715 Russia Bans GMOs, while Hillary, Obama & State Dep't lobby for Monsanto

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Russia Bans GMOs, while Hillary, Obama & State Dep't lobby for Monsanto

From: Paul de Burgh-Day <pdeburgh@lorinna.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:07:43 +1100
Subject: Christina Sarich: Why Is Russia Banning GMOs While the US Keeps
Approving Them?  Russia sees GMOs as threat

Why Is Russia Banning GMOs While the US Keeps Approving Them?

Russia sees GMOs as threat

By Christina Sarich

Global Research, November 25, 2014
Natural Society 24 November 2014

http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-is-russia-banning-gmos-while-the-us-keeps-approving-them/5416222

The VP of Russia’s National Association for Genetic Safety, Irina
Ermakova,
<http://bullhorn.nationofchange.org/russia_bans_gmos#sthash.x1bSRffd.dpuf>
has said:

“It is necessary to ban GMOs, to impose moratorium (on) it for 10 years.
While GMOs will be prohibited, we can plan experiments, tests, or maybe
even new methods of research could be developed. It has been proven that
not only in Russia, but also in many other countries in the world, GMOs
are dangerous. Methods of obtaining the GMOs are not perfect, therefore,
at this stage,all GMOs are dangerous. Consumption and use of GMOs
obtained in such way can lead to tumors, cancers and obesity among
animals. Bio-technologies certainly should be developed, but GMOs should
be stopped. We should stop it from spreading. ”

Conversely, the ‘amber waves of grain’ are toxic. They are loaded with
more GMO chemicals than ever before, and our government supports this
act of tyranny.

The US State Department and executive branch have been acting as
marketing agents for the companies who are patenting the most basic
seeds necessary for human survival. Hilary Clinton has been caught doing
a one-woman campaign to support GMOs like some sort of despotic
middle-aged whirligig <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hypwb_SYaAc>.

Our elected officials plan to implement DARK (Deny Americans the Right
to Know) Act,
<http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_29716.cfm> a bill
introduced in Congress earlier this year, which if passed, will preempt
state GMO labeling laws. What’s more, president Obama
<http://naturalsociety.com/obama-signs-monsanto-protection-act-into-law-after-promising-gmo-labeling-in-2007/>
signed the Monsanto Protection Act in 2013 after promising GMO labeling.

The seed industry has a global agenda, and it works its dark plan
through the US.

Food and Water Watch
<http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/biotech-ambassadors/> recently
found out just how deep and reaching the State Department’s agenda to
promote biotech goes.

Russian Television (RT)
<http://rt.com/usa/wikileaks-monsanto-cables-report-273/> corroborates it:

“After US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that the State
Department was lobbying worldwide for Monsanto and other similar
corporations, a new report based on the cables shows Washington’s
shilling for the biotech industry in distinct detail. The August
2011WikiLeaks revelations showed that American diplomats had requested
funding to send lobbyists for the biotech industry to hold talks with
politicians and agricultural officials in “target countries” in areas
like Africa and Latin America, where genetically-modified crops were not
yet a mainstay, as well as some European countries that have resisted
the controversial agricultural practice.”

Even our universities are in the back pocket of these biotech corporations.

“The annual $500 million budget of
<http://www.iatp.org/documents/from-gmo-to-smo-how-synthetic-biology-evades-regulation#sthash.WwmNdmG5.dpuf>
Stanford University’s Department of Biological Engineering alone
supports dozens of research projects for myriad commercial applications.”

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin says, “Russia must
<http://naturalsociety.com/vladimir-putin-says-russia-must-protect-citizens-gmos-stand-wto/>
protect its citizens from GMOs.”

Fareed Zakaria once said that, “the Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier
to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold
War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas
also fell.”

It seems ironic that in the ‘land of the free’ we cannot democratically
oust GMOs, and that our own leaders are now putting up their own walls
that would deny us the right to know what is in our food.