(Natural News) This trend could not have come at a better time: In an era when surgeons in the UK are performing a record number of diabetic ulcer-related amputations, the growth in sales of organic foods is outstripping the sales growth of allconventional foods.
As reported byThe Ecologist, the organic food market in Britain is up again for the sixth straight year and analysts expect it to exceed a record £2.2 billion in sales by the end of 2017, according to the Soil Association.
Supermarket sales of organic foods grew some four percent from January to July, the organization said. That compares to growth in sales of non-organic foods of just 1.4 percent over the same period, Nielsen analysts said.
“We’ve had six years of consecutive growth in organic products,” Finn Cottle, trade consultant to the Soil Association Certification, said.
Even more remarkable is that the growth in organic foods, which are typically more expensive, has occurred during a cycle of austerity. This stands in direct contrast to previous periods of economic slowdowns, such as the 2008-2009 period of global recession when sales of organics fell.
During that time, Cottle said that retailers removed organic foods from store shelves, adding it wasn’t clear whether a slowdown in demand led stores to drop organic products.
“We’re not seeing any of that at the moment,” she noted. “If anything, some of the discounters like Aldi and Lidl are actually seeing the need to have organic on shelf to answer to consumer choice. It’s making organic much more available to a shopper that might be on a budget.”
The boost in organic sales is the result of both consumer and retail trends focusing more on such products, said the Soil Association. The organization believes that quality and sourcing of products is more important to consumers on a budget than discounted pricing.
The Ecologist noted further:
Retail and consumer trends are changing and boosting the growth of organics, the Soil Association said. Values and sourcing are more important than discounts and low price to these shoppers, it believes.
Indeed, research published in September from grocery market research analysts England Marketing showed that more than 50 percent of shoppers are actively looking for labels that prove ethical and environmentally sound sourcing of food.
“There are two big trends which are very buoyant, both of which appeal to the organic shopper,” said Cottle. One is the rise in online shopping and the availability of a range of products that can be purchased via the Internet. The second trend is that organic foods are generally more popular with those who regularly purchase online. (Related: Organic food sales skyrocket across Australia, while GMOs lose traction.)
“They’re generally early adopters, they want to be informed about food,” said Cottle.
Organic sellers said that while their products form only a fraction — about 1.7 percent — of total food sales throughout the UK, the base is widening.
“We’re growing from a small base,” said Dan Rusga, marketing director at Yeo Vally, the UK’s biggest organic brand. “But it all starts with consumers. They are much more concerned about what they eat and where it comes from, and they want to buy food that they can trust.”
Though London drives most sales, Rusga said that the company was beginning to see a rise in sales across the more rural areas of the country as well. “Consumers are ready for it now, providing the price is competitive there’s no reason why organic shouldn’t go from strength to strength.”
Sales of organic food in the United States are similarly skyrocketing. That includes, as Natural News has reported, the sale of organic seeds which is projected to hit $5.4 billion in sales by 2024.
J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.
Two male birds copulating, symptomatic of the endocrine-toxic chemical saturation of the food chain.
Our identities are not ours to choose.
Without a doubt, being gay is a choice to made freely, but what influences our choices is our environment; what our minds and our bodies are exposed to.
The effects of chemical re-composition of the body and mind happens all the time, we either take control over it or we will be swept away by its influence.
Our identity is affected by this ever changing tide, the toxicity pulls us by the strings, it is a biologically induced inclination to a certain orientation; sexual identity is simply a chemical arrangement, a collection of traits that present a biological image, nothing more, nothing less – this arrangement can be manipulated, when it happens from the womb, we, blind to the truth of our manipulation stand by what our bodies exhibit as an image as our ‘true’ selves, even if that image is a distortion of our true biology.
‘free will’ is an illusion while we live subject to our bodies, not to logic and reasoning.
