Dare to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits that there is an entire department within the corporation with the simple task of ‘discrediting’ and ‘debunking’ scientists who speak out against GMOs.
The WHO recently classified glyphosate, a chemical in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, as carcinogenic – news that is really heating things up with biotech. So Monsanto has been demanding that the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) retract their statements about the poisons’s toxicity to human health.
The company demands this even though a peer-reviewed study published in March of 2015 in the respected journal, The Lancet Oncology, conducted a analysis proving that glyphosate was indeed ‘probably carcinogenic.’
Monsanto’s vice president of global regulatory affairs Philip Miller told Reuters the following in interview:
“We question the quality of the assessment. The WHO has something to explain.”
It has already been explained, Mr. Miller. The study states:
“Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide, currently with the highest production volumes of all herbicides. It is used in more than 750 different products for agriculture, forestry, urban, and home applications. Its use has increased sharply with the development of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant crop varieties. Glyphosate has been detected in air during spraying, in water, and in food. There WAS limited evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of glyphosate.
Glyphosate has been detected in the blood and urine of agricultural workers, indicating absorption. Soil microbes degrade glyphosate to aminomethylphosphoric acid (AMPA). Blood AMPA detection after poisonings suggests intestinal microbial metabolism in humans. Glyphosate and glyphosate formulations induced DNA and chromosomal damage in mammals, and in human and animal cells in vitro. One study reported increases in blood markers of chromosomal damage (micronuclei) in residents of several communities after spraying of glyphosate formulations.”
In a recent talk attended mostly by students hoping to get decent paying internships in their field, a student asked what the company was doing to negate “bad science” concerning their work.
Monsanto’s employee, Dr. William “Bill” Moar, who gives talks on Monsanto’s products to reassure everyone that they are safe, perhaps forgot the event was public when he openly revealed that Monsanto had:
“An entire department” (waving his arm for emphasis) dedicated to “debunking” science which disagreed with theirs.”
Likely, this is the first time a Monsanto employee has publicly admitted that they have immense political and financial weight to bear on scientists who dare to publish against them. Of course they don’t list this discrediting department anywhere on their website.
The company will stop at nothing to discredit and devalue the contributions of unimpeachably respected Lancet and the international scientific bodies of WHO and IARC, among others.
The stakes are high – after all, an entire industry of GMO seed (for which they currently hold more than a three-fourths monopoly share) is based on being Roundup ready. Glyphosate is their hallmark product, and it accounts for billions in sales when you account for the seed they sell to go with their best-selling herbicide.
In a single publicly made phrase, Moar has admitted that the Monsanto-funded science is sheer propaganda – essentially that they indeed have dozens, if not hundreds of employees out making sure that no science which tells the truth about their cancer-causing products ever garners any credibility whatsoever in the information age.
Monsanto has also held up the findings of regulatory bodies, particularly in the United States where the revolving door between agrochemical corporations and government seems never ending.
It is a shame, if true, that they have such a department. It is a shame they have to because of dishonest scientists like seralini, who will stop at nothing, even faking a study, to try to make a name for themselves. Of course I’m sure “little” Johnny will add some of his lies to put a different spin on this.
Would you look at that. Your so called “dishonest” scientist has had his study republished. So that means this study has gone through no less then 3 rigorous peer-review processes. Imagine if Monsanto had to do that for its studies.
http://www.gmoseralini.org/republication-seralini-study-science-speaks/
Hey @GMO Roberts please explain to us how Prof Seralini is “dishonest” when not even the secret panel that reviewed his study a second time could find anything incorrect in the study?
“The second review took months. It involved a non-transparent examination of Prof Séralini’s raw data by a secret panel of unnamed persons organized by the editor-in-chief of FCT, A. Wallace Hayes, in response to criticisms of the study by pro-GMO scientists.
“In a letter to Prof Séralini, Hayes admitted that the anonymous reviewers found nothing ‘incorrect’ about the results presented.
Dr Michael Antoniou, a molecular geneticist based in London, commented, “Few studies would
survive such intensive scrutiny by fellow scientists. The republication of the study after three expert reviews is a testament to its rigour, aswell as to the integrity of the researchers.
“If anyone still doubts the quality of this study, they should simply read the republished paper. The science speaks for itself.
