If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.- Norman Braksick, Monsanto executive.
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We produced a very good draft in 2004 then Monsanto started bribing people from Ministry of Agriculture 2 block process from draft to law
As part of its obligations under the Cartagena Protocol, Egypt must create its own national biosafety law. Such a law was drafted in 2004..
rBGH is injected in cows every other week to force them to produce more milk than they normally would.
Whenever cows are forced to produce more milk, they become more susceptible to udder infections called mastitis.
Monsanto brought to the world Agent Orange, a highly toxic, cancer-causing herbicide used in the Vietnam war.
Monsanto admitted to receiving 95 reports in the first 6 months of sales of rBGH from farmers with problems.
While all 4 corporations competed to develop rBGH, only Monsanto has continued to develop and market it.
Monsanto,Eli Lilly,Upjohn,and American Cyanamid are the corporations that stood to profit from the $500M to be made from marketing of rBGH.
Mastitis is treated with antibiotics, increasing the antibiotics residues which are present in milk fed to consumers.
Monsanto's data shows that there is a 79% increase in mastitis and 19% increase in somatic cell counts (pus & bacteria in the milk)
Whenever cows are forced to produce more milk, they become more susceptible to udder infections called mastitis.
(cont..), among those problems raising levels of pus, antibiotics residues and a cancer-accelerating hormone called IGF-1.
Increasing levels of this hormone boosts milk production, causing a number of problems with the milk (cont..)