Union of Concerned Scientists study GMO drought resistant corn

The document that I was reading last evening, released in June by the UCS, was at times causing me to laugh out loud, thinking about a soil bacteria DNA strand inserted into corn. The narrative will be easier to follow if you are a scientist yourself; but it is worth the effort for anyone interested. The whole text itself is about 21 pp. long-- with cover illustrations and references added on. The good news is that the outcome of the review is twofold. First, the seeds do not really perform all that great. Secondly, they are far more expensive for farmers, and the traditional methods of hybridization are so much more readily accomplished and quickly on the market that the USC suggests more study by Universities should be devoted to the more natural marital bliss of hybrid strains of resilient plants.
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/science/high-and-dry.htmlhttp://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/science/high-and-dry.html

All of this over a bunch of  corporate nonsense that some people refer to nowadays as FrankenSeeds. ;->
Keeping hope alive that the labelling of GMOs becomes mandatory in California, with the issue on the ballot out there in November.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GMOFreeUSA/
http://www.organicconsumers.org/

TAKING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION ON GMO SEEDS

Dear Governor Nixon:

Right now I am visiting a friend in Mexico, Missouri to help her out. One of our other friends is a longtime organic farmer who sold his produce in Columbia for years. So this subject is on my mind and dear to my heart.

Please watch the movie FRESH, which you will love, being from a rural area yourself. It is a delightful film which is backed up by experts at the School of Agriculture of Mizzou. http://www.freshthemovie.com/

Also please note this recent article posted by the Union of Concerned Scientists. As you probably know, most countries outside our borders do not even allow the import of anything that is GMO. This well researched article leaves me ashamed to be a citizen of St. Louis where Monsanto is base. They might be a "Job Site," but their GMO seed outcome is destructive to the natural world. http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/eight-ways-monsanto-fails.html

I will also email this to John Lamping and Stacy Newman, besides my Federal legislators.