Sophia wrote:You do yourself and everyone else against Monsanto's practices a disservice focusing on a claim you can't actually back up (and, until you produce a primary source, you can't)
HUH? I would think a video containing a screenshot of their website would be a primary source. That video was posted 2 years ago, obviously Monsanto could easily have changed their website since then, and most certainly has, many times over. A company the size of Monsanto isn't going to have a static web site that remains unchanging for years at a time.
Do a search using:
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monsanto "there is no need to test the safety of"
as your search terms, you'll find no shortage of different articles and websites citing that quote. That strongly indicates that it was indeed on Monsanto's web site in the past but was removed. Based on the number of articles siting that particular claim and the overall tone of them, I'd say Monsanto removed that claim only after taking heat for making it.
That was very easy to find, in fact, here's the search I just did, using those exact terms:
https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt ... args=0&b=1
Regardless, if a screenshot of what was on their website back in 2012 isn't enough for you and if you can't figure out that a the contents of a website can be changed in the 2 years since that screenshot was made, then there's no point in arguing this point any further. In fact, I'm getting the distinct impression that your nitpicking at any excuse to discredit what I'm saying and I won't take part in that.
So let's move on to new points.
That article raises some good points, but while he mentions how there are all these scientists and all these reports claiming GMOs are proven safe, I didn't see him cite a single one. He also claimed that all reports claiming that GMOs are not safe are flawed, and sites a single example of a flawed report. That report was not scientifically done and proves nothing one way or the other. ON the other hand, Mike Adams deals in specifics in his report, and the research he sites was done by teams of dozens of genetic engineers at independent labs on a project that was not funded by the corporations making GMOs or any of their parent/subsidiary organizations. I posted the link to the abstract of the report, which also has options to get the full thing.
Mike Adams, in covering that report, raises some very compelling questions into just how safe many GMOs really are. Rememver, DDT was "proven safe" by "scientific consensus" until that consensus was proven wrong when people, plants and animals started getting sing and dying from DDT poisoning. These are also the scientists that tell us a drug is safe and effective (the FDA in the USA for example) and then when people start getting sick and dying of that drug with few or no noticeable benefits from those taking the drug and have to retract that claim and approval. Many of these drugs eventually go on to become illegal narcotics, such as LSD, and heroin to name 2 examples.
The difference is these are artificial things, which will eventually be cleaned out of our environment when we stop using them. In other words, we can recover from such "oops" moments when the scientists make a mistake or are being corrupt. GMOs are living organisms, which bread and do their best to survive. Once released into the environment, they will continue to breed and survive so any of them that prove to be unsafe or even downright deadly, and "oops" moments here and there's no going back, it's not going to just go away like a bad chemical will. It will breed and spread and has the potential to become the worst disaster the human race has ever seen.
In this rush to market and rush to profits model, these GMOs are not being tested nearly as thoroughly or as impartially as we need them to be. The report I posed a link to shows just one of the very real risks of the rush to spread and sell GMOs before the are well and thoroughly proven safe. Also, given the track record of Monsanto, I do not trust them to come up with products that are safe, I do not trust any products that company comes up with, or any claims that company makes. Monsanto has established a track record of producing deadly products and lying, bullying and lobbying to keep them on the market for as long as possible for me to trust that company. Monsanto has long since worn out any credibility it may have once had as an organization.