To re-emphasize the aforementioned, the true harm comes when the subliminal influence on the illusion of “free will choice” is inflicted from the environmental, propagated via top-down cultural propaganda machines and industrial corporate cabals who have a vested cultural “eugenics” (more appropriately termed ‘disgenics’) program running, based on principles of social Darwinism (what I like to call “death by diet” or quite simply survival of the fittest) and certain Marxist ideologies.
“To develop a complete mind: Study the art of science; study the science of art. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else”
– Leonardo DaVinci
DaVinci is right, everything does connect to everything else. Chemicals in the food chain mean chemicals in our body, if a far ocean is saturated with toxic chemicals, eventually it will reach our body. This principle is key to understanding how chemicals can be introduced at the source and, via the trickle-down effect, reach each and every one of us.
We return to DaVinci’s statement of interconnection. The livestock that consumes toxic , pesticide-laden GMO feed and is injected with toxic hormone-treatment solutions leaves meat saturated with these very pollutants, meat that reaches our plates, and then our bodies — we are the cattle, we just don’t know it.
Everything connects to everything else.
Mercury in the food supply.
The Effect of Canned Tuna on Future Wages If you’re worried about mercury contamination in vaccines, you should know that just half a can of tuna contains the equivalent of 100 vaccines worth of mercury (please note that vaccines are intravenously taken so have a bigger effect on the body and brain, but regular ingestion is still very dangerous).
The mercury contamination in tuna and other fish may adversely impact future earnings by impairing brain function, and leading to a loss of intelligence (IQ).
Fish Intake Associated with Brain Shrinkage
Exposure to mercury during pregnancy appears to influence fetal brain development, as detected by decreased size of a newborn’s brain.
Tuna may also contain DDT (a banned pesticide still present in our food chain), PCB pollutants, and the carcinogens benzene and putrescine. Tuna sushi may contain fecal contamination in amounts exceeding National Food Standards guidelines. A toxin in tuna has even been found to cause a form of amnesia.
ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease): Fishing for Answers
The neurotoxin BMAA is found in seafood and the brains of Alzheimer’s and ALS victims. Might dietary changes help prevent amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
Dioxins and Furans are highly toxic. Dioxin is regarded as one of the most toxic man-made chemicals ever, and furans are about a tenth as toxic.
In addition, twelve of the 209 kinds of PCBs are very similar to dioxin in structure and toxicity (about one hundredth as toxic). All three compounds (dioxins, furans and PCBs) are often referred to collectively as “dioxin.” They are scored for their dioxin-like potency, and described in terms of their “Toxic Equivalency Factor” (TEF) relative to dioxin. (The other non-dioxin-like PCBs have different toxic properties.)
Dioxin is present in Agent Orange— a highly toxic defoliant produced by Monsanto, used infamously by the US to clear forestation during the Vietnam war — and caused the evacuation of the town of Times Beach, Missouri, in 1983 and of the Love Canal site in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1978. The lasting effects of Agent Orange are severe birth defects in Vietnam across subsequent generations, even to the present day the devastating genetic defects are seen.
Dioxin has been the subject of an intensive health reassessment by EPA for more than 10 years. Industries originally pushed for the reassessment, but didn’t get the results they expected. Now they’ve spent years lobbying against the release of the study.
The US Government Corporation delayed the release of the final results, but it is widely known that the scientists have determined that dioxins and dioxin-like compounds (such as PCBs) are “known carcinogens.” They conclude that the average American may face a 1 in 1,000 risk of cancer due to these compounds, perhaps a risk as high as 1 in 100, because contamination has become so widespread in our general food supply (meat, dairy, poultry, fish, eggs and other saturated fat containing animal products.)
93% of Dioxin exposure comes from the consumption of animal products.
In addition to cancer, exposure to dioxin can also cause severe reproductive and developmental problems (at levels 100 times lower than those associated with its cancer causing effects). Not only is dioxin considered a known human carcinogen, adverse health effects may include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, endometriosis, early menopause, reduced testosterone and thyroid hormones, altered metabolism and immune responses, and skin, tooth, and nail abnormalities. Exposure during pregnancy can result in altered thyroid, brain, immune system, and reproductive organ development.
