Wednesday, November 21, 2012

USDA Wins One For Frankenfoods

"This proposal allows USDA and the agricultural biotechnology industry to abdicate responsibility for preventing GE contamination while making the victims of GE pollution pay for damages resulting from transgenic contamination," it said.

Well of course. Welcome to USA! That was baked into the deal.  Your first error was to allow the USDA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto, to be in on any discussion.

If you want to protect your property, you need your property rights protected.

"The report is the culmination of a great deal of hard work and complex discussion and review," said Vilsack in a statement. "I understand that required compromises to find common ground."

No matter how hard 23 owned committeemen and bureaucrats work, they cannot substitute for the protections provided by property rights.

"We urgently need meaningful regulatory change that institutionalizes mandatory GE contamination prevention practices," the National Organic Coalition said. "USDA needs to stop dragging its heels, get serious and focus on making this happen."

Barking up the wrong tree.  If you want to learn something about how USA came to be owned by big biz, then read Morton Horwitz.  If you want to farm, you better study law. You need property rights, not USDA regulations.


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