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Related: About this forumFrench scientists report after long term feeding trials of Roundup Ready corn on rats.
Monsanto's own feeding trials never lasted more than 3 months. The French scientists report that the health problems in their lab rats did not start to appear until after 4 months. The FDA relies on Monsanto to "self regulate" and conduct all safety testing on their GMO products. The FDA does no independent testing on GMO seeds and crops but allows Monsanto to develop its own testing protocols and simply takes Monsanto's word for whatever results are reported.
djean111
(14,255 posts)And I do not buy corn, and I do not buy much in the way of processed food.
Nothing with high fructose corn syrup, and avoid soy when possible.
Don't buy much in the way of canned goods, because of the nassty can lining.
This is not a result of brainwashing. This is a result of paying attention. And knowing some bad things cannot be undone.
I think everyone who is okay with feeding themselves and their children this stuff - when they have a choice - should certainly be able to.
I just want to choose organic when I can. Not a lot to ask, really.
Bet those rats got their great and equal nutrition, you know, along with their tumors.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)are genetically modified. They end up in almost all processed foods.
arikara
(5,562 posts)This all is why we avoid processed foods as much as possible. Its not that hard actually, just shop the outside of the grocery store. I found some cheesies made with organic corn and oils at our local drugstore though and have really been enjoying them.
RC
(25,592 posts)What will it take for Monsanto to be brought down for genocide for profit?
valerief
(53,235 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Defying centuries of evolution to get along with the sellers of polluted, adulterated food for profit, is something we end up paying the price for doing within our own flesh, not them. All we ask is to be given the chance to choose.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)SunSeeker
(51,724 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)Obviously they have no qualms about inflicting harm on the general population, but surely the plutocrats don't think they and their loved ones are immune? Or is there a secret field somewhere growing non-GMO, non-Roundup Ready corn and soy exclusively for American billionaires?
Hydra
(14,459 posts)But you're quite right too- the top dogs probably eat exclusively organic. I would if I could afford it...but I've been seeing over the years how the tainted pollen is drifting everywhere, infecting the non-gmo stuff.
It's kinda like the Deepwater Horizon disaster or fracking- a lot of these "Masters of the Universe" seem to have this greed twitch that destroys whole areas of the globe...and later they're like, "Oh, well I guess we should have thought about when we'd need that down the line..."
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)I am Military Spouse in a one Income family in Northern VA, believe me we have no money lol
but I am also an avid couponer. I can knock $50-$100 off my Grocery bill when I put a little effort into
and $20- $30 when I am not trying that hard.
Even Wholefoods can be really cheap if you work the system. Wholefoods will let you use a Manufacters coupon and an instore coupon for the same item. and if that items happens to also be on sell. Well there's a 3 way savings!
Safeway and Gaint Coupon Double up to 99 cents, and they also have lots of instore sells and instore coupons, that can be used with Manufacture coupons
The Organic Companies I like are
Nature's Path
Cascadian Farm
and Open Nature (safeway brand)
I also look on Ebay for Organic Coupons
You can eat healthy eliminate Monsanto Foods and save a ton of money
I do it everyweek
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)Check with grain elevator operators in areas where GMO corn is grown. Grain elevators have rats. Thousands of rats. The workers there will know if they have sick rats.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)They hide everywhere but you never really see them. Once in awhile you scare one or 2 or 5 out but mostly you just see their holes. And large grain elevators use rat poisons and develop rat poison immune rats too (but not many of them - yet). No, working around grain elevators wont give you any idea if the rats eating the grain are healthy or not.
It's interesting how they had to sneak the GMO product out of Monsanto in order to get the crap to test.
And it's just the GMO that is very dangerous. Not the pesticides and GMO.
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)you will smell the dead rats.
If the rats realize something they are eating is making them ill, they will mark it to warn others to leave it alone. That could be another "tell"--the rats are not eating the GMO grain unless there is nothing else to eat.
pscot
(21,024 posts)editor5
(67 posts)the stuff they use to fatten up animals on the farm
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)proReality
(1,628 posts)after they've killed off all the consumers.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)1 Loss of sales. Given an opportunity to make a free choice, how many will volunteer to be Monsanto's unpaid guinea pig?
2 Better chance of linking increases in human health problems to those who consume GMOs as opposed to those who don't.
hourglass1
(175 posts)from agent orange to suicide seeds to franken-foods - follow the profits ...
http://occupy-monsanto.com/
JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)From the video info at Youtube:
There's nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it -- it's strategic. It's more powerful than bombs. It's more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world. The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the "revolving door". One example is Michael Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to Monsanto, becoming the company's vice president for public policy.
Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market. Monsanto's long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence.
IronicNews
(129 posts)The cutting up of the rat was hard to witness.