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WalMart Dares to Defy's Anti-Biotechnology Extremists

WalMart Dares to Defy's Anti-Biotechnology Extremists

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Wal-Mart stands up to activist intimidation, ensuring affordable, wholesome food for customers.
By Paul driessen
WalMart Defies Anti-Biotechnology Activists
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Manasquan, NJ –(Ammoland.com)- Good for Wal-Mart! Despite intense pressure by anti-biotechnology activists, the retailing giant didn’t cave in to demands that it “reject” Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) sweet corn (maize).
Other retailers had capitulated to intimidation campaigns by Food and Water Watch, Greenpeace and similar anti-technology groups: McDonald’s, Heinz, Frito-Lay, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods. So this rare display of corporate courage, ethics and common sense should be applauded.
FWW launched its campaign in January 2012, claiming GE corn “hasn’t been tested for human safety” and contains DNA traits that “are potentially unsafe.” What utter nonsense.
All biotech crops, including GE sweet corn, have gone through years of testing, studies and approval processes by the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Environmental Protection Agency and other labs, before being placed on the market. In fact, biotech crops have been tested far more rigorously than any other foods (including organic products), hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have determined that they are safe to eat.
In the 16 years since such crops were first introduced in 1996, people have eaten more than two trillion servings of foods containing biotech ingredients – without a single documented case of injury to a person.
We all want safe, nutritious food, grown under the best agricultural and environmental practices. That’s what makes biotechnology so important. By precisely inserting specific traits into the genetic makeup of important food crops, scientists have been able to make many foods safer, equally or more nutritious, and better for the environment.
The following traits are especially important:

Herbicide resistance. Corn that is resistant to Roundup or other herbicides enables farmers to employ no-till techniques to control weeds, instead of using cultivators to bury them too deep to grow. This preserves soil nutrients and organic matter, increases water absorption and retention, and significantly reduces erosion – improving soil fertility and crop yields, while reducing irrigation and fuel costs.
Insect resistance. A single gene (derived from a natural soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, and inserted into the corn genome) enables corn plants to make a protein that is harmless to humans, but disrupts the digestive system of insects that munch on the plants’ roots or kernels, while leaving ladybugs, butterflies and other beneficial insects unaffected. The Bt gene augments corn plants’ natural defenses, slashes insecticide spraying (by up to 85% for sweet corn), dramatically reduces corn borer (caterpillar) and rootworm (beetle larvae) damage, keeps roots healthy and plants alive, and minimizes the amount of insect-damaged corn ears that are left to rot in fields or are rejected by consumers and thrown out by grocers.

By killing insect borers in the ears, Bt corn largely eliminates pathways for fungal contamination that leads to dangerous levels of fumonisin in corn meal. This fungal toxin causes fatal diseases in horses and is linked to esophageal cancer in people and neural tube defects (like spinal bifida) in developing fetuses.
These benefits [...]

Legislative Shoot Out One Way to Reach Out to Lawmakers

Legislative Shoot Out One Way to Reach Out to Lawmakers

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Legislators, their families and staffs were invited to a day at the range. An all-time-high number of attendees for the event from around New England…

Taurus Firearms Opens Sales Director Candidate Search

Taurus Firearms Opens Sales Director Candidate Search

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Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc. is seeking a passionate, motivated, firearms advocate for the complete management of all sales activities for our organization…

 Shooter Targets Olympic Trials After Gold Medal Performance In Italy

Shooter Targets Olympic Trials After Gold Medal Performance In Italy

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Untying a bag of experience that comes from being a three-time Olympian, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Parker, USAMU, used some of that knowledge and claimed a gold medal at the Italy Rifle and Pistol World Cup…

Gun Show Volunteers Need for Up Coming Gun Shows Events

Gun Show Volunteers Need for Up Coming Gun Shows Events

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The Virginia Citizens Defense League thanks the following member-activists who generously gave of their time to advance and help defend the rights of their fellow gun owners by working our recruiting and information booths at gun shows…

Olympic Team Trials For Smallbore Rifle To Be Conducted At Fort Benning

Olympic Team Trials For Smallbore Rifle To Be Conducted At Fort Benning

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The seven remaining positions on the U.S. Olympic Shooting team will be filled June 1-12 as the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Smallbore comes to Fort Benning…

Compound Bow Basics - Replacing Your String & Cables

Compound Bow Basics - Replacing Your String & Cables

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Timely replacement is imperative for bow safety. A snapped string or cable can cause injury to you or others and can ruin your bow…

The Flags at the Cemetery

The Flags at the Cemetery

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Like many Americans, Memorial Day never ceases to move me. Rivaled only by Christmas and Easter, it’s the most poignant time of the year for me, maybe because, like Christmas and Easter, it’s about life, death, and remembrance…

IRS Gives Billions in Tax Refunds to Illegals

IRS Gives Billions in Tax Refunds to Illegals

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WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, recently reported about how millions of illegal aliens are getting billions of dollars in U.S. tax refunds without having paid a dime in income taxes…

Buying Your First Machine Gun, Silencer or Short Barreled Rifle

Buying Your First Machine Gun, Silencer or Short Barreled Rifle

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To those who are committed to NFA firearm ownership, the process is not as daunting as some might think. All that is required is a good deal of money and patience…

Anti-Hunting Bill Passes California Senate

Anti-Hunting Bill Passes California Senate

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The California Senate chose retribution and revenge over sound science-based wildlife management, despite having a Fish & explicitly designed to handle these questions the California Senate voted to ban hunting…

After Passage of "Sportsmen's Heritage Act," BLM Backs Down on Shooting Ban

After Passage of "Sportsmen's Heritage Act," BLM Backs Down on Shooting Ban

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On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was abandoning the effort to ban recreational shooting on the Sonoran Desert National Monument in Arizona…

Steyr Arms Announces Big Savings on Its Pistol Line

Steyr Arms Announces Big Savings on Its Pistol Line

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Steyr Arms has announced an across-the-board limited time price reduction on its lineup of popular pistols including all M-A1, S-A1 and C9-A1 handguns…

Gun Grabber Nominated to New Hampshire Supreme Court

Gun Grabber Nominated to New Hampshire Supreme Court

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We need to convince all three of the remaining Councilors to reject the Governor’s nomination of Mr. Bassett or the balance of the court could shift even further to the gun grabbers for the foreseeable future…

SIG SAUER’s Max Michel, Jr., Wins at Mississippi State Championships

SIG SAUER’s Max Michel, Jr., Wins at Mississippi State Championships

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Max Michel, Jr., decisively won the Single-Stack Division at this weekend’s United States Practical Shooting Association Mississippi State Championships…

Prime & Cousins Take Washington State By Storm

Prime & Cousins Take Washington State By Storm

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G5 Outdoors, the leading manufacturer of premium archery equipment is proud to announce that Prime shooter Dave Cousins won both the 2012 National Field Archery Championships and World Archery Field Championship Team Trials…

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