Most Americans agree we have a right to know what’s in our food, and a right to choose safe, healthy food for our families and ourselves. And yet 80% of the packaged foods in America contain Genetically Engineered ingredients that have not been proven safe, and are not labeled!
See if you agree with this Mom about food labeling:
Another short blurb that gets the point across well:
Do we deserve to know what’s in our food?
- Tell the FDA what you think with the simple form at that link – it took me 30
seconds to fill out! - Learn more about GMOs
- Get Jeffrey Smith’s book, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating
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FYI: The link labeled “Tell the FDA what you think” does not work.
Thanks for telling me…
OK, I just checked and it worked for me, can you try again?
Kelly
Shared! This is such an important issue that so many Americans are not even aware of.
Of course we have the right to know what we are eating, but our govt doesn’t think so. When the FDA is infiltrated with Monsanto people, what makes you think they will listen to us?
I have a quick question not related to this topic. Do you get comments from company representatives in your comments section? Yesterday I received a comment from a dupont/teflon representative about my post on cookware. I was linking to your post for the giveaway. Anyhow if you do get them, do you delete them? Thanks and I love your blog!
Oh yes, I’ll get those now and then. If they’re outright spammy I delete right away. If they seem to be legit and want to have a conversation, sometimes I’ll leave them.
I’d love to know what they said to you???
Kelly
YES WE DO. And I’m sorry for yelling, but the scary part is that the reason we don’t know is because big agriculture lobbyists fight HARD against labeling laws. You just have to follow the money, and it’s making us so unhealthy
I definitely think we deserve to know what is in our food!! It is OUR families that we are feeding, and I dont want to feed them something, when I dont know what is in it. Its really scary to realize that we dont actually know most of the time!
The problem is that it’s often the seed the plant is grown from that is GMO. Sellers aren’t telling gardeners that the seeds are GMO. We have all these homegrown foods that are GMO now and the people eating them have no idea. It just seems like that unless a grower is buying heirloom seeds it’s inevitable that whatever plant you grow is GMO. So frustrating. After all, wheat is GMO. We know that for sure since 99% of what is grown out there is from these GMO seeds. Grrrr.
Jana, I was surprised by your comment about wheat being GMO, so I googled it. Wheat isn’t GMO, at least not yet.
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/grocery_shopping/crops/22.genetically_modified_wheat.html
Look up Wheat Belly. Back in 1973 they came up with a new wheat strain that would survive and grow anywhere. But it can only grow with human intervention. The wheat produced today is half the height and twice the yield before then. That is definitely GMO. It’s roundup ready which is also GMO. This was all in an effort to end world hunger.
The wheat one is confusing to me…I like Ruth have read that wheat is not GMO but then I hear people say it is. I haven’t worried about my wheat (I grind my own) but maybe I should?
The company where I buy my heirloom non-GMO seeds reported in their catalog that none of their corn has tested positive for GMO; however, they stated it’s getting more and more difficult to keep them from cross-pollinating. UGH that’s just wrong!
Well, maybe what they’ve done to the current wheat isn’t considered GMO. But it’s GI is higher than it was 50 years ago, the plant cannot grow without human intervention, it’s half the height it used to be, it produces more, we have more health problems. I wish they sold heirloom wheat at reasonable prices cause I would buy it.
Here is a good video on the history of the new wheat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSDkJEF9aBY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Jana