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In reply to the discussion: Before you jump on Obama over the Monsanto amendment, take a minute and read this [View all]karynnj
(59,504 posts)for nearly half the time. Very little has passed the Senate that was NOT approximately the compromise Obama wanted. Therefore, there were fewer bills to veto. (Consider as a contrast that Bush faced a Democratic House and Senate (though only barely) for the last 2 years.)
You don't get that this bill funded the entire government and the deadline was THERE. Had he vetoed it, there was a very good chance that something would go wrong and we would be back in one of the hostage situations.
Here, it seems - from the OP - that the bill protects the farmers. I think the best way to really stop GM products is through education and boycotts. Do you think the farmers would opt to plant the GM seeds if there were a strong boycott - with sufficient people unwilling to buy the product?