“If even then they refuse to accept the results, they should launch their own research study on these two toxic products that have now been in the human food and animal feed chain for many years.”
Sorry Bobo you can’t weasel out of this one – your bosses got caught with their pants down. And by the way what kind of government does Monsanto believe in?
Monsanto believes in the same kind as our founding fathers “little” johnny. By the way how is your wife’s tool shopping going?
Sorry Nothing worth responding to here
Nothing that you can understand you mean “little” Johnny, like you can’t understand what kind of government we have.
This comment is still waiting for translation. Please stay tuned for further warnings of intelligent life from Bobo
Strange how everyone but you understand “little” Johnny, but again, you still think your wife is at Home Depot tool shopping.
Be patient I am sure the translation dept. will be able to figure out what you said in good time
Everyone can but you “little” Johnny. Just as everyone but you knows what kind of government we have. Your stalling only confirms your stupidity.
No they are still working on it. I think they are consulting the book of the dead.
Be patient
Ladies and gentlemen, please don’t feed the troll/shill.
Well I am glad you are disappointed with Monsanto. Maybe you are starting to see the light.
As I said in the past never really even liked monsanto, refuse to even sell their chemicals. Still a shame that they have to defend themselves against the lies that you help to spread.
Great article, Christina!
Good article. Thanks.
Corporate Trashers in Chief, MONSATAN…..
Ever since Dr.Arpad Pusztai discovered GM Potatoes caused Tumours in
Rats, and was immediately fired & trashed, then Dr.Andrew Wakefield
raised the issue of the MMR – Autism link & was trashed then struck
off, the power of Global Corporations to dictate the rules by fear has
expanded frighteningly.
Is it because in U.S. the poor little Global Corporation has the same individual human rights as the poor little worker?
Dr. Andrew Wakefield was struck off because he was proven time and again to have falsified ‘evidence’, the man is a liar and a fraud, he is directly responsible for the death and disabilities of hundreds of thousands of children through his fraudulent data. This whole ‘vaccines cause autism’ stuff is the biggest crock of crap going, your children are at more risk from measles, rubella etc and a ‘herp-derp, I can’t science so won’t vaccinate my kids’ attitude. Look up the difference between cause and correlation.
You are right about Monsanto being evil though.
It was kind of obvious. Once you have the government regulators in your pocket, allowing you to do your own studies in secret, and present the results as “proof” of safety, the only thing you need to worry about is other people doing independent studies which disprove your fake studies. It makes sense they would invest a lot of resources into crooked scientists and lawyers to deal with the good studies as they come out.
Any company that wants a study done on their product pays for the research. This is nothing new. We don’t need government regulators. There is no such thing as proof of safety. Research can only prove something unsafe…which hasn’t been done.
“There is no such thing as proof of safety”
I don’t think even your friend Bobo wouldn’t be foolish enough to say that irresponsible and stupid.
That’s right…you cannot prove something is safe…you can only prove degrees of hazard. What would proof of safe look like? That makes me chuckle.
Proof of safe = doing something .. and not being hurt, harmed, persecuted in any fashion.
In the research of safety you look for harm because that is the only thing that can be shown. Proof of safety is nonsense.
that’s not proof of safe … that’s anecdotal evidence that something may, occasionally, be safe … at least temporarily
just because people don’t die immediately upon consuming monsanto poisons doesn’t mean monsanto poisons aren’t killing people
You can call it “degrees of hazard” but then you’re just playing semantic games.
It’s not semantic…it’s logic. You cannot prove something does not exist. You can only prove something exists. Logic 101.
Here you go John. You can give this to Bobo and your other playmates. LOL I know this is old,but a friend sent me this story and said I’d understand. So I had to check if Bobo was here. LOL and so he is. I guess I need to sub again.
BREAKING: Lab Chow Contaminated by Glyphosate
http://farmwars.info/?p=14095
Laboratory Rodent Diets Contain Toxic Levels
of Environmental Contaminants: Implications
for Regulatory Tests
http://farmwars.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Seralini-Glyphosate-Study.pdf
You can send him this one from me!
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Once upon a time, studies were done independently by the government agencies, back before those agencies became corporate whores. It is possible to be reasonably certin of safety if the work is done with an honest motivation to discover the truth, but when you have a conflicting interest with the result, the truth rarely shows itself. There have been studies done into this kind of bias, and it is much worse than most people think.
