UPDATE 1-GMO companies launch website to fight anti-biotech movement

Earth's Internet · Jul 30, 2013

UPDATE 1-GMO companies launch website to fight anti-biotech movement

(Reuters) - A group of biotech seed companies on Monday launched an online forum to combat mounting opposition to genetically modified foods among consumer groups and activists.The website, www.GMOAnswers.com, is designed as a "central online resource" for information on genetically modified organisms and their use in agriculture and food production, the Biotechnology Industry Organization said.
The website is backed in part by Monsanto Co, DuPont , Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical Co, and other companies whose products include seeds that have been genetically altered to improve food production.
The website is part of a broad campaign by the biotech industry to beat back growing calls for GMO food labeling and for tighter regulation of the biotech seed industry in the United States. European opposition to GMOs is so strong that Monsanto this month said it would withdraw all pending requests to grow new types of GMO crops.
As part of the multi-year, multimillion-dollar campaign, the biotech seed companies will also open some of their fields and offices to visitors and will host face-to-face forums around the country with consumers, according to Cathleen Enright, spokeswoman for the website.
Paul Schickler, president of DuPont Pioneer, the agricultural unit of DuPont, said anti-GMO forces have been using the Internet very effectively to get their message out, and industry wants to use the same strategy to combat what he said were notions "not always based in fact."

Critics predicted the industry effort to change consumer skepticism would fail, saying there is simple Scientific evidence that GMO foods can contribute to health problems in animals and humans, and hurt the environment.

"This latest effort will likely do little to stop the consumer backlash against genetically engineered foods that has been brewing for years," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch, a consumer organization.
The most popular gene-altered crops withstand dousings of weed-killing chemicals and produce their own insect-killing toxins. Biotech corn, canola, soybeans, and other crops are used in human food and animal feed around the world, and biotech companies say they are heavily regulated and thoroughly tested.
Last year, Monsanto and other industry members spent $40 million to defeat a ballot initiative in California to require labeling of GMO food. Similar initiatives are under way in several other U.S. states and at the federal level.
Grocery retailer Whole Foods said this year it would require suppliers to label any product made with genetically modified ingredients. And the Natural Products Association, which represents 1,900 food industry players, has called for a uniform national standard for GMO labeling.
Burrito chain Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc recently became the first major U.S. restaurant chain to disclose GMO ingredients and is moving to remove such products from its supply chain.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/201...S&feedName=cyclicalConsumerGoodsSector&rpc=43

Here the new website: https://gmoanswers.com/

BTW, good for Chipotle Mexican Grill

Earth's Internet · Jul 31, 2013

Why investing in seed is different than investing in fertilizer (Part 1)

https://marketrealist.com/2013/07/why-investing-in-seed-is-different-than-investing-in-fertilizer-part-1/

And Part Two below

Why investing in seed is different than investing in fertilizer (Part 2)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-investing-seed-different-investing-183309468.html

This paragraph below literally destroys the motivation often pimped by this industry as to why GMO Seeds are necessary. It has ZERO to do with caring about and only wanting to feed mankind.

Patent protection

One big differentiator between seed and fertilizer stocks is patentability. Companies such as Monsanto (MON) and DuPont (DD) aren’t selling ordinary seeds that grow naturally in the world —they’re genetically modified to be more resilient to pests, weather, and diseases. Because they don’t occur naturally, the company can protect them with patents in the United States. 1 This allows these companies to enjoy a period of non-competition to make money back from the capital spent on R&D (research and development).
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Earth's Internet · Jul 31, 2013

Unbelievable the way this company just will not go away.

How Monsanto Controls the Government: Chris Parker

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Earth's Internet · Jul 31, 2013

Scientists say new study shows pig health hurt by GMO feed

https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-gmo-pigs-study-idUSBRE95A14K20130611

The study was published in the June issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Organic Systems by researchers from Australia who worked with two veterinarians and a farmer in Iowa to study the U.S. pigs.

Lead researcher Judy Carman is an epidemiologist and biochemist and director of the Institute of Health and Environmental Research in Adelaide, Australia.
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I cannot remember if this was posted, but here it is.

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matto · Jul 31, 2013

As part of the multi-year, multimillion-dollar campaign, the biotech seed companies will also open some of their fields and offices to visitors and will host face-to-face forums around the country with consumers, according to Cathleen Enright, spokeswoman for the website.
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That should be interesting, I wonder if they would mind us trialling a bit of slash and burn agriculture. They are looking at sustainability, right?

I wonder if they will try open Monsanto's model village in India again. They tried to block all the angry local's from turning up to that field day, which turned out to be a disaster. Even in this so-called model village, there was poverty, farmer suicides, and the only people making money were the Don's who worked away from the village.

Or I wonder if they will take people to the test site where they grew two different types of corn, one tall, Roundup Ready variety, and one short, conventional corn variety. They didn't treat the short variety with the recommended pre-emergence herbicides, so when farmers came to see the "results", there was one field of lush looking tall plants, and another field of short, weed infested plants.

Yeah, the GM front have nothing to hide... right?

Unmutual · Jul 31, 2013

Good, they're in panic mode. I hope this turns out like Exxon's publicity stunt when they wanted to start drilling in the arctic region.

Earth's Internet · Aug 1, 2013

Unmutual;105920 said:

Good, they're in panic mode. I hope this turns out like Exxon's publicity stunt when they wanted to start drilling in the arctic region.
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And if anyone thinks this forum gets testy at times, you ought to check out the Monsanto forum on that site.

Pakanohida · Aug 1, 2013

Unmutual;105920 said:

Good, they're in panic mode. I hope this turns out like Exxon's publicity stunt when they wanted to start drilling in the arctic region.
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That was an awesome stunt that back fired and I am so happy some of us participated in that!!!

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