Genetically Modified Rice

Another day, another reason the rest of the world is distancing themselves form America.  For good reason too, we destroy everything we get our hands on.  Our water supply, the food we grow, the idea of Democracy, and our own morals to name a few.  Here we have another case of a GMO crop, which was never approved, being found in fields in over 30 countries.  Of course Americans will just go right along eating it as if everything is okay.  After all most of you eat McDonald's at least once a week, so with that mind set rice must be healthy.  No thought goes in to the idea that the chemicals in and on the rice may have some sort of effect on humans... Meh... who cares... right?

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the entire global supply of rice may have already been contaminated by unapproved, genetically-modified (GM) rice varieties manufactured by the American multinational corporation Bayer CropScience. A recent entry in the GM Contamination Register explains that between the years of 2006 and 2007, three different varieties of illegal GM rice,none of which have ever been approved for cultivation or consumption anywhere in the world, were identified in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Once again, field trials conducted by Bayer back in the mid-1990s appear to have been the cause of this widespread and irreversible genetic pollution. Though all official field trials of "Frankenrice" supposedly ended in 2002, the three GM rice varieties detected somehow made their way into the general rice supply, which has had a major negative impact on U.S. rice exports. Similar contamination involving both GM wheat and GM flax was also recently discovered in the food supply, and both a result of biotechnology company field trials.

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Vagrant GM rice planted in open fields for "testing" purposes definitely escaped, and now American rice farmers are suffering the consequences as the European Union (EU), Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and others have placed strict limitations on GM rice imports. Both Russia and Bulgaria, on the other hand, have completely banned all rice imports from the U.S.

Learn more at Natural News.