Anti-GMO Consumers Won't Forgive Cheerios - Cheerios Finally Responds

User Rating:  / 0

Details

Category: GMO's

Created on Wednesday, 12 December 2012 12:08

Hits: 211

Cheerios patronizes consumers with a section for "robust conversation"

A Sheep No More

Heather Callaghan
Activist Post

It's been over a week since Cheerios had to remove a Pinterest App that actually exposed them for containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), being pro-GMO and for *General Mills' funding over $1 million to "No on Proposition 37." Consumers are still slamming Cheerios' Facebook page in their "Recent Posts by Others" section. Actually, thousands of angry comments are now visible on the "face" of their page as well their other sections for comments.

But that's not all - when Cheerios posted a retro commercial called "Grandma's Visit" it was immediately slammed and removed from their Facebook videos. Consumers followed the vid to YouTube and commented on Cheerios' YouTube page. More than 1200 users left negative comments on the Facebook vid before its removal saying things like “Nostalgic old commercials are no substitute for healthy ingredients. I won't buy Cheerios until they are GMO-free.”

We know that they got the message - they haven't posted on their Facebook page in over a week. Cheerios finally responded by patronizing consumers and carving out a special comment section for "robust conversation".  So, they aren't backing down from their stance supporting GMO ingredients and their promotion.

New section for angry comments - Wow, Cheerios really understands me!

A short capture of Facebook response to "We're Listening" Click to Enlarge

YouTube Vid & Top Comments

The heart of the matter surrounds consumer rage over big food companies' deceptive health marketing, meanwhile, actively funding efforts to stop the labeling of GM foods - the paying consumers' desire for greater transparency. It's like someone smiling while flipping you the bird behind the back - or taking your money and watching you poison yourself. Profits over principles - and consumers won't forgive this time.

Read More

Kenya’s Recent Ban on All GMOs Draws Cheers and Jeers

User Rating:  / 1

Details

Category: GMO's

Created on Friday, 07 December 2012 12:23

Hits: 125

By Heather Callaghan
Activist Post

In a gutsy move, Kenya’s government has banned all imported GMO goods – effective immediately.

They are also suspending all sales of genetically modified produce and foods with GM ingredients until health safety is confirmed.

The ban is not permanent, however – it depends on what evidence the ministry concludes. Biotechnology research can continue.

On November 8th, Health Minister Beth Mugo made the announcement with Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki present and also said:

My ministry wishes to clarify the decision was based on genuine concerns that adequate research had not been done on GMOs and scientific evidence provided to prove the safety of these foods.

Taking a better-safe-than-sorry approach, she added, “Where there is apprehension and uncertainty regarding the safety of food products, precaution to protect the health of the people must be undertaken.”

This new health fear is most likely a result of the now famous French GMO study in September, complete with pictures of grotesquely tumored rats.

Or maybe even rising suspicions and admissions of biotech scientist knowledge of an infertility gene - and a coordinating rise of infertility and miscarriages in humans but definitely, undeniably those issues and death in cattle eating GMO feed.

One biotech scientist wrote to Natural Society, telling them it would be “awesome” if “this **** causes infertility” because he’s among those who fiercely believe the world is overpopulated, and goes on to say that GMO is saving the planet.

The news is flying fast with cheers through anti-GMO consumers on Facebook using the Internet meme picture of a happy African boy with a fist in the air saying “Aww Yeah!!!” and “Kenya just banned GMOs!”

Despite hints of ultimate depopulation efforts and major safety concerns, it is not surprising that many biotech researchers, universities, farmers, students, and consumers are unhappy about the decision.

Read More

Report: Monsanto On Verge of $40 Million GMO Bailout in Europe

User Rating:  / 2

Details

Category: GMO's

Created on Wednesday, 05 December 2012 11:21

Hits: 167

BankWatch

Monsanto, the world’s largest seed producer and one of the most prominent promoters of GMO crops worldwide, is set to receive 40 million US dollars of public financial support via the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The EBRD has provisionally approved a 40 million US dollars financial guarantee to cover Monsanto in case farming companies cannot pay for seeds or agrochemical products they committed to buy from the corporation. The support is to be offered by the EBRD for contracts made by Monsanto with medium and large farmers and distributors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. (1)

US corporation Monsanto is the world’s largest seed producer, the fourth largest agrochemical company worldwide and a Fortune 500 company.

