Corporate propaganda, masquerading as legitimate news, printed in a March 10 article about Monsanto’s genetically modified crops cutting greenhouse gases, was an attempt to put makeup on a hyena and call it a dog.

Producers of those crops, such as Monsanto, maintain that even after the seed’s DNA is changed, it is not materially different from the original. Therefore, it is as safe as the original, and doesn’t need monitoring in the marketplace. Yet, these producers are allowed to claim these seeds are unique enough to patent.

Monsanto has already sued a Canadian farmer for stealing their technology when his crop was cross-pollinated from a nearby field of their modified plants. The frugal farmer was silly enough to save seeds from his contaminated crop and plant them the following year.

Having no long-term studies on health or environmental risks, and no labeling necessary to warn consumers, leads to what? Unsuspecting humans are being used as guinea pigs while the likes of Monsanto lay the foundation to totally control the world’s food supply.

Some crops have already been changed so that they kill pests or resist weeds. Thus, by definition, the plant itself is an insecticide or herbicide. How are our bodies going to adapt to that? Could that be the mysterious cause of the honeybee die-off reported in February? Were they poisoned when they pollinated crops?

The article’s subtitle blatantly says the report it’s based upon was paid for by Monsanto.

That automatically makes it suspect.

Thomas McDonald-Sawyer, Auburn