A warm welcome to everyone who joined NO GMO South Africa. Please sign the ACB petition to say NO TO GMOs in commercial bread, if you haven’t signed already. ACB will close the petition soon. Thank You for taking action. Don’t forget to nag your local SPAR Bakery to supply you with non-GM Bread.

ACB Activist Corner
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African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) Activist Corner – Make your voice heard, sign the petition. …read more    

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Herbalife – A Misrepresentation of Health and a Great Promoter of GMO, Dangerous Chemicals and…
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Herbalife – A Misrepresentation of Health and a Great Promoter of GMO, Dangerous Chemicals and Preservatives …read more    

Way to go, India. Soon this will spread to the whole country.

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Organic farming is good for nature & good for you.
After Green revolution, its time for India to bring Organic Green Revolution & new government is ready to bring it.
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The central government is planning to turn India’s eastern states into an organic farming-hub, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said here on Monday.

“Our priority is to develop Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and eastern Uttar Pradesh into an organic farming hub for development of the region and to provide opportunity to millions of farmers to earn more,” Singh told media persons.

Singh, who hails from Bihar, said organic farming has more scope and potential to change the face of the eastern states.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly made it clear that development of eastern states is his priority and agriculture is very important sector for it,” he said.

Singh said without development of villages, farmers and agriculture, the country cannot grow and become stronger. “The government’s priority is to work to strengthen the rural and village economy.”

Singh said farmers would be given soil health cards. “The government would issue soil health cards to farmers. By using these, farmers would increase their production through right seeds and fertilizers,” he said.

He said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government also decided to launch Pradhan Mantri Gram Sinchai Yojna to give boost to agricultural produce in the country.

It will be on the lines of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna. — with Arghodip Dey and 8 others. …read more    

Take heed, Africa. GMOs are a threat to our export markets. Thanks to the government, South Africa has already suffered economic losses due to their blinkered support of GMO regimes.

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KENYA: REJECT GMOs! Local farmers will find it difficult to export their crops to Europe if they adopt the Genetically Modified crops, according to the head of the EU delegation to Kenya, Lodewjik Briet. “We have made this crystal clear to South Africans and I am telling the same to Kenyan farmers that it will be almost impossible to export GMOs to Europe,” Mr. Briet said. The warning comes at a time when Kenya is under pressure, mainly from pro-GMO Americans, to lift a ban on the importation of GM foods. The Kibaki Government banned the importation GMOs in 2012 following concerns that they could be linked to cancer. Last week, Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia told the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives, that there is a lot of local and international pressure to have the ban lifted. Among the organizations campaigning for the lifting of the ban is the Melinda Gates Foundation. “There has been a lot of lobbying. We had a meeting with Melinda Gates, but we didn’t take a position; we had to wait for a report of the task force that we formed to investigate the issue,” said Dr. Macharia.

The chemical corporations will make chemical addicts of you, and poison your land and your people. We said it once and we’ll say it again. KENYA: REJECT GMOs!

READ: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000125446&story_title=Kenya-europe-to-shun-kenya-s-gm-crops-farmers-told

#KenyaRejectGMOs #Kenya #Africa #EU #gmo #MelindaGatesFoundation #MelindaGates #MelindaGatesChemicalPusher #BanGMOs #BoycottGMOs #gmofreekenya #gmofreeafrica #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa — with Anil Gnacion. …read more    

We call on our leaders globally to call a moratorium on all GMOs & Glyphosate formulations until a full-scale investigation and long-term carginogenic study can be conducted, independently from industry influence. We don’t trust the so-called safety agencies to act in consumers interests. Furthermore, a new study proposed by France has been reduced to 6 months, & an EU study which will be funded by taxpayers for 3.7 Million Euro is already corrupted by industry involvement. Anything less than a moratorium would be criminal negligence & a human and animal rights violation by our leaders.
Please see the publication here:
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BREAKING: 2012 Seralini GMO/Roundup Study REPUBLISHED in Springer Journal of Environmental Sciences.

PRESS RELEASE:
Paris, 24 June 2014
Republication of Professor Séralini’s study: Time to be responsible.

The 2012 study on the chronic toxicity of Roundup herbicide and the genetically modified Roundup-tolerant maize NK603 by Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and colleagues has been republished by the Springer group, with open access to its raw data. Now there will be a few embarrassing questions for the authorities.

