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Corporate America Takes Notice as Facebook Protesters Rise Up Against GMOs
In this new era of food convenience, one needs to stop and wonder; what exactly is a GMO? This is a question that deep pocket corporations are consistently trying to avoid. Genetically modified food has taken over the shelves in grocery stores. But that’s only a bit of the issue. The issue is these corporations are standing to secrecy on what is in the product they sell.
Claiming that not labeling ingredients of products is for the greater good of the consumer and we shouldn’t worry. It’s a bit hard to believe any corporation cares more about the safety of the consumer. The General Mills Facebook page has recently demonstrated the lengths they’ll go to keep those ingredients to themselves.
After the discovery of an over $1 million donation to the “No on 37″ prop in California, the GMO Inside Campaign has encouraged Facebook users to visit the Cheerios page and speak their thoughts.
Being the wholesome product that claims to “nourish everyone by making lives healthier, easier and richer” why would they devote so much funding into something that would simply allow the ingredients to be viewed by the consumer via the Nutrition Facts Label?
That was the same question of many Americans. So many Americans that Cheerios stopped updating their Facebook status (which they strive to do every two days) for more than a week after all the unanswered questions came pouring in. Visiting the site now will still show you some of the posts that are/were being placed (most are being removed. Especially the photos of that could be made using Cheerios’ trademark font) . Consumers simply want to know what it is they’re putting into their body.
General Mills and other large corporations (with no surprise Monsanto being the largest contributor) have dispensed astronomical amounts of funding into leaving off the ingredient labels claiming it’s a scheme; a scheme that will only cost the consumer more money on their grocery bills.
“No on 37″ claims that more than 400 studies have shown that GMO’s can safely be consumed. At what extent we don’t know. It seems we should just have trust in our American corporations. Cheerios has shown that by… not responding to Facebook questions.
And it what it all comes down to is that we simply want to know what it is we’re consuming. I try as much as possible to shop locally and avoid the products that come in by freight. And I think we all know it’s a bit harder on our wallet to shop at this level. But the freedom and ease that comes to mind as I consume these products is well worth the extra few dollars spent.
Targeting the poor farmers of our nation, the Schwarzenegger like Terminator Seed has been introduced to our agriculture by the government. This seed is engineered to only flower once, forcing the farmer to purchase new seed year after year. It won’t germinate. It simply grows once and the strain is then coded to die. What does make sense is the hidden answer as to what it is they’re putting in the seed to alter the ordinary path of a seed in nature. The hidden answer is the treasure. We are on a need-to-know basis, and agribusiness is telling us we don’t need to know.
So maybe Cheerios is right? Perhaps we should be good little underlings and not question our superior. After all, most of our food is coming from the Terminator Seed and I’m certain that the Terminator Seed was developed by a large Austrian robot from the future that has seen the apocalypse.
That makes as much sense as we should trust the corporate America’s request that we not question GMO’s because they say they are safe.
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18 Responses to Corporate America Takes Notice as Facebook Protesters Rise Up Against GMOs
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Rho
Dec. 12th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I certainly would like to know what’s in our food that is making everyone get heavier… and I know the corn is making my husband crazy, but I’d like to know why.
Since we have done our best to eliminate the corn from our diets, we’ve lost weight and he’s much calmer. Studies have often shown that immigrants from nations where GMOs have been banned have gained weight and often felt ill after eating our poisoned bounty. Is there a connexion? Most likely.
Interestingly, my local House Rep runs a chain of funeral homes in the Bay County area. I guess poisoning your constituents must be good for business.
Reynardine
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 9:53 am
I can enlighten you somewhat.
A month or so back, I received a catalog for livestock supplies. There were adds for feed additives that MAKE YOUR ANIMALS GAIN TEN POUNDS A DAY! DO NOT HAVE TO BE WITHDRAWN BEFORE SLAUGHTER! You can bet feedlots would rather use this stuff for “finishing” than going through the tedious and expensive process of grain finishing. So our weight problems are not just grain. They are also when it isn’t grain.
