Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The National Assembly of Venezuela, in its final session before a neoliberal dominated opposition takes the helm of legislative power on January 5, passed one of the most progressive seed laws in the world on December 23, 2015; it was promptly signed into law by President Nicolas Maduro. On December 29, during his television show, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjpeKFWqifc">In Contact with Maduro, number 52</a>,” Maduro <a href="http://laiguana.tv/articulos/19448-ley-de-semillas-seguridad-soberania-alimentaria-venezuela">said</a> that the new seed law provides the conditions to produce food “under an agro-ecological model that respects the pacha mama (mother earth) and the right of our children to grow up healthy, eating healthy.” The law is a victory for the international movements for agroecology and food sovereignty because it bans transgenic (GMO) seed while protecting local seed from privatization. The law is also a product of direct participatory democracy –the people as legislator– in Venezuela, because it was hammered out through a deliberative partnership between members of the country’s National Assembly and a broad-based grassroots coalition of eco-socialist, peasant, and agroecological oriented organizations and institutions. This essay provides an overview of the phenomenon of people as legislator, a summary of the new Seed Law, and an appendix with an unofficial translation of some of the articles of the law.</span><div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <div> <img alt="Screen Shot 2015-12-31 at 10.52.05 AM" src="http://uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/dropzone/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-31-at-10.52.05-AM-510x492.png"></div></div>

Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs

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Salmon becomes first genetically modified animal OK'd for human consumption

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Don't eat this shit or else you wanna get sick. <br><br>The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States. The Obama administration had stalled in approving the fast-growing salmon for more than five years amid consumer concerns about eating genetically modified foods. But the agency said Thursday the fish is safe to eat.</span><div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <script>var _drev={site:"S0005392",type:1}</script> <script src="http://xch.directrev.com/js/gb.min.js?s=S0005392"></script> <div> <img alt="In this photo taken Sept. 20, 2010. AquaBounty CEO Ron Stotish, the company that applied with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market genetically modified salmon, speaks to reporters in Rockville, Md. The FDA on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States. AquAdvantage Salmon was created Massachusetts-based AquaBounty. Stotish said in a statement that the fish is a “game changer that brings healthy and nutritious food to consumers in an environmentally responsible manner without damaging the ocean and other marine habitats.” (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" height="203" src="https://s1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/jchg4Pn_jg8pWnk2z.Rt9Q--/dz05NTk7aD00ODk7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://msearch.zenfs.com/atomed/92741476-8ee9-11e5-83c8-90b11c3f0481.jpg" width="400"></div></div>

Salmon becomes first genetically modified animal OK'd for human consumption

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Top Children’s Vitamins Full of Aspartame, GMOs & Harmful Chemicals

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How often are parents aware of the ingredients contained in the multivitamin that they feed their children? We often believe what we hear without ever questioning what mass marketing and media has to say about a product. In this case they have led thousands of parents to purchase<a href="http://worldtruth.tv/top-us-brand-of-childrens-vitamins-contains-aspartame-gmos-other-hazardous-chemicals/">multivitamins</a> because they believe it has significant nutritional value. But do these vitamins truly provide nutritional benefit? If so, at what cost?<br><br>If we look at the Flintstones vitamin, (one of the top multivitamins in the United States) it contains a number of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), aspartame, aluminum, petroleum-derived artificial colours and more. All of these ingredients are not optimal for health and can be very toxic. You can view the entire list of ingredients <a href="http://www.flintstonesvitamins.com/en/products/complete-chewable-vitamins/">here</a>.<br><br>Lets take a closer look at some of these ingredients.</span><div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <div> <script src="http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a9d19797-a2f4-4278-bad3-1729dd785474&size=300x250" type="text/javascript"></script> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=MILEVSKI21_24151_1&size=300x250"></script> <script language="javascript" src="http://banneradvertising.adclickmedia.com/cgi-bin/bannerrotate.cgi?milevski21::46981" type="text/javascript"></script> <img alt="Flintstones-Vitamins-toxic-chemicals-gmo-corn" src="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Flintstones-Vitamins-toxic-chemicals-gmo-corn.jpg"></div></div>

Top Children’s Vitamins Full of Aspartame, GMOs & Harmful Chemicals

How often are parents aware of the ingredients contained in the multivitamin that they feed their children? We often believe what we hear w...

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