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GMO Food in China
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Uploaded on 30 Apr 2011
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Green Peace said genetically modified (GM) ingredients
were found in commercial baby foods in China .
What is GM? How will it affect ecology and human body?
How is it treated internationally and in China?
What can people do when China allows large-scale
cultivation of GM rice? Let's look at the detailed reports.
Green Peace recently announced the finding of GM in
commercially available baby foods, instant rice and
other food products in China. From the end of 2010
to April 2011, they randomly sampled baby foods,
instant rice and noodles in Beijing, Wuhan, Xiaotao,
Guangzhou and Hong Kong to detect GM ingredients.
Fang Lifeng (Green Peace Food & Agricultural Officer):
\"We spent several months to sample about 100 products,
GM ingredients were found in ten samples. It is very
serious. According to British Royal Society, to include
GM ingredients in baby foods must be seriously reviewed.\"
GM technology can change original features of organisms,
which can inherit to next generations. The first use of GM
technology is to breed new varieties which are high-yield,
anti-virus, insect resistant and hardy to herbicides.
GM crops are found harmful in production and scientific
experiments.
Professor Juergen Zentek in Veterinary Medicine,
University of Vienna found in 2009, for mice fed with
33% GM corn for 20 weeks or longer, the 3rd generations
decreased in weight, length and population.
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U.S. farmers have reported thousands of pigs fed with
GM corn could not reproduce. Some had false pregnancy
and gave birth to a pouch of water. India Haryana Survey
showed most buffalos fed with GM cottonseeds had
complicating diseases, such as premature delivery,
miscarriage, infertility and uterine prolapse.
In many countries, mice die off in GM maize fields.
GM crops were first cultivated in South America.
Babies were reportedly with congenital malformation.
Victim Sofia in South America said, \"We used to be
a happy family with our own plants and fruit trees.
Now we lost everything, including my brother.
Doctor said I should not get pregnant in next 10 years,
or the baby will be congenitally malformed. \"
Currently FAO, WHO, ECO and other authorities,
as well as 250 Consumer Associations in 115 countries,
none has announced saying GM food is safe.
Green Peace warned governments to strengthen research
on GM food safety, and called for an immediate
cessation of GM crops commercialization and planting.
At the end of 2009, Chinese authorities approved two
GM rices for planting. As the world's largest rice producer
and consumer, China became the first to commercialize
GM rice, which sparked many concerns and opposition
of Chinese people. Ministry of Agriculture announced
GM rice would become major foods of China in 3 years.
Ye Yongmao, an expert of Food safety in China said,
GM foods contain toxins causing cancer and organ
abnormalities, even genes mutation, which will harm
next generations. GM food is forbidden in many countries.
Professor Chen Shixiong, president of Taiwan Mingdao
University and chairman of the Taiwan Organic Industry
Promotion Association said, human beings can't
afford the catastrophe brought by GM foods. He put
food safety on the same level with Homeland Security.
Chen Shixiong: \"GM foods is a great crisis for mankind's
future, we should prevent this technology from eventually
hurting our well-beings and health.\"
The overwhelming majority of Chinese netizens and
citizens strongly oppose GM foods.
NTD reporters Zhao Xinzhi and Zhou Tian -
Genetically Modified Food Issues - Educational Video Part 1
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Part2 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GON4ynIFMMI -
Genetic engineering: The world's greatest scam?
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My rights as a food consumers: leave my Food alone
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孟山都的全球種子操控
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誰掌控了糧食，誰就掌控了世界
Who controls the seeds control the world... :yikes:
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Remind Yourself Everyday :
Even a Smallest Act of Caring has the Potential to Turn a Life Around
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让人快乐，就是慈；
同情他人，就是悲；
心无烦恼，就是喜；
把自己所知的告诉他人，就是舍。
〜 证严法师 -
osim:
:thankyou: Osim...I managed to borrow the book \"The Omnivore Dilemma - the secrets behind what you eat\" by Michael Pollan. . A very good informative book...I was watching that video you put up about raw food but decided to save it for later as I want to watch together with my family. I want my children to know what is going on behind the food they eat everyday. Will try to download a version for watching on TV. Thks for the link.
Coincidentally, I am currently reading the book \"The Omnivore Dilemma - the secrets behind what you eat\" by Michael Pollan. (wonder if that guy in the video is him)
It talks a lot on how the glut from corn farming due to hybrids and GM corn seeds from companies has caused a whole chain of effect on the food and farming industry and affect the food we consume.
Now I understand why grass-fed cows and grain-fed chickens cost more than corn-fed ones. They feed all these animals for human consumption with food unnatural to their diet because corn is so very cheap.
I read once in Time magazine about the extend one should go organic in their food consumption. It was adviced that we can eat non organic for vegetables as pesticides can be washed off but for meat, milk and eggs, it is more important to go organic to avoid the hormone and antibiotics and not forgetting other drugs that they use on the animals to make the animals dopey so they don't fight in the crammed living space. -
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Less than 2 weeks it will be school holiday.....Hang on... :xedfingers: -
Just because our life is always fill with issues:
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