Feds Will Use A Crisis To Seize Farmland and Food Stocks

							Feds Will Use A Crisis To Seize Farmland
and Food Stocks
Infowars.com
October 5, 2012
Reports abound of a looming food crisis
of epic proportions. If the worst should
happen, whether it be depression-era style
economic collapse, debilitating natural
disaster or global food shortage, the
urgent need to procure a storable food
supply today will be vital to the survival
of you and your loved ones.
Let’s look at the facts; consider
information released in an article today
titled: “World Food Prices Rise, Stay
Close to Crisis Levels: UN,” truncated below:
     World food prices rose in September and are seen remaining close to levels reached during
     the 2008 food crisis, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday, while cutting its
     forecast for global cereal output. The worst drought in more than 50 years in the United
     States sent corn and soybean prices to record highs over the summer, and, coupled with
     drought in Russia and other Black Sea exporting countries, raised fears of a renewed
     crisis.

     Grains prices have retreated in recent weeks due to rapid harvest progress and concerns
     about weak demand in a slowing global economy. But the Food and Agriculture
     Organisation’s (FAO) price index, which measures monthly price changes for a food basket
     of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, rose 1.4 percent to an average of 216 points in
     September after remaining stable at 213 points in August. The rise reflected mainly higher
     dairy and meat prices, with more contained increases for cereals, it said.

     “Prices are remaining high… prices are sustained, it’s highly unlikely we will see a
     normalisation of prices anytime soon,” FAO senior economist Abdolreza Abbassian told
     Reuters in a telephone interview. He added however that it was not clear whether the small
     increase in September meant prices were now on an upward trend, but he expected
     volatility in markets could intensify in coming months.

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EU sides with Monsanto in ‘GMO Cancer
Corn’ Word War
RT.com
October 5, 2012
(Photo: Ashlyak at ml.wikipedia)
The European Food Safety Authority has
rejected a controversial study by French
scientists linking GM corn to cancer. Many in
Europe are already calling for stricter controls
on GMOs, as farmers weigh the lucrative crops
against health concerns.
In September, French scientists from the
University of Caen released a study claiming
that rats fed on a diet containing NK603 – a
corn seed variety made tolerant to amounts of
Monsanto’s Roundup weed-killer – or given
water mixed with the product at levels
permitted in the United States died earlier than those on a standard diet.
The study elicited calls for stricter controls on already unpopular genetically modified (GM) crops in
Europe. France had already issued a temporary ban on another Monsanto corn seed (MON810) in May
due to a similar study.
However, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) claimed the study lacked enough specific
information on Friday, and asked the scientists who conducted it to provide more details on their testing
methods. The move adds to the constant back and forth in the debate over genetically modified
organisms (GMOs).
The “design, reporting and analysis of the study … are inadequate,” the EFSA said in its review,
concluding that it could not “regard the authors’ conclusions as scientifically sound.”
The EFSA took issue with the type of rat used in the study, specifically the albino Sprague-Dawley
strain of rat. Sprague-Dawley rats have a tendency to develop cancers naturally over the course of their
two-year life span, which was also the duration of the study.
                                               “This means the observed frequency of tumors is
                                               influenced by the natural incidence of tumors typical of
                                               this strain, regardless of any treatment. This is neither
                                               taken into account nor discussed by the authors,” the
                                               EFSA said.
                                          Gilles-Eric Seralini, the French researcher who
                                          conducted the study with his colleagues and published
                                          the results in the journal of Food and Chemical
                                          Toxicology in London was incredulous at the EFSA’s
                                          decision, and stated that he would not release any
more information to the EFSA unless it provided justification for its conclusion.
“It is absolutely scandalous that [the EFSA] keeps
secret the information on which they based their
evaluation [of NK603],” he said.
“In any event, we will not give them anything. We
will put the information in the public domain when
they do,” Seralini said in an AFP report.
Please pass the GMO?
The French study caused waves of alarm across
Europe, and even prompted a ban on the NK603
corn in Russia. A group of Russian scientists who
oppose GMOs are hoping to conduct their own rat
experiment, set to begin in March of 2013. They
expect that their year-long experiment will show
whether the controversial cultivation process has
effects as dangerous as the French study claims.
In an effort to conduct their study as publicly as
possible, Russian researchers from the National Association for Genetic Safety (NAGS) came up with
the idea of web cameras installed in cages with the test rats, which will broadcast all stages of the
experiment online. The unique reality show will be available on the internet 24/7 worldwide.
“This is a unique experiment,” project author Elena Sharoykina told RT. “There hasn’t been anything
like it before – open, public research by opponents and supporters of GMO.”
Many GM crops are banned or controversial throughout Europe. France has strict regulations of GM
crops, while GMOs are completely banned in Germany, Greece, Austria, Luxembourg, Hungary, and
the UK over health concerns. GM crops are altered to be resistant to pesticides, a development which
has caused an increase in the use of chemicals that have been linked to cancer and birth defects.
Still, the crops are attractive to farmers, Arkady Zlochevsky, president of the Russian Grain Union, told
RT. For example, the Monsanto GMO NK603 corn in question has been modified to be resistant to
Monsanto’s “Roundup” weed-killer, making the product easier and cheaper to grow with delivering
better yields.

                                              “The seed may be more expensive, but the development is
                                              significantly cheaper,” he said, stating that European
                                              GMO farmers find a 20 per cent increase in profit
                                              combined with a highly-marketable, top-quality product.
                                              Study versus study
                                              The EFSA’s criticism of the French study echoed that of
                                              numerous other experts across Europe that refuted the
                                              results. But as more and more studies emerge on both
                                              sides of the issue, the harder it becomes to identity where
                                              fact meets fiction.
                                              Zlochevsky told RT that “There is no reliable proof of the
                                              ills of GMO; so far there have only been attempts to
                                              prove it.”
Monsanto’s study published in 2002 on corn strain NK603 concluded that “NK603 is as safe and
nutritious as conventional corn currently being marketed,” and the specific proteins in the corn
genetically altered to make the corn pesticide resistant “are not toxic to non-target organisms,
including humans, animals and beneficial insects.”
But a study published recently in the UK by a genetic engineer from London’s King’s College of
Medicine signaled that GM foods pose a more serious threat than advocates of research would have the
public believe.
“GM crops are promoted on the basis of ambitious claims – that they are safe to eat, environmentally
beneficial, increase yields, reduce
reliance on pesticides and can help
solve world hunger,” said Dr.
Michael Antoniou, author of the
report, which claims that research
into GM crops is incomplete and tests
on the effect of their consumption are
not comprehensive enough.
Regulatory industries worldwide rely
on companies selling GM products
rather than independent testing,
stipulates the paper.
Director of corporate
communications for Monsanto, Phil
Angell, summed up his company’s
take on the issue in a report by food
author Michael Pollan for New York
Times Magazine in 1998: “Monsanto
should not have to vouch for the
safety of biotech food. Our interest is
in selling as much of it as possible.
Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.”
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