Monsanto has been warned, and Syngenta already moved their operations outside the county. Notice was given by Josephine County, Oregon that citizens are very serious about the GMO ban (Measure 17-58) that was passed last year. The cultivation of GMO crops will not be tolerated.
Biotech companies have until September 4th, just a few short weeks away, to either harvest their crops or destroy them, or they face monetary penalties.
The very first line of the ordinance to ban GMOs in Josephine County states its purpose:
“[to] maintain and protect seed sovereignty and local control, free from outside corporate interests and unnecessary and overreaching preemption by the state and federal governments, of this County’s agriculture, environment, public health, economy and private property rights as they pertain to genetic contamination from genetically engineered plants;”
The notice states, in short, that farmers will be penalized if they continue to grow GMO crops past September 4th. The notice will be published by the county in an effort to remind farmers about the voter-passed GMO ban (as if they could possibly be ignorant of this after all the controversy surrounding it). County Counsel Wally Hicks says the county is still fine-tuning the notice before it is to be posted in the Daily Courier.
Farmers are advised via the notice to contact the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office with their names, crop location, and crop type, as well as a plan to phase out prior to the September 4th deadline. Citizens of Josephine County have not detailed what they will do to crops that are not either harvested or demolished by this time.
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hopefully all states and countries ban the evil gmo’s asap.
I really hope you’re joking. This is a really bad thing, a bunch of science illiterate yuppies who’ve never done anything besides grow a few tomatoes on their back porch are attacking farmers and scientists. I hope this law is overturned by higher courts.
Sadly this person is a chemtrail beleiving, fluoride fearing, true conspiracy monger. Probably likes to wear a Guy Fawkes mask in bed.
No joke, It needs to be banned. Turn off your tel lie vision and do some research. Youtube search bill gates gmo chemtrail connection. The head people that approved gmo’s were from MON SATAN. HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!
Gates is also on record approving of vaccines to induce sterility/infertility. Moreover, the bastard owns half a million (at last count) shares of Monsanto stock, and GMO diets are known to cause infertility in lab animals and livestock.
‘Amazingly,’ my first reply about Bill Gates was also ‘monitored out of existence.’ WHO is on monitor duty tonight? Secret Gates admirer? Lol.
Again:
Gates owns (at last count) over half a million shares of Monsanto stock. He’s also ON RECORD as saying that depopulation is a good idea and that it can be accomplished through vaccines. (This was already done WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT in South America and the Philippines when the U.S. used vaccines to cause infertility in women.)
yes, It is sad to say the least.
Must be that the twenty six (26) other countries who BANNED GMO’s just don’t know what their talking about? Keep chowing down on all those wonderful GMO products, and enjoy those 30 pieces of silver that Monsatan paid you to lie. Bon Appetit, mon ami.
Plenty of nations also ban homosexuality, the band wagon argument is a logical fallacy.
Correction: There’s a distinction between doing something because it’s popular (band wagon) and doing something because it’s beneficial for a particular purpose (evidence-based). Take survival in traffic, e.g.:
1) Lots of people jaywalk; therefore Johnny does it too. 2) Lots of people cross with the walk light; therefore Johnny does it too.
Evidence shows that Johnny is more likely to be killed with 1), more likely to stay alive with 2). In 1), people are being stupid. In 2), the “therefore” isn’t needed. The “lots of people” understand the benefits of using the walk light, and so does Johnny.
Comparing homosexuality to GMOs doesn’t fly. Chuckle.
Except the vast majority of peer reviewed evidence based studies show GMOs to not only be safe but to produce greater crop yields improving long term environmental sustainability. Your dislike of GMOs is based on blind hatred and silly superstition.
Actually, they have to spray MORE pesticides with the pesticide resistance they are building. Remember the antibiotic issue? Well, you can’t have it both ways. Most of the crap they put in our foods has NOT been to our benefit. Children’s cereal with so much sugar and dyes that way too many kids “became hyperactive”. 16 Tablespoons of sugar in one can of”soda pop”??? Who does THAT benefit? Certainly not the person drinking it!
