Once again the 'agency' makes a move towards increasing the likelyhood of exposure to frankenfoods. Check it:
On Oct. 11 in the Federal Register notice (71 Fed. Reg. 59,697) the USEPA has issued a draft rule that exempts some plant incorporated protectants from the EPA's regulatory requirments for pesticides.
What is a 'plant incorporated protectant' or PIP you might ask? Well the types of PIPs exempted from the recent draft regulations are known as viral coat protein genes. These PIPS are made by genetically tweaking plants to repel pests. This results in plants that can produce bacteria, etc that act as an insecticide, essentially turning the plants surface into a designer insect repellant factory, engineered deep in some underground lab probably.
'These protectants are created by inserting plant material with genertic material derived from a plant virus, which encodes the new protein with resistance to the virus from which it was derived'. Doesnt that sound extra tasty on your Mc D - L FrankenSalad?
Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) the EPA has to let the US Dpt of Ag know of the proposed exemption. Can you guess who has them in their pocket? Certainly not the same people who have the USEPA in their pocket..... right?
How will we know which foods have these and which dont? We wont. Not with our current food labeling laws. Hmmm. why are our food labeling laws so different from the euro's? Not sure? Guess who's funding the lobbying firms pushing for zero labeling? Give up?
Until next time, enjoy your unlabeled, potentially GMO containing sugar bombs!