- The GE-corn and GE-soy mentioned in this article are
Monsanto's. The "food safety" bill in the Senate, S 510,
is also Monsanto's. Monsanto's idea of "food safety" includes
genetically engineered food, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or slaughterhouse
waste, all toxic.
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- Foods You're Eating
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- http://www.dirtdoctor.com/organic/garden/view_question/id/366
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- Different species of wildlife and farm animals are trying
to tell us something by clearly preferring not to eat Genetically Engineered
foods when they have a choice of naturally grown corn, soybeans and other
crops as the following wisdom of nature anecdotes confirms. They are smarter
than people when it comes to the right choices for eating.
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- Neil Carman, Ph.D. Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Committee
http://www.SierraClub.org/biotech
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- Excerpts from the new book Seeds of Deception: Exposing
Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered
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- Foods You're Eating
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- By Jeffrey M. Smith
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- http://www.SeedsofDeception.org
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- WISDOM OF THE GEESE - p. 45 excerpt
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- There's a farmer in Illinois who's been planting
soybeans on his 50-acre field for years. Unfortunately, he also had a flock
of soybean-eating geese that took up residence in a pond nearby.
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- Geese, being creatures of habit, returned to the same
spot the next year to again feast on his soybeans. But this time, the geese
ate only from a specific part of this field. There, as a result of their
feasting, the beans grew only ankle high. The geese, it seemed, were boycotting
the other part of the same field where the beans were able to grow waist-high.
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- The reason: this year, the farmer had tried the new,
genetically engineered soybeans. And you can see exactly where they were
planted, for there is a line right down the middle of his field with the
natural beans on one side, and the genetically engineered soybeans, untouched
by the geese, on the other.
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- Visiting that Illinois farm, veteran agricultural
writer C.F. Marley said, "I've never seen anything like it. What's
amazing is that the field with Roundup Ready [genetically engineered] beans
had been planted to conventional beans the previous year, and the geese
ate them. This year, they won't go near that field." 1
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- WISDOM OF THE COWS - p. 76 excerpt
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- In 1998, Howard Vlieger harvested both natural corn and
a genetically modified Bt variety on his farm in Maurice, Iowa.
Curious about how his cows would react to the pesticide- producing Bt corn,
he filled one side of his sixteen-foot trough with the Bt and dumped natural
corn on the other side. Normally, his cows would eat as much corn as was
available, never leaving leftovers. But when he let twenty-five of them
into the pen, they all congregated on the side of the trough with the natural
corn. When it was gone, they nibbled a bit on the Bt, but quickly changed
their minds and walked away.
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- A couple of years later, Vlieger joined a room full of
farmers in Ames, Iowa to hear presidential candidate Al Gore.
Troubled by Gore's unquestioning acceptance of GM foods, Vlieger asked
Gore to support a recently introduced bill in Congress requiring that GM
foods be labeled. Gore replied that scientists said there is no difference
between GM and non-GM foods. Vlieger said he respectfully disagreed and
described how his cows refused to eat the GM corn. He added, "My cows
are smarter than those scientists were." The room erupted in applause.
Gore asked if any other farmers noticed a difference in the way their animals
responded to GM food. About twelve to fifteen hands went up. 1
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field contained GM and non-GM maize, cattle would always eat the non-GM
first." -Gale Lush, Nebraska
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- "A neighbor had been growing Pioneer Bt corn. When
the cattle were turned out onto the stalks they just wouldn't eat them."
2 -Gary
Smith, Montana
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- "While
my cows show a preference for open-pollinated corn over the hybrid varieties,
they both beat Bt-corn hands down." -Tim
Eisenbeis, South Dakota
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- According to a 1999 Acres USA article, cattle even broke
through a fence and walked through a field of Roundup Ready corn to get
to a non-GM variety that they ate. The cows left the GM corn untouched.
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- WISDOM OF THE COWS AND HOGS - p. 106 excerpt
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- Bill Lashmett watched as two or three cows were let into
a feeding area at a time. The first trough they came to contained fifty
pounds of shelled Bt corn. The cows sniffed it, withdrew, and walked over
to the next trough, which contained fifty pounds of natural shelled corn.
The cows finished it off. When they were gone and released from the pen,
the next group came in and did the same thing. Lashmett said the same
experiment was conducted on about six or seven farms in Northwest
Iowa, in 1998 and again in 1999. Identical trials with hogs yielded the
same results, also for two years in a row.
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- WISDOM OF SQUIRRELS, ELK, DEER, RACCOONS, AND MICE -
p. 126 excerpt
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- For years, a retired Iowa farmer fed squirrels
on his farm through the winter months by placing corncobs on feeders. One
year, just for the heck of it, he decided to see if the squirrels had a
preference for Bt corn or natural corn. He put natural corn in one feeder
and Bt corn in another about twenty feet away. The squirrels ate all the
corn off the natural cobs but didn't touch the Bt. The farmer dutifully
refilled the feeder with more natural corn and sure enough, it was soon
gone. The Bt, however, remained untouched.
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was the squirrels' only choice? To find out, he didn't refill the natural
corn. At the time, Iowa was plunged into the coldest days of
the winter. But day after day, the Bt cob remained intact. The squirrels
went elsewhere for their food. After about ten days, the squirrels ate
about an inch off the tip of an ear, but that's all. The farmer felt sorry
for the squirrels and put natural corn back into the feeders, which the
squirrels once again consumed. 1
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elk escape and took up residence in our crops of organic corn and soy.
It had total access to the neighboring fields of GM crops, but never went
into them." 2 -Susan
and Mark Fitzgerald, Minnesota
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- Writer Steve Sprinkel described a herd of about forty
deer that ate from the field of organic soybeans, but not the Roundup Ready
variety across the road. Likewise, raccoons devoured organic corn, but
didn't touch an ear of Bt corn growing down the road. "Even the mice
will move on down the line if given an alternative to these 'crops.' "
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of mice when he left two piles of corn in his mice-infested barn. One pile
was genetically modified; the other was natural. The GM pile was untouched
while the non-GM pile was completely eaten up. Lashmett, who has a background
in biochemistry and agriculture, says that animals have a natural sense
to eat what is good for them, and avoid what isn't He witnessed this firsthand
in another experiment conducted by a feed store in Walnut Grove, Iowa.
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each in their own
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their choice of bins in such a way, according to Lashmett, that they received
a balanced, healthy diet. Moreover, their preference changed with the seasons
and climate, demonstrating a natural inclination to follow the dictates
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- WISDOM OF THE MICE - p. 157 excerpt
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- The Washington Post reported that mice, usually
happy to munch on tomatoes, turned their noses up at the genetically modified
FlavSavr tomato scientists were so anxious to test on them. Scientist Roger
Salquist said of his tomato, "I gotta tell you, you can be Chef Boyardee
and mice are still not going to like them."1
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gastric tubes and stomach washes. Several developed stomach lesions; seven
of forty died within two weeks. The tomato was approved without further
tests [for human consumption].
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- MISSING CHICKENS - p. 182 excerpt
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- According to BBC News, April 27, 2002:
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- "Safety tests on genetically modified maize currently
growing in Britain were flawed, it has emerged. The crop, T-25
GM maize [corn], was tested in laboratory experiments on chickens. During
the tests, twice as many chickens died when fed on T-25 GM maize, compared
with those fed on conventional maize. This research was apparently overlooked
when the crop was given marketing approval in 1996." 1
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