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AlphaHawk
reply to post by dreamingawake
Perhaps because there's nothing to debunk?
Anyway, It's funny that Fox News constantly gets lauded here on ATS...except when it confirms a bias or course.
Then it's gospel.
All irony aside though, let's hope the Fox News watchers do write to their senators and you guys can get GMO labelling.
thebtheb
Just a preview of what's to come:
"Show me the studies, real evidence that GMOs are the slightest bit dangerous."
And then no matter how many links, studies etc. are shown, they are all somehow suspect, already debunked, not good enough, mainly because they haven't been talked about by the official media, as if the people who are pro-GMO are armed with a bunch of studies that couldn't be debunked in exactly the same way, but aren't because there's a huge belief, even among people here, that if the king is saying it isn't so, it isn't.
thebtheb
Just a preview of what's to come:
"Show me the studies, real evidence that GMOs are the slightest bit dangerous."
And then no matter how many links, studies etc. are shown, they are all somehow suspect, already debunked, not good enough, mainly because they haven't been talked about by the official media, as if the people who are pro-GMO are armed with a bunch of studies that couldn't be debunked in exactly the same way, but aren't because there's a huge belief, even among people here, that if the king is saying it isn't so, it isn't.
Grimpachi
thebtheb
Just a preview of what's to come:
"Show me the studies, real evidence that GMOs are the slightest bit dangerous."
And then no matter how many links, studies etc. are shown, they are all somehow suspect, already debunked, not good enough, mainly because they haven't been talked about by the official media, as if the people who are pro-GMO are armed with a bunch of studies that couldn't be debunked in exactly the same way, but aren't because there's a huge belief, even among people here, that if the king is saying it isn't so, it isn't.
Nah I am tired of asking for studies which I have done in almost every thread but let me correct you. The links that are given are generally from Natural News who are known for pseudo science and false information and as you pointed out have been debunked so excuse me for wanting good science. One of the biggest studies that have been used has been discredited even retracted for being bad science by the publisher. The ones that are going on a huge belief system are the the anti-GM crowd because they don't have evidence to support their claims.
However if you have a peer-reviewed article that actually shows them as being dangerous I would love to see it because to date I have not been linked to one in any of these threads.
Just a preview here of what's to come:
But Monsanto doesn't feed its own people GM foods. False. A catering group claimed they offered the choice of GM and non-GM foods back in 1999 however the claim was never confirmed but that hasn't stopped people from repeating it in these threads.
Nevermind it's like talking the brick walls nothings going to get through. Anyway I don't see what there is to debunk this is coming from Fox news the ones who won the right to lie on TV in court besides I caught part of the show it seemed more like a infomercial than anything. It wasn't part of their news show it was in an opinion show where they do not have to to get you factual information. It's what you want to hear so I'm sure you'll believe it.
But Monsanto doesn't feed its own people GM foods. False
Back in 1999, a story by the UK press Independent reported:
...that Monsanto employees don't eat their very own GM (genetically modified) foods, in their High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire UK facility. .
Of the 1999 article, Greenpeace locked on to the news story, reportedly exposed by Friends of the Earth, was subsequently spread by the local and international media.
(no reference found on the FoE site)
"The firm running the canteen at Monsanto's pharmaceuticals factory at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, serves only GM-free meals, Friends of the Earth said. In a notice in the canteen, Sutcliffe Catering, owned by the Granada Group, said it had taken the decision "to remove, as far as practicable, GM soya and maize from all food products served in our restaurant. We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve."
The notice was posted by the Sutcliffe Catering Group......not their employers, Monsanto.
That UK facility is now closed.
But let's look at the facts as described by the initial story.....
1) One Monsanto facility, in the UK, in 1999
2) The decision was posted by a contracted caterer, employed by Monsanto.
3) This story was never confirmed. (denied later)
Lately, the current anti-GMO activists have renewed (recycled) this story.
link
monsantoblog.com...
It’s 1999. Bill Clinton is in the White House. Sydney is preparing for the Summer Olympics. The world population is about a billion less than it would be in 2012.
A caterer in the United Kingdom tells the Independent newspaper that it doesn’t use GM food, which would have been difficult in the U.K. in 1999 since there wasn’t any to exclude, but that’s another story. The Independent reports it as “GM Food Banned in Monsanto Canteen.” GM critics have a field day.
Flash forward 13 years. Greenpeace, always interested in recycling, recycles this 1999 news story. People get excited, and tweet it as a current story.
The fact is, it wasn’t true in 1999, and it’s not true today.
All foods can be found in Monsanto cafeterias – conventional and organic. None of it is singled out as conventional or organic. It’s just food served in our cafeterias, the same food that everyone else eats.
In fact, the only time any food was removed from Monsanto cafeterias was a few years back, when a produce company announced a voluntary recall of spinach because of possible E. coli contamination. We remember it because spinach leaves suddenly disappeared from our salad bars.
Last year, there was a more limited recall of spinach because of concerns over possible Listeria contamination, but that didn’t affect our cafeterias, or most of them.
And, for the record, the spinach in question in both cases was – organic.
Learn more: Correction: victory against GMOs and Monsanto not achieved in UK
A caterer in the United Kingdom tells the Independent newspaper that it doesn’t use GM food, which would have been difficult in the U.K. in 1999 since there wasn’t any to exclude
Grimpachi
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
Maybe you missed it but what exactly could they be covering up? As stated.
A caterer in the United Kingdom tells the Independent newspaper that it doesn’t use GM food, which would have been difficult in the U.K. in 1999 since there wasn’t any to exclude
That is from the article above. You should click on the links to see the sources because you are pretty fast to dismiss them especially given that part. I don't think you clicked the links because if you did well aren't they the ones with a hard on for Monsanto.
1998 'Terminator technology' moved a step closer to the fields: US Patent No. 5,723,765, granted to Delta & Pine Land Co. an American cotton seed company and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on a technique that genetically-disables a seed's capacity to germinate when planted again, meaning that farmers must buy seed supplies every season instead of keeping some of what they had harvested.
April, a UK supermarket chain bans use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in its products; a move which is over the following 18 months is followed by the other UK supermarket chains.
Oh sorry I didn't realize you didn't have a basic search engine to verify when GMO was introduced.
1998 'Terminator technology' moved a step closer to the fields: US Patent No. 5,723,765, granted to Delta & Pine Land Co. an American cotton seed company and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on a technique that genetically-disables a seed's capacity to germinate when planted again, meaning that farmers must buy seed supplies every season instead of keeping some of what they had harvested.
April, a UK supermarket chain bans use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in its products; a move which is over the following 18 months is followed by the other UK supermarket chains.
History of genetically modified food
The first commercially grown genetically modified food crop was a tomato created by California company in the early 1990s.
Called the FlavrSavr, it was genetically altered so that it took longer to decompose after being picked.
A variety of the tomato was used to make tomato puree that was sold in Europe in the mid-1990s, before controversy erupted over GM crops.
Then in 1998, Dr Arpad Pusztai, then of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, published research suggesting that GM potatoes, modified with an insecticide gene taken from the snowdrop, were toxic to rats in feeding trials.
There was also controversy over the role of Labour donor Lord Sainsbury, appointed as science minister by Tony Blair in 1998.
A caterer in the United Kingdom tells the Independent newspaper that it doesn’t use GM food, which would have been difficult in the U.K. in 1999 since there wasn’t any to exclude