Tonight's blog piece is so important to me, I hope each of you who read it will take the time to hit like, or comment, so I know that ONE more person knows the truth about a potential travesty to our health, country and world! I have been so involved in this issue, that it makes me emotional, to know that ONE hugely powerful company could change the course of history, of our lives, if we do not become educated and speak up individually and as a whole to say, WE DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT IS IN OUR FOODS, and WE INSIST GENETICALLY ALTERED FOODS BE LABELED!So, if I were to ask you sit and have dinner at my table, and you learned that as hard as I had scrubbed, that the food you were going to ingest had ROUNDUP on it, or DDT on it, or PCB's throughout it, or Dioxin (Agent Orange) in it, would you eat it??? I am going to make the assumption that most of you are going to gasp, and say, ABSOLUTELY NOT! What if you knew the milk or dairy products you were ingesting came from dairy cows that were injected daily with iBGH or Bovine Growth Hormone, a synthetic hormone used to keep cows "fresh" year round and increase milk production? Would you want to ingest this knowing study after study has shown this to be a cancer accelerator favoring acceleration of breast, prostrate and colon cancer? If you picked up a gallon of milk at the store, you likely DID ingest iBGH and did not even realize it. Years ago, you may have eaten foods laced with a synthetic sugar substitute called saccharin, that was banned eventually after it's direct link to cancer and neurological disorders. The current replacement, aspartame, trade name Nutrasweet, has yet to be banned. They just put a warning on the blue packet that says not to be ingested by pregnant women. I personally think it is a kissing cousin to saccharin, and just as dangerous to our health. Who made these products? Do you know?
Well, a Giant century old Chemical company, MONSANTO, has now become a Giant Biotechnology/Genetic engineering of food company, and you SHOULD BE CONCERNED.
MONSANTO created, making billions of dollars, not only polyester fibers, but saccharin, DDT, Agent Orange (dioxin) RoundUp and other such herbicides, aspartame, the Bovine Growth Hormone used in the dairy industry, and now produces 90 % of genetically engineered SEEDS to grow everything from corn to soybeans, to many many foods, and to sell and have them planted world wide. With what in my mind, is a bigger threat than war or guns, and that could have an even greater impact on our health and lives, isn't it time we got educated on what MONSANTO is doing? And that they are doing it with HUGE money, sophisticated lobbying groups, and aggressiveness that makes me shudder. They have merged with such companies as Pharmica and UpJohn to create drugs like Celebrex, and my biggest red flag yet is that former MONSANTO employees now sit in key positions in the FDA/EPA/and yes, EVEN the Supreme Court.
Why be so concerned about this and their attempt to get their Genetically altered seeds in countries from Haiti to India and so on??? Because, once these, what I consider to be NASTY, TOXIC altered foods are planted, the soil on which they grow, the seeds that fly and pollinate a safe, organic whole live food field, completely changes the landscape of farming as we know it. Think of a place where PCB's were dumped (oh, btw, MONSANTO was fined for dumping MILLIONS of pounds of PCB's in the past) and how it affects healthy, not altered foods not being able to be grown in those areas. It's such a potential nightmare that could unfold in my mind, I just literally for a decade now have watched with trepidation as I see this HUGE operation, meticulously unfold. Does MONSANTO want to be the KINGPIN in owning patents to the seeds that can be used to grow foods in America and the world...you tell me! And BTW: Canada and Europe, has tried and for the most part been successful in blocking MONSANTO advancing into their farm systems. CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT I AM SAYING??? The company that made Agent Orange, wants to alter your foods and have you trust that they'll be safe, WITHOUT HAVING TO DISCLOSE that they are GENETICALLY ALTERED and grown with TOXIC CHEMICALS??? Are you fine with that? I AM NOT!
Here is what I am asking you to do. Click on the link that says, YOU want EVERY food grown to say if it is Non-GMO or NOT Genetically Modified, if it has synthetic growth hormones in it etc. etc. etc. PLEASE see the full impact of helping with this. Let me tell you what Willie Nelson said on the subject:
ittle did Willie Nelson know when he recorded "Crazy" years ago just how crazy it would become for our cherished family farmers in America. Nelson, President of Farm Aid, has recently called for the national Occupy movement to declare an "Occupy the Food System" action.Nelson states, "Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers, destruction of our soil…" WOW, WILL YOU JOIN WITH HIM, ME, ALL OF US WHO WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO KNOW, WE WILL HAVE A SAY IN KNOWING WHAT WE ARE EATING, AND WHAT HAS BEEN MADE TOXIC. Our children's lives, our own lives, our future posterity's lives are worth the short time it will take you to sign this petition. THANK YOU! And again, if you hit like or make a comment, it let's me know, ONE more person is going toe to toe with each of us who want the FREEDOM to have CLEAN, WHOLE, SAFE foods in our country and worldwide....sigh, I am so grateful for your help!
