Are GMO food products responsible for the degenerate state of the Republican party?
It's obvious that the entire Republican party has degenerated into vile, mechanistic, opportunistic, mysogynistic, racist, homophobic, anti-intellectual, corporate-toady, fear-driven cohort of misaligned sheeple.
Top expositors on DU and elsewhere have noted that this widespread degeneration (see photographic evidence below) has corresponded closely in time with the infestation of the food chain with food products rolled off the GMO chemical pharmaceutical industry assembly line, Inc. (R).
Correlation is not causation, of course, but EXPERTS AGREE that this disastrous state of affairs is worthy of a massive, rigorous non-industry-funded independent research project.
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What did the Bundy-RepbuliBagger Malcontents crave when they took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
Why GMO infested snacks, of course. Issue settled. Debate over.
Or so I have heard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut
Smut feeds on the corn plant and decreases the yield. Smut-infected crops are often destroyed, although some farmers use them to prepare silage. The smut is a delicacy in Mexico, where it is known as huitlacoche, even being preserved and sold for a significantly higher price than uninfected corn. The consumption of corn smut originates from Aztec cuisine. For culinary use, the galls are harvested while still immature — fully mature galls are dry and almost entirely spore-filled. The immature galls, gathered two to three weeks after an ear of corn is infected, still retain moisture and, when cooked, have a flavor described as mushroom-like, sweet, savory, woody, and earthy. Flavor compounds include sotolon and vanillin, as well as the sugar glucose.
The fungus has had difficulty entering into the American and European diets as most farmers see it as blight, despite attempts by government and high profile chefs to introduce it. In the mid-1990s, due to demand created by high-end restaurants, Pennsylvania and Florida farms were allowed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to intentionally infect corn with huitlacoche. Most observers consider the program to have had little impact,[citation needed] although the initiative is still in progress. The cursory show of interest is significant because the USDA has spent a considerable amount of time and money trying to eradicate corn smut in the United States. Moreover, in 1989, the James Beard Foundation held a high-profile huitlacoche dinner, prepared by Josefina Howard, chef at Rosa Mexicano restaurant. This dinner tried to get Americans to eat more of it by renaming it the Mexican truffle and it is often compared to truffles in food articles describing its taste and texture.
I actually was going to try it a few years ago when Mom came out for a visit and we went to SF, but we never made it to the Mexican place I had in mind that serves it.
Or do you believe in those too? 
There's now mounting evidence that GMOs & glyphosate cause damage to the funny bone, as well.
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Glad to see DUers who get it, and who are not drinking the endless supply of kool aid that comes with the regularly scheduled DU attacks on clean, wholesome food unadulterated by synthetic chemicals and mechanistic, profit-driven GMO substances.
...much too hard. 
(I'm sure there's a gif for that sentiment, but I'm too lazy to look for it. Probably because GMOs have sapped my motivation and creativity.)
§205.601 Synthetic substances allowed for use in organic crop production.
This official USDA-AMS logo is a marketing signal to consumers. It is backed by federal law and enforced by the USDA. Farmers using this symbol must closely follow the rules of the National Organic Program (NOP). The
NOP is a marketing program, not a nutrition nor a food safety program, such as Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs).
The Allowed* Use of Commercial Fertilizers, Pesticides, and Synthetic Substances on U.S. Farms Under the USDA National Organic Program
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Please consider reading a book or two on this subject. Knowledge is power.
Be careful or some mean-spirited, pea-brained jerk will ALERT on you for bringing up a FORBIDDEN topic. Ch*mtrails - you should learn - are not to be spoken of, thought about, or investigated.
The video & multimedia forum is a good place for the "climate engineering", aka Chemtrail threads. Recently there was a pretty good thread in GD about government sponsored mind control that included links to an anti-Semitic web site. I do kinda miss the electromagnetic hypersensitivity threads although one occassionally does manage to pop up now and again.
Now I recommend testing the politicians.
Free clue for those who require one:
The vast 92% of US Citizens know that Donald Trump (R) and the Puny Minority Elitist 8% like to call us STUPID because we want knowledge, for ourselves and our families, and because we feel democracy is important. Pretty damn strange, eh?
Now corporations are realizing that the customers are right. As usual. Took long enough.
The Puny 8% Elite Minority - and their role model Donald "You-are-all-STUPID" Trump - are just going to have to lump it and find a way to tolerate Democracy, and you'll have to claim the ignorance you seek by averting your eyes from the labels. That shouldn't be to hard to do. Good luck.
