A study should be conducted by the Department of Agriculture but of course then agri-business would buy off Congressmen who would then, in return, demand that the Department of Ag be shut down... Normal...

And, of course, the usual suspect here would trash any findings in such a study as being tainted by Obama meddling...

The bottom line here is that the things that agri-business is getting away with are hurting US all... If we go back to the idea that the planet is two inches of top soil away from starvation then we need to be looking at Earth-friendlier ways to produce food... That will mean returning to some basics... Soil conservation should be at the top of that list... Keeping livestock out of streams and rivers should be right up there, too... Community gardens are cropping (pun intended) everywhere and that is a very good start because people learn about growing the old fashioned way which enriches soil rather than deplete it...

The fact is that we need to quit looking at current resources as something that our generation owns and therefore can use up at an alarming rate because...

a. we can and...

...b. because it is more profitable...

We are killing our planet... GMO's is adding to that... It's allowing for more junk to be sprayed on our field which ends up running off them into our streams, bays, oceans and we are slowly killing our planet...

B~