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AM Costa Rica reports today the GMO crops have been planted in CR since 1991! Corn, bananas, pineapple, and cotton are all here. I haven’t heard that anyone has become sick or died from them or that they are pushing out other crops…
Sounds like someone is in bed with Monsanto???
[quote=”VictoriaLST”]AM Costa Rica reports today the GMO crops have been planted in CR since 1991! Corn, bananas, pineapple, and cotton are all here. I haven’t heard that anyone has become sick or died from them or that they are pushing out other crops…[/quote]
A couple of years ago, a friend was approached by a farmer in Cartago who asked if he could plant some ‘different corn’ on some property in Guanacaste, since the ‘conditions were better’.
Friend said, no problem, and a routine/specific care was taken and the farmer had to account for every seed planted. Later, when the corn was ready, he had to produce every stalk.
When the corn was harvested we were given some, and it was the best tasting corn we had eaten here but the crop was to be sold, the farmer told us.
Our friends family, consumed much more and about this time his youngest son was very ill. His parents had to sit with him when he slept as he would suddenly stop breathing. Many tests were done and for the next year, the child was monitored.
Recently, the 4 year had another few episodes, and after looking at the timeline, this was when the parents realized that their son, could have had a ‘reaction’ to the corn.
The ‘scary’ part about, if this is indeed the case, the specialist said it was very important that the child never got overheated….and we are in the tropics, aren’t we?
They are presently in contact with officialsFinca: “Coincidence is not causality” Try to remember that.
As to being “in bed” with Monsanto. Nah. Husband is a PhD in physiology though. Scientist, professor and teacher of science and math. No, he never worked for Monsanto. Stop being snide, please.
[quote=”VictoriaLST”]”Coincidence is not causality” Try to remember that. [/quote]
It’s an uphill battle, Victoria.
how do you know people haven’t gotten sick or died? don’t you remember the debacle with Starlink corn and why it was pulled off the market? same with the GMO tomato. we don’t want no stinkin’ GMOs in this country and at the rate that the cantons are banning together and putting pressure on the committee who decided for all of us, we might just make it happen. GMO corn has been linked to spontaneous abortions, animal deaths, and leaky gut syndrome. that’s just for starters. the film Genetic Roulette is once again available for free to watch on line. and yes, somebody IS in bed with Monsanto — they have more money than some governments and have no compunction about spreading their influence far and wide.
Dr. Joseph Mercola
The intense GMO documentary, “Genetic Roulette”, based on the book by Jeffrey Smith by the same name, is FREE TO WATCH until Feb 10th. This movie was recently awarded Top Transformational Film of 2012 by AwareGuide and 2012 Movie of the Year by the Solari Report. SHARE this to your friends and family to let them know about the dangers of genetically modified foods! http://geneticroulettemovie.com/
Genetic Roulette – The Gamble of our Lives
http://www.youtube.com
Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists andSee academicsreview.org
“Genetic Roulette is Jeffrey Smith’s second self-published book in which he makes unsubstantiated claims against biotechnology. In it, he details 65 separate claims that the technology causes harm in a variety of ways. On these pages each of those claims – addressed in the same eight “sections” that correspond directly with the book – are stacked up against peer-reviewed science.” – and showed it to be nonsense.
As one person summed it up: ” Bad science, fake science, propaganda and outright lies. All in the name of a political agenda. AGMs [anti-GMO folks] take it all as gospel and react like frightened villagers in a Frankenstein movie.”
Maravilla will light the torches and storm the castle.
torches are lit and the castle is being stormed as i write.
as for peer-reviewed science — pffffft! who funds this academics review? i have about as much faith in any peer-reviewed stuff regarding GMOs as i do about peer-reviewed studies regarding pharmaceuticals, many of which are ghost-written and paid for by Big Pharma, so i would bet there is a Big chem money connection to your questionable journal. and pushing GMOs on a population isn’t a political agenda? and if GMOs are so great, why is monsanto being given the boot in more than a dozen countries and labeling is required in 30 more.
you got it. and damn proud of it, as is the son of the former president who is spearheading this revolt!!!
you strike me as someone who doesn’t give a damn about your food supply or what you eat or that the goal will be to have all seeds in the world under the domain of Monsanto. eventually they will get rid of all the organic seeds and all that will be available are their abominations of nature (and please don’t lay that ridiculous rap about how this has been happening for millenia because you didn’t even get the terminology correct!). some technology is good, but this $#h*t isn’t — and the revolt is worldwide now, Vicki, but then i doubt that you are up on any of this, just what you read in some right wing rag!
Dangerous or not, people have the right to chose if they want to eat manipulated food or not. Producers should be Forced to indicate on cans and packages where the ingredients come from and how they were produced. I am not buying any corn, much less in cans, any more. I found that the cheapest corn in cans comes from the U.S. and some others come from other latin countries. None of them said it was organic or GMO. I am not going to eat it if I don´t know what´s in it.
if you put a gun to my head i wouldn’t eat anything that came out of a can. almost all cans are lined with BPA which is a known endocrine disruptor and a carcinogen. all canned foods, whether labeled or not, contain either MSG, preservatives, or both. you can get frozen corn at the big supermarkets here. but also, the fresh corn here is quite good — my neighbor grows it, and when she doesn’t, there are a few farmers at the local feria who have beautiful corn. it’s not exactly like what we used to get in the States, but it’s passable and is fine in salads and for eating off the cob.
If Costa Rica can feed its people then why introduce GMO’s. Let the rest of the world experiment if they choose. The governments can’t be trusted to tell the truth about anything. Trust in government that they will do right by us is the main problem in this world. We are lied to on a daily basis so how can we trust any data presented. The water in my town is so polluted that we don’t need to go to the pharmacy for drugs. But still in government standards.
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