We must control chemicals in our food
Mary Flanagan is right when she states: Just because a group is a nonprofit or contains scientific sounding words does not make its agenda valid.
Unfortunately, when you investigate the bias of organizations that are weighing in on issues such as GMOs, the bulk of them are well funded by the industry that is benefiting from less-than-objective research.
In the case of GMO's some of these groups spent $50 million dollars to defeat an American citizen's right to know when they are buying a GMO product. That was in California only.
They spent $18 million in Oregon to defeat a similar law. They are now pushing a bill through Congress that would prevent the labeling of GMO products nationwide.
Monsanto sells chemicals; our beautiful planet is being saturated with chemicals. Our soil is being poisoned.
If you read the book "The 6th Extinction" you will understand what is transpiring in our world. The glyphosate kills all living things, both animal and vegetable.
It's only the amount of exposure that decides if you die, are crippled for life or have an allergic reaction.
Canada has banned the use of Monsanto's glyphosate to be sprayed on wheat for ripening. Almost 40 countries around the world will not allow GMO plants to be grown on their soil. GMO products imported must be labeled in some of those countries.
We can't wait for a scientific controlled study of 10,000 schoolchildren who eat GMO breakfast cereal to determine what harm they are experiencing and then decide to stop this madness of playing God with plant DNA.
When will we start protecting the health of our babies, our children and the adults before we protect the industries that deliver these chemicals?
Thomas A. Braun
Mount Prospect