It seems that Monsanto has been dumping banned, carcinogenic chemicals in the bay, and the city of San Diego isn’t too happy about it.
The city of San Diego and the San Diego Unified Port District filed a lawsuit on Monday against the biotech giant Monsanto, accusing the company for polluting the city’s bay for more than 30 years with a carcinogenic chemical that was long ago banned due to its abhorrent affects on human health.
The chemicals in question are Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). According to a report published by Food & Water Watch, the biotech bully is responsible for creating more than 99% of this dangerous chemical. It has been found in the bay’s sediments, the water, and in the tissues of multiple forms of aquatic life including in fish and lobster sampled from the bay.
From the March 16 complaint:
“PCBs manufactured by Monsanto have been found in Bay sediments and water and have been identified in tissues of fish, lobsters, and other marine life in the Bay. PCB contamination in and around the Bay affects all San Diegans and visitors who enjoy the Bay, who reasonably would be disturbed by the presence of a hazardous, banned substance in the sediment, water, and wildlife.
PCBs were not only a substantial factor in causing the City and Port District to incur damages, but a primary driving force behind the need to clean up and abate Bay sediments. In addition, fish consumption warnings are posted at locations in and around Bay tidelands warning the public that fish within the Bay may contain contaminants and directing consumption limitations.”
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The San Diego Reader notes one of the charges put forth by the city of San Diego, stating how Monsanto continued to try and protect its profits while prolonging the use of PCB compounds – even in the face of PCB risks.
PCBs are named under the Toxic Substances Control Act by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and have specific storage and disposal requirements – none of which include dumping the chemicals in San Diego’s waterways.
This toxic substance is heavier than water and can easily be absorbed, even into microorganisms, though Monsanto would like us to believe otherwise.
The EPA’s own review of PCBs stated clearly that:
“There is clear evidence that PCBs cause cancer in animals.”
- “An industry scientist commented that ‘all significant studies have been reviewed and are fairly represented in the document.”
- “The literature presents overwhelming evidence that PCBs cause cancer in animals.”
“An industry-sponsored peer-reviewed rat study characterized as the ‘gold standard study’ by one peer reviewer, demonstrated that every commercial PCB mixture tested caused cancer.”
Monsanto should pay every man, woman, and child in San Diego and the surrounding area for exposing them to extremely high cancer risks as well as devastating marine life and water supplies.
Health Agency Says Widely Used Herbicide Likely Carcinogenic
By Dow Jones Business News, March 20, 2015, 05:20:00 PM EDT
Glyphosate, a herbicide widely marketed by Monsanto Co. and other companies, likely has the potential to cause cancer in humans, a World Health Organization agency said Friday.
The determination, published by researchers for the International Agency for Research on Cancer in a U.K. medicaljournal, is likely to fuel further debate over the safety of the heavily used agricultural chemical, which Monsanto sells under the Roundup brand.
Consumer and environmental groups have long warned of health problems that they say could arise from applying the weedkiller on farms, while agricultural companies have touted the product’s safety and environmental impact as preferable to other, harsher chemicals. Officials at Monsanto and agricultural-chemical trade groups contested Friday’s finding, saying decades of research had proved glyphosate’s safety.
Glyphosate is the most-used herbicide in the U.S., according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Farmers have ramped up its use over the past two decades with the advent of genetically modified crops, including corn and soybeans, which can withstand sprayings of the chemical. Herbicide-tolerant biotech plants were grown on 94% of U.S. soybean fields and 89% of U.S. corn fields last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In classifying glyphosate as potentially cancer-causing, the international research agency cited studies of occupational exposure to glyphosate in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, which they wrote showed “increased risks for non-Hodgkin lymphoma” along with a positive trend for some ailments in mice in separate studies. Though the researchers cited “limited evidence” that glyphosate was a carcinogen for humans, they classified it as probably carcinogenic to them, according to the article.
The assessment followed a meeting this month among 17 experts representing 11 countries, who evaluated the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate and four other pesticides. The research agency, which hasn’t previously classified glyphosate, monitors global cancer cases while trying to identify causes and responses.