The major sources of dioxin are in our diet. Since dioxin is fat-soluble, it bio-accumulates, climbing up the food chain. A North American eating a typical North American diet will receive 93% of their dioxin exposure from meat and dairy products (23% is from milk and dairy alone; the other large sources of exposure are beef, fish, pork, poultry and eggs). And yes, that does include so-called “organic, free range, humane, grass fed, local, etc.” In fish, these toxins bio-accumulate up the food chain so that dioxin levels in fish are 100,000 times that of the surrounding environment. The best way to avoid dioxin exposure is to reduce or eliminate your consumption of meat and dairy products by adopting a vegan diet.
Since Dioxin is fat-soluble, it bio-accumulates, climbing up the food chain. A North American eating a typical North American diet According to a May 2001 study of dioxin in foods, “The category with the lowest [dioxin] level was a simulated vegan diet, with 0.09 ppt…. Blood dioxin levels in pure vegans have also been found to be very low in comparison with the general population, indicating a lower contribution of these foods to human dioxin body burden.”
In EPA’s dioxin report, they refer to dioxin as hydrophobic (water-fearing) and lipophilic (fat-loving). This means that dioxin, when it settles on water bodies, will rapidly accumulate in fish rather than remain in the water. The same goes for other wildlife. Dioxin works its way to the top of the food chain.
Men have no ways to get rid of dioxin other than letting it break down according to its chemical half-lives. Women, on the other hand, have two ways which it can exit their bodies:
It crosses the placenta… into the growing infant;
It is present in the fatty breast milk, which is also a route of exposure which doses the infant, making breast-feeding for non-vegan/vegetarian (so called “omnivorous”) mothers quite hazardous.
Chart fromEPA Dioxin ReassessmentSummary 4/94 – Vol. 1, p. 37 (Figure II-5. Background TEQ exposures for North America by pathway)[Chart fromMay 2001 studyby Arnold Schecter et. al., Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 63:1–18], Note:freshwaterfishwerefarm-raisedonadietofmeat,whichiswhytheyshowthe highestdioxinlevelsinthisstudy.
For more information on dioxin in the food supply…
WhyBPAHasn’tBeenBanned
If the synthetic estrogen BPA is linked to billions of dollars’ worth of medical problems a year, why is it still allowed in the food supply?
Cannibalistic Feed Biomagnification Feeding meat and bone meal to farm animals may increase the levels of industrial pollutants in animal products.
More peer reviewed, published clinical science research video presentations about animal foods and endocrine function:
“The consumption of animal products may cause an increase of the hormone, IGF-1, which may increase both cancer risk and progression. Animal protein in particular may boost our IGF-1 production compared to plant proteins. The recent dramatic increase of hormone-dependent cancers in Japan has been speculatively linked to the steroids present in meat. Hormone replacement therapy (including bio-identical hormones) has been shown to be associated with increased risk of heart disease, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and invasivebreast cancer.
Hormones in meat may affect a woman’s fertility; eating a single serving of meat per day may increase infertility risk by 30%. Cooked meat contains PhIP, a heterocyclic amine thatactivates estrogen receptors almost as strongly as pure estrogen. Nettle tea and lavendermay also have estrogenic effects. Early onset puberty in girls may be partly due to xenoestrogens (industrial pollutants often found in meat and fish) and the hormones found in animal protein and milk. In contrast, eating soy may be associated with starting puberty7-8 months later than girls who eat little or no soy. Mushrooms may also help prevent breast cancer by blocking estrogen production, thus decreasing the tumor’s ability to grow. All animal products contain estrogen. This may explain why, in a study of over a thousand women eating plant-based diets, vegan women had one-fifth the number of twinscompared with vegetarians and so called “omnivores.”
Steroid hormones, either naturally occurring or via synthetics (estrogen implants, animal feed, etc.), are unavoidable in food of animal origin. Trace amounts of hormones may becommon in the environment and have been found in the water supply.”
