I think, the renown scientist from the Open University in London, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, is correct when she made the statement that gene manipulation is much worse than nuclear weapons as a means of mass destruction. Monsanto has a closet full of skeletons already. A young man who helps on our farm is there because his father died prematurely. The cause of his death was Monsanto's herbicide, Lasso, according to the attending physicians. This product was finally removed from the market.
Family farmers have much to lose and little to gain from gene manipulation.
Besides food safety, health and environmental issues, the loss of bio-diversity could put us in the position of looking down the gun barrel of disaster. We should not forget so easily the damaging effect that corn blight had on the nation's corn crop a few years ago caused by a lack of bio-diversity. We need a larger gene pool in production agriculture in order to assure food security. Soybeans are the second largest crop produced in the United States. We believe, Europeans will be forced to use alternative products if we do not supply that market with clean soybeans.