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GM foods kept off the menu at WestminsterThe House of Commons is continuing to bar genetically modified food from its

restaurants and cafs, despite a drive by ministers for the technology to be more widely accepted.

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By James Kirkup , Deputy Political Editor8:50PM BST 21 Jun 2013

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Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, this week launched a Britishmove to try to persuade the European Union to relax restrictions on thecultivation of GM crops and allay public fears over so-calledFrankenfoods.

Advocates of GM crops say they increase yields and produce more food.Critics say the technology remains unproven and could threaten humanhealth and the ecosystem.

In a controversial intervention this week, Mr Paterson suggested peoplethwarting GM cultivation are putting lives at risk.

Despite his argument which is backed by David Cameron the Houseof Commons is upholding a policy of rejecting GM ingredients served inthe Palace of Westminster.

However, the Commons insisted that banning GM, which was put in placein 1998, was not about health fears, but simply reflected customer choice.

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The House of Commons Catering Service avoids, wherever identifiable,the procurement of foods that contain genetically modified organisms,

the service said.To this end, as part of the tendering process, food suppliers arerequired to work to a strict GM organisms policy and give assurancesthat goods supplied be free from genetically modified materials. Itadded: The decision to avoid GMs is seen as largely a matter of customer choice.

The Commons resistance to GM foods has come to light a day after Downing Street refused to say if the Prime Minister and his family wouldhappily consumer food including GM ingredients.

Mr Paterson today acknowledged that his argument for more use of GMtechnology faces stiff resistance because of deep public scepticism.

He wants EU regulators to approve a long list of new GM crops, includingherbicide-tolerant maize and sugar beet.

Current rules mean that only when other European nations accept thecase for GM will it be possible for Britain to use the crops more widely, hetold the ConservativeHome website.

He said: I have to work closely the whole time with various allies, but it isa typical issue where there are terribly strong feelings in some member states. The last poll I saw in Germany 98 per cent of people are opposedto GM, so you have to really respect that.

Mr Patersons outspoken argument for GM technology has angeredsome campaigners and worried politicians who agree with him but fear his combative approach will be counterproductive.

Lady Parminter, the Lib Dem spokeswoman for food, the environmentand rural affairs in the House of Lords, said Mr Paterson runs the risk of

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Steve CurrieYesterday 07:35 PM

Monsanto are in direct competition with bees a nd nature and are doing their damn dest to kill off all opposition to their profits.

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Steve CurrieYesterday 07:21 PM

Monsanto genetically modified plants are killing off bees by the millio ns. Bees areess ential to the earths ecosystem. Monsanto want to destroy the naturalecosystem so they can mon opolise the gm food ind ustry. Monsanto don't care if they destroy the plane t as long as they can make a profit doing so.


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Dave WoodYesterday 01:56 PM

What GM ingredients are bein g rejected by Westminster Catering Service? I wantsome.

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investeastYesterday 03:25 AM

Now - (If you are interested) look at a s cientific study of the impact of GM seeds onanimals in New Zealand.

"Is our Food Unhealthy"http://www.stuff.co.nz/aucklan...


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OrphadeusYesterday 07:07 PM

Interesting. Like humans, pigs are monogastric (one chamber digestion).The GM lobby jumped up and down wa ving a s hort term study on cows(which itself said a long term s tudy was required ), which are ruminant(four chamber).

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investeastYesterday 03:14 AM

GM Crops do not simp ly require the approval of the consum er, but also the farmer who buys the sterile seed or feeds GM products to his animals .