One way to decrease levels of steroid hormones in the body may be to avoid eggs, dairy, and meat. People on plant-based diets have lower levels of IGF-1, which does not seem to affect their ability to accumulate muscle mass. Those on plant-based diets also have lower levels of adiponectin, a hormone that may contribute to cellulite. Those eating more plants hold onto more DHEA, an important hormone associated with increased longevity. A study confirmed that vegetarian women have lower levels of estradiol and therefore presumably a lower breast cancer risk due to higher fiber intake, which helps the body eliminate excess estrogen. Sex-hormone-binding globulins, which remove excess hormones from our bodies, have been found at higher levels in those eating vegetarian diets. Certain plant foods high in the hormone melatonin may help with insomnia. “
Estrogen in Meat, Dairy, & Eggs: “The sex steroids FOUND NATURALLY IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS LIKELY EXCEED THE HORMONAL IMPACTS OF ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTING CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS.”
Dairy Estrogen & Male Fertility: SEX STEROID HORMONES FOUND NATURALLY IN MEAT, EGGS, AND DAIRY may help explain the link between saturated fat intake and declining sperm counts.
Anabolic Steroids in Meat
The implantation of hormones into U.S. beef cattle may have adverse human health effects.
Dioxins, endocrine disrupting pollutants, heavy metals, saturated fat, and steroids in the meat supply may be affecting sperm counts, semen quality, and the ability of men to conceive.
Survival of the Firmest: Erectile Dysfunction & Death Consumption of animal foods cause flacidity and impotency. Because penile arteries are only about half the size of the coronary arteries in the heart, erectile dysfunction can be a powerful predictor of cardiac events—such as sudden death.
A case report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly Journal of the American Dietetic Association) of a man who went on the Atkins diet, lost his ability to have an erection—and nearly lost his life.
That was just one person, though. Researchers at Harvard recently looked at one hundred thousand people and concluded that low carb diets were “associated with higher all-cause mortality, higher cardiovascular disease mortality, and higher cancer mortality.”
Erectile dysfunction is the recurrent or persistent inability to attain and/or maintain an erection in order for satisfactory sexual performance. It is present in up to 30 million men in the U.S. and approximately 100 million men worldwide. The U.S. has less than 8% of the world’s population, yet up to 30% of the impotence? We’re #1!
But hey, we’ve got red, white, and blue pills like Viagra. The problem is that the pills just cover up the symptoms of vascular disease and don’t do anything for the underlying pathology. Erectile dysfunction and our #1 killer, coronary artery disease, are just two manifestations of the same disease: inflamed, clogged, and crippled arteries, regardless of which organ it affects.
EATING CHICKEN MAY LEAD TO A SMALLER PENIS
“Those that reported on the Study for Future Families data implied that having a small penis size made boys “less masculine” (see video), but the link between masculine behavior and the types of phthalates found in chicken wasn’t established until last year. Researchers found that boys who were exposed did indeed exhibit less male-typical play (such as preferring trucks over dolls). In the video I also show the studies associated the contaminants found in chicken to increased odds of cesarean section, diminished child intelligence, male breast growth, and attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder symptoms.”
This statement holds weight, the chemical laden chicken is responsible for this.
Quick True personal story. I hope this isn’t TMI, but its very important information that can really change a lot of peoples’ lives for the better.
When I started detoxifying my body with raw foods and herbs, it was a complete and unexpected miracle. As I rid my intake of animal hormones and endocrine disrupting toxins in animal foods, and relieved the adrenal “fight or flight response” load on my sympathetic nervous system and strengthened my balance on parasympathetic “rest and digest, repair and recovery” nervous system response, correspondingly, my penis also miraculously grew much larger, fuller, thicker, healthier size, due to a number of amazing physiological factors, one being the INCREASED arterial BLOODFLOW, and higher testosterone levels. What a blessing.
