Comments on: Nanotechnology: New Threat to Organic Foods

By: Paul Turner

Paul Turner — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:40:40 +0000

Thank you for posting this. Adding nanoparticles to our food is a big sleeper.

The Rockefeller Foundation feels it important to make sure good PR goes out and not suffer the same bad PR as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), which are unlabeled in the United States.

Many people do not realize the potential to have programmable organisms inside their body much less the effect of having those substances in their body.

Do we really want the large food corps sneaking nanoparticles into our food?

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By: DD

DD — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:42:54 +0000

I do not want nanotechnology in any of my food, whether organic or not. I also so not want any genetically modified food. Is this the way our government plans to kill off the majority of the world’s population as they think we are overpopulated, and our earth can’t sustain us?

I have a wonderful idea. I think all the top executives in all our large corporations that are currently using or want to start using nanotechnology in the organic food or non-organic food production process; all the members of NOSB in the US Department of Agriculture; as well as our government leaders and congressmen who think we should use nanotechnology (the process of manipulating matter at the atomic and molecular level), and have voted to initiate it’s use, along with all of their family members, should be the ones willing to be in a clinical study, eating these treated foods on a daily basis for the next 50 years. At the end of the 50 years, if they have all gotten sick or died, then we will know for sure that we were right and nanotechnology should never be used on any of our food!

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By: Russ Hailey

Russ Hailey — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:17:59 +0000

5/31/10 todays headline in the Oregonian newspaper…
One-size-fits-all reforms may not fit small farmers.
Regarding the Food Safety Modernization act.
another former Conspiracy theory, now conspiracy fact. It has gotten to the point that EVERYTHING coming from the mouth of the Governmant is a complete and utter falsehood.
Having lived here in the U.S. my entire life, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years, I have to say that I am ready to leave this country. If only there were somewhere to escape to…..
Maybe instead, we need to go after the filthy people behind the big corporations.
Too big to fail means TOO DAMN BIG! Where are the antimonopoly laws.
They seem to uphold “little people” laws, but laws for our safety are simply not being upheld or enforced. The government does’nt work! It should be dismantled or destroyed.
And world government? Wow! The Federal government works so well, I can’t wait until they add more layers of red tape and buracracy. It appears that mankind is his own worst enemy.
The never ending race for control will be the downfall of us all.

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By: Ann Curtis

Ann Curtis — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:13:23 +0000

Over at the NaturalNews.com WebSite, I read that there are already 80+ foods that have nanotechnology incorporated into them. Why are we not told/don’t know this? They feel that if the American public is made aware that nanotechnology is already inside their food stuffs, that we will boycott/be upset, like we already are with GMO food products.

Gee. I don’t know. My upset? Nah. I’m just livid!

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By: pcburke

pcburke — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:04:23 +0000

I agree 200%. The General Public needs to be protected, from processed food. Too many research products show that natural/organic food produces health and welll-being. Why on earth do I need nanobots in my food. For crying out loud. I don’t ansything that will MALFUNCTION

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By: ANH-USA

ANH-USA — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:09:51 +0000

Let’s neither wolves nor sheep be. Let’s indeed stick to facts, to logic, and to science.

First the logic. Organic means, well, organic, made by nature. Nanotechnology has to be the antithesis of organic farming methods. It’s an industrial process that manipulates food at its molecular and atomic levels. This logic prompted the UK, Australia, and Canada to ban the use of manufactured nanomaterials and of nanotechnology in organics.

Now some facts: The safety of this technology is simply unknown. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an independent research institute in Washington, DC, expressed concern at the lack of research on safety: “Neither industry nor government appears to be doing its homework. Products could end up in the market without a proper assessment of risk.”

AOL News recently published a three-part Special Report called “The Nanotech Gamble.” In it, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Andrew Schneider writes that many scientists believe the engineered particles could pose a giant risk to the environment and human life.

The nanomaterial most widely used in consumer products is nano-titanium dioxide. It’s an ingredient in a number of drugstore items rubbed onto bodies and faces and even put into mouths, among them cosmetics, sunblock, and toothpaste. A UCLA study found that ingesting nanotechnology may damage or destroy DNA and chromosomes as one of the scientists told Schneider.

