Your Freedom to Choose Safe Food As Risk

The one time chemical company, now Agricultural company, Monsanto, is behind a Bill that would require all farmers and home gardeners to use specific fertilizers and insect sprays. This could mean an inspector coming out to your home to inspect your garden!  Currently, 60-75% of the food consumed by US citizens is genetically modified and this has all happened just in the last 10 years. Monsanto is the King of Genetically engineered foods and apparently, the wife of a Monsanto board board member, is the one pushing this Bill through. Before getting into the food business, Monsanto was the company that brought us Agent Orange, DDT, Aspartame, Bovine Growth Hormone, and many others.  

Monsanto’s #1 selling product is Roundup, the chemical weed killer. And the way these GM food companies are so quickly gaining control of our nations food, is by engineering seeds that produce plants that are Roundup resistant.  This allows farmers to crop spray without worry.  Another catch is that they have engineered their seeds to terminate themselves after one season. This means every year farmers have to go back to the seed company as opposed to using the seeds naturally produced from the previous season.  

I could drop fact after fact, like the precancerous cells that have developed in animals in clinical studies that were fed GM foods, as well as numerous unethical business practices done by Monsanto and other GMO companies.  The UK got hip to the GM reality and has banned all GM foods.  We need to follow suit. In a ABC poll, 93% of Americans wanted all GM foods to be labeled. In 1992 George Bush Sr. mandated that all GM foods were as safe as organic food, and accepted safety studies done by the GMO companies themselves! 

What’s not helping is Obama appointing Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto executive, whose career literally fits the definition of the revolving door between government, lobbying, and corporate interests.  And irradiation proponent Michael Osterholm (irradiation is the practice of nuking diseased/contaminated food at the end of the line instead of finding the cause of the diseased food), are slotted to hold top “food safety” spots on the new Administration. 
 
I hope you have already received this email several times now (as I have) and have made several calls to your local congressperson. 

If not, it’s time to.

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