Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Maize Fields

[TalkingDog]

http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/20110722/hungary-destroys-all-monsanto-gmo-maize-fields.htm

In an effort to rid the country of Monsanto's GMO products, Hungary has stepped up the pace. This looks like its going to be another slap in the face for Monsanto. A new regulation was introduced this March which stipulates that seeds are supposed to be checked for GMO before they are introduced to the market. Unfortunately, some GMO seeds made it to the farmers without them knowing it.

Almost 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds have been destroyed throughout Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar said. The GMO maize has been ploughed under, said Lajos Bognar, but pollen has not spread from the maize, he added.

Unlike several EU members, GMO seeds are banned in Hungary. The checks will continue despite the fact that seed traders are obliged to make sure that their products are GMO free, Bognar said.

During their investigation, controllers have found Pioneer and Monsanto products among the seeds planted.

[Hardrada]

1. Take that, Tom Vilsuck!

[bvar22]

35. The Monsanto Shill that Obama appointed to run the whole Dept of Ag:

President Obama gave Monsanto a seat in the White House.
The DLC New Team

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254886&kaid=86&subid=85

Google "Vilsack ties to Monsanto".




Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

[defendandprotect]

93. "Monsanto's FDA" -- long been said -- !!! Criminal --

and Obama put this guy in position -- glad we have all this CHANGE!!!

If I could only find it !!

[midnight]

2. Good for Hungary.....

[lovuian]

89. woohoo

:woohoo:

their looking out for their country and people

[Angry Dragon]

3. GOOD

[housewolf]

4. Well...

how 'bout that????

Wish we had strong anti-GMO laws like that.

Even as I am conflicted over the loss of crops vs the devastating food shortages some parts of the world are experiencing this year

[handmade34]

6. in the long run

a very good move

[malletgirl02]

10. I had the same thought

Couldn't the crops be harvested one last time to help with the famine and then destroyed?

[MrsBrady]

21. i have started a garden...

and am getting seeds from heirloom suppliers.

i'm not purchasing corn, but the heirloom suppliers are saying it's getting harder and harder
to find corn seed that is not gmo or has cross pollinated (even by accident) with gmo corn.

If you let it pollinate, it can cross with non gmo corn...and then you get gmo corn where you didn't want it.

[rms013]

41. Corn

Try this company.
http://rareseeds.com/petaluma-seed-bank

[anamandujano]

50. Thanks for the link.

nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

34. If you let them get past pollen release, that pollen travels

up to a few miles, and will pollinate crops in other fields.

Plowing it under as a green manure (such an apt term in this case) will feed the soil for the next crop.

That grain never would have made to the famine areas anyway. We have plenty of food worldwide, but unless someone can make a profit, it doesn't get where it needs to. :(

[xxqqqzme]

44. If you wait to harvest it is too late.

The corn tassels contain the pollen. The pollen falling on the corn silk produces the corn kernel on the cob. A breeze or soft wind carries that pollen who knows where? The loss of a harvested crop is lamentable but it does underscore the dedication to controlling the gmo.

[Exultant Democracy]

54. They would have polinated and cross contaminated the crops of an unknowable number of other farms

[trud]

40. loss of crops

You think there are poor crops now, wait until the GMO stuff kills of beneficials with its builtin herbicides, which it is already doing.
.

[sasquuatch55]

52. The honey bees are in dramatic decline!!! nt

nt

[truedelphi]

55. As far as food shortages - better to suffer a bit of it now, then

To find out some two or three years from now that ALL the corn, rice, wheat etc is so fusarium-contaminated that none can be eaten without disease, miscarriage and death resulting. (If Don huber,. PhD is to be believed.)

[HillbillyBob]

87. Monsantos food is poisoned..so is it food?

nt

[Marie Marie]

5. Good for them. Now why can't we do the same?

Oh right, big money and lobbyists. Who cares about doing what is right and good for the consumer?

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Even more to the point: Who cares what is right for the human race and our globe? nt

[lonestarnot]

7. good

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Excellent news

That's how to deal with uppity artificial persons.

