The biggest mistake that anyone can make is moving slowly, because the game is going to be over before you start. While U.S. citizens snore away in their blissful sleep, the rest of the world is resisting the most radical scientific revolution in human history. A few giant corporations like Monsanto, Du Pont, and Novartis are taking over the world's seed stock and agriculture and permanently altering the food supply through genetic engineering. This makes the entire country, vegetarians included, nonconsensual guinea pigs to the largest human experiment ever undertaken. Humanity has altered plants and created new species since the beginning of its history.
Genetic engineering brings an unprecedented level of corporate control over nature.
The path toward the total commodification of life was opened up by a disastrous 1980 Supreme Court ruling which failed to distinguish between living and nonliving objects that could be patented, thereby allowing a scientist to patent a bacterial organism. This results in bioprospecting, a mad gene rush to cash in on the billions of dollars to be made in patents, and biopiracy, a new form of colonialism whereby corporations mine the genetic resources of indigenous cultures for rare pharmaceutical products, plant DNA, and genetic cell lines they can manipulate enough to claim as their own. With this innovation, an entire field can be sprayed before planting, and, Monsanto claims, the weeds will die while the immunized plants flourish. Monsanto is flooding the land and market as fast as it can with genetically-engineered crops, and has grand ambitions to control the world's food supply. This means that farmers would be forced into expensive contracts to buy new seeds every planting, and end an age-old tradition of saving and replanting the best seeds.