Over 800 world scientists agree: GM crops are nothing short of a bio-war on our food

Over 800 world scientists agree: GM crops are nothing short of a bio-war on our food


(NaturalNews) You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand why
genetically modified foods are dangerous, but if you look closely, you
may just find the name of one listed among the names of more than 800
scientists from around the globe who have joined forces in an open
letter to all world governments, outlining their detailed concerns over
the alarming potential threat of biotech's unauthorized, worldwide GM
foods experiment.

In a country whose government and media appear
only too eager to conjure up fear of "bioterrorism" and "biological
weapons," it's shocking (albeit obviously deliberate) to what extent the
GMO issue remains omitted from mainstream discussion. Consider that the
message from these scientists seems to be that the whole planet is
already under attack by the persistent and largely unchecked, reckless
behavior of greedy, unruly U.S. corporations - corporations whose
activities appear to be sponsored by the federal government. And whether
you know it yet or not, your body is the battleground.

The letter, as posted by the Institute of Science in Society (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/list.php),
is a collective call for the immediate suspension of any and all
releases of GM crops and products into the environment for at least five
years, in order to allow for more thorough testing. The scientists
further demand that all patents on life-forms and living processes -
including seeds, cell lines and genes - be revoked and banned "for a
comprehensive public inquiry into the future of agriculture and food security for all."

Life
is a discovery, they say, not an innovation, and patents on life-forms
and living processes "sanction biopiracy of indigenous knowledge and
genetic resources, violate basic human rights and dignity, compromise
healthcare, impede medical and scientific research and are against the
welfare of animals." Furthermore, they argue that GM crops provide no
identifiable benefits either to farmers or consumers; instead, they
offer only very significant risks to all living things.

GMOs are just bad news, followed by more bad news

Any
consumption of GMO products is basically a smorgasbord of disaster, say
these global scientists. In their thorough and fully cited open letter,
they take biotechnology to task - making clear, undeniable connections
between GM food crops and other products (like milk from cows injected
with genetically modified Bovine Growth Hormone) and health problems for
mammals in general. At the same time the GM crops themselves actually
contribute to lower yields, increased use of herbicides/insecticides,
unpredictable performance, poor economic returns, and a progressive
monopoly on food by big corporations, they also encourage
herbicide-tolerant weeds and pesticide-resistant superbugs, making their
purported goal of "feeding the world"
appear just as it is - clearly out of the reach of biotech industry.
Scientists propose, instead, that these large food corporations are
actually more the cause of world hunger currently, than they are the
solution to it.

"It is on account of increasing corporate
monopoly operating under the globalised economy that the poor are
getting poorer and hungrier," scientists
say. "Family farmers around the world have been driven to destitution
and suicide... Mergers and acquisitions are continuing." Seed patent
policies currently in place at biotech companies prevent farmers from
saving and replanting seeds, an activity the scientists acknowledge, is
one enjoyed even by third world farmers.

As promised; however, it
only gets worse. Scientists agree that GMOs actually harm the delicate
biodiversity necessary to the balance and maintenance of life on this
planet. GM products, they say, "decimate wild plant species
indiscriminately," cause birth defects in mammals, kill insects
essential to pollination like bees, lacewings, monarch butterflies, and
pose other very serious threats related to horizontal gene transfer -
for example, the "spread of antibiotic resistance marker genes that
would render infections diseases untreatable, the generation of new
viruses and bacteria that cause diseases, and harmful mutations which
may lead to cancer."

Multiple hazards to both animal and human
health have already been identified by sources around the world,
resulting either in bans on GM products or the adoption of strict
labeling laws by many countries. Here in the U.S.; however, secret
memoranda from inside the FDA have revealed its history of disregarding
the warnings of its own scientists. Still, with a separate but similar
mass appeal to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in
2009 failing to make a rippled, lasting impact, one can only hope that
eventually the science on GMOs - and the growing number of people who
know about it - will simply be too loud to ignore.

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