The Washington Post’s Peter Whoriskey reports that 93 percent of soybeans and 80 percent of corn grown in the United States grow from seeds genetically altered by the Monsanto company. Yet this market share is only now being scrutinized by the Justice Department’s anti-trust division: Obama anti-trust chief Christine Varney wants to look at monopolistic practices in the food supply. The DuPont company is pressing the case — they’re the closest thing Monsanto has to a rival in producing genetically modified seeds that can survive sprays from the weed killer RoundUp.

Monsanto has used its seed patent to corner the soybean and corn market over the past twenty years. Is it still politically and economically feasible for the Obama administration to break-up a possible monopoly that the Bush and Clinton administrations ignored?

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