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truedelphi

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1. Not only are economic indictors played with and jimmied around,
Mon Aug 12, 2013, 07:15 PM
Aug 2013

the health risks are ignored, while "newer" standards are put into place.

So on account of all the RoundUp that gets used on the Gm crops, we have seen the Federal Government incrementally, and exponentially raise the limit of glyphosate that is allowed on produce sold in our stores. (And no one inside the Federal Government has ever ever worried about the formaldehyde and other aldehydes in Roundup. Now we have a whole lot of MS patients - on account of jobs that forced people to be in contact with RoundUp and its formaldehyde.)

We have also seen that the level of radiation that was once considered to be dangerous has been pooh poohed - now we have a new standard by which radiation is allowed.

We are the only nation on earth that allows our Big Corproations to tell the EPA what is in a product. And then the manufacturing entity also tells the EPA about the studies they have done that prove the said item is safe.

Other nations use gas spectography to determine what is in an item that some manufacturer wants on the market place.

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