{"id":29815,"date":"2011-10-03T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=29815"},"modified":"2011-10-03T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T07:21:36","slug":"article_24050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_24050\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Battle Escalates Against Genetically Modified Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/gelink.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genetic Engineering page<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/monsanto\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millions Against Monsanto page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Home to a fast-growing network of farmers&#8217; markets, cooperatives and organic farms, but also the breeding ground for mammoth for-profit corporations that now hold patents to over 50 percent of the world&#8217;s seeds, the United States is weathering a battle between Big Agro and a ripening movement for food justice and security.<\/p>\n<p>\tConflicting ideologies about agriculture have become ground zero for this war over the production, distribution and consumption of the world&#8217;s food.<\/p>\n<p>\tOne camp &#8211; led by agro giants like Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta &#8211; define successful agriculture and hunger alleviation as the use of advanced technologies to stimulate yields of mono-crops.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe other side argues that industrial agriculture pollutes, destroys and disrupts nature by dismissing the importance of relationships necessary for any ecosystem to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>\tAt the heart of this struggle is the debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which were given the green light in 1990 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated, &#8220;(We) are not aware of any information showing that GMO foods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home to a fast-growing network of farmers&#8217; markets, cooperatives and organic farms, but also the breeding ground for mammoth for-profit corporations that now hold patents to over 50 percent of the world&#8217;s seeds, the United States is weathering a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[7,24],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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