I love my uncle and I gotta agree with his assertion that too many people do not have regard for where their food comes from, but this particular misguided city person is hyper-aware that knowing where it comes from is a most desirable goal. Truth be told, knowing Monsanto et al. have their fingers in it, gives me absolutely no sense of security. Hey! I could make money on stocks from a company that is polluting the carefully developed rice strains in India, China, or Missouri, with genetically modified experiments? Count me out.

About testing the GM food for safety, Monsanto (on their website) poo-poo's any reason for that,
There is no need for, or value in testing the safety of GM foods in humans. So long as the introduced protein is determined safe, food from GM crops determined to be substantially equivalent is not expected to pose any health risks. Further, it is impossible to design a long-term safety test in humans, which would require, for example, intake of large amounts of a particular GM product over a very large portion of the human life span. There is simply no practical way to learn anything via human studies of whole foods. This is why no existing food--conventional or GM--or food ingredient/additive has been subjected to this type of testing.
This is the same company which explains on their own website how damages caused to soldiers exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam (manufactured by Monsanto and other chemical companies) wasn't their responsibility, because they were just giving the U.S. government what they asked for. So if the U.S. government finds GM food to be unhealthy for the environment, would their response be to reject it? Wouldn't matter, because it's the fault of the farmers who had to have it to keep up with the trend of ridiculously high yields, despite potential of danger to health of children and other living things. Monsanto?..shoot, they're just giving us what we "want".

While you're surfing the internet, have a look at this article by April Davila about going "Nonsanto" for a month.
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