The classification, may prompt Monsanto to update some safety information for its glyphosate products,which is typically compiled on websites or included when products are sold, Mr. Miller said. The company has requested ameeting with WHO to discuss the classification, he said.
Beyond Pesticides, a Washington-based advocacy group that has targeted glyphosate and other agricultural chemicals, plans to use the research agency’s report to push the EPA and USDA to revisit policies on glyphosate and genetically modified crops designed to withstand it, said Nichelle Harriott, science and regulatory director for the group.
Very nice job of copy and pasting I really like the part “limited evidence”. By the way johnny what type of government do we have again?
A fascist dictatorship?
Still don’t know what kind of government we have do you.
A fascist dictatorship?
We’re winning the battle against GM hormones in milk.
As the natural foods retailers addressed the issue of genetically
engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST) in dairy products they
began by educating shoppers on the health dangers associated with rbGH.
At the same time, they made certain that rbGH-free brands were readily
available in their stores.
As public concern reached a tipping point and shoppers stopped buying
genetically modified dairy products, food manufacturers responded. Over
the last three years, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Kroger, Dannon and Yoplait
and over half of the 100 top dairies have removed their rbGH products. Consumers are still at the top of the food chain!
How do you know they have removed it johnny? Are they testing for it? Problem John boy, you can’t. The hormone is naturally occurring you can’t tell the natural from the synthetic once it is in the animal. By the way what type of government we got johnny?
Why don’t you prove it hasn’t plus the difference is in how it affects the actions that the hormone controls. You’re again missing the complex from the simple. You know what they say simple minds only understand simple things
Prove it hasn’t what johnny? I made no statement as such in my comment above John boy. Maybe you need to reread that part again like you need to reread what type of government we have.
Sorry wrong again
Why don’t you prove it hasn’t plus the difference is in how it affects
the actions that the hormone controls. You’re again missing the complex
from the simple. You know what they say simple minds only understand
simple things
You seem to have trouble doing even that johnny, but tell us what kind of government do we have?
A fascist dictatorship?
Swing and a miss!! Keep in ther johnny, you will never make fan club president if you don’t.
No reply necessary- empty post.
Most of yours are, but thanks for admitting it Johnny. Now tell us what kind of government we have.
No reply necessary- empty post.
Maybe you should try charm school. You’re really a particularly obnoxious troll.
Lol! Well said. You sound just like a foxnews loving bush fan if I ever saw one.
A fascist dictatorship?
A fascist dictatorship??
Swing and a miss try again johnny boy wonder.
Now actually go back and read this and then tell us all what it really said
It is a shame YOU didn’t read the full text where it said “The AHS cohort did not show a significantly increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.” But what do you expect from someone that doesn’t even know what type of government we have.
Now actually go back and read this and then tell us all what it really said
In classifying glyphosate as potentially cancer-causing, the
international research agency cited studies of occupational exposure to
glyphosate in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, which they wrote showed
“increased risks for non-Hodgkin lymphoma” along with a positive trend
for some ailments in mice in separate studies. Though the researchers
cited “limited evidence” that glyphosate was a carcinogen for humans,
they classified it as probably carcinogenic to them, according to the
article.
It is a shame you didn’t read the full text where it said “The AHS cohort did not show a significantly increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.” But what do you expect from someone that doesn’t even know what type of government we have.
Sorry bud wrong again
Consumers control the future of food.
The stakes are high, but consumers inevitably control the outcome. We
saw that a small percentage of shoppers avoiding GM brands was enough to
trigger a dairy industry cleanout of bovine growth hormone (rbGH and
rbST). A consumer driven tipping point a decade ago has kept GMOs out of
the European Union food supply in spite of government approvals. The
estimated critical number for a US tipping point is as little as 15
million health conscious shoppers choosing non-GMO brands.
Don’t give yourself too much credit johnny, there is NO test for a cow that has been given bst. The main reason it is no longer used by most dairies is because it didn’t work that well. Maybe you should stick to trying to figure out what type of government we have johnny.
