Big pharm fallout

S.O.T.T: Along with unlabeled GMOs, we're ingesting toxic pesticides. Genetically engineered (GE) crops are Hawaii's new plantation agriculture, and Hawaii is the world's leading producer of GE seed corn. According to a 2013 study commissioned by the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, with funding from the biotech-supported Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, the Hawaii GE seed crop is not only the state's fastest-growing agricultural commodity, but the largest. Overall,GE agriculture is the largest contributor to increased pesticide use in the U.S. The adoption of herbicide-resistant GE crop technology has been the primary contributor to a 527-million-pound increase in herbicide use from 1996 to 2011, according to USDA data analyzed by Charles Benbrook, research professor in the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University. In the last 20 years, the global agricultural input industry, which produces agrochemicals and GE seeds, has become one of the most consolidated and profitable in the world. Monsanto, Dow, BASF, Bayer, Syngenta and DuPont - the "Big 6" - now control a majority of the world market...read more>>>...