What’s a soya tomato? Surely the announcement there is we’ve invented a new fruit/bean.

Tweety if they do, give ‘daddies’ a try.. :)

Erm, actually forget that piece of advice, ive just discovered to my absolute horror that Heinz in fact own Daddies. No wonder they were so similar.

That’s Kraft Dinner. It’s hugely popular in Canada because it’s so cheap and is actually quite tasty. Although it is quite unhealthy! Think of it as the Koka Noodles of Canada.

Neal ireland that slop does not resemble food. If you think that looks like proper food id hate to see what dinners you eat

Well I won’t invite you round for dinner so Sarah, but rest assured I have been cooking almost all my family dinners for almost a decade with no poisonings or deaths.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/05/08/hidden-viral-gene-discovered-in-gmo-crops/
“Another reason for you to avoid health depleting genetically modified organisms is here. A recent discovery of a hidden viral gene deep within genetically modified crops has us asking more questions. Despite numerous studies, experts and scientists speaking out about the dangers of GMOs to human health, the United States government, and other major manipulating organizations like the council on foreign relations continue to support and promote GMOs.
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) researchers have discovered a previously unknown viral gene that is known as “Gene VI.” (1) It’s found in most prominent GMO crops, and can disrupt the biological functions within living organisms. What do you expect? Genetically Modified Organisms contain a number of cell altering chemicals, that’s what chemicals do. Don’t forget about the chemicals used to spray the crops as well. Certain corn crops were found to contain the gene that creates physical mutation within the body. Roundup-Ready soybeans were also found to contain the gene. Don’t forget about NK603, which was recently linked to the development of mass tumors in rats.
This Gene helps to assemble virus particles that inhibit the natural defense of the cellular system and produces proteins that are harmful. The most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of this viral gene. The presence of this “hidden” gene is likely to result in unintended phenotypic changes (DNA mutations.) Of the 86 different transgenic events (unique insertions of foreign DNA) commercialized and mass marketed today, 54 in the United States contain some of the harmful Gene V1 within them.”
Then http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2565-gm-crop-dna-found-in-human-gut-bugs.html#.Uyutv2dOXIU
“For the first time, it has been proved that bacteria in the human gut can take up DNA from genetically modified food.”
Then the NewScientist, Issue No. 2832, 1st October 2011 Page 10 has the following…
“Genetic material in food survives digestion and circulates the body, fragments of plant RNA have been found swimming in the blood stream of people and cows.”
“Zhang found some 30 known plant miRNA’s floating in the blood of people and cows”.
He also states that “cooking does not destroy the plants miRNA’s”.
“All the plants we eat have been modifying our gene expression for as long as we have been eating them”.
Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanjing University in China.
Then another story like NewScientist, Issue No. 2920, 8thJune 2013 Page 6.
“Unauthorised genetically modified wheat has been discovered growing on a farm in Oregon nine years after a research program was abandoned. How it got there is a mystery.”
“Monsanto which says that the farm in question was not part of its original testing program and that all GM material was destroyed in 2004.” Proving that GM crops are themselves unstable and dangerous but all many want to do is hide all the facts. NewScientist, Issue No. 2891, 17th November 2012 Page 28. Wrong-headed Victory, California voted down Manetory labelling of GM food.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html
“When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it’s even WORSE than he feared.”
“Distressed: Prince Charles has set up charity Bhumi Vardaan Foundation to address the plight of suicide farmers
Beguiled by the promise of future riches, he borrowed money in order to buy the GM seeds. But when the harvests failed, he was left with spiralling debts – and no income.
So Shankara became one of an estimated 125,000 farmers to take their own life as a result of the ruthless drive to use India as a testing ground for genetically modified crops.
The crisis, branded the ‘GM Genocide’ by campaigners, was highlighted recently when Prince Charles claimed that the issue of GM had become a ‘global moral question’ – and the time had come to end its unstoppable march.
Speaking by video link to a conference in the Indian capital, Delhi, he infuriated bio-tech leaders and some politicians by condemning ‘the truly appalling and tragic rate of small farmer suicides in India, stemming… from the failure of many GM crop varieties’.
Ranged against the Prince are powerful GM lobbyists and prominent politicians, who claim that genetically modified crops have transformed Indian agriculture, providing greater yields than ever before.
The rest of the world, they insist, should embrace ‘the future’ and follow suit.”

