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February 12th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Barbara Peterson
On September 30, 2013, members of GMO-Free Josephine County submitted a petition for a county ballot initiative to phase out and prohibit the growing of genetically engineered crops in Josephine County due to the risk of genetic contamination to neighboring farms and gardens in the county. Volunteers seek to obtain 1,997 valid signatures to qualify the initiative for inclusion on the ballot for May 20, 2014, at the same time GMO-Free Jackson County’s similar measure will appear on the ballot. Both groups work to create a GMO-Free Rogue Valley.
Passage of the measure is critical to the agricultural economy of Josephine County, larger Rogue Valley, and many other regions across Oregon. The Rogue Valley is a principal seed-growing region for many crops, including beets and chard. GMOs directly threaten the economic viability of the organic seed industry in this valley because of the potential for cross-contamination from genetically engineered crops that have been planted nearby. If pollen from GMO sugar beets, for example, is carried by the wind and pollinates an organic crop of beets or chard, then the owner of that farm will be raising GMO crops the next year and will no longer have a truly organic or natural product. Cross-contamination has cost area businesses money in lost seed production. It is the position of GMO-Free Josephine County that everyone has a right to grow food free from genetic contamination for themselves and others.
Genetically engineered organisms, also known as genetically modified organisms or GMOs, are organisms that have undergone laboratory processes to introduce genes from other organisms to create novel genetics that do not occur in nature, such as splicing fish DNA into tomato, or foreign bacteria into corn. GMOs are not created using traditional cross-pollination or hybridization techniques. Once GMOs contaminate organic crops, those crops can no longer be sold and often have to be destroyed.
If approved by Josephine County voters, the ballot initiative would prohibit new plantings of GMO crops and give farmers with genetically modified crops already in the ground a 12 month period to phase out their plantings and transition to non-genetically engineered crops. The law would provide exemptions for certain medical and educational research facilities that use genetically engineered organisms in controlled environments that prohibit escape into the open environment. Read the rest of this entry »
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