Those evil govt. regulators at it again. Yup all businesses and Corporations are run by Saints, whose Halos shine in the light of truth making any regulation unneeded. You are sadly off base, even Adam Smith, the Saint of the free marketers, warned us about businesses robbing, stealing, and lying. Enron, Love Canal, Times Beach, and the endless list of Super Fund sites these monsters have passed on to us while they cash in. Monsanto is one of the worst.
No…all businesses are not run by saints. One law is all it takes. The law against fraud. Business needs the success of customer satisfaction. No regulations needed and especially not needed is the support of government. Let bad business decisions fail on their own merit. Robbing stealing and lying is illegal. You cannot pass laws that prevent people from breaking other laws.
So how many people must die before the business decides that their product is not working or is dangerous? So we do not need fire regulations for buildings and materials? Chemical pollution from a chemical plant tends to build up over time, who decides when the pollution is too great? The Capitalist, libertarian wonderland only works in fiction, the reality is a number of regulations are always going to be needed. The real problem is our political system allows the Corpse to buy our politicians and in doing so they get a free pass from enforcement and investigations. The simple world is not so simple. I wish your vision was a possibility but history tells us that it is not and won’t be so.
Safe or unsafe depends on what parameters one selects to weight the research and usage consequences against. The FDA has different standards and classes of ‘safety’ or ‘toxicity’ (for instance “GRAS” [generally regarded as safe], but when a product is tested against only selected parameters which would not lead to ‘unsafe’ outcomes, this is bad science and negligence at best, criminal intent at worst. This is what represents the ‘science’ of Monsanto and similar creators, and which sadly has wormed its way into ‘settled science’ in the media circles, and certain academia as well. The fact that Monsanto has numerous corporate plants in the USDA and FDA and elsewhere, making policy with monstrous conflicts of interest (including legislators with financial interests in the companies products they protect), makes this a criminal coverup, when they know how unsafe this may be. Food and product manufacturers are largely unfettered in their ‘research’ regulations, in that the FDA only requires that in cases of self regulation, those companies must ‘be able to justify and demonstrate their claims’ IF called upon to do so!!
A couple of information sources here, which have eye opening background, among 1,000’s of available out there.
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Regulation/FDA-should-improve-GRAS-oversight-says-GAO (Tells a lot about the regulatory process, which shows the lax and abuse within the regulatory process)
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/foodtox/lectures/lecture13/L13-Food%20Additive%20Safety%20Assessment_outline.pdf
And one more thing, one should take a look at the overlay charts of the federal gov’t agency and the private sector plants within those ‘regulatory agencies’. It will shock and upset you, if you never looked it over before. (I think Jeff Smith posts it, maybe on the “geneticroulettemovie” site, among others.)
Talk about ‘foxes guarding the hen house?”!! And so it is.
We are mostly on our own, folks, at least, you can certainly not trust a gov’t agency to be looking out for one’s own best interests! That is MOSTLY up to you.
Find The.Luciferian.Doctrine.pdf #
I don’t doubt this article at all. And if you’ve ever taken a peek at Monsanto’s Facebook page, you’d be convinced that they have an entire social media staff hired to scare away anyone who does not comment in a favorable way. In seconds too!
However, I do appreciate facts and sources. Do we know if Stephanie Hampton (the author of the original article, from what I can tell) was the one who attended the talk? Or was it someone else? None of Ms. Hampton’s posts seem to have the ability to leave comments.
I’m in this for the good fight, but I also do fact checking. Can’t assume that everything we read on the Internet is 100% true.
I checked it out based on the evidence that was supplied to me from posters here but I have not yet been able to confirm that GMO Roberts is actually Dr. William “Bill” Moar. I shall have to wait for more conclusive evidence. Thank you for all of those that sent me the incriminating information.
F you are actually accusing me of being a doctor, it only supports the fact that you are stupid beyond belief “little” Johnny.
“F you are actually accusing me of being a doctor,”
Now why would you think that?
I am trying to give you as much lenience as possible. I didn’t say I believed these reports but it does give one pause to wonder and I have been asked to consider it but hey so far you are still in the clear.