Monsanto’s own data shows that there is a 79% increase
in mastitis (udder infections) and a resulting 19% increase in somatic
cell counts (pus & bacteria in the milk). In fact, the warning label
on Monsanto’s Posilac drug (their brand name for rBGH) explicitly
states: “Cows injected with POSILAC are at an increased risk for
clinical mastitis (visibly abnormal milk). The number of cows affected
with clinical mastitis and the number of cases per cow may increase….
In some herds, use of POSILAC has been associated with increases in
somatic cell counts [pus & bacteria].” The warning label goes on to
say “use of POSILAC may result in an increase in digestive disorders
such as indigestion, bloat, and diarrhea…. Studies indicated that cows
injected with POSILAC had increased numbers of enlarged hocks and
lesions (e.g., lacerations, enlargements, calluses) of the
knee…and…of the foot region.”
Thanks for giving me a history lesson on it johnny, but I already dwarf you in dairy knowledge as the dairy sector is our largest feed customers. The real reason bst was ditched by the farmers was that the poor cows would literary milk themselves to death in two to three lactations. Replacing her was more expensive then the extra milk. Today usage has been refined so that only the highly managed herds use it and then only sparingly. Yes, Johnny this still goes on even despite your precious bans, but since it is impossible to test for in the milk, since it occurs naturally as well, no one ever knows. Now Johnny that we have our bst update, tell me what kind of government do we have again?
There is a difference which has been scientifically proven as my information already proves. But I guess when you are been forced by your boss you will say anything to hide from the truth
Yes you listed so many references. Your problem is johnny things go differently in the real world from you lab sometimes. By the way what kind of government do we have johnny?
The real world? What would you know about the real world- someone who has been sponging off your mommy for so many years
You must really be getting upset johnny to reach the bottom of the barrel. Most people give the mommy jokes up after third grade. Shows your lack of originality though. Maybe you should just stick to the type of government we have Johnny. Anything more complicated seems out of your league.
I only use that when it is true due to the trademark signature of trolls like you that have no meaningful existence but as parasites. Really pathetic.
If the shoe fits wear it.
And what kind of government have we Bobo
Gee johnny, one time I work for Monsanto, next time I just live off the charity of mommy, you flip flop on all the issues don’t you. Come on now and tell us about our government John boy.
You are working for Monsanto but your pay is so poor that you have to live with your mommy. But why am I telling you the obvious- you already know that. And tell us what kind of government do we have Bobo
rBGH is a genetically
engineered variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows. Sold
to dairy farmers under the trade name Posilac (formerly owned by
Monsnato, now owned by Eli Lilly), injection of this hormone forces cows
to boost milk production by about 10%, while increasing mastitis,
lameness, and reproductive complications.
Thanks to consumer pressure (including OCA’s Millions Against
Monsanto campaign), major retailers, dairies, and cafes, from Kroger to
Starbucks, have commited to sourcing milk from rBGH-free cows.
Lol, still believing in fairy tales johnny? What kind of government do we have again?
The wolf is guarding the hen house:
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved rBGH in 1993, despite criticism that the effects of rBGH were never properly assessed.The FDA’s approval was based solely on one study administered by Monsanto in which rBGH was tested for 90 days on 30 rats. Although the FDA stated that the results showed no significant problems, the study was never actually published.
The FDA continues to assure consumers that rBGH is safe for cows and humans, despite evidence to the contrary. In 1994, the FDA prohibited dairies from claiming there is any difference between milk from rBGH-injected cows and milk produced without the artificial hormone.
( this is why GMO Roberts thinks that everything is fine)
In 1998, an assessment by Health Canada determined that the results
of Monsanto’s 90-day study provided reason for review before approval of
rBGH. F FToday, the European Union, FJapan F, Australia, FNew Zealand Fand Canada Fdo not allow the use of rBGH due to animal and human health concerns.
Like I said johnny, there is no test for it, so all those nations could be drinking it and no one would ever know. By the way what kind of government do we have John boy?
rBGH is a genetically
engineered variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows. Sold
to dairy farmers under the trade name Posilac (formerly owned by
Monsnato, now owned by Eli Lilly), injection of this hormone forces cows
to boost milk production by about 10%, while increasing mastitis,
lameness, and reproductive complications.
