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Ever since 1992 when that nasty US President George H. W. Bush conspired - yes, Virginia, conspiracies exist - with the leadership of Monsanto to unleash GMOs on an unwitting American population, Monsanto seemed unstoppable.
With the help of Bush, who made a decree that no US Government agency be allowed to independently test GMO seeds or their chemicals for health and safety - the fraudulent and totally unscientific Doctrine of Substantial Equivalence - Monsanto could make its own fraudulent doctored tests and give them to US or EU agencies as valid. As a result, GMO seeds took over American agriculture, based on a pack of lies to farmers that they would raise yields and decrease chemical use. Monsanto spread its GMO far around the world, through bribery as in Indonesia, and through the unusual machinations of the Government of the United States. Monsanto paid scientists to lie about its products safety.
It used the corrupt Brussels European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to back its position, even when alarming studies such as the famous September 2012 Food and Chemical Toxicology peer-reviewed study by Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini created shock waves around the world. The Seralini study, the first ever long term, two year study of GMO diet with a group of 200 rats found shocking effects. Among them that,"female rats fed Monsanto GMO maize died 2 - 3 times more than controls, and more rapidly... Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than, and before, controls; the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments."
Monsanto then set about to kill the messenger by pressuring the Food & Chemical Toxicology journal to hire a former Monsanto employee, Richard E. Goodman, who promptly declared Seralini's study "unscientific" and deleted it, an act almost without precedent in science journals. A year later both Goodman and the journal's editor-in-chief were forced to step down and Seralini's article was republished in another scientific journal. But the scientific character assassination against Seralini had a chilling effect as Monsanto wanted.
Comment: As people are becoming more aware of the dangers of GMOs and the chemicals used to grow them, Monsanto is desperately struggling to hold on to its dwindling profit margins. As the author rightfully states, this couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of psychopathic, genocidal eugenicists.