The mendacity of GMO purveyors

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Tenacity can be a virtue. Bu

t the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their tenacity into raw mendacity.

Brand-name food peddlers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbyists, lawyers, campaign donations, PR hypesters, and political manipulators so they can genetically (and dangerously) alter the dinner we put on our family tables, without bothering to tell us which items they've messed with. 

With practically no public notice, their first deception was to get Washington to okay the production and introduction of genetically modified organisms into corn, canola, soy, and other crops. Then they quietly pushed to prevent federal regulators from requiring that these tampered Frankenfoods be labeled as containing GMOs. 

Next, they tried a grand deception insisting that foods tainted with GMOs qualify for the national "organic" label.

Pres. is fighting for accountability through agencies designed to look out for the people and protect us from their greedy incentives that lead to short cutting and potentially dangerous chemicals that enhance size and creates more money per unit, but what about us?

republicans want to kill EPA, FDA and the whole alphabet soup of protection we depend on actually most are unaware of what these agencies do to give us security when we sit down to eat, it's blind trust that what we eat won't eat us, without them that could very well be our reality.

Even our usually-submissive regulators balked at that one – but, look out, for here they come again! Big Food's industry front group, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, is now demanding that foods with genetically-engineered ingredients be allowed to use the word "natural" on their packages.

Natural? Let's see – one, these biotech mutations are not products of nature, but of corporate technicians; and two, the plants are manufactured in corporate labs by extracting genes from a foreign plant or even an animal, then splicing those genes into the manufactured creature. The very DNA of this man-made "food" is altered, with no understanding of the long-term environmental or health consequences.

A Twinkie is more natural than that!

2014 means more than most think it's not just them or us it's all about us, we know if we rule the house regulations that = safety would be in place but you won't have to worry if your new born will grow an extra head, with them at the helm prepare for ice berg seeking missions the have tried 5 years to sink the gov't let them keep the house it could be doable this time. recognize