OT: The President has signed into law the Protection of Monsanto

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I have raised chickens. The chicken pictured is very anemic.

Lord have mercy.
It's a shame to see what happened to those animals - as if the Bible doesn't address cruelty rather sharply ....
 
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This is disheartening. :(
No doubt:sad::sadd:

We use Cascadian Farms granola bars, cereal, and frozen veggies. Although, we've been using Alexia and 365 organic lately. Ugh. Also, we get Horizon milk and sour cream and ....forgot the other. We also use Organic Valley milk and butter (I believe that's the brand of butter - whipped), Horizon sticks of butter.
When you see just how far things go with the ways we can be tied to the very things we don't like because they changed the name, it is very saddening.

The same thing that has been happening with the Food Industry has also been occurring with the Health Supplement industry as well (as discussed from before here in #61 , #84 ). For reference:

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Sadly, it's not just GMOs that are an issue when it comes to the Supplements industry and not knowing how many of them contain GMO products. In general, the industry itself is very corrupt even apart from that.

It has been repeatedly documented that many of the medicines given to people wee done through heavy influence of corporations/BIG Businesses pushing things through, with a lack of regulation being what allowed for them to get many things past inspection......and they were able to get their products through by playing on the minds of others they want as customers when saying that government regulation means that they don't want markets to make "healthy products to help the people"...

Many don't have remembrance of how the FDA tried to regulate other things sold by the drug/pharmecutical companies and people felt it was too "restrictive"..demanding for more freedom, especially as it related to "organic" foods/dietary supplements.........with the creation of the DHSEA act being made to address it. But then the same companies took advantage of the loose laws and began adding herbal elements to the drugs so that they'd not be considered "drugs" but "health supplements"....and much of the material at the local food market in the herbal section is actually drugs that have been repackaged to avoid inspection.

One man who was a prominent basketball player actually died from using ephedra (which alters your nervous system)---all from supplements he got at the market ...and really drugs that were able to slip by due to deregulation. For more, Baltimore Orioles' pitcher Steve Belcher is one prominent example amongst others (more shared here and here and here/here, here, here and here ). At least 155 people died from taking medications containing ephedra. In late 2003, the FDA announced that it would ban the sale of all ephedra-containing drugs.



Ephedra can cause heatstroke for two reasons:
  • It impairs the body's ability to (lose) heat.
  • It makes you hypermetabolic -- that is, it increases the metabolism, which then helps the body to produce more heat internally. As a result, your heart rate goes up and blood pressure elevates, which causes the blood vessels to constrict. It's harder to lose heat through constricted blood vessels.
These two factors can predispose people to heatstroke," stated Barish, a nationally known heatstroke expert. "Other amphetamines, stimulants and some over-the-counter drugs also do this."


In Bechler's case, Barish said that several factors led to his death: he took ephedra, it was a warm day and he was exercising. Given that he was also predisposed to heat exhaustion, that is what put him over the top.

According to Barish, Bechler was the first professional baseball player to die from heatstroke; usually football players are at more risk. "But now all bets are off," warns Barish. "If you're taking a drug like ephedra which predisposes you to heatstroke, then anyone can be at risk."

The Iowa Women's Health Study has recently found that older women who used multivitamins and other supplements are at higher risk of dying than those who didn't. Specifically cited were vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, zinc and copper. In addition to possibly doing harm in high doses, the poorly regulated supplements pose two other dangers, as Marion Nestle, a food and nutrition specialist at New York University, noted. They may contain impurities from the manufacturing process. And they may not have the active ingredient on the label. A person who eats "reasonably well," she added, doesn't need any dietary pill unless a test shows a deficiency.

Read a really powerful book on the subject for a class I had to do for graduate school, entitled "Food and Politics" by Marion Nestle (who is a renowed professor/one who worked in the government for health). Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California.

Her work is truly a godsend when seeing the ways that a lack of regulation in the name of "free markets" has led to a lot of problems that people still say they want to fight against even as they continue to advocate for a lack of government involvement in the medical world.....





Ver thankful that Marion Nestle has done a lot of work on the issue (as have many others for decades) and it's not hidden what other companies are doing.
 
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My hubby told me a few weeks ago about Muir Glen - we use their diced tomatoes, tomato paste, salsa (we use Newman's salsa as well), and tomato sauce. Ugh Sometimes we use 365 diced tomatoes (365, as you know, is a Whole Foods brand).

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Thank goodness your hubby was on top of things....as it's amazing how covert some organizations can be in slipping things in.

With the priest I work with, he noted wisely that there's a goal in mind when it comes to slipping in ingrediants into the food supply that've not shown to be anything but unhealthy and troublesome. For some may ask "Why would anyone want to harm the health of others if they are really concerned with others eating well?" - but in having a global/over-arching mindset, you see the benefits of having people not be at their best.

People that are made intentionally unhealthy become more prone to being out of shape - and in being out of shape (and in our "quick fix" culture where we want immediate results rather than lifestyle changes), it's easy for people to run to the medical industries for what they can offer with emergency care - be it with pharmacy products or other medical technologies. And in the process of others turning more so to other industries, the goal becomes taking over those industries so you can charge for the price others pay.

