GMO Foods and How to Avoid Them – Take Action NOW
Filed Under: Environmental News on July 19, 2009
A recent article in the Huffington Post made it clear that Monsanto is moving forward very quickly with their genetically modified organism (GMO) foods agenda. They basically own all corn and soybean seeds in North America now. In fact, their most well-distributed seed types are for HT-ready (herbicide tolerant) strains of corn and soy seeds, which are now the vast majority of those sold on the U.S. market:
Now they’re working on wheat crops. With the current scare in wheat fungus going on, they may be making huge strides very soon towards cornering that market as well. The issue is coming to a head and needs our vocal efforts to stop it from getting to the point of no return.
Why are GMOs bad? What makes them different than regular crops? Well, the main problem with them is that they are edging out heritage and traditional strains of crops. The next problem is that Monsanto owns the patent on those seeds, so if you have any you didn’t pay for them (even if they blew onto your property from a neighbor’s), you could be taken to court. It happens all the time to small farmers today.
You saw that in the movie The World According to Monsanto, which I posted here for you to watch not too long ago.
The other problem with GMOs is that we don’t know how they interact with each other, their environment, our bodies, toxins or medications, or much of anything else. We also know that the less diverse a seed crop is, the more likely it will eventually succumb to a plague of disease that wipes it out…leaving us starving.
So how do we fight back and keep these GMO producers from taking over and wiping out our diversity in foods?
I’ve already shown you the Roundup Challenge on my friend Shelly Roche’s website at Bytestyle.tv. That’s a start. As she says, Vote With Your Fork. To find out how you can easily replace RoundUp with cheaper alternatives, visit my
friend Kelly’s website at MyQute.com where I wrote up easy solutions for RoundUp weedkiller replacements.
A commenter on Shelly’s site, Eric from solarila.com, gave me a link to another awesome resource too.
It’s a great Non-GMO Shopping Guide from the Institute for Responsible Technology. Their site is a warehouse of information on GM foods, rBGH in dairy, and more. It’s an awesome resource and the little 9-page guide is free to download or can be purchased reasonably as a pamphlet.
I highly recommend you read the guide and start voting with your fork and getting Monsanto out of their attempted monopoly on our foods.
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