State of the GMO Union 2019
12/31/19 • 24 min
Description:
Today we look at the trends of GMOs over the past year. It's like the State of the Union for GMOs in 2019. I looked over scores of emails and reports, etc., and they seem to fall into these broad categories: First of all, there's the amazing trials; three of them starting actually the year before, where Monsanto/Bayer was convicted by three juries of causing the cancer of the plaintiffs and hiding the evidence. And this along with the International Agency for Research on Cancer's declaration that Glyphosate causes cancer, a probable human carcinogen. Many, many countries and jurisdictions are getting rid of Roundup. That's one area. Two, there's more information. Guess what? That Glyphosate and Roundup is worse than before. Three, there's a whole big war going on about the new GMOs, particularly gene editing, and that's very serious. We'll talk about that. And four, there's generally good news about the conversion of shoppers as they become awake to this information.
Description:
Today we look at the trends of GMOs over the past year. It's like the State of the Union for GMOs in 2019. I looked over scores of emails and reports, etc., and they seem to fall into these broad categories: First of all, there's the amazing trials; three of them starting actually the year before, where Monsanto/Bayer was convicted by three juries of causing the cancer of the plaintiffs and hiding the evidence. And this along with the International Agency for Research on Cancer's declaration that Glyphosate causes cancer, a probable human carcinogen. Many, many countries and jurisdictions are getting rid of Roundup. That's one area. Two, there's more information. Guess what? That Glyphosate and Roundup is worse than before. Three, there's a whole big war going on about the new GMOs, particularly gene editing, and that's very serious. We'll talk about that. And four, there's generally good news about the conversion of shoppers as they become awake to this information.
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Hawaiian Elder Warns of the Dangers (and Blessed Potential) of this Time
Key Takeaways
02:50:
“We have arrived at an inevitable moment in human civilization where we can easily reorder the codes of life and redirect the streams of evolution for all time. One would hope that such unprecedented power would be balanced by a society equipped with farsighted vision, advanced moral and ethical values, rock solid safety mechanisms, and a profound understanding of how altered DNA functions. We have none of these.”
5:00:
“John Stokes...sat with a Hawaiian elder in 1991 who spoke to him...and said...he should create a circle that will catch the earth when it falls and stand it up in a good way. And if he does, there'll be 2000 years of peace. And if he doesn't, it will be the end of biological evolution as we know it.”
8:09:
“Because what is this genetic engineering but replacing nature,? GMO: God Move Over. Eliminating nature. Not realizing that nature carries intelligence that needs to be studied and appreciated and expanded.”
9:35:
“Institute for Responsible Technology, those of us working on this, we're not just here to simply protect from the replacement of nature...But we can point the direction to the sacredness and sanctity of life, of the nature of nature. And in that, possibly we can support a transformation of human civilization.”
10:20:
“So my message in this holiday season, my birthday inspiration from my time in Hawaii is to align with the intelligence and sacredness of nature.”
11:21:
“So even in our actions of being activists, of protecting against companies like Monsanto that do not evoke celebration, we can take the higher road and we can carry that celebration in our hearts and learn from and live from nature in that way.”
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