In the 1950ies and beyond, we used asbestos as a common building material. Not until years later did we realize we were also killing ourselves with it.

Today, (G)enetically (M)odified (O)rganisms (GMOs) are food products that are modified for a variety of purposes. Monsanto is the conglomerate that brought the world Roundup, DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, marketed aspartame, and created bovine growth hormone  (rBGH). GMOs have invaded soy, corn, sugar beets, cotton, and alfalfa.

Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto’s genetically engineered corn or exposed to the company’s popular Roundup herbicide, in amounts considered “safe” in drinking water and crops in the U.S., developed tumors and suffered severe kidney and liver damage, according a study released this week.

We are eating products that include GMOs and we don’t know it. Just like we didn’t know we were breathing asbestos dust in our walls and ducts when it was making us sick.

Now California Proposition 37 should create labeling of such products. Why do you think Monsanto, Dow and DuPont and major food processors like Pepsi and CocaCola have already put up $25 million to defeat GMO labeling in California?

Because they know that if we know what we’re ingesting, we have a choice to boycott their dangerous products.

They want to keep us stupid.

Wrapped into the cloak of “bigger government is evil” they are telling us that it will make food more expensive and complex.

And exactly how is that MY problem?

They are employing a common scare tactic. Socialism. Big government. Regulation. All bad words.

Why in the world would a rational human being not want to disclose a simple truth:

I want to know what is in my food before I buy it. VERY SIMPLE DEMAND. And since I can’t enforce it myself, I want my government to do it for us. That’s what I have it for.