The Bill to Ban GMO Labeling Has Just Been Reintroduced
Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS) just reintroduced another ridiculous bill, the so-called “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act” (H.R. 1599). If it passes, it will mean states can no longer pass GMO labeling bills. It would also prohibit states or counties from banning or regulating GMOs in any way.
This bill would essentially completely reverse all the progress made in Oregon, Maui, and Vermont to eradicate GMOs from our food supply. In a blatant power grab through another errand boy for biotech, Pompeo has introduced a bill which would completely undue democracy in regard to our food supply.
It would mean that you have NO CHOICE about eating foods doused with herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides, tinkered with to contain Bt toxins, and ‘kill-switch’ genes, and whatever other dark, devilish designs on our food biotech decides to envision.
The only way you’d be able to knowingly avoid foods containing genetically modified ingredients is by purchasing foods from companies which choose to voluntarily label their food products. This is what the USDA and Pompeo are trying to push forward, so that mandatory GMO labeling is buried deep.
Mike Pompeo is aligned with biotech, and has gone on record stating that “we need biotech foods to feed the world.” He has the gall to state that “agricultural inventions” like GM seed have “saved billions from starvation.”
Countless studies prove we have MORE than enough food to feed the world already – without GM foods which potentially cause cancer, liver failure, and reproductive issues, just to name a few worries.
We already produce 17 percent more food per person than we did 30 years ago. The reason billions of people go hungry is due to poverty and greed, not the absence of poisoning biotech crops. Greed – just like Pompeo’s. You can be sure his views will hang out to dry if public tribunals over GM crops ever occur.
Sign the Food Democracy Now petition against Pompeo’s bill, here. And if you haven’t already, sign our very own petition which is meant to send a message to the USDA to hold the organization accountable for successfully and properly providing a GMO labeling seal food producers can use at a reasonable cost.
I notice about about these farmers are suing Monsanto for their GMO food crops are producing low yield than any natural food crops, and it’s not edible type of food at all because of genetic manipulation, is causing new form of diseases and infertility in women who have eaten GMO foods.
Studies have been done showing that organic food crop yields are not that far behind than intensive chemical crops. When we sift through data that has not been manipulated by university studies that are tainted with conflict of interests, I.e. they receive money to do studies in support of biotech cartels. Just like doctors used to get paid for support tobacco giants. We can also prove in many cases exactly where studies are total bunk because the biotech industry manipulate data t support the findings they want, thus, it is not science at all, not even bad science.
When we look at yields of GM crops we can see they are not as good as biotech sector claims. In fact, normal pesticide sprayed non-GM crops have a better yield more often than not. This is something farmers seem embarrass end to openly admit in America and many also are in fear of speaking out. Many have already gone back to farming conventionally as they did before, just purely for a business reasons. This is of course not good enough, we know pesticides have caused more problems than they solve, diseases that are now far more resistant and also pests that are resistant the pesticides.
We also have weeds and invasive ones that are a problem and crossing out some crops. The solution offered by the chemical cartels is to make new pesticides, of course, but this takes time and hundreds of millions in R&D. Of course, another option is to just blitz the fields so much that it will kill of crops completely and replant next season, or chemical blitz and continue planting but use roundup resistant crops, be damned with the toxic consequences. This about to happen not in America but places like England with crops like wheat that has black grass.
This was all caused by the green revolution and ever increasing and continued use of pesticides. Traditional farming techniques avoid this by crop rotation and ploughing. Crop rotation will allow the soils to regain nutrients and prevents probelsm that lead to the one described above with black grass. There is real science backing this up but since the biotech/chemical cartels do not benefit from organic farming they use their political clought to do anything they can to prevent farming returning to traditional farming on a vast scale.
Studies also show organic farming is sustainable and will feed the work, contrary to what science shows GM and conventional crops will do. Pollute the planet and continue to cause disease and the demise of this planet. We are now in the 6th mass extinction of species and scientists expect humans not to survive. I very much doubt any government will do anything to prevent this.
That’s true of what you are saying.