Monsanto lawyers and former executives, who rode the DC revolving door from Monsanto to positions within the FDA, are the ones responsible for getting GMO foods into our markets.
Monsanto is trying hard to get all heirloom seeds out of the market and outlawed so that the only seeds available are their GM seeds.
70 percent of all the soybeans grown in the US now are genetically modified “Round-Up Ready” Monsanto soybeans.
Read up on “H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009” pushed by Rosa DeLauro, whose husband is a “former” Monsanto lobbyist.
I just looked at that bill and did a search on the word "seed". Didn't find a single mention. Either my search function is screwed up or you are mistaken in your claim.
Agreed, and here the response to the guy claiming GMO seeds have saved a billion people (not to mention 9/10 of the people on this thread have no idea what GMO means)
Study shows genetically altered soybeans produce lower yields
A two-year study by University of Nebraska researchers showed that soybeans genetically altered to resist a popular herbicide produced lower yields than conventional soybeans. The NU Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources study showed Roundup Ready soybeans yield 6 percent less than their closest relatives and 11 percent less than high-yielding soybean varieties. That averaged to three fewer bushels per acre - or 480 fewer bushels on a 160-acre field. “This is completely contrary to the body of research done by Monsanto and independent sources,” said Scarlett Foster, director of public affairs for Monsanto.
The University of Nebraska study was a two-year project, she said, but farmers have been using Roundup Ready beans for five years. “Their satisfaction has been at a 90 percent rate,” Foster said. The institute undertook the study - funded by the Nebraska Soybean Board - when producers began asking yield-related questions about the
genetically-altered soybeans in 1997, NU agronomist and study director Roger Elmore said. Around the same time, he said, early test results from Nebraska and other universities were released, hinting at a lesser yield capacity for Roundup Ready beans.
Roundup Ready soybean seed, produced by St. Louis, Mo.-based Monsanto Co., contains a gene that allows it to resist the popular Roundup herbicide. The seed costs about $7.50 per bag more than conventional bean seed. When studies showed spraying with Roundup did not adversely affect the altered soybeans’ yield, Elmore and his
colleagues focused on the effects of the gene-insertion process.
Dryland and irrigated studies were conducted at North Platte, Clay Center, Lincoln and Concord comparing Roundup Ready varieties to related varieties and high-yielding traditional soybean varieties.
Not only are the very bad for you, but they produce less yield, they only thing they are doing is putting money in peoples pockets at the expense of the health and well being of our children. And you are right, they are in control of the FDA, it’s like having ACORN in control of the election process.