Outcry as Walmart OK's
Monsanto GM Corn
- Common Dreams staff
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โอเค กับข้าวโพดจีเอ็มของมอนซานโต
-คณะคอมมอนดรีมส์
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has
confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that despite protests from environment and
food-safety advocates, it will not restrict sales of genetically modified corn
in its stores.
บริษัท วอลมาร์ท กิจการขายปลีกที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก ได้ยืนยันต่อ
ชิคาโกทริบูน ว่า ทั้งๆ
ที่นักคุ้มครองสิ่งแวดล้อมและความปลอดภัยทางอาหารทำการประท้วง
มันจะไม่หยุดขายข่าวโพดที่ได้ผ่านการตัดแต่งทางพันธุกรรมในร้านของมัน
The corn will not be labelled and consumers will not be
notified that the sweet corn they are buying are engineered by agro-giant
Monsanto and genetically-altered (GMO stands for genetically modified organism)
to resist the toxic impact of being sprayed with chemical pesticides and
herbicides.
จะไม่มีการติดป้ายข้าวโพด และผู้บริโภคก็จะไม่ได้รับการบอกกล่าวว่า
ข้าวโพดหวานที่พวกเขาซื้อ ได้ถูกนักวิศวพันธุกรรมของยักษ์เกษตรพาณิชย์ มอนซานโต
แปรเปลี่ยนยีนส์ ให้ต่อต้านพิษจากการพ่นยากำจัดแมลงและวัชพืช
“A lot of people who were their customers explicitly said we
don’t want you to carry this product, and I think it’s unfortunate that they
chose not listen to that feedback,” said Patty Lovera, assistant director of
Food & Water Watch. The consumer group had submitted a petition to Wal-Mart
with 463,000 signatures, she said.
“คนจำนวนมากที่เป็นลูกค้า ได้พูดอย่างชัดเจนว่า เราไม่ต้องการให้คุณจำหน่ายสินค้านี้
และฉันคิดว่า มันโชคร้าย ที่พวกเขาไม่ฟังเสียงสะท้อนเหล่านั้น” แพ็ตตี โลเวอรา ผู้ช่วยผู้อำนวยการของ
เฝ้าระวังอาหารและน้ำ กล่าว
กลุ่มผู้บริโภคได้ยื่นคำร้องต่อวอลมาร์ทพร้อมลายเซ็น 463,000 ชื่อ
Consumer advocates argue that too little research has been
done on to be certain of the effects such products can have on those who eat or
them, but say certain troubling health trends correspond to the rise of GMO
foods in the marketplace. At the least, they
argue, such products should be labeled so consumers are aware of what they're
purchasing.
นักคุ้มครองสิทธิผู้บริโภคแย้งว่า
มีงานวิจัยน้อยมากที่ศึกษาผลกระทบของผลิตภัณฑ์เหล่านี้ต่อผู้ที่กินมันเข้าไป แต่บอกว่า
แนวโน้มสุขภาพทางลบบางอย่างสอดคล้องกับการเพิ่มมากขึ้นของอาหารจีเอ็มโอในตลาด พวกเขาแย้งว่า อย่างน้อย
ก็ควรมีฉลากเพื่อผู้บริโภคจะได้รู้ตัวว่ากำลังซื้ออะไร
“How would you ever know if there are adverse health
effects?” said Michael Hansen, a senior scientist at Consumers Union, the
policy arm of Consumer Reports. “There has been a doubling of food allergies in
this country since 1996. Is it connected to genetically engineered foods? Who
knows, when you have no labeling? That is a problem.”
“คุณจะรู้ได้ยังไงว่ามีผลร้ายต่อสุขภาพหรือไม่?” ไมเคิล แฮนสัน
นักวิทยาศาสตร์อาวุโส ที่สหภาพผู้บริโภค ซึ่งเป็นฝ่ายนโยบายของรายงานผู้บริโภค “ตั้งแต่ปี ๒๕๓๙
สถิติของผู้เกิดภูมิแพ้ด้านอาหารได้เพิ่มขึ้น ๒ เท่าตัวในประเทศนี้ มันเกี่ยวโยงกับอาหารจีเอ็มไหม? ใครจะไปรู้ได้
ในเมื่อคุณไม่มีการติดฉลากบอก?