I am sorry if I got you upset. Don’t take this threat so seriously- I am sure it’s nothing- too much.
Lol, how could I get upset at a comedy? That is all you are. Others consider you the same from the comments I have seen. A threat from you is a joke at best. So why don’t you tell us what kind of government we have.
I really hope the therapists at the institution you are attending will have success in treating your condition.
Good luck Bobo!
Keep up the fantasy “little” Johnny, unfortunately for you your wife is in the real world. So why not just tell us what kind of government we have.
You really should get a wife some day Bobo. Probably better than nursing your mommy.
Wrong again “little” Johnny mine is home watching the game while yours is out measuring tools. The last on she found measured just go the back of her throat I heard.
Well if you must have your fantasies then please pick a more realistic one. At your age you can’t expect too much. Do they have education at the 3rd grade at the institution you are attending- If I can be so bold as not to reveal too much of your situation.
Thanks Bobo
oh johnny, still jealous that you can’t keep your wife at home with your “little” tool. Maybe if you could at least tell her what kind of government we have she might stay.
Well good luck at the institution. I here they have bowling there. Be sure to get a good grip on your balls so you don’t trip on your tongue and fall over.
More fantasies “little” Johnny? Never fear I will be doing something you only dream of, helping to feed the world by day and pleasing my wife at night. Since you can’t do either why don’t you tell us what kind of government we have “little” Johnny boy.
Chem boy your beyond disgusting just like the company your dad works for!
Yes helping to feed the world is disgusting to a fool like you that thinks everyone doesn’t deserve to eat.
We have the type of government that allows a fascist company to poison our environment and ruin farmers lives. What do you call that Bobo?
Wrong, try again.
Chem boy you try to use childish mind games on each person here. Soon mom will find out about you!
Sorry, I guess you brought me down to your level.
John, wait till his dad finds out what trouble he’s in for lying !
Last time he got a bad spanking. Poor Bobo
Isn’t it cute the way you to adore each other.
Chem boy the only joke on here is you ! Does your mother know what you’re doing in the basement ? So sad
Kimmie, what is sad is the amount of stupidity you produce on a daily basis, one can only hope you never reproduced during your young LSD years.
Bobo’s mother is very close to kicking him out of the basement. He has a lot of back rent to pay up and his bosses at Monsanto have cut back his pay because of the lousy job he has done to convince anyone here of anything he posts.
His posts keep on getting more desperate in an attempt to appease his bosses.
Hey Bobo, did you miss me???
Did you know the deck was rigged when Monsatan was still using the old modern farming method? I know ewe wont read it, or even watch the video, and go back to your old crap about how I never send you proof. BUT I’ll give your parrot ass a cracker if you do! LOL Believe it or not, ewe were the inspiration for the first one!
Hows your gerbils doing? keeping them nice and warm??
BREAKING: Lab Chow Contaminated by Glyphosate
http://farmwars.info/?p=14095
Laboratory Rodent Diets Contain Toxic Levels
of Environmental Contaminants: Implications
for Regulatory Tests
http://farmwars.info/wp-conten…
You can send him this one from me
John, we must be making progress because chem boy is reaching for straws
He probably won’t have any problem finding them. There is one stuck up each nostril.
And still makes more sense than the garbage you two spew out “little” Johnny.
Please, the facts speak for theselves and they all point to safety. You aren’t even a challenge. No wonder your side is losing.
“Please, the FACTS speak for the theselves and they all point to safety.” (my emphasis, JR)
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Actually, the (legal) FACTS show it to be “technically inconclusive” while the Food Giants battle and block concerned groups/citizens in courts.
The REAL facts show that this is something that, at the VERY LEAST, should be “LABELLED” for our (consumer) choice.
As for “No wonder your side is losing.”
You’re not human eh?! Don’t have to eat the same ‘foodstuffs’ or are able to “buy around” GMO products?
Why would you be against reality? Or.. you one of them tea-baggin jebus freaks who tells others how their lives should be while hypocritically doing the opposite?
You seem to be able to accuse me of a lot, shame you don’t have a clue as to what you are talking about. I eat gmos every chance I get from gmo feed beef to gmo roundup ready locally raised sweet corn. Don’t have any second thoughts about bringing them home to my family. The reason they shouldn’t be labeled now or ever is because of fools like you that want to spread lies on biased sites like this to try and confuse the innocent.
