Round Up ready alfalfa drenched in poison!

Awake-at-the-wheel made a great post on the story about Round Up Ready Alfalfa being blocked in court (at least for now): "The concept of 'improving' crops by making them somehow survive being purposely drenched in poison is not the product of healthy minds." This is a great point. Monsanto (a huge chemical conglomerate) makes Round Up, a poison, to kill weeds. Monsanto's problem is that when farmers spray too much of this poison around it kills the alfalfa crop as well as the weeds. So, what is a big conglomerate to do about this problem? The brilliant people at Monsanto (and no doubt they are brilliant, the problem is that their brilliance is misdirected) came up with a great idea "I know, let's bio-engineer the alfalfa so it is resistant to Round Up so we can spray lots of poison on the weeds and the alfalfa and it won't matter because the alfalfa will be resistant to the poison!" Great work guys, what a great idea! Kind of like inventing nuclear bombs or something.

Actually, at least with nuclear bombs they lock them away in silos and try hard to keep them out of the hands of the bad guys. But with GMO crops, they actually plant them in the fields and that's it. They are out there for ever and you had better hope that these untested GMOs are not going to be harmful (despite the mounting evidence to the contrary), cause right now practically all you can do is hope.

This whole GMO experiment benefits only one group of people, the manufacturer of the GMO seed. There is no benefit to you, the consumer. Monsanto has somehow gotten the FDA and USDA to go along with the great GMO experiment, and prevented GMO foods from having to be labeled thus allowing them to enter into the food supply unchallenged. If they had to be labeled, no one would buy them. Talk about democracy at work.

Mark Fergusson