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  Gentically modified hubris

  I liked the EWG (environmental working group) subsidies link. Interesting to see the millions of dollars of subsidy payments doled out to the large farms. I don't think subsidies initially were set up to help the wealthy...

  Somtimes the scope of things gets to be just another set of numbers. When thinking of billions (one billion = 1,000 million) of dollars that are supporting biotech GREED, it seems that John and Jane Q public are so busy just getting by -- that this is slipping under the radar. I wish there could be warning COMMERCIALS. . . or something to wake up the sleeping public to the various dangers of GMOs.

  The more commentary on this the better. Low tech IS the answer. We need more awareness of permaculture, companion planting, and working WITH nature as if we were a part of it -- because we truly are. There are increasing numbers of school gardens. It would be lovely if this was standard. So many children and adults have not had the experience of where food actually comes from.

   It should be alarming the few studies that have exposed health dangers of genetically engineered foods. It is frightening to consider the many more cross-species frankenfoods that have NOT been studied, yet are potentially dangerous and allowed to exist and proliferate unchecked -- while those who would make more of these environmentally unsound products are laughing all the way to the bank.On Biotech crops have benefited shareholders in seed giants, but nobody else posted 3 years, 9 months ago 5 Responses