Taiwan Bans GMOs from School Lunches. Mandates GMO Labeling. Throws down Gauntlet on Toxic Foods from USA and Monsanto
Even as the fascist, corrupt U.S.
government and its regulators (FDA and USDA) actively conspire with the
biotech industry to poison Americans with genetically modified foods,
Taiwan has already passed and implemented a nationwide law to protect
its citizens from GMOs.
Nearly a full year ago, Taiwan
passed ‘Food Act Amendments’ that achieve remarkable food safety
milestones the U.S. government refuses to implement, placing Taiwan far
ahead of the United States on food safety. These milestones include:
1) Requiring the
mandatory labeling of GMOs on all food products that contain 3 percent
or more GMOs. Foods that use no GMOs may be labeled “non-GMO” … and many
already are, causing their sales to skyrocket across Taiwan. Just last
year, imports of non-GMO soybeans to Taiwan grew nearly 300% to 58,000
tons.
2) Limiting the use
of food additives to just 799 compounds approved by the Taiwan FDA. The
FDA of the United States, by comparison, allows tens of thousands of
chemicals to be used as additives, even when they are well known to
cause cancer.
3) All GMO
ingredients are required to be registered with the Taiwan government,
and food manufacturers that use GMOs are required to establish an
origins tracking system to identify where those GMOs originated.
4) All the soy milk,
tofu, miso and other soy-derived products sold everywhere across the
country — including at cafes and street food vendors — must be clearly
labeled as GMOs if they use genetically modified soy.
5) Food products
made using genetically modified soy as a processing agent or blended
ingredient must also label their final food products as GMO, even if the soybean oil is not, itself, the final product.
6) Fines for violating these food safety provisions have been set at NT$50 million.
USA food safety lags far behind the rest of the world
This shows yet again just how far behind
the United States is on food safety compared to the rest of the world.
Instead of promoting actual food safety, the FDA gives a free pass to GMOs,
heavy metals, artificial additives and other toxic chemicals, focusing
almost exclusively on bacteriological contamination issues such as
e.coli and salmonella.
That’s why the USA lags far behind the
rest of the world on the banning of artificial additives and
preservative chemicals, most of which have already been banned across
the EU. The U.S. government continues to allow extremely toxic
pesticides and herbicides to be used across the agricultural industry
(including California’s strawberry operations), and as the news in this
article shows, the USA now lags far behind Taiwan on the issue of GMO labeling and banning GMOs from school lunches.
Increasingly, U.S. food safety looks like a third world nation being run by a cartel of imperialistic food corporations that dictate government policy.
Public health has NOTHING to do with government regulatory policy at
this point. It’s all about appeasing Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont,
Kellogg’s, PepsiCo and all the other poison-pushing food
and beverage companies that continue to poison a nation of food victims
into epidemics of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
Taiwan bans GMOs from school menus
In yet another milestone for food safety, Taiwan has banned GMOs from school lunches.
“The latest amendments to the School Health Act are aimed at all school meal providers, to ban genetically modified raw ingredients and any processed foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from school menus,” reports the China Post.The Post also reports:
Legislator Lin Shu-fen, an advocate for passing the bill, said that studies abroad have shown a high connection between the consumption of GM foods and the prevalence of allergies, autism and rare diseases.“Soy is a major ingredient in Taiwan’s school lunches,” said Lin. “Genetically modified soy has been shown to contains toxic residue from pesticides.”
You almost never hear such statements
from the sellout politicians in America, nearly all of whom have been
bribed and bought off by the biotech industry. Making matters even
worse, poison-pushing U.S. publishers like Forbes.com — named the single most evil news publication of 2015 by EVIL.news — carry deceptive propaganda articles by sleazebag industry scientists like Henry Miller who ridiculously claims that herbicides are harmless and GMOs pose no health risks whatsoever.
Entire world revolting against U.S. agricultural imperialism and fascist, corporate-dictated government policy
The rest of the world, however, isn’t buying the U.S. propaganda. In fact, the rest of the world is revolting against U.S. agricultural imperialism
where prostituted U.S. lawmakers and regulators are bought off by
industry to shove GMOs down the throats of all the other countries under
so-called “fair trade” regulations such as the TPP.
Taiwan’s pig farmers, for example, are
also organizing a massive, nationwide protest over the U.S. pork
industry’s continued usage of ractopamine, a toxic drug fed to
pigs to cause rapid weight gain. The Taiwan government is under
imperialistic pressure from U.S. trade representatives to lift its ban
on the import of U.S. pork grown with the drug. If the ban is lifted, it
would flood the Taiwan market with cheap, low-grade pork that’s been
artificially multiplied with the use of a toxic drugs that isn’t used at
all in the Taiwan pork industry, reports Asia News Network.
U.S. has long pushed tobacco products
and other toxic chemicals onto Taiwan via international trade pressure.
GMOs are also being aggressively shoved down the throats of the world’s
children by the U.S. federal government, which is widely food as a “food
bully” across the globe.
Perhaps that’s why countries like Taiwan
are working so diligently to protect their own children from U.S. food
policies that push poison for corporate (Monsanto) profits. “The passing
of this bill not only means our children will be eating more safely,
but it also indicates a heightened understanding of food safety in our
society,” said legislator Lu Shiow-yen in the China Post article linked
above.
Not surprisingly, there is virtually no
Republican or Democrat in the entire U.S. Congress who’s willing to
state GMOs and their accompanying herbicides are a danger to the health
of children nationwide. In terms of the 2016 presidential election
lineup, Hillary Clinton has very close ties to Monsanto and is known as the “Bride of Frankenfood.”
Ted Cruz is likely to tow the GOP party line on GMOs and take a “pro
business” stance that denies GMOs cause any harm. Only Donald Trump has
any shot at being an anti-GMO candidate, as he’s already known to be a promoter of organic foods… and he can’t be bought off by Monsanto.
The original source of this article is Natural News
Copyright © Mike Adams, Natural News, 2016
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