FTA: Research shows that at least half of all GMO studies are funded by the GMO industry, while the majority of the other half are funded by governments. There has also long been a revolving door between GMO industry insiders and the FDA and EPA; officials often work for Monsanto and then get jobs with the government, then go back to Monsanto again. The back scratching is so egregious that the government even created special legal protections for GMO companies like Monsanto under what is now known as the Monsanto Protection Act (Section 735 of Agricultural Appropriations Bill HR 993) under the Obama Administration in 2013. This essentially makes GMO companies immune to litigation over GMOs, and the same protections have been renewed in different bills ever since.

Sound familiar? I'm sure your friend means well and perhaps he's correct about some things, but when it looks like a racket and behaves like a racket, it's a racket. Rackets always benefit some at the expense of others, and government facilitated rackets have demonstrated no qualms about harming people, animals and the whole of Mother Nature.

No matter what your friend would tell me and no matter how correct he may be, the one thing he can't do is restore my trust in the government and its racket operations, and that includes GMO.

FTA: Research shows that at least half of all GMO studies are funded by the GMO industry, while the majority of the other half are funded by governments. There has also long been a revolving door between GMO industry insiders and the FDA and EPA; officials often work for Monsanto and then get jobs with the government, then go back to Monsanto again. The back scratching is so egregious that the government even created special legal protections for GMO companies like Monsanto under what is now known as the Monsanto Protection Act (Section 735 of Agricultural Appropriations Bill HR 993) under the Obama Administration in 2013. This essentially makes GMO companies immune to litigation over GMOs, and the same protections have been renewed in different bills ever since.

Sound familiar? I'm sure your friend means well and perhaps he's correct about some things, but when it looks like a racket and behaves like a racket, it's a racket. Rackets always benefit some at the expense of others, and government facilitated rackets have demonstrated no qualms about harming people, animals and the whole of Mother Nature.