USDA approved Monsanto alfalfa despite warnings of new pathogen discovered in genetically engineered

What bothers me about Montsano is that they are forcing farmers into buying their patented genetically modified seed and putting other farmers, who refuse to use it, out of business. There are many lawsuits out there against Montsano but it's such a big company that farmers are losing. Farmers are also being socked with lawsuits for trying to re-use seed instead of buying more from Montsano.

I know there was a story about a farmer who was taken to court by Montsanto because he failed to pay them royalties for the canola seed he used. He lost and now has to pay court fees along with other fines. He is now destitute.

There are many articles and documentaries out there about this. The one I liked was the documentary called "Food, Inc." Very eye-opening.

Originally posted by Phage
It appears that feeding chickens roundup (or a generic version) is a bad idea.

Feeding them food treated with or crops grown while being treated with roundup is pretty unavoidable in a commercial setting if the corn, soy and other ingredients have been...no?

Considering up to 85% of all corn and 91% of all Soy grown in the US is now GMO or 'Roundup Ready', an off the cuff, curt remark about not feeding Chickens Roundup isn't helpful to the issue is it, as it would obviously be pretty difficult to NOT feed them crops that are both GMO, and sprayed with glyphosate (roundup) chemicals.

A recent study over two years, (September 2012) published in the journal 'Food and Chemical Toxicology' have shown the effects of feeding RR corn (Monsanto GMO variety NK603), also treated with Roundup indicated massively increased Cancerous tumour growth in lab rats, of 80% of those exposed over a period of time, compared to 30% incidence rate in a control group.

The chickens and other animals we farm, eat these Genetically Modified Organisms sprayed with glyphosate / Roundup and then people eat the meat and dairy products from those animals.

Besides the risks, some known and Christ only knows how many yet to be discovered, of GMO to our health, the farms are now discovering that a six fold increase in the use of glyphosate on crops are causing the emergence of what they term 'Superweeds' that are resistant to RR and other chemicals, a little like the incurable 'Superbugs' emerging in our hospitals from overuse of antibiotics in humans and farm animals we eat.

Which makes both GMO and glyphosate ultimately useless and dangerous to farming, food production and Human health at the same time.

But a $38 Billion dollar Monsanto would strongly argue against such things, although i've no idea why that would be...have you?