[glinda]

11. Think of all the corn we grow and pretty much all GMO.

[Remember Me]

70. and all the corn products ... and potatoes too

Mr. RememberMe is a corn fanatic, but unless we get organic, he's the only one eating it. And I try very hard to stay away from all the non-organic corn products as well, and there are a gazillion of them when you start thinking of corn syrup, HFCS, cornmeal, and so forth.

[EC]

12. While out driving the other day

I drove past corn fields out in the county and the corn looked more like sugar cane to me. The fields looked like fields of cane.

I wondered if those were for fuel or if they were GMO crops.

[hootinholler]

59. That might have been sorgum

It kinda looks like a cross between cane and corn. A lot of people in Md plant it to feed deer and for silage.

-Hoot

[EC]

84. Thanks

it looked completely out of character for WI.

[csziggy]

13. For anyone who knows about GMO corn

Something that I had not realized until just now. It used to be that enough viable corn and oats survived our horses' digestive tract to spout in the pastures. The various birds and other creatures that hang out in our fields use the grain that those plants produced as extra forage.

I no longer see any sprouting plants, even though I am feeding the same brands and variety of feeds.

I know that some here have said that GMO seeds can be engineered so the grain produced is not viable. Could that be what I am seeing (or not as the case may be)?

[PDJane]

16. Yes, that's what you're seeing.

And the birds and small animals are the worse for it.

[csziggy]

19. As much as anything this pisses me off

We used to every few years buy a bag of rye or millet and broadcast seed areas where the ground cover was thin. We'd let the plants grow and drop the grain. What the critters didn't eat would grow a second crop and sometimes a third. Mostly we just wanted to keep the roots to hold the ground and encourage other plants to move in, but having the seeds add food for our wildlife was always a bonus.

If I have to buy seed every year, I am going to be pissed. And now I will be more worried about what that GMO grain is doing to the wildlife I like to encourage. Maybe they would be better off if I did NOT give them that stuff to browse on!

[plantwomyn]

62. Try crown vetch.

Expensive but invasive and self sows. Great for erosion control and wildlife habitat.

[csziggy]

67. Vetch is not good for pregnant mares if I remember correctly

And it is a very invasive species: http://www.in.gov/dnr/files/Crown_vetch.pdf

At least one of the vetches can cause problems such as early induction of labor, if I am right.

I might look at perennial peanut, that has been successfully grown around here. I stayed away when the first introduced it since one of my mares had a severe allergic reaction to a pad of perennial peanut hay - rash all over her body which turned into weeping pustules. Since most of the horses I have now are related to the same bloodlines, I have not been eager to try perennial peanut again. No telling which might be allergic also.

[HillbillyBob]

95. Our neighbor got some corn to put out for the deer..the deer won't

east monsanto corn..that stuff laid there and rotted..no critter would touch it..are animals smarter than we are?

[Laughing Mirror]

100. No critter would touch it

What does that tell you?

[LiberalEsto]

32. I wonder what it's doing to the horses

Will they be getting sick and dying from eating Roundup ready corn?

[csziggy]

68. My guys seem to be extremely healthy

So I'm not seeing any direct adverse effects on them. But I miss those volunteer grain plants and watching the birds fight over the seed heads!

[truedelphi]

56. Not only that, but your animals are absorbing a lot more formaldehyde

or some other aldehyde, as GM grains need RoundUp, and RoundUp would be in cake-form (solid, not sprayable) were it not having some type of aldehyde utilized in the initial formula.

This makes your critters far more vulnerable to nerve damage. And the University of Caen, France, researchers believe that there is ample evidence showing that all the RoundUp being used for GM foods will quickly affect the liver, kidneys and other organs of any who eat the products. (People as well as animals.)

Also Jim Martindale, who has been carefully evaluating this issue, he is now believing that any field where animals excrete the left over remnants of GM crops are forever altered in terms of having the same noxious effects on the field that RoundUp would have. So even people with "organically managed" pastures will see a decrease in the nutritional value of those pastures, simply from the GM-contaminated excretions of their animals on those fields.

