What are you eating today?

Hold on now! Don't eat that or drink that thing in your hand before you read this!

Recently I viewed the movie The Future of Food by Deborah Koons Garcia (presented by Lily Films).

It described how GE and GMO (Genetically Engineered and Genetically modified Organisms respectively) products are unfortunately becoming a mainstay in our breakfasts, lunches, and suppers. Corn and all corn derived products, the high fructose corn syrup in your coke, pepsi, candy, maybe even tomato sauce, ice cream, cakes, and other pre made products will likely contain these progresses of bio-science.

The problem is we generally don't know what is and what is not screwed up with GE or GMO. To genetically manipulate foods, a carrier is used, and that happens to be the ever popular bacteria. For corn, Monsanto (indisputably the worst GMO/GE company in the world, once solely a chemical company and now one of the largest seed companies in the world) has found and used a bacteria in top soil that is resistant to Round-up, now most corn has become an open experiment, its DNA mutating and then that pollen transfers to other farmer's crops and changes that corn (this bacteria is now resistant to the best antibiotics, so when we eat it guess what happens... we have allergic reactions that can be life-threatening, but because products by law do not have to be labeled GMO tainted or GMO free, people cannot blame the source of the problem, Monsanto).

Also, Monsanto believes that the crop of the other farmer's is theirs because the farmer is at fault for the contamination of their own crop. The diversification of corn is now dangerous peril of becoming now-existent and so there will be one kind of corn and if that were not enough there is corn that has been GE'ed so that it cannot be planted after it produces a crop,, a terminator gene, as it is called, is inserted and again the pollen will undoubtedly fall on other farmer's crops and then their plant will not grow the next year, so eventually everyone will have to buy seed from Monsanto, because the plant cannot reproduce and then because of cross-pollination of the terminator gene into even Monsanto's corn crop there may be no more corn, extinction).

Monsanto is now in the process of claiming a patent on most every type of produce in the world so that they can claim that a farmer in Zambia has "stolen" their product and therefore must pay Monsanto to plant something that that farmer's family has been for millennia. Wrong?! You bet!!!

Unfortunately, since the US government has allowed Monsanto and other GE/GMO corporations an unbridled regulatory system, the companies test their own products and claim them to be safe, while the FDA would usually be the one doing that (studies of rats given even small doses of GE/GMO plants get lesions in their bodies that develop into cancer of kill them outright from an allergic reaction and another study found that 40% of butterflies died from contact with GE/GMO plants, think what would happen if all the bees disappeared, end of all pollenating plants as we know it and the end of the human species as we know it). But, because the current Government is infiltrated with people who once worked for Monsanto and or their subsidiaries from those in the EPA, FDA and even those in other high roles of the administration like that of Donald Rumsfeld.

Okay, now that you're all pissed off and don't know what to do... think about what you eat, unless you want to be a walking bio-science experiment for Monsanto you might want to eat less pop/cola/etc. that contains high fructose corn syrup, as well as cakes and candies that also contain this now toxic substance. Instead try to buy locally grown, and when possible organic (nonuse of GMO GE seeds, which are also chemical free in terms of fertilizer, insecticide and herbicides).

Take a stand! This message is meant to empower you to make a choice about what you want the world to be like, and that of the generations of people that come after us. Monsanto and other companies are now also GE'ing fish and other animals so they are GMO's, too. Think about what could happen to the entire ecosystem, interbreeding could lead to extinction.

*Visit www.TheFutureofFood.com for more information on what you can do.

*Buy produce from local farmers markets, or from CSA (community supported agriculture) farmers who typically are mostly if not all organic. Plus the money you spend stays locally and is reinvested into local companies, and not sent to some CEO of Wal-mart, etc.

*Tell your legislators that GE/GMO are not okay and that you want these products labeled in the grocery stores just like they are in the European Union. Protect the farmers and not corporations.

*Don't let the GE/GMO people fool you, numerous studies by the likes of Universities such as that of Berkeley prove that these foods are less nutritional, and the crop yield on an acre of land is less then none-GE/GMO plants. So, no this technology will never feed the hungry of the world.