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big movement in the West right now is boycotting and protesting against Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) foods. With growing awareness of the health dangers of GMO food products, the Western world is resisting corporate giants like Monsanto in their maneuvers to dominate the agricultural and food products industries.

Among many other benefits of the GMO food industry, most notably corn, soybeans and sugar beets, but a long list of other once natural food products, is the ability to patent the genetically modified strain and control the market through price manipulation.

This leaves Western farmers, and American farmers above all others, with a dependency on the patented GMO products, most of which cannot produce quality seeds for crop production the following seas.

The inability of the crops to produce increases the dependency on farmers to reinvest in more seed corn every year, once again boosting profits for the corporate agency that owns the patent on the GMO food product.

Now that the American people are finding this out they are near outrage against the GMO industry; and with good cause because cancer, infertility and a wide spectrum of other diseases are becoming increasingly prominent health problems, adding illness to injury when the discovery is made that illness is indeed the aftermath, and injury is done in the financials.

This provides an opportunity for people in the East to make profits while providing the Westerners with food products that are not modified.

If genetically modified food products were affordable and safe for both the environment and the consumer there might be no problem with GMO foods; however that is not the case. The Institute for Responsible Technology shares on their website that those most at risk are the pregnant women and unborn children, discussing that the children are at risk of being affected by toxins grown inside the GMO foods and developing a variety of diet-related problems, but not only digestive problems and metabolic concerns become a risk with the consumption of GMO products, the reproductive system may not be able to produce healthy offspring. Rats tested with GMO diets were shown to have offspring with significant genetic changes in comparison to the rats not fed with GMO products.

Additionally, test groups of cows, bulls, and rats all three showed an increase in miscarriage, false pregnancies, lower fertility rates and a higher infant mortality rate.

The infant mortality rate of newborn rats whose mothers were fed GMO foods increased from approximately 10 percent to more than 50 percent, with the GMO test group having '€œmost'€ of the offspring dead '€œwithin three weeks'€.

With such test results it is no wonder that Westerners, and most of all Americans, are angry with the corporate giant Monsanto and their paid-for politicians.

In America the citizens don'€™t even have the right to demand to know which foods contain these poisonous engineered food products; congress has repeatedly refused to represent the people in their demand for GMO labeling.

I had noticed the difference between the aging, body weights and overall health, most notably cancer rates, between Americans and Indonesians immediately upon my arrival.

Recent research has revealed that GMO food products contain chemicals grown within the plant itself that make them resistant to pesticides and herbicide, therefore producing larger quantities of less beneficial crops.

This, of course, only leads to marketers insisting that the use of pesticides and herbicides can be increased. You may be wondering how exactly this relates to any benefits for Indonesia.

Having been to islands like Lombok it is clear that there is likely a good source for non-GMO seeds here. It would be difficult to produce enough seed corn to provide all the farmers in America with seeds.

However, a growing number of Americans are moving away from the grocery store and into the garden in an effort to maintain their health and the health of their families.

It could be possible for Indonesia to produce and export seed corn, even if only small packages, with the very label the American Congress won'€™t allow on American products: '€œNon-GMO'€.

It doesn'€™t take long looking at the Americans'€™ new Facebook pages and groups to see that natural foods are the newest trend; anything that can be proved as untouched by GMO products would be very easy to market to the Western world.

Being from a small village of less than 2,500 people I remember that everyone had their own gardens; it'€™s cheaper and cleaner to grow your own because of the absence of pesticides and the lack of taxes; now it'€™s a growing trend to invest in non-GMO products. More people than ever are ready to till up the soil and provide their families with healthier meals.

If someone had a planter, a combine and a grain silo to put on some fertile land they would have a very eager market for all-natural seed corn within the next six months. They could probably go ahead and sell some soy bean seeds too.

Who is to say that only the seeds are what they want and need right? In America only the very privileged can afford a healthy diet, and most of the population is forced to eat chemically enhanced GMO products.

The author is a research writer at Prospect Solution online career agency for freelance writers.