But is nanotechnology entering the food chain? Yes. As Schneider reported, some of the FDA’s own risk assessors have stated that nano-containing foods are showing up on grocer’s shelves in a number of products. Schneider also found a US Department of Agriculture scientist who has first-hand knowledge of Latin American food packers dipping US-bound produce in a nanocoating to increase its shelf life. “We found no indication that the nanocoating, which is manufactured in Asia, has ever been tested for health effects,” the researcher says.

According to Lynn Frewer, professor of food safety at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, “The problem with the digestion of nanoparticles is that we don’t know where in the body they would end up. If they are small enough to travel through the wall of the gut, which some nanoparticles would be designed to do, they could end up anywhere. And how will they accumulate and travel through the food chain? We simply don’t know.”

As The Guardian reported over two years ago, nanotechnology is already being used to make food look prettier, or ripen faster, or ripen more slowly, or keep bugs off. Food wrappers containing nanoparticles are being developed that can sniff out telltale gases given by deteriorating food, triggering color changes on the labels.

Logic alone should tell us that nanotechnology has no place in organic food. As for other food, we need credible scientific evidence that firmly establishes safety, something that is not currently available. If you have not already done so, please TAKE ACTION immediately and contact the US Department of Agriculture to say no to nanotechnology in organic food.

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By: Marie Loren

Marie Loren — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:03:26 +0000

As with all “expert scientific data ” question, “who is going to profit from this information?”
Our “government” is only existing to give us the illusion that we have a Democracy…the corporations that own Congress, the Judicial System and the Presidency are the rulers of this consumer society. Profit before people is the rule…shareholders need to see profits.
So it is no surprise that nanotechnology in food is being sold to the public as being safe .
GROW YOUR OWN or KNOW YOUR FARMER and EAT LOCALLY PRODUCED FOODS

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By: B Mustchin

B Mustchin — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:50:19 +0000

I won’t buy American certified organic or indeed any American food product unless it is guaranteed nano-free.

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By: Melody

Melody — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:59:29 +0000

First thing: DON’T MESS WITH NATURE!!!!! Nature is trying to repair itself now. Second, why does organic cost more? I would think, because there is no need for pesticides and chemicals, the cost would be lower. Chemicals don’t have to be bought and no one has to be paid to apply them. Besides, look at the health reports showing the known causes of chemicals on the body. What about the UNknown effects? Remember the Vietnam War and “Agent Orange”? Look at the health problems these soldiers and their children are encountering now. Agent Orange was developed to kill foliage in the jungle to expose the enemy and it was developed by an American and ended up in the wrong hands. Talk about friendly fire.In this fight of Man vs. Nature, who do you think will win?

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By: Dimples

Dimples — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:11:42 +0000

Is anyone as tired as I am of “BIG MONEY PEOPLE” continuing to try to push their “JUNK’ down the throats of the American public just in order to make more money?

How much money is enough? It would seem that at some point these “BUZZARDS” would be satisfied with their multi-billions.
OHHH! BACK TO REALITY!!!

They are NOT satisfied and obviously never will be. So, WE, the American Public will need to gather our strength (in numbers) and fight back as never before. After-all, there are more of us than there are of them. Let’s spread the word about these “assults” on our health and then simply REFUSE to buy the “JUNK”!

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By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:32:03 +0000

After reading this article, I have no facts on which to base an opinion. I am a huge fan of organic food, locally grown produce, and I also am familiar witrh nanotechnology. This article, however has no substance in which to form any opinion. I am not a sheep..Therefore, this article will elicit no rsponse, either way from me. Please everyone, ask more from your information sources.

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By: Earl

Earl — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:27:07 +0000

I disagree. I think nanotechnology would be a good thing. We need it medically to heal people. Eventually we will not have enough land to cultivate anything to eat if we as a country do not learn to preserve and find better ways of sustaining ourselves.

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By: Betty Griffin

Betty Griffin — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:26:56 +0000

I support the ban on nanotechnology, it is time as a nation that we begin to understand the real issues facing the way we protect the best interests of it’s citizens regarding their health. We have the right to eat healthy without the encumbrances imposed by a government or agencies that have no regard for our nutritional benefits. It is time to change the focus from sick care and pills to prevention and wellness care. Get with the program America!