Exactly. But disqus wossname won’t listen to you. Anyone who says that a dislike of GMOs is “based on blind hatred and silly superstition” is too brainwashed – or paid – to change his/her mind.
It’s been repeatedly shown that GMO so-called crops require more and more biocides sprayed on them. Following this, more and more biocide-resistant weeds evolve – which ‘requires’ more and more Roundup, and so forth in a vicious circle.
Sadly, the govt already admitted to spraying the atmosphere. They had various reasons, but they have already admitted to being actively spraying.
So the conspiracy monger statement and poster should be the one questioned.
Sixty-four countries now require labeling; banning is unfortunately taking longer. On the happy side, as more and more people learn about adverse effects of GMOs, the GMO filth purveyors are losing profits. As they value money above all, they’ll eventually quit trying to manufacture or sell GMO filth.
Hopefully they banned the import of these products, also. Especially cheese, granulated sugar, and high fructose corn syrup.
Don’t forget GMO insulin. Maybe they should give their diabetics the bums rush over the county line. You can’t be too careful when preserving the purity of the county.
Awesome! Let’s spread our fear and propaganda so we can force farmers into growing what we want!
Hooray for the bully mob!
Monsanto already does make farmers grow what Monsanto wants. We can argue infinitely about whether this study or that study showed Whatever. Fact is, I don’t want Roundup sprayed around my food. I AM sensitive to chemicals and cannot believe how many times I have had this Iodine allergy triggered. Can’t use slug bait, so I go out and pick them off. Can’t use herbicides or pesticides. This has been cumulative. My father used DDT and Chlordane in our yard. He was a horticulturist. My mother had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and had the symptoms for 35 years until she died. She did not have Parkinson’s disease. It did not follow the course of that disease. She had a chemical situation and the meds for Parkinson’s mimic PD for those who don’t have it. IF it kills plants that it touches, I won’t eat it. Even boiling water used for weed control isn’t something a body can handle.
Each generation is less healthy than the one before it…. We need to eat more real food and less “man-improved food”.
Yes by all means it must be the food fault. It couldn’t possible be that we turn it into processed junk food, or that we are heavier than ever thanks to a total lack of exercise. Take the chemicals and gmos away and you will have less, more expensive food bought by people that will still be just as big and unhealthy.
‘pharma sutra’?? oy vey.
So sad, attacking farmers and scientists. Are we becoming a fascist state?
Sad when you are allow to grow food on your own ground.
Ddamt. feel free to eat all the poisoned GMO you desire.
I do, and their delicious, safe and affordable. Unlike Chipotle…http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/08/at-least-60-people-sickened-after-eating-at-ca-chipotle-restaurant/#.Vd4xyxf4Ccw
The title of this article should be “Josephine County, Oregon: Home of the Ignorant Mob.” What’s next for you guys? Are you going to run around with pitchforks and torches casting out all the witches???
Dissector, you sound like a troll that has been paid off by Monsatan. Feel free to feed your children GMOs and then you can bury them with the thirty pieces of silver that Monsatan paid you.
You are a idiot. GMO crops should have never been created. Do some research dumb ass.
“Citizens of Josephine County have not detailed what they will do to
crops that are not either harvested or demolished by this time.”
I suggest a mob with pitchforks and torches.
I like it!
The government of Hungary wisely burned the GMO fields there.
I hope the taxpayers are ready to cover the cost of reimbursing the farmers for the crops they have to destroy.
Look upon it as paying to NOT be poisoned. – Moreover, contamination (cross-pollination) has caused immense economic loss and ruin to farmers of normal, natural, and organic crops. Once an organic crop has been contaminated by GMOs, it loses all market value both domestically and abroad. People who like being healthy won’t buy it.
