Thanks again Tom. I've been able to buy organic, Iowa milled and
grown Buckwheat flour without GMOs. Not easy to find such products.
Phyllis
Just
saw this – beautifully stated, Thomas!
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Beth
Grossman gets it: The problems with GMOs are not only related to food safety,
the safety of chemcal pesticides, and the economics of farming. The larger
issue is ethical: whether humans have the right to permanently--in the
laboratory--alter the genetic structure of organisms which have taken millions
of years to evolve. Do we, in other words, have the right to shred the web of
life?--Tom
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Genetically
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For Seeds
A
local artist joined city officials in Brisbane to introduce an art
exhibit and "Bill of Rights for Seeds" in an effort to bring attention to the
proliferation of genetically engineered food and people's rights to define
their own food systems.
Mayor
Clarke Conway was set to present the seed bill of rights at a public reception
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at City Hall as part of an unveiling of an art exhibit
by Brisbane artist Beth Grossman.
Grossman
said she was inspired by the constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador to create
the "Bill of Rights for Seeds," which lays out measures that cities and other
governments can take to better protect the environment and to be aware of the
potential dangers of genetically engineered foods, also known as genetically
modified organisms, or GMOs.
According
to the Sierra Club, genetically engineered foods could create new allergens
and toxins and spread harmful traits to non-GMO crops, and the overuse of
genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant crops has prompted more herbicide
use and herbicide-resistant plants.
"The
overriding problem is just that we don't know what's going to happen when
genetically engineered seeds start to germinate in the future," Grossman
said.
She
also cited the disproportionate level of control over the world's food systems
by only a handful of biotechnology corporations such as
Monsanto.
The
'bill of rights' is written in ink on seed bags in quill
ink.
"It's
a literal bill of rights for seeds but it's also more metaphorical in the
sense that we as humans need to consider ourselves stewards of all of the
natural organisms in the world," Grossman said.
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