Editor:
I grew up on an organic grain farm in Saskatchewan, and worked for five years as a USDA-contract organic inspector. But I left the organic movement when I realized it was all just a bureaucratic scam designed to propel a political agenda, an agenda focused on banning genetic engineering.
The only way organic activists can achieve their goals is by pretending GMOs contaminate organic crops. The truth is, this is not possible.
Since no adverse effects have ever been observed to the environment or to human health from GMOs, they are not in the same category as pesticides which even pesticide-makers admit can be dangerous.
As such, the rules for organic production here in America — written, edited and finalized by organic activists themselves during the Clinton Administration — only prevent organic farmers from making use of GMOs. There is no point at which GMOs become a problem for an organic farmer as long as he or she does not grow a GMO crop.
There are stories circulating in the media and on the Internet of buyers rejecting organic crops because of GMO contamination, or more often because of the potential that GMO contamination might occur. But such rejection is not based in science or on the rules for organic production.
Mischa Popoff, Greenville, Texas
This article appears in Stand Down.
I’m thinkin’ this guy/gal watches too much Faux Snooze.
Sorry, honey, there is a lot of evidence of the pollution of other crops by GMO’s. ….and yes, there are also studies/reports of environmental damage done by such bastardized plants.
The incidents of insect and environmental damage has been known for a while. Guess this letter writer has their mind made up so easy to confuse them with the facts.
Maybe the best clue to the ignorance of the writer is that he/she is from Texas. We all know how corrupt, proselytizing and useless that states educational system really is.
Wow, this is a very inaccurate story. The “potential for GMO contamination to occur”? This author from Texas is not familiar with Monsanto then. Organic Farmers go through plenty of soil testing to make sure that no pesticides, fungicides, etc., were used for years in their gardens. This is definitely propaganda based on opinion without facts.
He may be from Texas now, but he left Canada after getting thrown out of the Conservative Party for being too conservative. Well too misogynist actually.http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/29/mischa-popoff-fired-bc-conservative-video_n_3179254.html
His articles, and comments are so filled with half-truths, inaccuracies and sometimes outright lies, he looses all credibility. For a better picture of who this guy really is
http://www.cornucopia.org/2011/06/who-is-mischa-popoff/
Anonymous comments really make a strong point talking about the person rather than the content of their letter. Oh, right, opposite of that.
Holy guacamole! I have never read so many lies in such a short piece. Anybody who takes this seriously: please do a little googling and then please become offended by how this person is trying to blatantly trick you; we’re better than that.
More of Misha Popoff’s usual disinformation.
Popoff is just one of the numerous GMO pesticide industry operatives that are everywhere these days trying to define a narrative that ignores the fact that there have been no independent long term studies of the effects of Roundup laden GMOs on human health.
Read what the Food Safety News has to say about this corrupt tool ; http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/08/critic-of-organic-movement-is-a-flawed-messenger/
There is a limit to what’s right and what is wrong. Monsanto has surpassed that limit. And they know that. Thats why they fight so hard to keep what they can a secret. They have to much money invested In trying to make the plants better and cheaper without care of what it will do to ppl. Yes maybe they think it is for the good. It was for the good in the start. But like I said they are taking it to far. If its not broken don’t fix it. Quit messing around with are lives like we have more the one
GE Wheat was found in OR and just recently in Montana. So how can Popoff say there are no problems with GMO contamination? As the result of this contamination, JAPAN and South Korea suspended purchases of wheat from OR.
Popoff also stated that the pesticides pose a health risk. Then why would we want to grow or eat GMOs that are ENGINEERED to NOT DIE when farmers sprayed the toxic weed killer, Roundup on GMO crops. When you’re eating GMOs you’re eating pesticides. Sheesh.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/business/global/japan-and-south-korea-bar-us-wheat-imports.html?_r=0
Wow, LOL, thank goodness America is waking up to this kind of nonsense information… it’s obvious by most of the comments on this thread that people aren’t buying it. 🙂
Worse reporter ever!!!
Okay, then why does Monsanto continually sue over patent infringement; WHEN THEIR GMOs CONTAMINATE ORGANIC CROPS????
Everywhere GMO labeling/banning are on a ballot you can expect paid propagandists, they spent tens of millions of dollars in Seattle, and it worked.