Richard Rowland

Most companies have to keep tinkering with their product or cease to continue in business. For most products being manufactured, that isn't a problem, however, when a company like Monsanto consistently tinkers with the food supply in order to remain relevant, that's a problem.

This is a long read, but worth the time if concerned with what's being offered at the grocery store.


http://newswithviews.com/americans-shocked-angered-trumps-latest-gmo-executive-order/

MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

There is so much hip on things today we are blinded by it all. Man has been altering most everything he grows plant and animals mostly for the better. The original chicken laid 20 eggs and quit. The chickens of today lay 365 eggs a year! Milk cows of old gave a quart a day, Holstines of today give 24 quarts at a time.
The corn of old was small and weird looking, wheat had 6 or 7 kernels on a stook, now it has 50 plus.
One must understand the people working to alter the genes of life have to live in the same world as all of us. If they mess up it's there mess as well. So far I have not observer any problems with what they do. I hope it stays that way.
People 3 hundred years ago burned people at the stake for talking to their black cat! Let's hope we don't go back to that.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Richard, I think unfortunately, the following paragraph explains it very succinctly:

[“We know that Agribusiness has Trump’s ear. He picked Sonny Perdue, one of Big Ag’s own, for his USDA Secretary. And this week, the Associated Press dropped a bombshell: Dow Chemical gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund, and the chemical giant is now urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set aside its findings on chlorpyrifos and three other pesticides that federal scientists from several agencies found were harmful to endangered species and human health.4 Trump’s EPA also just greenlighted Dow’s new “Enlist Duo” genetically engineered crops, resistant to 2,4-D, part of the Vietnam Era Agent Orange pesticide.

“In January, then President-elect Trump sat down chemical giant Bayer’s CEO Werner Baumann and Monsanto’s CEO Hugh Grant at Trump Tower and had a “productive meeting” on “the future of the agriculture industry” and the pending merger between the two companies. Combined, President Trump, EPA Administrator Pruitt, and newly confirmed USDA Secretary Perdue have received millions of dollars from Big Ag and chemical companies.”

Money talks.]

There are many here on OPP that think that Trump can do no wrong, and excuse his every misdeed with some type of excuse to justify his actions.

I agree with you, first 5G, and now his EO that "directs federal agencies to reduce or eliminate regulations and oversight mechanisms that might help ensure the safety of genetically engineered crops." Very sad.

Carol Kelly

It’s more than just sad, it’s hazardous to our health and it hasn’t just begun. It’s been going on for years. Twenty years ago my daughter had a friend who wouldn’t drink milk because of the antibiotics that big dairies were putting in their milk cows food.
As small farmers went broke, big companies were taking over their farms and now here we are. It’s easy to blame Trump, but it didn’t begin there.

Reality

Keyword: might! Nothing so far has shown any issues. Just because something might be bad, doesn’t make it wrong

PeterS

Trumps first act as president was to roll back regulations preventing the dumping of coal wastes in our rivers and streams. Trump cares about money and could give a flip about our environment. Why you guys expect anything else is what puzzles me...