[csziggy]

69. We do spread the horse manure on the pastures

But I have not noticed a shift in the general plant population, other than what I would expect since the pastures are not mowed as often as they used to be. (I blew out a knee using the clutch on the tractor and have been prohibited using it anymore. No one else will mow as often or as carefully as I used to. But then, their knees are intact, so I guess that is the trade off!)

The feeds we are using are produced by Purina and I would hope they would attempt to make them safe for the animals they are intended for. Most of the areas we direct seed with grain are places where we are keeping the horses off to allow the fields to recover.

[truedelphi]

78. Purina was one of the big time players in the melamine

Contamination of pet food.

Now that is the down side of dealing with Purina.

But the upside is that if they are still dealing with food made and processed in China, and are now being careful so no more melanine is allowed in the food, you can relax about this one thing: the Chinese government has not allowed Monsanto into that nation's farmlands yet.

So you might be okay until the day when China concedes to Monsanto (if it does.)

[csziggy]

82. I believe most livestock feed is still manufactured in the US

At regional mills. I know it used to be - they bought grain locally and mixed it to their standardized formula. The only difference was that if certain regions were low in trace minerals determined to be important, they would add those to the local mixes.

I have to go by the feed store this week, maybe I will ask if Purina still uses local mills.

[trud]

61. csziggy

I know that regular supermarket potatoes are treated to not sprout. If you want to plant from bought potatoes (unless you buy "seed potatoes"), you need to buy organic ones. It would not surprise me if something has been done to GMO seeds to make the next generation of seeds sterile.

[HillbillyBob]

88. They add 'suicide' genes so the seed is not viable..one has to wonderq

about the nutrient value or how its affected.

[KT2000]

14. At least someone on this earth

has a backbone. That is a relief.

[EFerrari]

15. Monsanto seed was burned in Haiti when it was taken there

after the earthquake.

[KT2000]

26. Wow! Great news

and the US keeps approving it.

[Peace Patriot]

30. I didn't know that! Thanks for the info! Go, Haiti! What a brave and far-thinking people! nt

[Muskypundit]

60. No, i think you confused that with the dominican republic. lol.

[KansDem]

72. I've always been fascinated by this photo

The trees have long been stripped from the hills on the Haitian side of the border with the still-forested Dominican Republic.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/15/forces-working-against-haiti

Article removed for copyright purposes, but still a powerful photo...

[CaptRandom]

17. How long till we discover they are making WMD's or is harboring OBL's heir? n/t

[Skip_In_Boulder]

18. We need to do the same here. n/t

[upi402]

20. Hats of to rational, non-corporatism. n/t

[bluesmail]

22. Best news of the day! N/T

[kestrel91316]

23. Good for Hungary.

[southerncrone]

24. Fabulous news!!!!!!

:thumbsup:

[Raksha]

25. I like the trend - great news!

[dipsydoodle]

27. K & R

.

[era veteran]

28. Evil Monsanto, k/r

[Judi Lynn]

29. Hope their act will catch on with other countries. They know it's the right thing to do. n/t

[Pooka Fey]

31. Bravo.

[GliderGuider]

33. On behalf of my partner, who is a Hungarian '56er and is implacably anti-GMO

BRAVO!!!!!!
:applause: :headbang: :applause: :bounce: :applause: :fistbump: :applause:
Hungary, :yourock:

[WinkyDink]

76. "a Hungarian '56er" : I bow down.

[City Lights]

36. Kudos to Hungry!

:toast:

[ellie]

37. Geez, when do we invade?

Good for Hungary!

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. I think we should invade Monsanto.

[dgibby]

39. Way to go, Hungary! n/t

[yellerpup]

42. Yay!

They will live longer and prosper.

[aquamarina]

43. :7 That's all.

