It’s a
mad scientist and greedy villains wildest dream come true… a crossbreed of a
tomato with basically a car tire… a complete food monopoly and trillions of
people ignorant to the mass damage done to the earth and themselves. Are we talking about the latest box office sci-fi
thriller? No. It’s Genetically Modified Organisms and it’s taken
over the US
Does it
scare you that over 75% of today’s produce are genetically modified? What about the fact that GMO foods have been
linked to liver, pancreas, kidney and heart damage in animals?¹ Or the fact that GMO foods use herbicides
two, three & four times more than a traditional farmer that uses pesticides? GMO foods cannot thrive without chemicals,
herbicides and pesticides. If that
doesn’t frighten you, what about the fact that food companies do not have to
label that their product contains GMO?
It should be illegal to NOT tell consumers what they are
buying! Unfortunately everything
associated with GMO’s is horrific.
Two
ways to protect your families from GMO’s is to Go organic & Get vocal! Organic products can not legally be GMO’s. It’s not 100% guaranteed that GMO’s are not
in your food source, but it’s a good place to start. Call every food company that you support and
verify that the products you buy from them are indeed GMO-free. Speak up at your local stores (even companies
like Whole Foods put GMO products on their shelves). Tell them to pass and to take a stance to be
GMO-Free!
Proposition
37 is an excellent ballot being proposed in CA that if passed, will require
labeling that an item contains GMO. It
will also prohibit labeling or advertising of GMO foods as “natural”. Director Ronnie Cummins from the
Organic Consumers Association described it perfectly in his article, Here
are 8 reasons you want Prop 37 to pass:
(1.) GMOs have never been proven safe. The FDA
conducts no independent testing of GMOs, but instead claims that they are
"not substantially different" from non-GMO foods.
(2.) The biotech
industry is not required to conduct long-term safety studies on GMOs, and it
keeps researchers from conducting those tests by claiming the right to protect
its patented seeds and technologies.
(3.) GMOs are
everywhere. Today, most non-organic US corn, soy, cotton and sugar beets -
which are used in most of the sweeteners and additives used by food processors
- are genetically engineered. So is the feed fed to the animals you eat. In
fact, 75 - 85% of the processed food in your grocery store contains unlabeled
GMOs.
(4.) The companies
who want you to believe GMOs are safe are the same ones who lied to you about
Agent Orange and DDT.
(5.) GE crops are
responsible for super weeds and super bugs, soil degradation, and lack of
diversity - which makes crops and humans more susceptible to disease.
(6.) The only folks
who don't want you to know what's in your food are huge corporations like
Monsanto, Dow AgriScience, BASF and food conglomerates like Pepsi and Coca-Cola
- who along with other biotech, pesticide and processed food manufacturers have
donated nearly $33 million to defeat Prop 37.
(7.) This is our best
- and perhaps only - shot at labeling GMOs and ending Monsanto's monopoly of
our food supply and destruction of our health and environment. Nineteen other
states have tried - and failed - to get a GMO labeling law through the state
legislative process. Prop 37 takes GMO labeling direct to the voters so
Monsanto's lobbyists can't kill it.
(8.) If this law
passes in California ,
food manufacturers have admitted that it may as well be a national law. They
won’t want to put ‘this product contains GMOs” on their labels, so they will
reformulate their products. And if they reformulate for California , they may as well do it for all
of their products.
An
excellent resource is The Non-GMO Project!
Check them out! Also, take 2
minutes to watch this video and share it with friends and family!
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