
The GM Spin
Big business push a myth that GMO is on the moral high ground. GM food, a God given technology that can feed the starving nations of the world, raise your profits, and reduce your pesticide usage. Their advertising spin appeals to your emotions, to your deep moral compass which wants to help the poor & needy of the world. We buy it hook line and sinker.
The Monsanto home page gives the impression of a responsible, caring, green company. Numerous videos show farmers from all over the world painting a rosy picture of prosperity and happiness through GM crops. However, scratch the surface and you find that Monsanto, are not the good citizen they claim to be; GM food crops don’t out perform conventional crops; GM food has no proper safety testing; GMO’s have the potential to poison and pollute the planet’s food and animal DNA permanently; And no one, certainly not the poor and needy, have benefited from GM foods so far.
Read the 2007 report from Friends of the Earth:
Highlights from the report from the Australian NCF site - GM Crops still not performing
- “No GM crop on the market today offers benefits to the consumer in terms of quality or price, and to date these crops have done nothing to alleviate hunger or poverty in Africa or elsewhere,” said Nnimmo Bassey of Friends of the Earth Africa in Nigeria.
- Brussels, 8 January 2007 – A new report to be released tomorrow shows that genetically modified (GM) crops have failed to address the main challenges facing farmers in most countries of the world, and more than 70% of large scale GM planting is still limited to two countries (U.S. and Argentina).
- In 2006 the US Department of Agriculture, a chief proponent of GM crops, for the first time acknowledged that GM crop yields are not greater than those of conventional crops, and a compelling number of studies by independent scientists demonstrate that GM crop yields are lower than, or at best equivalent to, yields from non-GM varieties.
Monsanto: A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing
Monsanto told us DTD was safe; Agent Orange was safe; Aspartame (NutraSweet) was safe; BST (bovine growth hormone) was safe; Yet all these products cause sickness. Monsanto BST is still on the market
Have a look at this Youtube video Fox News Kills Monsanto Milk Story. They are known as a global bully, making friends in high places who help them push their shonky products out to market with little or no safety testing. Reports of falsifying records and data, people fired or demoted for speaking out, it will all make for a great Hollywood blockbuster one day.
Thanks to the flat trading field setup by globalization, Monsanto now control most of the worlds seed supply. Using biotech, Monsanto can alter the seed DNA, which means they can now patent and own the seed, and lock GM seed to their herbicide products. This great new money spinner for Monsanto is causing problems everywhere. Today, mostly thanks to the Internet, this trail of destruction is more visible.
Web sites exposing Monsanto’s bad deeds are too numerous to mention. Just search Google for the name “Monsanto” and you will find plenty of good reading material. However despite the adverse publicity Monsanto stock keeps going up and up, and governments and farmers are still buying into the whole GM food is the savior of the world spin.

Spot the Spin
Hans Lombard, a public relations consultant for the biotech industry states that “GMO FOOD IS SAFER THAN CONVENTIONAL”. I think we can safely call that “spin” — Read more
Some straight talk…
“If a politician or scientist tells you that GM foods are safe, he’s either very stupid or lying” - Geneticist David Suzuki.
This is the industries pet idea “that there are no unintended side effects”. But the data does not support this - Scientist at USA FDA.
The Default prediction of GM is unintended Side Effects. There is no justification to assume they are safe - Canadian Royal Society.
A Book to Change Your Mind
The above quotes come from a book written by author Jeffrey M. Smith called Seeds of Deception “Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating”.
You can see Jeffrey Smith speaking at a conference in Florida in a 6 part video up on the Google YouTube web site.
Like the book this video will forever change the way you think about GM foods.
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