The USA is keeping itself under control.
It wants GM - genetically modified- foods allowed into the EU.
GM foods have been around for a long time in the USA. Monsanto has a number of them and what good is a Republican administration if it does not support the interests of its paymasters. It has not lashed out against the EU...yet. Of course, the tests run on GM as to its long term effects are non-existent, or, rather, they are being run now and you are the guinea pigs.
The tale of MRSA is a paradigm for the state of mind of many in the USA and the world at large. MRSA is a staph infection which has become resistant to antibiotics because of the widespread use of antibiotics for minor problems. MRSA is becoming even more nasty as we speak.
Antibiotics have been abused because: 1) our state of mind requires immediate short term returns (gratification) and we do not consider long term effects, 2) there is money in selling antibiotics, 3) we as patients do not question medical procedures, 4) there is no world-view or value system used by us in which making money short term does not trump all other values.
So too with GM foods. When the time comes when we ask why we did such thing to the ecology, we shall shake our heads and return to our lives, lives made more precarious by quisling crops and fugitive cereals and vanishing fruits...when comes the time when there will be a Sahellian abundance on our plates and our masters shall gnaw on our bones.
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