Monsanto big wig may become US food safety czar

[Peter Lemkin]

GM crops are widely grown in some countries, but are boycotted in others where many people object to genetic manipulation.

As of 2001, 75 percent of all food crops grown in the United States were genetically modified, including 80 percent of soybeans, 68 percent of cotton, and 26 percent of corn crops.

I believe almost all tomatos sold commercially are GM in the USA.

...I wonder how long Michelle Obama's Organic Garden will last....methinks NOT long!....

For those of you in the US trying to avoid GM foods - almost all are unlabled [due to lobbying by Montsanto et al]. They are sometimes labeled if there is one item in a jar, can, box. Never labeled if in a mixed-product [manufactured foods]. So, the best way to avoid them is to buy from a certified/trustworthy organic source and as separate items. Fastfood places have almost no items without some ingredients that are GM. Almost all manufactured foods also contain some ingredients that are GM. In the EU one must first prove a GM food safe before it can be sold. In the USA it is up to the general public to bring a lawsuit against agrobusiness giants and try to prove it unsafe to have it removed from the food stream. America is in more and more ways a conquered nation...... Read the book Seeds of Deception [available for download on internet]....if you want to go on a diet.