GMOs are a scourge unleased upon mankind by other men for the sole purpose of profits and control of the most important commodity on Planet Earth, FOOD! There's a famous quote by Kissinger that says the quiet part out loud: "Control oil and you control nations, control food and you control the poeple."
"Our food system is in crisis. Unprecedented consolidation across the food and agriculture system is harming every American as a handful of corporations amass more power and profits off the backs of everyone else."
"Whether you’re a farmer getting squeezed, a consumer getting price gouged, or a policymaker looking for solutions, you’re in the right place. Explore Farm Action’s agriculture consolidation data hub to learn more about the state of concentration in our food system, why it matters, and how to reform it." Quote from FarmAction.us "Agriculture Consolidation Data Hub".
One of Farm Action's Reports is called "Kings Over the Necessaries of Life", a rather fitting title given the new "No Kings" Protests. Here's what that Report says about GMOs:
"The commercialization of full patent-protected transgenci seeds in the 1990s created another avenue for the largest seed-chemical firms to consoidate market control: tying, bundling, and exclusive dealing. Patented seeds were initially bundled with other inputs to protect profits in agrochemical divisoions. By bundling patented GMO crops with pesticides engineered to avoid harming them, these companies found they could compel farmers to purchase both halves of an interdependent seed and pesticide package. For example, Monsanto [now owned by Bayer], required farmers who purchased its herbicide-tolerant transgenic seeds to use its proprietary glyphosate herbicide rather than a generic."
So how did it all happen?
Need we say more about the horrors of GMOs? We haven’t even mentioned the rise of the “Supper Weeds” and “Super Bugs” that are learning to resist Round Up. There’s an article you can read about that below. GMOs are a scourge perpetrated on the people of the world by greedy mega corporations that have no concern for the safety of the people eating their products or the safety of the natural ecosystem of our planet.
In September of 2016, Bayer purchased Monsanto for $66 Billion. So you may want to buy your aspirin elsewhere.
Say, “NO” to GMOs:
Go here to learn about the appointment of ex-Monsanto Executive to serve as the U.S. Food Safety Czar.
Go here to read the article entitled "Activists Call for Food Safety Czar's Ouster".
Go here to read the full article by Steven Lendman, Food is Power , a review of William Engdahl’s book entitled Seeds of Destruction.
Go here to read the article entitled "Who and What is the Monsanto Chemical Corporation?"
Go here to read the article entitled "Agent Orange: Background on Monsanto's Involvement" right from the horse’s mouth.
Get involved with the NON GMO Project"
Go here to read the article entitled "Another Strike Against GMOs - The Creation of Superbus and Superweeds"
Go here to read a tongue in cheek article on Monsanto's declaration that their seeds are organic
Go here to read about the French Study that exposed the cancer connection to GMOs.
And a new Disease, along with the rise of obesity and other known diseases caused by GMOs, is coming on line. It’s called Morgellons Disease; and it’s characterized by itchy welts that spread over the body depending on the severity of the outbreak. Sometimes these welts exhibit very strange protrusions of unidentified fibers with no biological origins. Victims of Morgellons are discovering that eliminating food they suspect of having GMOs, causes the welts to disappear.
Monsanto was established in 1901 and it’s first product was saccharin. By 1955, Monsanto branched out into the petroleum business and acquired Lion Oil. With this acquisition, it was introduced to the fertilizer business. From there it moved into the agricultural chemical business with one of its leading products, a weed killer called Round Up, which is known worldwide. After numerous law suits claiming the manin ingredient, Glyposate, causes cancer, the new Monsnto parent Company, Bayer, finally decided to pull that product from the home gardening market in early August of 2021.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s, Monsanto gained the esteemed reputation of being a leading producer of Agent Orange, which contained the toxic chemical called Dioxin. They produced this chemical for the U.S. Military in Vietnam. By the end of that war, “72 million liters of Agent Orange [were sprayed] on over one million Vietnam civilians and over 100,000 U.S. troops. Within ten years of the end of the war, 9,170 veterans had filed claims for disabilities believed to be caused by Agent Orange.”