„It is absolutely outrageous that the EBRD plans to use public money to support a giant that already dominates the global seeds and agrochemicals markets,” comments Ionut Apostol, CEE Bankwatch Network’s EBRD coordinator. „The EBRD has as a stated goal to promote the private sector and competition in transition countries; how could giving money to one of the world’s richest corporations possibly count as fulfilling this mission?”

„Even more troubling is that the EBRD claims to enhance food security by supporting Monsanto expansion in our region,” adds Apostol. „But the farming model promoted for decades by this corporation, centred on chemicals, mono-cultures, genetically modified organisms* and the marginalisation of the smallest producers is precisely what diminishes food security in an era of increasingly unstable climactic conditions.” (2)

CEE Bankwatch, together with 157 NGOs from all over the world, are this week sending a letter to the management of the EBRD (3) arguing against the approval of this financial aid package for Monsanto and also calling on the bank to reassess its approach to food security, from a focus on promoting large-scale industrial farming to encouraging more sustainable, biodiversity friendly and smaller scale farms. (4)

Read More

Dr. Oz viciously attacks organic foods and farmers markets, pushes feedlot beef, urges clueless consumers to eat more pesticides and GMO

User Rating:  / 0

Details

Category: GMO's

Created on Sunday, 02 December 2012 14:04

Hits: 146

Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Dr. Oz has finally done it: He has sold out to Big Ag by declaring organic foods to be "elitist," "snooty" and no better than conventional foods. The man who once urged Americans to eat organic has sold his soul to the criminally-run food giants in a mind-blowing editorial piece recently published in TIME Magazine.

Look for Dr. Oz to promote GMOs next, as cozying up to Monsanto probably won't be too far behind. The man is already on the record pushing vaccines, talking about how good they are for "public health" while failing to mention that vaccines admittedly contain mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum and MSG.

He's also the same guy who was behind the "RealAge" internet scheme that recruited people into a promotional network where they were barraged by drug-pushing ads from Big Pharma. Dr. Oz also owned a huge number of option shares in a vaccine technology company.

In his TIME Magazine editorial piece, Dr. Oz declares organic foods to be "elitist" and appropriate only for "the 1%." This clever bit of propaganda is designed to try to align conventional foods (i.e. pesticide ridden GMO foods) with the "99%" by making them sound more populist. As if, the "People's food" is pesticides and GMOs, you see.

Does the man have no shame? Is there any corporate poison he won't promote to his viewers?

Oz declares organic food is "not democratic"

"Organic food is great, it's just not very democratic," Dr. Oz declares, as if choosing organic is somehow an affront to America. "You don't need to eat like the 1% to eat healthily," he says. In other words, keep sucking down more GMOs, pesticides, herbicides and chemicals, and you'll be a good little American food slave. Buying organic is anti-American, you're being told.

Dr. Oz's message, of course, has become indistinguishable from that of Monsanto. It's all the same deception: You don't need clean, non-GMO food to be healthy. Keep eating all the conventional crap that poisons you with synthetic chemicals, and you'll be just fine! How about some GMO Corn Flakes for breakfast, even!

Taking Over for Monsanto, DuPont Hunts Down Farmers for Violating the “Intellectual Property” of GMO Seeds

User Rating:  / 0

Details

Category: GMO's

Created on Thursday, 29 November 2012 13:19

Hits: 125

By JG Vibes
theintelhub.com
November 28, 2012

Just behind Monsanto, DuPont is the second largest supplier of genetically modified seeds in the world, and recently they have gotten more involved in the persecution of farmers and the enforcement of intellectual property claims on the seeds.

What this means exactly is that these companies are actually claiming ownership over the seeds biology, which entitles them to a portion of every single seed that shares specific characteristics with their patent.

The fee that is attached to this patent is transferred onto farmers, and to ensure that farmers everywhere pay up, GMO companies send out police and testing units to farms across the world so they can determine as to whether or not the farmer is using GMO seeds.

Unfortunately, this process gets extremely complicated as a result of the cross pollination that takes place between GMO crops and organic ones.  In many cases in the past organic farmers have had their crops tainted with GMO’s, then on top of that they are sued by companies like Monsanto or DuPont for the “privilege” of having their crops randomly and involuntarily pollinated with genetically modified biology.

In the past DuPont has taken a back seat as far as the dirty work is concerned, but now copyright patents for certain organisms are being transferred from Monsanto to DuPont.

Read More