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(12,121 posts)were already evolving and popping up among these major food crops is really wildly reckless.
Endangering our food supply in a manner that allows the patenting and price manipulation on seeds for our basic food items just so that those food items will not die when sprayed with poisons that have killed weeds before
when we know that Roundup resistant weeds are already appearing
is such a clear example of profit motives being given precedence over public safety.
I am so sad that we did not return to being Old Democrats instead of "New" (Pro Corporate) Democrats, and increase government work in the public interest-- hiring more workers for OSHA to keep inspections going and prevent more industrial accidents, and hire more people at the USDA or EPA to work on less toxic ways to increase crop yields and reduce the numbers of poisons and genetic modifications required on our basic foods.