Thanks to consumer pressure (including OCA’s Millions Against
Monsanto campaign), major retailers, dairies, and cafes, from Kroger to
Starbucks, have commited to sourcing milk from rBGH-free cows.
Lol, by the time the ban was in place hardly anyone was using it. Now there are no inspections so and no test for it so no one really knows who uses it. Tell us about our government again johnny.
That’s a pretty easy commitment when hardly anybody was using it anyway. Tell us what kind of government you think we have johnny rocket?
I win the argument and then you change the subject to weasel out. Readers can see you- you’re as transparent as ice and just as cold. And what kind of government do we have Bobo
If it makes you happy then you won johnny! Of course anybody that really knows the dairy business is laughing at you right now. Go ahead and buy you bst free milk since you are so sure it 100% is johnny. By the way just what type of government do we have?
Thanks to consumer pressure (including OCA’s Millions Against
Monsanto campaign), major retailers, dairies, and cafes, from Kroger to
Starbucks, have commited to sourcing milk from rBGH-free cows.
Sure it is johnny. Tell us how Kroger monitors that why don’t you. But first tell us about our government.
Hate being wrong don’t you Bobo. But I guess you must be used to it by now
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. Now tell us what kind of government we have.
Oh, Braum’s owns the dairy farms in Oklahoma is longer use rBGH because of consumer pressure against it years ago. So Braum’s is well known fast food place in the southwest.
A 1991 report by Rural Vermont, a nonprofit farm advocacy group, revealed that rBGH-injected cows that were part of a Monsanto-financed study at the University of Vermont suffered serious health problems, including an alarming rise in the number of deformed calves and dramatic increases in mastitis, a painful bacterial infection of the udder, which causes inflammation, Fswelling, and pus and blood secretions into milk. These findings are supported by Health Canada’s 1998 report, which concluded that the use of rBGH increases the risk of mastitis by 25 percent, affects reproductive functions, increases the risk of clinical lameness by 50 percent, and shortens the lives of cows.
To treat mastitis outbreaks, the dairy industry relies on antibiotics. Critics of rBGH point to the subsequent increase in antibiotic use (which contributes to the growing problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria) and inadequacies in the federal government’s testing program for antibiotic residues in milk.
Milk from rBGH-treated cows contains higher levels of IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor-1). While humans naturally have IGF-1, elevated levels in humans have been linked to colon and breast cancer. Although no direct connection has been made between elevated IGF-1 levels in milk and elevated IGF-1 levels or cancer in humans, some scientists have expressed concern over the possibility of this relationship.
Gee gully johnny, you mean cows on bst have health problems and shorter milking lives? Maybe that is why by the time your precious bans took place the majority of farmers had already quit using it. It had nothing to do with your consumer demand, but farmer need. Glad you printed that comment johnny so you could prove me right, thanks. By the way go ahead and put one up about what kind of government we have as well.
Farmers didn’t need it
-only Monsanto needed it
Farmers were glad to try it, there was just a lot that weren’t smart enough to manage it. Tell us what kind of government do we have johnny?
Oh my there you go again insulting the farmers again and most of the population. You’re not very well liked here Bobo
People that tell the truth usually aren’t, because people like you can’t handle the truth. You think I insulted farmers? Most know if they are intensive managers or not and most aren’t. They are fine with it because each farm is different and ther is more than me way to do it sucessfully. What type of government do we have again johnny?
Nice try to sidestep the issue Bobo- you still are hated by the farmers and you have no tact and all you do is tell lies. and what kind of government do we have?
Gee johnny, why don’t you name any of my customers that you are talking about. By the way fess up what kind of government do you think we have again?
Sorry confidential- by the way what form of government do we have
That’s the same as saying you lied again johnny, so just move on to what type of government we have.
Prove it
Hard to prove something that doesn’t exist, like your intelligence for example. Sense you believe there is a test then enlighten us I’m sure we will all be receptive to you humor. While you are at it tell us what kind of a government we have as well johnny.
As usual you miss the point but then you really don’t understand the science behind GMOs but then there is no incentive to understand it since your boss who feeds you these lines is only interested in you fulfilling your trolling duties for Monsanto.
