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russia - 10 year moratorium on GMO imports

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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently announced that Russia will no longer import GMO products, stating that the nation has enough space, and enough resources to produce organic food.

If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don’t need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food.” –Medvedev

Russia has been considering joining the long list (and continually growing) of anti-GMO countries for quite some time now. It does so after a group of Russian scientists urged the government to consider at least a 10-year moratorium on GMOs to thoroughly study their influence on human health.

“It is necessary to ban GMOs, to impose moratorium (on) it for 10 years. While GMOs will be prohibited, we can plan experiments, tests, or maybe even new methods of research could be developed. It has been proven that not only in Russia, but also in many other countries in the world, GMOs are dangerous. Methods of obtaining the GMOs are not perfect, therefore, at this stage, all GMOs are dangerous. Consumption and use of GMOs obtained in such way can lead to tumors, cancers and obesity among animals. Bio-technologies certainly should be developed, but GMOs should be stopped. We should stop it from spreading. ” – Irina Ermakova, VP of Russia’s National Association for Genetic Safety

A number of scientists worldwide have clearly outlined the potential dangers associated with consuming GMOs. I recently published an article titled “10 Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Can Be Harmful To Human Health,” you can read that in full here. These are just a select few out of hundreds of studies that are now available in the public domain, it seems that they continue to surface year after year.

Russia completely banning GMOs, such a large, developed nation is a big step forward in creating more awareness with regards to GMOs. Ask yourself, why have so many nations banned GMOs and the pesticides that go with them? It’s because evidence points to the fact that they are not safe, they are young, and we just don’t know enough about them to safely consume them. They just aren’t necessary, so why produce them?

Within the past few years, awareness regarding GMOs has skyrocketed. Activism has played a large role in waking up a large portion of Earths population with regards to GMOs. People are starting to ask questions and seek answers. In doing so, we are all coming to the same conclusion as Russia recently came to.

In February, the State Duma introduced a bill banning the cultivation of GMO food products. President Putin ordered that Russian citizens be protected from GMOs. The States Agricultural Committee has supported the ban recommendation from the Russian parliament, and the resolution will come into full effect in July 2014.

This just goes to show what we can do when we come together and demand change and share information on a global scale. Change is happening, and we are waking up to new concepts of our reality every day. GMOs are only the beginning, we have many things to rid our planet of that do not resonate with us and are clearly unnecessary. We are all starting to see through the false justifications for the necessity of GMOs, no longer are we so easily persuaded, no longer do we believe everything we hear and everything we’re presented with. Lets keep it going!

Sources:

http://rt.com/news/russia-import-gmo-products-621/

http://rt.com/news/gmo-ban-russian-scientists-293/

http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-free-regions/russia/gmo-free-news-from-russia/news/en/28934.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/its-official-russia-has-banned-gmo-products-commitment-to-organic-food/5414961

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Good work Russia! :)

On the opposite end, last month the US authorized commercial production of cotton, soy, and corn engineered to be tolerant to a mixture of both roundup and 2,4-D, Dow Chemical’s Enlist Duo herbicide. Now I have to grow my own corn, or be one of the sorry fools who eats a food sprayed with 2,4-D shortly before harvest.

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My initial suspicion.... Its primarily a response to the tough American-led sanctions against Russia.

Either way good on them. I think it can only be a good thing when a country stands up to the world police and their snivelling allies.

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to put some things in context i read that Russia is currently experiencing food shortages. I'm not entirely sure they have what it takes to supply all their people with food. However this I read from western news sites and well, they're all corrupt and not to be trusted.

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they have vast ha of lands.........just not getting EU fruit produce due to us sanctions (eu shoots itself in the foot)...so they are importing the tropical stuff from the BRICS.....ya Russia........

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just cos they have lots of land doesn't mean it's all arable, siberia is no suitable for farming and I understand they have some issues with drought in previous years (as lots of traditionally farming lands are),

my point is, Russia can shoot its people in the face if they take too ideological a stance against the west

edit: the quickest way to revolt is to starve your people

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Russia's stock just went up, courtesy of the large middle finger they flicked to Monsanto and the rest of the frankenfood crew. :)

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Only fools would allow an entity to gain monopoly over the food supply and GMO has the capacity to do just that with their shitty patented seeds. All we have to do is look to countries like India to see the evil being wrought by that evil corporation and their evil web of corrupt politicians lobbyists et al. Their interest is not to create greater production of food. Quite the opposite according to the published writings of their elite mates.

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to put some things in context i read that Russia is currently experiencing food shortages.

That is only temporary. EU imposed sanctions very recently, and many millions of tons of fruit and vegetables that were supposed to be exported to Russia are now rotting. So the main victims here are EU farmers, especially the ones from smaller, poorer countries. The Russians were simply not prepared for the huge deficit of food that was supposed to be imported, but they will bounce back very quickly. There is plenty of arable land, especially in the south, and now many people will go into agriculture, which will bring them a nice profit, and reduce Russia's uneployement.

So, I'd say definitely another nail in the coffin that is the EU.

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