biotech indust org BIO

=<div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2014 and 2015, Genetic Literacy Project partnered with a <a target="blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-malkan/monsanto-fingerprints-fou_b_10757524.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Monsanto-backed group</a>, <a href="http://usrtk.org/gmo/following-an-email-trail-how-a-public-university-professor-collaborated-on-a-corporate-pr-campaign/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://usrtk.org/gmo/following-an-email-trail-how-a-public-university-professor-collaborated-on-a-corporate-pr-campaign/&source=gmail&ust=1500499545809000&usg=AFQjCNHZ_z_j3SBTWlLhJ8CYwaymO8d0Zg" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Academics Review</a>, to sponsor the Biotechnology Literacy Project <a href="https://www.usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TamarHaspel1.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">“Boot Camps,”</a> a series of conferences designed to teach scientists how to “best engage the GMO debate with a skeptical public.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246);"> Reporters </span><a target="blank" href="http://www.popsci.com/on-science-journalism-and-conflicts-interest" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; box-sizing: border-box;">were told</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246);"> the funding for the 2015 BLP </span><a target="blank" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0ahUKEwinyYHD55PVAhXkqVQKHbXKAfIQFghGMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Frwjms.umdnj.edu%2Feducation%2Fgsbs%2Fdocuments%2F2-12-015BLPProspectus_000.doc&usg=AFQjCNHkM3msg1T7VEXR3bMRXmWL2ZxknA" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; box-sizing: border-box;">Boot Camp at UC Davis</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246);"> came from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>UC Davis, USDA, state money, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246);">— in fact, the industry group appears to have provided all the funding, as </span><a target="blank" href="http://progressive.org/magazine/how-the-biotech-industry-cultivates-positive-media/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; box-sizing: border-box;">Paul Thacker reported in 2017.</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246);">  </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(See section on <a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-industrys-master-messenger#funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Entine’s funding</a> for more.)</span>
<div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples">https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples</a></b></font></p><h2 style="margin: 0.8em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporations Sue Hawaiian Government and Attempt to Overturn Laws They Say Violate Their Constitutional Rights  </font></h2><p class="rtecenter" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This place has been taken away by the sugar cane industry and the pineapple industry a long time ago. We all know that.” — <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4PcmeVHEY#t=150" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">Dr. Maureen Traub</a></font></em></p><p style="text-align: center; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Corporations are suing Hawai’i and Kauai Counties for violating corporate constitutional “rights” after both counties passed two restrictive ordinances on genetically modified crops (GMOs)</b>.<a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#edn1" name="ednref1" title="" id="ednref1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">[i]</a> Last year two ordinances, 960 (on Kauai) and 13-121 (on Hawaii Island), passed with widespread support from island residents. The laws were drafted out of concern for the massive amount of pesticide spraying that is necessary for maintaining the GMO crops and for the “GMO drift” that contaminates non-GMO crops. Supporters organized through local grassroots groups like, <a href="http://www.stoppoisoningparadise.org/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">Stop Poisoning Paradise</a>, and shared their stories via testimonials on the website.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 0.5in; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As an organic farm inspector, I have seen first-hand beekeepers in the State lose their ability to sell certified organic honey because their forage areas have been compromised by neighboring GMO fields." — Louisa Wooton of Kauai Kunana Dairy</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 0.5in; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As a small business that relies on both local fruit and honey products and a strong visitor economy, I will be marching with other business owners in strong support of Bill 2491. Visitors who come into my store are in disbelief about pesticide use on the island, and many people have continued to email me about their concerns even after leaving the island." — Stephanie Krieger, owner of Nani Moon Meadery</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 0.5in; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We need full disclosure to study the impacts these chemicals are having on our soil, water and wildlife." — Dr. Carl Berg of Surfrider Foundation</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The suit to overturn Ordinance 13-121 on Hawaii Island is brought by the<b> Biotechnology Industry Organization </b>along with the<b> Cattlemen’s Council,</b> the Hawai’i Floriculture, the Nursery Association, and others. A similar suit was brought against Kauai County Ordinance 960 by <b>DuPont’s</b> Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. along with other biotech companies.<a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#edn2" name="ednref2" title="" id="ednref2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">[ii]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The corporations argue that the laws violate their corporate constitutional “rights”; including their “right” to grow GMOs and the right to engage in commerce</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. They also argue that local municipalities have no right to pass such laws because state and federal laws override local laws. In one article, a spokesperson for DuPont Pioneer, a plaintiff in the suit against Kauai, is quoted on that point, “As we have maintained from the outset,” she said, “the state and federal government already have comprehensive regulation of pesticides and GMOs and the County of Kauai has no power to regulate in these areas.” </span><a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#edn3" name="ednref3" title="" id="ednref3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[iii]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hawaii Island, Kauai, and communities across the country that pass laws to protect their communities are running into the same problem: they don't have the legal authority to say "no.” The rights asserted by the corporations represent a corporate structure of law that is in inherent conflict with democracy and our fundamental right of local, community self-government.<a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#edn4" name="ednref4" title="" id="ednref4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">[iv]</a> Until the false legal doctrine of corporate constitutional rights is addressed, corporations will continue to use the constitution to take rights away from the people.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.8em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fight-Back</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two local, grassroots groups are fighting back against this pressure by the biotech industry.