http://www.anh-europe.org/news/gm-cocoa-to-flood-70-of-the-global-supply
“With cocoa demand being high, one of the world’s largest chocolate producers, Mars, became the primary backer for scientists to produce a genetically modified (GMO) cocoa tree hybrid. In 2010 scientists based at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture and Science and researchers working at IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Centre achieved the initial unlocking of the chocolate genome and, with the aim of improving yields, the plan has been to flood West Africa and therefore 70% of the global cocoa supply. Concern over the loss from pest and plant disease led to the research and scientists are determined to finalise gene sequencing of the cocoa genome.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12541465
“GM crops continue spread, passing ‘billion hectares”
Who end up owning the land and farmers then.

http://www.gmfreeireland.org/press/GMFI50.pdf
GM-FREE IRELAND, 23 JULY 2010 “ILLEGAL GM MAIZE GROWN IN IRELAND”
And yet the following makes you question everything said earlier? http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/gm_coexistence/
“Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine Cookie Usage… list.
Coexistence of GM and non-GM Crops in Ireland”

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2565-gm-crop-dna-found-in-human-gut-bugs.html#.Uyutv2dOXIU
“For the first time, it has been proved that bacteria in the human gut can take up DNA from genetically modified food.”
Then the NewScientist, Issue No. 2832, 1st October 2011 Page 10 has the following…
“Genetic material in food survives digestion and circulates the body, fragments of plant RNA have been found swimming in the blood stream of people and cows.”
“Zhang found some 30 known plant miRNA’s floating in the blood of people and cows”.
He also states that “cooking does not destroy the plants miRNA’s”.
“All the plants we eat have been modifying our gene expression for as long as we have been eating them”.
Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanjing University in China.
Then another story like NewScientist, Issue No. 2920, 8thJune 2013 Page 6.
“Unauthorised genetically modified wheat has been discovered growing on a farm in Oregon nine years after a research program was abandoned. How it got there is a mystery.”
“Monsanto which says that the farm in question was not part of its original testing program and that all GM material was destroyed in 2004.” Proving that GM crops are themselves unstable and dangerous but all many want to do is hide all the facts. NewScientist, Issue No. 2891, 17th November 2012 Page 28. Wrong-headed Victory, California voted down Manetory labelling of GM food.

http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/
“Obama signs ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ written by Monsanto-sponsored senator
On Tuesday, Pres. Obama inked his name to H.R. 933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier. Buried 78 pages within the bill exists a provision that grossly protects biotech corporations such as the Missouri-based Monsanto Company from litigation.
With the president’s signature, agriculture giants that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds are given the go-ahead to continue to plant and sell man-made crops, even as questions remain largely unanswered about the health risks these types of products pose to consumers.
In light of approval from the House and Senate, more than 250,000 people signed a petition asking the president to veto the spending bill over the biotech rider tacked on, an item that has since been widely referred to as the “Monsanto Protection Act.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/09/75-year-old-soybean-farmer-sees-monsanto-lawsuit-reach-u-s-supreme-court/#.URib3RSeUng.facebook
“Who controls the rights to the seeds planted in the ground? A 75-year-old farmer takes the agricultural giant to court to find out.”
“On the one side is Bowman, a single 75-year-old Indiana soybean farmer who is still tending the same acres of land as his father before him in rural south-western Indiana. On the other is a gigantic multibillion dollar agricultural business famed for its zealous protection of its commercial rights.” “After all, just three firms now control more than 50% of the global seed market.”