As a former farm er, I would never put my bus ines s at ris k from a single s ourcesuppl ier of sterile GM seeds . There are many extremely competent seedproducers, particularly in Scotland where crop yields using s uch non GM seedshave grown by 80%. So why the nee d for GM?I would prefer to select the agro chemicals , herbicides and pes ticides, specificallyrelevant to my local region and not to rely on the chemical bo und in with GM Seeds.The so called safe and tested agro chemicals and defoliants produced historicallyby Mons anto have been p roven to be anything but safe........... So, why should the ir current chemicals that are integrated into their GM seeds be any different.(Monsanto produced the de foliant. Agent Orange, that resulted in m any claimsagains t the compan y.Monsanto also m anufactured an Agro chemical called 2,4,5T, a constituent of

Agent orange. A inadequate control s ystem in the m anufacture of 2,4,5, Tproduced Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. A chemi cal plant in Italy run by Monsan tohad an explosion that contaminated several towns, combined po pulation 37,000and resulted in the slaughter of 80,000 animals.The chemical concerned known by it shortened name Dioxin, is rated as the 3rdmost dangerous substance in the world.Our English politicians wan t us farmers (and Britain;s public) to put our businesses (and lives) in the hands of Monsanto.Not today thank you.


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You have just put this com ment on the Guardian.Sterile seed? Some body has been telling you porkies. Monsa nto ishamm ered becaus e it exports US GM-seed technolog y to the main

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competition in South America. This started a trade war with North andSouth America each exporting $30 billion of GM crops ea ch year to Asia.Protectionist lobb ies in No rth America have $2 billio n a year to spend onanti-GM crop and food activism . No doubt so me o f it gets over here (I'malso in Scotland). But farmers in the EU would like a s hare of the exportaction.

investeastYesterday 11:01 PM

Idiot. Farmers a re unable to produce GM Seeds. The secondgeneration seed is s terile.

Go back to school.

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ponerology06/24/2013 10:45 PM

Being a Ch ristian, I really can't hope that the elite all choke on chicken bo nes.....

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thefarmersdaughter 06/24/2013 03:07 PM

Good for Paterson. It is high time Europe get on board with this and s top being soanti-science. There has ne ver been a s ingle s tudy showin g GM food is harm ful tohumans or the environment, and not a single person has ever been ill from eatingit. (And I gua rantee that the anti-GM crowd will now s tart yelling that I'm g etting paidby Monsanto. I'm not.)

www.thefarmersdaughterusa.com

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noumenal06/24/2013 10:37 AM

"Halal and Kos her are (except for the God called upon) ide ntical. Do you havetrouble finding non-Koshe r meat? No. Same with Halal, because it costs mo re. Ihave none of those worries h owever, I'm a Vegan."I am als o vegan, but the fact that ritually slaugh tered meat is s old unlab elled onthe open m arket is a scand al, and yet one more indication that we are not living in


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a dem ocracy. It is als o yet one m ore indictment of the corrupt meat and dairyindus try.The kosher trade would collapse without this sub terfuge, since m ost of the meat (the entire rear quarters) is discarded by jews as n on kosher, and so ld togentiles. The muslims (needless to say) have jumped on this lucrativebandwago n, and are producing far more halal than woul d be required by themus lims themse lves. The only form of life that needs to be gen etically modi fied isHomo Tyranicus - starting with the sub s pecies known as the 'democratic

politician'. Paterson is a man without a heart - that's why he is bu sy slaughteringour badger population at the moment in opposition to the scientific consensus andpublic opinion.

Icek197606/24/2013 10:24 AM

I like those "facts" about harm less ness of GMO to humans however theycancerous to mice, giving them massive tumours and multiple organ damage .Thousands of Indian farmers committed suicide after using genetically modifiedcrops that failed ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... ), and Monsanto, practicallymono polist on GMO market makes rid iculous IP claims with bullying practices andcorrupting politicians on top of that ( hmm who might be on Monsantos p ayroll inHM Governmen t...any guess es?)


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There's another pa yroll that you might be on . US GM crop exporters - bigbusine ss - are in comp etition with South America for the valuable AsiaGM-crop market ($60 b illion a year - that's a b'). They have $2 b illion ayear to try to stop other countries growing GM crops - and that includes usin Europe as we imp ort lots but are not permitted to grow any thanks toactivism a nd weak politicians.

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saris106/23/2013 09:05 PM

You eat it first. Lead on, "leaders ."

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fine06/23/2013 07:46 PM

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/members/finehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html


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GMO equivalent of' 'the great global warming swindle '' called 'seeds o f death'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUd9rR...

