SunnysideTroll

GMOs have never been about feeding the world. They're about control. Bayer/Monsanto is a prominent chemical/GM seed company (they've recently formally merged). I don't trust this partnership at all. "Monsanto and Bayer have a long history. They made explosives and lethally poisonous gases using shared technologies and sold them to both sides in the two world wars. The same war chemicals were bought by Allied and Axis powers, from the same manufacturers, with money borrowed from the same bank." -- Dr. Vandana Shiva, environmental activist and renowned author of 'Stolen Harvest'

Big Ag would have you believe that growing GMOs is the key to feeding the world's growing population, but that's just not true. "Hunger is not the result of too little food being produced, but rather of marginalization and disempowerment of the poorest, who lack the purchasing power they need to procure the food that is available" -- Olivier De Schutter, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Sometimes, it's the leaders who seem stupid or disinterested. In the US, polls consistently show that the overwhelming majority of Americans want GMOs to be labelled; and yet, on July 29th, 2016, President Obama went ahead and signed Monsanto's DARK Act anyway. -- @ livingmaxwell.com/obama-signs-gmo-labeling-bill-betrayal-organic Some say democracy died that day. I wonder if Canada can be far behind. "Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying." -- Dr. David Suzuki, host of CBC's 'The Nature of Things'

Has anyone here heard of gene drives? "Gene drives are an experimental genetic engineering technology intended to aggressively spread a specific bio-engineered trait among species or population in nature." -- from info I downloaded @ http://www.synbiowatch.org/gene-drives/gene-drives-moratorium/ Yeah,,, like Lawrence MacAulay has got the common sense to insist on putting a moratorium on that.

Since MacAulay has been the Minister of Agriculture & Agri-Food, genetically modified alfalfa (hay) seed has been released for the first time ever here in Canada too. This scares me a lot because once the seed has been planted, then there would be no way to stop the genetically modified trait from spreading to crops in other fields where it is not wanted. Anyway, for more info, check out: @ http://www.cban.ca/alfalfa

So are these genetically modified products safe? "Health Canada does not conduct independent tests but relies on privately owned data submitted by companies applying for product approval." -- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)

Lawrence MacAulay currently sits in Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture. MacAulay's constituency office is located in Montague, PEI. A Cavendish Farms potato processing plant is located in Montague too, and so is a building that houses the Department of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development. Since MacAulay has held his post in Cabinet, Health Canada has approved the genetically modified Innate potato and genetically modified salmon. Check out: @ http://www.cban.ca/potato Check out: @ http://www.cban.ca/fish

The West is run more like a corporate dictatorship than it is a democracy if you ask me.