What will they think of next?  Pharm crops are grown by about 20 global biotech companies. They are genetically engineered crops that are designed to produce drugs, vaccines or biotech/ chemical components. 

Pharm crops are being grown in many unmarked test fields around the U.S. Kind of like a clinical trial right out in the open.  And this is not new--it has been going on since 1992.  315 open air field trials, as they are known, have been conducted between 1991 and 2002.   As if all that isn't enough, the USDA has issued proposed rules that would enable these crops (i.e. corn) to be grown as close as one mile to regular corn intended for your table.  It has already been scientifically established that corn pollen can drift miles from its field of origin.  If these pharm crops are planted on a widespread, commercial basis you can be sure that drugs will end up as an undocumented ingredient in our food supply.  Imagine, safflower is being bred in one of those fields to create insulin.  What would happen if that got into our food suppy in excessive amounts?

Moreover, these biotech companies have been issued a research permit, not a commercial permit, by the USDA which enables them to hide the nature of the chemicals and their field locations even though they are selling the compounds commercially.

Corn is the most popular crop for this endeavor, but the other third of pharma crop production includes soybeans, rice, barley, wheat, canola, safflower and tobacco.

Click here and here and here if you would like to learn more.