:7

[RedCloud]

45. That makes me so Hungary for more such gummints.

[Liberal_in_LA]

46. k&r

[louis-t]

47. Go Hungary! They should sue Monsanto (as Monsanto does)

for infecting their country with GMO seeds.

[harun]

48. Pro-survival triumphs over pro-profit.

[femrap]

49. Kick ass, people of Hungary!!! nt

[LWolf]

51. Kudos to Hungary.

[dipsydoodle]

53. MON 810 is banned in six EU states.

EU officials plan to give the 27 member states the freedom to grow, restrict or ban genetically modified (GM) crops.
>
Currently a type of maize called MON 810 is the only GM food cultivated commercially in the EU.
>
Applications to cultivate new GM crops - also known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - have stalled in the EU because member states take different positions on their safety.
>
MON 810 is banned in six EU states - Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10614957

That's from a year ago and I don't what subsequently happened.

[savannah43]

57. Monsanto is just like George Bush--everything they touch

fails. As it should be!

[pam4water]

58. Sweet!

[polly7]

63. Woot! Woot!!!!

Take that! you freak-making destroyers of everything good!

[liberal4war]

64. America should be taking notes.

[valerief]

65. Hungary knows you can't rely on Monsanto when you're hungry. Bravo! nt

[ashling]

66. We are all Hungarians

otherwise the Monsanterrorists win :bounce:

[stockholmer]

71. Monsanto Sues Pennsylvania Farmer for Saving Seeds, plus more

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/monsanto-sues-pennsylvania-farmer-for-saving-seeds.html


WikiLeaks: U.S. Wanted Trade War Over GM Crops

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/04/world/main7211185.shtml


Hacker Group Anonymous Hacks Agricultural Firm Monsanto, Leaks 2,500 Employees Info

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/071311_Hacker_Group_Anonymous_Hacks_Agricultural_Firm_Monsanto_Leaks_2500_Employees_Info


Seeds of Deception (video)

http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/MediaCenter/Videos/index.cfm



Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22591179/Seeds-of-Destruction-The-Hidden-Agenda-of-Genetic-Manipulation

[harun]

85. Monsanto is going to let its patented genetics seep everywhere then sue humanity

for growing anything.

[joshcryer]

97. The patents expire in 2014, Monsanto can't fight it, the farmers are reluctant to...

...jump on board with their new "round" of patented seeds.

[harun]

101. What, the Roundup ones?

I am talking about the genetic sequencing ones which they get news one all the time.

[joshcryer]

96. This is backfiring on them now because farmers are refusing to take their 2.0 patented seeds.

The old seeds are nearing the end of their patents (if not expired) so the farmers will use them without the seeds.

Unfortunately industrial geoagriculture is impossible without pesticides, and the plants were genetically engineered to be resistant to the pesticides (no real fundamental genetic nutrition was added, it's all about the pesticides).

[Tuesday Afternoon]

73. K&R and bkmrkd

thanks for posting.

[WinkyDink]

74. Monsanto will surely sue via the EU.

[LetTimmySmoke]

75. Go Hungary!

[ensho]

77. good

nt

[krabigirl]

79. good for them!

[MasonJar]

80. Kudos to Hungary

[ThoughtCriminal]

81. I hope they didn't use "Roundup" (tm) - nm

[RoccoR5955]

83. About freakin' time!

No need for this GMO garbage in the ecosystem. Just a way for Monsanto to line their coffers, while poisoning the environment.

[potone]

86. Bravo, Hungary!

I wish we'd do that. I won't eat corn anymore because I don't trust any of it. I love corn and I miss it!

[Name removed]

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[InvisibleTouch]

91. Hurray!! Go Hungary!

And I hope every other country in the world follows!

[defendandprotect]

92. Applause for common sense of Hungary -- !!! Wish we had some -- !!

Monsanto's FDA -- still standing?

[Zorra]

94. Wow. How progressive. Very cool. nt

[Mimosa]

98. One of the best threads ever.

But for Wikileaks we'd never have known about the Gov's collaboration with Monsanto to try to force EU to accept the monster seeds.