The Pituitary gland is regulated by the Hypothalamus, the master gland, and the pituitary controls the GROWTH and SIZE of your body parts, such as height, breast size and penis size, and by regulating the endocrine system with the proper use of herbal fromulas andspagyrics, you can EASILY regulate the size of these organs! NO NEED FOR EXPENSIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES!
All glandular weaknesses are, of course, passed down genetically as each generation of humans continues to decline and degenerate further and further as parents with genetic weaknesses continue to conceive while genetically weakened from chronic dis-ease and cellular degeneration until eventually, generations start becoming defective, infertile, impotent, fat, sick, lazy, entitled and immoral etc.
DEGENERATE: “fall from ancestral quality” Figurative sense of “to fall off, decline.”
Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare “to be inferior to one’s ancestors, to become unlike one’s race or kind, fall from ancestral quality,” used of physical as well as moral qualities, from phrase degenere, from de + genus (genitive generis) “birth, descent” (from PIE root *gene- “give birth, beget”).
Now, I dont want to give anyone the wrong impression, but I’m sure you’ve probably heard the term “degenerate” being used to sometimes degrade homosexuals.
The only reason I bring this up is in context of a POSSIBLE correlation between endocrine disruption and degeneration of the glandular system which produces our sex hormones and any imbalance and glandular weakness can most definitely have a strong affect on sexual function and expression (ESPECIALLY FROM OUR PARENTS STATE OF HEALTH DURING CONCEPTION AND GESTATION IN THE WOMB) as shown at the beginning of the article with mercury toxicity creating homosexual Ibis birds as an example.
Please dont think i’m attempting to label homosexuals or trans people as “degenerates”, or in any way inherently wrong, immoral or any other sense that the word implies. They are not wrong or immoral for being gay. But like all of us, may have certain genetic and glandular dispositions that come into play. It would very easy for one to conflate examples such as Ellen DEGENERES whose surname De + Generare literally means “OF/FROM INFERIOR GENE, STOCK,” with DEGENERATE, and just so happens to be…. gay. This example of onomancy doesnt reflect well.
As soon as the cells are no longer bathed in their own metabolic waste with an acidic load for too long, and with proper detoxification, they will finally begin to either heal and regenerate, or die so they can be replaced by healthy cells proliferating, the same way that this applies to the macro scale in the human population, after all, we are only cells composing the body of the larger organism! This is BEAUTIFULL NEWS!! IT MEANS THAT WE ARE NOT VICTIMS OF OUR CULTURE OR OUR GENETICS! WE CONTROL OUR LIFESTYLE CHOICES AND WE CAN CHOOSE TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO CHANGE OUR LIFESTYLE! Check out Dr Robert Morse N.D.’s incredible “Detox Miracle Sourcebook: Raw Foods For Complete Cellular Regeneration” that employs HIGH ANTIOXIDANT and HIGH FIBER intake for cleansing, eliminating and rebuilding the body at a cellular level.
Over the past few years, an interesting pattern has emerged, where political supporters of genetically engineered (GE) foods are feasting on organics, while promoting unlabeled GE foods for everyone else.
Most recently, Mother Jones1 discussed how Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney – whose ties to Monsanto go back to the late 1970’s when GE crops were still in the R&D phase – reportedly makes sure his own meals are nothing but organic…
According to Peter Alexander of MSN Today:2
“On Romney Air, or Hair Force One – as Reuters’ Steve Holland like to call it – Mitt Romney has his own galley in ‘forward cabin.’ And, while I’ve never been invited up front, sources close to the campaign tell me the shelves are stocked with a wide variety of healthy fare. Kashi cereals, hummus, pita, as well as organic applesauce.
Everything’s organic, I’m told, including the ingredients to Romney’s favorite, peanut butter and honey sandwiches.”
Even more interesting, in a 2002 article3 about Romney’s wife, Ann, she credits a combination of organic foods and holistic medicine for turning her health around after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998. The profile reads in part:
“…She was 49 at the time, and the disease was progressing rapidly, she says, prompting the doctors to put her on steroids, which made her so sick she could barely get out of bed. ‘They were killing me,’ she says of the treatment. ‘You have bone loss; they are so bad for you.’
