Euro-weenies play catch up

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French court overturns GMO ban
Colleen Scherer, Managing Editor
December 6, 2011

France’s ban on growing a strain of genetically modified maize developed by Monsanto Company was overturned by France’s highest court last week. The move is significant since France’s government and citizens have been some of the most outspoken critics of GM technology in food crops.
The recent decision follows a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in early September that said France had based its decision to establish a moratorium on growing Monsanto’s insect-resistant MON810 maize on the wrong EU legislation.
The ECJ had stated that member states could only ban or suspend measures when the state could demonstrate potentially serious risks to human or animal health or the environment.
France’s highest court could not find that MON810 posed a serious threat.
Monsanto told Reuters that it “welcomed support for a science and evidence-based approach to GM crop policy in the EU.”
This move could represent a shift in EU policy in the future. However, Greenpeace has said it would urge action to stop this strain’s cultivation before the next planting season.
Only two GMO varieties are approved to be grown in the EU.

-------------Well now the EU is 15 years behind USA. Will probably take them 7-10 years to catch up on new, higher yielding varieties.....well except that Greenpeace and other enviro-wackos will tie this up in court.

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Doncha know, multiple passes using various broad spectrum insecticides or herbicides other that glyphosate is soooooooooo much more environmentally friendly and reduces human health risks? LOL.

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Yup, the enviro-antitechies would prefer eating sweet corn sprayed every 10 days for worms than have a Bt sweet corn.

I'm waiting for 100% RR garden seeds. Wife gets way too busy pulling garden weeds. Takes her away from gitten' me a beer.................

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Mardi 13 décembre 2011 2 13 /12 /Déc /2011 22:07 No long term effect of GMO consumption
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NEW ! Our review article is published

Assessment of the Health Impact of GM Plant Diets in Long-Term and Multigenerational Animal Feeding Trials: a Literature Review,

by Chelsea Snell, Aude Bernheim, Jean-Baptiste Bergé, Marcel Kuntz, Gérard Pascal, Alain Paris, Agnes Ricroch,

Food and Chemical Toxicology. Download here.



Results

Contrary to frequently heard allegations, our article shows that long term animal feeding studies examining food safety of GMOs have actually been performed.



These studies concern GM lines of maize, potato, soybean, rice and triticale and are of two types:

12 long term toxicological studies, where feeding time exceeds well over (up to 2 years) that of the 90 day studies classically used in toxicological studies applied to GMOs,

12 studies whose duration extended over several generations of animals.



Conclusions

These studies by public research laboratories do not reveal any safety problem linked to long term consumption of GMO-derived food.



They confirm what has always been said by toxicologists, namely that if long term subchronic toxicity tests are considered to be necessary, increasing animal feeding duration beyond 90 days does not provide any additional information.




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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

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Today there is no scientific space left for fear about a food safety risk inherently linked to the « genetically modified » nature of varieties marketed after the currently performed risk assessment.



GM risk assessment is based on a comparative method with conventional varieties recognized as safe. It involves several levels of examination, from the laboratory to the field. The reglementary assessment (according to international standards), and in particular the toxicological studies, being only the last step of a step-by-step and case-by-case process.



These conclusions are confirmed by different approaches

In a previous scientific article, we surveyed 44 publications on large scale profiling of GMOs. These novel analytical techniques aim to visualize the expression of all genes, all proteins and all small chemical compounds (metabolites) in a given organism.

-none of these publications concluded to a health hazard linked to marketed GMO food.

-transgenic plant breeding has less impact on plants than the genetic variation generated in existing varieties by conventional breeding.

-natural environmental changes (between two distant fields, for example) usually have a larger impact on plants than transgenesis.