Monsanto claims patent on animals fed GMOs!

No surprises here these guys are worse than bp!!!

It is time to shut them down!

We don't need to shut them down, just make them put their name on their patented products.

If Monsanto wants the revenue stream let them blaze their name on these marvels of science and let the free market work, advertise the %$#@ and let consumer choice dictate what we swallow for whom.

Pamela I agree their name should be on their stuff, because I would not buy it! Unfortunately this is not the case.

I don't agree with you that we do not need to shut them down. I have seeded several articles on Monsanto including my 1st one that I did research on and found out scientists were saying what they are doing is wrong because they do not know what the effects are I put links to these sites in my comment.

Three counties have banned Monsanto in California.

The Supreme Court made a ruling recently on Monsanto Alfalfa, it wasn't as good as I would like to hear, but it is a very small step in the right direction.

There is also a ban on owning patents on food in I believe it is England. The seed that they altered in corn has roundup ready a pesticide in the seed itself. Their corn is transplanting itself into other farmers fields and contaminating them, yet they are suing the farmers and getting their property this includes organic farms!! It is basically a patented weed, we should be suing them for contaminating our country.

Many countries are banning GE/GM foods if Monsanto's crop continues to contaminate our farms we will not be able to sell our food to other countries.

Besides the stuff that is happening with Corexit in the Gulf, this is another experiment that is being conducted in the US and Canada on our food. One that we have no voice in saying stop this!!

anon....I have seeded several articles onMonsanto including my 1st one that I did research on and found out scientists were saying what they are doing is wrong because they do not know what the effects are I put links to these sites in my comment.

Good for you; it's an education you need to search for but one that will serve you well, I've done a fair share of GMO research as well and am keenly aware of the risks. I'll check out your link and you can look at the resources page of my site and we'll see if we aren't on the same page.

There is also a ban on owning patents on food in I believe it is England.

The EU limits GMO planting and restrict most imported GMO as animal fee, but the UK has the biggest contingent of Monsanto front groups, politicians, PR and lackeys in Europe. It's not clear what the reference is there but some countries do ban all GMO.

Monsanto together with the WTO have worked under the guise of "Free Trade" to impose the will of this self appointed bureaucracy to override Soverign food laws and force countries to accept these. Hillary at State helps push agribusiness and Monsanto as trade too.

we should be suing them for contaminating our country.

We should, but the game was rigged from the beginning and Monsanto learned well the price of polluting so unlike their PCB's they introduced this stuff with a blanket waiver of deregulation and a fee attached to the contaminant.

Pretty clever in a very evil way, but Monsanto didn't do this all alone. It all took the help of Congress and bipartisan Members and Presidents to force it on us. Gotta wonder where the public service is, eh?

this is another experiment that is being conducted in the US and Canada on our food. One that we have no voice in saying stop this!!

It is criminal and unthinkable but we are not powerless. Consumer spending is the bulk of the US economy so we can vote with our spending. We have more say than most individuals think and one by one, day by day and dollar by dollar we are changing it.

Right now corn, soy and canola are the bulk of the GMO ingredients and while it's hard to find processed foods without it there are plenty of food options without those.

Buy Local and know your farmer. Choose foods in their basic food state and choose packaged foods carefully. Switch to oatmeal from KIX. Boycott all unknown ingredients. Call the food company consumer lines and tell them you won't eat their %$#@ until there is a GMO Free option.

The explosion in organic foods and "pure" healthful options is being driven by consumers refusing to swallow so much %$#@. We have a voice it's just a matter of getting enough volume. :~)

I loved your video, you might want to check out the one I seeded on Alfalfa, I think that is the one that indicates 2 Supreme Court Justices have ties to them. One of them did not vote on it and the other, I believe it was Clarence Thomas did! It makes me wonder if he has voted on any other issues that have to do with Monsanto?

Clarence Thomas was a Monsanto lobbyist on his way to the Supreme Court. He was a deciding vote in the initial issue of allowing corporations to patent life forms so Monsanto can thank him for that!

It made me wonder how many times has he voted on issues like this, instead of stepping aside like the other Supreme Court Justice did?

How many votes did it take to give Monsanto a blank check to privatize the food supply? One!

Pam I am confused by that statement, I thought that the rulings are from all the justices that should participate. Are you referring to something in the past. I just recently (this year I think) found out about Monsanto and what they are doing. Was that all it took in this instance was one vote? Thanks :?

profits over people what's a few lost lives for a few more million...