Mrs. Romney was introduced to several practitioners of holistic medicine, who persuaded her to adopt alternative therapies. She now eats organic foods and very little meat. She practices reflexology and undergoes acupuncture treatments. She credits the lifestyle with turning her health around…
‘Everyone has to find their own way,’ she says. ‘Three years ago I was really, really sick and not able to function at all. A lot of the symptoms are [now] gone…’”
Mrs. Romney isn’t the only success story in which food played a center role in beating multiple sclerosis (MS). Last year I posted an article about Dr. Terry Wahls, who reversed MS after seven years of deterioration on the best conventional treatments available, simply by changing her diet.
Wouldn’t it be a nice change of pace if our agricultural authorities, not to mention our President, could reach into their hearts and find the humanity to fight foreveryone’s right to eat wholesome food that doesn’t contain foreign DNA, built-in pesticides, and an inordinate amount of synthetic chemicals so that diseases such as MS and cancer could be curtailed before they even get a foothold?
If GE Foods are So Great, Why Won’t the Elite Eat Them?
While Obama has been a huge supporter of Big Biotech during his term, Romney is just as “tight” with Monsanto, having actually successfully guided the company out of lawsuits with Congress in the shameful aftermath of Agent Orange (a Monsanto creation, which was supposed to be harmless to everything except vegetation), and heinous chemical dumping incidents in Missouri and Alabama.4
He’s also in favor putting the “Monsanto rider” provision in the 2012 Farm Bill – a rider that would prevent a federal court from putting in place court-ordered restrictions on a GE crop, even if the approval were fraudulent or involved bribery, among other things.
Unfortunately, Mitt Romney is just one in a line of politicians who support and promote GE foods as being just as safe and “natural” as conventional foods while privately serving up nothing but organic for their own families. President Obama, as his predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, have all reportedly insisted on an organic diet.
Mother Jones writes:5
“What’s my evidence that the Clintons and Bushes ate organic? Get this, from someone who knows – Walter Scheib,6 who served as White House executive chef during the Clinton and Bush years:
From 1994 to 2005 I was the executive chef at the White House. This offered me not only the personal honor of serving two unique and interesting first families, but the professional challenge of fulfilling Hillary Clinton’s mandate of bringing contemporary American cuisine and nutritionally responsible food to the White House.
This meant that nearly all the product used was obtained from local growers and suppliers. There was a small garden on the roof of the White House where produce was grown. The ethic of the purchasing and the cooking at the White House under my direction and under the continuing direction of [current Obama White House executive chef] Cris Comerford is one of respect for the pedigree of the product and manner it is grown, gathered, raised or caught.
The Clinton and Bush families dined regularly on organic foods. Both wagyu and grass-fed beef were frequently used.”[Emphasis mine}
Scheib was again quoted in a 2009 article by Think Progress,7 stating that Laura Bush was “adamant that in ALL CASES if an organic product was available it was to be used in place of a non-organic product.” Meanwhile, the article lists a number of atrocious food policies instituted by her husband. Who knows, perhaps she was so adamant about organics because she knew the quality and safety of conventional food was rapidly going down the toilet?
Guess Who Said: “Everything That’s in a Bottle or Package is Like Poison in a Way That Most People Don’t Even Know”
The Obama White House may be even more progressive about healthful dining than previous Presidents. In a 2008 article about First Lady Michelle Obama, published in The New Yorker:8
“…One morning, during a roundtable at Ma Fischer’s, a diner in Milwaukee, Elizabeth Crawford, a recently divorced caterer with two children, brought up the subject of the eating habits of American families. ‘I really, really hope that Barack will jump on that,’ she said.
Then, having given thoughtful but boilerplate responses most of the morning, [Michelle] Obama suddenly departed from her script. It was the most animated I saw her on the campaign trail. ‘You know,’ she said, ‘in my household, over the last year we have just shifted to organic for this very reason. I mean, I saw just a moment in my nine-year-old’s life – we have a good pediatrician, who is very focused on childhood obesity, and there was a period where he was, like, ‘Mmm, she’s tipping the scale.’
