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(NaturalNews) Most Americans have no idea just how pervasivegenetically-modified organisms (GMO) have become throughout thefood supply. Predatory marketing practices have lured many farmersinto converting over to GMOs, and craftily-designed, proprietarygrowing systems have kept them there. Meanwhile, multinationalbiotechnology companies like Monsanto effectively seize the reignsof agriculture and dictate how it will proceed from here. In the short, but highly informative, documentary Farmer to Farmer: The Truth About GM Crops , family farmer Michael Hart interviews a number of farmers in the US about their experiences growing GM crops . He also asks them whether or not they would recommend GM cropsystems to other farmers, particularly those in the UK and Europethat are currently being pushed to adopt them. You can watch the short documentary here: gmcropsfarmertofarmer.com/ Hart discovers, of course, that GM crops are not all that Monsanto toots them to be. Besides failing to improve crop yields , GM crops require increasingly more pesticide and herbicide applications in order to remain viable. And out of control"superweeds;" escalating prices for seeds, pesticides , and herbicides; and the non-reality of coexistence between GM andnon-GM crops are among the many additional problems farmers are facing -- andunfortunately, viable solutions to these problems are largelynon-existent. Monsanto's goal is to convert everybody to Roundup Ready crops, buy out all the seed companies, and control the agriculture market We frequently cover the topic of GMOs here at NaturalNews -- exposing both the schemes employed to implement them around theworld and the political gerrymandering taking place in nations likethe US and Canada that keeps them unlabeled and ensures theymaintain a strong and ever-increasing foothold in agriculture. AndMonsanto's endgame, of course, is to control the entirety ofagriculture. Monsanto's strategy with GMOs is a long-term one, and one that hascrept in largely unaware throughout the years. According to thelatest figures, Monsanto's GM crops now blanket over 330 million USacres. Ninety-three percent of soybeans grown in the US are GM, and 77 percent of soybeans worldwide areGM. Most US corn , cotton, and canola is also GM ( www.gmo-compass.org/eng/agri_biotechnology/gmo_planting/257.gl.. ). So how did things get this way? In the early 1990s when GMOs werefirst being introduced in the US, Monsanto and others convincedfarmers to adopt them by promising that crop yields would increase,that less pesticides and herbicides would be needed to grow them,and that overall costs to farmers would ultimately decrease. Morethan a decade later, farmers are now revealing that all of this wasa lie. "The first few years it'll be cheap and economical," said Joe (afarmer who wished to remain anonymous for his own protection ) to Hart concerning farmers switching to GM crop systems. "Onceeverybody is switched to it, you'll lose your choices, you'll nolonger have a choice to raise conventional products .. and you'llget yourself into a trap where you're paying royalty fees to companies that own traits and chemicals , and they'll continue to raise those fees every year." And this is precisely the case with every farmer interviewed in Farmer to Farmer . Adopting GMOs seemed to make sense in the beginning. But after acritical mass of farmers made the switch, Monsanto began to raise prices for seed and pesticides, to buy up seed companies, and even tocontrol GM farmers' ability to mix their own chemicals and savetheir own non-GM seeds -- and the end result was a widespread lossof agricultural freedom among American farmers . Monsanto has made it virtually impossible for GM farmers to switchback to non-GM crops So why don't farmers who recognize the failure of GM crops simplyswitch back to non-GM crops? The complex system Monsanto has builtmakes doing so a near impossibility. Between buying up seedcompanies and making non-GM seeds difficult to obtain, andcornering the market on pesticides and herbicides and the researchthat goes into them, most farmers simply have no choice but tocontinue planting GM crops. And when their non-GM crops becomecontaminated with GM traits, any non-GM endeavors are ruined. "The last years that I was growing conventional soybeans ... our beans kept becoming more and more contaminated," said Rodney Nelson, aGM sugar beet and soybean grower from North Dakota, concerning hisefforts to grow non-GM soybeans. "It was getting down to the pointwhere about 50 percent of our loads were being rejected because of contamination , and we couldn't buy seed that was pure without contamination." "On top of that, the conventional seed no longer was cheap. Theseed companies (many of which are now owned by Monsanto or otherBig Ag companies, as NaturalNews recently reported) ... simply hiked the price on theirconventional seed, and then when they sold you the seed, it camewith a clause the even though its conventional, it's not patented,you couldn't save and replant it ... we didn't have any choice butto go back and start planting Roundup Ready crops. There was no choice, that was the only choice." Apart from switching to organic , which would take many years of preparation just to get the fieldsup to organic standards, most GM farmers today have no choice butto continue growing GM crops. As long as the US governmentcontinues to provide patent protection for GM crops, as well as allow monopoly control over the seedmarket by biotechnology companies, many American farmers will simply have to remain in theclutches of Monsanto to stay afloat. Be sure to check out the entire Farmer to Farmer documentary to learn the dirty truth behind GM crops, and why itis absolutely vital to do everything possible to eliminate patentprotection for living organisms and to end corporate control overthe food supply: watch?v=jEX654gN3c4. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Titanium Pipe Fittings , Clad Metal Sheet, and more. For more , please visit Titanium Heat Exchanger Tube today!
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