LoL,
bud, I spoke to your statement calling points.
They are garbage.
Call all the names you like, try and cast me in a disparaging light all you want..
The fact remains, you don’t know sh*t.
Your “single” opinion is sorely drowned-out by the outrage of REAL people, people who I might add are not talking heads for corporations, like you appear to be.
Your words say it all. I’m just pointing it out
Information on labels are there for a medical reason backed by science. For example, calories make you fat, this has been proven so calories on a label has a valid use, same as fat content sodium and others. Allergies also fall into this category particularly peanuts. For this they label the ingredients. There is nutritionally no difference between non gmo corn and gmo corn. There are also no allergies to gmos that have been reported and an overwhelming eighty-eight percent of scientist agree they are perfectly safe. So because you want to know isn’t a valid reason. Do you have the right to know? Not really, it isn’t your product on the shelf. You are free not to buy it if you don’t like the label. There are already organic and non gmo products on the market buy those, don’t add more red tape to a system and raise the price for people that are smart enough to know the truth in the first place.
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Steven Druker, who you may not be aware of, is the
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important action the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
taken in this area: its presumption that genetically engineered (GE)
foods are Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) and can enter the
market without a shred of safety testing.
However, the evidence clearly reveals that the FDA’s GRAS
presumption was fraudulent when first announced in 1992 and that it
remains fraudulent today. Nonetheless, it has played the central role
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He’s written a landmark and historic book Altered
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If you have even the remotest interest in this topic, I
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trove of facts that will help you decimate anyone who believes that
GMOs are safe.
Steven was aware of this issue 10 years before I was, and
he’s really a pioneer and a champion in warning the public and
protecting us from the negligence and irresponsible action of the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Why don’t you drink some Roundup, it will do you good.
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36 countries have banned gmo and you are obviously a troll paid by Monsanto to lie through your teeth.
please name a few of them so I can point out your lies.
Another learned ignoramus denying the experiments done on rats and other mammals
eating poisonous gmo. The world is waking up to these Biotech companies crimes and a
Monsanto research laboratory was burnt down in France. Hungarians burnt a whole lot of Monsanto’s crops and Russia has completely banned this poison from their country.
GMO Has E. Coli
Bacteria DNA, Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Dna, Antibiotic resistant
markers, up to 6 varieties of Bt Toxin Pesticides, and Roundup
Residue.
GMO Bt toxin corn
produces insecticide continually in every cell of the plant. There’s
absolutely no washing it off. Also known as a “plant incorporate
pesticide”. Roundup residue is absorbed into the corn and it
can’t be washed off. Could the antibiotic resistant markers be
contributing to antibiotic resistance?
Unless you are eating silage what is your point on the roundup? The grain isn’t sprayed. Roundup may not be applied past 36 inch tall corn. As far as you Bt corn is concerned, organic farmers apply up to 25 times what the plant actually produces. A little research would go a long way for you.
BOYCOTT EVERYTHING MONSANTO SELLS!!!
BOYCOTT EVERYTHING MONSANTO SELLS!!!
BOYCOTT EVERYTHING MONSANTO SELLS!!!
yeah, and not eat bread or vegetables anymore…?
Haven’t ate bread since the late 1990’s. Plenty of non GMO fruits and vegetables available if one takes the time to do a little research. I grow my own, so no questionable issues there.
Do you have a list of all the GMO and non-GMO fruits and veggies on the supermarket shelves?
Can you provide those to us?
http://www.nongmoproject.org/find-non-gmo/search-participating-products/?catID=5
I just highlighted your question, and clicked on ‘search with Google’.
Couldn’t you have done that?
I don’t believe they expected that 😀
Nice deflection of a potentially argumentative situation 😉
lol
information is the key, eh?!
Most vegetables are not GMO, most vegetables that are Gmo (corn,soy, cotton, canola, sugar beets) are used as commodity crops made into ethanol, animal feed and processed junk food. Lower quality bread has Gmo soy, high fructose corny syrup and azodicarbonamide. Best to stay with organic or non gmo or risk being part of an experiment.
It’s easy to discount tech advances in food science with a full belly.
