By:  Andreas Moritz
Posted:  September 14, 2012 — updated 2016

Genetic engineering of food is rapidly becoming an extremely lucrative business that is likely to place man’s global food production in the hands of a few powerful people or governments. Whoever controls global food production will also control the world.

In the name of progress and improvement of food production, the plan is to make every nation dependent on using the genetically engineered seeds that the world’s leading food industries have produced and for which they own the patent rights. The agricultural products manufacturer Monsanto is doing exactly that. Worse, they are keeping us in the dark about what is in our food by spending big bucks to thwart laws requiring labeling genetically engineered foods:

Monsanto is the acknowledged leader when it comes to the genetic changes in our food system – the mother of agriculture biotechnology and creator of other products that have included Agent Orange1, PCBs2, DDT3, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and aspartame4.

How Monsanto became such a ringmaster is crucial to understanding why Americans are not allowed to know if their food has been genetically engineered by simple labeling as around 50 countries around the world do, including Russia, China and the entire EU.

So why are Americans kept in the dark?

Monsanto first persuaded President Ronald Reagan’s administration back in 1986 to assure genetic engineering would be kept away from the public forum. Monsanto’s power has been further enhanced through each administration, adding more influence with each federal appointment.

Even in the past year, Monsanto has directly supported at least 65 candidates for federal office in the 2012 elections, with significant dollars “donated” to the chairs and leadership of the House and Senate Ag Committee.
(Source: Mercola.com)

Despite increasing pressure from the public and other organizations to require labeling of genetically engineered and/or modified foods, Monsanto and other chemical, seed and other processed foods companies are spending big money to keep us in the dark:

If Proposition 37 passes, California would become the first state in the nation to require new labels on a host of food products commonly found on grocery store shelves, from breakfast cereals to sodas to tofu.

Proponents, largely big natural food companies and consumers who are passionate about organic food, have raised $2.8 million as of Thursday, according to campaign finance records filed with the California Secretary of State’s Office. Scores of individuals have made $100 donations, but most of the money is coming from organic businesses such as Lundberg Family Farms, Nature’s Path Foods and Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. A company owned by Joseph Mercola, a controversial holistic health activist from Illinois with more than 100,000 Twitter followers, has kicked in $800,000.

Opponents have raised more than nine times as much. Almost all of the nearly $25 million has come from a variety of chemical, seed and processed-food companies, including Coca-Cola, General Mills, Nestle, PepsiCo and DuPont Pioneer. St. Louis-based Monsanto, a leading producer of genetically engineered seeds, donated $4.2 million, the largest donation.

(Source: Dana Hull/MediaNews Group)