w
orldwide, GMO crops are grown Sygenta and Bayer. These companies
on about 280 million acres, are not known for their commitment
almost entirely in corn and soybeans to public health and environmental
grown for animal feed, industrial safety. They continue to lobby against
chemicals and plant-based fuels. The government regulations and work
main thing to know about GMOs is that to undermine the public research
they are made by the chemical industry, system. As a result, they have been
for the chemical industry, and sold to able to put GMOs on the market
farmers for weed and pest control. without appropriate health and
We now eat GMOs in our break- environmental testing and safety
fast cereals and corn chips because measures. pendent
in the United States the industrial As part of their marketing scientists.
agriculture system mixes crops from strategy, the GMO industry also There is no
many sources during production and has kept labels off their products in government testing;
manufacturing. GMOs are now in just the United States, even though the whatever information
about anything made with corn, soy Center for Food Safety reports that polls the government gets
or canola, as well as oil from cotton- repeatedly show that up to 94 percent of from industry is on a
seed. Most of the meat, eggs and dairy Americans want labels on GMO foods. voluntary basis.
products we eat come from animals fed Most other industrial countries label And there are
GMOs. The only fresh GMO food being GMOs, and many tightly restrict their ethical issues, es-
sold right now is a mushy papaya from testing and use. pecially for people
Hawaii; the GMO spud was a dud and The industry, made up of corpora- with health-based
other fresh GMOs have failed in the tions, their paid lobbyists and academic or religious
marketplace. allies, claim that GMOs are safe. The dietary restric-
how Gmos Came to market industry says they don’t know of any tions. Everyone needs to
GMOs were developed by large health harm proven to be caused by know what’s in their food. But
agrochemical multinational corpora- their products. But their position is not GMOs are unlike anything the world
tions like Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, backed by reliable research from inde- has seen before. They combine genes
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