This brings me to the next point. The fact is that the agribusiness industry is >very< strictly regulated. Government regulators do not just "accept" reports from these companies. It is largely because of the government oversight (which I support) that these products are so expensive to bring to market. Even if you buy into the notion that agribusiness is all about money, these business folks are not stupid. If they ever released an unsafe food product, they would lose money and lots of it. Even before these potential products reach the government regulators, they have passed layer upon layer of safety testing, allergenicity tests, animal trials, metabolism studies, environmental impact studies, digestion studies, and many other tests. It is a process that is decidedly more rigourous than food safety tests for other food products, including the myriad of Ho-Ho's and ring-pops that pose a real threat to our nation's dietary health.. . .
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