The Politics of Food
(continued, second page update)
One of the most salient issues
facing us as consumers of food in the United States of Amerika
is the debate, or real lack thereof (in the corporate owned commercial media),
on the issue of genetically engineered foods.
This debate is mostly one way, as real information is withheld from the
American public. This is done through
outright lies of public relations campaigns paid for by the corporations who
produce and push genetically modified foods.
In order to assure there is no debate, any criticism of their activity
is construed as libel under the food disparagement laws
pushed for and enacted by Congress, bought and paid for with the “best democracy money can buy”.
No one is really sure how genetic
modifications will affect us, or will affect our farming. We do know that pollen from genetically grown
corn will blow and
may very well land in the organic corn field down the road. What is for sure that corporations who OWN
THE PATENDS on these products are in line to make, and are making, lots of
money.
It is an outrage that seeds that are
sold to farmers are hybrids which cannot, by definition, yield viable seed,
forcing the farmer to have to buy new seed every year. Again, the profit motive is behind this
hideousness and violation of human decency.
It is well known that Monsanto has
infiltrated the Indian markets and reduced many farmers in India and here to
the slavery of purchasing from Monsanto and other large agro giants such as Aventis and ADM (Archer
Daniels Midland - the ones with the fancy expensive propaganda on TV, with the
pretty green fields, as though we were idiots that believe all that is pretty
is true).TO BE CONTINUED
