Monsanto will soon be allowed to police itself on environmental tests of GMOs

This is ridiculous, are political officials so completely deluded or jaded that they don't see it's standard practice for ANY corporation to find its way around the law?

If the cost to make things happen legally outweighs the cost of making something otherwise illegal, legal in the eyes of the law, then that's the way it's done regardless of whom pays the price for that "legality".

Pass the buck, seriously...

This is another step in turning control of each of you, your lives and this country over to the corporate confederacy! This is another example of our employees, government, abdicating it's responsibilities to us. They are not earning their pay, and need to be replaced. How would you do this, when normal elections are not accomplishing it?

This is no different than the government allowing Big Pharma to submit whatever studies they have regarding the drugs they manufacture, while hiding any studies that show that their drug is no better than what is already on the market, or worse that it causes harm. Government has been infiltrated by corporations. It no longer even tries to protect the people, for whom government was formed. Everyone needs to understand that we live in a fascist society, and everyday it becomes more overt and less covert.

Given the incredibly warped state of our national and state politics, why not send in the foxes to "guard" the henhouse...This is like living in some alternate reality show and not being able to change the channel...

A two-year USDA experiment?! Good thing that the world is ending on May 27, 2011 or in 2012 or we would really be in trouble.

Un-fucking-believable.

All things considered Monsanto will eventually kill all of us

someday maybe we will have legislators with balls enough to write and enforce laws to put some major control on corporations like monsanto that pose a huge impact on people world wide.. profits over people,,,, scooter3282 said it best

poisoning our food and destroying our earth... not how this whole deal was suppose to go :-\ can't cheat mother nature.

Monsanto is taking over the world. Big Brother strikes again.

It is yet another piece of the puzzle in place for total industry domination of each and every one of our lives. Big Industry wants to keep the American people sick and dying, with no recourse but to live out our lives in a diminished state of well being. They control what we eat, what environmental hazards we deal with on a daily basis, the drugs we are forced to take to medicate ourselves and the health care they decide we deserve to keep ourselves alive once they have systematically destroyed our ability to live a normal life. "Welcome my son, welcome to the Machine" as Roger Waters said it so well over 30 years ago. They decide who lives and dies and when.

This calls to mind the environmental impact statements that offshore oil drillers were similarly tasked with preparing about their own operations.

That was kind of confusing. I'll try it again.

This policy of allowing companies to fabricate their own environmental impact studies is very troubling indeed. It calls to mind the similar studies done by offshore oil drilling companies in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon blowout.

Wait.. their required environmental impact statements were waived. I forgot.

Can we seriously allow companies to police themselves???

Well we have been, for quite a while. We appoint industry insiders on the FDA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the EPA, the Federal Reserve, etc. etc.

We're all DOOMED!!!!

DOOMED!!!

The people sitting on the boards of these companies and their CEOs are required to pursue short term profits above all else and to hell with everything and everyone else.

And to hell is just where we are all going to go if we can't reform or replace the system!!!

Just wait until the USDA gets major budget cuts and half of our food is toxic!

This is EXACTLY why we the people can't allow corporations to run what happens in Congress or any other dept of the government.
They don't give a shit about anything but PROFITS and the CEO's won't live long enough to see how much death and destruction they caused a few decades down the road.....so they don't give a damn.
It's all about short term profits for these greedy companies.

makes you want to stop eating :(

Pure. Evil . You know what future they envision ? Patented human DNA . If you are born a humonsanto , No unauthorized breeding with the other corporation , ... until the merger , then obedience will be rewarded with adequate water rations and expanded allowable mobility programmed into you personal monitor device .... STOP BUYING THEIR FRANKENFOODS !

fuck the USDA fuck MONSATAN.... they will not survive this decade, no matter what they try.

now i am gonna go eat my ORGANIC FAIRTRADE chocolate :D

The USDA must be aware of the huge movement of NON GMO citizenry who are demanding not only labeling of GMO food, but the eventual demise of it as well. But, they make a move to allow Monsanto "conduct its own environmental studies as part of a two-year USDA experiment"? The ONLY way this makes any sense, is the same people [USDA] who are making decisions such as this, are the same people [Monsanto] that will profit from this. I mean really? Also, Monsanto will never find any of their creations unsafe? Why even bother to do EIS, they won't be accurate.

So, who is going to pay for the EIS? Let me guess.....(we will pay). This just makes me sick.

In related news, Charles Manson has just been named warden at Corcoran State Prison.

It is like allowing Al Capone to police himself on his many criminal actions. :(

Nice, lets have the makers of Napalm make sure that they give you something less that lethal.... NOT. What a joke the government has become, things will surely go to shit and the Earth might become sterile if Monsanto is allowed to function upon it's own accord.

Horrid. This is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse.
WTF is the USDA thinking? Have they been bought off too like the GOP in Congress?

Who can make a lot of noise on this? Any place we can sign petitions?

Oh great! This is surely a bright idea... put the wolf to watching the hen house! WTF!!!!

This is indeed criminal and a blatant confession of the USDA's collusion to destroy our environment. And I wasn't kidding about protesting in St. Louis Missouri. DC doesn't get you anywhere. You have to go to them. It's either that, or pulling their crap out of the ground. I've had it.