The below article is forwarded for your information. Those who
have followed the GMO debate are aware that there is significant cause
to be concerned with Monsanto's (and others) serious push to seize
control of and acquire patent control over much of the food we eat while
poisoning our agricultural lands with harmful pesticides. Many
countries around the world have either banned GMO products or placed
labeling restrictions on them. According to the article's author (and
others I have read) Monsanto has apparent/actual efforts ongoing which
seek "to patent life forms,
own the food supply, drench the world in more pesticides, engineer RNA
so it silences and activates genes in the body in random fashion,
leading to incalculable consequences for the human race."
Monsanto and its GMO advocates/partners have spent millions of dollars
over the past several years fighting any effort to place GMO
labels/warnings on products sold here and around the world. To them our
rights as consumers don't count. See this link for a listing
of countries which have rejected outright or restricted the sale of GMO
products. http://www.ehow.com/info_8527757_countries-banned-gmo-foods.html
Our President and the Congress, however, ignored health concerns raised
here and abroad. Monsanto and its fellow money-grubbing colleagues
were winners - Americans the losers. See especially the
paragraph starting with "During his 2008 campaign for president..."
(about halfway down). That paragraph and onward provides the probable
reasons both the President and Congress satisfied GMO
industry interests while ignoring ours. Such is the state of our
political leadership. Another item on the topic but which does not
contain the key paragraphs just suggested as critical reading is here: http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/03/obama-sells-out-u-s-citizens-by-signing-monsanto-protection-act-into-law-2449128.html
George Burns
George Burns
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