We support Canada’s robust science-based regulatory environment which ensures any new crops or traits are proven safe for human consumption, animal feed and our environment,” said Stephen Vandervalk, President of the Grain Growers of Canada.
“While we appreciate that many long-time opponents of progress have concerns, the reality is they have a lot of rhetoric, but no facts to back up their case.”
This statement of overwhelming farmer support for modern agriculture is in response to a day of protest being organized by the US-funded Canadian Biotechnology Action Network whose supporters having lost their case in the States are now trying to block the same innovation in Canada.
Just more rational to ban Tides Canada…and their ilk.
As stated previously;
What’s the difference between an actual farmer and an organic farmer?
A ponytail
I wonder who is funding this?
Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation crop ups as funders of a lot of carp.
“…We support Canada’s robust science-based regulatory environment which ensures any new crops or traits are proven safe for human consumption, animal feed and our environment…”
Funny, that’s the same thing the enviro-parasites say here in Ontario when they write the laws for the Liberals – legislation that restricts rural land-use under the guise of clean water, species habitat, and natural heritage features..
And the Ontario farm groups keep rubber-stamping it.
A thousand bucks says that Suzuki and Co. win every round this side of the border.
Always seemed suspicious to me that they don’t want the food labelled.
doowleb, I’m sure farmers, up until the last few years, would be happy to know they weren’t ‘actual farmers’.
Bottom line, grow it yourself and no worries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/world/europe/11ecoli.html?_r=0
30 deaths and 1,000 Germans needed organ transplants from “organic” sprouts.
OK back to my SPAM and VELVETA sandwich. Yummy!!!!!
I love to ask the “no GMO food” crowd, “Whose children do you expect to starve to death?”
And then I remind them that even the basic crops — corn, wheat, etc — have been “genetically modified”, albeit with simple crossbreeding.
But hey, it’s a religious belief, not a science.
I’m biting my tongue …. is that sustainable?
Heh, let’s hear it for ‘settled science’…
Anyone who couldn’t understand the important difference between genetic engineering and ‘”genetically modified”, albeit with simple crossbreeding’ would also fail to understand the important difference between weather and climate.
“And then I remind them that even the basic crops — corn, wheat, etc — have been “genetically modified”
I had a hard time convincing my sister in law (who only eats ‘ORGANIC’ fruits and vegetables) that all vegetables are organic. She actually believed they had to be grown without chemicals and pesticides to be organic. It was a cheap victory but it made her quit using the word ‘organic’.
I guess that the eco-cultists do not like pest resistant GMO crops that need less pesticides, and would rather that we cause the extinction of bees through our continued use of pesticides with non GMO crops.
Soon the bees will be near extinct and there will be NO food for all the eco-hippies living in cities. Guess that’s what they want.
Good for the Grain Growers for fighting this anti-human organization. You can bet the same people that are funding the anti-pipeline, anti-fracking and similar anti-human causes are funding this also.
John GAlt, a couple of years ago there were I think 11 deaths in the US in late fall of that year, and it was determined after investigation that the sources of the salmonella were organic lettuce (?) farms. Not surprising. We never touch the stuff, as I have seen how organic grains are grown in our neighbourhood.
—“proven safe for human [____________]”
If innovation depends on first proving a negative…then innovation as Free humanity has known it is over, baby. seriously
Most people who oppose GMO want two basic things…
First, they want food containing it labeled. Why should it be a big deal to give people a choice over what they eat? If the dummies want to pay a premium for organic foods, let ’em!!!
And second, they are fearful of the totally insane and downright evil actions of companies like Monsanto, who sue farmers for collecting their own seeds and replanting them when those seeds contain DNA from a Monsanto crop next door. (And they do plenty of other nasty stuff as well)
So there. Not a big deal. Label the food and get Monsanto on a regulatory leash and 75% of people who oppose GMO will come to heel.
grow what you can.
else at mercy of whomever is selling.
Innisfail carrots yummy.
“get Monsanto on a regulatory leash”
Regulations cast too wide of a net and infringe on all our freedoms.
Monsanto doesn’t need a leash, we just need judges who throw out nonsense suits.(they do have that power after all they are Judges who judge things) But Liberals bring nonsense suits to court and that sort of common sense would prevent Liberal Lawyers from being appointed to the judiciary.
Way things are going I can just picture Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointing Warren Kinsella or Richard Warman to the SCC.
Just spitballing here John, but do you ever entertain circumstances where less regulation would be attractive, other than related to the use of recreational drugs I mean?
Could I have my comment released from the filter, please?
A little humour seems to elude you strad.
I’m not sure what the issue is you’re knotted about, but I am sure you’re an ‘actual putz’.
I think you can assume everything you eat is GM. If you want a label, put a non GM label if it’s certified non GM. Easy fix, your welcome.
Regarding one snark above about GM versus cross breeding, unfortunately the non GM freaks consider simple cross breeding a genetic modification which is why everything you eat is GM – even the organic crap.
Okay, but I’m pretty sure you aren’t an ‘actual comedian’.
Anyway, hooray for ‘settled science’.
Pretty stupid move for farmers who have rejected the single desk grain marketing monopoly to jump right back into that dependence by planting patented sole source seed from an aggressive corporate monopoly.
Personally, I have read too much reliable study data to believe plants which produce their own pesticides or which absorb pesticides/herbicides without succumbing to the toxins, are safe for human consumption. As always consumption of low dose toxins is a cumulative effect which has results 10-20 years later. We won’t completely know how safe these GM foods are for some time when the broad based data is available. However all the accelerated testing done on animals has shown 100% negative effects with a total GM diet.
As for labeling food containing GM, I think this is a good initiative which is linear with food freedom – the right to choose what you want to eat and from who you buy it. I believe that the revival of local family farming via the organic/local produce memes has been a good thing for market diversity. People who want whole foods or organic food have a right to access it and producers have a right to have their produce distinguished from corporate farmed/GM food.
Maybe the solution is for organic growers to set high standards which are totally traceable and operate a private certification/regulatory body then charge the market according for the extra work. If the market is there it will bear the cost differential between certified organic and GM.
In any event the market for organic, non GM produce is growing and it takes a special kind of stupid for markets to fight it rather than service it – unless of course the objective is monopoly instead of demand market prosperity.
FYI- Monsanto bans GMO food in its own employee cafeteria –
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gm-food-banned-in-monsanto-canteen-737948.html
As always consumption of low dose toxins is a cumulative effect…
Nobody will ever notice. History starts yesterday for leftists.
Wheat has been done in by GM, just by cross breedeing. Check out the book and blog Wheat Belly. I’ve stopped eating any wheat since last October and I’ve dropped 30 lbs in weight and my insulin need has dropped from 26 units to 6 units.
FYI – Cross bred or hybrid organisms are NOT GMO. They are not listed as such and cannot be patented.
GMO entails splicing genes together from other species or directly altering the gene structure in the organism to allow it to develop traits unnatural to the species – ie: splicing frog pigmentation genes into a vegetable to alter its natural color or removing defense genes in plants to allow them to accept the toxins in certain herbicides/pesticides. GM alterations can’t be accomplished with cross breeding.
Wheat Belly is a cornucopia of misinformation designed to sell books and speaking engagements for it’s author.
http://www.thebestgrains.com/wheat-improvement-the-truth-unveiled
Wheat is an abundant cheap source of calories, fiber and/or other nutrients depending on the type of wheat product consumed. Too much of any food will make you fat.