America's Toxic Rice Banned By EU Food Standards

Perhaps you don't care, but many millions do, and it should be the right of everyone to either swallow #$%$# or pass it up.

You're right about most of what you wrote but the tofu assumption is not correct. According to the USDA 87% of the US soy crop is GM and that only counts planted acreage and does no account for cross contamination.

If it's not labeled as Organic, it is Monsanto, Round Up Ready soy. There is no regulatory standard for the word "Natural" so that is meaningless. "Natural" tags are added along with words like flavorful to market but have no legal or quality value.

Not to digress too much, but soy didn't even have a GRAS food status when Nixon was in office. It was controversial when Nixon overrode the FDA scientists and had soy protein approved for use as binder in cereal boxes. It was feared the hexane residue would leech from the box and contaminate the cereal. Since hexane is a known carcinogen this threatened to violate the Delaney clause that prohibited known carcinogens in food.

Gone is Delaney Clause, replaced with a toothless, liability shield and in comes the new wonderfood soy. Sure it took a few decades of PR and loopholes to make it happen. Moreover, much of the health benefits attributed to soy are based on traditionally fermented varieties of tamari and soy sauce and have little to no relationship to the GMO tofu and soymilk people are swallowing.

They are 100% wrong. Not only that they can destroy the benefits of Organic tofu bu using calcium chloride to make it. The traditional method using kombu seaweed is the one with the nutritional benefit. Mind you, I don't eat soy and if it weren't for the petrochemical boys mucking up the food I would be happy to live on a diet of peanut M&M's and assorted other junk.

I am not a foodie, I'm just a researcher who's spent about 10,000 hours reading the legislative and science studies relating to the subject. I spent seven years doing cancer nutrition research before stumbling into this thicket. Much of the information out there regarding food, and soy in particular, is pure marketing drivel.

The short brown rice, especially the varieties grown in California are reasonable pure. You see part of the problem with knowing what is contaminated at this point rests on the fact that thousands of open field trials of every imaginable type from industrial chemicals to HIV drugs, have gone on and no one is testing to see what the contaminations are. This Bayer variety was a limited field trial in 1999 and though to have disappeared when they did not replant. Unfortunately pollen travels in the wind and the rice continued to spread. It was undetected because no one looked. The USDA policy has been don't look, don't find and critics complaints have fallen on deaf ears. Sadly the crisis is far worse that most can imagine.

For my part I eat no corn, no vitamin C which is all made from GMO corn, nothing boasting any health claims, no soy and no dairy that is not locally produced or organic but not from Horizon which is a Dean Foods, factory farm. So the long answer is your brown rice is probably fine but if you can support an organic producer by paying whatever premium they charge you will be helping your future health and that of the industry that nurtures the environment.

I try not to guess why but it usually comes down to a bottom line dollar when all the facts are out on the table. In this case there is only evidence that it is a fact summarized here and elsewhere if you care to do any amount of searching.

There is some information that can help you make your own guess as to why they cover it up. The corporate owners GE and Westinghouse have had a partnership with Monsanto, DOW and Dupont since the introduction of PCB's in the 1920's. Health threats were covered and denied for decades.

All have many outstanding liabilities tied to Superfund sites etc. The histories together are long and strong. The drug companies do count for high revenues and Monsanto is and or was Pfiser and Searle. Bayer grows pharma crops and the line between foods, drugs, biofuels and crops is a total blur.