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eridani

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Sat Dec 20, 2014, 07:19 PM Dec 2014

Why Non-Industry GMO Studies Never Get Off the Ground

http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/12/02/biotechs-stranglehold-non-industry-gmo-studies-never-get-ground/

What would you do if you were well aware of GMO risks and wanted to tell the world only to be chastised? This is what happens all too often to long-time organic farmers, soil scientists, and other agricultural experts who see big, flashing warning signs when it comes to biotech’s warped technology.

Howard Vlieger, a third-generation farmer and soil scientists since the 1980s was once told:

““It would be very unhealthy for the career of any researcher to get involved with any research that would shed negative light on a GM crop of glyphosate.”


It is a rare individual with nerves of steel that will refute Monsanto’s claims that ‘GMOs are safe,’ or like Tyrone Hayes, announce that Syngenta’s chemicals are exceptionally harmful.

Vlieger has worked with some of the best scientists in the world studying GMO seed and chemical-based farming, and he was also a co-author of the double-blind, peer-reviewed GMO Pig Study conducted by Dr. Judy Carman, yet he and others have been silenced repeatedly by biotech interest when they try to educate the world about their findings.
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Why Non-Industry GMO Studies Never Get Off the Ground (Original Post) eridani Dec 2014 OP
The politicalization of science should be a punishable crime. Rat bastards. nt 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #1
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