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Thanks Hilary for all you have done to protect others!]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Tue Jun 16, 2009
Genetically-modified crop failures are well documented -- use any search engine and see the research.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Mon Jun 15, 2009
The "GMO is safe" myth was busted in Europe years ago.

The variety of corn, called "MON 810" and sold under its trade name "Yield Guard," has been altered on a genetic level, making it resistant to the corn borer, a moth larva that consumes the plant and kills it.

MON 810 is grown extensively around the world. According to Agbios, an online database on genetically modified crops, more than 32 million acres in the United States has been planted with this type of GM corn.

Germany is following in the footsteps of several other EU countries - Austria, Hungary, Greece, France and Luxembourg - which have already banned it in spite of threats of sanctions from globalist groups.

Citing a move in Luxembourg in early April to ban the cultivation of MON 810, German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner announced that the German government was taking steps to prohibit farmers from planting the corn.

The two governments based their mandates on European studies that suggest a particular toxin, called Bt, added to the corn on a genetic level may be fatal to "non-target organisms," such as ladybugs. Ladybugs and other predator bugs eat pests such as moths and beetles.

A symptom of modern agriculture, the heavy use of pesticides has resulted in a never-ending cycle, where good and bad insects are indiscriminately killed and the natural cycle is thrown out of balance.

Worse still, German officials cited research showing that pollen from corn spreads much farther than previously thought. Since corn is pollinated by wind-borne pollen, the concern is that neighboring non-GM corn could become contaminated by genetic material from the Frankenfoods, which blow for miles in the wind.

This is substantiated by many organic growers, who contend that it is becoming more and more difficult to find truly heirloom, organic seeds that have not been tainted by genetically modified crops.

"I have come to the conclusion there are just reasons to assume that the genetically modified [corn] MON 810 represents a danger for the environment," Ms. Aigner, a member of the conservative Bavaria-based Christian Social Union, told reporters. "Therefore, the cultivation of MON 810 is now banned in Germany."

Critics of genetically modified foods have pointed to several studies, which indicate that foods modified in a laboratory at a genetic level can be hazardous to your health. One recent study in Europe has shown that GM corn fed to rats resulted in rampant infertility. Those that did reproduce suffered from low birth weights for offspring.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Sun Jun 14, 2009
That urban myth was busted here:

http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entries/food_for_thought/]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Sat Jun 13, 2009
Allowing genetically-modified food to escape the laboratory was a horrible disaster for the third world, and it is irrational to continue to market it to people who need real food to survive. The source of this nutty idea should be ashamed of themselves, and they would be -- if they were normal.

Starving people don't need "modified food product", they need food, real food, the kind with seeds that can be replanted to make more food. GMO seeds are designed to be worthless and sterile after one crop, so that new seeds have to be purchased every year.

It seems odd that the FDA which allows GMO crops to legally be grown and be marketed to lesser developed countries, would result in the State Department to wonder why people in other nations are starving.

Is there no research done by the State Department into GMO crop failures?]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Sat Jun 13, 2009
No matter how poor a country is, it seems there will always be enough for a dictator to live a luxurious lifestyle with all his cronies. On the other hand, no matter how much aid is pumped into a country, no matter how much progress it makes, there will never be enough to satisfy that dictator's taste for luxurious lifestyle; which, by the way, always comes first before his people. That is why neither sanctions nor increased economic aid solve problems.

Solve the dictator problem and you solve the hunger problem. The people are capable of feeding themselves if they are allowed.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Fri Jun 12, 2009
I would be willing to use my land to grow anything to help someone else to eat. I would like to be a part of feeding the world.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Fri Jun 12, 2009
On the new global approach to ending hunger:

"Some op-ed the other day was asking whether Russia was on the road to "Superpower" status....

I'd say you can be the big kid on the block, but if you feed the neighborhood,..that's being a hero. Does tend to make nations popular, as well."

http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/q_promote_democracy/

Considering the vitrol and disrespect I recieved for calling it as I saw it on the thread linked above, it's nice to know the entire Dept. of State and the Whitehouse has my back on this....(chuckle).

Our Russian friends know a thing or two about farming, and they can anticipate miracles if they tap into this diplomatc resource.

Congrats to Dr. Ejeta, as a case in point, for becoming a hero.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Fri Jun 12, 2009
Hi,,,

i just ,, think, it`s good plan..

(if, i have a chance to jion in this and other opportunity i`m very glad and will divide the delight, my whole world members.)]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/ending_hunger/ Thu Jun 11, 2009