Thank you.
There is also a side benefit. I had a discussion with some people the other day whom I believe to be your typical ignorant left-winger types about this very subject. They were very interested in hearing about non-GMO food and home gardening. Then one of them brought up Monsanto in a negative tone without actually using the name. It was the perfect opportunity to mention that the guy from Monsanto was made Food Safety Czar by Obama, especially since I gave not a single clue as to my political leanings.
I have a very liberal friend in the Seattle area (that may be redundant) to whom I mentioned that very fact. She was totally agast.
If you want to find some real common ground with lefties and evironmentalist just get on the subject of food safety, food security, or food sovreignty. There is a revolving door in Washington between government and the big food and drug industry. It doesn't much matter what party is in control. What is going on is a generaly limiting of our freedom of choices to that of eating factory food and getting health care through increasing medication.
The only way to overcome this is at the grassroots level. That would be having we, the consumers, spending our dollars on food that we can trust. Even the lefties will understand market forces in those terms. Rather than try to outlaw GMO's just let us exercise our right to choose what we put in our bodies.
I spent last Saturday at a "Sustainable Living" event at someone's homestead. It was a mixed crowd both in age and world views, but there was general agreement that we should all take responsibility for meeting our basic needs. And there was the idea that what you couldn't eat, you could sell and/or give it to someonw who was hungry.