A link to several organic farms and suppliers in the US;
http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/usorganics.html#american
Hit the "back" botton for other areas (Canada, Europe, Russia)
Luc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Appal Energy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Reply: [Biofuel] As it Relates to Biofuels >Monsanto
AssaultonU.S. Farmers Detailed in New Report
Non-GMO, organic soy flour and milk is available. That means oil and bean
would also be available.
Shouldn't be too hard to find a source. Whether or not that source is
within your region may be another matter.
Todd Swearingen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Reply: [Biofuel] As it Relates to Biofuels >Monsanto Assault
onU.S. Farmers Detailed in New Report
Keith, Thanks, I will read ALL your weblinks. The
question I now ask myself: Is it possible to purchase
soy that is NOT a bioengineered soy?
Why? I want a real soy bean that has not been GMO'd
with 35s promotor. The 35s promotor is really a
derivative of the Mosaic Virus..which is hell on
wheels in the gene world.
Here is what I found on JTF.
http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/40908/
I plan to do additional research on the 35s promotor.
I want a Mother Nature engineered soybean and claim
this on my biodiesel for my future clean fuel gas
station.
Thanks
Phillip Wolfe
--- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Phillip
>Kieth, I read and re-read all 84 pages of this
paper.
>My corn growing buddy from Minnesota warned me and
my
>Californian farming buddies about this five years
ago.
> I read that GMO'd plants (supplied by Monsanto)
are
>in 85% of all U.S. soy acreage, 45% of all US corn
>acreage, 76% of all U.S cotton, 84% of U.S. canola.
>The EU does not allow any GMO'd crop into EU.
So far.
http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/20877/
Bushfood
This issue is not all that different to what Bob's
talking about with
Bruce Gagnon's piece, "Oil politics trumps
everything", lots in
common:
http://wwia.org/pipermail/biofuel/Week-of-Mon-20050110/004788.html
These are useful websites on this subject:
http://www.ngin.org.uk
GM WATCH / Norfolk Genetic Information Network /
GMOs / genetic
engineering / GM foods
http://www.gmwatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=1&page=1
GMWatch.org
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/index.php
The Institute of Science In Society
The Biofuel list archives is also a useful resource
on GMOs.
Thanks for the notes.
I should add that the use of pesticides with these
crops, RRsoy etc,
has increased, not decreased as promised. Every
single promise has
been broken.
And a useful and safe organic pesticide has been
ruined, and,
probably, turned into a peril instead: Bacillus
thuringiensis. I've
used it a few times, used as you say, mixed with
water and sprayed.
It works very well.
Regarding Monsanto and its tactics, have a look at
these:
http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/33126/
The Fake Parade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4412987,00.html
The fake persuaders
Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their
opponents on the internet
Best wishes
Keith
>Here are my rough notes from the 84 page report:
>
>--Monsanto makes genetically altered germ plasm
with
>Bacillus thurengisis (B). But the Bt is inserted
and
>spliced in the germplasm...not allowed to do
>naturally....Monsanto does it with DNA splicing
called
>35S promoter. A promoter is a short sequence at the
>beginning of the gene that is necessary for the
gene
>to make it's product. Monsanto is the holder of the
>35S promoter patent.
>
>--My further research on the Internet shows that
the
>35S DNA promoter is now found to full of
retroviruses
>I found nifty website that talks about this:
> http://www.biotech-info.net/enhancing_debate.html
>
>--It has become difficult if not impossible, to
find
>high quality, "conventional non-bioengineered"
>varieties of corn, soy, and cotton seed.
>
>--Farmers who sign technology agreements with
Monsanto
>and use Monsanto's bioengineered seeds fall under
>strict agreements and intellectual infringement
>liabilities.
>
>--Nearby farmers can get sued even if they don't
have
>with cross pollinated and thus contaminated
volunteer
>plants are up for liability.
>
>Main Points:
>
>• Monsanto exerted market control over seed
germplasm;
>by buying up other seed companies including
Calgene,
>Inc., Asgrow Agronomics, Asgrow and Stine Seed,
>Agracetus, Holden’s Foundation Seeds, Inc., Delta
and
>Pine Land, Monsoy (a Brazilian soybean company),
>Cargill’s international seed divisions (with
>operations in Asia, Africa, Europe and Central and
>South America), Plant Breeding International, and
>DeKalb Genetics (the world’s second largest seed
>company).
>• Acquired a multitude of patents on both genetic
>engineering techniques and genetically engineered
seed
>varieties
>• Required that any farmer purchasing its seed must
>first sign an agreement prohibiting the saving of
seed
>• Crop property rights -when non-genetically
>engineered crops become contaminated with patented
>traits, the contaminated crop effectively becomes
the
>property of Monsanto
>• Directly or indirectly controls almost half of
the
>American corn germplasm market and most of the
soybean
>market.
>• Requires that the sole and exclusive jurisdiction
>and venue for all disputes (except those involving
>cotton) go to the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern
>District of Missouri or the Circuit Court of the
>County of St. Louis27—both in Monsanto’s hometown.
>• Crops become polluted with genetically altered
>plants through normal pollination - 2003 British
study
>found that genetically engineered oilseed rape
>crosspollinated with non-engineered oilseed rape
more
>than 16 miles away .....pollen-flow isinevitable
>• Cross pollination proporty implications - the
lower
>courts were not concerned as to how the seed wound
up
>on a farmers land land, only that the farmer
possessed
>Monsanto’s intellectual property and thus liable to
>pay Monsanto...
>• Outcome:Unprecedented control over the sale and
use
>of crop seed in the United States/
>
>Crops bioteched to exhibit two traits.
>
>• herbicide-tolerant
>• insect-resistant.
>
>this GMO’d crops accounted for
>
>• 85% of all U.S. soy acreage
>• 45% of all corn
>• 76% of all cotton
>• 84% of U.S. canola acreage
>
>European markets refuse to take genetically
engineered
>corn and thus US farmers have lost $300 million per
>year
>
>Recommendations by the Center for Food Safety
>
>• Amend the Patent Act so that Sexually Reproducing
>Plants Are Not Patentable Subject Matter and Amend
the
>Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) to Exclude Such
>Plants from Protection under the PVPA.
>• Make the Plant Variety Protection Act the
Exclusive
>Means of Securing Intellectual Property Protection
>Over Sexually Reproducing Plants.
>• Amend the Patent Act so that Seed Saving and/or
>Inadvertent Possession,Use or Sale of Genetically
>Engineered Seeds is Not Considered Infringement.
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