Consumer rejection kills GM enviropig as farmers feared pork market collapse

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Market pressure drove researchers to abandon biotech pig ‘contending’ to be first approved GM meat on consumer plates.

Aaron Dykes
Priosnplanet.com
April 5, 2012

Consumer rejection kills GM enviropig as farmers feared pork market collapse Enviropig banner Write the Health Minister mediumIn 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:

Ontario Pork and the University of Guelph created the genetically-engineered piggy to ‘green’ pork, but now admit there is no ‘demand’ for the product. A simple hog feed suppliment already on the market cuts the phosphorous simply and economically, rending the enviro-hog not only a dangerous Frankenstein’s monster, but a useless development that was poised to bankrupt farmers as consumers fled unlabeled GM Canadian pork and anything associated with it.

Does this blow to biotech’s blitzkreig against traditional and organic farming signal other victories to come? It may well be, but the GMO architects aren’t conceding the long game.

Dr. Cecil Forsberg, co-inventor of the enviro-pig, bemoaned to the NY Times that the public would come around and gain acceptance:

[When the first such pig was created in 1999] I had the feeling in seven or eight or nine years that transgenic animals probably would be acceptable. But I was wrong. It’s time to stop the program until the rest of the world catches up . . . and it is going to catch up.

Heather Callaghan writes:

GM Enviro-Pig Won’t Go To Market

How Did Enviro-pig Almost Pass; What Changed?

Health Canada doesn’t conduct its own GM tests. They rely on United Nations Codex guidelines and refer to the FDA, also pointing to Codex. They were also taking the word of University of Guelph data. Canadian and US regulatory guidelines allowed for the approval of the GM animals at any time.

Pork producers were afraid to associate with Enviro-pig for fear of bad public relations. Enviro-pig is safely off the shelf thanks to concerned farmers and activists like you creating more awareness. Especially the tenacious efforts of CBAN. Gratefully so — we get around 40% of our pork from Canada. CBAN will now redouble their efforts of stopping GM super-growing salmon.

As we can see, the closed research was more a result of consumer reaction and activism than anything else. At the very least, Enviro-pig served to shed light on the problems with GM mega-farm conditions and a real environmental problem that still exists.

This scores one clear and meaningful defeat of those trying to rewrite nature and control through patents over life. The larger battle against the genetic takeover of our planet by corporate interests bent on world domination continues, already underway:

Genetic Armageddon: Humanity’s Greatest Threat

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8 Responses to “Consumer rejection kills GM enviropig as farmers feared pork market collapse”

  1. genetic engineering is such a scourge.
    but perhaps the mutations will help some species survive the coming shitocalypse.
    Lulz.

    Too bad the Swiss lost interest in sex due to inbreeding and their projected self racial hatred is the driving force behind their “gifts” to modern science.

    CERN LHC and GMO pigs and chickens brought to you courtesy of the best swiss minds!
    not to mention Mefloquine and Rape Pills, those are kind of swiss too!
    and gosh, what happened to all that jewish and nazi gold after the war?

    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

    flaming_red_pill Reply:
    April 5th, 2012 at 9:58 am

    LOL if all the booms are CERN knocking out underground gold stores

    “MUAHAHAHA WHO HAZ ZE NUTS NOW”?

    BOOM FLASH

    “MUAHAHA YOU SHOULD HAVE OPENED A SWISS BANK ACCOUNT!”

    BOOM FLASH BOOM

    “SOrry about your retirement lol enjoy your FEMA camps”

  2. Truly a sad day indeed, Enviro-Pig could’ve saved us all… *sheds a tear*

  3. I don’t understand why any company would want to push this crap. It’s not like there is some breeding issue with farm animals that might necessitate this toxic garbage. The whole lie that somehow this GMO crap will save the world has long been proven a lie. It certainly isn’t making food cheaper for anyone.

    Jamie Reply:
    April 5th, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    If this GMO crap was so wonderful you’d think they’d be labeling everything instead of hiding it.

  4. “Genetic Hibernation”

    Translation Porky’s going in the freezer.

  5. It’s concerning and fraught with often irreversible and sometimes dire consequence when science feels they can do a better job than God or nature. Over a lifetime, one sees that it always comes around to the knowledge of good reasons why things initially were the way they were. If these ‘improvements’ were tested long term before inflicting them upon the general public, it would be more supportable, and more importantly, more responsible.

  6. That is great news! As Aaron Dykes points out, though, the mad scientists have only put it on the back burner for now, fully intending to try to force us to eat it in the future. That is the whole problem with evil: even after being completely defeated, it skulks and hides and waits, sneaking back again and again in different guises.

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