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#1465747 --- 02/07/15 09:31 PM
Re: State of the Science of the Health Risks of GMO Food
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Opinions, The Washington Post By Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador and Olivier De Schutter November 7, 2014 How a national food policy could save millions of American lives How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans’ well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector of our economy; food touches everything from our health to the environment, climate change, economic inequality and the federal budget. Yet we have no food policy — no plan or agreed-upon principles — for managing American agriculture or the food system as a whole. That must change. The food system and the diet it’s created have caused incalculable damage to the health of our people and our land, water and air. If a foreign power were to do such harm, we’d regard it as a threat to national security, if not an act of war, and the government would formulate a comprehensive plan and marshal resources to combat it. (The administration even named an Ebola czar to respond to a disease that threatens few Americans.) So when hundreds of thousands of annual deaths are preventable — as the deaths from the chronic diseases linked to the modern American way of eating surely are — preventing those needless deaths is a national priority. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/h...eb67_story.html
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#1465748 --- 02/07/15 09:38 PM
Re: State of the Science of the Health Risks of GMO Food
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How Monsanto Keeps Halting GMO Labeling Despite Over 96% Approval - Monsanto's dirty tricks explained By Anthony Gucciardi November 5, 2014 Checkout the details of who exactly is pumping cash into efforts to defeat your ability to know what you’re eating: Monsanto – $7,100,500 DuPont – $4,900,000 Pepsi – $2,145,400 Bayer – $2,000,000 Dow – $2,000,000 BASF – $2,000,000 Syngenta – $2,000,000 Kraft Foods – $1,950,000 Coca-Cola – $1,455,500 Nestle – $1,315,600 General Mills – $1,135,000 ConAgra – $1,077,000 Kellogg’s – $790,000 Smithfield – $684,000 http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-gmo-labeling-96-approval/#ixzz3R66KsqZs
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#1465802 --- 02/08/15 10:05 PM
Re: State of the Science of the Health Risks of GMO Food
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