Dr. Shiv Chopra & Dr. Thierry Vrain anti GMO lecture

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Attended two lectures on GMO, by Dr. Shiv Chopra and Dr. Thierry Vrain mentioned the other day here, with the latter speaker starting first. Both these speakers had different things to say; Vrain deconstructs the science of food genetic engineering in simplistic 101 ways, with manufactures basic aim being to sell chemical herbicides, with new variants of the stronger 24d's to be incorporated soon for those new superweeds. He states that there is globally 500 million acres under GMO seed and chemicals today. Unlike people reading here, many people in the audience were new to this understanding, which Vrain seems to do a good job in leading them through the GMO science and myths.

Chopra, on the other hand, was a scientist in the Canadian Government who has a long history of dealing with these chemical and pharmaceutical companies. His talk was on the corruption of the government in particular. He describes patents being dropped off without attached health studies. He would send them back demanding appropriate studies to be forwarded. It was at this point that extreme pressures started to be ramped up by the corporations. Corporatism likes to say how the regulators had massive backlogs and were inefficient; noting was so much the case, he states. It was always due to the fact that patents arrived naked of any scientific studies, as such, they of course could not be accepted for appropriate reasons - corporatism threw a narcissistic hissy fit calling in their government markers. Chopra speaks very candidly, and describes the laws that are in place (last hundred years) that were even strengthened from the Thalidomide disaster of late 50's and early 60's in children. What he describes is not the laws in place; they are there in strong words, it is the Ministers et al ("Privy Council" in Canada) who subverted the laws by "special privilege" type motions in their various pathocratic actions that have grown to what we have today.

Chopra's book 'Corrupt to the Core: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower' _http://www.amazon.ca/Corrupt-Core-Memoirs-Health-Whistleblower/dp/097319457X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1386914704&sr=8-3&keywords=Corruption+to+the+core addresses much of this basis. The book is listed as being $452.+ on Amazon; not sure why, the copy i just purchased was $30.00 at the lecture.

Both speakers are featured on this website: _http://www.tonu.org/

Tonu – Tony Mitra
Exploring innovative and creative expressions of anti-gmo and food security activism in the global community

With the following text quotes and recent video's of their lectures. The video's show almost the exact presentation that i attended, with some slight differences in discussion, along with Q&A period nuances:

Gene Revolution – by Thierry Vrain
Posted on December 3, 2013

Retired genetic engineer Dr. Thierry Vrain deconstructs the biotech myth that GMO plants :

reduce pesticide use
have no effect on environment
have improved yield
are safe to eat

One of a shrinking pool of scientists not yet muzzled by the Governments or the biotech scientific community, he shows how GMO technology is faulty to start with, and were not really designed to provide any benefit to mankind, and were basically produced to increase the sale of dangerous chemicals.

Dr. Vrain and Health Canada scientist and scientist Dr. Shiv Chopra are on a cross country talking tour in Canada starting in November 2013 to alert the people about how the biotech industry is engaged in a campaign of misinformation, and their efforts are often helped by a corrupt political system in North America, where national regulatory systems fail to protect the people and allow what amounts to untested and potentially unhealthy foods to be marketed.

In this video, Dr. Vrain presents his case – Gene Revolution, a tale of two molecules, in the beautiful hill town of Squamish on November 20 at Sea to Sky Hotel. The event was organized by residents and health food promoters who wish to see Squamish declare itself GMO free.

{video link YouTube 53:01}_http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MzosCobwqNk

Dr. Shiv Chopra compliments Dr. Thierry Vrain in the joint talk tour across Canada, alerting Canadians on how their food security and sovereignty may be compromised through corruption in the Government. Not willing to bow to corporate and miniterial pressure, he refused to accept the recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone from being approved by Health Canada bypassing safety checks and Canadian law on food safety. He paid for it by losing his job in Health Canada.

Now on a talk tour, he addresses a packed hall in Squamish on November 20, 2013 at the Sea to Sky Hotel, organized by many locals and hosted by Ms Kati Palethorpe.

Dr. Chopra explains five pillars of food safety – which are illegally into our food, each of which is harmful to health. These are :

Hormones
Antibiotics
Slaughterhouse waste recycled as animal feed
GMO
Pesticide.

All are used into the food cycle without independent testing. All are harmful to health. Europe, for example, bans or regulates at least four out of these five products. But Canada does not. As a result, Dr. Chopra argues, Canadian food has gotten to be among the most toxic in the entire planet. IF we can remove these ingredients, all food will be organic, and there would be no need for labelling.

With the story of his struggle within Health Canada to protect Canada’s food and health, he often brought the house to thunderous applause, and Squamish was no different.

Not happy with only explaining how GMO is harming Canadian health, security and environment – he goes on to ask British Columbians what they are prepared to do about it – and how the people can snatch democracy back at the ground level from clutches of corporatocracy. Drawing examples of what Hudson, Quebec did twenty years ago, and what BC has done through UBCM more recently, he envisions a new dawn spearheaded by the people of the nation – to exert their divine and constitutional right – to feed themselves and their family with what nature makes. No corporation or Govt can force onto the people food that are considered harmful. And that is the reason Shiv Chopra started his second national pilgrimage from British Columbia.

{video link YouTube 39:12} _http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zhX_WXphQCg