Posted on 04/18/2015 5:14:36 AM PDT by HomerBohn
We have a bought and paid for government and the citizens of this country are prey for that government period!
This is Luddite
In addition, many companies buy from “organic” growers around the world, who simply wash the purchase or fake organic seed labels and sell it to us.
Happens especially to honey and most any other farm product that can carry the organic label. The higher cost is an invitation to food fraud.
Buy locally or ignore the labels.
Let the market decide. Organic demand is usually overstated.
Meanwhile, US corn is used to poison our bodies with high fructose corn syrup and our cars with ethanol.
The demand is often for whole foods and pure foods and trustworthy sources. "Organic" often covers all of those categories.
Personally, I don't insist on organic. But I do insist that there are no ingredients that don't belong, its source of growing and manufacture is as local as possible, identifiable and trustworthy and that it's not overprocessed.
> I deliberately avoid organic foods for a number of reasons...one being political/philosophical, another being economic.
That’s fine for you; and I used to share that opinion.
I thought I was allergic to tomatoes. if I ate tomatoes or tomato products I would be sick for a couple of days. I went about 5 or 6 years and did not eat a single tomato product not even catsup, because I thought I had a food allergy, then I read an article about how tomatoes had been engineered to resist something called white fly larva. I then skeptically sought out a source of non-GMO tomatoes and tried the experiment by eating some. Tomatoes are now back in my diet, as long as they are non-GMO. You have no idea how much I missed catsup.
If they engineered tomatoes to kill white fly larva, didn’t they consider that it might also be toxic to some humans?
I don’t go out of my way to eat organic, but I do seek out non-GMO now.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just getting older, but it seems like fruit and vegetables don’t have the flavor they used to have. Some have really thick peels, which aren’t easy to digest. Not sure if it has anything to do with the genetic engineering. Maybe it’s because of the storage. I’ve wondered if GM food is a contributing factor to nutritional deficiencies that we’re starting to see. You can’t trust the “data” anymore.
I wouldn't trust a Chinese food label even if it just said "ingredients: chicken".
And US consumers can be assured that the “organic” products from places like Turkey, Romania and India are truly organic because it is stamped right there on the manifest.
Organic in China means the stoop laborer pee’d on it instead of the musk ox.
Exactly!
If anyone wants REAL organic, they grow their own. Its too easy to game the system and especially the FDA/USDA with what ain’t really “organic”.
So now the rage is believing Romania, Argentina and Turkey claims??
As Granddad used to say “a fool and their money are soon parted”.
“If they engineered tomatoes to kill white fly larva, didnt they consider that it might also be toxic to some humans?”
Soon, perhaps, if truth in labeling laws are enacted so that our food isn’t like some kind of Mexican piñata, where we don’t know what is inside of it, we may see some very interesting labels:
“This vegetable has been engineered to kill: White Fly Larvae, Black Fly Larvae (don’t want to be racist!), Grubs, Boll Weevils, Squash Bugs, Stink Bugs, Mexican Bean Beetles, Japanese Beetles, Thrips, Flea Beetles, Blister Beetles, Tomato Horned Worms, Gypsy Moths, Etc. But we assure you that this engineered ‘vegetable’ is absolutely safe for humans and even though it kills everything else, there are no long term or short term side effects to consuming this product.”
That's undeniably true.
Economic pressure is a dangerous force to ignore.
GMO isn't feeding more people, food, It's feeding Monsanto money.
Watch the film “GMO OMG”. Our family is almost totally Non GMO today.
American consumers are guinea pigs for Monsanto, which produces both the weed killer Round Up and the soy and corn seeds that can tolerate being sprayed with Round Up.
Think about everything in your diet that contains corn or soy. The European Union has a label law, requiring any foods with GMO contents to be displayed on the packaging. Of course Europeans overwhelmingly choose not to purchase the GMO foods. They have even banned Monsanto’s Round Up as studies have determined it has harming the bee population.
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