GMOs

I have spent most of yesterday and today reading, studying and watching video about GMOs and Monsanto. My head is spinning! I am appalled that our government lets this company run rampant doing whatever to our food supply. Honestly I've never trusted our government, but when it comes to our food supply that's where I draw the line!

Monsanto makes claims to be sustainable. How can they say that when it's proven that soil not properly cared for will stop producing crops no matter how much synthetic or organic fertilizer you put on it. You have to feed and tend you soil to stay sustainable. Rotating crops doesn't do this. Dousing crops with Round Up that isn't biodegradable is not good for the soil and therefore cannot be considered sustainable.

What I want to know is how this happened? How did they end up being able to become so huge at our expense? People have been paying for their misleading statements, irresponsible business practices and their nasty greed for too long! Not only that but we shouldn't have to have a list of what foods we don't want to put in our mouths because we don't want to eat genetically modified foods.

They don't have to label their foods as GMOs. Basically they created these foods, patent them and started putting them into our food supply without the public knowing. The government didn't feel that we needed to know. They were assured that the GMOs were just as safe as regular food based on tests driven by Monsanto themselves. How can they say that when they literally created soy beans, corn, cotton etc. to either resist chemical herbicides or to produce their own pesticide that kills bugs that might eat them?

They also make claim to being environmentally safe. How? Their herbicide is not even biodegradable!! Let's not forget to mention all of the pollution left behind from the dioxin and the PCBs. Don't even get me started on how bad I feel for the people left behind with the side effects from these chemicals and chemical byproducts!

Then they go after milk. Growth hormones so they can produce more milk. First of all when they started producing rBGH we didn't even need to produce more milk. Dairy farmers had more milk than they could sell and were being subsidised by the government. So what's this synthetic hormone for?? Is it just a way to poison people? 99% of the population drinks milk or uses it in other foods. The hormones come through the milk. They have to! I know the hormones they give to chickens come through the meat. Have you seen the changes in female bodies over the years?

Some milk companies (a lot of organic companies) have started labeling their milk as free of rBGH and guess who got mad? Monsanto. They claim that by labeling the milk that it's free of this hormone they are insinuating that something is wrong with milk made with the hormone. Well I don't really need to insinuate from the label. Knowing they are putting hormones in my milk automatically took me in the direction of organic milk any possible chance I could buy it. It's expensive and sometimes I'd have to take a risk and buy regular milk. Not anymore. I'd rather be flat broke than ingest another product from Monsanto.

America it is time we take our control back. Whoever controls the food controls the world. This company has proven time and again they are irresponsible. They contaminate and they lie. As a consumer we have a choice what goes into our bodies. The stores and agricultural companies will know what you choose by what you take across the scanner. Choose wisely. Choose healthy and whatever you do choose to not choose Monsanto!

One voice is more than one we had before. Look up products that contain GMOs. Refuse to buy them and eat them. Write to the companies and tell them why you are boycotting their product. All you have to do is set up one hour once a week to start looking into what you need to do to make our food supply safe again. What kind of future will you children have and so on if we don't stand up now for better food and better growing practices.

I know I will have more on this subject because I haven't even started on the lawsuits they file with farmers. That will be another blog entirely.