http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/04/sen-roy-blunt-monsantos-man-washington

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As I reported a couple of weeks ago, a recent Senate bill came with a nice bonus for the genetically modified seed industry: a rider, wholly unrelated to the underlying bill, that compels the USDA to ignore federal court decisions that block the agency's approvals of new GM crops. I explained in this post why such a provision, which the industry has been pushing for over a year, is so important to Monsanto and its few peers in the GMO seed industry. (You can also hear my talking about it on NPR's The Takeaway, along with the senator who tried to stop it, Montana's Jon Tester, and see me on Al Jazeera's Inside Story.)

Which senator pushed the rider into the bill? At the time, no one stepped forward to claim credit. But since then, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has revealed to Politico's ace reporter David Rogers that he's the responsible party. Blunt even told Rogers that he "worked with" GMO seed giant Monsanto to craft the rider.

The admission shines a light on Blunt's ties to Monsanto, whose office is located in the senator's home state. According to OpenSecrets, Monsanto first started contributing to Blunt back in 2008, when it handed him $10,000. At that point, Blunt was serving in the House of Representatives. In 2010, when Blunt successfully ran for the Senate, Monsanto upped its contribution to $44,250. And in 2012, the GMO seed/pesticide giant enriched Blunt's campaign war chest by $64,250."

He's just returning the favour. Nothing wrong with that. It's not like his getting paid by the people or anything.

This shit sucks. The anti-science, anti-GMO crowd annoys the hell out of me, but putting the USDA beyond the powers of the judiciary is bullshit on stilts.

Well, just to be clear, I'm totally for all genetic modification, and science first approach...but yes, and yet, all sides need to be reined in extremely tightly, from USDA powers to the GMO protection laws.

USDA has an extremely flawed approach that favors corporate buyout of legislation, and the GMOs shouldn't be able to sue other farms for their own chaff blowing into neighboring territories.

Damn, everything about food in America is f***ked.

I can't stand Monsanto.

I've begun to change every aspect of my diet to forbid 'fake' food. Too many chemicals that are known to kill and be cancer related are injected into every type of food, even when its proven they could easily be made without.

Bleaches in bread at EVERY fastfood.
Chemicals in sport drinks that are forbidden in the rest of the modern world.
Margarine (aka fake butter) is chemical used to fatten turkeys until it was realized it kills them... but its ok for humans I guess.

So much shit that is known to kill is allowed in food production because at these levels is "ok". Bullshit.

Wanna know why cancers, ADHD, Autism, and other items have spiked over the last 50 years? Its due to these GMOs.

Well, I'm no expert, but I don't think GMOs have anything to do with margarine and chemicals. I believe GMOs function on a more genetic level, like say, changing the genetic structure of potatoes so that they come out square shaped.

government even screws up food.

By definition of "GMO", yes you are right. However, its part of the larger food production that is focused on the capability to patent food vs provide what is healthy. So far this tinkering of food and creation of non-food has proven to be very, very bad in far too many situations.

This story is a specific example of how they court the government that is supposed to be looking out for all of our safety and instead turns a blind eye to anything the corp would like to do. For better or worse.