Maybe Monsanto would like to own our health care tabs as well!

Maybe Monsanto would like to own our health care tabs as well!

No darling they are working in conjunction with big pharma to keep everyone as sick as possible so they can invent new disease and new drugs. Don't trust pharamcuticle drugs unless they have bee out for over 20 years. Don't try anything new if death or cancer is one of the known side effects. :(

Eat organic stay away from any food that is not labeled organic! Remember anything with high fructose corn syurp is made from GMO corn refuse to buy anything that has it in it. You will loose weightr and feel much better. After you go without High Fructose Corn syurp for a while if you eat it you will be able to feel how bad it makes you feel.

I agree with everyone above, the problem with health the effects are hidden in general ailments that people already have. If you look at my links above the 1st one I seeded had scientists arguing this. I can not find the original article I had read on it's effects on cattle, but they had more ailments that the cows not fed with it as well as a decreased life expectancy.

The most alarming part was when I came across one statement that indicated once you had ate it one time, it would effect you for life!

Organic farms are also being contaminated unfortunately!

I can not find the original article I had read on it's effects on cattle, but they had more ailments that the cows not fed with it as well as a decreased life expectancy.

The most alarming part was when I came across one statement that indicated once you had ate it one time, it would effect you for life!

There are a few sources reporting on the health effects of the GMO crops and most come back to a limited number of studies and sources that are cited in the Sourcewatch summary below.

Effects of GMO ingredients are a great concern, but in all my years of research there's never been a study or reliable source that crossed my path suggesting a single exposure had lifelong effect. It's hard to imagine what the basis for such a claim would be unless it's confused with Mad Cow where the disease needs but one opportunity to enter a body. http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.cfm

Farmers report livestock sterility and deaths

About two dozen farmers reported that thousands of their pigs had reproductive problems when fed certain varieties of Bt corn. Pigs were sterile, had false pregnancies, or gave birth to bags of water. Some cows and bulls also became sterile. Bt corn was also implicated by farmers in the deaths of cows, horses, water buffaloes, and chickens.30

When Indian shepherds let their sheep graze continuously on Bt cotton plants, within 5-7 days, one out of four sheep died. There was an estimated 10,000 sheep deaths in the region in 2006, with more reported in 2007. Post mortems on the sheep showed severe irritation and black patches in both intestines and liver (as well as enlarged bile ducts). Investigators said preliminary evidence “strongly suggests that the sheep mortality was due to a toxin. . . . most probably Bt-toxin.”

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto_and_GM_Foods:_Health_Risks

I wish I had copied that article, gosh I hate hindsight! Then again, maybe it was someone wanting to scare people into recognizing the problem.

I can locate sources for any true information or industry talking points circulated by the Biotech Brigade supporters. While biotech food is a huge issue there aren't so many players or so much available factual information that the key facts can't be traced to a handful of primary sources. On the other hand cyberspace is full of opinions that regardless of intent are simply not accurate!

Could this be the article you are thinking about? It has made me wonder, especially with the added comments that cite specific studies.

Pshaw, untouchable Monsanto slides under the radar and controls their own fate with more industry appointees and Members of Congress in their pocket than astroturf NGO's offering PR spin for cover.

Dutchess two of the Supreme Court Justices also have connections with them, one didn't vote on the alfalfa ruling (A relative worked for them) the other, Clarence Thomas, did! Clarence Thomas worked for the company himself, or was it their accountants, oh wait that is talking about the money again(sarc)!

Dutchess I had not heard of the "terminator seed" at least that I remember thanks!

Singer their nickname is Mt Satan, not my idea someone else came up with this, but they are right on their description.

I will have to remember that nickname, it is very appropriate for this company. Mt Satan

It is. Now if only we could find one appropriate for all the people in government helping them besides idiots.

Johnny can I have some Corexit with that, along with my other flavorings? :(

dbuker,

Yes.

Scientist from the EU, last year, evaluated the data from the original scientific research that monsanto did in order to justify the FDA and USDA approving gmo food for human consumption.

http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm

A normal study would require at least 2 years for approval of human consumption. Monsanto only did a 90 day study. If you read the study you will find numerous concerns for how the product effects mammals consuming the product. But monsanto bought and paid for their approval with political contributions and influence so no worries.

