French Ban Of Monsanto GM Maize Rejected And Overruled By EU

The EU’s food safety body ruled there is ‘no specific scientific evidence’ that the insect-resistant strain is harmful to health or the environment


Jose Bove and other activists protest genetically modified crops in a field in France. Photograph: Michel Gangne/AFP/GettyFrench ban of Monsanto GM maize rejected by EU (Guardian, May 22, 2012): 

France’s attempt to ban the planting of a Monsanto strain of genetically modified maize was rejected by the EU’s food safety body on Monday.

In response to scientific evidence submitted by France backing its bid to ban the GM maize, the European Food Safety Authority ruled that “there is no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment” to support a ban.

In 2008, France banned the the strain MON 810 following public protests against the GM maize, but this was overturned by a French court in 2011. However, in March the French government reinstated the ban, with the then agricultural minister Bruno Le Maire saying the move was “to protect the environment”.

The Monsanto-owned strain, marketed as YieldGard by the US company, is an insect-resistant strain of maize that was introduced in 1997.

In its verdict on Monday, Efsa said that much of the scientific evidence in France’s new submission in January had already been included in a previous 2008 submission to the agency, which concluded at the time “that no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment, was provided that would justify the invocation of a safeguard clause [ban]”. It added that no new scientific work had been submitted that suggested there was risk to the environment, either.

A spokesman for Europe’s health commissioner, John Dalli, told the AFP news agency that the EU executive “will consider how to follow up on this ruling, though technically we could ask France to raise its ban [on the Monsanto strain]”.

The ruling follows a renewed focus on GM food in the UK, with researchers making a plea to anti-GM activists not to rip up a test site of GM wheat. On Sunday, Hector Christie, an old Etonian farmer, was arrested for breaking into the Rothamsted Research site where the wheat is being grown and cutting the top off several plants.

More information on GMOs:

GM food alters your DNA, changes your brain waves, destroys your immune system, your organs and makes you infertile.

Letter Shows Monsanto Planted GMOs Before USDA Approval (Video)

Human Genes Engineered Into Experimental GMO Rice Being Grown In Kansas

GMO Alert: Top 10 Genetically Modified Foods To Avoid Eating

Monsanto Threatens To Sue The Entire State Of Vermont … If It Requires To Label GMO Food Products!

Farmers Sue Monsanto And US Tobacco Giants Knowingly Poisoned Argentinean Tobacco Farmers With Pesticides, Causing ‘Devastating Birth Defects’ In Their Children

Study: EPA-Approved GMO Insecticide Responsible For Killing Off Bees, Contaminating Entire Food Chain

USDA Green-Lights Field Trials Of Monsanto Drought-Resistant Corn After Admitting It Offers Absolutely No Improvement In Crop Yields

France Government Asks EU To Suspend GM Crop Authorisation Based On ‘Latest Scientific Studies’ Which Show That GM Crops ‘Pose Significant Risks For The Environment’

Obama Regime Blocks FOIA Request Attempting To Release Monsanto-Linked Lobbyist Email

Now Deadly Glyphosate Found In People’s Urine

New Research: GMO Food Far More Deadly Than We Think

French Court Finds Monsanto Guilty Of Chemical Poisoning In France

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes May Soon Be Released In Florida

Farmer Feeds GMO Corn To His Pigs – All Become Sterile (Video)

Washington State Senator Maralyn Chase Pushes For GMO Labeling

The Billion-Dollar Pest: Rootworm Beetle Develops Resistance To Monsanto GM Corn

America’s Farmlands To Be Carpet-Bombed With Vietnam-Era Agent Orange Chemical If Dow Petition Approved

The Beautiful Truth (Video – Full Documentary – The Many Reasons For Chronic Diseases And The Cure)

DHA Used In Organic Infant Formula Products Comes From Genetically Modified Algae

EU High Court Confirms France’s GM Crop Ban Is Illegal

Monsanto Partners With USAID To Push GM Corn In Nepal

Meet The GMO Mighty Mouse

AND NOW: Genetically Modified Rice Created To Produce Human Blood

GMO Mosquitos Engineered To Kill – Their Own Children – RELEASED In Brazil, Cayman, Islands And Malaysia

The Gates Foundation Uses Genetic Modification For Good!