And then in 1994, as a result no doubt of their sterling reputation, Monsanto’s goal became to produce GMO food for the world. This company realized that they could create GMO seeds that grew plants that were resistant to their weed killer, Round Up. Farmers could buy these GMO seeds and use copious amounts of Round Up to kill their weeds without affecting their plants. Round Up is a Glyphosate. A Glyphosate is a poison, which is extremely deadly for most plants and quite toxic for people especially over time. It not only can get into the human bloodstream; but it can cross the blood barrier and reach our unborn children. A 2012 article published in the Ithaca Journal and reprinted by The Cornocopia Institute in their Article called "Glyphosate Found in Human Urine", “cites a study performed on average citizens of Berlin, testing whether or not people with no exposure to agriculture such as lawyers, doctors, and journalists had glyphosate in their systems. Guess what, they did, and had no idea it was in what they had been eating. Not only did they test positive, but they were found with between 5 and 20 times the 'acceptable' limit.”
Bayer continues to sell copious amounts of Round Up to farmers. Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, cotton, and sorghum, with wheat under development. Roundup Ready crop seeds have become known as "terminator seeds." This is because the crops now produced from Roundup Ready seeds are sterile. Each year, farmers must purchase the most recent strain of seed from Bayer. This means that farmers cannot reuse their best seed. These franken seeds were originally patented by Monsanto and some of those patents have expired while new patents are being created by Bayer. For example there's a "Roundup Ready 2 Yield". Any cross pollination onto farmer’s fields who have not purchased Bayer seeds gets met with high paid Bayer Lawyers filing lawsuits aimed to destroy the hapless farmer who declined to get with the program. And our Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does nothing to alleviate the toxic situation.
Approximately 24 countries have been reported to have banned or significantly restricted Glyphosate, including Austria, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Thailand, and Vietnam. However, many of these are partial, phased, or contested bans, and the status continues to evolve. Nevertheless, Glyphosate is still legal in the U.S. in 2025, with the EPA maintaining its safety approval and no federal or state bans enacted. Its use continues under regulated conditions, though legal challenges and public pressure persist. Thank goodness, for Organic products, it remains prohibited, but its presence in conventional agriculture affects the broader food system.
Again from the article, Food is Power: “After Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybeans were licensed in 1996, ‘a once-productive national family farm-based agriculture system [in Argentina, the first guinea pig nation for GMOs] (was turned into) a neo-feudal state system dominated by a handful of powerful, wealthy owners to exploit for profit’. President Menem went along. In less than a decade, he allowed the nation’s corn, wheat and cattle diversity to be replaced by corporate-controlled monoculture. It was a Faustian sellout, and it helped Monsanto’s stock price hit an all-time high near year end 2007.’ Argentina had become the world’s largest uncontrolled experimental laboratory for GMO’ and its people unwitting lab rats.”
The U.S. and it’s people are in even worse shape when it comes to GMOs. From 1996 to 2004, an astonishing 106 million acres of GMO crops were planted. This amounted to a staggering 2/3 of all GMO crops planted worldwide. In 2024 that number increased to approximately 170-180 million acres of GMO crops, which is over half of all U.S. crops. Approximately 91% of all corn, 93% of cotton and 96% of soybeans planted in the U.S. are genetically engineered, according to the Department of Agriculture.
Here is a glowing 2014 report about out "Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States" by the USDA--that same USDA that has been taken over by the Big Food, Big Ag and Big Chem Companies. And then there's this more recent USDA Report on the "Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States --Recent Trends in GE Adoption".