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By: Cherie

Cherie — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:09:13 +0000

Our FDA was set up to protect the citizens of this country and others from sloppy (unhealthy) food production, unscrupulous sales practices, and anything else that would cause harm to the food consumers of the world. To date we not only lack these protections, but the FDA has become a law unto itself in that nobody has control over the FDA’s own greedy purposes and practices. We allow self-serving politicians to ‘appoint’ friends and campaign contributors to positions in government that affect our very lives, freedoms, safety, business and properties. And then we wonder why our government leaders are becoming more corrupt with each election and we are having less and less say in what is done. What happened to our Constitutional rights? Everything bad thing happening in this country comes from the ignorance of our rights in the Constitution and in allowing career politicians to dictate their own wills over us because of the money and power they attain from immoral special interest groups.

Our Constitution, which our elected officials take an oath to protect, serve and enforce, has about as much importance to them as a wart. It’s a part of their body but they will just ignore it or cover it up unless it becomes a nuisance, at which point they will do whatever it takes to get rid of it. Guess what?! They are setting things in motion right now, to ‘finally’ GET RID OF IT. They have been sending subliminal messages for many years now, that our Constitution doesn’t apply to today’s world and we need to be globally connected. What they don’t tell us, is that once we agree to accept a global leadership in “any” area of life, you will no longer have the rights we’ve enjoyed since our founding fathers established them. This current administration, by their actions, have basically told us that WE HAVE NO RIGHTS EXCEPT THE ONES THEY VOTE TO ENACT. It’s time to stop this madness before we truly ‘don’t’ have any rights. BEFORE it’s too late, we must get out and vote. Don’t believe anything a politician tells you, look at their voting records (all available through search engines online). Remember, “Words are powerful… whether lies or truth”. We need to make sure that we’re not being wrongly influenced just because someone can speak eloquently. The future is in OUR hands. If we just sit in front of the TV (boob tube) or spend our free time immersed in personal pleasures, we WILL become the pawns of the power hungry elitists in this world. And the future will not be a pretty picture. For every good scenario the globalist machines hands us, read Orwell, Mao, Mein Kampf and others to see what is really behind the world dominion mind-set.

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By: WH

WH — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:42:08 +0000

Posting a comment here is not the same as taking real action. We all need to click on the link above that says ‘TAKE ACTION’ in order to send an email to Agricultural Secretary Vilsack. That’s the only way to let him hear our voices. Thanks.

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By: Maureen Persijn

Maureen Persijn — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:25:54 +0000

I believe we now more than ever need to grow our own food get back to basic and stop depending on large corporations to feed us. In order to fight we need to know where our food comes from, organic or not. Support local growing and grow sometning yourself.

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By: Patti

Patti — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:14:52 +0000

per Wikipedia.org:

“Nanotechnology, shortened to “nanotech”, is the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale.”

You must be one of “them” or you have been sleeping under a rock. Here is a link to wikipedia.org since you cannot even seem to do a web search. What vitamin and other ingredients do you want left OUT of your food?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology

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By: Donald Mills

Donald Mills — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:45:32 +0000

Nanotechnology and organic food ? Balderdash !!!!

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By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:35:00 +0000

Get this picture and understand it clearly – WE WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. This is a no-brainer. We must tell everyone regardless. TELL everyone and SHOW them how to PUSH Back by writing their Senators! Over half of Americans have never done this! Show them how! Picket these places who want to use nano-technology, write the board members, twitter the names of these places, have a bumper sticker made that says, “just say no to nano and gmo!” Get on the stick, do it now or mother nature will get very jiggy on us very soon.

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By: nanny crosse

nanny crosse — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:09:33 +0000

Keep up the good fight people. We are worth it.
Life is a fragile balance between water and air and sunshine.
simple = healthy

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By: Unabelle R.Boggs

Unabelle R.Boggs — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:51:48 +0000

I agree. I need to know more about just how nanotechnology will do harm to our food supply.

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By: Gerald Wessner

Gerald Wessner — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:14:40 +0000

Organic food by definition is food unaltered by any man made process. How arrogant we are that we think we can improve on our Creator. Look at the obesity and poor health epidemic. Realize that this was brought about by people trying to improve on nature. Let’s get it right and stop this madness to ” scientifically improve our foods”. Lets get back to nature.

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By: Lynn Dellapasta

Lynn Dellapasta — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:02:43 +0000

Stop this insanity!!! Quit playing at being God and Mother Nature combined and leave our foods alone, damn it! Grow up and wise up people. Our children’s lives and futures are at stake here.