Monsanto Secretly Poisoning Population With Roundup – Scientist And Friends Attacked For Exposing Roundup Link To Birth Defects

Infographic: All The Genetically Modified Food You’re Eating – GMO Ingredients Found In 80% Of Packaged Food

India Files ‘Biopiracy’ Lawsuit Against Monsanto, Says Biotech Giant Is Stealing Nature For Corporate Gain

GMO Gardasil DNA Contamination: EMA Steps Up To The Plate, FDA Drops The Ball

Outrage: 100% Human Papillomavirus (HPV) DNA Contamination In GMO Gardasil Vaccine Reported To FDA

Monsanto Corn Creating New Super Bugs – Corn Crops In Iowa Attacked By Destructive Pests: Researcher

The Attack Of The Monsanto Superinsects And Superweeds

Monsanto And The Mortal Danger To Traditional Agriculture

Monsanto To Sell GM Sweet Corn In The U.S.

GE Alfalfa Planting Brought To You By Incompetence

Food, Inc. (Full Documentary)

Farmer To Farmer: The Truth About GMO Crops (Documentary)

Coming In 2012: Genetically Modified Front Lawns And The Mass Spraying Of Neighborhoods And Playgrounds With RoundUp

The Worlds Largest Human Experiment: GMO’s In Europe – Why Europeans (And Everyone Else) Should Be Worried (Part 2)

The Worlds Largest Human Experiment: GMOs, Roundup And The Monsanto Monstrosity (Part 1)

Hungary Destroys All GMO Maize Fields (Around 400 Hectares) – GMO Seeds Are Banned In Hungary BUT Controllers Found Pioneer And Monsanto Products

BASF Considers Genetically Modified Crop Exit in Germany And Possible Move To The US

Bayer Pays $750 Million To Settle GM Rice Lawsuit

ROUNDUP: Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say

Australia: Secret GM Wheat Experiment Begins

Peru Approves 10 Year BAN on GM Crops

Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World’s Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds

Indian Scientists: GMO Gene Severly Damages The Plants, Causing Developmental Defects, Growth Retardation And Sterility

A Scary Side Effect of Eating GMO Foods

Study: GMO Bt Toxin Found In Human Blood (= A Threat To Human Health)

Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human’ Milk

Farmers and Seed Producers Launch Preemptive Strike against Monsanto

Next Stop Monsanto Zone: Agribusiness Fascism You Can Take A Bath In!

MSNBC Poll: 96% Want GMOs Labeled

Hidden Dangers: Genetically Engineered Foods

USDA National Organics Program: Testing for GMOs NOT Required!!!

GMO Nightmare: There Is No Escape From GM Foods

GMOs: No Seeds, No Independent Research!

Scientists Warn Of Dangerous New Pathogen From Roundup Ready Treated Monsanto GM Crops Causing Infertility And Spontaneous Abortions

Roundup, GMOs linked to emergence of deadly new pathogen causing spontaneous abortions among animals

USDA Deregulates GMO Corn Engineered to Produce Fuel, Not Food, Unleashing Another Mass Contamination of Crops

Despite a Court Ban USDA Allows Commercial Planting of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Sugar Beets

US: Organic Consumers Association Funded by Big Pharma and Rockefeller! Food Freedom Betrayal!

Change: USDA Recommends ‘Coexistence’ with Monsanto

Monsanto’s Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health

Max Keiser: Monsanto And The Seeds Of Evil

WikiLeaks Cables: US Targets EU Over GM Crops

Australia: Monsanto GM Strain Blows Organic Status Away

US Conspired to Retaliate Against European Nations If They Resisted GMOs: Wikileaks Cable Reveals

USDA GMO Policy

US House of Representatives Passes Unconstitutional S.510/HR 2751, The Food Safety Modernization Act (TREASON!!!)