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fine06/23/2013 07:41 PM

It looks like our m inisters are knowin gly poisoning us , demons trated by the factthey are avoiding the poison themselves, perhaps charges should be considered.Good s tory DT


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englandfirstandalways06/23/2013 07:41 AM

Are they als o able to exercise a pre ference for non-ha lal m eat?In other words, meat which comes from creatures which ha ve been hum anely-slaug htered, as befits a mo dern, western, civilised country, as oppos ed to havingbeen hung ups ide-down, had their throats slit and bled to death. (Stunning merely

renders the anim al incapable; it is still fully conscious of what is happening to itand able to feel pain)Unlike the rest of the population, who have it forced upon them in this nation of animal-lovers.


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saris106/23/2013 09:07 PM

Halal and Kos her are (except for the God called upon) ide ntical. Do youhave trouble finding non-Kos her meat? No. Same with Halal, because it

costs more.I have none of those worries however, I'm a Vegan.

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meatand2veg06/23/2013 07:40 AM

How typical. Poison us but not them.

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burningbeardy06/23/2013 07:03 AM

"Genetically Modified Crops Have Led To Pes ticide Increase, Study Finds" :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...


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This is the us ual anti-GM scam. The pesticides are not pesticides asusuall y defined (insecticides), but herbicides you can eat with a spoon(almost).

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zenitruehe06/23/2013 04:29 AM

The Prime Mincer probably thinks that GM is short for "gay marriage" and wan ts toensure that all crops of the sam e sex can cross pollinate.

This is worth reading: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm...

Also, the EU Parliament has to give its assent to any trade agree ment before itenters in to force. The EP threw out the ACTA and they will proba bly do the s amewith the EU-US trade agreemen t as well. This is a good thing becaus e de Guchthas never exactly inspired confidence...


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PastImperfect06/24/2013 08:45 AM

Yes. The EU-US FTA discus sions are taking place between anunelected, corrupt (and unaudi ted since its inception) EU Executive and aUS delegation of corporate lawyers. MEPs have no input to this charade,all they have is an "up - down" vote on its implem entation. One precedentof existing FTAs is that if a country introduces laws to protect workers, thepublic or the environment it must compens ate corporations for anyconseque ntial lost profits, thus res ulting in a loss of sovereignty.

All the growth that takes pl ace when one o f these FTAs is im plem ented isgrowth accruing to large corpo rations involved in international tradewhere, for instance, government subs idies in o ne country are used to


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underm ine indus tries in another. (E.g. NAFTA enabled s ubsidizedagribus iness corn from USA to destroy the livelihoods of a millionMexican farmers .) All the grand promis es o f NAFTA when it wasintroduced in 1993 have been broken with million s of people thrown outof work as a consequence.If people think that FTAs are of benefit to ordinary people, then they havetheir heads in the sand - or somewhere else, equally dark.

saris106/23/2013 09:08 PM

lol


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jonte06/23/2013 03:44 AM

I worked for 14 years for a com pany dealing wit GM research and during all thattime they found absolu te nothing to indicate a single iota of harm.

In fact, GM foods were often better, having protection ag ainst the many thingswhich previously could spoil them or reduce their quality.

Not only are GM crops the future, its the only hope for the future becaus e the worldis s imply incapable of producing the amount of food it requires. However, as withWind Turbines, the foot stamp ing m inority got their way and electricity is no w paidfor not by standing order or direct debit but through the nos e. Every time a field fullof corn fails for reas ons which are en tirely preventable, you pay the cost.

GM foods for too long have had a m an with a red flag plod ding along in front. Itstime he wen t back to the Liberal pa rty and we s tarted to make the prog ress weshould be making.

If GM foods could be produced on mas s we would see a considerable drop in our food prices. That is until the government screwed it all up and prices on ce againsoared.

Let those who know b est buy organic food. Let those with intelligence share in thesuccess of research which has bee n truly startling, absolutely safe and provides abetter product.

I think the greatest recomm endation for GM crops is that the government havebanned them in Parliame nts restaurants. We all know they never get anythingright.


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Plenty of ritually slaug htered meat though for the clowns wh o care so m uch aboutabsolutely nothing.

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