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By: Maria Bologna

Maria Bologna — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:36:01 +0000

Please leave organic food in its natural form. Do not mix it with anything. Leave seeds the way nature intented it to be.
Thanks

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By: Barbara Good

Barbara Good — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:25:05 +0000

We should have a choice about what we eat. Nanotechnology is not something I want in my food supply. Nanotechnology has no place in organic food.

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By: Darlea Henderson

Darlea Henderson — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:24:31 +0000

I need to know more what nanotechnology does before I take action. This article does not address the potential problems that nanotechnology engenders

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By: Shirine Gharda-Ward

Shirine Gharda-Ward — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:24:09 +0000

Please keep nanotechnology out of organic food.

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By: Kathy Muck

Kathy Muck — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:56:19 +0000

Ban Nanotechnology in orangic foods.

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By: Garry Reisch

Garry Reisch — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:53:23 +0000

Bottom line: money talks. Also bottom line: votes matter. Let your representative know (and anyone else who will listen) that you believe Organic should mean natural and pure, unadulterated by chemistry of any kind. Let the food “scientists” tinker all they want, but not with the organic label.

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By: Allison Zito

Allison Zito — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:50:47 +0000

The genetic pollution and Nano pollution of our agriculture serves none of the consumers. In fact it makes unwitting guinea pigs of us all. The only people who benefit are the intellectual property holders and the government representatives they buy. I pray you are not motivated by the massive amount of money they can throw at you. I pray you are motivated by integrity and the importance of keeping the food supply from contamination and free from the intellectual property bonds. This is the most important issue of our time. We are at the threshold. In the name of profit; Will we contaminate the food supply for all life on earth? Don’t let this happen on our watch!

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By: Patricia Gillette

Patricia Gillette — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:41:49 +0000

Can’t they leave nature and well enough ALONE!?? First they command us to get heathy- or/ and pay the price – and then they keep us sick (or dead) with this nano thing amongst others – then they badger us to get long term care insurances..and burial plans- sounds like a plan to keep business booming and consumers perpetually sick!

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By: Alfiya Aleeva

Alfiya Aleeva — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:02:47 +0000

I am so angry! Who would stand and eventually scream out of US that all these techno ‘clever’ companies aiming control of population through food acting worse than terrorists. ONE ONLY EXAMPLE========= WHERE ALL THE BEES GONE?????????????? As minimum as 70 percent reduced! When it come to total 100% then these companies will again claim that they are only able to feed population, then catastrophe is there. They are get what they aimed, we will have NO choice to be their slaves-eat what they produced, what they put into the food, what vaccine will we have through the food. HOW THESE WILL NOT YET STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I t is not long to happen it is already here 30% of BEES!!!!

PUBLIC SHOULD GO TO STREET GOVERNMENT WORKING TOGETHER because they are talking about NEW WORLD ORDER, only American Government want to dictate and owe the world. THEY are working together, perhaps ordering, financing them to to so as soon as possible as soon as effective. NEW WORLD ORDER. please take an action from spreading this disaster all over the world!!!!!!!!!!!

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By: Deborah Sheehan

Deborah Sheehan — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:00:18 +0000

Please ban the use of nanotechnology in our organic food products!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By: Barbara Escher

Barbara Escher — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:35:27 +0000

I support the ban on nanotechnology in organic foods – or ANY foods. I don’t want to eat something that grew up in a laboratory. Our society is already suffering hitherto unknown levels of ADD, autism and cancer, which may be related to all the manipulation of food, including pesticides, dyes and chemicals. This would only make it worse.

Corporations take a short view – immediate profitability to please shareholders and achieve big bonuses for executives. Government needs to take the long view of what is best for the health of its citizens. In this case, an injunction against any use of nanotech while the scientific review proceeds is in the interest of the health of our people.

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By: H.G. van der Waals

H.G. van der Waals — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:14:43 +0000

Nanotechnology is incompatible with organic food production.

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By: Rosemary Hall

Rosemary Hall — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:03:36 +0000

Let’s keep Organic ORGANIC! Consumers need to be served, not producers.
Thank you for your consideration.

Rosemary Hall

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By: Dennis Handel

Dennis Handel — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:03:29 +0000

To whom it may concearn,
Please prohibit the use of nanotechnology in organic food production.