The GMO Orange Scandal

And Now: GMO Oranges As Solution To Insect-Borne Bacterial Disease

Judge Orders Destruction Of Monsanto GMO sugarbeets

Monsanto, Syngenta, BASF And Others Working On GM Wheat

Scientists working to create genetically modified chocolate – to make you healthy (Sure!)

MIT Scientists Develop GMO Plant That Produces Pharmaceutical Drugs

USDA Plans To Allow GM Sugar Beet Planting During Lawsuit

10 Freakiest Things About Frankenfish

GM Flax Contamination Detected in 35 Countries

Study: GM Corn ‘Has Polluted Rivers Across The United States’

FDA Refuses to Require Labeling of GM Salmon

GM Salmon Nears US Approval

RED ALERT: Dr. Rima E. Laibow On The Food Safety Bill (S 510): This Bill Eliminates All Local Farming, Organic Farmers and Garden Farmers

US: GM Salmon May Go On Sale

GMO Sugar Beets – Monsanto Wins Again

US: Rice Farmer Awarded $500,000 In GM Rice Trial

Scientist Leading Taxpayer-Funded GM Crop Test Defends Links To US Biotech Giant Monsanto

US Supreme Court Lifts Ban On Monsanto’s GM Alfalfa

UK Academics Quit Rigged FSA Frankenfood Propaganda

Study: Monsanto’s Roundup Kills Human Cells (Flashback)

GMO Alert: US Attempting Global Censorship of GMO Food Labeling

California Files Legal Brief Opposing Monsanto in US Supreme Court

Russian Scientists Prove Genetically Modified Foods are Harmful, Suggest Ban on GM Foods

Bayer AG admits GMO contamination out of control

Monsanto: GM-Corn Harvest of 82,000 Hectares in South Africa Fails (!)

Multiple Ways Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach

Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Seed Patents May Trump Antitrust Claims

Former Managing Director of Monsanto India: Monsanto ‘Faked’ Data for Approvals

Monsanto GM Corn Causing Organ Failure In Rats: Study (Everything You Need To Know)

Scientist: Monsanto’s herbicide could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in foetuses

Hawaii: GMO taro ban proposal goes to full council

Monsanto to Charge as Much as 42 % More for New Seeds!

US Association of Physicians calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods

Monsanto sues Germany over GM corn ban

Germany bans Monsanto’s GM maize

Greenpeace: No need for condoms – GE corn can do the job

Austrian Government Study Confirms Genetically Modified (GM) Crops Threaten Human Fertility and Health Safety

BIODIVERSITY: Privatisation Making Seeds Themselves Infertile

At stake is no less than control of the world’s food supply.

Exposed: the great GM crops myth:

“Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.”

Highly recommended videos:

Life running out of control – Genetically Modified Organisms (!)

The World According to Monsanto – A documentary that Americans won’t ever see. (!)

Obama and Monsanto:

Obama Gives Key Agriculture Post to Lobbyist of CropLife America Whose Members Include Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and Dow Chemical

Obama Gives ‘Pesticide Lobbyist’ Post as Chief Agricultural Negotiator

Monsanto lobbyists to be placed in charge of food safety by Obama

Obama appoints Monsanto shill Tom Vilsack to USDA chief

On CODEX and the agenda of the elite:

Food Safety Bill Invokes Codex Harmonization And Grants FDA Authority To Police Food Safety Of Foreign Nations

Dr. Rima E. Laibow: The Globalist Depopulation Agenda

Dr. Rima E. Laibow on Codex Alimentarius and Food Nazification (!)

Dr. Rima E. Laibow on the Contamination of the Food Supply & Deadly Antibiotics

Codex Alimentarius: Population Control Under the Guise of Consumer Protection

One Nation Under Siege – Full Theatrical Release

Nutricide – Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.