Reynardine
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
You can go to a Spanish grocery and get a couple of very interesting heirloom corns. Cancha de la Montaña has very large kernels and is used as a kind of popcorn. There is also a purple corn from Peru, whose name I forget, but it’s cooked with fruit cocktail. Either one, when planted in rich soil (necessarily in containers in Florida) and well looked after, will give you plants twelve feet or more (stake or prop them). They are long-season plants, and because they tassel long before silking, need to be planted in shifts. You might consider certain heirloom strains from Shumway Seeds as well- things like Howling Mob and Country Gentleman. None of these are genetically tinkered with in any way.
Churchlady
Dec. 12th, 2012 at 9:48 pm
It does not require GMOs to monkey with the strains of any agricultural product and make you sick. Standard hybridization can do that, too. Most GMOs are NOT in human food or even animal feed – YET. But super colossal hybrids ARE. “Wheat belly” – I suffer from it – is not because of GMOs but because of hybrids that I cannot tolerate.
Like fracking, immunization, anything impacting our world – we need to understand ALL of it, not just a part of it. Hard? You bet. But if we throw the baby out with the bathwater we do harm to our natural world, too. I want to know – I have a RIGHT to know – what I am eating. But I also have a right to know what I am NOT eating, and the assertion some pro-Prop. 37 people made that everything is polluted with GMOs is just not accurate. If we cannot be any more nuanced and careful than are the Baggers, we undermine our own progress. So yeah, GM – what’s in our food??? And yeah, hyped up zealots – what’s in our food for SURE? I want to make an informed choice, not an emotional one. Thanks.
Reynardine
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Normal hybridization has been part of agricultural and horticultural practice for millenia, sometimes even without knowing human interference. The rutabaga, for example, was apparently a naturally-occuring hybrid between the turnip (Brassica rapa) and the cabbage (Brassica oleracea), probably a collard-like form. Bramble fruits (Rubus) cross-pollinate at the rub of a bee’s foot, so that sorting them into species was tough even when Liberty Hyde Bailey first worked on it. Common wheat has been a hybrid since first we baked and brewed…and yes, there are people who can’t tolerate it (but they can often enjoy products from an old diploid wheat called spelt). If something can hybridize naturally, it is probably no less edible than its less edible forebear. GMO poses the danger of introducing chemical components that were never meant to be in that lineage of organisms. Though combining cherry and peach DNA (both Prunus) should not be dangerous, putting in hornworm DNA is another matter.
For people looking for a grain source, I recommend one of the classic strains of sorghum. It takes a lot of nutrient, but if you intercrop it with a legume, this will not be excessive. Otherwise, as long as your zone is 6 or milder, it is prolific and untemperamental. Threshing it is a pain, but that’s true of most grains; the grain grinds into a low-gluten flour eminently suitable for pancakes and syrup, and some kinds, you can even run the green cane through a juice extractor and get your own syrup (boiling down the juice is required)
Reynardine
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Read, “Pancakes and biscuits”. As flu has left my diet wanting, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Mondbar
Dec. 15th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
@Churchlady: Hard to tell for sure, but perhaps you’re saying that it would be wise to have faith in Monsanto, because they know what is best for the world?
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 12th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
There are several things I am worried about. 2 strains of monsanto product have already been beaten by bugs that are now resistant to the plants modified defenses. They will keep coding these products as mother nature beats them until there will be nothing left in the food to eat.
Secondly the terminator seed. And the fact that people are sued if the GMO seeds pollinate on their land. Unbeleivable yes, but our courts allow it. The garden seed stocks are being bought up and will be tightly controlled in the future, forcing you to buy the GMO and seed company sources.