Regards,

Dennis Handel

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By: Thearle Lacey

Thearle Lacey — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:41:24 +0000

Leave our food alone!! You’ve done enough to it to create ill people who then can’t get or lose their insurance or lose their lives. Excuse me…you and the insurance companies got a plot going..you make us sick and they overcharge us?

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By: tomescu teofan emilian

tomescu teofan emilian — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:29:16 +0000

I have no idea why nobody has thought about this before but to my mind the right to chose what you buy or eat is part of those inalianable human rights.We all have the right to consume products that we like but nanotechnology and GMOs prevent us from exercising our fundamental human rights.They must be stopped or prevented from contaminating our food source.It is our right.

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By: Audrey Vincent

Audrey Vincent — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:14:13 +0000

Organic foods should not be tampered with, manipulated, violated, or experimented with. Ban nanotechnology from organic foods now. Nothing more needs to be said.

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By: Carl Chase

Carl Chase — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:59:00 +0000

We are only beginning to realize the dangers involved in using technology that is under tested. Like the failure that GMO Foods is proving to be, Nanotechnology has inherent risks that have not shown themselves.

We must properly ascertain those risks before allowing the wholesale usage of what could ultimately be our downfall.

Failing to investigate those risks would be the ultimate crime against Humanity.

Please use all of your powers to enforce the tightest of control of these processes.

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By: Cory Tye

Cory Tye — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:43:32 +0000

No Nanotechnology in ORGANIC FOOD! NO NO!

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By: Claudia Aposhian

Claudia Aposhian — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:38:25 +0000

Please leave our natural organic foods alne!!! God knows how to design our food supply and we DO NOT want nanotechnology to be a part of our food supply!
Sincerely, Ed and Claudia Aposhian

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By: maurice rothman

maurice rothman — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:20:04 +0000

Gentlemen:

Nothing can improve “on Nature”

Only damn “fools” would believe that”

Obviously there are many “damn fools” out there!

Maurice Rothman PHd ND MH

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By: maurice rothman

maurice rothman — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:18:26 +0000

Gentlemem:

Nothing can improve”on Nature”only damn” fools” would believe that”

maurice rothman, PHd, ND MHB,

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By: Rachel Allen

Rachel Allen — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:07:22 +0000

Please ban the use of nanotechnology in organic food production–we consumers do not want this in our organic foods!

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By: julie ring

julie ring — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:51:25 +0000

To our U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Do not allow nanotechnology in organic foods. They are perfect as God intended. You need to quit screwing with our food supply.

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By: jim salter

jim salter — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:59:33 +0000

keep naNO’s out of my food and MY body

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By: Barbara Rafter

Barbara Rafter — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:58:34 +0000

I vote that the US prohibit the use of nanotechnology in organic food. Why is Canada ahead of us in this. Are they more free of political manipulation of big businesses? Don’t let big business in the food industry or any other industry control organic food standards. My family cares deeply about maintaining and preserving real organic standards in this country.

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By: Richard Carey

Richard Carey — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:51:39 +0000

PLEASE do not allow Nanotechnology in our food production, and particularly not in our organic foods.

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By: Carol Lapetino

Carol Lapetino — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:49:39 +0000

Please keep foods and nanotechnology seperate. We don’t need further messing around with nature.

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By: Sondra Andersen

Sondra Andersen — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:49:03 +0000

With what I have thus far learned about nanotechnology thus far, I believe if it has no affirmative good in organic food production, it would be very little and would cause great harm. There must be a good reason why other countries are banning it.

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By: Felicia N. Trujillo

Felicia N. Trujillo — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:36:58 +0000

To even consider manipulating our food system with this new nanotechnoloby requires a minimum of thirty years’ study–research on animals, to see where any dangers lie. Who can do such research in an unbiased, ethical manner?

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By: Dr. Nanncy House

Dr. Nanncy House — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:33:47 +0000

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a record of siding with industry against consumers. I hope this does not happen (again) in regarding to maintaining real organic standards. Nanotechnology should be banned from the production of organic foods, so that consumers are able to “vote with the pocketbook” in a meaningful way.

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By: Carol Poliner

Carol Poliner — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:32:24 +0000

The USDA needs to protect consumers, not the profits of agribusiness at the expense of public health. Do NOT allow the use of nanotechnology in organic food.