This has already been discussed on newsvine here:

http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/13/3626093-three-major-gmos-approved-for-food-and-feed-found-unsafe

There are no conspiracy theories here only fact.

In the paper by the French scientists that you reference, the French scientist assert their opinion that the 90-day study design by Monsanta is insufficient to distinguish differences between the control group and the GMO-fed rat groups. Their opinion was that a 2-year study would have been better, and they may be right. It is very easy and commonplace to criticize an experimental design after the fact, once you have the data to analyze. This doesn't mean that the Monsanto scientist deliberately chose a 90-day study with malicious intent, i.e., to hide something. This just means that two groups of scientist disagree with study design. There are often sound scientific reasons to chose a shorter longitudinal study over a longer one, such as when measurement comparabilit and repeatability are factors. It is not a fact that a longer study would have been better, just opinion.

But, there is absolutely nothing in the French paper to suggest that Monsanto "bought and paid for their approval with political contributions and influcence." That isn't a fact, that's conjecture. It is a fact that the French work was supported by Greenpeace, thought. That fact needs to be considered.

Yes, Greenpeace was involved. They took monsanto to court and where finally able to get the "science" data released.

Monsanto refuses to allow independent third party scientists to evaluate and test their gmo products! Very few if any U.S. scientists based in a university setting will look at the products because if they do they violate agreements and lose their research funding provided by monsanto.

dbunker....The idea that they are trying to produce healthier bacon and other pork products doesn't sound like an act of world domination to me.

You're right, the concept of healthier food doesn't sound bad, but the reality of untested, patent protected GMO foods doesn't live up to the hype. What Monsanto hopes doesn't change what we swallow!

We're a Nation consuming record amounts of Roundup Ready corn and soy and based on the steady decline in America's health it's hard to leap to the conclusion that Monsanto aims to see our diet improve with secret ingredients as much as making profits with every bite we swallow.

dbunker there is a group I just put in a request for the GMO Vine you might want to join it and find out more about this. You might also look at my links I put above if you check out my 1st seed on Monsanto, I have links to several scientific studies where scientists indicate we should not be allowing this and the studies that were done prior to this type of food being put on the market should have been longer and with more research!!

rochart....One thing that is of even greater interest is that in obtaining FDA and USDA approval for their agricultural products was that they were "substantially the same" as conventional agricultural products and allegedly would do no harm and change nothing.

The measure of "substantial equivalence" was put into law to avoid any testing of genetically altered food crops. These are not tested or approved by the FDA, because they have a "deregulated status" by law.

The FDA and USDA get nothing but voulentary notification that a GMO product is being added to the food supply. It's a fine point but I don't want anyone to forget these do not get approvals from regulators they get a wave.

Biotech "regulation" t makes the MMS/Interior Department oversight of oil drilling look fierce by comparison!

Biotechnology Consultation Memorandum of Conference BNF No. 000001
September 19, 1994...

Monsanto has concluded, in essence, that the glyphosate-tolerant soybean variety they have developed is not significantly altered within the meaning of 21 CFR 170.30(f)(2) when compared to soybean varieties with a history of safe use. At this time, based on Monsanto's description of its data and analysis, the agency considers Monsanto's consultation on this product to be complete.

F. Owen Fields, Ph.D.

Pamela,

Mahalo for correcting my wording: "substantial equivalence". I just have to wonder how far using the excuse of "substantial equivalence" would go with my lovely wife if say I was so stupid as to go out and have an affair with another woman and she found out. Then I tried to explain myself by claiming but "dear, I love you, it was "substantial equivalence." Not far I suspect.

That said, now if we follow the monsanto logic of their patenting plants, then animals who consume their products, next they will demand a patent on you and me!!!

Pamela Rochart you guys are great, I loved the analogy of you wife Rochart! LOL

Gotta love it, it's one of the best examples of substantial equivalence you could hope for!!

I remember how wonderful the Monsato exhibit/ride was.

It's the ecomaginary public image our biggest, corporate criminals spend so much money cultivating; the DOW Chemical-Human Elements campaign and all of GE's %$#@ about caring when they still have Superfund sites the public is paying to remediate. Add that sunshine spin to a media who turn a blind eye and it's revenue magic! The worst offenders give the best shows!!

Pamela a good example is looking at the banking industry and how the guy that used the 5 billions dollars of the banks' money effected all the markets of the world. These companies make more than that I bet and with that amount of money they can help control the markets!