นั่นเป็นปัญหา”
Earlier this year, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and General
Mills said they would not carry or use the genetically modified sweet corn.
ต้นปีนี้ Whole Foods, Trader
Joe’s และ General Mills บอกว่า พวกเขาจะไม่จำหน่าย
หรือใช้ข้าวโพดหวานจีเอ็ม
In California this year, a state referendum is up for a vote
that would require all GMO products to be labelled so that consumers are aware
if modified ingredients are contained in the products they buy. The chemical pesticide companies and
companies like Monsanto are fighting hard against the measure, fearing that if
California, the country's most populous state, passes such a sweeping consumer
protection laws other states will likely follow.
ในแคลิฟอร์เนีย ปีนี้ มีการจัดทำประชามติเรียกร้องให้
ผลิตภัณฑ์จีเอ็มทั้งหมด ต้องติดฉลาก เพื่อผู้บริโภคจะได้รู้ว่า มีส่วนผสมแปรพันธุกรรมในของที่เขาซื้อหรือไม่ บริษัทสารเคมีฆ่าแมลง และบริษัทเช่น มอนซานโต
กำลังต่อสู้อย่างหนักเพื่อล้มมาตรการดังกล่าว ด้วยความกลัวว่า หากแคลิฟอร์เนีย
ซึ่งเป็นรัฐที่มีประชากรมากที่สุด ผ่านกฎหมายคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคดังกล่าว มลรัฐอื่นๆ
ก็คงจะคล้อยตาม
The initiative, Proposition 37, will be voted on in
November.
การริเริ่มดังกล่าว ญัตติ 37 จะลงคะแนนกันในเดือนพฤศจิกายน
Published on Saturday, August 4, 2012 by Common Dreams
Wal-Mart and Monsanto, a marriage made in corporate Hell.
08/04/2012 12:02 PM
Hillary Clinton was a Lawyer for Walmart.
Obama has opened the door for Monsanto in Africa and
assigned a former head of Monsanto to the FDA...
I guess that would make Obama and Hillary Ministers?
08/04/2012 06:38 P
dear N8W1der, did you
take a good look at the opposition to Obama?
and what he stands for? and who
is backing him? ..and their performance as NOsayers of our Congressional
system...and...that should be more than enough to know.....Obama is our safer choice......(taking into consideration
the common good and our well being.)
We have to learn to stand up for him...when his policies
match our needs..and to him...when they do not....and when we learn to take our
place as citizens we can grow a democracy..
Yesterd
Ohhhhh toevolve,
Please tell me, tell us all where Obama has stood up for the
99%.
Wall Street? No.
Food Safety? No.
Human Rights? No.
Ending wars? No.
End wire tapping?No.
The Constitution? No.
The rights for public workers? No.
Indefinite detention?No.
Black site prisons? No.
Fighting against TAPP? No.
Massive Jobs programs? No.
Protecting Governmental whistleblowers? No.
Governmental Transparency? No.
Assasinating US citizens?
Cutting Defense spending? No
Universal heathcare? No.
And Yes Romney is worse..
So toevolve, how would you like to die?
With Obama it's through lies and a quiet razor across the
metaphorical throat?
Or with Romney through brutality and a metaphorical shot in
the head?
I stand in opposition to both death cults that are our two
parties and declare both evil and anti-human. You will only know how to fight
when you look plainly at your opposition and see them for what they truly are.
Yesterday 10:46 A
So my friend....our thinking is almost congruent.
We both believe that Romney is by far the worse of the two
choices. And coupled with Ryan...who
is attractive, a passionate speaker and iron clad strongarm of the Nosayers who
signed the Norquist pledge........
clearly your believe that Romney will give us a swift
"brutality and with metaphorical shot in the head"......
