An article in the recent Pittsburg gazette quoted a farmer (who refuses to grow genetically-engineered crops) as saying that his seed catalogs tell him do not feed any GE corn husks, corn products or any other parts of the finished crop to his cattle because of adverse health effects. But, per the farmer, I can't grow it for my cattle but I can grow it for me to eat! Doesn't anyone but me see the problem here?
Tuesday November 6th is rapidly approaching. It's election day! Sure we are supposed to pick another president that day in this country, but if you ask me something far more important is going down that day.
What is it?
The ballot vote in the state of California for or against the labeling of genetically modified ingredients in our foods in the entire food system.
Believe me, I'm guessing but probably better than 95% of the food industry itself is hoping and praying this doesn't happen. Why, other than it is inconvenient? Because they all know once the people actually do start questioning what that label is and what it means, they won't buy it anymore. People do not want to know there is herbicides, pesticides, and altered DNA in their foods. Other than it sounds horrible, how in the world can it be good for our health?
Oh, you think this stuff was all safety-tested, do you? Well, sure it is. It has been all along. Every single time you buy some corn on the cob, you're safety testing it. Buy anything with sugar, with corn, with soy, with beef (if they were fed the leading feed crop for cattle). Do you wear cotton T-shirts? Or how about sleep under a cotton blanket or some cotton sheets? The list can go on and on and on how you are daily safety-testing all of these altered products. GE (genetically modified) products are all over our food systems, our personal possessions - actually we are inundated with them daily and we don't even know it.
But that's OK - after all, we are safety testing the stuff for them! Each and every single day!
Why? Because there was no long-term safety tests ever done. That's what we're here for. Heck, after all, we all go to the store every day, every week, every month etc.. We eat out at restaurants, we go to self-pick farms or to farmer's markets. We all purchase food all the time for them to safety test their latest invention in GE foods.
Advertising is all over the place, especially in the state of California, trying to lull the population into believing the guaranteed safety, reliability, cost effectiveness etc. of these goods. But this is big business. Corporate America has loads of money to spend on advertising, all of it to try to hide the facts from the everyday people.
Another group, just us ordinary people - we don't have loads of money, but we are trying just as hard trying to convince Californians the dangers here. And trying to get them to realize the dangers which they don't know about. But we don't have an unlimited bank account. We don't have ANY of the advantages corporate America has. We just have the people. Your friends, your neighbors, the farmer who is trying to raise your crops safely. The rancher who is worried about the safety of the feed he has to feed his animals. The mother, or father who hopes and prays he is not making a mistake giving his child a bowl of cereal for breakfast tomorrow.
Tuesday is a deciding day in the USA. The decision is going to be made whether we can basically feel a little safer when we actually sit down to feed ourselves or any family member. So much of the rest of the world "gets this" dream and has kicked GE ingredients out of their stores, their country, their life.
Let's just hope millions and millions of dollars of twisted truths, outright lies and false accusations don't scare the people in California into voting for the wrong side this coming Tuesday.
Tuesday November 6th is rapidly approaching. It's election day! Sure we are supposed to pick another president that day in this country, but if you ask me something far more important is going down that day.
What is it?
The ballot vote in the state of California for or against the labeling of genetically modified ingredients in our foods in the entire food system.
Believe me, I'm guessing but probably better than 95% of the food industry itself is hoping and praying this doesn't happen. Why, other than it is inconvenient? Because they all know once the people actually do start questioning what that label is and what it means, they won't buy it anymore. People do not want to know there is herbicides, pesticides, and altered DNA in their foods. Other than it sounds horrible, how in the world can it be good for our health?
Oh, you think this stuff was all safety-tested, do you? Well, sure it is. It has been all along. Every single time you buy some corn on the cob, you're safety testing it. Buy anything with sugar, with corn, with soy, with beef (if they were fed the leading feed crop for cattle). Do you wear cotton T-shirts? Or how about sleep under a cotton blanket or some cotton sheets? The list can go on and on and on how you are daily safety-testing all of these altered products. GE (genetically modified) products are all over our food systems, our personal possessions - actually we are inundated with them daily and we don't even know it.
But that's OK - after all, we are safety testing the stuff for them! Each and every single day!
Why? Because there was no long-term safety tests ever done. That's what we're here for. Heck, after all, we all go to the store every day, every week, every month etc.. We eat out at restaurants, we go to self-pick farms or to farmer's markets. We all purchase food all the time for them to safety test their latest invention in GE foods.
Advertising is all over the place, especially in the state of California, trying to lull the population into believing the guaranteed safety, reliability, cost effectiveness etc. of these goods. But this is big business. Corporate America has loads of money to spend on advertising, all of it to try to hide the facts from the everyday people.
Another group, just us ordinary people - we don't have loads of money, but we are trying just as hard trying to convince Californians the dangers here. And trying to get them to realize the dangers which they don't know about. But we don't have an unlimited bank account. We don't have ANY of the advantages corporate America has. We just have the people. Your friends, your neighbors, the farmer who is trying to raise your crops safely. The rancher who is worried about the safety of the feed he has to feed his animals. The mother, or father who hopes and prays he is not making a mistake giving his child a bowl of cereal for breakfast tomorrow.
Tuesday is a deciding day in the USA. The decision is going to be made whether we can basically feel a little safer when we actually sit down to feed ourselves or any family member. So much of the rest of the world "gets this" dream and has kicked GE ingredients out of their stores, their country, their life.
Let's just hope millions and millions of dollars of twisted truths, outright lies and false accusations don't scare the people in California into voting for the wrong side this coming Tuesday.
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