Instead of putting genetically modified foods through proper trials as consumers have been demanding for years, it appears the United States Department of Agriculture in alliance with the Chinese government have instead chosen to secretly test their latest GMO rice on young Chinese children. What’s particularly interesting is the fact that the agencies decided they even needed to test the rice, after claiming that GMO rice and all other GM creations are virtually identical to natural foods.
Currently under investigation by Chinese health officials, the research project was cracked wide open after Greenpeace reportedly corresponded with theย Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention to expose the ongoing research. Currently, Greenpeace is calling for a stop to the trials which are reportedly continuing in the field. Citing health and environmental risks, Greenpeace says that the studies are taking place on roughly 24 children aged between six and eight years old. It has also been said that the parents likely were completely unaware or misinformed.
The USDA seeks to examine the effects of the GMO rice on the young children, also known as genetically modified ‘golden rice’.
Shortly after the news came out, China’s version of Twitter exploded with outrage as Chinese government organizations went into overdrive to downplay the studies. A Tufts University PR spokesperson, the very university developing the rice, claimed to no knowledge of the event and decried it as inhumane and unethical. PR rep Andrea Grossman stated that the GMO rice creators had always placed the ‘highest importance’ on human health:
“We have always placed the highest importance on human health, and we take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of human research subjects.”
One Chinese author indicated in the secret GMO rice trials,ย Shi-an Yin, was suspended from his work. The second claimed to have no idea the study was going on and was therefore not arrested or even suspended.
For the USDA to be secretly testing genetically modified foods on young children while disregarding all calls for real analysis in the United States shows just how the agency is trying to hide. After all, why would you not perform trials out in the open if the results were so favorable? Likely because their previous secret tests were not favorable, and the agency is determining just how detrimental new GMO rice really is.
I'll give you 2-1 odds that only Chinese FEMALE children were tested on…
"GMO rice and all other GM creations are virtually identical to natural foods"(quote).
Can somebody made an GMO virtual bullit and shoot those bastards?
These GMO companies should do human trials on the scientists that make this stuff and their own children if they feel it is safe, test it on themselves first. We’ll see who still wants to work for them.
i agreed with you…
Dear friends, please allow me to advance irrefutable and
ultimate arguments AGAINST the use of GMOs in agriculture.
I suggest that we first turn our attention to our animal
friends. Wild animals (and, for that matter, domestic animals if given the
choice) donโt touch GMOs. How innumerous the indivduals who observed that GMO
feedstuff or food is left untouched for weeks in nature, but the organic or
conventional (non genetically modified) food doesnโt survive even one night
without being eaten by wild animals. Now, let us ponder a little bit on wild
animals. Do they have health insurance to treat their cancers and a huge array
of other degenerative diseases? No, of course they donโt, they have to remain
healthy until the end of their life or spend their existence in misery.
Therefore, the sole fact that animals categorically refuse to eat any GMO (if
given the choice) should already motivate us to become cautious. Why do animals
have the capacity to distinguish non GMO food/plants from GMO food/plants? The
only answer is that GMO/non GMO is intrinsically and inherently different. So,
how can the FDA claim that there is no inherent or substantial difference
between GMOs and non GMOs? The FDA is deceiving all the people. Of course, GMOs
and non GMOs are substantially different. The genome of non GMOs does not
contain genes from other speciesโฆ
I ask you, why is it that the US has the highest average
incidence of cancer and degenerative diseases in the world? Why
is it, that this morbidity curve took off like a vertical take-off just shortly
after the introduction of GMOs? Is this really only a pure
coincidence?
Now, let me debunk a few of the hollow arguments advanced by
proponents of GMOs, the soldiers of negation. According to them, GMOs help in
combating world famine. It is the opposite, GMO crops failed in India when hit
by drought. Organic plants are much more able to cope with extreme weather, but
they donโt bring money to industrial lobbies.
Another argument I would like to debunk here is that GMOs help
small farmers. Thatโs an insolent proposition. GMO technology relies on
patented seed with terminator technology (you canโt reproduce them like organic
or conventional seed). It is expensive. But that is not all. GMOs rely for
their survival on massive use of pesticides and herbicides (by the way, is it
not funny to note that the same companies which commercialize GMOs are also in
the business of producing pesticides/herbicides/fungicides/growth hormones?).
