The USDA keeps legalizing tons of GMO food.

It's Genetically Modified ^ | 1-4-11 | James Assini

[acroagogue]

Earlier this year, the USDA made a decision to allow the commercial use of “Roundup Ready” genetically modified sugar beets. The decision came a week after the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture approved the planting of a yet another genetically modified plant, alfalfa.

Michael Gregoire, deputy administrator of APHIS, a biotechnology regulatory service claims genetically modified sugar beets are safe and should be deregulated. “After conducting an environmental assessment, we have determined Roundup Ready sugar beets could be partially deregulated without posing a plant pest risk or causing significant effects on the environment,” says Gregoire. APHIS claims the partial deregulation of “Roundup Ready” sugar beets is just an interim measure until the company completes its full environmental impact statement.

[org.whodat]

Taste of vegetables, for example, is cause by force growing and picking before it is ripe, so the produce has a longer shelf life. Example a garden grown tomato tastes much, much better than a hot house, those extra days on the vine makes the difference.

[org.whodat]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid

[verity]

1-4-11 | James Assinine

[freekitty]

I mean how did they modify it?

[thouworm]

This isn’t about food. It’s about control of food.

Slightly OT, but not by much:

This week on Financial Sense Newshour, Jim interviews Filmmaker Kristin Canty. In Farmageddon Kristin tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of government bureaucracies.

Kristin seeks to understand why and through this film add her voice to the movement to protect and preserve the dwindling number of American family farms struggling to survive.

Farmageddon−The Unseen War to Shut Down American Family Farms [MP3 interview]

[HiTech RedNeck]

So we need open source food. Hey Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman!

[freedomfiter2]

You can tell by some of the replies here how people think everything is coming up roses.

Yeah, until the same thing hits their business. Predatory corporations are a threat to our whole nation. Providing a desired good or service is good. Using the government to take others money is evil.