Genetically Modified Foods Are Not Tested
“My only problem with Monsanto’s patents are that they don’t seem to have control of their product. Genetically modified crops cross-breed with those planted by organic farmers who never signed up to grow Monsanto product, and Monsanto gets to call foul. If a flat-screen TV literally walked into my house and wouldn’t leave, I would be pretty upset when the cops showed up on my doorstep to arrest me for larceny.” – April We used to be a nation of farmers. Most anybody knew how to grow food. We knew how to tend animals, how to grow plants, how to harvest, how to store, and how to seed our crops. Now, the common person knows little to nothing about growing food. Most of us don’t even know where the food we eat comes from. Because so many of our ancestors grew crops, there was a large variety of “Land Races” or rather, there was a large variety in the genetics from one crop to the next within the same species. Be it corn, carrots or potatoes, we only now use 10% of the variety we used to h