Hello Kevin, Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 6:52:17 AM, you wrote:
KN> I don't like extreme responses to anything unless hard evidence justifies KN> it. Are you sure ALL GM foods are dangerous? KN> Kevin Nolan KN> ----- Original Message ----- KN> From: "John Draper" <jdr...@inav.net> KN> To: "silver-list" <silver-list@eskimo.com> KN> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:07 AM Subject: CS>>GMO ACTION ALERTS >> TWO GENETIC ENGINEERING ACTION ALERTS >> >> (1) BIO GOES TO WASHINGTON: TAKE ACTION TODAY >> >> The Biotech Industry Organization (BIO), composed of Monsanto, Aventis, >> Dupont, and other biotech corporations, will meet with House and Senate >> representatives next week in Washington, D.C., to press an agenda of >> >> * more genetically engineered crops, >> * no mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food, and >> * government support for opening up foreign markets to these genetic >> experiments >> >> Please urge your Senators and Representative to resist these >> initiatives. Tell them that you don't want to eat genetically engineered >> food! >> >> Please take action now. To send an email directly to all your >> representatives, just visit >> >> http://www.truefoodnow.org/bin/takeaction.fpl?action_id=121 >> >> and follow the instructions there. Please be sure to provide your >> address and zip code so that you can receive a written response to your >> concerns. >> >> Thank you for your support. >> >> (2) CONTACT KRAFT FOODS TODAY! >> >> Kraft Foods is holding its annual shareholders meeting on Earth Day, >> Monday, April 22. In concert with that event, thousands of concerned >> Americans are contacting Kraft Foods to ask the company to remove >> genetically engineered ingredients from its product line. >> >> Please contact Kraft Foods immediately by telephone or email to support >> this initiative. >> >> BY PHONE: You can call Kraft at >> >> 1-888-560-4625 >> >> Simply tell the staff that you would like Kraft Foods to remove >> genetically engineered ingredients from its product line. >> >> BY EMAIL: You can email Kraft Foods directly by visiting >> >> http://www.thecampaign.org/kraft-earthday.htm >> >> and following the instructions there. >> >> Even if you have previously telephoned or sent an email message to Kraft >> Foods, please telephone again and/or send another email now. Kraft Foods >> needs to hear from concerned citizens more than once until the company >> agrees to remove genetically engineered ingredients from its product >> line. >> >> Thanks for your timely action. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. >> >> To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >> silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com >> with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. >> >> To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com >> Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >> The activities enganged in by the GMO companies should arouse suspicion in anyone. Reckless action by the USDA, in letting GMO crops be freely planted, without any research whatsoever, should also be looked at with a jaundiced eye. Ask yourself if you feel comfortable with these facts. Monsanto's "roundup ready" variety of crops are not what they seem. If, for some reason, the farmer decides there is no need to spray Roundup (say there aren't any weeds in the fields), the "roundup ready" crops will die. They have been so altered as to REQUIRE the use of an herbicide, specifically Roundup. How about this one. Just a handful of companies can control the food supply of the world, and the ultimate pricing of such. Using "terminator technology", all seeds produced by the plants are sterile. Therefore, the farmer MUST buy new seeds every year, at the going price, which is decided by a small handful of companies. Want to see the ultimate in greed and power? There it is. No one eats unless they can pay your price. Because there is no feasible way to contain pollen from these plants, some of these characteristics WILL find their way into surrounding, non-GMO plants as well. It is already happening. This doesn't even begin to address the issue of bT corn pollen, and how it is nearly wiping out the entire population of Monarch butterflies. While the GMO companies try and claim they are doing this for the betterment of mankind, I personally feel it is nothing more than another diabolical attempt to gain total power, as witnessed time and again throughout history. Personally, I support biodiversity. It is the way the world has always been. To allow companies, especially ones with a checkered past in the areas of human safety, to brew up the world's food supply in some lab, without ANYONE even keeping an eye on them, could be a bigger episode in human history than the early use of lead pipes to supply drinking water. -- Best regards, Solar