Tell us again what type of government you think we have again johnny?
On paper or in reality?
humor me johnny let’s have you three part harmony explanation on both. I will go get some gmo popcorn for this one, if it only existed that is, but give it time John boy it will get here.
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Translation please -from Monsantoish to English
No such thing as GMO popcorn unless you add a GMO ingredient like GMO corn oil.
How about the gmo butter? Oh yea butter doesn’t count does it? LOL.
Duh, I said you could add a Gmo ingredient like oil, no such thing as Gmo butter either just poor cows fed Gmo feed and rbst growth hormone.
My point exactly, the gmos don’t come through the milk because they can’t, just like they do zero harm to humans that eat them. If I could I would draw you a picture so you could understand.
Lol, you are so ignorant, reasoning with you is like trying to administer medicine to the dead. The cows could not be certified organic if they were mistreated by being fed Gmos or rbgh. As eating the bad ingredients is detrimental to their health as it is to humans. The butter is still not genetically modified. People think you are a computer program because your incapable of following logical conclusions.
You moron I’m not talking organic I’m talking non gmo labeled dairy products. They don’t exist. They are even exempt in such places as Europe that require labeling. Even you precious Ben & Jerry’s uses gmo milk, because they can and still label non gmo. Are you really this stupid?
1. Cows are fed GMO grains so GMOs enter the cow indirectly.
2. The bovine growth hormone rBGH injected into cows increases production of the hormone Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), which is a cancer accelerator associated with breast, prostate and colon cancers.
This has been known since the late 1990s!
When FDA’s researchers originally tested the hormone they found that it was a health hazard but they were ignored and in many cases, fired. The FDA is stacked with former Monsanto executives thanks to the ever revolving door in Washington.
Monsanto sold their rBGH to Eli Lilly, (the makers of Prozac). So now Eli Lilly makes both rBGH (linked to breast and prostate cancer) as well as the drugs for treating breast cancer (Evista and Gemzar). Disgusting marketing plan and a capital crime against the health of the world.
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Environmental Research Foundation
May 8, 1998
BREAST CANCER, rBGH AND MILK
Peter Montague, National Writers Union
A study of U.S. women published May 9 in the LANCET links insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) with breast cancer. Earlier this year a study linked IGF-1 to prostate cancer. IGF-1 levels are now being artificially increased in much of the cows’ milk being sold throughout the U.S.
The latest study found a 7-fold increased risk of breast cancer among pre-menopausal women younger than age 51 with the highest levels of IGF-1 in their blood. The prostate cancer study published in SCIENCE in January, 1998, found a 4-fold increase in risk of prostate cancer among men with the highest levels of IGF-1 in their blood.
IGF-1 is a powerful naturally-occurring growth hormone found in the blood of humans. Dairy cows injected with genetically-engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH) give milk containing elevated levels of IGF-1, and the IGF-1 in milk can pass into the blood stream of milk consumers. Ingested IGF-1 would ordinarily be broken down in the stomach, but the presence of casein in milk prevents such breakdown.
rBGH is injected into cows to extend by several weeks their period of lactation, and thus to force them to produce more milk. (rBGH injections cause numerous ill effects in cows, shortened lifespan and mastitis, an infection of the udder requiring continuous antibiotics). rBGH is not needed because U.S. dairy cows produce such an excess of milk that the government spends more than $200 million a year purchasing the surplus.
Says Dr. Samuel S. Epstein at the University of Illinois, “The entire nation is currently being subjected to an experiment involving large-scale adulteration of an age-old dietary staple by a poorly characterized and unlabeled biotechnology product. Even more disturbingly, it poses major potential public health risks for the entire U.S. population.”
Historically, the FDA has maintained a very close relationship with Monsanto, the chemical company that spent a billion dollars developing rBGH. The FDA approved rBGH for cows in 1993 and issued regulations that made it appear to be illegal to label milk. Some of the FDA officials who approved rBGH and who established the regulations discouraging labeling had previously worked for Monsanto. After approving rBGH, they went back to Monsanto.