[JohnyCanuck]

99. My guess why this happened........

The appropriate regulatory bodies in Hungary are not staffed by Monsanto's corporate whores as is the FDA in the US, for example.

Revolving Doors

But What was going on behind the scenes? "The FDA's pro-rBGH activities make more sense in light of conflicts of interest between the FDA and the Monsanto corporation. Michael R. Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for policy, wrote the FDA's rBGH labelling guidelines. The guidelines, announced in February 1994, virtually prohibited dairy corporations from making any real distinction between products produced with and without rBGH. To keep rBGH-milk from being "stigmatized" in the marketplace, the FDA announced that labels on non-rBGH products must state that there is no difference between rBGH and the naturally occurring hormone. In March 1994, Taylor was publicly exposed as a former lawyer for the Monsanto corporation for seven years. While working for Monsanto, Taylor had prepared a memo for the company as to whether or not it would be constitutional for states to erect labelling laws concerning rBGH dairy products. In other words. Taylor helped Monsanto figure out whether or not the corporation could sue states or companies that wanted to tell the public that their products were free of Monsanto's drug" <16>. Rachel's Hazardous Waste News adds a few details, "It is no accident that the FDA and Monsanto are speaking with one voice on this issue. The FDA official responsible for the agency's labeling policy, Michael R. Taylor, is a former partner of King & Spaulding, the Washington, D.C. law firm that has brought the lawsuits on behalf of Monsanto.... In 1984 he joined King & Spaulding and remained there until 1991; during that time the law firm represented Monsanto while the company was seeking FDA approval of rBGH.... Taylor signed the FEDERAL REGISTER notice warning grocery stores not to label milk as free of rBGH, thus giving Monsanto a powerful boost in its fight to prevent consumers from knowing whether rBGH produced their milk" <17>.

"Taylor did not simply fill a vacant position at the agency", says Jeffrey M. Smith in his book Seeds of Deception, "In 1991 the FDA created a new position for him: Deputy Commissioner for Policy. He instantly became the FDA official with the greatest influence on GM food regulation, overseeing the development of government policy. According to public interest attorney Steven Druker, who has studied the FDA's internal files, 'During Mr. Taylor's tenure as Deputy Commissioner, references to the unintended negative effects of bioengineering were progressively deleted from drafts of the policy statement (over the protests of agency scientists (1)), and a final statement was issued claiming (a) that foods are no riskier than others and (b) that the agency has no information to the contrary" <18> <19>. After his stint at the FDA Taylor went back to work as Monsanto's vice-president for public policy <20>.

In disappointing news however, Taylor was again appointed to the FDA, this time for the Obama administration in July of 2009 as an "Advisor to FDA Commissioner" as a "food safety expert" <21>. His new duties include, "Assess current food program challenges and opportunities", "Identify capacity needs and regulatory priorities" and "Plan implementation of new food safety legislation".

Another example of the Government-industry revolving door is Margaret Miller, "In order for the FDA to determine if Monsanto's growth hormones were safe or not, Monsanto was required to submit a scientific report on that topic. Margaret Miller, one of Monsanto's researchers put the report together. Shortly before the report submission, Miller left Monsanto and was hired by the FDA . Her first job for the FDA was to determine whether or not to approve the report she wrote for Monsanto. In short, Monsanto approved its own report. Assisting Miller was another former Monsanto researcher, Susan Sechen" <22>. Here <23> you can read Robert Cohen's testimony before FDA on the subject of rBGH including the disclosure that, while at the FDA and in response to increasing sickness in cows on the stuff, Miller increased the amount of antibiotics that farmers can legally give cows by 100 times. See also <24>. "Remarkably the GAO determined in a 1994 investigation that these officials' former association with the Monsanto corporation did not pose a conflict of interest. But for those concerned about the health and environmental hazards of genetic engineering, the revolving door between the biotechnology industry and federal regulating agencies is a serious cause for concern" <25>.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Labeling_Issues%2C_Revolving_Doors%2C_rBGH%2C_Bribery_and_Monsanto