American Farming: why AmerIcan farm towns should adopt European legislative strategies in support of family farming
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Monsanto and Friends:

Corporations like Monsanto specialize in biotechnology foods, or GMOs. Farmers have grown a strong resistance to genetically modified products, wheat specifically. The dislike has become so strong that Monsanto recently announced that it was stopping all efforts and research into developing GM wheat. 


The USDA remains to be one of the leading proponents of agricultural biotechnology movement in America. Before Secretary Veneman came into her leadership position, her predecessor Dan Glickman also promoted GMO foods. The USDA has gone from a servant to public interests into a vehicle for corporate agribusiness desires and needs. It promotes narrow interests of these agribusiness corporations, food processing companies, and input corporations that compose the agribusiness sector. International business and US Government downplays the issues of safety and regulations. They further say that biotech (GMO) critics are impeding efforts to reduce world hunger and poverty due to selfish wants of less pro-corporatized farming policies. 
 
Sources:
http://www.nffc.net/Issues/Corporate%20Control/USDA%20INC.pdf





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