GMOs have been around for thirty years, but recently a new
website gained popularity and public scientist support that auspiciously
fostered connections between academics at well-known US universities and
agri-chemical corporations that manufacture, distribute, advertise and push
GMO, genetically modified organisms on Americans. Most Americans, in fact over
90%, want labels on their food in order to know if the ingredients have been
genetically modified or not. This is of great concern to humans that suspect
that eating chemical pesticides could cause cancer, Alzheimer's,
lowered immunity, suppressed brain function, disrupted central nervous system
functioning, and a host of other chronic-care, yet preventable diseases and
disorders. Genetically modified organisms serving as pesticides is new to
the world, as of just thirty years ago, when agri-chemical companies first
discovered how to insert pesticide genes into the seedlings of corn and soy
without killing them. The website gmoanswers.com is ironically not scientific
at all, but rather a response to this valid, monumental concern that health
enthusiasts have about this new technology that is experimental and infantile
in it's depth of true research regarding safety, efficacy, and resistance to
bugs, weeds and crop disease.
The top questions posed and answered by the
biotechnology constructed Q&A (home page) address several concerns they
have most likely received from skeptics and scientific or
holistic person's questioning their tactics and less-than-thorough science
proof. Why would anyone want to eat a product that contains pesticide on the
inside and outside when organic foods have been proven safe for thousands of
years? (1)
Do people believe that the biotechnology, chem-ag firms will
take over all food and seeds and make everything genetically modified, thus
controlling all the seeds of the world? How can we sustain our soil, animals
and humans if we are inserting the genes of toxic, dangerous pesticides into
the food and then spraying those fruits and vegetables with more toxic
herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, algaecide, and foreign bacteria or virus
that otherwise would not normally or naturally enter our food? How can that be
called sustainable farming practice?
And finally, what is the true difference in cost, when true
yield is examined, and the healthcare costs for those who suffer from GMO
toxicity and exposure to these chemicals on the farms and fields of America
Dirty NY Public Relations firm feeds answers to
GMOAnswers.com via public scientists and academics
Ketchum PR group and "Frankenfoods" Monsanto
organize (recruit) dozens of "public scientists" from universities
around the country and journalistic hacks (shills) who reiterate prolific-sounding
industry slogans and rhetoric (4) that
have no scientific basis in order to brainwash the public and government
officials alike into accepting this new, dangerous form of
agriculture–genetically modified organisms functioning as pesticides and
combined with synthetic, chemical insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, and
then inserted into the genetic makeup of our food. Here's the header at the top
of the home page on gmoanswers.com:
"More than 100 experts have contributed to this site
including independent experts in leading academic institutions, industry groups
and representatives from member companies."
More than a few of those "experts"
have been caught recently in a dirty public relations game (5)
of promoting propaganda for money and luxurious favors. The US Right to
Know group used the FOIA - Freedom of Information Act, to request email
correspondence that reveals a whole hidden inner-network of biotechnology
companies paying off university scientists and public scientists to say exactly
what industry hacks have written in their own literature about the so-called
safety, sustainability, drought-resistant miracles they've somehow created with
chemical pesticides inserted into seeds.
Epitomes of the Corporate Shills
Among the top creators, website launchers and "experts"
answering questions at GMOAnswers.com are the following:
Georgina
Gustin, Staff Writer, CQ RoleCall and Dwell Media -
Launched
gmoanswers.com; Covers Monsanto and most other biotech propaganda
Jenny Hopkinson, Agriculture and Food
Policy Issues Reporter, Politico -
Top GMOAnswers specialist; vies for deregulation
of biotechnology
Dr. Kevin M. Folta, Chairman and Associate Professor, University
of Florida
Horticultural Sciences Dept., Plant Innovation Program &
Molecular Biology
GMOAnswers specialist
and Monsanto's favorite of the whole "enlisted" response
team.
Linguistics tricks and
illegal "paid-for" propaganda
Most of the answers, language and diction found on GMOAnswers.com
is directly derived from the agrichemical industry hacks' writing themselves,
and those same writers use many words that have no business anywhere in the
biotech "manuals" or "guides" for agriculture, such as the
word sustainable. Huge corporations implement dirty tricks and industry lingo
that's designed to fool authorities, like the
USDA, and the public, into believing their methods and products are
somehow tested for safety. True independent experts do not accept gifts and
bribes from corporations, especially not to say and write what the corporations
want them to say and write. This is fraud and would be illegal, not to mention
unethical. Public scientists, reporters and journalists alike are
supposed to report the truth as best they can and let the public be the final
decider on the facts and/or theories with scientific evidence that at least
support it. (6)
These so-called experts are far from independent, as
revealed by the US Right to Know group (USRTK)
through FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests for hundreds
(possibly thousands) of emails and documents sent back and forth from public
scientists to PR firms to Monsanto and other Biotech firm representatives.T
This collusion of industries between agricultural biotechnology and
academics that study science and communication is an atrocity that must
be revealed to all consumers, for their safety and ingredient awareness
regarding every product they purchase and consume. (7)
Because the website GMOAnswers is funded by the industry
giants, including Monsanto, DuPont, BASF, Bayer and Syngenta, there is much
money to be "thrown around" to inspire public scientists and
academics to regurgitate
industry lies
without any scientific proof, simply because they enjoy science and enjoy the
cash and gift payoffs.
On the "Studies and
Articles" page of gmoanswers.com, you will see the following quote:
"The viewpoints expressed by our contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent those of the Council for Biotechnology Information."
