I recently received this mail:
An agricultural giant called the Monsanto Company has risen to the top of the corporate food chains thanks to their genetically modified corn and soybean seeds, seeds bred to withstand and even produce their own herbicides and pesticides.
But in the decades since they’ve appeared on the scene, two more things have sprung up: a new crop of “superweeds” that have evolved to resist our chemicals, and root worms that have become insecticide-resistant “superworms,” both of which are set to swarm the Midwest in the coming year.
Rather than come clean, Monsanto has been covering their tracks, working to market their corn as fresh produce and spending millions to kill California’s Prop 37 requirement to label their corn and soybeans as genetically modified products.
The FDA still doesn’t require safety studies for Monsanto’s new strains, they’re designing food to produce dangerous chemicals, and these same chemicals have been breeding superworms that will devastate the landscape in the decades to come.
Don’t stay silent. Please, join us in calling on Monsanto to stop fighting Prop 37 in California, and spread this information on the danger of genetically engineered crops to as many friends as you can.
It’s time we knew what’s in the food we’re eating and the crops these companies are growing. Stop the superworm swarm: Join us in calling for greater transparency at the Monsanto Company!
Here is what is going on. Monsanto Corporation has been marketing herbicide and pesticide resistant genetically modified crops. The purpose of this is to allow you to plant more crops. However, the whole mess has backfired terribly. The more pesticide resistant crops they plant, but more bugs get resistant to pesticides, so you need to apply more and more pesticides to get the same effect.
In addition, planting herbicide resistant crops allows more use of herbicide. However, the herbicide resistant crops apparently hybridize their genes with weeds, creating “superweeds” that are resistant to herbicides. This means you need to apply more and more herbicides to kill the same weeds. Application of herbicides goes way up. As this sick corporation also makes herbicides, their herbicide sales go way up too. This is obviously insane to anyone with a brain.
Now, somehow genetically modified corn and soybean crops are also producing “superworms,” possibly nematodes that eat the roots of crops. The superworms have become resistant to pesticides, requiring greater and greater applications of pesticides in order to kill them. This seems to be definition of insanity.
Proposition 37 on the ballot in California was stupidly voted down by “liberal” California voters after Monsanto and other corporate maggots outspent the pro campaign for 20-30-1. The proposition sensibly called for labeling genetically modified foods. Then people could decide whether or not they wanted to buy them. Surveys show most people don’t want to buy the stuff.
The problem with Frankenfoods is that no one knows whether they are good for you or not. Many studies have been done indicating that Frankenfoods might actually be bad for both humans and pets and animals raised for food. No one knows the exact effects that these Frankenfoods have on our health, but caution is advised until all the data are in.
The government has been utterly corrupt in its approval of Frankenfoods. Over and over, the US government has ratified that these foods are safe despite countless studies casting doubt on that. University professors who did studies showing that Frankenfoods were bad for you have been bullied and threatened with their jobs. Monsanto and other giants have bought off and corrupted educational institutions such as universities and many governments. The whole thing sticks to high heaven.
Frankenfoods are stupid. If they don’t hurt our health or that of our food and pet animals, they are causing a nightmare in our agricultural fields. None of this makes any sense!