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The top 4 seed producers in the world produce 36% of the world’s seed. Monsanto is number one, Dow Chemical is number two. They are also heavily engaged in both securing plant patents and enforcing those patents. Their seed cross-pollinates the fields of others … and then they sue the others for possessing ‘their’ genetic material.
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) seeds do not occur naturally. They are engineered and ‘tested’ by their makers. Unbiased oversight is minimal, at best.
And it’s all so very legal.
The safety testing is left to the manufacturers … the ones who will benefit financially. They decide what data gets reported (or not). The European Union (thus far) requires that they at least be labeled, but the US does not. So, if you are an American, you can’t even know what you are eating.
Compare this to the 320,000 Africans who didn’t know that they were being injected with the live Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in the late 1950’s along with their polio shots. You know it by its mutated form, HIV.
The science of the time thought that there was no danger from injecting the SIV … that the human body would shrug it off. Further research has shown that we share some 98% of our genes with monkeys. We didn’t shrug it off.
Ignorance is not safe. Inform yourself, protect yourself. Just as we had no experience injecting live monkey viruses into humans, we have no experience with introducing animal and pesticide genes into our food supply.
What is especially disturbing is that we don’t even get a label on our foods so that we can decline to be part of the experiment.
Like it or not, we are part of the experiment.
This is the first article in an on-going series that will appear here once a week until I have beaten the topic to death. I hope that you will take a moment to subscribe to it or, better yet, to comment on it.
If you are politically inclined, you might write to your representatives at the national level and urge a roll-back to the plant patents of 1970 or even ask that the plant patents be altogether repealed. It is one thing to hybridize a plant through naturally occurring means, it is quite another to splice in fish genes and pesticides. When the legislation evaporates, the experiment will end.
