The World According to Monsanto

 A few posts ago I alluded to the evils of GMO grain.  I told you that it was very bad and that I'd follow up on it later.  Now is later.  GMO as I've stated before, stands for Genetically Modified Organism.  It is genetically modified because the plant's DNA is tinkered with in a laboratory.  At first glance we may say what a Godsend GMO corn and soybeans are.  I mean after all how will we feed the world with out massive harvests of grain in the good ol' US of A? 

I'm sure that there are other companies involved in the GMO sciences, but the major one that I know of is a company named Monsanto.  Monsanto is a chemical company.  They are the producers of RoundUp weed killer.  Well, Monsanto discovered that they could alter the DNA of plants in the lab and produce a crop that will not die when sprayed with RoundUp.  These plants are what are known as RoundUp Ready crops.  So a farmer plants RoundUp Ready beans in his field and applies regular doses of RoundUp to the field and everything except his cash crop withers up and dies.  Sounds great.  Don' t you think? 

The first problem is that RoundUp like most chemicals is a petroleum based product.  I for one think we are already tied to tightly to the oil rigs and is likely a good chunk of the reason that we keep on ending up fighting in the deserts of the Middle East. Just a thought.    

Secondly,  the fields are getting addicted to the chemicals like drug addicts and it is now requiring larger and larger doses to achieve the same effects.  Buy more RoundUp.

Thirdly, all of those chemicals then run off and end up screwing up our streams and rivers.  We already have a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico the size of Rhode Island that is attributed to this type of run off coming down the mighty Mississippi.  

Fourthly,  I don't feel good eating a plant that was engineered by human hands in a lab with plant properties that don't occur in nature.  Our bodies don't know what to do with the stuff.  GMO corn lacks seven enzymes that the open pollinated varieties of corn do have.  What do those seven enzymes do?  We don't know.  Nobody knows.  I'm guessing though that they are important.  Why would God have put them in they weren't important? 

Corn is pollinated by wind.  If I plant non-GMO corn, but my neighbor plants Monsanto RoundUp Ready corn and his field pollinates mine I can be sued by Monsanto.  They do that.  They have a team of like 75 investigators that go around trespassing into fields and checking corn and beans to see if it's got their DNA or not.  If that farmer didn't buy it from Monsanto they sue.  It's also illegal for the farmers to save seed like they used to do for years and years.  If you save Monsanto seed and they find out you're going to court.  If you really want to see a heartbreaking picture of what I'm talking about watch the movie "Food Inc."  I was so stinking mad when I got done watching it.  You literally have a hard time believing that that kind of evil exists in this country and that they have that much power and that they are woven into our government all over the place.  

There is a book I saw the other day titled "The World According to Monsanto".  It's written by a lady who did some investigating about the company and goes on to tell what she found out.  I want to read it, but then again I don't.  I already know that they are evil.  If I read that my head is likely to blow off.  Be informed people.  Read make your own decisions.  I've made mine and I'm choosing to not patronize that kind of evil if I can help it.