John F Kennedy III
04-05-2012, 02:25 PM
KEEP FIGHTING! ONE VICTORY AT A TIME!
Consumer rejection kills GM enviropig as farmers feared pork market collapse
Market pressure drove researchers to abandon biotech pig ‘contending’ to be first approved GM meat on consumer plates.
Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
April 5, 2012
In a victory against biotech, Canada’s Ontario Pork has announced its decision to cut funding and stop research for the enviropig, genetically-engineered to produce less phosphorous in manure, in effort to reduce the environmental impact of raising pigs.
“[Enviro-pig] certainly does not have the public’s support,” Lucy Sharatt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) said, later adding that the Canadians widely reject GM products.
“It threatens pork markets. It’s clear the public does not want genetically-modified food animals, said Paul Slomp, Youth Vice-President of the National Farmers Union, in the same press conference.
Instead, the GM specimen will be preserved via “genetic hibernation,” deep freezing the semen for ‘future’ market climates less hostile to GMO foods. In an amazing testament to the voice of the people and common sense, resounding outcry forced the project to a halt– more urgently because of the acute threat it posed to Canadian producers.
As the following press conference makes clear, it was the public who weighed in and readily rejected the GM pig, and consumer demand was the obvious token:
rest of article here:
http://www.infowars.com/consumer-rejection-kills-gm-enviropig-as-farmers-feared-pork-market-collapse/
Consumer rejection kills GM enviropig as farmers feared pork market collapse
Market pressure drove researchers to abandon biotech pig ‘contending’ to be first approved GM meat on consumer plates.
Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
April 5, 2012
In a victory against biotech, Canada’s Ontario Pork has announced its decision to cut funding and stop research for the enviropig, genetically-engineered to produce less phosphorous in manure, in effort to reduce the environmental impact of raising pigs.
“[Enviro-pig] certainly does not have the public’s support,” Lucy Sharatt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) said, later adding that the Canadians widely reject GM products.
“It threatens pork markets. It’s clear the public does not want genetically-modified food animals, said Paul Slomp, Youth Vice-President of the National Farmers Union, in the same press conference.
Instead, the GM specimen will be preserved via “genetic hibernation,” deep freezing the semen for ‘future’ market climates less hostile to GMO foods. In an amazing testament to the voice of the people and common sense, resounding outcry forced the project to a halt– more urgently because of the acute threat it posed to Canadian producers.
As the following press conference makes clear, it was the public who weighed in and readily rejected the GM pig, and consumer demand was the obvious token:
rest of article here:
http://www.infowars.com/consumer-rejection-kills-gm-enviropig-as-farmers-feared-pork-market-collapse/