Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice

Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by ck2 on Friday January 21, 2011 @03:26AM (#2126843)

We are doomed because big business is protected by politicians on both sides.

It's too late now and it will never be banned.

And why the heck does the USA continue to do welfare for the corn industry which is massively profitable.

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by aaronbrethorst on Friday January 21, 2011 @03:35AM (#2126867)

Corn is an Iowa thing; Iowa has the first Presidential caucus in the nation: U.S. Presidents are beholden to corn.

Bear in mind, this is a gross over-simplification of the core problem (e.g. Archer-Daniels-Midland seems to have an amazingly powerful set of lobbyists), but it should still give you a sense of what's what.

Setting aside native sons (Tom Harkin 1992; plus, Clinton's 'bimbo eruptions' didn't help), you have to go all the way back to 1988 to find a Presidential candidate who won without carrying Iowa.

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by watchandwait on Friday January 21, 2011 @07:55AM (#2127221)

The wasteful corn ethanol subsidy is another example of American agri-corporatism.

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by stcredzero on Friday January 21, 2011 @09:42AM (#2127447)

There's a book about this. The Merchants of Grain. It's like the agribusiness Manufacturing Consent.

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by CWuestefeld on Friday January 21, 2011 @06:42AM (#2127123)

big business is protected by politicians

One might also say that politicians are protected by big business. The problem isn't one particular group, but that the system has been perverted so that this symbiosis is profitable for both groups.

why the heck does the USA continue to do welfare for the corn industry

Read up on public choice economics: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Public_choice...

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by brudgers on Friday January 21, 2011 @10:51AM (#2127660)

King Corn [PBS documentary] http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/

Extended clip Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDurZc5Yr6c

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by Joakal on Friday January 21, 2011 @03:38AM (#2126871)

The Corn Republic? [0]

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Banana_republ...

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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice by asdfj843lkdjs on Friday January 21, 2011 @10:20AM (#2127562)

Actually the exact opposite of a banana republic.

A banana republic depends on bananas or some other cash crop. The US dos NOT depend on corn. Quite the opposite, it uses tax revenue from OTHER profitable sectors of the economy to subsidize corn.

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