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  • From: Stephen Sherman <spsherm@msn.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permagriculture] Plant lists for the tropics + comment on go
  • Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:34:53 -0600

Exactly Lawrence. And even beyond that, there was no recognition that changing the delivery methods and plant location of previously approved chemicals requires reassessing their safety. I guess that is what happens when you put industry lawyers in charge of the science which is supposed to protect people's health.

On 9/18/2015 2:15 PM, Lawrence London wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Stephen Sherman <spsherm@msn.com> wrote:

Number 3 is probably the biggest red flag for what has currently been done
with GMOs. Ignoring the unanswered questions about the safety of the
methodology and long term consequences of the new features, industry has
mostly used this technology to increase sales of their herbicides and
generate internal insecticides; which has led to increased use and human
exposure to these chemicals, with little or no regard for their safety and
the consequences of increased use in the biosphere of these toxins.

I have read that the revolving door in the best government money can buy
has led to instant approval of GM O's ag industry seeks to
manufacture and deploy into the environment. Of course approval of the
methods and materials used to grow these GM O's has already been granted as
a standard turnkey component of large scale farming. Lack of adequate and
effective testing of these GM O's means that
they are introduced onto farmland and adjoining lands with absolutely no
idea of the long term effects on human health from GM O food consumption,
contact with the GM O and any chemicals used to produce it, one of which is
cancer from the herbicide glyphosate and Roundup, and unavoidable
significant adverse environmental consequences.
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