And the small number of farmers that have experienced cross pollination have all been reimbursed for their losses at or above market value. The only people who won’t buy GMOs are the scientifically illiterate that buy the tripe they are fed by an $80B organic industry.
OK; I’ve figured out that you’re a troll.
Does that imply that you have no factual argument to make, so you’ve resorted to name calling?
No. It indicates (not implies, but indicates) that I know you’re a troll. “Scientifically illiterate” and “tripe” were major clues. Lol. Hence, I won’t be feeding you anymore.
Calling GMOs poison in the face of the overwhelming scientific consensus that they are safe certainly qualifies as illiterate on the subject.
Bottom line,
These folks have rights and they exercised them.
GMO’s are out, end of argument.
As do the farmers that planted crops that were not prohibited at the time. That’s why the sheriff is in no hurry to enforce this, and is asking for farmers to report themselves. The court has already ruled that farmers will be reimbursed for crops that have to be removed to meet compliance for this restriction.
Good the sooner they run the GMO’s out the better.
Compliance should be demanded immediately.
I hope it turns into a State wide ban.
All the talk by the anti-GMO movement of people controlling the food supply, yet they are the only ones trying to restrict the choices farmers can make. Especially funny in the state that has the university with the most ag-bio patents in the country.
You speak of rights and freedoms, but are for limiting them for the people that don’t agree with your unscientific complaints.
Girlie man, People have a voice and they sounded off loud and clear. End result their voice was heard, get over it.
GMO has time to return to their area and it will eventually.
Have to be a scientist to have rights, lmao.
The rights of farmers are speaking loud and clear as the know what they want — gmos at an astounding 90+%. That number will most likely go even higher when the enlist beans are finally released, possibly later this fall.
Yes as these folks are economically distressed and the monopoly is further established through economic warfare, the use of GMO’s will increase, your right there.
Finances and economics are removing the peoples rights and prosperity as well as true stewardship or the land.
We are the best keepers, everything is the duty of the people.
GMO’s might be gone, but only ignorance would indicate that the means have ended with the ban.
Folks have survived without GMO’s for thousands of years.
Why are we claiming their lives are gone now, they just go back to their previous methods.
As war criminal Henry Kissinger stated (paraphrase), if you control the food supply, you control the world. Monsanto has stated it wants to control the world’s food supply by turning all food into GMO so-called food (i.e., filth). Monsanto’s CEO and president (Hugh Grant and Brett Begemann) AND their board of directors and R&D personnel should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and terrorism for deliberately, knowingly putting carcinogens and other toxins in our food supply.
One of the trolls cites Oregon as having “the university with the most ag-bio patents in the country.” Unsurprisingly, this explains many of the dollar$ that were thrown into ads and bribes to stop GMO labeling. Chuckle.
Show us the evidence then.. should be simple
This article links to a meta-analysis of 1,738 studies showing that GMO products are safe.
http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/10/08/with-2000-global-studies-confirming-safety-gm-foods-among-most-analyzed-subject-in-science/
Then Mark, enjoy them. I believe in the freedom of choice… I just prefer to know what my food has in it, be that organic or otherwise
Read Steve Druker’s new excellently researched book “Altered Genes, Twisted Truth…..”. There is enough evidence that the cultivation of GMOs has a destructive impact on the environment. This coupled with the collusion of the FDA in releasing GMOs without proper long term testing is enough to give any local government pause in allowing the cultivation of GMOs. If others with the responsibility to safeguard the public perpetrate a fraud then let the local government fill that void.
FDA, USDA, and EPA have all colluded regarding GMOs and their associated biocides. These agencies have been staffed in key positions by revolving door industry shills and are funded (bribed) in great part by user fees and the promise of future jubs from the very industries they’re Supposed to regulate (but don’t).
French GMO study finds Horrific Tumours in Rats. Which of you jokers will be the first to say: “Well, at least they are still alive.” Bon appetit, mon ami.
