There are several areas of human endeavour where profit should not be a factor. At least not profit on a corporate scale. The most obvious of these is health care where no business should be making extraordinary amounts of money off the misery and infirmities of the people. Another area is food production. Well actually, food should not be produced, it should be grown.

Agribusinesses – miles of monoculture crops growing in barren soil thanks only to tons of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and water – are doing nothing to solve the problem of how seven billion people can feed themselves. But they are getting rich.

Now we have the added insult of genetically modified organisms or GMOs. In theory, tinkering with a plant’s genetic make-up could produce one that is better able to withstand drought, or cold, or one that produces more per acre than nature intended. Unfortunately, in practice GMOs are a disaster, and how they are being marketed is even worse.

Many doctors and scientists have noticed a correlation between the advent of genetically modified corn in particular, and increased cases of autism, gluten intolerance, autoimmune diseases, neurological problems, obesity and a general decline […]