horrible news: Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control

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http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=6628


Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite 'the best practices '(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.

$2 million US dollar verdict against Bayer confirms company's liability for an uncontrollable technology

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A report prepared for Greenpeace International concluded that the total costs incurred throughout the world as a result of the contamination are estimated to range from $741 million to $1.285 billion US dollars.(2) The verdict indicates that Bayer is liable for what could turn out to be a large proportion of these costs, as it awards damages in the first two of more than 1,000 currently pending lawsuits. The decision must be used to support all claims for losses incurred by other US farmers whose crops have suffered from GE contamination.

(1) Bayers Defense lawyer, Mark Ferguson as reported in Harris, A. 2009.
Bayer Blamed at Trial for Crops 'Contaminated' by Modified Rice. Bloomberg News 4th November 2009, available at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aT...

(2) E.N. Blue (2007) Risky Business. Economic and regulatory impacts from the unintended release of genetically engineered rice varieties into the rice merchandising system of the US. Report prepared for Greenpeace International, available online at http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press....
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may Bayers barons fall down and never get up

wishing the humans of the world well

however wishing won't do jack shit. action now, is what we need.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. So as far as banning goes, the train's left the station, too late?

[Richard D]

2. Oh why didn't I see this one coming?

[jaksavage]

4. How could we know?

sarcasm.

[Delphinus]

3. So,

are they going to stop?

[jaksavage]

5. Yea, right. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. As far as movies are concerned, this plot is overdone.

We knew it was going to happen. We told them it was going to happen. But they didn't listen.

[surrealAmerican]

16. They knew this would happen.

They just figured they could make enough in profits to offset any losses when it did happen. That's just the way they do business.

[Blackhatjack]

7. This is what you get when private companies do all the research for government approval of product

The idea that an independent review by government would be done before genetically modified products are approved for the marketplace is minimal regulation which these private companies cannnot abide in their immediate grab for profits.

In some cases, the private company is obligated to do followup studies AFTER the product hits the marketplace --but once those profits come rolling in they just never get around to doing them and reporting back to the regulating agency.

[jgraz]

8. Pardon me while I die of not-surprise.

:eyes:

[GodlessBiker]

9. Chaos theory predicted that you can't prevent the spread of those modified crops.

Life will find a way.

[SpiralHawk]

13. ...death will find a way

The mutant crapola food the big corps are occultly foisting upon the world will in time -- I prophesy -- cause massive health problems ...

and not just the health of the land and the plants, but the health of the people who unknowingly were fed the mutant foods produced for profit...

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Reports surfacing about liver/kidneys and HFCS.

Which has also been shown to raise blood pressure, of all things.

[SpiralHawk]

17. Morgellons Disease is another HUGE question - in the GMO mutant food equation

Note that term well: Morgellons Disease.

It may prove to be a major marker of the corporate-mutant future. We shall see...

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Actually have heard of Morgellons, but not aware of GMO link.

Would love to see some links tying them together ( that sounded like a bad pun, wasn't meant to be)

[Jester Messiah]

10. One thing life does really well is to survive.

Organisms evolved with the goal of keeping the genome alive. It was hubris to think that mankind could keep the nature of Life Itself bottled up for profit.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. Way to fucking go!

Yay for technology, coupled with the morally corrupt big business community. "We need LESS GOVERNMENT in our lives!!!"
:sarcasm:

[Goldstein1984]

12. You mean I wasn't just paranoid?

Everyone here has said it in one way or another. Not a surprise. Out-of-control corporations playing god. Predictable.

When do we get to read about out-of-control GMO viruses, bacteria and protozoan parasites? Lookin' forward to that big day!

[Sanity Claws]

14. Any difference between genetically engineered and genetically modified?

I didn't realize Bayer was into GE. I always associated it with Monsanto.
Monsanto has sued farmers for IP theft, when its seeds ended up in its farms. It's about time the GMO corporation was held liable for letting its seed spread.