I’ve just ported this over to my own hosting site (LOVE BlueHost, btw — if you’re looking for a great hosting site, look no further), and added Thesis but am nowhere near set up yet.

Hang with me — lots more to come. I do feel “home” at last, and much more comfortable about posting. Or will, once I get unpacked.

Except that we’ve always known the truth.

From the very beginning, environmentalists and others warned anyone who would listen — including the greedy corporations, including a blind, deaf and dumb USDA — that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are at best an unpredictable threat that should not be unleashed upon the world, and at worst certain disaster.

Bayer, attempting to out-GMO Monsanto, has succeeded in contaminating 30% of U.S. ricefields, a shocking statistic.

And, Bayer has admitted in one of many class action suits against them by farmers that they “have been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination].’

We have no iea, of course, what the effects of this contamination are or will be. Longterm tests on humans — not to mention the rest of the environment — were never part of the requirements for USDA approval for bringing these and other GMOs to the market.

What will it take for them to learn that some things are more important than profits?

Sources:
Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control

Bayer Blamed at Trial for Crops ‘Contaminated’ by Modified Rice

Greenpeace Report (.pdf)

Please also see my GMO’s Page for more resources and information, which will be frequently updated.