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By: Susan Johann

Susan Johann — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:29:43 +0000

WE don’t yet know the long term impact of nano-technology on the natural world and should not allow this technology to be inserted in the Organic Food industry. Organic should mean natural on every level from micro-to macro.

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By: Beverly Weeks

Beverly Weeks — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:10:02 +0000

As an American consumer I want you to understand that I feel very strongly about the ban on nanotechnology in organic foods. Simply put, I support the ban.

I do not believe there can be any place in organic food for manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular level and have it still be considered organic. I would not purchase or consume it.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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By: Dennis Hoppe

Dennis Hoppe — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:51:07 +0000

You don’t give me enough information to pass judgement on nanotechnology. How is this technology being used in the food industry? Give me some specifics.

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By: Sharon Scott

Sharon Scott — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:49:08 +0000

And yet, we can use nanotechnology to our benefit in creating more absorb able supplements All those products using micell technology to better deliver supplements past the liver in tact to the region of the intestines where they can be biologically deconstructed by our innate digestive mechanism and absorbed could be considered as using nano technology.
I’d feel a whole lot better about this initiative if you’d give some insight into what your concerns are. You cannot expect thinking and informed people to just go along in reaction to an undefined word. Please make an intelligent case–really I’m listening. What are your concerns? Where are you coming from? Do you feel there is absolutely no place for technology in the organic foods business chain, like designed freshness packaging materials? I see organic products in packaging that I think is irradiated–like the multi ply cartons for nut milks etc. How do you distinguish nano technology from chemistry? Do you really understand how far reaching your initiative is and what you might prohibit? Including what has not been invented yet???? Can you make your approach better, more clear–less reactive and fearful, more full of facts to support your efforts?
Thanks, I would hate to see anything degrade the organic foods movement. I am a grower as well as a consumer of quality organically produced foods. But I’m a rational person, I need facts and information, not fear.
Sharon
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By: Calli Madrone

Calli Madrone — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:26:48 +0000

I care deeply about maintaining and preserving real organic standards. Please join me in supporting the ban on nanotechnology in organic foods.

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By: Karen Grube

Karen Grube — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:24:52 +0000

Organic food should be pure, unaltered food! We expect organic food to be in its natural form, not modified in some unnatural way, whether that be by nanotechnology or genetic modification. It is of the utmost importance to protect our organic food from any kind of nanotechnology manipulation. This type of meddling with our organic foods is unconscionable and should never be allowed!

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By: Michael Hannan

Michael Hannan — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:20:19 +0000

Nanotech has no place in organic food. And you know it.

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By: Mike Martino

Mike Martino — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:15:03 +0000

Leave our food alone! We should have a choice to choose totally natural and organic food and feel safe that we don’t have to question every aspect.

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By: Lynn Kerman

Lynn Kerman — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:13:48 +0000

I urge you to take a tough stand so that our organic food cannot be tampered with. Please make a clear standard that genetically modified organisms and nanotechnology cannot be used if it has an organic label. The very integrity of our food supply is at stake and citizens should have a choice as to whether we want our food system tampered with with the above stated techniques. We should also know what we are buying so that if nanotechnology or gmo’s are used we should be able to make a clear choice when we are buying. No nanotechnology for organic labels.

Thank you.

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By: Donald Jones

Donald Jones — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:04:38 +0000

There is no definitive knowledge of the safety of nanotechnology, with respect to food for animal consumption. To not ban the use of this technology for animal or human food would be highly irresponsible….

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By: janice

janice — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:56:52 +0000

We the people do not want any genetic modifying of our organic foods….in fact leave the
organic foods alone period…..leave all our healthy foods alone! I want a healthy life and
I want my children & our future generations of children to be healthy! We all have that
right……so, listen to the people in the know…..leave the organic food alone!

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By: paul cunningham

paul cunningham — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:54:27 +0000

No one should ever be afraid that their food may not be safe to eat.

Tell big Ag to stay away from my food with your technological travesties. Oh, right, you are big Ag.

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By: Kathleen Bacuzzi

Kathleen Bacuzzi — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:50:57 +0000

How can the U. S. Department of Agriculture even consider allowing the use of nanotechnology in organic food? For once, please do not side with industry. Do your job and protect consumers.