Last, our ridiculous excuse for a congress will not push for labeling of the foods we eat. Indication #10,984 that they do not represent us in any way shape or form
Cha
Dec. 12th, 2012 at 10:47 pm
Good for Facebook and Social Media of all kinds while I’m at it!
I was in the natural foods business for 30 years and worked in stores with a SLASH through GMO. And, I don’t buy processed food or shop in mainstream markets so I won’t be getting any of their crap food but I think it’s very Important that People are able to have a choice of whether they want it or not.. as in LABELING.
Really sorry to see the Prop go Down in California but on the Plus side.. Kaiser Permanente has informed their members that they don’t recommend gmo. In fact, just the opposite..Organic when they can get it..and, now this Good News from FB.
Thanks Zachary Myers~
Christopher
Dec. 12th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
I think I’m missing something here. I’m all for knowing what I ingest, but we do have the FDA to make sure unsafe products don’t hit the market, right?
Christopher
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
If you are going to present what sounds more like a conspiracy theory than anything else, at least have the courtesy to back it up with a citation or something. The FDA exists to protect our safety and if what you say is true that would be a scandal, but I need evidence rather than assertions.
Kim
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 12:14 am
I read a post where the CEO of Monsanto only eats organic food. The workers at Monsanto were told to not eat GMO’s because they are not safe to eat. If the CEO of Monsanto won’t eat his own food, that tells your something right there and it isn’t good.
WE can thank (yeah…right) Reagan for allowing Monsanto to poison our food. Reagan HATED any kind of regulation. He gave Monsanto the green light to alter our food in unnatural ways and no one needed to know about it.
High-fructose corn syrup has been making people fat and sick even when normal corn is used. High-fructose corn syrup is NOT a natural product.
Alex
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Bees pollinate or crops and if you grow certified organic crops you do not want like GMO crops anywhere near your farm. The bees pollinate the GMO crops and will cross pollinate your crops and thereby making them no longer certified organic. Your crops will forever be GMO. That is why certified organic farmers are able to sue and win against GMO grown crop owners.
Reynardine
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
In fact, there was a most curious lawsuit in Canada on the subject. A farmer whose rapeseed was raped by Monsanto’s patented canola was found technically guilty of patent infringement, but since he made no money (he lost it), they had to pay him: to wit, about 600 loonies to root the upstarts out. Terminator strains are a worse threat: such genetic material getting into the general food chain could start a global famine.
Reynardine
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Plant GMO Cheerios and you’ll grow GMO bagels. We can’t have that.
Mark Bousquet
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
We need a new Food and Drug Act before people start getting sick from this poison in our food.
Wolfgang
Dec. 13th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
In Europe we have labels on all food detailing ALl the ingredients, it is illegal not to. That way we can decide whether we want to buy the food or not. There is a Kraft factory not twenty miles away from here, happily labelling food – they haven’t gone out of business.
Do you not have that in the US?
We also mostly do not have GM food, in fact test fields of GM crips have been ripped out by protestors here in England.
Angela
Dec. 15th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
I am a horticulture major. Some simple researching will identify the controversies with detail. I am anti GMO. Those that believe the government will protect us need to get a grip. MONSANTO OWNS OUR GOVERNMENT!!! Some simple homework will turn up the following: Top positions within the FDA, USDA, EPA, and an array of other top level departments, are headed by former Monsanto executives. Monsanto made a switch out an brought the former heads of those departments over to Monsanto. It is public record, only most people, like Christopher, are living in a bubble and believing our government has our safety in mind. With open minds you can discover the lies. Fluoride is an enormous lie. There is a chain of activities that connect our government with a purposeful eradication of human population. I have done research papers on fluoride and GMO’s. Those bloated bellies we see on most people, including our children, can be directly traced to soft white winter wheat. Take responsibility for your life and knowledge. Turn off those corrupt news sources and get out there to find the truths. Problem is, you may find yourself alienated from your friends and family. Learning the truth isn’t without its problems. But, I would rather know than not.