What about those of us who are too poor to do that or too sick to even care for themselves properly, so are forced to eat most of this crap? We don’t have another option. That’s why it needs to be illegal in the first place, because it’s unfair to place that kind of burden on everyone else.
Yes, absolutely correct. We can’t have a two tier food system. It’s not democratic and we dig a deeper hole for the poor.
If the true organic farmers were given the same monstrous amounts of subsidies and treatment that big AG get, the prices for organics would drop accordingly.
From the people who brought us agent orange, pcb’s, ddt & claimed they were safe. Did we expect anything less?
So; what are the people most impacted going to do about it?
This claim is based on something someone said she heard at a talk given by William Moar, who works for Monsanto. Dr. Moar is not on record as having said this nor is there is no recording of his comments.
This is literally based solely on the word of a blogger, Stephanie Hampton, from what I can tell.
Pardon me if I remain skeptical.
You are usually at the forefront of all discussions that deal with proof at its standard. So I am sure you will be able to come up with definative proof that this a hoax. We will all be waiting for you to put this story to rest As it stands right now you are really not saying much of anything in your statement here. But I am sure you probably can find some sort of recent retraction by him or Monsato to retract these claims.
So do you believe the Loch Ness monster exists? What about Big Foot? Do you believe people have been abducted by aliens for brief experiments?
John, my point is that it is not the responsibility of skeptics to prove something is a hoax. The burden of proof lies with true believers to produce sufficient evidence to convince the more skeptically minded.
I’m not saying this claim about Monsanto having a ‘debunking department’ is false, but I’m not going to take the hearsay word of a blogger as confirmation. Neither should you. You should practice more critical thinking.
“So do you believe the Loch Ness monster exists? What about Big Foot? Do
you believe people have been abducted by aliens for brief experiments?”
I have never been a witness to any of these. Therefore I am not prepared to believe or disbelieve.
I find it interesting that you are only a skeptic on one side of the environmental debate. You have never been a skeptic with regards to Monsanto so you are a biased skeptic. This deflates your credibility and does not make you a true skeptic. You are only a skeptic when it suits your bias.
John, I am critical of Monsanto as well. But I also understand that Monsanto doesn’t equal all GMOs and similarly GMOs don’t equal Monsanto. When talking about this issue, I am typically referring to GMOs in general and not any one specific company.
“So do you believe the Loch Ness monster exists? What about Big Foot? Do
you believe people have been abducted by aliens for brief experiments?”
I have never been a witness to any of these. Therefore I am not prepared to believe or disbelieve.
I find it interesting that you are only a skeptic on one side of the
environmental debate. You have never been a skeptic with regards to GMO producing companies so you are a biased skeptic. This deflates your credibility and does not make you a true skeptic. You are only a skeptic when it suits
your bias.
Is that better?
Why do you think I’m not skepical towards companies like Monsanto? I expect evidence to support claims companies make just the way I expect evidence to support claims made by critics. The irony here is that you refuse to question claims made critics. But then I’ve known for a while that you’re hypocritical when it comes to this issue.
If you believe claims by Monsanto without being able to check out their research then you are one very gullable and naive person. That’s why you are a bias skeptic.
John, I don’t blindly believe anything. I check peer-reviewed, original research papers and am fortunate enough to have the training to understand them.
Please link said articles Skeptologist, if you don’t mind.
I would like to read what you have just to see if we come to the same type conclusion.
I’m not necessarily “against” GMO’s (until proven that they are unhealthy/risky), but I am totally against a corporate entity dictating policy to our government, and am against the anti-labeling stance said corporations are taking.
We, as consumers, as by law, have the RIGHT to know what is in our food, what alterations have been made, and that our TAXPAYER-FUNDED agencies have OUR interests at heart, and not corporate “sponsorship”.
So, the question begs; “WHY won’t the industries label GMO products like the CLEAR MAJORITY have asked for?
Why is our government(s) allowing this to be perpetuated?
I’ll tell you. LOTS AND LOTS OF $$$$$$.
That $$$$$ would stop awfully quick when people see how much food has been altered, and how insidiously the “corporations for the people” are using them as lab rats.
This too, I believe is relevant:
“FDA encourages developers of GE plants to consult with the agency before
marketing their products. Although the consultation is voluntary,..”.
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm352067.htm
“…encourages..” IE: NOT MANDATORY.
