GMO - Monsanto at the door

[Аврам Гојић]

ja sam star čovek i vreme me je pregazilo, pa nikako ne mogu razumeti kakve veze imaju pesticidi sa pričom o GMO.

[3opge]

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Edited March 30, 2015 by 3opge

[Аврам Гојић]

kako bi bilo da se malo informises?

evo, pitam. kakve veze ova konkretna priča o pesticidima ima veze sa GMO, osim preko imena kompanije?

[betty]

nije pesticid nego herbicid. monsanto razvija biljke koji su otporne na njega, pa onda liberalno natapa polja kako bi pobio sve ostale biljke koje su konkurencija za nutrijente. neki ljudi smatraju da to zalivanje zemlje herbicidom nije bas dobro za okolinu. 

[Аврам Гојић]

nije pesticid nego herbicid. monsanto razvija biljke koji su otporne na njega, pa onda liberalno natapa polja kako bi pobio sve ostale biljke koje su konkurencija za nutrijente. neki ljudi smatraju da to zalivanje zemlje herbicidom nije bas dobro za okolinu.

 

hvala, samo me je to zanimalo.

[Ariel]

takođe, roundup-ready seme je genetski modifikovano da bude otporno na dotični herbicid, i kroz taj kombo monsanto zarađuje masne novce.

[nesha taxista]

Nisam protiv toga da takva hrana bude u prodaji i kod nas, ali da to uvek bude jasno naglaseno, pa ko voli nek' izvoli.

[bigvlada]

EU clears path for 17 new GM foods

Industry and environmentalists rally against proposed new EU rules to authorise GM imports this spring, with national opt-outs

 

Greenpeace says that with transatlantic trade talks ongoing, pressure has been mounting from the biotech industry and the US government to break open the EU market to GM imports and to speed up authorisation procedures. Photograph: Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty Images

Arthur Neslen in Brussels

Thursday 16 April 2015 13.33 BST

Seventeen new genetically modified food products will be authorised for import to Europe before the end of May in a significant acceleration of biotech trade, the Guardian has learned.

An announcement could be made as early as next week, sources said, when a meeting of EU commissioners has been pencilled in to review adoption of new rules for approving GM imports.

Europe currently imports around 58 GM products from abroad, mostly US maize, cotton, soy bean and sugar beet.
GM crops to be fast-tracked in UK following EU vote


But Greenpeace said that the US has raised the issue of a large logjam in biotech authorisations in talks over a free trade deal known as TTIP.

“With transatlantic trade talks ongoing, pressure has been mounting from the biotech industry and the US government to break open the EU market to GM imports and to speed up authorisation procedures,” Marco Contiero, Greenpeace EU’s agriculture director, told the Guardian. “The possible authorisation of 17 GM crops by the commission in the next few days is a likely result of this pressure.”

“The timing is still being discussed but it is just a question of internal procedure now,” a source familiar with the discussions told the Guardian. “It is clear that the 17 strains will be authorised at the same time as the review meeting or just after. I would say it will happen before the end of May for sure.”

Under proposed new GM import rules seen by the Guardian, future authorisations would automatically follow approval of new strains by the European Food and Safety Agency (Efsa). Individual countries would be given a similar opt-out to the one agreed for GM cultivation in a law passed earlier this year.

“It will be up to each member state wanting to make use of this ‘opt-out’ to develop this justification on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the GMO [genetically-modified organism] in question, the type of measure envisaged and the specific circumstances at national or regional level that can justify such an opt-out,” the draft said.

Opposition from some EU states to draft GM authorisations is “usually not based on science but on other considerations reflecting the societal debate existing in the country,” the commission argues. So opt-outs will not be granted to EU states who seek it on health or environmental grounds, after Efsa has deemed a product safe.

“The scope for the exceptions [opt-outs] will probably be less than in the cultivation proposal because we are talking about the internal market here,” an informed source said. “You will have to have a really solid reason. Otherwise it would be attacked as a disruption to the market.”

