Tom, your excerpt from the Pesticide Action Network cites evidence for what I think is #1 of many motives for organic food production, and that is -- so far industrial agriculture cannot deliver human & animal food that is untainted by harmful chemicals. And that includes all the corporations in the new Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy.

From your POV, have you ever seen a substantive study linking residual industrial ag chemicals in food with human & animal disease -- over time?

And as for Monsanto and Syngenta as rivals, I would like to see a study of their boards, investors, holdings and subsidiaries. They certainly work shoulder-to-shoulder to counter resistance to industrial ag methods and profit- taking -- and to spin-counter the benefits of sustainable organic food production methods.

A lot of ordinary people support Monsanto by default -- the largest investor in Monsanto is FMR LLC, a consortium of 300+ mutual funds that has made billionaires of its founders & fund managers, the Johnson family of Boston.

Are compounds like this tested on people in very poor states or nations, maybe at the plant, without any worker safety concerns,  where it is produced?

I'm thinking maybe statistics are available from the chemical plants already, to prove the risk to people living and working where they are applied, and/or eating the poisoned food products.

These health records must be held in secret by the companies, but wouldn't workers have access to their own health records?  It might be a way to prove the dangerous nature of GMO agribizz.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

It doesn't seem that any of the biologists who were involved in the development of these seeds and chemicals had any knowledge of evolutionary theory. Weeds adapt? P-shaw! Our products are evolution-proof! Wow, THAT would be a hell of a marketing come on! "New RoundupIII, it's Evolution-Proof! Guaranteed, or your ecosystem back!"*    *"Well, not really."

The mellotron is your friend.

Great idea Archigeek, very funny.  If humans were ever able to accurately predict evolution, we'd be way beyond physical bodies by that point in our evolution and would certainly be wise enough to refrain from genetically engineering plants or animals.