Put this on Obama's Citizen's Briefing Book Website

I have read extensively on this subject, and I feel especially sorry for the American public, because when GMO's were introduced into their food chain, there was no thought to giving Americans a chance to say 'no'. It was simply a question of scientists itching to begin experimentation on a whole new realm of study, and they were more than willing to have agricorporations give them huge research grants, and also bribe politicians with campaign funds to allow for lax oversight. If you want the historical details, please read: Edging Towards BioUtopia: A New Politics of Reordering Life & the Democratic Challenge, by Richard Hindmarsh (2008).

http://www.amazon.com/Edging-Towards-BioUtopia-Reordering-Democratic/dp/0980296587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232166698&sr=1-1

Regarding the naturalness of inserting genes into a plant, the corporations use a gene gun that blasts a "gene cassette" into the plant. The gene cassette usually consists of four genes, a promoter gene, the transgene, which actually contains the targetted effect, an anti-biotic marker gene, and a gene to stop the process. What the targetted plant does with these new genes is relatively unknown. If the transgene works as promised, then the company typically does a three-week test on lab rats, to see if they don't die, and if they survive, the new plant in put on the market. The FDA's protocol is simply to trust the company's internal study on the new plant. In terms of the company's bottom-line profits, considering that these plants have a patented expiry date, the quicker they can be sold, the more the company can make from their patent. Thus they are using the public as guinea pigs.