Thanks, Richard - needed that encouraging report and
the links. The average person is initally turned off
by the protesting punk-rocker-looking kids damaging
"sacred" property, but provided with some additional
interpersonal "news reporting" (such as the below
facts) they begin to get a glimmer of the reasons (and
would the Vietnam War have stopped as soon without
protests and martyrs?).
Nancy
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> >BioDemocracy News #34 Agbiotech Aggression
> >By: Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
> >July 2001 (www.organicconsumers.org)
> (www.purefood.org)
> >_________________________________________________
> >Quote of the Month:
> >
> >"Genetically modified food is viewed as unsafe by
> most [Americans], and the
> >public wants warning labels on food, a new
> ABCNEWS.com poll finds� 52%
> >believe such foods are unsafe, and an additional
> 13% are unsure about
> >them�93% say the federal government should require
> labels on food saying
> >whether it's been genetically modified � 57% also
> say they'd be less likely
> >to buy foods labeled as genetically modified� The
> image problem of
> >genetically modified food is underscored by
> contrast to organic foods.
> >While
> >only five percent of Americans say they'd be more
> likely to buy a food
> >labeled as genetically modified, 52 percent say
> they'd be more likely to
> >buy
> >food that's labeled as having been raised
> organically." (<www.ABCNEWS.com>
> >6/20/01)
> >
> >Attack of the Gene Giants
> >
> >The global controversy over genetically engineered
> foods and crops has
> >intensified. Sensing that they are losing the
> battle for the hearts and
> >minds of the public, even in the US and Canada,
> Agbiotech interests, large
> >food corporations, and their allies in government
> have stepped up their
> >propaganda and intimidation campaign. Since the
> beginning of 2001 an
> >unprecedented number of editorial, opinion, and
> news stories have appeared
> >in the world press, extolling the virtues of
> agricultural biotechnology
> >while denouncing opponents as know-nothing
> Luddites. Accompanying this
> >industry media barrage, choreographed by leading
> public relations firms,
> >are
> >a number of other recent noteworthy aggressions:
> >
> >* In Canada, Loblaws, Sobey�s, Safeway, A&P, and
> other large grocery chains
> >have banned the use of �GMO-free� food labels.
> Natural food companies
> >marketing organic and other foods certified as free
> of genetically modified
> >organisms (GMOs) have been ordered by Loblaws and
> other chains to block out
> >or remove �GMO-free� labels or else their products
> will be taken off
> >supermarket shelves. Despite polls that show 90% of
> Canadians support
> >labeling GMOs, government regulators, pressured by
> the US and the biotech
> >lobby, have thus far ruled out mandatory labeling.
> But a new GMO food
> >labeling law has been introduced into Parliament,
> supported by 80 public
> >interest groups.
> >
> >* In 1994 Monsanto and state agriculture officials
> in the United States
> >launched a similar intimidation campaign against
> several thousand dairies
> >and health food stores in the US attempting to
> label or advertise their
> >dairy products as free of recombinant Bovine Growth
> Hormone (rBGH). To this
> >date, Monsanto�s �no labeling� intimidation
> campaign has been quite
> >successful. Less than 10% of US dairy products
> today are labeled as
> >�rBGH-free� even though the overwhelming majority
> (90%) US dairy cows are
> >not being injected with the drug. Most of America�s
> 1500 dairies, backed by
> >food giants such as Kraft/Phillip Morris, have
> collaborated in denying
> >consumers free choice by co-mingling rBGH-tainted
> milk with regular milk
> >and
> >then deliberately lying to consumers about the
> presence of the hormone (�we
> >don�t know�) in their company�s products. rBGH is
> banned in every
> >industrialized country except for the USA,
> primarily because of scientific
> >concerns that it is a cancer hazard and likely to
> cause increased
> >antibiotic
> >residues in milk. Voting with their pocketbooks
> against rBGH, millions of
> >US
> >consumers have turned to organic milk and dairy
> products as well as
> >rBGH-free labeled brands.
> >
> >* Reports of genetic pollution and genetic drift
> continue to proliferate.
> >According to a CBC (Canada) radio broadcast
> (6/2/01), genetically
> >engineered
> >canola plants are showing up in farmers� fields all
> across the Canadian
> >prairie, even though many of them have never
> planted GE seeds. Martin
> >Phillipson, a University of Saskatchewan law
> professor, said that Monsanto
> >may be liable for damages if their gene-altered,
> herbicide resistant canola
> >continues to spread. "The GM canola has, in fact,
> spread much more rapidly
> >than we thought it would," said Martin Entz, a
> plant scientist at the
>
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