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In similar fashion to its other insidious plans, the unleashing of genetically modified organisms on an unsuspecting nation could never have been achieved without a significant amount of “inside help”. And this help came in the questionable form of the very people whose actual job it was to stop the very thing that they were doing from happening. Let’s start at the beginning…

Once upon a time, in 1980, the United States Supreme Court decided to permit specific living things to be recognized as private property. Once these life forms had been reclassified as private property they could then be owned and patented. The high court ruled in favor of this insidious idea with a vote of 5-4.  

This decision allowed a scientist named Ananda Chakrabarty to legally own the intellectual property rights to an actual biological organism. These particular property rights that had been granted to Chakrabarty belonged to an oil-eating, genetically engineered bacterium. The United States Patent and Trademark Office had initially denied this frightening new patent the first time it came around saying that living things were not eligible to be patented. The high court was, however, able to effectively counter the Patent Office’s ethical argument with a mad one of its own making.

The high court decreed that because these particular organisms had been genetically engineered, that they were actually a “manufactured” good, meaning they were a product of human ingenuity and therefore able to be owned. This simple splitting of hairs in the definition of “naturally occurring” is what finally allowed the bacterium to be covered under the new patent laws. Dark days were indeed on the horizon.

After this, it would be another two years before the scientists were able to create a biotech application that would be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Bacteria were easy to try and modify due to their extremely simple genetic coding and are what eventually what led to their success. This breakthrough for the scientists came in the form of synthetic insulin that had been created using the genetically altered bacteria. It would be just one short decade later that this same Administration would sign a document that allowed the manufacturing and sale of genetically modified organisms for use in our nation’s food supply.

Then in 1986, with Ronald Regan in the White House, the real trouble began to occur. It started with the federal government’s creation of biotechnology regulations that were supposedly meant to be “a Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology to provide for the regulatory oversight of organisms derived through genetic engineering.” This was really getting to be one incredibly elaborate con job. Seriously. Next up, in 1987, President George H. W. Bush, while posing for a photo op after touring a Monsanto laboratory, heard some of the Monsanto higher-ups express concern about their new set of crops waiting to be approved. President Bush reportedly laughed and told the executives “I’m in the deregulation business. Call me, I can help.”

And help he did. Five years later, as President Reagan’s successor, he appointed his own Vice President, Dan Quayle, to get started on a regulatory relief initiative for genetically modified crops. At a press conference, Quayle, remarked on biotechnology’s likely profitability as long as they were not too heavily regulated. This thought was put into action when they continued to have GMO crops cited to be the exact equivalent of traditional crops, which meant that they did not require any safety testing or special labeling. This was a true regulatory paradox when you remember that the same modified crops were originally deemed to be different enough in their genetic makeup to warrant a patent.

While the Monsanto corporation and all it’s biotech bed buddies have clearly become accustomed to using their not inconsiderable amount of clout, influence, and resources to intimidate or buy scientists and openly coerce farmers, there is one factor that will always remain beyond their grasp and is the strength of the informed consumer. If you or someone that you love is suffering from health problems that you believe to be related to Monsanto’s Round-Up Weedkiller then you need to get in touch with one of our experienced Roundup attorneys here at the Brady Law Group. If you would like to receive a free consultation with a professional, please give us a call at (866) 211-2562 as soon as possible so that we can help you assess any claims that you feel you may have.