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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 09:30 PM EDT |
I hate to disillusion you but: (emphasis added)
Q: Does the FDA
test these foods before they're allowed on the market?
A: No. Instead
there is a voluntary consultation process. Genetically engineered foods are
overseen by the FDA, but there is no approval process. Foods are presumed to
be safe unless the FDA has evidence to the contrary, Jaffe says. The FDA
"has to show that there may be a problem with the food, as opposed to the
company needing to prove it's safe to FDA's satisfaction before it can get on
the market," he says. source
and a recent addition
The provision would
[has] strip[ed] federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of
an illegal, potentially hazardous GE crop while the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA) assesses those potential hazards,” dozens of farmers wrote the House of
Representatives before the bill was passed in March. “Further, it would compel
USDA to allow continued planting of that same crop upon request, even if in the
course of its assessment the Department finds that it poses previously
unrecognized risks.
source
I would love to believe that the FDA was doing it's job, and proper studies are
being done. Unfortunately, I can't. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: artp on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 11:49 PM EDT |
You don't know Monsanto very well, do you?
I worked for Monsanto. Or at least for one of their
divisions - Fisher Controls.
But back to Monsanto and backlash.
Have you ever heard of Love Canal?
How about the Terminator gene that they patented? The one
that would bring plant life to an end on earth if it spread?
How about DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, and recombinant bovine
somatotropin (rBGH) ? All supposedly safe. All environmental
disasters.
No, Monsanto just figures backlash as part of the cost of
business, because it does not come from their customers.
Those who protest are just misguided dupes.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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