GMOs

I don’t think there is anything inherently dangerous in genetically modified foods.  The environmental left can be as irrational on GMOs as climate change deniers are on global warming.

Having said that and shocking all my Green Party friends, I think it is disgusting the way companies like Monsanto are using GMOs.  Monsanto has developed and patented Roundup Ready corn and soybean seeds in order to sell its profitable herbicide, not to prevent famine.

What’s worse, according to an op-ed piece by Mark Bittman in today’s Times, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has declared that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is a probable carcinogen.  We’ll probably know in ten or fifteen years.

Here is another disgusting development.  Rep. Pompeo (R-Kansas--where else) has introduced a bill to prohibit states from requiring the labeling of GMO foods.  If those products are safe, what is the harm in labeling them?

This is just one more example of Republican hypocrisy.  Republicans are in favor of states’ rights except when they aren’t.  This bill, of course, is strongly supported by Monsanto.