The old tatic of releasing disease into the community and paying for the cure - never showing others you were responsible even though you play the role of the benefactor....and by no means am I saying that all in the Medical Corporations/Industries are of that mindset - and some excellent examples of such are people like Dr.Ben Carson, who has addressed the Health-Care system for some time and spoke at the Presidential Inauguration Prayer Breakfast in honor and yet challenge of the president's actions on the matter ( #1 /#6 ) But for many involved, there's not a Holistic perspective in helping others attain true health because it pays more to keep people sick rather than seeing them healthy.

And in the end, as much as GMOs cause damage, I have no doubt that GOOD FOOD will be promoted in the end - by the corporations - after the damage is done, except it is planned due to how the corporations will have effectively owned the food supply....and after the hostile take-over of the main distributors, it'll be easy to promote good/organic food to help others get healthy again while simultaneously charging enormous amounts of money for others to get ahold of it. The alternative will be the GMOs and bad/processed foods - which continue to cause problems - and people will do anything to stay healthy, so they will pay. ANd with government support in the name of helping the people, anything can happen....

All of it via corporations....and as said before, the nature of corporatism:

Wall Street, Banks, Corporatism and Survival

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For many of our snacks for the boys, we get Annie's organic snacks. Also, her salad dressings and ketchup and mustard. we use Nature's Path cereal and granola bars now more than Cascadian Farms.

Lots we switched over from since last fall when, at the time, we were eating the regular General Mills and Kelloggs cereals, and Kraft products and Heinz ketchup, etc
Making progress
 
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YEA! I checked the independent organic companies, and we buy and use Lundberg Family Farms rice, Amy's Kitchen, Peace cereal, Nature's Path, and Applegate Farms (chicken pot pies when we aren't in Lent lol). :)

We also use Newman's salsa and we've been buying their Fig Newman's. I hope they're good. Good as it organic, natural, not tastes good, because we know they do. lol
Lundberg Family Farms rice is a good thing to work with - as it's sad when many corporations buy up the rice plans so that they can jack up the price/keep the real stuff from going on the market since they stockpile it all.
 
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Dang. We use Westbrae as well. We were told that was a good brand through one of those non-GMO grocery list things. :(
On what you say, one of my friends put this picture on his FB and I had to crack up on the issue when considering the ways that even focusing on GMO labels can be a part of the game as those in power see it - just like having the label "organic" doesn't mean a lot since even corporate sellers know others look for code words/buzz terms and will slap anything on their products to make it seem more safe.

On the picture he gave:

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And on the other that really made me think a lot when it came to realizing that the goverment is most likely not in looking toward more solutions/favors asked from the government due to how they've made their stances rather plain - just as it was with slavery when others realized that it'd take grass-roots organization/education to change things:​


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It's almost ironic, til you investigate; it's not about choice (or even ethics, or any other idea or idea); it's about market share. (Throw your lot in any potentially profitable basket - and labeling nonGMO is going to be harder as pollen seep continues.)
All the more reason why we have to be careful what we allow to influence us in the media and the presentations others give since it's not always as clear cut as it seems..especially in the times we live in where corporate greed has infliltrated everything:


 
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No doubt:sad::sadd:

When you see just how far things go with the ways we can be tied to the very things we don't like because they changed the name, it is very saddening.

The same thing that has been happening with the Food Industry has also been occurring with the Health Supplement industry as well (as discussed from before here in #61 , #84 ). For reference:

I've been using my computer time to watch the Marion Nestle video (in bits and pieces) -- thanks for posting it ! (It's now on the homeschool "watch" list :))
 
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G, I'm not ignoring you. I need to have time to sit down and read and focus on what you've typed, and I have to have a block of time to dedicate myself to that. I'll try tomorrow! Thanks. :)
 
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I've been using my computer time to watch the Marion Nestle video (in bits and pieces) -- thanks for posting it ! (It's now on the homeschool "watch" list :))
Marion Nestle is one of the most AMAZING people around - and so glad she has been sharing as she has with the corporate take-over of all industries and essentially "herding" others based on good desires the masses have (often getting involved with the people as if they're one of them so they know what others want) and then pushing them to certain sources they set up.

Your kids will be really saved from a lot of grief on the issue...
 
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G, I'm not ignoring you.
Never took it as such, D :) I've done the same thing to others when I didn't respond for awhile..
I need to have time to sit down and read and focus on what you've typed, and I have to have a block of time to dedicate myself to that. I'll try tomorrow! Thanks. :)
To be clear, I hope you're not speaking in regards to the many short ones that were given (with the pics to make the point, #166/#168 /#169 ) - but regardless, it's all good. Do what you gotta do :)
 
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Marion Nestle is one of the most AMAZING people around - and so glad she has been sharing as she has with the corporate take-over of all industries and essentially "herding" others based on good desires the masses have (often getting involved with the people as if they're one of them so they know what others want) and then pushing them to certain sources they set up.

Your kids will be really saved from a lot of grief on the issue...

I hope that at least they'll be 'informed' :thumbsup:
 
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Saw this on FB just a few minutes ago. Posting it here:

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^_^:clap:


The logic of the pic made A LOT of sense and was hilarious. Love PhilosoRapter...as he often has some of the most wild points. Everybody is in bed with somebody else..​



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Gxg (G²);62784038 said:
^_^:clap:


The logic of the pic made A LOT of sense and was hilarious. Love PhilosoRapter...as he often has some of the most wild points. Everybody is in bed with somebody else..​



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Yep. :)
 
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