Agent Orange is now allowed in Corn- approved in Dec

[Ichingcarpenter]

USDA Quietly Approves New GMO Corn, While Touting Safety of Agent Orange Ingredient



Over the holidays, the USDA approved a strain of Monsanto's genetically engineered corn that can now be planted freely in the environment and distributed throughout the U.S. food supply, with no oversight or efforts to track its safety.

Monsanto says the strain is drought-tolerant, but the USDA itself has actually found otherwise.

Instead, the agency ignored its own results as well as concerns from the public, which has little trust in the safety of the crop. Nearly 45,000 public comments were written in opposition to the particular corn variety and only 23 comments were written in favor, according to the Cornucopia Institute.

Approving an Agent Orange Chemical
Other GMO crops are also on the way. Cornucopia reports that the USDA has opened a public comment period for a soybean variety from Monsanto containing increased levels of an omega-3 fatty acid—which you hear a lot about as being healthy, but it doesn't not naturally occur in soybeans.

The agency is also holding a public comment period for a GMO corn from Dow engineered to better resist the poisonous herbicide 2,4-D.

Cornucopia explains more:

While the USDA attempts to assure the public that 2,4-D is safe, scientists have raised serious concerns about the safety of this herbicide, which was used as a key ingredient in “Agent Orange,” used to defoliate forests and croplands in the Vietnam War.


http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/usda-quietly-approves-new-gmo-corn-safety-agent-orange-ingredient.html


Research by the EPA found that babies born in counties with high rates of 2,4-D application to farm fields were significantly more likely to be born with birth defects of the respiratory and circulatory systems, as well as defects of the musculoskeletal system like clubfoot, fused digits and extra digits. These birth defects were 60% to 90% more likely in counties with higher 2,4-D application rates.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. This is your food and water folks

Monsanto and DOW are well entrenched into our govt...

Sec of Agriculture,Vilsack whose ties and promotions of Dows and monsanto's goals began when he was governor.



Monsanto Kingpin Michael R. Taylor as the United States FDA Food Safety Czar ..... Michael Moore had big articles on him.

Obama Deregulates GMO Crops Despite Supreme Court Injunction http://www.truthout.org/obama-deregulates-gmo-crops-despite-supreme-court-injunction/1307023149

There is more but you get the idea


It has been for years and it doesn't matter which party is in power.
The rest of the world knows about Monsanto and Dow's behaviors
Its your food and water.



See also this thread:


Leaked: US to Start ‘Trade Wars’ with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002115953

[countryjake]

4. Where I grew up, there are mountains of sugar beets...

(that's actually how they store them)...you can see them from miles away, across the fields. And they are real food, not something created in some chemical plant to corrupt and poison every farmer's crop and every garden for miles around.

So now they are even going after the beets, why, why would they do this?

No need to answer...agri-business profit, I already know, but why did Obama do this?

[countryjake]

2. So the superweeds that are a result of over-saturation with Round-Up...

now require Agent Orange to stop them?

When the hell are we going to wake up and take our seeds back from these frankensteinian chemical corps.?

The USDA hands out decisions like a little child, except they never do develop the logic that making mistakes normally produces in kids.

And in that first part, which really pisses me off, why would that franken-corn be "approved" if it hasn't any more value than naturally occurring hybrid-corn...the USDA admits that it's drought-resistance isn't so great, so why is it even being allowed?

I wasn't ever even gonna come over here, til I saw your thread (with no replies), so here I be, registering my outrage as a born-on-the-farm DUer.

My county has been at war with the GMO-profit mongers for years, now, so thank you for this heads-up. Will pass it on.

[icymist]

3. I work in nursing homes with Vietnam Vets that got sprayed with this stuff.

This is not a safe practice. I'm not going to go into detail, but these guys are really messed up from this drug. (And it is a drug!)

[SpiralHawk]

5. Wow - this news needs to go far and wide

Plug ugly.

[ixion]

6. Monsanto is an enemy of We, the People

and if allowed to continue, will single-handedly destroy our food supply.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. This time its Dow Chemicals wait its Monsanto using Dow's Agent orange

on edit I get these two muffa fuckers mixed up.
The government doesn't I guess.

[ixion]

8. My bad. I should avoid pre-coffee posting. In this case, though, the same goes for Dow.

The gov't only knows the difference because of the name on the check they bribe them with.

[TexasProgresive]

9. Title to post is hype bordering on lying

2-4-D is not Agent Orange. 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is wildly used around the world including the US. I would be more worried about your neighbor's use on his weed free lawn. Homeowners tend to over-medicate their lawns and gardens with all those oregano-phosphates running off into the storm sewers, to creeks, rivers, lakes and ground water which you drink. Farmers precisely calculate the exact amount of chemicals needed to do the job- they can't afford to waste money on chemicals like Joe homeowner.

Personally I don't like any of these chemicals.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Agent orange is fifty fifty mix of

A 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical..... so this is a primary agent of Agent Orange


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

Glad you like it in your corn and just worry about your neighbor and don't worry about what you eat..

[TexasProgresive]

17. I said I didn't like the use of the chemicals at all

Just people don't realize how much O-Ps they are exposed to in a city environment. I know that 2-4-D was a major component of agent orange-but the OP makes it look like agent orange is being used on crop lands when it is 2-4-D which is and has been in common use.

I think there was some issue with some 2-4-D having free dioxins - maybe that's not true today. Personally I would like to see this class of chemicals done away with.

[GeorgeGist]

18. Not even oregano?

[TexasProgresive]

19. Good in Italian sauces and Greek food- Not so good to smoke.

[dougolat]

10. Yet another hijacking of our govt. agencies

The F.D.A, U.S.D.A, E.P.A, you name it, diverted from their purpose by lobbying, company insiders doing a tour-of-duty in the regulatory part of their industry, Congress members beholden to corporate campaign funding, and those who want to drown our govt. in a bathtub.
Money talks, duty walks.
Can you hear the "Glug, glug, glug"?

[Fumesucker]

12. What's good for Monsanto is good for America..

/Obama Administration

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. And Congress and Republicans

its not just one party.

[Fumesucker]

14. Failure is an orphan..

While success has a thousand fathers.

[Trillo]

15. Lets speed up evolution some more.

At least 2,4D isn't an organic method tool. I'd guess we'll see 2,4 D resistance evolve in plants in 7-10 years, just as with BT (which was an organic tool). Perhaps the time window will be somewhat different. Then, all of this should ripple up the food chain, exerting its DNA effect without discrimination eventually upon all animals. My rough guess is 250-500 years before human animals DNA adapt.

[Odin2005]

16. The title of the article is BS and intended to create hysterical outrage.