Cloned Beef on American Plates & Dumping Frankenfoods on Poor

[Rainscents]

This is so sick!


Organic Consumers Association

Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade & Sustainability

http://www.organicconsumers.org/

DUMPING FRANKENFOODS ON THE POOR
World Food Programme (WFP) food aid shipments, predominantly from the United States, have been found to be heavily contaminated with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), including Starlink, a genetically engineered (GE) variety of corn banned for human consumption worldwide. Starlink corn, which is gene-spliced with an insecticidal protein, was registered for animal feed use in the U.S. in 1998, despite protests from scientists that it would inevitably contaminate human food supplies. As predicted, in 2000 Starlink contaminated a full 10% of the U.S. corn harvest, prompting complaints from hundreds of U.S. consumers who suffered allergic reactions after eating Starlink-tainted corn taco shells and other products. Recent tests have found 80% of food aid corn sent to Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala contains GMOs which are prohibited in these countries. Julio Sánchez from Centro Humboldt in Nicaragua said it's outrageous that the WFP would purchase GE corn from the U.S. that is not fit for human consumption, jeopardizing the health of vulnerable populations like pregnant women and children, while contaminating indigenous corn fields and seed banks. Sanchez added that there are massive amounts of surplus non-GE corn produced by nations other than the U.S. that should be used for food aid instead. Learn more... http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/caribbean21705.cfm

CLONED BEEF ON AMERICA'S DINNER PLATES
According to semen brokers, cloned animals will begin to enter the U.S. food supply in less than eight months. Thousands of units of semen from cloned bulls have been exchanging hands among ranchers. Ranchers say it's eerie how similar the cloned animals are to the originals. "Every wrinkle--everything about them, even the disposition and character--are the same," said Larry Coleman, a cattle rancher who sells semen from clones of his prize bull for $700 a vial. Learn more... http://www.organicconsumers.org/patent/beef021605.cfm


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[punpirate]

1. The increasing tendency toward...

... monoculture in this country might well be its undoing. I wonder, when agriculturists begin such programs, do they ever think of the Irish potato famine, where there was little differentiation in variety and most were not resistant to blight?

Hard to say what the effects of a future unknown threat might be with an animal stock made up of mostly cloned animals.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Very true. Read about the problems with bananas

Yes, that's right, bananas. Did you know that practically all bananas sold in North America are a single variety called Cavendish?
It's being threatened right now by a tropical fungus.
If we had different varieties, this wouldn't be a problem.

[thoughtanarchist]

2. If punpirate won't put it out there I will...

Get your orders in now so that by Saint Patricks Day you could be having

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wait for it.....



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Cloned Beef and Cabbage!

[punpirate]

4. Now, that's funny! ...

... in a sick, repulsive sort of way. :)

[thoughtanarchist]

5. Is that not the very nature of the pun?

:evilgrin:

[punpirate]

7. Oh, yes...

... that's what makes them delightful. :)

I suppose I'm just worrying about the effects of this on food, how we think of it. Will we, ten years from now, be ordering, for short, a clam and cheese on rye? Or sno-clones? Or buying canned clorn at the supermarket?

Brave New Whirled.... :)

[EC]

6. I'll just bet that Bush's family doesn't eat from this stock

I'll bet they have natural grass fed beef and real veggies on their dinner table...as do his cronies...