You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!

[babsbunny]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810.html


Jeffrey Smith


The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Here's the back story.

When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply -- the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods -- secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried "serious health hazards," and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.

[Buzz Clik]

1. "The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history.."

Jeebus. Get the tinfoil.

[rhett o rick]

3. So you have counter information? nt

[Buzz Clik]

7. Yeah. Typhoid Mary.

:eyes:

[rhett o rick]

25. Touche. Excuse my French. nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

31. Stalin starved to death millions of Ukranians during the 1930's

[mzteris]

2. not of a one of those "secret documents"

are recent. The newest one is 1997, most are from 1991-3.

[mimitabby]

4. is he a Russian Czar?

[EmilyAnne]

9. Even more astounding, he's a Communist Russian Czar from the USSR. Like a brand new species! nt

[berni_mccoy]

5. This is an old story that has been hashed out over and over again here.

[MisterP]

6. hope this doesn't mean that the ACSH will have the US Marshals at their fingertips, or something

they already have PIs/thugs

[MineralMan]

8. Everyone put on your aluminum foil hats.....

Conspiracy theorist in the house...

Can you document a single, verifiable case where a GM food has caused an illness in a human being? If you cannot, then this is utter nonsense. The key word is "verifiable." Anecdotes from food wackist sites do not count.

[Buzz Clik]

11. +1

[ima_sinnic]

17. "illness in a human being" is not the only consideration--do they disrupt ecological processes?

Deaths of animal species has repercussions for the planet, up and down the food chain and in the balance of nature.

[damntexdem]

19. Get your elements right: aluminum vs. tin, indeed!

Can you document a single, verifiable case where an aluminum foil hat has blocked the brainwashing waves 'they' send out? No? Thought so! At least those of us who faithfully wear TIN foil hats know better.

;-)

[MineralMan]

28. That must be my problem. The alien brainwaves keep

getting through. Now I have to look for a source for real tinfoil.

[Orrex]

29. GM foods have been linked to billions of deaths

We humans have been GMing food for 10,000 years, ever since we graduated from pure foraging to selective agriculture. And almost everyone who's died in the past 10 millennia ate at least some food modified in that way.

Ergo, GM foods are the cause.



It's obvious, really.

[Buzz Clik]

10. Just so everybody knows -- this thread is about genetically modified crops.

Not any diseases -- just the fear of some unknown disease that has not even occurred. Rank, paranoid speculation.


fyi..

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. Paranoid speculation, my ass

Believe me, I personally know better. That mutant MonSatan Franken Corn causes some horrendous allergies.

[MineralMan]

15. So can normal, non-modified foods. Peanut allergies are

rampant. Shellfish allergies, too. Allergies occur from regular, natural substances all the time. Not evidence of anything.

[Buzz Clik]

21. Allergies? THAT'S the disease we're supposed to be cowering over?

gawd.

[cali]

12. one of the worst articles I"ve ever read. the author

is presenting comments from unknown scientists as evidence. It is not.

This may be a horrible appointment but for not for the wacko reasons the author gives.

[MineralMan]

14. Uh, if those are 'secret' documents, how do you know about them?

Where can I find them? Who produced them.

Generic Conspiracy Rant (May be used for any conspiracy)

Why, oh, why won't the government tell us the truth about these things? It's all in their "secret documents," you know. No, I haven't seen those documents. They're "secret," duh...but I've read lots about them when I was doing my research. What? Oh, I've been researching this for years on the internets. That's where the truth is. The government won't tell you anything, you know. They have it in for us.

[Arkana]

16. You think THAT'S a conspiracy? Well let me tell you about the Lucky Charms conspiracy.

Ever had a bowl of Lucky Charms? Well next time, take a closer look at the bowl. Notice how all the marshmallow shapes are fun and happy, like rainbows, stars, balloons, pots of gold...eh?

Now look at the cereal pieces. Chief among them are suspiciously Christian cross-shaped pieces and fish-like shapes--shapes that look a LOT like the "icthos" symbol the Greeks used to draw over their doors to signify they were Christians so the Romans wouldn't slaughter them.

So what's that mean? Well, I'll TELL YOU WHAT IT FUCKING MEANS!

Lucky Charms cereal is an elaborate conspiracy, man. A conspiracy cooked up by Christian leaders, Catholic and Protestant, to convert innocent young kids to Christianity. It signifies the choice--the choice between the cereal pieces, which are crunchy and kinda tasteless but have all the nutrients (symbolizing the sacrifices one must make to become closer to God as a Christian), and the marshmallow pieces, which represent Satanism--sure, they LOOK sugary and fun and tasty, but they'll rot your teeth and make you fat.

Now you'll have to excuse me. You're the devil and you just made me pee my pants.

[Tesha]

24. The REAL conspiracy is that someone's always after me Lucky Charms!

(With apologies to the Mike Myers and the other authors of Austin Powers.)

[MineralMan]

32. Freaking leprechauns!

[peekaloo]

30. they're magically deceptive!

:9

[Odin2005]

18. Technophobic scaremongering.

[Beer on a stick]

20. Yet more proof that we're simply in the third term of GWB

[cali]

22. oh, please, not that limp and fallacious flag again.

[Beer on a stick]

23. No closing of Gitmo, renewal of presidential emergency powers.....

No torture prosecutions, no restoration of Habeas Corpus, no overturning of outrageous Bush executive orders, etc....

Need I go on?

[MineralMan]

34. No...we'd rather you didn't go on.

We've read that already...

[Lagomorph]

26. In the future there will be...

...fewer, but more resilient, Americans.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. Name one illness or death he's responsible for.

[mizz zen]

33. Isn't it appointing 'whom'?

I am trying to get my whos and whoms straight...:o