Monsanto is notorious for marketing dangerous products while falsely claiming safety. The entire planet is now contaminated with hormone-disrupting, cancer-causing PCBs thanks to their poor judgment. Also 2,4,5-T in Agent Orange –the herbicide that injured tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans.
Recently, Monsanto lawyers frightened Fox WTVT in Tampa, Florida into killing an investigative series that raised questions about rBGH and cancer. Fox fired two award winning-reporters, Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, who are now suing Fox.]
Legal documents in the case as well as Monsanto’s threatening letters are posted at http://www.foxbghsuit.com.
In classifying glyphosate as potentially cancer-causing, the
international research agency cited studies of occupational exposure to
glyphosate in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, which they wrote showed
“increased risks for non-Hodgkin lymphoma” along with a positive trend
for some ailments in mice in separate studies. Though the researchers
cited “limited evidence” that glyphosate was a carcinogen for humans,
they classified it as probably carcinogenic to them, according to the
article.
Read this again and try to get the point? I won’t give you too many chances then you will put up for ridicule.
You see johnny your problem is that the article you read only printed part of the paper. You had to go to the iarc website to actually read the whole thing which followed your little part with mine above. Try and actually do all the research, like find out what kind of government we actually have. You incompetence is appalling.
Again you are missing the forest for the trees. But I am not going to spell it out for you since you have been brainwashed by your bosses at Monsanto.
Johnny, we back to who you think I work for, let’s go back to what type of government you think we have? See what you think has already been proven wrong many times.
No wrong again – you only have one more chance – read it again and try do it without your boss breathing down your neck. You probably don’t think straight under that kind of pressure.
I did read the full article not the partial one like you did johnny boy. Now what kind of government do we have johnny?
We are a democratic republic…that is supposed to mean a representative democracy. Unfortunately, conglomerates like Monsanto are able to buy off enough of our representatives to invalidate that claim.
MIT Scientist Exposes Consequence of Monsanto’s Glyphosate & Aluminum Cocktail
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/
http://www.alternet.org/food/meet-controversial-mit-scientist-who-claims-have-discovered-cause-gluten-sensitivty
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/glyphosate/NancySwanson.pdf
http://naturalsociety.com/dr-stephanie-seneff-mit-scientist-explains-synergistic-effect-aluminum-glyphosate-poisoning-cause-skyrocketing-autism/
http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/impact.html
http://agriculturalinsights.com/how-toxic-is-roundup-glyphosate-stephanie-seneff/
MIT Researcher: Glyphosate Herbicide will Cause Half of All Children to Have Autism by 2025
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mit-researcher-glyphosate-herbicide-will-cause-half-of-all-children-to-have-autism-by-2025/
http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/05/06/navigating-the-agricultural-biotech-minefield-when-an-mit-study-is-not-an-mit-study/#comment-1283760206
WOW this great stuff. Thanks for the links. There is so much damning evidence here against Monsanto and others. No wonder there are so many hired Consanto agents trolling and lying on this board.
These poison seed companies should really start to worry about their profits and future existence. The mountains of evidence continue to pile up!
You are supporting a global death trap for generations to come.
Prove it johnny, and while you are at it tell us what kind of government we have.
Prove you are not and while you are at it tell us all about the style of government we have Bobo
Come on johnny everyone is waiting, tell us, about the government that is.
Monsanto, Eli Lilly, Upjohn, and American Cyanamid are
the four corporations that stood to profit from the $500 Million to be
made from worldwide marketing of rBGH. While they all competed to
develop rBGH, only Monsanto has continued to develop and market it. The
first 3 of these four companies are convicted corporate felons. All 4
of them have a history of chemical plants that explode, toxic waste
spills, deadly toxic gas cloud releases, consumer pharmaceutical
products that kill people and produce birth defects, conspiracy to fix
prices, antitrust violations, predatory and monopolistic practices,
and/or failure to inform Federal officials of testing results indicating
fatalities connected to their products.
