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Re: That is a very interesting overview, thanks. - Edit 1

Before modification by Joel at 24/09/2012 03:06:52 AM

Speaking of GMOs, have you seen the results of the Séralini study in the Food and Chemical Toxicology?

There's a documentary about the study to be broadcasted next week in France, and there's the book of Séralini on which the documentary is based (which title translates loosely as "We are all lab rats" coming out of sept 26. The French media predicts as soon as the soon-to-be-broadcasted documentary hits internet, the effects on the public of the shocking images could well be devastating for the pro-GMOs lobbies and Monsanto.

I have not, no. Lobbies, well, lobbies are just that: They are paid to hound legislators for a living, and wave briefcases full of cash under their noses as incentive. People like you and I may take an hour or two to write a letter or email, but we have lives and must work to support them, so we cannot stalk legislators 24/7; that IS a lobbyists job. And if a industry lawyer puts $100 in a Congressmans pocket to get a favorable vote, that is a felonious bribe and quid pro quo; if he puts $50,000 in the Congressmans campaign fund AFTER the vote that is just democratic free speech.

Consequently, I expect little regulatory impact, despite the fact we ARE all essentially lab rats. Only consumer awareness and boycotts can prevent GMOs becoming not only the norm (to the extent they have not already) but monopolozing the food supply. Even that is problematic, because Monsanto and Co. know their well deserved rap and therefore work hard to conceal the things with which they adulterate our food, and lobby just as hard to prevent labeling and disclosure requirements as they do against prohibitions against GMOs. Short of consumer protection groups aggressively seeking out GMOs and broadcasting them to a public eager to know and avoid the products, rather than eager for cheap food and to dismiss anti-GMO activists as Luddite hippies, food will soon be synonymous with GMOs.

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