from Organic Consumers Association…

“This could be something quite big. We might be setting up a huge problem.”
— Robert Kremer, USDA Soil Scientist, on the damage caused by Monsanto’s genetically engineered RoundUp Ready technology

A recent report once again elucidates the threat of genetic engineering to our lives. Few people seem to realize what’s going on. We stand at a crossroads right now wherein Monsanto threatens to own the ENTIRE food production and supply on earth. Can you imagine what this means? Once you go GM, you can’t go back. It forever ruins the soil and the food chain. Robert Kremer, a U.S. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil, has spent two decades analyzing the rich dirt that yields billions of bushels of food each year and helps the United States retain its title as breadbasket of the world. His findings? The same seeds and chemicals spread across millions of acres of U.S. farmland could be creating unforeseen problems in the plants and soil.

Corporately influenced biotech crop supporters claim that GM crops are safe, but critics argue that after only 14 years of commercialized GMOs, it is still unclear whether or not the technology has long-term adverse effects.

Reuters news service reports, “According to an industry report issued in February, 14 million farmers in 25 countries planted biotech crops on 330 million acres in 2009, with the United States alone accounting for 158 million acres. A common complaint is that the U.S. government conducts no independent testing of these biotech crops before they are approved, and does little to track their consequences after.

“The developers of these crop technologies, including Monsanto and its chief rival DuPont, tightly curtail independent scientists from conducting their own studies. Because the companies patent their genetic alterations, outsiders are barred from testing the biotech seeds without company approvals.

“University of Minnesota entomologist Ken Ostlie, who co-authored the statement, said some of the concerns involve corn engineered to resist corn rootworm pests. Biotech corn crops in Minnesota, Iowa, and parts of Wisconsin and South Dakota harvested last fall showed damage and disease, and some fear the biotech corn could sicken livestock.

“We don’t know if something is going on with the plant and the technology or with the insect. We just know things didn’t work the way they were supposed to,” said Ostlie. “It would be nice to have independently verifiable information going into EPA’s decision-making beyond just what the company provides.”

Reuters article

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