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In a recent article on genetically Modified Foods they stated that given the choice, animals would not eat the genetically modified feed.  So, I decided to try a little experiment.

My neighbor feeds the ducks feed corn. I happened to have a bag of corn in the freezer that I didn’t serve last Thanksgiving. My dad likes corn, but I made him live without it. And we won’t eat it. It just doesn’t taste good anymore. Now I think I understand why.

So, I took a handful of corn out and let it thaw.

How do I know the corn was genetically modified? Over 90% of the corn and corn products in the US are from genetically modified crops. This was a store brand, so the odds are pretty good that this was GMO corn, wouldn’t you say?

The ducks wouldn’t touch it.

Now the other question that brings to mind is if the animals know the difference, and apparently me and my daughter can taste the difference, why can’t anybody else taste the difference?

I found that the more time I spent away from fake and fast foods, the more I can taste the difference when I do have them. The last time I had the most popular tomato soup, I was horrified. It tasted like someone dumped a sugar bowl in it.

I even noticed that a bag of sugar tasted different. Sure enough – it used to be pure cane sugar. Now its from GMO sugar beets.

My sister tells me that she is experiencing the same thing. She’s been working her way to eating healthier for the last couple of years now. She agrees that when she has something that she hasn’t had in a while that she can taste the chemicals and corn syrup.

My neighbor tells me that on the rare occasion that she has soemthing packaged, that its so salty she can’t stand it. She can’t even drink a can of pop anymore. Neither can I.

It’s like your tastebuds return from the dead.

So login and find something really good to eat and wake those tastebuds up!

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• GMO Crop Takes Over Thousands of Acres in Germany (treehugger.com)
• First Superbugs, Now Superweeds (science.slashdot.org)

Some people have been looking for the Veggie Pet Post. I don’t know why it wouldn’t come up in the search, but it does now – just in case you want to show your friends your new pet

Will veggie pets be the new rage?

Seriously, what is this?

You know who is doing experiments binding animal protein to plants. You will be eating this someday.

But for now – login and eat some good real food!

If Haiti can see a wolf in sheeps clothing, why can’t the U.S.?

Monsanto has pounced on the people of Haiti, attempting to spin a web of positive PR by donating 60,000 seed sacks to the impoverished and earthquake-devastated nation.

Fortunately, unlike in the United States where GM seeds are accepted with open arms, the Haitian people have spotted the wolf in sheep’s clothing that Monsanto really is.

Haitian Farmers Pledge to Burn Monsanto’s Seeds

Writing in the Huffington Post, Beverly Bell reported that Haitian peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called Monsanto’s “gift” of seeds “a new earthquake” and has committed to burning them.

Read - Monsanto’s Deadly Gift for Earthquake-Stricken Haiti…

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• Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto’s Seeds and Instead Commit to Burning Them (alternet.org)
• Haitian Farmers Say No To Toxic Monsanto Seeds, Standing Up For Food Sovereignty (crooksandliars.com)
• Haitian Farmers Pledge to Burn Monsanto Seeds in Protest (friendseat.com)

There is a push by the US government to make Labeling GMO foods illegal – WORLDWIDE. If this passes, even the countries that have so far fended off GMOs will be powerless. Monsanto will continue to gain control over all food – period.

How do you feel about that?

If your voice has not been heard on the subject – WHY NOT?

Click this link for more information – and to take action – http://www.seedsofdeception.com/GMFree/TakeAction/CodexConference/index.cfm

Read the whole letter.

Your health, and your kid’s health depend on you taking a stand.

You must care some, or you wouldn’t be reading healthy eating sites. Take action now before your right to have healthy food is gone forever.

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• Monsanto Takes Fight To Control Your Food To Supreme Court (treehugger.com)

The Government Doesn’t Want You To Know -

Action Alert – Protect Your Right to Know Which Foods Contain GMOs

Please send this URGENT message to U.S. Government leaders to protect your right to know which foods are made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Click and send an email today to the Secretaries of State (Clinton), Agriculture (Vilsack), and Health and Human Services (Sebelius). Please try to do this before Wednesday, May 5^th, but don’t stop until they come around.

They must stop U.S. negotiators at an international (Codex) conference from May 3-7, from pushing an agenda that could make it difficult for anyone, anywhere in the world to label foods as genetically modified (GM) – or even make non-GMO claims on their product’s label.

The U.S. is taking the ridiculous and unscientific position that GMOs are not different from conventional foods, claiming labels that say GMO or non-GMO are misleading.

If they succeed at the meeting, the U.S. may then file lawsuits through the World Trade Organization against any country that implements mandatory labeling of GMOs, or even allows non-GMO claims on packages.

