testing selecting the ones that they deem fit for the next phase. Then, they will put them in small field plots to see if they actually perform as good as they did in original testing. The ones out of this phase are now ready to become gmo and to make them roundup ONE gene is replaced and then off for more test with the single new trait out of twenty plus thousand. You really need to shut your pie hole until you can at keep up a novice conversation.
hahahahahahaha…you must be sweating by now
Well it is hot here at the beach. Oh, don’t be stupid enough to think it has anything to do with what you say.
Funny you mentioned seed plots their bobby. Cross contamination into organic fields is a major issue among farmers who are sued by Monsanto on the allegation that the farmers stole the GM seeds that migrated into the farmers fields. Pretty slick trick eh Bobby?.
Try to name one there Timmy ol boy. They have only sued if the farmer tries to take advantage of the free gmo like the Canadian canola farmer did.
don’t even know how to respond to such ignorance
Lol, how many plant breeding facilities have you actually been to? How many years have you actually been in the seed business? I imagine it is all you can do to spell gmo.
What difference does it make? People eat things that are bad for them all the time. Some say eating fat is bad, others artificial coloring, others animal. So what if I decide I don’t want to eat GMO’s because the sky is blue? Tell me why that shouldn’t be MY choice to make.
It is grow your own, buy organic, or buy non gmo. Why should everyone else pay because you want something?
Actually, not. Translocation mutations happen all the time in “nature”. Natural selection lets some survive and others not. Did you know the human genome contains genes that originated with bacteria? I share your concerns about increased pesticide use, monoculture crops, restrictive plant patents, and environmental impacts. Let’s concentrate on the intent and the results of specific uses of transgenesis rather than condemning the process itself.
again…hybrid and genetically altered are very different. Your nonsense answer adds nothing to discussion. changing DNA is much different than cross pollination and the long term effects are completely unknown.
Translocation doesn’t refer to cross pollination or hybridization. It is a “natural” process of gene mutation. Happens all the time in “nature.” I can see why you misinterpreted my response because your comment referred only to “hybrid and genetically altered.” My point is that “nature” includes “genetically altered” organisms. Long term effects of both hybrids or genetic mutations are equally unknown. By the way, I can’t wait to plant a known blight resistant transgenic American chestnut in my back yard to cross pollinate with my wild American chestnut “mother trees” as soon as it receives regulatory approval. Much safer than planting an American-Chinese hybrid with unknown resistance and thousands of Chinese genes with unknown long term effects.
Because GMO corn s not corn, it’s GMO corn. Hybrids are not the same as GMO. I know that’s what some people believe, but that is perception and it is not my perception, and we are talking about what I am going to put into MY body. Some people don’t want gluten and not because they are allergic to it. I think that is silly, but you know what? That is their prerogative, and not eating GMO’s is mine..
Huge differences. Gmo corn is corn, genetically and nutritionally, whether you think so or not, that is your opinion. As far as gluten you hit it on the head. Some people ARE allergic, this has been proven, so there is a medical reason for that. There is no scientific or medical reason for your fear of gmos. That being said, there are already outlets for you to avoid them. Which no one is trying to take away.
GMO corn is modified corn. Modified to incorporate the genetic disposition of a fungus that can survive the poisonous herbicide. Ready Round up is the herbacide in one season. The weeds keep mutating to tolerate the herbacide as well. Now they want to use Agent orange in the mix. They created a monster, like the pesticides that are rendered useless when the next generation of insect grows tolerant within an environment that removes all insect life good and bad. They feed off the crops and propogate abundatly. Too bad they dont like weeds.
All corn has been modified, in fact almost everything we eat today is here thanks to modification by man, including your precious organic. Your fungus is in reality a bacteria, and it is only one specific gene from that bacteria. Your little conspiracy about Monsanto making all the money shows how little you know of farming, or your desire to spread lies. Monsanto sells than half the seed in this country, and the majority of the roundup sold is from generic companies. The price of roundup is also about twenty five percent of what it was when gmos came out. As far as buying seed every year? Farmers have bought seed corn seed every year long before gmos, and the people that saved soybeans were dropping every year before gmos arrived as well. Your lie about agent orange would be funny, if not for all the people that were affected by it. The main component 2,4-5 T has been banned in this country for many years. 2,4-d the minor component has been used continuously since the fifties safely and effectively. It is sad that your position is so weak that you feel you must spread lies.