</font></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 40px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li images="images" star-gray.png="star-gray.png" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.shakamovement.org/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">SHAKA Movement</a> (Sustainable Hawaiian Agriculture for the Keiki and the ‘Aina) is a self-organized grassroots movement of and for the people of the Hawaiian Islands. At this juncture, SHAKA is putting its resources into a voter initiative in Maui County to restrict GMOs, they are not (as of yet) challenging the basic structure of law regarding corporate rights.</font></li><li images="images" star-gray.png="star-gray.png" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.stoppoisoningparadise.org/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">Stop Poisoning Paradise</a> does community education, organizing, and builds a support network for the community concerns.</font></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.8em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notes</font></h3><div style="line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="edn1"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#ednref1" name="edn1" title="" id="edn1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">[i]</a> <a href="http://www.celdf.org/why-the-people-of-the-big-island-cant-ban-gmos-without-challenging-corporate-rights" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">Why the People of the Big Island Can’t Ban GMOs Without Challenging Corporate “Rights”</a></font></p></div><div id="edn2"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#ednref2" name="edn2" title="" id="edn2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">[ii]</a> <a href="http://khon2.com/2014/08/25/federal-judge-declares-new-kauai-gmo-pesticide-law-invalid/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">Federal judge declares new Kauai GMO, pesticide law invalid</a></font></p></div><div id="edn3"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#ednref3" name="edn3" title="" id="edn3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">[iii]</a> <a href="http://khon2.com/2014/08/25/federal-judge-declares-new-kauai-gmo-pesticide-law-invalid/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">Federal judge declares new Kauai GMO, pesticide law invalid</a></font></p></div><div id="edn4"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples#ednref4" name="edn4" title="" id="edn4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">[iv]</a> <a href="http://www.celdf.org/why-the-people-of-the-big-island-cant-ban-gmos-without-challenging-corporate-rights" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 76, 127); text-decoration: none;">Why the People of the Big Island Can’t Ban GMOs Without Challenging Corporate “Rights”</a></font></p></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></b></p><div>
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">BIO not only represents biotechnology companies, but state biotechnology centers in about three dozen nations around the world. BIO members actually develop healthcare based on toxic pesticide consumption by the masses. They develop products that contain deadly chemicals and then plan the healthcare tailored to quell the symptoms of slow pesticide poisoning and the academics (hucksters and charlatans) who sellout and represent for BIO and CBI push the products that the sick masses buy to quell the pain, confusion and inflammation that drives every preventable disease epidemic in America. These same “gurus” plan the world’s largest gathering of the biotech industry, called BIO International Convention, where investors collaborate and spread the best propaganda for advertising, public relations, and swaying the votes of confused consumers and confused public officials and paid-for government regulators. You can subscribe to their newsletter. This conglomeration is like a huge example of GMA, Grocery Manufacturers Association, that spread propaganda about junk food and junk-science as being beneficial to society, the economy, etc.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">March of 2012:<b> Biotechnology Industry Organization</b> announces that Richard Lobb has been hired by CBI as Managing Director for CBI. (1) Lobb has a record with crisis communication and government relations. He also ran communications for the National Chicken Council. Lobb spent 13 years as the “Merchant of Drumsticks” at his chicken parts empire the National Chicken Council. (2) Lobb is then used to bolster up the “science-based” information propaganda for agricultural biotechnology division and brag about sustainability (which is the complete opposite of what chemical pesticides do destroy soil nutrients, crop nutritional value, animal and plant health and human health. Lobb is told to write about how biotech will feed a growing population (sound familiar?) and “resist diseases and insect pests” and of course “reduce environmental impact.” These are all buzz phrases and catch phrases borrowed from actual organic farming practices and websites and the shills of the biotech industry try to claim them for their own, when it’s a bold-faced lie every time. They will go so far as to call spreading pesticides “outreach.” (3)</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">
</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">All of this propaganda is available for viewing at BIO’s website: Biotechnology Industry Organization: (https://www.bio.org/node/517https://www.bio.org/node/517)</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">They tell consumers, farmers and food investigators that humans have “used the biological processes of microorganisms for more than 6,000 years to make useful food products …” this is a con to make consumers and skeptics stop questioning the dangers of the NEW SCIENCE of inserting genes of toxic pesticides into food, which does not happen in nature, and has only been taking place in laboratories for thirty years.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">They tell consumers and investigators that modern biotech provides “breakthrough products and technologies to combat debilitating and rare diseases …” but they leave out the part that these same chemical-agriculture products CAUSE DEBILITATING DISEASES for the humans that consume them daily.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;"><b>CBI, BIO and GMOAnswers.com </b>(5) tell consumers and investigators they can feed the hungry, but what happens to the hungry who get food laced with toxic herbicides like RoundUp, that the World Health Organization (IARC study) classified as “probably carcinogenic?” That’s certainly not “clean food” or “sustainable” agriculture practice or telling the truth to consumers who want to know if something is GMO (ninety percent or more of Americans want GMO labels).</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">CBI and BIO also push more than 250 health care products and toxic vaccines to diseases they now claim are treatable. Is that because they created them and know what the symptoms and side effects are? Nearly 20 million farmers around the world use chemical agriculture practices but see no difference in yield, see MORE insects that have grown immune to the synthetic insecticides (called Superbugs) and these farmers see MORE weeds that are herbicide-resistant (8) and ruining crop yield–which is just the opposite of what biotechnology claims to accomplish. Refineries are built and managed across the US and North America to produce bio-fuels and chemicals, adding to greenhouse gas emission problems.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">The shills will also claim they can “Heal the World” with their chemical pesticides. By “harnessing nature’s own toolbox” and manipulating and mutating the genetic makeup of plants and crops, they claim they can reduce disease, drought, and famine.</div></div><div>==</div></div></div>