Comments on: June 24th Food Safety Forum on Capitol Hill was a huge success

By: Hydrolyze

Hydrolyze — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:50:29 +0000

Just wanted to say hello all. This is my first post.

I hope to learn some good stuff here.

By: Food Safety Certification

Food Safety Certification — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:26:10 +0000

these kinds of public discussion forums are really effective, they are a good source of making people aware about the different food safety problems we are facing currently.

By: Guy Blissett

Guy Blissett — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:50:27 +0000

Lively and open debate about all facets of our food supply – including GMO, food security, food waste, traceability and food safety – is essential to ensuring the stakeholders consider and propertly evaluate all relevant possible solutions.

What is widely accepted as fact is that the current trajectory of food consumption vs. food production is not sustainable. The UN just released data suggesting the world’s hungry now tops 1 billion people (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31197&Cr=hunger&Cr1). At the same time food prices remain high around the globe, drought it a very real issue in many of the prime agricultural regions (e.g., Brazil, Australia, China and California) and increasing consumption trends will likely exacerbate these issues. At the same time it is estimated that food waste between farm and fork may exceed 50% (http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Policy_Briefs/PB_From_Filed_to_Fork_2008.pdf).

What is needed is a smarter food supply chain… one that addresses declining agricultural yields, water use, waste, contamination, distribution challenges and health issues, and engages all stakeholders.

By: Naia Kelly

Naia Kelly — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:51:04 +0000

GMOs are going to be the end of humanity and many other species if we’re don’t stop using them now. There is a VERY GOOD REASON why the EU won’t allow them into their food supply. They’re not safe. They cause digestive problems and others. Monsanto and now I guess IBM is on the bandwagon and is behind this ridiculous movement to gain control of the food supply world wide, beginning with the US. IBM is wholeheartedly supporting it so they can sell their product. Monsanto is doing the same. None of it has been tested long term… or even short term on HUMANS, for that matter. But, somehow… the good ol’ FDA passes it. Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that Big Agro and Big Pharma have all of their former employees now working for the FDA, would it? Gee? Nah…

Shame on IBM and anyone else that messes with the basic building blocks of life in this way. Releasing the modified genome into the world isn’t something that can be stopped. It’s a time bomb and it’s ticking… and it’s getting louder by the day. Wonder why there are so many more instances of people getting Crone’s Disease? Much younger people getting colon cancer and other types of cancer? Because they’re eating FRANKENFOODS and chemicals the body was never meant to ingest. The ONLY way to prevent the kinds of food contamination we’ve been seeing is to get back to having our own ORGANIC community gardens as well as the one in the back yard for our food production.

Good Lord, why not try edible landscaping? Plant the things you like to eat instead of the shrub and grass that serve no purpose other than to look nice for about 3 months a year and suck every township’s water supply dry with nothing to show for it! People need to get off their butts and get their hands into some dirt and stop relying on Big Agro to do it for them. It’s not hard, doesn’t take a lot of time and it’s rewarding. Might actually get them in better shape than sitting in front of the boob tube like a ZOMBIE.. ut oh… wait. If people aren’t ZOMBIES then they might just figure out what is going on! IBM and Monsanto will never allow THAT TO HAPPEN! I’ll be surprised if this comment even shows up!

By: Jakub Tymowski

Jakub Tymowski — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:43:47 +0000

David Acheson is a well known expert of food quality in US government and he made a lot of good work in tracing contaminated food from many sources. But the fact of existence contaminated food sources and fighting them must not create such restrictions and rules that will kill local markets and local supplies like it was few ears ago in new EU countries. Finally EU resolved that problem allowing many small traditional factories to skip many too expensive workplace safety rules.
If we will kill local markets what will left?

Huge mono culture genetically modified farms is a tillage which is ugly for the landscape, depleting biodiversity, creating allergies, sfruttaring soil.
Genetically modified plant is like a gamble – one will never know what will be the effects in the far future on such.

But now is more than obvious: genetically modified corn in European shops is not a healthy thing nor tasty…