Anti-GMO's for Profit

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A budding horticulturalist? is that a fancy way of saying you grow marijuana?

anyways, I looked up the arsenic in rice thing, and it doesn't seem as dangerous, as pesticide resistant GMO's from monsanto. I haven't heard about it before but the first thing I found, actually says your city's water supply might have more arsenic than this rice

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...brown-rice

"Make sure your local water supply does not have high levels of arsenic," says John Duxbury of Cornell University, who studies arsenic and rice. "If you do have high levels, washing can make it worse.

Monsanto however has seen alot of criticism

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24...83578.html

“The regulation of pesticides has been significantly skewed towards the manufacturers interests where state-of-the-art testing is not done and adverse findings are typically distorted or denied,” said Jeffrey Smith, of the Institute for Responsible Technology. “The regulators tend to use the company data rather than independent sources, and the company data we have found to be inappropriately rigged to force the conclusion of safety.”

“We have documented time and time again scientists who have been fired, stripped of responsibilities, denied funding, threatened, gagged and transferred as a result of the pressure put on them by the biotech industry,” he added.

Such suppression has sometimes grown violent, Smith noted. Last August, when Carrasco and his team of researchers went to give a talk in La Leonesa they were intercepted by a mob of about a hundred people. The attack landed two people in the hospital and left Carrasco and a colleague cowering inside a locked car. Witnesses said the angry crowd had ties to powerful economic interests behind the local agro-industry and that police made little effort to interfere with the beating, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.