-Caveat Lector-
Is this the same organization that Hillary Clinton
supports through contributions to their area
that produces X, XX and XXX films as a art form?
Films that have "lesbians" (actually sadists, the homosexuals
that I have known have had manners as good as many heterosexuals)
talk about why they aren't going to kill their lovers yet!
The Pied Piper
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> Subject: GE: SMOKE AND MIRRORS ABOUT GE FOOD LABELLING, agnet edited
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:15:40 -0500 (CDT)
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> SMOKE AND MIRRORS ABOUT GENETIC FOOD LABELLING
> Oct. 6, 1999
> Ontario Corn Producers Association
> Some farm organizations have now joined those calling for
> the mandatory labelling of foods containing genetically modified
> ingredients, even when nutritionally identical to traditional products.
> These calls are based on the assumption that if consumers know
> what s in food and are properly informed, then most will readily
> accept the new technology - indeed purchase genetically enhanced
> (GE) products preferentially. It s interesting how this perspective
> clashes with that of Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Council of
> Canadians and other anti-biotech groups who see mandatory
> labelling as a means of eliminating GE food items from the
> marketplace entirely.
> European experience shows that the latter approach
> works, with food retailers and manufacturers having chosen to avoid
> usage of GE ingredients entirely (or so they say), rather than risk
> having their genetically modified food labelled as Frankenfood by
> the activists. Farm organizations committed to a label and inform
> strategy also seem to overlook the role of the media who are not so
> interested in informing as in fostering controversy. Anyone who has
> watched or listened to coverage by the (publicly funded) Canadian
> Broadcasting Corporation in recent months knows that balanced
> coverage is not a primary goal.
> But lost in all of this has been a fundamental question - if
> you re going to label GE food (even if it s nutritionally identical to
> other foods), then what do you label? The activists and pro-labelling
> farm groups say, do what the Europeans are doing. But it s
> obvious that none of them have examined European practices
> critically. For to do so would reveal that European labelling
> requirements are targeted almost exclusively (and conveniently) at
> genetic enhancements to corn, soybeans and canola - especially
> those enhanced products coming from North America. By contrast,
> the Europeans have carefully excluded their own forms of genetic
> modification.
> Take European barley as an example. The majority of
> European production, including (we re told) almost all malting
> varieties (used to make beer, whisky - including premium malt
> whiskies made exclusively from barley), are the product of mutation
> breeding, where barley plants are bombarded with nuclear
> radiation, and/or chemical mutagens such as mustard gas.
> European plant breeding literature is very open on the technology
> and its consequences: the mutagens used are virtually all powerful
> carcinogens, they create genes which do not exist in nature, and
> create other genetic damage which is not necessarily apparent to
> the plant breeder. Yet foods made with this are considered natural
> in Europe, and not subject to genetically modified labelling under
> European rules.
> Premium Glenlivet whisky made from nuked, or carcinogen-
> enhanced European barley? It s not labelled.
> The contrast with genetically modified corn, soybeans and
> canola, where the changes involve insertion of known, natural
> genes from common garden and other food plants, or from safe
> natural, organic pesticides, could not be more distinct. But the
> products made from these must be labelled in Europe, presumably
> with the full knowledge by European authorities that this will mean
> displacement of imported North American ingredients by those
> from European crops such as barley - the products of radiation-
> damaged or mustard-gas-mutated seeds.
> Major Japanese brewers, have recently announced plans
> to eliminate use of genetically modified corn, but not of Japanese-
> grown barley - though mutation breeding has been as prevalent in
> Japan as in Europe - is another example of the same hypocrisy.
> But the shell game extends well beyond European barley,
> to many other artificially mutated European crops - for the
> Europeans have been big on mutation breeding - and to many other
> foods. A large percentage of British cheese is made using, and
> contains, a curdling enzyme, chymosin, made by genetically
> modified E. coli bacteria. Indeed, at least one manufacturer has
> promoted the fact that this is an environmentally friendly substitute
> for traditional rennit taken from dead calf stomachs. But this
> genetically modified food bears no labelling requirement in Europe.
> The same applies for many other food additives - most (if
> not all) organic acids used as flavour enhancers, for example. No
> labelling required in Europe. Aspartame used as a non caloric
> sweetener in thousands of diet drinks and foods - in Europe as in
> North America - is made by genetically modified organisms. No
> labelling required.
> The list goes on and on.
> European governments have no apparent interest in
> changing a practice of labelling deception which has come to serve
> as an excellent trade barrier against imports of North American
> grains and oilseeds. The activists are probably not interested either
> as it spoils their scheme of portraying genetic modification as a
> recent and evil plan hatched by a few greedy multinational
> chemical companies to seize control of world food supply.
> But it s harder to understand the thought processes of farm
> organizations joining the let s label foods as in Europe
> bandwagon. One is suspicious that they didn t do their homework,
> or that voting delegates weren t told the whole truth.
> Were farm organization delegates told, for example, that if
> foods are to be labelled in an honest manner as to their content of
> genetically modified ingredients - genetic modification being
> defined as any form of genetic engineering creating organisms
> which cannot otherwise exist - it would include almost all crop
> species (for mutation breeding is used in North America as well,
> though perhaps not as extensively as in Europe)? Were they told it
> would also include most North American cheese, and any food
> containing synthetic organic acids, aspartame, and a long list of
> other common ingredients. Some big-brand-name baby foods,
> despite the company public proclamations to the contrary, contain
> genetically modified ingredients. A hint - it s not in the corn,
> soybeans or canola.
> It might include farm animals treated with antibiotics, such
> as penicillin, for these are the products of genetically modified
> organisms as well.
> Perhaps the simplest would be to label all foods as
> containing genetically modified ingredients - because that would be
> far closer to the truth that what s going on now in any country of
> the world now.
> The good news is that this smoke and mirrors does not
> have much to do with human health since all North American- and
> European-approved genetically foods are safe to eat, indeed, in
> some cases safer than regular - such as genetically enhanced,
> insect/mould-resistant corn. The bad news is that all of the hype
> about genetic modification has seriously detracted from research
> and development efforts directed to solving real food health
> problems - like obesity, and sickness and death caused by natural
> food poisons - and how to feed a third-world population growing at
> several times the population of Canada each year.
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