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SW: →GM Crops, Tested for Safety?: adding link
[http://www.proxyinformation.com/monissue.html Proxyinformation.com] says, ''"Monsanto repeatedly states that [[Genetic engineering|GE]] products are reviewed by regulatory agencies. Understanding these agencies role is central to understanding the issue of liability. The biggest misperception about GE crops is that the [[FDA]] has tested these plants and declared them safe. What the FDA has done is approved GE crop commercialization based on Monsanto's ''assurance'' that the products are safe.... The FDA does no inspection or monitoring for GE food after it is commercialized and is not legally or financially liable for these products."''
Concurring, a landmark three-year collaborative report that deals with Agriculture & Development, involving some 900 participants and 110 countries, by the [http://www.agassessment.org/ International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)] states, "''No regional long-term environmental and health monitoring programs exist to date in the countries with the most concentrated GM crop production ... Hence, long-term data on environmental implications of GM crop production are at best deductive or simply missing and speculative''" <ref>[http://www.greenfacts.org/en/agriculture-iaastd/l-3/3-biotechnology-for-development.htm#0p0 GreenFacts summary of the IAASTD]</ref>. See also [http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/dec08/gm_food_safey_testing_inadequate.php Scientist: GM food safety testing is "woefully inadequate"]. Also see [[Monsanto and GM Foods: Health Risks]]. For lots more quotes see [http://www.bangmfood.org/quotes/24-quotes/29-regulatory-breakdown Regulatory breakdown].
==Superiority of Organic Food==