GMOs have been engineered to resist huge quantities of chemicals, the worst
ones being systemic ones, those that wander into all cells of a plant and are
persistent. Small farmers go into debts to buy the seed, the fertilizers, the
pesticides and the herbicides. Afterwards, if the climate is not clement, the
harvest is not good and they canโt pay back their loans. Thatโs when most kill
themselves. In India, hundred of thousands of farmers have committed suicide,
but no country in the world is totally immune of this phenomenon. In each
country, farmers are more likely to commit suicide than the general population,
for divers reasons, one of which is the dependence created by GMOs. In reality,
companies such as Monsanto, Bayer, DuPont, Dow, BASF and Syngenta are mortal
enemies of small farmers, irrespective of whether they practice
organic/non-chemical or conventional farming. There are no bigger oppressors of
the small-hold farmer than the biotech/GMO/agrichemical companies (which in
reality are almost one and the same).
Every argument that is put forth by proponents of GMOs lacks
good faith. If we analyze it and ponder and reflect the matter more in depth,
we will come to see that all the pro-GMO lobbyโs arguments are hollow and
deceptive. They are only a travesty to hide the dark agenda behind GMOs. This
should be clear to anyone endowed with a seeing eye and a discerning mind.
Industrial chemical farming, and especially (to a much higher
degree) GMO farming practices are in conflict with the laws of nature, such as
the need for the largest diversity possible, the law of interconnection and
interdependence, the law of natural balance (each pest has its natural enemy in
an intact environment), the principle of beauty instead of monotony
(monoculture).
The GMO lobby is grounded in an aspiration for world
domination. If you control the whole food chain, you also control each and
every human being on this planet. Or, as French-speaking people would call it:
โla mainmise totale sur le vivantโ.
I ask you, you, the majority of human beings all over the
world, do you want to became the guinea pigs and the socio-economic slaves of a
tiny minority who more often than not refuses to eat GMOs? Do you want to have
less and less diversity to choose from? Do you like emptied, monotonous
landscapes? Do you enjoy to see the worldโs ecosystem collapse? Do
you like your lifespan to be dramatically shortened by the effects of GMO
products on your body just to fill the pockets of a restricted circle of greedy
and power-hungry people with oversized egos?
To the proponents of GMOs that claim GMOs are completely safe:
If GMOs are so safe, why do you put up ferocious resistance against mandatory
labeling of GMOs? Why did you have to spend countless millions of dollars in
California just to get victory by a tiny margin? Why is it that a figurehead
among your ranks has admitted that labeling GMOs would be equivalent to putting
a big warning sign with a skull and bones on each GMO product?
I ask each of you: Doesnโt every human being on this planet
enjoy the sacred basic human right to decide what he/she wants to eat? Is it
not the right of every human being to be informed about the real nature of GMOs
and the detrimental effects that sound independent scientific studies have,
irrefutably, shown, but that are being discredited by the pro-GMO lobby that
only admits the studies financed by it, where the conclusion is already
determined before the study even begins? Why is mandatory labeling frightening
the hell out of biotech companies, if their food is as safe as they claim?
Why do so many human rights have to be trampled on just to
further the agenda of private interests? As a
fair-minded individual, do we not have the responsibilty to admit that GMOs in
agriculture are devoid of common sense and ethics? As for
me, I have already investigated all these questions and many more almost two
decades before and given the only possible answer: GMOs are scientifically
unsound, socially destructive, environmentally unsustainable and one of the
biggest transgression against humanity. Thatโs why I put all my weight behind
banning GMOs in Switzerland and together with untiring efforts of countless
other souls was successful to get them banned. Isnโt it ironic that Syngenta, a
Swiss biotech company and a leading player in its field, is prevented from
selling its GMO products in Switzerland? Should not people and politicians all
over the world heed what happened in Switzerland, one of the few (albeit not
perfect) relatively real democracies in this world, where people can freely
voice their opinions and information be freely shared. In a country, where
people have one of the highest education level and where science is kept in
high esteem, a large majority supports not only mandatory labeling of GMOs, but
the total ban? What does this say about GMOs?
By now, I am sure that most fellow human beings, having taken
time to read my comment, agree with me. It is likely that many already agreed
with me before reading this commentโฆ And those who are not of good faith,
namely the proponents of GMO, will continue their meaningless attempts at
brainwashing people into believing GMOs are safe.
In the long term, the GMO scourge will be overcome, as more
and more people become aware of the frightening dangers associated with as well
as the evil motives behind its drive for world domination and arise, in a
collective effort, to get rid of this scam. We, the vast majority of peoples of
the world, are one and stand united on this subject and shall prevail against
the forces of darkness. Darkness is frightened by light, the same is true with
the GMO lobby, it is frightened by the light of truth.
yet here in America, our got test GMO on children out in the open. Remember the Taco Bell Starlink Corn Fiasco. Heck, everything you eat the McDonald is a GMO test.