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GM FOODS - JUST SAY NO [should say] the Surgeon
General
Its a fact that GM foods have not been properly
tested.
Animal Disease research &
experimentation in my understanding gradually moves up the
scale
of complexity, from hamsters to; pigs or
chimpanzees, the latter, being closer to human physiology.
We have heard that the world has been flooded with
untested GM product and that by now everyone has been exposed to it, but we have
not been flooded with empirical testing results on higher mammals.
'Big deal we hear - the world is full of unsafe
things to eat - whats the difference etc'
well the GM food is either safe or unsafe and we
really don't know which - but if the public can legitimately sue for
carcinogenic PASSIVE SMOKING of cigarette toxins - it LOGICALLY follows that the
public should also have the legal right to SUE for passive INGESTION of
hazardous metabolites.
Cigarette smokers have a choice whether or not they
want to heighten their risk of disease, and passive smoking is liable under
law.
WHY CAN'T THE CONSUMERS OF GM FOODS HAVE THE SAME
LEGAL PRIVELEGE
the right to choose what strength of toxic air we
breathe is open to the passive smoker - people may insanely argue that the air
is full of carfumes and factory fallout anyway - why not just breathe the
cigarette smoke and shut up - but that is a careless and irresponsible argument
- for we MUST be free to choose and if we cannot we MUST be free to
sue. but people ARE INSANELY arguing that we should not care less about the
levels of toxins in our foods - why should we not have the same right
to self regulate toxic food as we have to self regulate toxic
air.
Noise pollution for instance - well its noisy all
day what does it matter a few more decibels - well there are regulations and
measurements laid down for the regulation of audio noise - why not the same kind
of legislation for the control of GM levels in our diet - why are we not
being allowed to regulate - our own wellbeing.
The same old nihilist/genocidal argument is that we
are all polluted anyway - what does some more matter - BUT we know that it does
- toxin levels are usually cumulative, our bodies are full of DDT and agent
orange which still circulates the global ecosystem and food chains - there are
literally thousands of additives resident in our body fats and fluid - all have
degrees of synergistic or antagonistic reactivity,
fat people we know are more prone to cancer, and
any mortuary worker today relates how well preserved and long lasting the
corpses are.
Is it not our duty to discover as much information
as possible about ALL the things that we eat or breathe or drink. ? for if we
don't we all run the risk of dying younger than we would want.
Why should someone smugly tell us that our concerns
about the realities of premature death are unimportant - but that IS what
is happening.
Demand Labelling, Higher mammal test results over a
5-10 year trial for GM FOODS and also make it your PRIORITY to demand Regulation
and Legislation to leish the runaway Biotech Industries who are currently
stampeding towards TOTAL GENETIC FRANCHISE of Global Biodiversity - Yes They can
fix and bioengineer their way out of any biological catastrophe - but it is our
poisoned asses that will have to pay dearly for it.
At the moment Governments do not have enough data
to present an INFORMED health warning to their voters and taxpayers - its high
time they lifted their noses from the Biotech trough and gave us ALL some
answers.
andrew hennessey
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