Many of us should be celebrating a major victory that concerns the condition of the foods we purchase. The organic community within the United States has won the right to ban GMO crops, despite the current Federal laws. The U.S. Court of Appeals has made it possible for States to ban GMO crops from ever being planted. This is a step forward for the organic community who gained a small victory when President Obama and the Senate proposed a bill titled the DARK Act, which stated that GMO food growers had to label their products. This mandatory act would allow companies like Monsanto and Bayer, two years to make the adjustments. Now communities can bypass this bill and state that there will be no planting of GMO crops whatsoever.
In 2000, Monsanto convinced the government that their food engineering had no negative affects on the food itself, and introduced no foreign bacteria to the crops. Later on, Monsanto was proved wrong about this statement. Though some biotechnology engineers found a way to hide the cancer and Alzheimer’s causing agents in Monsanto products, the proof isn’t really necessary anymore. At present, the still pending DARK Act or any other legislation, like the Plant Protection Act, can’t stop the prohibiting of the banning of the planting of GMO crops.
Farmers are celebrating the fact that they know there is no farmer who wants genetically engineered seeds. They know that pesticides are a part of their genetic makeup. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is aware that most of our crops are being controlled by the biotech engineering corporations. At present, approximately 90% of our crops, such as; corn, sugar beets, alfalfa, and granola, are GMO products. Monsanto and Bayer are being stopped in their tracks by the Court of Appeals, and inhibited greatly in their quest to ruin the entire natural, healthy environment.
The Court of Appeals has labeled the GMO crops as “Franken crops”, and realized the destruction that could be caused if ultimately, Monsanto and Bayer were allowed to continue the planting of these “Franken crops”.