Hillary Clinton at BIO Hillary Clinton Cheers Biotechers, Backing GMOs and Federal Help “I stand in favor of using seeds and products that have a proven track record,” she said, citing drought-resistant seeds she backed as secretary of state. “There’s a big gap between the facts and what the perceptions are.”
Date: 6/27/2014 6:49:49 AM ( 10 y ago)
Hillary Clinton at BIO
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http://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2014/06/25/hillary-clinton-cheers-biotechers-backs-gmos-and-federal-help/
Updated at 6:10 p.m. June 25, 2014
It was red meat for the biotech base. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a 65-minute appearance at the BIO International Convention on Wednesday, voiced support for genetically modified organisms and possible federal subsidies to keep U.S. companies from leaving for tax havens abroad.
Hillary Clinton speaks at BIO International Convention in San Diego. Photo by Chris Stone
Hillary Clinton speaks at BIO International Convention in San Diego.
Clinton told thousands at the San Diego Convention Center she understood what stage partner Jim Greenwood, the BIO CEO, called the “high-risk, high-reward” nature of the industry.
“Maybe there’s a way of getting a representative group of actors at the table” to discuss how the federal government could help biotechs with “insurance against risk,” she said.
Without such subsidies, she said, “this is going to be an increasing challenge. … I think we should have that kind of intensive discussion.”
She said the debate about GMOs might be turned toward the biotech side if the benefits were better explained, noting that the “Frankensteinish” depictions could be fought with more positive spin.
Gov. Jerry Brown welcomed the biotech convention with a pitch for California. Photo by Chris Stone
Gov. Jerry Brown welcomed the biotech convention with a pitch for California. Photo by Chris Stone
“I stand in favor of using seeds and products that have a proven track record,” she said, citing drought-resistant seeds she backed as secretary of state. “There’s a big gap between the facts and what the perceptions are.”
This is what I see needed to return to Nature's Original Technology.
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HELPING UNCLE SAM MARRY "ANTI" GMO
Will you help build our grassroots movement so that Uncle Sam gives up his unholy relationship with Biotech GMO in the farm bed and gets married to "Anti" (Auntie) GMO. The invitation to the wedding goes out to all who get engaged growing Heirloom seeds and ancient grain. The wedding date is in your hands! Being a matchmaker for this wedding is a job that belongs to all gardeners who want to fulfill the vision of the Founding Gardener Presidents of America the Beautiful. Thousands of new Plant Parents are needed!
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=2181365
LINKS
http://www.localforage.com/local_forage/2008/02/an-open-letter.html
4:48 am
June 27,2014
When Ortiz Monasterio saw that Dr. Chapela was not going to retract the Nature piece, he moved on the media. Knowing that Nature would cancel an article if its contents were leaked to the press prior to publication, he released the study to sellect members of the media. "Actually, this backfired on them. I was in Paris and Le Monde ran the story on the front page right below the bombings in Afghanistan. Nature was already getting cold feet because of industry pressures and told us our paper was not interesting to a general audience, but now the Le Monde story made it interesting again."
The publication in November 2001 triggered the anticipated bombshell. The article seemed to suggest that wind-blown GMOs had been the vector of contamination in Calpulapan — the industry has always insisted that such a spread could not occur. Moreover, the laboratory studies indicated that the altered genes were jumping around within the genome of the plant and could even spread to other species. The implications were frightening. Thousands of years of maize cultivation and millions of years of biological history would be lost. Hundreds of native species were at risk of homogenization. Biodiversity was threatened by the gm corn. In its stead would come seed dependency with biotech titans like Novartis, Monsanto, Dow, and Dupont controlling the Mexican market.
http://www.theava.com/04/0218-chapela.html
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/bnc/quist-chapela2001.pdf
http://millsriverliberal.blogspot.com/2008/12/monsanto-and-their-partner-us.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-gerendasy/seeds-of-life-hybrids-and_b_495263.html
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