A helpful video that one can find at places like, Mercola.com, or NetFlix, or your favorite local video store, is The Future of Food This documentary gives, in simple and understandable language, how bad, corrupt, and dumb-downed, most of the processed food, beverage, and pharmaceutical chain is in the USA.

I recall a few years back watching a Wednesday night edition (now canceled) segment on CBS' 60 Minutes, in which they discussed, in detail, a long term disease resistant potato Monsanto had genetically modified. 

Now as any potato farmer in Idaho, or elsewhere, will tell you, "who needs long term storage" as they already have below gound cold storage cellars, not buring any fuel, that hold potatoes in dormancy just fine thank you, with little spoilage.

Well, it so happens that an independent (non Monsanto) scientist decided to conduct a simple feeding study with 2 groups of laboratory rats.  One group got regular potatos, and the second group got the new GMO product from Monsanto at equal rates.

The Results?  Regular expected weight gain in both groups occurred, however there was a graphic image in the TV piece of the GMO potato consuming rats, all developing 5, 6, 7, and 8 limbs, spouting and growing out of their heads, backs, necks and torsos...

Yes, folks, Monsanto cannot be trusted at all, and neither can government lower paid FDA bureaucrats, allegedly reviewing and safeguarding the food chain, to assure you of any safety in such matters.

As we literally see on a DAILY basis from the wire services, and headlines, the FDA has becoma reactive organization, at best, on recalls and side effects, in food, cosmetics, ingredients, beverages, and pharmaceutical products, long after the product has HARMED or KILLED people.

So as the ancient Roman saying suggests: "Caveat emptor" (Let The Buyer Beware!)...

Take control of your own health, ask simple logical questions, like: "Do I really need to consume something I cannot spell, let alone understand what harm it might be doing to me, my children, family, or friends?", by READING INGREDIENT LABELS PRIOR to purchasing the product.

If you cannot spell the ingredient, or do not understand what it is, there is a high probability is is NOT good for you!

The problem is that corporations like Monsanto have too much money!!  The corporate form of business is not beneficial to society.  It allows for the accumulation of too much money without accountability.  This money buys power and influence. Individuals can't have the same influence on our world (unless very united) as corporations.  There is no democracy with corporations. 

Furthermore, I think it is time we citizens vote on the issues ourselves without having a "reprsentative" to deal with.  This would eliminate corporate influence. The technology is there which would make this possible.

Because of corporations we don't have clean air, water or food.  These should be a "given."  The Senator from my state always votes for big business against the environment, etc.  I would think if individuals could vote on issues themselves, the environment, etc. would stand a better chance of surviving.

The more I learn, the more hopeless it seems. How do we fight those who own everything?