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[Sachita]

http://www.live-the-organic-life.com...lle-obama.html

Did you know that Michelle Obama is an Organic Mom?

why? doesn't she trust the bio-tech foods the government is advocating?

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Sachita

http://www.live-the-organic-life.com...lle-obama.html

Did you know that Michelle Obama is an Organic Mom?
why? doesn't she trust the bio-tech foods the government is advocating?

Yeah, well, she needs to push her husband a bit more on this issue!

[SoNotHer]

And he can do that by refusing to appoint the fox to watch the hen house. No USDA appointments for Monsanto types. ;-)

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Yeah, well, she needs to push her husband a bit more on this issue!

[Sachita]

regardless of the words or facade they project, I have never known the government to be for the people. I see some attempts to do the right thing but it all boils down to another agenda. Some play the game better then others but all in all its a game.

My son said to me the other day that if I thought I pissed people off with all my ranting about animal care and food safety. I honestly don't care the people that want to listen can listen and those who don't cant get pissed off, ignore me or anything else. I find it difficult to even be around people who are not conscious enough to care. This is the honest truth. I listen to southern small talk and the lack of respect for our animals and planet and I just want to take a machine gun and put them out of their misery. lol As I get older I become more passionate and I feel that if my ranting reaches even one person and they think before they buy or they stop shoving artificial crap down their childs throat, just one person then I have made change and that is worth it to me. We simply can not stop talking, sharing, giving and asking people to consider the big picture. Not ever.

I don't waste my time donating to BS charities and the local food coalition, which I removed myself from is all fed by government propaganda, red tape and control. If anything is going to get done when it comes to food safety then it will be grass roots and each one of us helping even one person change the way they think. You'd be surprised how much can get done. So if I can influence a dozen mothers, teach them to buy and prepare organic then those dozen mothers are supporting the local food system and taking money out of the chemicals companies because their kids dont need it. I live in an area that is not receptive to these things. Its not the major metro areas where being green is cool. Here you have to fight with the store managers to get them to carry even one organic item.

[Andrea]

My honey and I watched the Future of Food last night. Now we are questioning if there could be any foods that have not been touched by GMO. How do we know our garden seeds haven't been contaminated?

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by Andrea

My honey and I watched the Future of Food last night. Now we are questioning if there could be any foods that have not been touched by GMO. How do we know our garden seeds haven't been contaminated?

Now is the time to buy non=gmo organic seeds and learn how to save your seeds to replant. Its been done this way for 100's of years. If you live in a farming community where GMO crops are close by then you may have a problem.

I think that you will see more and more people setting up cold frames and controlled environments to protect food. I'm lucky that there are no major crops and planting close by because its hilly but its still a concern.

A woman who lives a few hours north of me discovered that the huge corn fields surrounding her little place are all GMO and heavily sprayed. She is organic. How bad does that suck? Because round up and all those chemcials run off into the water systems.

[persiphone]

Originally Posted by Sachita

Now is the time to buy non=gmo organic seeds and learn how to save your seeds to replant. Its been done this way for 100's of years. If you live in a farming community where GMO crops are close by then you may have a problem.

I think that you will see more and more people setting up cold frames and controlled environments to protect food. I'm lucky that there are no major crops and planting close by because its hilly but its still a concern.

A woman who lives a few hours north of me discovered that the huge corn fields surrounding her little place are all GMO and heavily sprayed. She is organic. How bad does that suck? Because round up and all those chemcials run off into the water systems.

bees will infect your plants by carrying gmo pollen around. since bees travel up to two miles or more there is no real way to know unless you test your stuff. this is also why there's no such thing as organic honey. and lots of gmo sites are secret, which is another huge problem.

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by persiphone

bees will infect your plants by carrying gmo pollen around. since bees travel up to two miles or more there is no real way to know unless you test your stuff. this is also why there's no such thing as organic honey. and lots of gmo sites are secret, which is another huge problem.

Hopefully new regulations will be enforced at some point. Hopefully it won't be too late.

[persiphone]

Originally Posted by Sachita

Hopefully new regulations will be enforced at some point. Hopefully it won't be too late.

well bees are a whole other source of food related contention for me, with a whole slew of OTHER issues surrounding the world's bee hive populations and the honeys extracted from those hives both politically and ethically. regulations that are currently in place are openly defied regularly by other countries (like China) who dump toxic honey in our ports illegally. this stuff ends up in our processed foods....like Honey Nut Cheerios for example. never buy honey in a plastic bear. it's pretty certain to be mystery honey of unknown origins...likely China....full of chemicals and antibiotics that aren't even legal for use in the states.

and of course bees inadvertently compound the gmo problems in agriculture by spreading gmo DNA via pollen. then there's the whole hive collapse syndrome which no one seems to agree on what THAT problem is. clearly, it's a combination of a multitude of factors....a bee parasite, monoculture, pesticides, herbicides, hive applications of antibiotics, and i suspect....gmo pollens aren't helping.

[persiphone]

Originally Posted by Andrea

My honey and I watched the Future of Food last night. Now we are questioning if there could be any foods that have not been touched by GMO. How do we know our garden seeds haven't been contaminated?

the only way to really know is to have the DNA tested. gmo products will have a marker gene that's clearly identifiable, but how does the average person do this? here's a link to a testing supply house:

http://www.biogeneticservices.com/dnagmo.htm