Brazil Refusing All Imports of U.S. Grown GMO Crops

Yet another country is refusing to drink the Monsanto Kool-aid! Brazil recently joined the growing ranks of countries refusing to accept US grown GM crops. While we here in the US are overrun and continually force-fed (another good reason to READ THE LABELS) genetically modified “foods” — as GMOs are in approximately 80 percent of all packaged, conventional foods in America — many other countries are refusing to import them, grow them, or sell them within their borders.

What’s wrong with our leaders? Why can’t WE make this decision?

Waking Times reports that more and more nations are passing laws which impose trade regulations on GM goods (even though Monsanto attempts to force their wares on the world):

“In recent years, some of the largest commodity trading companies have refused to take certain GMO crops from farmers because the seeds used hadn’t received a full array of global approvals, something that can lead to holdups at ports or even the rejection of entire cargoes.”

Although Brazil is the the second largest producer of GM crops in the world (after the U.S.) and grows 29 varieties of GM corn, their chicken farmers have had enough and are refusing to feed their birds GM corn. But there’s good reason not to. In a recent study, led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini, it was shown that the first genetically-modified GM crop commercialized for animal feed, Bt176 from Novartis (now Syngenta), was toxic to cows over the long-term.

Professor Seralini found problems like “partial paralysis (paresis) accompanied by great fatigue, and problems in the kidneys and mucosal membranes in the animals, followed by death in 10% of cases.” And we eat what they eat when we eat them. Not to mention the poor animals health while they were alive. It’s shameful.

So welcome Brazil, to the growing, international movement against GM seed:

Africa (2)

Algeria (since 2000)
Madagascar (since 2002)

Asia (4)

Turkey
Kyrgyzstan
Bhutan
Saudi Arabia

Americas (5)

Belize
Peru
Ecuador
Venezuela
Brazil (This decision has been coming, in March of 2015, female members of the Landless Worker’s Movement broke into a São Paulo state lab and destroyed millions of samples of GM prototypes that contained a carcinogenic pesticide.)

Europe (28)