@Qingu I did mention that the reason that Monsanto is modifying the crops is to sustain the over-use of pesticides and herbicides (Round up)
the most worrying thing is, that in doing so, the factory farms are also creating new breeds of roundup-ready resistant weeds, which only perpetuates the cycle of needing to create more potent poisons to kill the weeds, and further genetic modification of the corn/soy crops.
@XD also has an excellent point, the fact that Monsanto is quite effectively (legally) eliminating the ability for small famers to use heirloom seeds and non-Monsanto GE/GM seeds.
Even if you’re thinking “well I don’t eat corn products” remember that most of teh corn and soy that we’re talking about ends up in feed lots. so if you’re eating meat from a supermarket, then you’re eating an animal whose diet consisted of these products which were sprayed with Roundup. Food Chain, people. we’re at the top and poisons that deposit into the flesh of animals that we eat, will eventually deposit into our bodies.
why there is not a greater hew and cry from the public I don’t know.
President Obama promised to end the “revolving door” between lobbyists for companies like Monsanto and the government. Then he names a former Monsanto attorney as the Deputy Commisioner of Food… and now the government is on a mission to stop small farmers from selling raw milk or from being able to lable milk as rBGH free (a synthetic hormone developed by.. guess who… Monsanto)
... sorry I ranted and got a bit off topic. I have friends who are farmers and the whole thing just sickens me.