ARTICLE FROM CENTER FOR FOOD
SAFETY TO SEC OF AG VILSACK
from Andrew Kimbrell organization

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Open-Letter-CFS...




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Andrew Kimbrell article
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February 2, 2011
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ARTICLE FROM CENTER FOR FOOD
SAFETY TO SEC OF AG VILSACK
from Andrew Kimbrell organization

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Open-Letter-CFS...



Natural Food Merchandiser
NFM ON GMO ALFALFA

Natural products retailers reel from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent decision to allow genetically modified alfalfa.


http://newhope360.com/retailers-fear-gmo-alfalfa-deregulation-will-hamper-abi...


9:35 pm
February 2, 2011


VIDEOS from THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO

This video was posted two years ago and is close to 1 hour and 49 minutes in length. I haven't watched it yet but would like to when I have the time. The description of it is:
"On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years."
http://www.facebook.com/l/62974;video.google.com/videoplay?docid=626208340750...


Lenore




9:27 pm
February 2, 2011

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/heavyuse32905.cfm


Sea-Urchin Models
He is joined in his conclusions by Robert Belle, from the National Center for Social Research (CNRS) biological station in Roscoff (Finistere), whose team has been studying the impact of glyphosate formulations on sea-urchin cells for several years. This recognized model for the study of early stages of cancer genesis earned Tim Hunt the 2001 Nobel Prize in medicine. In 2002, the Finisterian team had shown that Roundup acted on one of the key stages of cellular division.
"This deregulation can lead to cancer," warns Robert Belle, who, to make himself understood, insists on summarizing the mechanisms of cancer genesis: during the division of a cell into two daughter cells, the two copies of genetic inheritance, in the form of DNA, may give rise to very numerous errors, up to 50,000 per cell. That's why repair mechanisms or natural cell death (apoptosis) are automatically set in motion. However, it happens that a cell escapes these alternatives (death or repair) and can perpetuate itself in an unstable form, potentially cancerous over the long term.
The Breton team has recently demonstrated (Toxicological Science, December
2004) that a "control point" for DNA damage was affected by Roundup, while glyphosate alone had no effect. "We have shown that it's a definite risk factor, but we have not evaluated the number of cancers potentially induced, nor the time frame within which they would declare themselves," the researcher acknowledges. A sprayed droplet could affect thousands of cells. On the other hand, "the concentration in water and fruits is lower, which is rather reassuring."
For the researcher, it's not necessarily a matter of banning the product - "Now it's for the public authorities to evaluate the benefits and the risks"
- but it is important that users take every possible precaution, for themselves as well as for the public. "I've seen people in their underwear spray several square meters in a playground," he exclaimed, revolted.
"Such in vitro studies are not adequate for deducing the effects on people," however, insists Sophie Gallotti, coordinator of studies on contaminants at the Agence francaise pour la swcurite sanitaire des aliments (Afssa) [French Agency for Food Health Security]. The same sentiment is expressed by Remi Maximilien, toxicological expert at Afssa, for whom the sea-urchin experiment "shows a potential mechanism for cancer genesis that remains to be proved in human beings."

 

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