The proven corrupt power of the Monsanto fascist regime:
While the FDA was lax in its review of rBGH, Monsanto aggressively attempted to suppress reports about the health risks involved in the use of the drug. In 2001, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, two respected investigative journalists at a Fox News television station in Tampa, Florida, were fired after months of controversy surrounding their investigative report on rBGH use in Florida dairies. According to the journalists, the station delayed airing their story and demanded they include inaccurate information about rBGH after Monsanto threatened the station with legal action.
In 2003, Monsanto asked the state of Maine to stop issuing an official Quality Seal, which the state only granted to dairies that do not use rBGH. Maine refused. Later that year, Monsanto sued Oakhurst Dairy, Maine’s largest dairy operation, over its rBGH-free labels. Ultimately, Oakhurst changed its labels, adding the statement, “FDA States: No significant difference in milk from cows treated with artificial growth hormone.”
Nonetheless, Monsanto lobbied the Canadian government to win rBGH approval. Dr. Margaret Hayden, a Health Canada researcher, reported to the Canadian Senate that officials from Monsanto had offered between $1 million to $2 million to Health Canada scientists—an offer she says could only be understood as an attempted bribe.
Monsanto monarch massacre: 970 million butterflies killed since 1990
The beautiful monarch butterfly, which is also a major pollinator, is being threatened by herbicides that eradicate milkweed, its primary food source. Now, a desperate rejuvenation program is under way to save the species from possible extinction.
A shocking statistic released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summed up the plight of the monarch butterfly: Since 1990, about 970 million of the butterflies – 90 percent of the total population –
have vanished across the United States.The massacre provides a grim testimony to the delicate balance
that exists between man and nature, and how the introduction of a
single consumer product – in this case, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready
herbicide – can wreak so much havoc. Sold to farmers and
homeowners as an effective method for eliminating milkweed
plants, Roundup Ready, introduced in the 1970s, is widely blamed
for decimating the monarch butterflies’ only source of food in
the Midwest.
“This report is a wake-up call. This iconic species is on the verge of extinction because of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crop system,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director for the Center for Food Safety, which last week released a report describing the effects of herbicide-resistant crops on monarch butterflies in NorthAmerica.
“To let the monarch butterfly die out in order to allow Monsanto to sell its signature herbicide for a few more years is simply shameful.”
The widespread death of the monarch butterfly has prompted some groups, like the Center for Biological Diversity, to demand the butterfly be placed on the endangered species list.
Dan Ashe, director of Fish and Wildlife Service, preferred to take a diplomatic approach to Monsanto’s hefty contribution to the problem, saying everyone is responsible for the plight of the
monarch butterfly.
“We’ve all been responsible. We are the consumers of agricultural products. I eat corn. American farmers are not the enemy. Can they be part of the solution? Yes,” Ashe said.
“It’s not about this wonderful, mystical creature. It’s about us.”
It’s about time that somebody threw a rock at the giant! Under the guise of helping the world, Monsanto is just killing.
Lawsuit to break them.then cuffs & ropes
Well Bobo, well see if were a plutocracy or not. I’m sure Monsatans rats nest of shills in the EPA, the courts and the governments whether state, local, or federal will save the day for Monsatan. Monsatan might get stuck with a fine paying a 1/2 cent to the dollar. The shills will make a big deal about how they showed Monsatan, and taught them a lesson. The presstitutes will praise the system on how they saved the American people. A million dollar lose for a ten billion dollar gain. Just like Nitro West Virginia, and Anniston Alabama, and so many other places on a smaller scale around the USA and world.
Before the Nuremberg trials, they had the IG Farben trials. IG Farben was a conglomerate of chemical companies with ties to Rockefeller’s, Dupont’s, (1933 coup) and others. To save there asses, from prison, or the piano wire, most if not all agreed to work for US companies through “Operation Paperclip”. Even though Monsatan was small potatoes at the time, you can bet they got their share of war criminals.
It’s a rigged deck, house rules, we play by those rules, and never win! Aint that right Bobo!!
If you eat foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), you are consuming glyphosate—because the U.S. EPA not only allows glyphosate residue on your food, the agency actually raised the allowed limits in 2013.
