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A draft bill is on the table in Russia that would criminalize GMO production
and distribution. Now, anti-GMO activists there are looking to create a
team of ‘long-overdue’ independent and international researchers that
can finally prove unequivocally that GMOs are poison tools created by
Monsanto and the corporate, biotech machine.
When you are going to equivocate GMO production with terrorism,
a label it truly deserves since it kills people through reproductive
organ failure and the drastic reorganization of gut flora, immunity, and
even DNA – essentially as a bio-weapon – then you might want to have
some hard, solid evidence that can counteract the propaganda which has
been circulated by Monsanto’s shills.
According
to Elena Sharoykina, director of the Genetic Safety Public Association
(GSPA), a 10-year-old NGO in Moscow, it isn’t the first time the term
‘terrorism’ was used to describe what GMOs have done to our people and
ecosystems, including all the pollinators, which allow us an ample food
supply.
Sharoykina
pointed out in an interview with Russia Today that a NATO Committee on
the Challenges to Modern Society which met in the Belgian city, Liege,
in 2004 said that GMO could be used as a genetic weapon.
“If serious international experts on security who have close ties with the scientific community say this is possible then there’s no smoke without fire,” Sharoykina said.
Sharoykina
isn’t sure how the draft bill to criminalize GMO production would be
enforced in day to day practice, since it would be hard to prove links
to GMOs and health and environmental problems, but many have pointed out
that there are already several studies which have proven this very
fact.
Foe example, with the assistance of The A.N. Severtsev Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the GSPA conducted a study in 2010 which proved hamsters fed GM soy could not have a third generation of offspring.
Nevertheless,
even Russian officials once tried to push GM products on people,
fortunately, but only recently changing their stance. A chief inspector at Rospotrebnadzor (the
Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human
Well-Being), Gennady Onishchenko, spoke about GMOs at the Nevsky
International Ecological Congress on May 21, 2013.
He
said that biotechnology, including genetic modification, is necessary
to ensure the world’s population has quality food in a sufficient
quantity. GM crops are often made to resist pests, inclement weather,
and other factors that impact crop health.
A
month later, at a meeting of the Federation Council, Onishchenko said
he considers GM products a scientific achievement, but he recognizes the
risks involved in their use. This same inspector later left his controversial post.
While
the original A.N. Severtsev Institute study was helpful to show that GM
foods cause reproductive failure in just three generations, it was an
underfunded experiment which needs more comprehensive analysis. This
study will now be conducted in Russia.
As RT reports, “The
NGO has already enrolled a team of researchers from the US, France, the
UK, China and Russia and will make sure the experiment will comply with
all international standards. It’s also going to be available for
everyone to follow online.”
The GSPA is
raising funds from multiple sources as a means to conduct – the
first-ever independent international research on GMO.
As
of April, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told Russian MPs that they
would not plant any more GM seeds for at least three years. This is
ample time to conduct studies which will prove, once and for all, that
GMO is nothing more than a biological weapon.
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