But biotech industry groups are opposed to the measure, fearing that it would prevent the free movement of GM imports in practice, as countries found ways to opt-out on technicalities, such as claiming trace residues of unauthorised strains in shipment containers. The 17 products include animal feeds as well as food for human consumption.

“This would be another licence to ban safe products,” Beat Späth, the director for agricultural biotechnology at the EuropaBio trade association told the Guardian. “We import to the EU over 33m tonnes of GM commodities per year, mainly to feed our farm animals. If countries impose unjustified bans on products that have been used by farmers for 15 years, where are our farmers supposed to get their feed from?”

Gloria Gabellini, deputy secretary general of the Coceral grain importers federation added: “We fear that this approach would reverse the achievements of European customs union and the single market. We have a single market so if you import a product, it must be entitled to free circulation.”


Greenpeace also opposes the review proposal, arguing that this constitutes an assault on the ability of democratically-elected governments to protect their environments and peoples from potential risks, where the science is contested. Efsa has never refused a GM authorisation.

The campaign group also said that the proposal breaks a promise by the EU president Jean-Claude Juncker last year that the review would focus on “laws that oblige the commission to authorise genetically modified organisms, even when a majority of national governments is against this.”

The trigger for this was a vote in February on the GM maize strain known as 1507, opposed by 19 countries and supported by five. France and other countries were angry that the commission could have given 1507 a green light for cultivation regardless, under existing qualified majority voting rules.

“The proposal undermines Juncker’s plan to bring the EU closer to its citizens,” Contiero said. “It fails to address major opposition to GM crops among public opinion and ignores concerns raised by national scientific bodies on the safety of GM crops.”

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/16/eu-new-gm-genetically-modified-foods

 

Taj TTIP će doći glave EU, i ne samo zbog ovog pitanja. 

[iDemo]

 

Taj TTIP će doći glave EU, i ne samo zbog ovog pitanja. 

 

TTIP ce doci glave svima - pre ili kasnije. Ne samo u vezi sa GMO nego uopste/generalno. 

[Eraserhead]

Odlican TED talk o "GMO":

 

[Indy]

Bill Nye on @startalk on GMO http://ow.ly/3y1P0T

 

http://pca.st/TB1V

[Ryan Franco]

Preleteo sam prve dve stavke i zaključio da je u pitanju jedno kvalitetno zaprašivanje antiGMO pešadinaca. 

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/are_gmos_safe_yes_the_case_against_them_is_full_of_fraud_lies_and_errors.html

[bigvlada]

Malo bajata vest, zaprašivanje zabranjeno u Holandiji. 

 

Why The Netherlands Just Banned Monsanto’s Glyphosate-Based Herbicides

 

The Netherlands has just become the latest country, following Russia, Mexico, and many others, to say no to Monsanto. The sale and use of glyphosate-based herbicides (the most commonly used herbicides in the world) has just been banned for non-commercial use in the country, effective later this year. This means that people will no longer be able to spray RoundUp on

 

One recent study published in the Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology has now proven that animals and humans who consume GMO foods – those that are loaded with glyphosate chemicals, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s RoundUp – have extremely high levels of glyphosate in their urine.

 

It’s also noteworthy to mention that there are Wikileaks documents showing how the United States planned to “retaliate and cause pain” on countries who were refusing GMOs. 

 

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/30/why-the-netherlands-just-banned-monsantos-glyphosate-based-herbicides/

[iDemo]

Odobren™ GMO losos za ljuCku ishranu...

Ono "e sad ako ne nahranimo sve gladne sveta - nista nismo uradili", ne? 

Tu i tamo ce da padne potrosnja lampi & svetiljki - kome treba lampa ako svetlish u mraku al' ce im merodavni vrlo rado kompenzovati i te gubitke... Duracelu i ekipi...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-20/us-approves-gm-salmon-for-human-consumption/6958532

 

 

US food regulators have given the tick of approval to genetically modified salmon, the first GM animal to be eaten by humans.

[akibono]

Odobren™ GMO losos za ljuCku ishranu...

 

Jel će taj losos već biti dimljen čim se upeca, ili će možda da ima i batake?