That component is the magic ingredient needed to control the herbicides now resistant to round up.
Fifty years safely and effectivly IF your not the poor picker who suffers from the exposure of increased toxicity from overuse of the herbicide that becomes less and less effective each and every year.
Farmers have been forced to buy new seeds according to agreements reached with Monstrosto. Its against the law to replant last seasons seeds.
Litigation by Monsanto against farmers that have been contaminated by GMO seeds is big business. More often than not the contaminated seed takes over organic seeds and the farmer is sued for theft. Slick trick.
Spreading lies is for salesman. Im just a consumer.
http://naturalsociety.com/monsantos-gmo-seeds-farmer-suicides-every-30-minutes/
This information is not for you salesman type, its for those who have to listen to your rants.
http://www.washingtonsblog. /2014/01/genetically-engineered-crops-responsible-increase-383-million-pounds-herbicide-use-u-s-first-13-years-commercial-use.html
//icppc.pl/antygmo/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/scientific-refs-gm-crops-aug6-kuruganthi.pdf
http: on the bottom link and
com on the top.
Consumers shouldnt be ignorant of the products they buy because they are hidden by manufacturers. If GMO labeling was required people would have a choice and food manufacturers would have to improve their product to the standards we need to stay healthy. Red Bull is not a satisfactory supplement by the way.
Every time I here the phrase safely and effectivly Im reminded of the DDT salesman that drank DDT in front of villigers exclaiming the stuff is safe because he didnt drop like a rock. The villigeres laughed at him and tried to educate the dolt about competition and good land managment. You can find the video on youtube.
Too many developed first world countries are now fighting to remove the contaminated seed from their countries and third world countries that have experienced the Monsonto crunch are refusing to be serviced. Some have succeded.
From an article in patient advocates web site. /GMO-food–what-is-the-controversy-really-about-are-genetically-modified-foods-harmful-to-our-health
“GMO foods have been outlawed in most European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand. Japan and Korea have outlawed the importation of
genetically modified wheat. There is a major effort in the US to require labeling of GMO foods so people have a choice. Since our capitalistic society demands an outcry loud enough for our courts and law makers to hear its essential that the facts make their way through the fog and out in the open.
Glyposate in and of itself isnt the monster, its the chemicals within the mixture that allow for full exposure by creating a higher absorption rate, thus allowing more of the glyphosate to enter the plant. Again from the article.
“…formulations, all containing POEA and glyphosate at concentrations below
the recommended lawn and agricultural dose. “They also tested POEA and
glyphosate separately to determine which caused more damage to
embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells.
Glyphosate, POEA and all four Roundup formulations damaged all three
cell types. Umbilical cord cells were especially sensitive to POEA.
Glyphosate became more harmful when combined with POEA, and POEA alone was more deadly to cells than glyphosate. The research appears in the
January issue of the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.
Maybe you could do yourself a favor and look up birth defects in farm workers. Babies born without brains and deformaties that resemble the aftermath of a nuclear fallout.
Abut the GMO corn. If the corn is resistant to poisons like herbicides that means its not natural. How it effects me wouldnt be natural either. I dont want to eat something that will fight back in ways I wont see for decades. I can howerver see the data researched by professionals not tied to the industry and they dont agree with reality, just the programed hypothesis that the chemical can be used according to manufactures but never is, and cant, because its not enough to do the job. Also, I have a choice and I choose to know if the food is GMO or naturally grown without the use of syringes and outside influences not seen in a natural environment.
Lol, you mean food like seedless watermelons that are labeled organic. You are proving that you know very little about your food. Non gmo corn has much greater amounts of pesticides sprayed on this and has for decades, yet you don’t seem to care about it because you never actually learned how it was grown.
Since I work with glyphosate daily and have for many years, let me tell you my son is just fine. All of my customers w