Monsanto and Dupont...third on your list. You might also want to add Cargill and ADM, one of which has been convicted of price fixing and other things.
Nestle is not a primary producer, they buy from the primary producers. Even so, the company isn't squeeky clean, remember the melamine in milk scandal in China?
None of this, even listing the companies involved, shows that long term studies on the affects of GMO food have been done. They haven't. The stuff hasn't been in the marketplace long enough. It is being safety tested on the American public. Europe and Japan have managed to keep GMOs out of the human food supply, but not the animal food supply. We don't know what eating gene modified food that has processed through an animal will do.
We do know that organic farmers are losing one of the most effective insect controls they have due to GMO crops. The insect pests are becoming resistant to Bt, mainly due to it's incorporation into GMO crops. We are also developing "superweeds" resistant to RoundUp, and are having cross pollination issues with non-GMO crops. Corn is wind pollinated, so cross pollination is always a possibility. Some people, not environmental alarmists, are implicating bee colony collapse to GMO crops. If you really want to imagine a life changing event for the human world, try to imagine a world without honey bees.
GMO crops, in my opinion, have entered the food stream with too little scrutiny. Unfortunately, it is too late to put that genie back in the bottle; we will be finding the full effects of this in the coming decades.
Nestle is not a primary producer, they buy from the primary producers. Even so, the company isn't squeeky clean, remember the melamine in milk scandal in China?
None of this, even listing the companies involved, shows that long term studies on the affects of GMO food have been done. They haven't. The stuff hasn't been in the marketplace long enough. It is being safety tested on the American public. Europe and Japan have managed to keep GMOs out of the human food supply, but not the animal food supply. We don't know what eating gene modified food that has processed through an animal will do.
We do know that organic farmers are losing one of the most effective insect controls they have due to GMO crops. The insect pests are becoming resistant to Bt, mainly due to it's incorporation into GMO crops. We are also developing "superweeds" resistant to RoundUp, and are having cross pollination issues with non-GMO crops. Corn is wind pollinated, so cross pollination is always a possibility. Some people, not environmental alarmists, are implicating bee colony collapse to GMO crops. If you really want to imagine a life changing event for the human world, try to imagine a world without honey bees.
GMO crops, in my opinion, have entered the food stream with too little scrutiny. Unfortunately, it is too late to put that genie back in the bottle; we will be finding the full effects of this in the coming decades.