So we started looking through our cabinets… You know, you’ve got fast food on Saturday, a couple days a week you don’t get home. The leftovers, good, not the third day! …So that whole notion of cooking on Sunday is out. … And the notion of trying to think about a lunch every day! …So you grab the Lunchables, right? And the fruit-juice-box thing, and we think – we think – that’s juice.
And you start reading the labels and you realize there’s high-fructose corn syrup in everything we’re eating. Every jelly, every juice. Everything that’s in a bottle or a package is like poison in a way that most people don’t even know…”
Yes, high-fructose corn syrup is one of the most atrocious ingredients in the American food supply today in terms of what it does to your health. Not only is fructose a major contributor to metabolic syndrome, diabetes and obesity, the vast majority of it is also derived from genetically engineered corn, which has its own increasingly well-documented ill health effects. Most recently, the world’s first lifetime feeding study using Monsanto GE corn found it caused massive breast tumors, kidney and liver damage, and other serious health problems.
Michelle Obama is certainly not the only one who has referred to high-fructose corn syrup as a poison. According to Dr. Robert Lustig, excess fructose does act like a toxin in your body, and Dr. Don Huber has spoken out about the two-fold toxic effects of GE crops: 1) due to the genetic alteration of the plant itself, and 2) the glyphosate sprayed on GE Roundup Ready crops.
President Obama Aware of Issue But Doing Nothing About it
Sadly, while the Obama’s are undoubtedly well aware of the health dangers of processed foods in general and genetically engineered foods specifically, their personal belief system has not filtered into the food policies that affect the rest of the population.
On the contrary, the President has spent the last four years appointing one Monsanto shill after another into key federal positions that wield near-absolute power over agricultural issues. Mrs. Obama’s efforts to promote organic foods, which included a much publicized White House organic garden, were also quickly tempered and toned down by a personal visit from The Mid America CropLife Association, an agribusiness media group, who “urged the first lady to give conventional agriculture equal time,” according to a 2009 Politico article.9
Topping it all off, the President has also completely ignored his pre-election promise to IMMEDIATELY label GE foods, should he win, “because Americans should know what they’re buying.”
Well, it’s become abundantly clear that Big Biotech and their political lackeys will not even allow us to make an informed decision on this issue by reading our own food labels. And you’d have to be supremely naïve to not question the absurd dichotomy between public policies on GE- and organic foods, and the private decisions made by those in charge and “in the know.”
Monsanto Runs and Regulates US Agriculture
In the first three years of the Obama Administration, 10 different genetically engineered crops, and even a genetically modified animal, have been approved by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), according to Food & Water Watch.10 All without a single shred of proof that these foods are actually safe for long-term consumption (or in the case of today’s children – lifetimeconsumption). Could this have anything to do with the fact that highly influential people within the USDA were previous employees of, or have other personal ties to, Monsanto?
The Secretary of Agriculture is Tom Vilsack, a strong Monsanto supporter selected by President-elect Obama in 2008.11 As governor of Iowa, Vilsack frequently traveled in Monsanto’s private jets, and was named Governor of the Year by the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
The director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture is Roger Beachy, a former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center.
The General Counsel for the USDA is Ramona Romero, who came straight from DuPont, another major biotech company with GE crop patents, where she held a number of key positions, including Corporate Counsel for complex commercial and antitrust litigation, and Corporate Counsel and Manager of Operations and Partnering.
Even the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has old ties to Monsanto via the Rose Law firm.
Getting the picture? The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other federal agencies are similarly stacked with former Monsanto employees. Likewise, when it comes to selecting which Presidential candidate might be better for organic foods and our agriculture system, both Romney and Obama’s actions speak louder than words. They do one thing privately, and “sell” another agenda to the public. Neither of them is a champion for Real Food in the US, and both of them cater and yield to the wills of multinational food and biotech companies.