http://anh-europe.org/news/more-gm-for-africa-courtesy-of-the-gates-foundation
“Gates Foundation to put £6.3 million ($9.8 million) into the UK’s John Innes Centre. The Gates investment will be used to test the feasibility of engineering crops to use bacteria, which have evolved over millennia in leguminous crops like peas and beans, to create their own fertilizer from the nitrogen in the air around them.” Sounds good but what could go wrong… “After 5 years of research between 2003 and 2008, a United Nations project involving 400 scientists from 60 countries firmly concluded that GM technology had no place in the alleviation of poverty. Among the most serious GM-related problems cited in the report was the issue of seed ownership. GM technology, which generally produces infertile crops that have to be purchased from the producer, prevents farmers from generating their own seeds. With GM, the seed is effectively owned by the patent holder. The notion is repugnant to many, as clearly depicted in films like The World According to Monsanto and Food Inc.”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/28/study-gm-maize-cancer
“Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, professor of molecular biology at Caen university in France, knows how to inflame the GM industry and its friends. For seven years he and his team have questioned the safety standards applied to varieties of GM maize and tried to re-analyse industry-funded studies presented to governments.
The GM industry has traditionally reacted furiously and personally. Séralini has been widely insulted and smeared and last year, in some desperation, he sued Marc Fellous, president of the French Association of Plant Biotechnology, for defamation, and won (although he was only awarded a nominal €1 in damages).

http://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/regulators-discover-a-hidden-viral-gene-in-commercial-gmo-crops/ by Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson
“How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years?
In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene (Podevin and du Jardin 2012). This finding has serious ramifications for crop biotechnology and its regulation, but possibly even greater ones for consumers and farmers. This is because there are clear indications that this viral gene (called Gene VI) might not be safe for human consumption. It also may disturb the normal functioning of crops, including their natural pest resistance.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Plant_Variety_Office
“The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is an agency of the European Union, located in Angers, France. It was established in 1994. Its task is to administer a system of plant variety rights, also known as plant breeders’ rights, a form of intellectual property right relating to plants. The CPVO works rather like the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market: it grants intellectual property protection for new plant varieties. These rights are valid for a period of either 25 or 30 years.” But old is illegal and even to buy old varieties of vegetables is illegal under E.U. laws?
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?copy
“It’s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to gain exclusive control over the seeds of life – the source of our food. They’re trying to patent away varieties of our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, virtually forcing growers to pay them for seed and risk being sued if they don’t. But we can stop them from buying up Mother Earth. Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to have exclusive rights over conventional seeds, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands — where opposition is already growing — to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s greedy plans. The Avaaz community has shifted governments before, and we can do it again. Many farmers and politicians are already against this — we just need to bring in people power to pressure these countries to keep Monsanto’s hands off our food. Sign now and share with everyone to help build the biggest food defense call ever.”

Sorry Jack but a lot here…
It was shown that even cooked cabbage could increase bad cholesterol due to DNA of the cooked cabbage entering liver cells, so what can GM crop DNA do then? It seems that plant DNA can enter cells and this seems to be normal?
The worry comes with GM DNA then?

That’s very interesting Michael, tell us more

Rascal…

You should follow “We love GMO’s and vaccines” on Facebook. Their posts are really interesting.

Never saw then, but you can’t bear NewScientist any day for facts…

Sorry Michael, the vast majority of that stuff you posted is absolutely ridiculous. If you believe it it shows a massive gap in your knowledge of what actually constitutes a GM crop.

Fergal Kelly, are you saying that the NewScientist magazine does not know what they are talking about???
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7178-final-farmscale-crop-trial-finds-against-gm.html#.VRQEkukfzIU
So what points are as you say are ridiculous as these websites and what they speak off are recognised as genuine as well as the stated facts, thanks.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126975.100-website-to-dish-the-dirt-on-foods.html
http://www.goodguide.com/

“Specific GM labelling under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 is not required if a food contains, consists of or is produced from a GMO in a proportion not higher than 0.9% of the food ingredient considered individually, provided that this presence is adventitious or technically unavoidable.”

https://www.fsai.ie/legislation/food_legislation/gmos/labelling_of_gm_food.html