So what's happening in regard to the Labeling of GMOs? Let us remind you that it was 1973 when the GMO Monster was birthed. But it wasn't until 2016 that the U.S. Congress created Labeling regulations called the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) under the USDA and enacted the NBFDS Law that requires mandatory labeling of certain foods that contain bioengineered (BE) ingredients, effective January 1, 2022, with full compliance mandated by June 23, 2025. So it took 52 years to get this Law fully in place. Food manufacturers, importers, and certain retailers must use one of the following:
1. Text stating “bioengineered food” or “contains a bioengineered food ingredient.”
2. A USDA-approved BE symbol (a green circle with a stylized plant).
3. A phone number, website, or QR code for consumers to access disclosure information.
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the USDA maintains a List of Bioengineered Foods, updated in 2023 to include Bt insect-resistant sugarcane and specific virus-resistant squash varieties, totaling 13 crops or foods requiring disclosure if detectable GM material is present. Disclosure is required if a bioengineered substance exceeds 5% of an ingredient’s weight, allowing minor unintentional presence below this level.
Exemptions include restaurants, small manufacturers (fewer than 20 employees or revenue under $2.5 million), and processed foods where GM DNA is absent (e.g., oils, sugars). Organic products certified under USDA standards are exempt, as GMOs are prohibited in organic production, and the rule preempts state-level labeling laws creating a uniform national standard. So there's hope, but the GMO Watch Dogs see Labeling regulation gaps big enough for all of the USDA Administrators to disappear into.
Critics, including the Center for Food Safety, argue the standard is industry-friendly, and designed to obscure rather than inform. The QR code option discriminates against those without smartphones, and the 5% threshold and refined-product exemption allow widespread GM products to go unlabeled. The term “bioengineered” may confuse consumers, diluting the intent of transparency seen in polls showing 93% support for GMO labeling who may not recognize that "bioengineered" is the same as GMO. According to the Grocery Manufacturers Association who are in love with GMOs, "70–80% of the foods we eat in the United States, both at home and away from home, contain ingredients that have been genetically modified. If the ingredient label on any food or beverage product contains corn or soy, they most likely contain genetically modified ingredients, as a very high percentage of those crops grown in the U.S. use GM technology. In addition, a high percentage of other ingredients in the U.S., such as sugar beets, are grown with the use of GM technology as well." It seems the Labeling regulations that have taken 52 years to materialize are simply bandaides to cover up what has become a gapping wound in our Food System.
In a mind blowing review, Food is Power, of William Engdahl’s book entitled Seeds of Destruction, Stephen Lendman writes this about the beginnings of GMO plants. Most people believe GMOs started with Monsanto; but that is not the case. “Rockefeller Foundation funding was the Gene Revolution’s catalyst in 1985 with big aims – to learn if GMO plants were commercially feasible and if so spread them everywhere.”
The GMO monster was actually born back in 1973 with the development of essential genetic engineering techniques. GMO manipulation is “based on what’s called recombinant DNA (rDNA), and it works by genetically introducing foreign DNA into plants to create genetically modified organisms, but not without risks. London Institute of Science in Society chief biologist, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, explained the dangers because the process is imprecise. "It is uncontrollable and unreliable, and typically ends up damaging and scrambling the host genome, with entirely unpredictable consequences’ that might unleash a deadly unrecallable 'Andromeda Strain'.
But all that mattered to the GMO advocates were potentially huge profits. “One project was to map the rice genome. It launched a 17 year effort to spread GMO rice around the world with Rockefeller Foundation money behind it. It spent millions funding 46 worldwide science labs. It also financed the training of hundreds of graduate students and developed an ‘elite fraternity’ of top scientific researchers at Foundation-backed research institutes. It was a diabolical scheme aiming big – to control the staple food for 2.4 billion people and in the process destroy the biological diversity of over 140,000 developed varieties that can withstand droughts, pests and grow in every imaginable climate.” In other words, the goal of this GMO rice project was to replace all the natural rice that had been developed over hundreds if not thousands of years with GMO rice. (Quote from Food is Power liked above)
Of course, Asia was the target continent and Engdahl’s book Seeds of Destruction exposes the “Philippines-based Foundation-funded Institute (IRRI). “It had a gene bank with ‘every significant rice variety known’ that comprised one-fifth of them all. IRRI let agribusiness giants illegally use the seeds for exclusive patented genetic modification so they could introduce them in markets and dominate them by requiring farmers be licensed and forced to pay annual royalty fees.”