Yes the study that has been torn apart by scientists world wide. You know what is really funny, they never show the control rats, could it be because they look the same?
Torn apart, hardly – Elsevier the magazine which retracted the article had this to say in part:
“Unequivocally, the Editor-in-Chief found no evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data. However, there is a legitimate cause for concern regarding both the number of animals in each study group and the particular strain selected. The low number of animals had been identified as a cause for concern during the initial review process, but the peer review decision ultimately weighed that the work still had merit despite this limitation. A more in-depth look at the raw data revealed that no definitive conclusions can be reached with this small sample size regarding the role of either NK603 or glyphosate in regards to overall mortality or tumor incidence. Given the known high incidence of tumors in the Sprague-Dawley rat, normal variability cannot be excluded as the cause of the higher mortality and incidence observed in the treated groups. Ultimately, the results presented (while not incorrect) are inconclusive, and therefore do not reach the threshold of publication for Food and Chemical Toxicology.”
And this from the journal Nature. “Elsevier retracted the paper shortly after a press conference in Brussels this morning, in which Séralini protested his innocence. He and his team stand by their results, and allege that the retraction derives from the journal’s editorial appointment of biologist Richard Goodman, who previously worked for biotechnology giant Monsanto for seven years.”
It has been discredited for ever reason in the book. Strange how they never showed the pictures of the supposedly healthy control group as well isn’t it. All that aside he could have simply redeemed himself and did the test again correctly. Strange how no one has been able to do that as well.
Feel free to eat all the GMO you desire, troll.
Don’t worry I do, the good wholesome ones.
The French group did all that was required of them right down to the ‘Quod Erat Demonstrandum’. There is no need to repeat it. If anyone needs to repeat the tests it is Monsanto who have the finances but lacking the convincing scientific data to back them up however they finagle it, that is never going to happen. Why sacrifice a more deserving species of rats to the designs of a lesser breed.
LOL, because single test results no matter what they say are meaningless. It is in the replication that the true facts are found. Safety has been confirmed thousands of times in the lab and for twenty years in the real world.
Paint whatever picture you wish but the image of the rats feeds my utter disgust for all things GMO and the Great Moronic Oafs who peddle it.
Then the pictures of the control group must turn you off from non gmo feed since they looked the same.
Where are the pictures of the control rats?
GMO pushers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to call GMO safety questioners as ignorant, alarmist, and anti-science. As expected, the GMO shills and trolls are coagulating (word intended) here today for that same propagandistic purposes. They will snarl and widdle themselves, but I won’t reply. I don’t feed trolls.
Dow’s Enlist Duo contains carcinogenic glyphosate (and also 2,4-D), which is sprayed on over 90% of GMO crops and, foolishly, on many normal crops as well. In the New England Journal of Medicine (2015.08.20), Landrigan and Benbrok have presented scientific evidence showing that 1) EPA should ban the use of Enlist Duo until further study and 2) GMOs should be labeled.
The flawed studies for Enlist Duo were commissioned by the biocide manufacturers themselves in the 1980s and 1990s and were never published, “not an uncommon practice in U.S. pesticide regulation.” They weren’t designed to detect endocrine-mediated and epigenetic effects and failed (in violation of federal law) to consider potential adverse effects in infants and children. Also, the studies considered only pure glyphosate despite the fact that it’s more toxic in combination with surfactants and adjuvants than by itself.
Moreover, labeling “is essential for tracking emergence of novel food allergies and assessing effects of chemical herbicides applied to GM crops.”
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1505660
‘Amazingly,’ my “hold on, you’re being monitored” post was apparently monitored out of existence. Who’s on duty tonight? Chuckle. – Fortunately, I saved it. Here it is again.
GMO pushers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to call GMO safety questioners as ignorant, alarmist, and anti-science. As expected, the GMO shills and trolls are coagulating (word intended) here today for that same propagandistic purpose.