After two years of controversy and pressure that led to the retraction of the study in November 2013, which was first published in 2012 by the Food and Chemical Toxicology (Elsevier group) journal, the research team of Professor Séralini has announced that they have republished the study in the Journal “Environmental Sciences Europe”, published by the Springer Group. By republishing their study with some new data which are available online, the team of Professor Séralini confirms that the world’s best-selling pesticide, Roundup, causes severe liver and kidney deficiencies and hormonal disturbances, such as breast tumours, at low environmentally relevant levels. Similar effects were observed from the chronic consumption of Roundup-tolerant GM maize. This is due to residues of Roundup and to the specific genetic modification of this maize. The formulations of Roundup, as well as Roundup-tolerant GMOs, should therefore be considered endocrine (hormone) disruptors and should be re-evaluated for safety by the health authorities.

Winfried Schröder, editor of the journal Environmental Sciences Europe of the Springer Group, stated: ‘’We want to enable a rational discussion about the study of Séralini et al. (Food Chem Toxicol 2012, 50:4221–4231) by republishing it. This methodological competition is the energy necessary for any scientific progress. The sole purpose is to enable some scientific transparency and on this basis, a discussion that does not try to hide, but focuses on these needed methodological controversies.”

The research team of Prof Séralini made the choice of an open access publication in a peer-reviewed journal, which arranged the third peer-reviewed assessment of the study. The researchers have published
online the raw data of the study with free access for the entire scientific community – something that the industry has always refused to do, claiming commercial confidentiality or intellectual property restrictions.
But is there any real secret to keep? How could the results of a health study violate an industrial secret? Is industry hiding the actual toxicity of compounds that accumulate in our bodies and our environment?

Dr Joël Spiroux de Vendômois, medical doctor and President of CRIIGEN says, “Pesticides such as Roundup and agricultural GMOs cannot be ignored in the explanation of the epidemic of environmental
pathologies”. In addition, he emphasizes “the deficiency of the regulatory assessment of pesticides and GMOs, which endangers public health.”

CRIIGEN is asking for free access to toxicological studies which have authorised the placing on the market of different formulations of Roundup, the free access to raw data on the toxicological urine and blood
analyses for all products, and urges the legal authorities to undertake further public research, with a commitment to placing its findings in the public domain, regarding the possible toxicological and endocrine disrupting effects of GMOs and Roundup, as other pesticides, using long-term exposure periods to ensure the real protection of public health.

Contact:
Email: presse@criigen.info
Tel: 02 31 56 56 84

#MonsantoAintGoingToLikeThis #Seralini #Criigen #Springer #JournalofEnvironemntalSciences #GMO #Roundup #glyphosate #toxicity #labelgmos #bangmos #needtoknowgmo #freedom2chooz #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa — with Lorraine Herman and 6 others. …read more    

More for People in the Jozi – Gauteng area for organic produce & products. For dairy products, please query suppliers if the cows are fed on GMOs, if they receive Growth or Oestrus Hormones or antibiotics. Please also see or Notes:
Organic Emporium – Jozi Real Food Revolution
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Just look at these gorgeous bright pumpkins!

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Oranjezicht City Farm

OZCF proud to be hosting a pumpkin promotion on Saturday for Market Day (9am to 2pm). Squash ‘Crown Prince’ is renowned for its colourful rich orange flesh with a sweet and nutty flavour. The pumpkins are organically grown in the Nuy Valley by the people from Nuy (near Worcester). An old variety of winter squash but still popular for its attractive, flattened fruits with a steely-blue skin, each weighing up to 4kg. They are good for eating and storing or decoration, grown with love and the help of many bees. Thanks to Farmer Cialee Oosthuizen of Coveg, who usually exports these gorgeous looking squashes to Europe. We will have 350kg of pumpkins and it will be a sight to behold. …read more    

Places for those of you in the Jozi – Gauteng area to forage for organic produce & products 🙂 For dairy products, please query suppliers if the cows are fed on GMOs, if they receive Growth or Oestrus Hormones or antibiotics. Please also see or Notes:
Local markets around JohannesburgSlow Food Johannesburg
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Local markets are a great way to discover and support local producers. Check our list of farmers’ and small producers markets in or near Johannesburg …read more