mikevan

The greatest "consumer" of produce is the food-processing industry. And they're by no means required to indicate what's GMO and what's not, at this moment. Laws requiring this have been snuffed by the incredible power and clout of the GMO industry giants. Indeed, laws forbidding GMO plants in counties are being overturned by the Nazi strategy of war that the GMO industry is taking. They are not satisfied with people not wanting their product - their goal is to get everyone enslaved to it - control the food and you control the world. Why do you think the USA government is so far in bed with these guys? The Iraqi legistlation alone should tell you how far the US is in bed with the GMO industry - Iraqi farmers will lose their generations-developed and saved seeds by law and be forced to buy GMO patented seeds instead, just the way the GMO industry is trying to do here. They have already made criminals out of farmers who did nothing more than suffer cross-pollination from neighboring fields. Their tactics are ruthless and without mercy - and regardless of any benefits one can see in GMO - their SS-like tactics alone should raise a red-flag on their goals! Researchers and scientists are afraid to say anything lest they lose their jobs - the few that do stand up to the industry get keel-hauled pretty severely! The government (read - FDA) isn't going to do anything - they've been very deeply infiltrated by the GMO industry. Our entire agricultural system has been compromised by an enemy from within while we're distracted by external "threats" to national security.

This isn't just a complaint against GMO - but the way it's being handled and pushed - GMO is merely a tool for a final goal. Because of that, it's not tested adequately, and it is pushed on us when superior products and methods already exist that can be exploited without the dangers, cost and trouble of splicing genes. While in another world it may have its uses, because of it's abuse, any "good" that could have come from GMO has been forever tainted and our very health and lives are at stake for little more than the greed for money and power.

Organic is not about spraying manure on ones fields as people think occurred back before the 40's - it is miles different from anything we did back in the Dark Ages of agriculture. And it has come as far if not further in sophistication and progress than any GMO lab can brag. It has brought together the soil food-web and the crop as well as the very structure and composition of the cropping method into a more cohesive unit than a horse-n-plow in the 40's could ever have done. It in itself can solve the worlds hunger problems because unlike GMO, organic methods and plants can rehabilitate damaged soils and revive the soil-foodweb in a way that magnifies productivity and reduces cost that no GMO project can ever hope to accomplish. And even reviving knowledge lost back in the days of the Aztec can outproduce GMO with the revival of terra preta. So, with existing, and pre-existing and progressing development in organic methods - one has to wonder about all this furor occurring over GMO? Like I said - nothing GMO can do cannot be done already with our current and sustainable safe organic development. What, can we breed vitamin A into rice? Probably, but there's also a common sense aspect to it - why bother when sweet potatoes grow where rice grows without the need for flooding and it in itself is so much richer than rice? Let them have natural rice and natural sweet-potatoes and encourage more diversity in diet and you'll solve their nutritional problems. Showering them with some yellow rice does little more than showering them with yellow snow...

And if one must grow drugs in plants, they should first prove that they can do so in a hermetically sealed system and process the plants there at the same location and prove that they cannot mix this with food crops. However, not only will this never happen, pharm produce has already been mixed with food crops. And you have to wonder - many times more gets by than gets discovered - just how much more goodies have we been unknowingly ingesting?

Mike