Notice the linguistics and context they deliver when they tell you that the viewpoints "do not necessarily represent" those of CBI. The site group has said themselves, as uncovered in emails, that their experts are a "straight-up marketing tool to spin GMOs in a positive light." So they are spin doctors, more-or-less who are showered with extravagant gifts to take something bad and make it sound good, but in this case, it's not some gimmick or cheap product for sale on late night television, but rather 90% of America's staple crop (corn, soy, canola, cottonseed, alfalfa, sugar beets) converted into food that contains chemical pesticides in their genetic makeup. These public scientists, public speakers and journalists lie through their teeth in order to receive grants that, as Monsanto reps write, "may be used at your discretion in support of your research and outreach projects."
Public Scientists Regurgitate
Industry Lies Verbatim
Dr. Folta of University of Florida
has sworn up and down for years that he has no financial ties to Monsanto and
would never accept money (personal compensation) from them, that he is not a
shill or a huckster, although now it is proven that he has done exactly that–accepted bribes–and
is exactly that–a shill for Monsanto (8).
He has outright offered a "solid return" on Monsanto's investment in
him, and he has outright offered to "write anything" they want him to
write. This is not a public scientist. This is a man who loves science and
loves making easy money for regurgitating industry-fabricated lies about GMOs
and theories and products in use right now that neither he nor the corporation
ever tested for safety regarding the environment, farm animals, crops or
humans who consume them.
Nobody tests GMO for safety
because no regulatory agency opposes GMO
The biotech industry can hire
anyone they want to for attesting to their rogue and reckless technologies,
including public relations firms that run their websites, because the scripted
responses will never be held to the test of science, at least not by the US
government or the regulatory agencies like the FDA, USDA,
CDC or the EPA, that fully support GMO and marketing it all to Americans with
no labels or warnings whatsoever. The PR firm Ketchum runs GMOAnswers.com. "Public
Scientist" Kevin Folta is one of the most frequent contributors to the
website and has been exposed for cutting and pasting exact scripted answers to
the site that "Frankenfoods" Monsanto sent him, even though they told
him to make his responses authentically his own. After doing this, Folta could
not remember later whether he "used them, modified them or what" - - per
the emails revealed by USRTK.
Private sector scientists are being revealed as charlatans lately, and now the health enthusiasts across the world that suspected this deep-seeded brain-washing and blatant miseducation by the biotech industry are proven right. This strengthens the fight for organic food that is free of chemical pesticides and genetically modified and mutated organisms that cause cancer, Alzheimer's and other preventable diseases. This strengthens the organic, clean food movement and the dire need for consumers to read the labels of all products to distinguish these lethal food chemicals the biotech industry has manipulated and modified to seem normal and beneficial in the eyes of millions of unknowing, unsuspecting chemical-food victims.
These FOIA revelations are huge
but are only the tip of the iceberg, revealing a long arduous battle for human
rights, ethics in agriculture, MORE stringent regulations, checks and balances,
and thorough investigations of any PUBLIC SCIENTISTS or
JOURNALISTS who defend or apologize for GMO. The public now
knows, with proof, that they recruit and enlist these plant scientists to be shills
for their "toughest" GMO questions and answers.
The Council for Biotechnology
Information (CBI), which funds GMO Answers, includes most if
not all the major biotechnology companies and corporations, who know the value
of fooling millions of people into believing their agricultural practices are
sustainable. Much like the Genetic Literacy Project,
run by the most notorious shill, Jon
Entine, former writer for Forbes.com,
GMO Answers is a front for biotech propaganda meant to derail any skeptics of
GMO and further convolute the gray area where GMO has not proven their own
safety nor proven their own massively toxic and destructive chemical agents
they manufacture, use in combination with their own patented toxins, and market
as being safe, sustainable herbicides and insecticides. (9)
Food Transparency
Campaign Gains Ground from FOIA
Revelations
The US Right to Know investigation of this intricate
networking of biotech fraud has revealed over 4,500 pages of emails
and other records of the propaganda campaign being run by biotech, mainly
Monsanto. US Right to Know has referred to Ketchum PR firm out of New
York
Folta actually used material provided by Ketchum's
PR representatives as his own GMO answers, so essentially a PR firm is
brainwashing millions of people and a public scientist is signing his name to
it for $25,000 here
and there, to be used at his discretion to promote GMO, without any science to
back it up. These are the same shills who refer to anyone who challenges their
concocted theories as "anti-science." Meanwhile, Folta has gone on
record time and time again saying he has no connections to Monsanto and has never
taken "a dime" or any gifts from them. (10)
Glyphosate Apologist and Monsanto "Public
Scientist" #1 Puppet: Kevin Folta
Dr. Kevin Folta, the favorite speaker and writer of the
"enlisted response team" for GMOanswers.com, has been known to fly off the rails, by
daring to drink Monsanto's Roundup herbicide during public talks and he posts
on Twitter that he drinks this known carcinogen and registered poison in order
to convince consumers it's safe. On Twitter, he said he drinks it "to
demonstrate harmlessness." On another occasion he declared, “I'm going to tip a
freshly-opened pint next week at ISU. No fear here. Trust science.”
This is the same "clowny" and radical "public
scientist" guy who promised Monsanto reps a solid return on (their)
investment (in him).
Disclosures of industry payments such as these, most notably
by scientific journals, proves this networking has been going on since the
inception of GMO. The AMA and the notorious Morris
Fishbein ran their racket in a similar fashion nearly a century
ago. (11)
Sources:
(2) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2303691-kevin-folta-uoffloridadocs.html#document/p10/a237532
(7) http://www.naturalnews.com/051096_science_for_sale_Monsanto_financial_influence.html#ixzz3mCBqB079
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