Comments on: Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control http://urbangardenmagazine.com/2009/12/bayer-admits-gmo-contamination-is-out-of-control/ Hydroponics for Growing Minds Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:43:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Everest http://urbangardenmagazine.com/2009/12/bayer-admits-gmo-contamination-is-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Everest Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:59:25 +0000 http://urbangardenmagazine.com/?p=1951#comment-61 Thanks for your comment Chris. Consumers (me and you!) need to realize just how POWERFUL we are. We have to drive the change we want to see occur in our food supply. I'm a typical guy born in the mid 1970s, raised on supermarket produce and freezer food. It was a big deal for me to break my conditioning, go through my cupboards and purge it of GM-ingredients, but we did it. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2501/3967794108_cb606a293c_b.jpg We VOTE THREE TIMES A DAY for the people we want to provide us with our food. If we choose to buy products from those companies who use genetically modified ingredients in spite of the fact that insufficient testing has been performed on humans, then we vote for this to continue. In the absence of decent labeling that tells North American consumers that a product contains ingredients that are genetically modified, our only recourse is to buy products certified as organic, or using organic ingredients - as these cannot, by law, contain GMOs. (It should be noted that the GM lobby tried to fight against this but consumers won through! If it hadn't been for 250,000 signatures we'd be in deep trouble as consumers would have no way of telling if foods contained GMOs or not in North America!) Why does big biotech want to keep consumers in the dark about which products contain GM ingredients? At best it is patronizing and insulting to claim that proper labeling will worry consumers unduly. At worst it's insidiously deceptive. So right now, our saving grace is the organic certification and those food companies who have taken the non-GMO pledge. Huge respect and kudos needs to go out to these companies. Start reading labels! I used to laugh at label-readers in supermarkets thinking they needed to get a life - now I realize reading labels might extend it! Check out the non-GMO shopping guide online here: www.nongmoshoppingguide.com It's quite simple. Stop eating GM food and it will stop being produced. If anybody has any questions about how to get GM out of their diet I will gladly help all I can. Peace out, Everest Thanks for your comment Chris.

Consumers (me and you!) need to realize just how POWERFUL we are. We have to drive the change we want to see occur in our food supply.

I’m a typical guy born in the mid 1970s, raised on supermarket produce and freezer food. It was a big deal for me to break my conditioning, go through my cupboards and purge it of GM-ingredients, but we did it.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2501/3967794108_cb606a293c_b.jpg

We VOTE THREE TIMES A DAY for the people we want to provide us with our food.

If we choose to buy products from those companies who use genetically modified ingredients in spite of the fact that insufficient testing has been performed on humans, then we vote for this to continue.

In the absence of decent labeling that tells North American consumers that a product contains ingredients that are genetically modified, our only recourse is to buy products certified as organic, or using organic ingredients – as these cannot, by law, contain GMOs. (It should be noted that the GM lobby tried to fight against this but consumers won through! If it hadn’t been for 250,000 signatures we’d be in deep trouble as consumers would have no way of telling if foods contained GMOs or not in North America!)

Why does big biotech want to keep consumers in the dark about which products contain GM ingredients? At best it is patronizing and insulting to claim that proper labeling will worry consumers unduly. At worst it’s insidiously deceptive.

So right now, our saving grace is the organic certification and those food companies who have taken the non-GMO pledge. Huge respect and kudos needs to go out to these companies.

Start reading labels! I used to laugh at label-readers in supermarkets thinking they needed to get a life – now I realize reading labels might extend it!

Check out the non-GMO shopping guide online here: http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com

It’s quite simple. Stop eating GM food and it will stop being produced.

If anybody has any questions about how to get GM out of their diet I will gladly help all I can.

Peace out,

Everest

]]> By: Christopher http://urbangardenmagazine.com/2009/12/bayer-admits-gmo-contamination-is-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Christopher Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:08:42 +0000 http://urbangardenmagazine.com/?p=1951#comment-60 Wow that is pretty crazy..I don't even know what to really think about all of this. People think they are doing the right thing by eating healthy but yet with all these GE foods they are getting more than they bargained for..what to do... Wow that is pretty crazy..I don’t even know what to really think about all of this. People think they are doing the right thing by eating healthy but yet with all these GE foods they are getting more than they bargained for..what to do…

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