THAT IS WHAT I’M ARGUING AGAINST.
Please link said articles Skeptologist, if you don’t mind.
I would like to read what you have just to see if we come to the same type conclusion.
I’m not necessarily “against” GMO’s (until proven that they are
unhealthy/risky), but I am totally against a corporate entity dictating
policy to our government, and am against the anti-labeling stance said
corporations are taking.
We, as consumers, as by law, have the RIGHT to know what is in our food, what alterations have been made, and that our TAXPAYER-FUNDED agencies have OUR interests at heart, and not corporate “sponsorship”.
So, the question begs; “WHY won’t the industries label GMO products like the CLEAR MAJORITY have asked for?
Why is our government(s) allowing this to be perpetuated?
I’ll tell you. LOTS AND LOTS OF $$$$$$.
That $$$$$ would stop awfully quick when people see how much food has been altered, and how insidiously the “corporations for the people” are using
them as lab rats.
This too, I believe is relevant:
“FDA encourages developers of GE plants to consult with the agency before
marketing their products. Although the consultation is voluntary,..”.
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm352067.htm
“…encourages..” IE: NOT MANDATORY.
THAT IS WHAT I’M ARGUING AGAINST.
Thanks again, Christina.
Can you provide more documentation for this apparent admission? Do we have any recordings or multiple witnesses?
Of course, anyone paying attention is fully aware of the army of GMO shills who spout the same PR talking points, cite the same industry propaganda, and deny any and all evidence which would diminish the GMO religion.
It’s all Orwell.
Monsanto right up there with big Pharma, killing people in the name of corporate profit.
Nope…not true. Glyphosate is one of the most benign of all herbicides of the last 1000 years.
Wow!
GMO Has E. Coli
Bacteria DNA, Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Dna, Antibiotic resistant
markers, up to 6 varieties of Bt Toxin Pesticides, and Roundup
Residue.
GMO Bt toxin corn
produces insecticide continually in every cell of the plant. There’s
absolutely no washing it off. Also known as a “plant incorporate
pesticide”. Roundup residue is absorbed into the corn and it
can’t be washed off. Could the antibiotic resistant markers be
contributing to antibiotic resistance?
Scientists are members of the public, Monsanto uses it’s Public Relations Department to increase profits, why would they stop at discrediting scientists. They are on record as hiring blackwater to infiltrate anti-gmo groups, amongst other activities. They are suing Maui to avoid independent impact studies at GMOGroundZero the center for the creation of new GMO. The threat to scientists from the big 6 and those who control them has long been apparent to any scientist in the field.
Here’s some ammo for you.
BREAKING: Lab Chow Contaminated by Glyphosate
http://farmwars.info/?p=14095
Laboratory Rodent Diets Contain Toxic Levels
of Environmental Contaminants: Implications
for Regulatory Tests
http://farmwars.info/wp-conten…
You can send him this one from me
Monsatan.
GMO’s have never ever been shown to be dangerous.
That’s what they said about Agent Orange until they didn’t.
I’m sure oil and gas companies have their own departments that do the same thing and we all know the Koch Bros have full organizations to discredit science that isn’t to their liking. .
“In a single publicly made phrase, Moar has admitted that the Monsanto-funded science is sheer propaganda – essentially that they indeed have dozens, if not hundreds of employees out making sure that no science which tells the truth about their cancer-causing products ever garners any credibility whatsoever in the information age.”
Well, sure. When you make conjectures like this out of a frustrated spokesperson in a public forum, of course. Why just hundreds of employees? Let’s make it a hundred thousand. Ready the headline for tomorrow!!! “Monsanto employs a hundred thousand employees to discredit good science”.
You are making a whole article, a whole new thread of conjectures of how the company works, based on a single statement by a single person completely out of context. Also, I find it hilarious that everywhere, everyone is saying that glyphosate SURELY causes Cancer, when the WHO study says that it “probably does”, which means that they cannot prove it, but their conjectures state that maybe it’s bad. You know what else probably causes cancer? Absolutely everything, from coffee to tomatoes. (https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/everything-causes-cancer/). This simple statement, the certainty of its conjectures clearly annul any credibility and objective information this article could have had. This propaganda is just as ridiculous and unethical as whatever Monsanto might or might not do.
