Natural Society – by Christina Sarich
While the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association, along with Monsanto and other poison makers try to slip a labeling-by-choice campaign past citizens in the US, Russia is preparing a bill that would heavily restrict the import of genetically modified agricultural produce, as well as stop it altogether from being produced domestically.
The initiative is backed by the parliamentary majority, and is an amendment to the existing law “On Safety and Quality of Alimentary Products,” which sets norms for the maximum content of transgenic and genetically modified components in Russia’s food. The author of the bill is Evgeny Fyodorov, a member of the United Russia party. A group called Russian Sovereignty also supports the initiative. Some are calling this a long shot, but if it were to pass, it could be another nail in the Biotech industry’s coffin.
The innovative draft law does not suppose a total ban, says Mr. Fyodorov, but it does put imports under the government’s control and keeps it from being grown locally. Imported products that were tested with high levels of transgenic and genetically modified ingredients would be subject to refusal.
Russia already banned some GMO imports such as Monsanto’s GMO corn, and Russia already has a labeling law. Anything that contains more than 0.9 percent GMO has to have a label and warn consumers. Last year a resolution was passed which requires a listing of all genetically modified plants in the state, but it doesn’t go into effect until this July. Fyodorov wants to make that a zero tolerance policy for all foodstuffs produced in country. The draft includes a ban on GMO plants, animals, or anything of microbial origin, which is good thinking since AquaBounty’s GMO salmon almost made it into our food supply already.
The specific measure of banning GMO food within the country is to prevent Monsanto and other companies from trying to set up shop within Russia.
Yakov Lyubovedsky, the head of Russia’s Organic Farming Union thinks that if Duma (the Russian State) can pass the bill, it would defend the entire country’s population from genetically modified foods and represent the overwhelming interests of the people at large – not the Biotech corporations.
Lyubovedsky points out that GMO is just an experiment on humanity, and many scientists might add, one that hasn’t gone very well. Over 800 scientists have already demanded that this game end.
Arkady Zlochevsky, president of the Grain Producers’ Union, thinks that GMO crops are just what Russia needs. He thinks the draft bill, should it come to pass, would be detrimental to farmers, but apparently he hasn’t heard about the farmers going into debt from sewing suicide seeds. As NaturalSociety’s Anthony Gucciardi has pointed out, a farmer in India commits suicide every 30 minutes due to overwhelming debt caused by Monsanto’s ineffective seeds. The Center for Global Research has said:
“Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.”
If GMO seed is allowed to be planted, Russia, or anywhere, Monsanto and friends will eventually be the ‘Lords’ over all Life on planet earth. A chilling thought. Farmers shouldn’t just be worried about short term economic gains, though, evidence keeps mounting that suicide seeds are wrecking mother nature altogether. Farmers might find themselves out of work completely if GMO is allowed to continue unchecked.
If legislators decide on a ban, it should be complete, including consumption, but this is currently not possible, Zlochevsky noted. In the meantime, we’re all rooting for you Russia. Show the world the way.
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They must have other ways for the wholesale slaughter of their people.
Oh, wait. Their people don’t have guns, do they.
THAT makes things a whole lot easier. (hint: Bolshevik ‘revolution’)
I had a professor in American History in college tell us picture a pendulum that never stops swinging but very slowly. On the far side is liberty and freedom and on the other far side is communism. The pendulum never stops and swings from on side to the other. The nation that is free will move to communism and the nation communistic will move toward freedom and so on infanatum. We are seeing this now. Russia is not the Russia of the past and we are not the country of the past either. Even China is moving right now toward Capitalism.
That may have been true, up to a certain point, Susan, but I don’t believe that to be the case any longer. It’s my opinion that the ‘global’ powers are ALL vying for ‘global’ supremacy, realizing that there will only be one superpower in the final analysis.
The NWO appears to be in a massive power struggle, and a house divided against itself……
Which is why I believe WWlll to be inevitable.
That, and because the Bible says it will be.
So it is communism on one side and capitalism on the other? This is why this thing has gone on so far. People too ignorant to know who and what they are.
Our free Republic was not founded upon CAPITALISM, it is a Republic with pure individualism at it’s core. Capitalism is the idea of collective power conquering the resources and the wealth of the individual.
Our system of trade is free enterprise, which is the free exchange of products between individuals without capitalists, taxes, and regulation to control and monopolize the trade into the hands of the ones with the most capital.
Capitalism is monopoly money making monopoly money that is used to steal. Screw capitalism.
Capitalism works or at least it did. The problem arose with government interference and a central bank. Remove just those two impediments and you can have true capitalism and prosperity,
I guess this is how we got here. People letting the thieves sell them on the theft. You do not understand, yet you vote.
Free enterprise is what our system of trade was supposed to be in this country, protected from capitalism by tariffs.
I will try one more time to explain capitalism to you.
Mitt Romney’s dad gives him $100 million and automatically, without hitting a lick, he has an income of $25,000 per month from interest and dividends, which allows him to buy a bank or a holding company, which allows him to leverage his dollars, which is to say the dollar you hold in your hand can only be used as a single dollar but the dollar the capitalist banker holds is actually ten dollars.
When you take that dollar out of your hand and lend it to your neighbor to start a business for a fair return of say, 3% over a five year contract, that is free enterprise.
When you put that dollar in a bank, that banker holds that dollar and lends out nine non-existent dollars with compounded interest, which comes out to about 60% over a five year contract, that is capitalism.
And by the way, you had to create a product for your dollar.
Capitalism is a mechanism for slavery, controlled by the user usurper that deals in fictional currencies.
Great, almost every country but ours is banning GMOs and toxic chemicals in their foods. They are also not taxing their athletes for their Olympic Gold medals.
So which country is giving their people GMOs, toxic chemicals in their foods and taxing their Olympic medals? OF COURSE, it’s the U.S.!
Why do people in this country continue to put up with this evil? We have the power of the 2nd Article, for cryin’ out loud. What good are they if we don’t even use them? FIGHT BACK!!!