Pesiticides in GMO Sweet Corn

polaris_x wrote:

it is almost impossible to keep monsanto out of your body ...

brianlux wrote:

Here's some Frankenstein Science for ya:

http://truefoodnow.org/2011/09/22/keep- ... ner-plate/

"Surveys over the past decade have consistently shown that Americans don’t want to eat genetically engineered (GE or GMO) food. Despite the overwhelming opposition to this risky new food technology, the biotech giant Monsanto continues to impose its unlabeled GMO’s onto our dinner plates.

The latest: Monsanto’s new GMO corn, intended for the frozen and/or canned corn market. This experimental corn will not be labeled, so consumers cannot know when they may be eating a GMO food that contains a toxic pesticide in every bite. Monsanto’s corn is a new GMO variety that has been genetically modified for three different traits, to resist two different insects and to withstand heavy spraying with Monsanto’s toxic Roundup herbicide. Because there are already varieties of other insect-resistant and Roundup-Ready varieties on the market, federal regulators are not requiring ANY approval process—which means NO public comment on its introduction into our food supply."

Not on my dinner plate!

brianlux wrote:

P.S. I meant to add to my post above that besides farmer's markets, you can also save on non-GMO food by signing up for a CSA (community sponsered agriculture- a very cool idea- if you're not familiar with it, check it out!), getting involved in a local food co-op and/or growing some of your own food. If you live in a city, consider urban agriculture- this can be anything from a neighborhood garden to a big rood-top garden to something as small and easy as doing some container garderning.

brianlux wrote:

So you're supporting the sale of GMO foods? You don't see them as problematic for human health and don't see them as environmentally unsafe?

he still stands wrote:

I certainly don't support Monsanto... I just don't see how we can "overthrow" the company like a dictatorship when the scientific proof shows they aren't shoving poison down our throats, as everyone here would like me to believe. Where's the body bags? What's the death count? Where's the proof? Show it to me and I'll be the first one in line to condemn these agriculture practices.

Shawshank wrote:

If anyone thinks that our society's overall decline in health isn't related to the food that's being produced these days and how it's being produced, they are delusional. Allergies are a great measure of how far we have declined. Hell I remember when I was in elementary if you forgot your lunch they gave you a peanut butter sandwich. Can you imagine that today? With so many people allergic to just about anything under the sun, we are headed down a very dark path. I know of a few people that are even allergic to corn, and with everything containing HFCS, I can't imagine the nightmare that must be. You really don't have to go back that far to find that even when people lived in squalor they were still healthier than many of us are today. What science has done to food is nothing short of Frankenstein's monster.

Aside from the genetic modification of plants that are otherwise, nearly perfectly suited for humans, you have the environment in which so much of the vegetation is cultivated. There's a reason why cantaloupes are contaminated with listeria, and why we have to watch out for e-coli on spinach, and salmonella in eggs. It's because of the disgusting conditions in which those foods are produced.

Can you imagine...I mean seriously just imagine...if you had farmers actually farming? Instead of just growing a 1,000 acres of corn, you had them growing 50 acres of broccoli, 50 acres of lettuce, 50 acres of cabbage, 50 acres of greens, 50 acres of cucumber, 50 acres of tomatoes, 50 acres of beans, etc. etc. and whatever else they can grow within their region and season? You could do all that and still have 400 acres to grow corn, and then another 100 acres for raising pastured poultry for fresh eggs and meat, pastured pork and allowing cattle to eat....gasp....GRASS?!?!? Unfortunately our society is spoiled with things like buying tomatoes in January, and we like to buy all of our food on demand which means we have to also import.

My family and I have made a point to produce as much of our own food as humanly possible. I haven't even bought bread in over a year, we simply buy large bags of non-bromated flour and make anything and everything we want. We grow alot of our own fruits and vegetables, and extras we either give away, sell or preserve. We've been raising our own chickens for eggs and meat, and even started raising our own turkeys. So instead of them living a life in a concentration camp environment, they get to run around, nibble on grass, catch bugs, enjoy the fresh air and sunshine if they want to and just be chickens. It's just an amazing thing. We're even getting into raising our own fish...primarily Tilapia and Catfish, and we are employing Aquaponics. I ran an experimental system over the spring and it was phenomenal. The fish waste, provides nutrients to the plants, the grow beds for the plants filter the water, and the water returns back to the fish crystal clear. You haven't seen plant growth until you've seen it done in a system like that, it's really hard to believe. Anyway, sorry to rant, but once you get on that wave, it's hard to get off. NOTHING you buy at the store will ever taste as good as what you grow in your backyard.