Wednesday, March 25, 2015

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.

2 comments:

  1. Hypocrisy runs amok in the republican party. Ted Cruz said he would repeal every word of Obama Care. Since his wife is leaving Goldman Saks the family is losing their insurance.

    Now here is a man who can afford to go on the open market and buy insurance for himself and family. So, what does he do, he signed up for Obama Care. I'm sure the right wingers will say he didn't have a choice. I'm laughing like hell on this one.

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  2. For Cruz's sake, I hope Obamacare covers psychiatric treatment.

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