By 2000, twenty-seven years after the 1973 development of essential genetic engineering techniques, a successful “Golden Rice” was developed that was Vitamin A enriched. It’s marketing scam promised the cure of Vitamin A deficiencies; but no one bothered to explain that 20 lbs. of this shyster rice had to be consumed to get the desired result. Quoting again from Stephen Lendman’s article: “Nonetheless, gene revolution backers were ready for their next move: “the consolidation of global control over humankind’s food supply” with a new tool to do it – the World Trade Organization (WTO). Corporate giants wrote its rules favoring them at the expense of developing nations that were shut out.”
By this time, several of the world’s major chemical companies known unaffectionately as Big Chem had gotten wind of the huge monetary windfall possible through GMOs. Monsanto was one of those companies, along with DuPont and Cargill. Below are a series of memorable illustrations by the controversial artist, Dees with his visual depictions of this catastrophe polluting our Food System.
To read an extended article on this study go to: Shock findings in https://www.rawgist.com/shock-findings-in-new-gmo-study-rats-fed-lifetime-of-gm-corn-grow-horrifying-tumors-70-of-females-die-early/new GMO study
Just examine the above statistics and you won't need to wonder why obesity, diabetes, cancer and infertility are on the rise??? In 2013, the U.S. FDA was actually under the control of an ex-Monsanto Vice President, Michael Taylor, who was appointed our Food Safety (Czar) by President Obama. Under Michael Taylor’s rule you can bet mandatory labeling of GMOs was never instituted, but a lot of raw milk producers were raided and even jailed. Guess which area Mr. Taylor oversaw for Monsanto? It was non other than that company’s milk industry products specifically it’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, another one of their highly questionable products.
The present FDA Commisioner is Dr. Martin Makary, was appointed by Trump and confirmed by the Senate on March 25, 2025. We can only pray he takes an altogether different approach than the previous Commissioners regarding GMOs, keeping the health of Americans and our Food System in mind instead of the Big Agra, Big Chem and Big Food Companies.
Just to make sure you get the whole picture. When GMOs hit the U.S. market, the FDA, under the influence of Monsanto lobbyists, declared them safe and not materially different from non-genetically modified versions of the same crops. There was no outside testing or scientific research required past what Monsanto and the other GMO pushers claimed in their in-house so called scientific research. These products were unleashed into the U.S. and world market place with no required labeling util years later, and the so-called Labeling appears to be more of a ruse than a bonafide effort to have GMO transparency.
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What are GMO’s and where do they come from? The GMO story is a long convoluted one; and we can’t even begin to pretend to cover it all here; but we can give you an overview. GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms; and if that isn’t enough to cause you pause, maybe the following will.
According to the Non GMO Project, a consumer advocate group working to expose the dangers of GMOs, they “are plants or animals created through the gene splicing techniques of biotechnology (also called genetic engineering, or GE). This experimental technology merges DNA from different species, creating unstable combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and viral genes that cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding. Virtually all commercial GMOs are engineered to withstand direct application of herbicide and/or to produce an insecticide. Despite biotech industry promises, none of the GMO traits currently on the market offer increased yield, drought tolerance, enhanced nutrition, or any other consumer benefit. Meanwhile, a growing body of evidence connects GMOs with health problems, environmental damage and violation of farmers’ and consumers’ rights.”
In close to 50 countries, including Australia, Japan and all the countries in the European Union, there are significant restrictions or even bans on the production and sale of GMOs. A study out of France showing huge tumors growing on rats fed GMO corn for their lifetime, which in the case of the females, is a much shorter one caused both Russia and France to ban GMO corn.