This Is a Grave Threat to the Non-GMO Tipping Point – We Must Push Back Now!

The growing evidence and concern about health dangers of GMOs is making waves. A renowned US Medical organization (American Academy of Environmental Medicine) called on doctors to prescribe non-GMO diets for all patients. Consumers are seeking non-GMO brands, and the fastest growing claim among store brands in 2009 was “GMO-Free” (Neilson Survey). The trade journal Supermarket News predicts GMO concerns will erupt this year, specifically because consumers are now given choices by the new Non-GMO Shopping Guide website and the Non-GMO Project’s third-party verified standard for making non-GMO claims.

Most Americans (53%) say they would avoid GMOs if they were labeled. But even 5% would likely be enough to create a tipping point of consumer rejection, forcing all GM ingredients out of our food supply.

We can see the tipping point just over the horizon, but it is now threatened by the US position at Codex.

Tell our government leaders that you will not stand for this outrageous obstruction of our democracy and human rights. Demand that the U.S. support the right for countries everywhere to label GMOs. And remind them that 9 out of 10 Americans want mandatory GMO labeling, and that President Obama actually made a campaign pledge to implement it—which are all waiting for.

Send an email today >

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The first time I heard about it was when I was in high school in the 70s. Yeah, I’m old… A teacher was talking to a few of us about the research that was being done trying to farm oceans. It wasn’t part of the curriculum, but a few of us were into the seaweed craze, so she thought we would be interested.

I was confounded. Why would you want to grow food in the ocean?

She explained that as we needed more and more land for housing, less land was available for food. It would come to a point where we cannot feed the world population.

I’m guessing the farming the oceans thing didn’t pan out too well. But there was another solution – lab created foods.

The only problem was – no one would eat them. Not back then anyway. These fake foods had a chemical taste. Because they were cheap and easy to prepare, a lot of lower income households loved them. These foods were soon associated with lower class.

Then, slick marketing agencies went to work bombarding us with the message that these foods were cool. Slowly but surely, they caught on.

It’s not that these foods are any easier to prepare, because in a lot of cases they’re not much faster than real cooking. But now you don’t have to cut up anything, or think much.

And that would be fine, except for one minor detail. Our bodies are not designed to eat chemicals. These fake foods have practically zero nutrition.

The aftermath has been a skyrocketing increase in chronic and fatal diseases, and exorbitant increases in the cost of health care. 62% of bankruptcies in 2009 were because of medical bills.

I could see why these mindless foods would be attractive, if they tasted good. But they don’t.

It’s still lower class food. I’d say its even worse now as they try to make the foods cheaper to produce so they can squeeze out every cent of profit.

But at this point in our history, many people never grew up with real food. People have adapted their tastes and think this is good food.

Those of us who know better are a dying breed.

Even when I’m on my deathbed, you will never get canned ham or jarred spaghetti sauce at my house. I swear it!

If you are one of the remaining rebels, login and find a new recipe to try.

America’s supermarket bounty is deceiving. Of those hundreds of brands on grocery store shelves, the vast majority are owned by a handful of industrial food companies like Kraft, Conagra and General Mills.

This concentration of power in the hands of a few large corporations is repeated in all sectors of the food system — from Monsanto’s stranglehold on seeds, to Dean Foods and Dairy Farmers of America’s control over our milk, to Smithfield, JBS and Cargill’s near total dominance of meat processing. But there was nothing inevitable about this kind of corporate control of our food. Decades of deregulation and governmental inattention to industrial consolidation brought us our broken food system, one that features non-stop food safety recalls, an obesity epidemic and the hollowing out of rural America as family farmers are forced to sell out to corporate interests.

It’s time to stop letting Big Food control what we eat. Urge the Obama administration to fix our broken food system.

Fortunately, the Obama administration has taken the first step towards addressing this crisis. The Departments of Justice and Agriculture recently convened a set of “workshops” to discuss potential antitrust practices by the agribusiness giants who control of the food industry. Family farmers were finally able to air some of their grievances against the abusive practices by large food corporations. Though only a baby step, these workshops represent one of the first admissions from the US government that its past policies have weakened, rather than strengthened, our food system.

We can’t let this initiative lose steam. As consumers, we have a vested interest in the future of our food system. Tell Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that that it’s time to break up America’s corporate food monopolies before they do more harm.

Please join CREDO and our friends at Food Democracy Now in signing the letter thanking Holder and Vilsack for the workshops and demanding they follow up with real action on antitrust enforcement. The era of Big Food must come to an end.

Thank you for working to break up the food monopoly.

Adam Klaus, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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Of course, the best way to get your message heard is to not buy their stuff. Login and pick some real food for dinner tonight.