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Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by xuenchen
The same about Carman? Seralini?
The 'study' was bait to make the anti-GMO movement look like idiots.
Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize
may one day save the world from overpopulation.
The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm.
By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives.
'We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies,' said Epicyte president Mitch Hein.
'We have also created corn plants that make antibodies against the herpes virus, so we should be able to make a plant-based jelly that not only prevents pregnancy but also blocks the spread of sexual disease.'
Correction, shooting down lies about the bill.
You say you look at both sides, yet you seem to be only for one side of the debate. You are defending Monsanto for shooting down bills, yet you believe those bills should be implemented. Seems kind of counter-productive doesn't it?
No it isn't. It called separating fact from fiction. You on the other hand do no investigation on your own and accept the lies you are given by the anti-GMO crowd.
It's like someone believing Zimmerman was guilty, yet going on to defend his side of the story, or vice versa.
To you it wouldn't. You don't mind being lied to as long as those lies support your position.
Your argument makes no sense.
Yes I read the link. There are few direct quotes in the article and this one is also not a direct quote. (Note: direct quotes are designated by quotation marks when someone is speaking. I notice that there are very few direct quotes in that article.)
Phage, this is a post from you that clearly proves you don't read links at certain times. But you always require that of other posters.
The claim was quite direct.
The citation came from a FDA official, describing how the policy in effect was and interpreted on and as of October 1998 as described in NYT Magazine article written by Michael Pollan from xuenchen's post.
Why does that "bar" not seem to exist in the Act?
The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act specifically bars the F.D.A. from including any information about pesticides on its food labels
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
pay close attention to the "[6]" ..... there is no verified reference to Biolex buying Epicyte .... could be planted information ??!! (but wait, there's more)
Biolex Therapeutics was a biotechnology firm in the Research Triangle of North Carolina that was founded in 1997 and raised $190 million from investors. It filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on July 5, 2012.
Biolex acquired Epicyte Pharmaceutical Inc. on May 6, 2004, and acquired LemnaGene SA of Lyon, France in 2005.[6]
Biolex acquired Epicyte Pharmaceutical Inc. on May 6, 2004
?????
But once the Epicyte gene, which irreversibly sterilizes humans who eat it, was patented, Monsanto and DuPont bought the company in order to "commercially exploit" the Epicyte gene. That means they had a customer for this product! Who is buying this gene and where is it being used? After ten years, how many GMO products have included this human-sterilization gene?
Top 10 Monsanto Epicyte Sterilization Crimes
2001 ???
Here’s where things get interesting. In 2001, Monsanto and Du Pont bought a small biotech company called Epicyte that had created a gene that makes the male sperm sterile. In the US, GM foods are already on the market and unlabeled. US citizens have no idea what could be in their food.
Is Bill Gates using Epicyte gene to control population of poor?
this 'verifies' the Biolex aquisition
May 7, 2004
Epicyte Pharmaceutical, one of the last vestiges of the San Diego biotechnology community's attempt to become an agricultural biotech stronghold, has closed and sold its assets to a North Carolina company.
The privately held San Diego biotech, which at its peak employed about 50, has been purchased by Pittsboro, N.C.-based Biolex, another privately owned biotech. Financial terms were not disclosed when the deal was announced yesterday.
Epicyte Pharmaceutical joins failing-biotech row
an obvious dis-info story to hide an agenda ???? .... I bet 'YES'
Published on Monday, October 27, 2003
Citing steep initial R&D costs, long time horizons and no particular development advantage over the competition, Monsanto Co. has closed its therapeutic pharming business to focus on large acre crops. Monsanto's exit leaves a handful of clinical stage companies to grow the field of plant-based pharmaceuticals (PBP).
Facing flat sales growth for the year and an increased net loss, MON decided to exit the PBP business to reduce costs.....
Monsanto: Down on the pharm
Originally posted by xuenchen
Third....
2001 ???
Here’s where things get interesting. In 2001, Monsanto and Du Pont bought a small biotech company called Epicyte that had created a gene that makes the male sperm sterile. In the US, GM foods are already on the market and unlabeled. US citizens have no idea what could be in their food.
Is Bill Gates using Epicyte gene to control population of poor?
Tell me, how do you feel about being lied to about it?
I'm not talking about the Plant Protection Act anymore, I agreed that you were right on that
Wait. What do politicans have to do with the public voting against labeling (California)? What to the courts have to do with the public voting against labeling? I'm all for the people deciding.
You agree that the bills should be implemented, yet go on to defend and justify Monsanto paying politicians and courts to shoot them down.
Consider how the scheme ties in with Rockefeller Foundation population control strategy. In 2001, it was aided when the privately-owned biotech company, Epicyte, announced it successfully developed the "ultimate GMO crop" - contraceptive corn. It was called a solution to world "over-population," but news about it vanished after Biolex acquired the company.
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by xuenchen
Oh, goodness sakes. Its an all out conspiracy then, where has this been
hidden off to in the back corners? Great find Xue!
This is about to get real interesting.
“Looking at the data there were no differences in any of the major variables evaluated by the study, such as weights, veterinary costs, illnesses, or mortality. No significant differences in blood biochemistry were found. At autopsy most organ weights were similar between groups. There was a statistically significant (but likely clinically-meaningless) increase (0.1kg vs 0.12kg) in uterus weights in the GM group. At pathology there were nonsignificant decreases in cardiac and liver abnormalities in the GM group (half as many), in stomach pathology there was one significant finding of more ‘severe inflammation’ (on a 4-point scale from no inflammation to severe) in the GM group. This is the finding that has been amplified as variably ‘damning’ or ‘concerning’ depending on which source is reporting.”
“The study’s conclusions don’t really stand up to statistical scrutiny. The authors focus on ‘severe’ stomach inflammation but all the other inflammation categories actually favour the GM-diet. So this selective focus is scientifically inappropriate. “When analysed using appropriate methods, the stomach inflammation data does not show a statistically statistical association with diet. There are also 19 other reported statistical tests, which means we would expect one significant association just by chance: and so the apparent difference in uterus weight is likely to be a false positive.”
The overall U.S. birth rate, which is the annual number of births per 1,000 women in the prime childbearing ages of 15 to 44, declined 8% from 2007 to 2010. The birth rate for U.S.-born women decreased 6% during these years, but the birth rate for foreign-born women plunged 14%—more than it had declined over the entire 1990-2007 period.1 The birth rate for Mexican immigrant women fell even more, by 23%.
In addition to the birth rate decline, the number of U.S. births, which had been rising since 2002, fell abruptly after 2007—a decrease also led by immigrant women. From 2007 to 2010, the overall number of births declined 7%, pulled down by a 13% drop in births to immigrants and a relatively modest 5% decline in births to U.S.-born women.
Connecticut became the first state in the nation to pass a GMO labeling law on Monday, but food advocates and those who are concerned about what they eat shouldn’t bust out the (organic) bubbly just yet.
Though the mere fact that the Connecticut General Assembly passed a GMO labeling bill is a step in the right direction, the full story is a disturbing reminder of how powerful the biotech lobby really is.
But instead, lobbyists led by Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) and the Biotechnology Industry Organization trade association succeeded in neutering the law by launching a large-scale lobbying campaign aimed at state lawmakers, who were convinced in part by the lobby to add requirements that two triggers be met in order for the law to go into effect.