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4th December 2013
About 250 people came to hear scientist
Thierry Vrain's recent presentation on “Genetically Modified Foods and Human
Health”, in Vernon last week. Dr. Vrain clearly demonstrated the dangers
associated with GM crops. As a geneticist who worked with agriculture Canada for
30 years, Dr. Vrain fully understands why farmers were attracted to the promises
of GM crops. However, now that independent science is available and that the
initial promises have proven empty, he warns of the dangers of letting these
crops continue to proliferate and contaminate the soil, water, and food
supply.
Among the issues discussed, Dr. Vrain
insisted on the fact that GM crops were never independently tested prior to
their release. Test results were given to governments by the same corporations
that profited from the sales of the GM seeds and the pesticides used to grow
them.
He then spoke of how GM corporate interests are now
permeating not only government, but also science as industry finances
universities and corporate officials sit on boards of scientific
journals.
Dr. Vrain was in Vernon as part of a cross-Canada
tour he is doing most often accompanied by Dr. Shiv Chopra, the author of
“Corrupt to the Core” a book that tells “what happens when your government
chooses to Side-Step Scientific Truth”. Dr. Chopra is the scientist who, when
working for Health Canada, refused to sign up on the Bovine Growth Hormone.
Unfortunately dr. Chopra was not able to be in Vernon but his speech on the
“Canada's Food: the most toxic on the planet” can be heard on BeeSafeMonashees.org
Dr. Chopra talks of how hormones,
antibiotics, slaughterhouse waste, GMO and pesticides – and are all in our food
system illegally, making Canadian food the most toxic in the entire planet.
Europe, in comparison, bans or regulates four out of the five unwanted
contaminants.
Both scientists are
donating their time to inform people about the danger of corporate food, and the
need to act now, and not wait for politicians, in order to take the power back
from corporatocracy. Farmers and growers take note: In Vernon, as in other
places across BC, people all stand up and cheer when asked “Would you support
your region becoming GMO Free?” !
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