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By: Carol Cox

Carol Cox — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:32:52 +0000

Canada recently amended its national organic rules to ban nanotechnology in food production as a “Prohibited Substance or Method.” Why can’t the US Dept. of Agriculture do the same in the interest of us, the consumers? It is their job to maintain and preserve organic standards. Please NO nanotechnology in the production of organic foods!

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By: Janice Smith MD

Janice Smith MD — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:28:08 +0000

I am soooo tired of the many attempts by members of groups like Monsanto, Big Pharma, the government, corporations, etc. to destroy the quality of our food supply, or the viability of life in general. Enough already, its time to stop trying to control the world and play nice with the other kids. I mean it.

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By: Tracy Winters

Tracy Winters — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:22:14 +0000

Please leave our food alone. Let it grow naturally.

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By: Martie

Martie — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:16:53 +0000

I did try to TAKE ACTION – however the site kept insisting on an American postal code even tho I have put in an Ontario, Canada address. Something wrong there and hope someone will notice before you lose many people from this Action.

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By: Susan Churchill

Susan Churchill — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:07:22 +0000

we don’t need to alter our basic and good food! Please make sure nanotechnology (unproven) is prohibited.

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By: Terry Travers-Davin

Terry Travers-Davin — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:07:02 +0000

I urge you to do all you can to protect the integrity of organic food and to prohibit the use of nanotechnology in organic food production.

Nanotechnology is the very antithesis of everything the organic food industry has stood for since its inception, and we citizens have a right to be protected from all harmful manipulation of our food supply.

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By: william bernard

william bernard — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:00:24 +0000

no nanotechnology in organganic foods

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By: Patricia Rosenblad

Patricia Rosenblad — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:58:06 +0000

Please let our natural organically grown foods remain just that — natural. There is much concern and controversy over nanotechnology I strongly urge you to ban the use of nanotechnology in organic foods — or any other foods for that matter.

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By: Patricia Rosenblad

Patricia Rosenblad — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:56:05 +0000

Please let our natural organically grown foods remain just that — natural. There is much concern and controversy over nanotechnology. One established toxicologist has issued dire warnings about the use of this technology in cosmetics. Using it in food production is even more serious..

I strongly urge you to ban the use of nanotechnology in organic foods — or any other foods for that matter.

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By: maureen hilgeman

maureen hilgeman — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:56:03 +0000

I strongly object to the use of nanothechnology and call for a ban of the big food industries in ;using nanothechnology.

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By: Mallon Noland

Mallon Noland — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:55:57 +0000

Please prohibit the use of any nanotechnology in organic-labeled products. Sincerely, Mallon Noland, D.C.

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By: Steve Dyer

Steve Dyer — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:50:26 +0000

Keep Nanotechnology out of organic food production.

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By: Margie

Margie — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:50:21 +0000

I want to eat food not chemically altered nano-technology or genetically modified foods. There is enough evidence (if the profit motive is overlooked for a moment) to indicate that animals lose reproductive capability with GMO. Do we know what nano-technology will to do us? Or the animals and plants who ingest it? NO! So don’t approve it.

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By: john davis

john davis — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:46:53 +0000

i support the ban on nanotechnology in organic foods

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By: Ellie Schwartz

Ellie Schwartz — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:46:38 +0000

I definitely support the ban on nanotechnology in organic foods. We need to maintain and preserve real organic standards. Matter modified and manipulated at the atomic and molecular levels is no longer organic. Please leave organic the way nature intended– organic. Thank you.

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By: Sandra Lowry

Sandra Lowry — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:43:43 +0000

Absolutely ban nanotechnology from our food supply, especially that which qualifies as organic. All food should be organic, anyway. We have enough frankenfoods on the grocery shelves. All this tampering is enough to make me want to grow all my own produce and preserve it myself.

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By: Carol Healy

Carol Healy — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:39:47 +0000

The USDA definitely needs to maintain real organic standards and therefore must ban nanotechnology in organic foods!

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By: Jean Roy

Jean Roy — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:38:45 +0000

The food industry is making us ill and making millions. The drug companies are also making billions.

Where is the FDA of old that banned sachrin?? Who is paying them . Our Meat and dairy is fed

drugs and wrong diets, then we like to think we have the best in the world, While some countries ban our products but the MEDIA does not report that.

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By: J.L.

