Not a healthy recipe (price, effects, negative, organic)

[Idunn]

“If this corn is comingled with other corn, it will have significant adverse impacts on food product quality and performance,” the North American Millers’ Association said in a statement on Friday.' [1]


The U.S.D.A. just approved a GM type of corn which is engineered solely for industrial purposes, specifically the production of ethanol.

This follows closely their other recent approvals of GM alfalfa and sugar beats, and a past history of favoring GM crops in general. Also, of the US government surreptitiously pressuring members of the EU to weaken their stance against GM crops.

It might be noted that despite their assurances to the contrary that neither the US government or anybody else knows what the long term effects of GM crops will be on the environment, of these normal crops themselves, or human health. But there are strong indicators even now of distinct negatives. One obvious of cross-pollination, and of these GM crops ruining normal crops in adjacent fields. This is all the more true of organic farming, which cannot suffer such things. It is also well known that Monsanto operates in a manner designed to damage and ruin neighboring crops.

Then there is, in this instance, the question of ethanol. Any familiarity with this subject will quickly convince one that ethanol as a fuel is a bad idea. It is not energy efficient in all the oil-based fertilizer and other energy required to produce it. The industrial production of corn also increasingly damages farmland. Then, too, the use of a food, or what might be, for fuel when this world will increasingly see less food production and higher prices. Add to that GM crops which threaten to damage the life-cycle and existence of normal crops, those that can actually be raised with little more than sun, water and good soil, and one might be concerned.

One might fairly ask, what is the U.S.D.A and our government up to, and in which way, if at all, does that correspond to the welfare of our land and people?

1) 'U.S. Approves Corn Modified for Ethanol,' The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/bu...12corn.html?hp

[ino]

["...in which way, if at all, does that correspond to the welfare of our land and people?"]


Simple - It's not about the welfare of the land *or* the people, it's about the welfare of the Corporations. Their insatiable and obscene lust for profit and control...at the expense and total disregard for all else. Slowly, and in a timely manner, gradually taking control and forcing populations to become totally dependant on the *them* for survival.