Monsanto VP Now US Food Safety Czar – What’s Wrong With This Picture?
In 2009, President Obama appointed former Monsanto VP for Public Policy, Michael Taylor, as a senior adviser for the FDA, turning a deaf ear to the loud protests from consumer groups. Taylor is currently serving as the deputy commissioner for foods at the FDA – a position that includes ensuring food labels contain clear and accurate information. He also oversees strategy for food safety, and planning new food safety legislation.
To say he’s a fox guarding a hen house would be an understatement. This sentiment is shared by most people who are even remotely aware of food safety issues. At the time of Taylor’s appointment, GE expert Jeffrey Smith commented:12
“The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.”
Now, the opposition is gaining steam yet again with an online petition13 calling for Taylor’s removal.
“President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor. Taylor is the same person who was Food Safety Czar at the FDA when genetically modified organisms were allowed into the U.S. food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety or risks. This is a travesty,” the petition reads.
Passing Prop 37 is Key to Expanding Sustainable Agriculture in North America
Organic foods specifically prohibit genetically engineered ingredients along with synthetic agricultural chemicals, and eating organic is essentially the only way to ensure you’re not accidentally consuming GE foods, since the US still does not require such ingredients to be labeled.
So what’s with the double standard?
Is genetically engineered food the “cake” fit only for the paupers of the 21st century? Heck, even the staff cafeteria at Monsanto’s UK headquarters reportedly banned GE foods from the menu back in 1999.
So really, why are the elite making organic foods a priority for their own families? And why won’t they support labeling, so the rest of us can make an informed decision about the foods we eat? And why are they imposing regulations that limit the availability of organically- and/or locally-grown foods for so many communities?
It’s quite evident that we have no real champions for food safety and labeling of genetically engineered foods within the federal government. But right now we do have a great opportunity to change this situation by circumventing Monsanto’s posse entirely.
Twenty-four U.S. states have, as part of their state governance, something called the Initiative Process, where residents can bring to ballot any law they want enacted, as long as it has sufficient support. California has organized such a ballot initiative, known as Proposition 37, to get labeling for genetically engineered foods sold in their state.
Although many organic consumers and natural health activists already understand the importance of Proposition 37, it cannot be overemphasized that winning the battle over Prop 37 is perhaps the most important food fight Americans – not just Californians – have faced so far. But in order to win this fight for the right to know what’s in our food, we need your help, as the biotech industry will surely outspend us by 100 to 1, if not more, for their propaganda. Please remember, the failure or success of this ballot initiative is wholly dependent on your support and funding! There are no major industry pockets funding this endeavor. In order to have a chance against the deep pockets of Big Biotech and transnational food corporations, it needs donations from average citizens.
So please, if you have the ability, I strongly encourage you to make a donation to this cause. You can also contact EVERY person you know that lives in California and encourage them to view some of these videos and get educated on the issues so they can avoid succumbing to the propaganda, as Monsanto and company are paying tens of millions of dollars to deceive the voters in California. We need EVERY vote we can to win next month. The election is only FOUR weeks away.
It’s important to realize that getting this law passed in California would have the same overall effect as a national law, as large companies are not likely going to label their products as genetically engineered when sold in California (the 8th largest economy in the world), but not when sold in other states. Doing so would be a costly PR disaster. So please, I urge you to get involved and help in any way you can, regardless of what state you live in.
Whether you live in California or not, please donate money to this historic effort, through the Organic Consumers Fund.
If you live in California and want to get involved, please contact CARightToKnow.org. They will go through all volunteer requests to put you into a position that is suitable for you, based on your stated interests and location.
No matter where you live, please help spread the word in your personal networks, on Facebook, and Twitter. For help with the messaging, please see CARightToKnow.org.
Talk to organic producers and stores and ask them to actively support the California Ballot. It may be the only chance we have to label genetically engineered foods.
For timely updates, please join the Organic Consumers Association on Facebook, or follow them on Twitter.
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