Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice

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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