J.L. — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:37:10 +0000

Nanotechnology contains the word “technology”. There is no place in NATURAL ORGANIC food production for “technology”. How ridiculous do you have to get with this nonsense?

I come from a dairy / truck farm and the word technology didn’t exist back then (except perhaps for the primitive milking machines). However, you could actually TASTE our food and drink healthy raw milk without a lot of corporate interference. Now everything tastes like corn syrup or chemicals.

Large food companies would love nothing more than labeling all of their foods “natural” or “organic” without having to do anything different than they currently are doing yet continue to charge increasingly more for their products. Already they are labeling foods “natural” that are anything but. Consumers are not stupid and we thoroughly resent being lied to.

In fact, I have never in my life seen so many Americans now reading labels and discussing them in the supermarket aisles. The best part is that they are often returning items to the shelves if they aren’t convinced the product is what they want in their body. Shopping has become a tangled nightmare.

The American public is tired of being taken for a grand ride by these enormous companies in an effort to squeeze every last penny out of us through lies. I shop more frequently at our farmers’ market rather than trust food labels in the store.

If corporations and government want a satisfactory definition of nanotechnology that is understandable. But at the SAME TIME and during this discussion process, consumers would absolutely want their food to be CLEARLY LABELED “processed through NANOTECHNOLOGY”. We can figure out what the meaning of “nanotechnology” is without some complicated definition that suits corporate interests. Thank you.

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By: Virginia Miller

Virginia Miller — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:32:58 +0000

Please keep nanotechnology out of organic food production! My family, friends and I want to be assured that real organic standards are adhered to when we purchase our food. Do not let large food companies adulterate our organic food for the sake of profits. It is ridiculous that we have to keep fighting to keep our organic food safe! Nanotechnology, like genetic modification, is the antithesis of the organic standards of raising food.

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By: Rosalind Walton

Rosalind Walton — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:32:24 +0000

Canadians import food from the states. As a Canadian consumer I don’t want nanotechnology used on the organic foods that I eat or the non organic foods that I eat or in cosmetics and sunscreens until much more research has been done. I expect that atomic sized particles will move right into my system whether or not they would normally be excluded if the particles were a bit larger.

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By: Geoffrey Hybel

Geoffrey Hybel — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:30:53 +0000

Like anything else we are organic beings and we need organic matter to keep our bodies functioning.We don’t need any sci-fi frankenstein wierd science going on with our organic foods. Stay away from the organic food with your technology.

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By: n,saueracker

n,saueracker — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:30:38 +0000

do NOT experiment with our food!! thank yoi

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By: Cynthia Brown

Cynthia Brown — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:30:12 +0000

YES WE CONSUMERS CARE THAT WE GET AS MUCH REAL CERTIFIED ORGANIC FOOD AS POSSIBLE. GENETIC MODIFICATION OF WHAT WE EAT IS PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE.

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By: Laura Nevins

Laura Nevins — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:26:28 +0000

Nanotechnology, the process of manipulating matter at the atomic and molecular level, has no place in organic food. Like genetic modification, it is the antithesis of the organic concept.

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By: gail forrest

gail forrest — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:25:26 +0000

please save our organic food from nannotechnology- no nanno

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By: earl banchek

earl banchek — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:24:10 +0000

NO NANNOTECH IN ORGANIC FOODS

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By: Larry Healy

Larry Healy — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:22:13 +0000

the United States National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture should formally prohibit the use of nanotechnology in organic food production.

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By: naomi villalobos

naomi villalobos — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:21:31 +0000

please stop genetic modification. and conserve our organic produce of foods

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By: Marian Hailey-Moss

Marian Hailey-Moss — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:19:55 +0000

We need to harmonize with nature – not manipulate it until it becomes grotesque….and doesn’t nourish us….

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By: Scott McVay

Scott McVay — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:18:51 +0000

Please Keep our organic standards pure. Our food should just be food. If people want to mess with their food with things like GMOs or nanotechnology, let them, but please keep one option that is just plain food. Let that be our organic standards. I have experienced the impact of food on my health in a very direct way and I am committed to keeping our food healthy and pure. I urge you to consider the ramifications of this choice, and keep our organic standards as high as possible.
Thanks. Scott McVay

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By: Patti Levy

Patti Levy — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:17:39 +0000

We are counting on you to do what’s right!

Patti & Ron Levy

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