I am for neither of our two choices...i stand not for or
against the candidates..but for the common good...for justice and the
"kinder gentler world" that the 1st bush promised us..
And the way to such change...is for us...to grow..and take
our rightful place as citizens of an evolving democracy.
OUr first steps ,must include the Romney/Ryan defeat....he
must not win..even by default because we voted for a person that, in our present election circumstance, could
not win.
And step two is to get rid of our congressional NOsayers....
And while we are doing that...to fight like hell for the
issues.
Did i mention there is a pending boycott starting September
against all foreign made goods for an entire month. and right now there is boycott against Koch
Bros goods. There is also the fight...
Today 03:21 P
Toevolve,
I vote for Revolt. I vote for millions in the streets. I
vote for an on going Nation wide General strike. I vote for the absolute
dismantling of the Corporate Cabal that controls the Entire US Government and
both parties.
I will not vote for a War Criminal and Wall Street Mascot
who assassinates US Citizens freely, who imprisons and Tortures US Citizens
whistle blowers before they are even put to trial. I will not Vote for a man
who then allows self admitting War Criminals to go free. I will not vote for a
man who will not protect the Constitution and actually fights to undermine it.
I will not vote for a man who refers to obvious criminals who have destroyed
our economy as "Savvy Businessmen" while unable to follow through on
a promise to stand and fight with main street public workers and teachers who
are under attack.
I've always wondered how atrocities happen but the more read
from the"Liberal Class" types who can and will vote for the
continuation of this madness and think they are voting for Progress, Justice,
the more I realize they are under a self preserving delusion and nothing...
Today 04:09 P
so Mr Tuttle...we meet again.
You are right.....this is something for us to stand up
against. Unfortunately this is the way
of most of our courrupted Washington. As
our head of Monsanto was origionally put into his position by Bush.
They are saying that this is a way to feed the hungry of our
world........we can say back...this is a way to kill the hungry..and aggrevate
the harsh conditions of their lives. And we must do it now because the further
the ball rolls, the more acreage and harm will be done to our planet...to us.
And as a balance I have been considering learning...to
gather our seeds..and hide them..to grow food in personal farms hidden from the
naked eye......
Yesterd
Tell me toevolve did President Obama appoint to the position
of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative a
pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at
CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto?
Or was that Bush too?
Yesterday
It was indeed Bush ...however....it is Obama who continued
his presence in the agency....so the fault belongs to both......
Here is the point....Monsanto is powerfull..and Obama
believes that this is the answer to world hunger that is coming......And
Romney/Ryan and the Nosayers for middle class strenghtening...will not get rid
of him....
the answer is not to hurry our demise..but to circumvent
it. This is the bandwagon I want to see
you jump on.
Today
The silver lining here could be that people would choose to
buy their food (and everything else) in a store other than Wal-Mart!
08/04/2012 11:46 A
but in amerika nobody listens to anecdotal evidence (or
scientific facts) so that if you say hey dont allow mao mart in our you will
have traffic blight ruined roads less competition and no small business, nobody
listens. and add insult to injury states use YOUR money as a resident of
wherever you live to compete and 'attract' these big boxes who theoretically
provide more taxes to keep tax rates down and provide jobs etc while getting
upfront tax exemptions in state economic zones for future theoretical things
which never ever add up subtracting for all bankrupted companies bankrupted by
mao mart. why is china always lectured by US for dumping on US consumers but
mao mart does same exact thing and gets tax incentives for unfair competition
and doesnt even pay for healthcare for employees; YOU are paying for it. add
that to your 'lowest prices always' bu!!sh!t.
Mao mart STILL gets these and it is already virtually
EVERYWHERE! and PROOF is that over a decade mao mart still pays no taxes (part
of deal 'attracting' the big box is their not paying taxes for a decade or
so). more traffic since there is usually
no traffic...
08/09/20
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