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Dare to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits that there
is an entire department within the corporation with the simple task of
‘discrediting’ and ‘debunking’ scientists who speak out against GMOs.
CAN ANYONE DOUBT GMO ROBERTS IS ONE OF THESE?
Debunking is not the same as discredit.
The “Federal Institute for Risk Assessment” of the German Goverment has issue a declaration about the Lancet articule, since their report does not coincide with theirs.
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In the opinion of BfR, the
classification of glyphosate as “carcinogenic in Group 2A” (probably
carcinogenic to humans) as published in the 20 March 2015 issue of the
“Lancet” journal comes as a surprise, since other evaluations performed
by supranational bodies such as the WHO-Panel of the Joint Meeting of
Pesticide residues (JMPR, 2004), and also by national regulatory
agencies such as the U.S.EPA had concluded the contrary, i.e., that
glyphosate was not carcinogenic.
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The new IARC classification for glyphosate as a carcinogenic substance is based firstly on “limited evidence” in humans.
This risk is derived from three epidemiological studies in the USA,
Canada and Sweden based on a statistical correlation between exposure to
glyphosate and an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, this
assessment was not confirmed in a very large cohort of the also cited
“Agricultural Health Study” or in other studies.
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Secondly, IARC points to findings of studies based on animal experiments
submitted by the producers of glyphosate as evidence for the
carcinogenic effect of glyphosate. All these findings were also
considered in the glyphosate assessments of BfR, which did support the
conclusion of the Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) of the
FAO/WHO responsible for the assessment of active substances in
pesticides: “In view of the absence of a carcinogenic potential in
animals and the lack of genotoxicity in standard tests, the Meeting
concluded that glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to
humans”.
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Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
http://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/349/does-glyphosate-cause-cancer.pdf
Can we have the name of the event William Moar was participating in when he made this statement?
Maybe ISIS will take care of this hideous institution.
“Killing in the name of ….”
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!!
Yes, our products are safe (except if you’re healthy) no matter what scientists without financial/personal gain tell you.
-Monsanto Talking Heads.
So; Label GMO products if your companies aren’t “afraid” of truth.
Let independent test results by reputable laboratories (ie: not funded by the self-same corps trying to get their products ‘passed’) be posted, if you have nothing to “worry about”.
Anyone trying to “shut another up” is doing so because of 1 of 2 reasons.
1) THEY are lying (spreading falsehoods, misinformation) because they are jealous of your company’s “success”.
or,
2) YOU (the corporation) are lying, spreading falsehoods and misinformation because your share-holders expect top dollar… no matter what’s done to “secure” that.
And, the end result is always the same: Greed
Who’s profiteering in the name of…?
Shame on MonSATAN!! Haha…
This is what arrogance breeds. If I were a betting man, I’d bet Mr Moar will be looking for a job soon.
Look at these comments!!! Pick out Monsanto’s shills!!! They are not even able to use an apostrophe correctly or spell “To” “Too” or “Two”! Boycott Monsanto. They are guilty of crime against humanity.
There’s no stopping these guys unless everyone speaks out… Do a bit of research about Michael R. Taylor.. the ex vice president of Monsanto.. that is now the Deputy Commissioner of Foods for the FDA.
Great article Christina. Thanks for the info.
I had never heard of Monsanto when, in 1995, I thought it would be wrong to privatize rural technical assistance by Emater-RS.
I believed that agriculture needed to be subsidized.
I could not even imagine it to be a very elaborate frame of Monsanto’s plan to take control of food production and impose transgenics.
It would have been a public health disaster.
I fought against and ended up being bullied, harassed and reputed murder causing suffering to me and my family and that was only beginning to understand more than ten years later!
Eu nunca havia ouvido falar na Monsanto quando, em 1995, achei que seria errado privatizar a assistência técnica rural, realizada pela Emater-RS. Acreditava que a agricultura precisava ser subsidiada.
Não podia nem imaginar ser tudo uma armação, um plano da Monsanto, muito elaborado, para assumirem o controle da produção de alimentos e impor os transgênicos. Teria sido um desastre para a saúde pública.
Lutei contra e terminei sendo alvo de bullying, assédio moral e assassinato de reputação causando sofrimento a mim e aos meus familiares e que só fui começar a entender mais de dez anos depois…
Looking fir Terry Theran