How do you know you’re eating GMO foods? You don’t. Because Monsanto and the EPA, USDA and FDA made certain of that by refusing to require labels on GMO foods. Even though about 80 percent of processed foods in the U.S. contain GMO ingredients.
The FDA just signed off on the GMO apple and the GMO potato, and will likely sign off on GMO salmon and GMO wheat. This, in addition to new GMO corn and soy varieties the USDA recently approved—crops engineered to withstand massive doses of a toxic combination of both glyphosate and 2,4-D (a
form of which was used to make Agent Orange).Word is that within weeks, if not sooner, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) will reintroduce what activists have labeled the DARK ACT—Deny Americans theRight to Know. The bill is an attempt to strip states’ of their constitutional right to pass GMO labeling laws.
Roundup is the number one herbicide used in the world. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture does not test foods for glyphosate residues
because it says it’s “too expensive.”
It’s not too expensive to take a sample from each crop, which is how they always do it. Its more likely an excuse, because the Rocketfella family is behind Monsatan, via the Queeny and Schwann family connections, and the Dupant marraige in 1800s to the R’s. (Ruthlesschilds and Rocketfellas related, will wonders never cease).
We need bees in order to grow food, or at least some of it. Yet the
food-GMO food, drenched in neonics-we are growing is killing the bees.
It’s
not just the bees that are dying. Butterfly and bird populations are in
decline, too. And it’s not just the neonicotinoids that are to blame.
Other herbicides and pesticides, especially Monsanto’s Roundup, used to
grow GMO crops-and also used to contain (kill) weeds in cities and home gardens-are decimating pollinators, fish and wildlife, and some would argue, humans, too.
As
consumers ask more and more questions about the impact of GMO foods and
crops on our health and environment, we’re making smarter choices about
the foods we choose to eat. Does my child’s cereal contain sugar from
genetically engineered beets? Did that steak on my dinner plate come
from an animal raised on a factory farm, and fed a diet of Roundup-ready
GMO corn, canola, soy or cotton seed?
But we need to look at the
bigger picture, too. That means calling for an end to the use of
Monsanto’s Roundup in urban areas, on our lawns, roadways, schoolyards
and parks. It means paying close attention to the seeds and garden
plants we buy for our home gardens.
It means asking ourselves
what can we do to pressure Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and Dupont’s
customers, both rural and urban, into understanding that their
widespread, reckless use of neonics and other toxins is destroying our
food, soil, water, air and wildlife? And that organic, sustainable,
non-chemical alternatives exist?
It means asking ourselves, how
do we force food manufacturers to stop using these poison-drenched GMO
crops in their processed food products? How do we get through to the
politicians who protect the interests (profits) of pesticide and junk
food makers, at the expense of all else? Before it’s too late?
We
do it by making intelligent and ethical buying decisions. By boycotting
the corporations who refuse to hear us. But voting out the politicians
who sell us out to the industry lobbyists who fund their political
campaigns.
Monsanto is tied to the Queeny business back in the 20s, and Schwann business as well, and this is the same crew as Standard Oil and pals, now known better as Rocketfella (WTC builders). Rfella is in turn married into the Dupant family. Agent Orange and Manhattan project involvement??? These appear to be monsters. This history is evident to anyone from their town in Upstate NY and specifically, Dutchess County, where the R family has resided since 1700s era.
This is a cute product of Monsanto at Disneyland: The attraction was designed to simulate humans shrinking to a size smaller than an atom (the “inner space”). As riders waited for their
journey into the atom, they were able to see other riders entering one
end of the Monsanto Mighty Microscope…..as the user shrinks (population reduction) they actually begin to see the nucleus of atoms — but the joke goes that we should not go near that (see Manhattan project).
Wow. Sounds like theyre really into destruction and harming people and planets. How unusual.
The above, is your large hint of WHY they can spend so much money, to get their way – even to push a product no rational consumer would EVER be interested in, via non-labelling sly tactics.
Population control, anyone? People shrinking, and showing this as a joke, to kids, like the evil people they are. I knew PCB’s were heavily used in GE, and out of Standard Oil, both R clan-related products, and so researched it after seeing Monsatan using same. Dupants, are the ruthchild relatives tying the two R’s together now.