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Re: [SANET-MG] Canadians cool to altered crops
Hello Evon,
Replying to your point about views on GM crops and the news media. For
over a decade legitimate opinion poles have all shown that most
Canadians wish to have GM foods labeled but the politicians tend to
follow the dictates of Agricultural bureaucrats who promote GM crops
and even pour millions of tax dollars into support for Monsanto
projects. The Canadian news media are mainly run by government as for
example CBC that mainly provides propaganda while the press and TV are
owned by corporations that provide their own propaganda for
corporations. Almost nothing is said about GM foods and the little
published is propaganda for corporations. For example, Monsanto declared
they were stopping testing and development of GM wheat a couple years
ago, last spring it was discovered that the Agriculture Canada
bureaucrats had continued testing GM wheat covertly on behalf of
Monsanto rr wheat. The very many field test of GM canola and other GM
crops producing very dangerous pharmaceuticals such as anticoagulant
drugs have been carried on in extreme secrecy and editors refuse to
publish the most solid evidence of such dangerous tests (many near
population centers).I think the lesson is that Canadians are smarter and
more well informed than their government or passive submissive news media.
Spreading mercury in the air of Danbury is nasty but editors tend to be
far too cooperative with government and corporations.
sincerely,joe
Evon Kochey wrote:
Are Canadians smarter than most Americans? Or could it be that the
Canadian media has carried more information than the US corporate
controlled media?
Today Connecticut's major state wide newspaper finally carried a story
about the field trials of transgenic trees in Danbury. Of course only
a positive story. It has also been picked up by the TV stations. A
Biotech Cabal PR coup!!!!!
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1097446808808&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467
Majority uneasy about GM food
Canadians cool to altered crops
Poll shows most favour labelling
PETER CALAMAI
SCIENCE REPORTER
OTTAWA—Unease over genetically modified food continues to rise among
Canadians with three out of five saying such foods provide more risks
than benefits, according to a recently released federal government
poll.
This concern translated into a majority (53 per cent) of adult
Canadians telling pollsters working for Ottawa that they were
uncomfortable buying foods with genetically modified ingredients. Only
31 per cent gave the same answer in the first such survey five years
ago.
Three in four Canadians indicated support for mandatory labelling if
foodstuffs contain any GM ingredients, a move the federal government
has consistently rejected as unnecessary.
The food industry estimates that between two-thirds and three-quarters
of processed foods already contain GM ingredients or come from plants
than have been genetically engineered.
"Canadians are not yet at a point where they feel comfortable with
genetically modified food. In fact, comfort levels have continually
declined," said a summary of the results prepared for senior federal
officials.
Carried out in March by Decima Research, the telephone survey also
found that the proportion of Canadians "very willing" to hand over
their genetic information to researchers had plunged to 37 per cent
from 56 per cent a year previous.
This growing concern over privacy eventually may "affect views about
how health research is done and how people's personal genetic
information is used in that research," said Decima's summary, quietly
posted on the website of the Canadian Biotechnology Secretariat.
The summary provided only selected results from the telephone survey
of 778 Canadians and 781 Americans done between March 19 and 30. A
sample of this size reflects general public opinion within 3.5
percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The margin of error is greater
when comparing results between Canada and the U.S.
Additional articles by Peter Calamai
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