“It’s also the producer of bovine growth hormone (rBGH), which is banned in Europe and Canada.”

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) is actually produced by Eli Lilly now.  Monsanto sold it to Eli Lilly’s Animal Health Division Elanco a few years back.

Breast Cancer Action runs a campaign called Milking Cancer demanding Eli Lilly stop producing rBGH, which has been linked to breast cancer by increasing levels of IGF-1.

It’s all well and good to comment about an issue that needs the attention of citizens.  It’s even more important to ACTUALLY DO something significant that will allow necessary changes to be made to improve our country.

Here is a link that will interest many of you.

http://signon.org/sign/public-funding-of-elected

Well, I guess at least now we can dispense with the pretense that those evaluating the safety of these products are independent of those creating them…

The most reassuring thing for me (as an organic gardener) is that if just ONE of the NEW experiments proves that just ONE of the NEW crops is an environmental danger, it will be too late.  Again.  The danger will have been unleashed & we can all sit back & watch it on TV or the internet.  Kind of like “On the Beach”.  Or Disneyland goes to Tokyo.  So where does the insanity of corporate greed & control actually end?  Just askin’.

The announcement in the Federal Register is here: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/fedregister/BRS_20110407.pdf

It includes contact information for the person in charge of accepting applications to the program. Let the USDA know what you think by contacting David Reinhold, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

It is fabulous to see some public discussion of Monsanto’s role in the risk
assessment of genetically engineered GMO crops, but the current wave of
outrage over the new policy to outsource environmental impact overlooks the
fact that industry has done the safety testing from day one.

There has never been formal testing by Federal Agencies to determine the
human health effects, these crops have been passed through an ingeniously
evil loophole of “substantial equivalence” that allows industry to claim they are
the same as traditional foods and exempt from safety assessments.

This loophole was created by Monsanto lobbyist lawyer Michael Taylor under
the Bush Sr.-Quayle creation of a “Deregulated Biotech Framework” and now
Taylor is an Obama Food Czar.  Parties may change in the White House &
Congress but Monsanto’s government organization transcends & dominates
regardless of what side of the aisle is reported as the party in power.

Here’s a link to the Deregulation Notice for the first GMO, a #Monsanto soy now
fed to Americans for more than a decade and even a casual read shows that it is
Monsanto’s tests and Monsanto’s opinion that these pose no threat.  Industry
will claim GMO are tested and approved by FDA, but ask for a link to evidence
and you’ll see what I have after a decade of searching, nothing but a lie!

http://www.fda.gov/Food/Biotechnology/Submissions/ucm161130.htm