Dow’s Enlist Duo contains carcinogenic glyphosate (and also 2,4-D), which is sprayed on over 90% of GMO crops and, foolishly, on many normal crops as well. In the New England Journal of Medicine (2015.08.20), Landrigan and Benbrok have presented scientfic evidence showing that 1) EPA should ban the use of Enlist Duo until further study and 2) GMOs should be labeled.
The flawed studies for Enlist Duo were commissioned by the biocide manufacturers themselves in the 1980s and 1990s and were never published, “not an uncommon practice in U.S. pesticide regulation.” They weren’t designed to detect endocrine-mediated and epigenetic effects and failed (in violation of federal law) to consider potential adverse effects in infants and children. Also, the studies considered only pure glyphosate despite the fact that it’s more toxic in combination with surfactants and adjuvants than by itself.
Moreover, labeling “is essential for tracking emergence of novel food allergies and assessing effects of chemical herbicides applied to GM crops.”
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1505660
Either Disqus or Natural Society or both are doing something weir5d. I was happily commenting on this article on, apparently, a different web page, when I noticed that all the comments except a few had vanished. So I clicked around and was directed here, which STILL doesn’t have some comments that I. lumpy, and troll GMO Roberts had made.
So, sigh, without bringing up the back-and-forth between lumpy and troll GMO Roberts, I’m going to post my main comment, separately.
Why is the agri/chem/biotech industry so DESPERATE to hide what’s in its products? Why does it widdle itself and throw millions of dollars at officials and into advertisements whenever a labeling initiative comes on the ballot? People and companies that are proud of what’s in their products tell everyone as often as possible how good the ingredients are. The murderers at Monsanto, BASF, Dow, Syngenta, Dupont, Bayer, et al. don’t do that. This is because they KNOW their products are unsafe, laden with carcinogens, bad for the environment, bad for people and animals. Two quotes nail it:
“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.’s job.” – Phillip Angell, director of corporate communications, “Playing God in the Garden,” New York Times Magazine, 25 Oct 1998
“Ultimately, it is the food producer who is responsible fo assuring safety.” – FDA, “Statement of Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties.” 28 May 1992, 57 FR 22984.
So no one checks appropriately – and that remains their anti-health stance even today.
The current problem for a lot of these elitists are, the internet is giving the freedom of information and knowledge to the People. That is why the powers that be are desperately trying to regulate the free flow of information. They are using the alphabet agencies to hack and disrupt so they can claim to regulate for the protection of the People, but in reality to stifle the truth.
They fear the truth being spread through the internet circles.
Wow. We are looking for property in Oregon (my home state – been living in crazy land for 10 years and want to get back to sanity), thanks for letting me know where not to spend my cash and where not to set up our 3 businesses!
As long as we have evil psychopathic criminals in there ivory towers raining down hell on the majority, we are not going to change anything. We can argue until the cows come home. Until we come together with websites such as these http://WWW.GEOENGINEERINGWATCH.ORG http://WWW.THEFULLCIRCLEPROJECT.NET http://WWW.THECROWHOUSE.COM http://WWW.NEWEARTHNATION.ORG http://WWW.THERICHIEALLENRADIOSHOW.COM http://WWW.MANTICORE.COM http://WWW.DAVIDICKE.COM http://WWW.FREEDOMAINRADIO.COM http://WWW.RALPHSMART.COM http://WWW.SHEDDINGOFTHEEGO.COM http://WWW.LIVELEAK.COM http://WWW.INFOWARS.COM .
Idiots. Only in America would we readily destroy food to prove some point.
I wish this country weren’t so ill-informed and afraid of science.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Jackson County–which is not enforcing its ban–they await a judge’s decision about whether the county will have to pay two alfalfa farmers a total of $4.2 million because they’ve had to destroy their crops to comply with the Jackson County ban.
Are you ready, Josephine County?