Peru approves 10 year ban GM crops

Well Peru doesn't want anything to do with Genetically Modified Organisms. This is great news since so many studies already show the dangers of consuming GM foods. Peru says no on "national territory for cultivation, breeding or of any transgenic production". Hopefully more countries try and head this direction.

http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13231-peru-approves-10-year-ban-on-gm-crops

 

Monsanto needs to be starved of money.

 

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/peru-approves-10-year-ban-on-gm-crops-and-imports/

I can't find anything on the president-elect Ollanta Humala. It sounds like Peru has been trying to ban since before he came into the picture, and it sounds like his three main priorities are "education, health programs and job creation."

Guess we will have to wait and see or hear from another.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ca...qM5jNHQwq8etLKn3TzA-oPJ77TN5wbg?docId=7115805

 

This is Most Pleasing news. It is good to know that they are against being bought/paid for by corporate interests.

 

I wonder how many people will starve thanks to this idiotic ruling?

 

Well Done Peru
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hopefully more will follow by example.

 

I don't understand this argument. Well-fed Americans eat more GM food than any other nation on earth. African nations turn away our GM food we send over in aid. GM food is created for profit. Alleviating world hunger is just something that the biotechnology industry likes to put a lot of spin on in order to make their business look less corrupt. In fact, GM food has really done nothing to alleviate world hunger problems. GM crops are generally more expensive than traditional crops because of the amount of incesticides and pesticides that must be used, plus studies have illustrated that GM crops don't produce a higher yield than traditional crops.

 

I am Peruvian and I am soooooooooooooooo HAPPY Ollanta Humala is the New President of Peru.

Imperialism NOT Welcome in Peru.
I also support Evo Morales , Hugo Chavez and all Socialist Presidents in South America.
South America will protect its own interests.
Viva EL ALBA VIVA UNASUR.

 

Peru Entrena Para Guerra Contra Chile! Mira esto roto de mierda que nunca podras alcanzarnos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP_-HW4bfM&feature=fvwrel


Humala amenaza con "discrminar y maltratar" chilenos si lo hacen con peruanos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEAO1FutNNI




VIVA OLLANTA HUMALA VIVA
VIVA EL PERU CARAJO

 

Exposed: the great GM crops myth: Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent

GM crops need more pesticide

Suicide Rate Climbs Among India's Farmers; High Cost of GM Farming, Debt, Poor Government Policy Blamed

GM crops and India's suicide belt

Monsanto in India

GM seed costs soar

Local, sustainable agriculture (gardens, farms, "Slow Money" being the operating principle) is the only true way to feed the world, not by multinational global corporations filled with psychopaths bent on Profit over People. There is more than enough to feed the entire world, but the system is presently designed to be inefficient and unequal.

Over long enough time GM crops, should they be allowed to continue to contaminate non-GM crops as they are without legal/lawful retribution (when there is, these corporations sadistically fight back), will eventually overtake "God's" crops.

 

People are going to believe only what they are willing to- it's just human nature. I didn't agree with the opinion but didn't see any point in engaging. The man has a right to believe what he wants to believe.

From a public health standpoint I think Peru did the right thing. Mr. Noodle raises a valid concern for those having to do without... and if given a choice between starving and eating GMOs I have little doubt I'd ingest the much maligned re-engineering of nature but I strongly suspect that my body would find a way of expressing its displeasure with my choice.

 

Ok.

Right...

Because of idiotic propaganda that tells them it will make them sterile or in some way poison them.

Norman Borlog has saved more lives than any human in history, you slander his legacy with dumb incorrect platitudes.

Yes manufacturing plants to produce more food has nothing to do with feeding hungry people...

Oh wait...

This is just an outright lie, modified rice alone has saved billions of lives, how doe sit feel to be so misinformed?

Actually the reason they are modified is to make them more resistant to the environment that they are trying to be farmed in as well as yields, the amount of pesticide would not change based on it being modified or not.

Have you ever actually read one of your posts, if you did perhaps less contradictions would turn up in them, you are grossly under informed on this subject and in my opinion purposely trying to misinform others.

 

Funniest of all, I was watching a video the other day (I'll try to find the link again) in where it showed how other Roundup ready crop seeds are being spread via wildlife onto other farms, essentially like weeds, causing the farmers to have to go in and manually pull them anyway, which the whole roundup ready thing was supposed to be solving in the first place,,,

I think the example was a field of Roundup ready Sugar beets that had been infested with seed from Roundup ready Canola seed,,, but I'm on my first cup of coffee so dont hold me to specifics here.
Monsanto told the farmer "Well sorry, we've been too busy to develop any chemicals to handle that scenario, but we'll sell you more seed at a discount so you can replant if you need to. For now you'll just have to get out there and pull it by hand,,,"

 

You have a very innocent world view to think that the biotechnology industry is not motivated by profit. ALL industry is motivated by profit. Anything that makes profit is motivated by profit.

The yield has not increased with GM food therefore GM food is not helping feed the hungry any more than traditional crops.

http://www.pubresreg.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72

I'm actually not misinformed. I've done a ton of research on GM food. Where is your source for that little tidbit of information?

Actually the amount of pesticide used in GM food has increased over the past few years so I'm not sure what you're trying to get at...

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMCIPU.php

 

Your sources are obviously biased and your argument basically boils down to the fact that a company is making a profit.

How naive.

 

Then why am I talking about crop yields and an increase in pesticide if my argument boils down to profit?

As for my sources, you're right. You haven't provided one single source so your argument is obviously more credible than mine.

 

We have been eating GM food for 15 years and nobody has been harmed unless a sack of it fell on their head. 77% of soybeans worldwide are GM now.

Arguments that GM crops have lower yields, the seeds are more expensive, and require more herbicides - yes I'm sure your enviro websites told you that. One of two things is possible - farmers are morons that don't know how to earn a living, or your enviro websites are spinning tales. I'm betting on the latter.

Same with arguments that GM companies are in it for money. Would you risk your life by flying on a plane that has been built just to make a profit? Would you trust a doctor that has been educated in a private university, for profit? Come on.

This is hopelessly naive... what do you think locally grown, traditional agriculture is called? It is called subsistence farming and its what the poorest countries in the world do. Its the reason we had the industrial revolution.

Also, the reason GM food is rejected as aid is because African countries are terrified (rightly or wrongly) that it will contaminate their own crops and then the EU will ban imports, leaving them destitute. Which is still crazy.

 

Eliminating GM acreage in Peru will leave more room for the coca leaf.