Whatever happened to doing things the natural way?
You may have heard that recently the Supreme Court sided with genetically modified food giant Monsanto against farmers in a suit with widespread implications for both groups. Monsanto has been trying to stop farmers from using seeds from Monsanto’s GMO crops from one season to the next.
From the farmer’s standpoint, being able to harvest their crops and use those new seeds for the next season is a big money saver. From Monsanto’s perspective, the company faced the possibility of developing new species of plants and then basically going into competition against their customers who used them.
Monsanto is the largest producer of GMO crops. The company created a series of plants including soybeans that can withstand an active ingredient in many weed killers. With Monsanto’s crops, farmers are free to spray weed killer without fear that it will damage the crops. In ruling against farmers, the judge said that the purchaser of a patented product cannot make new copies of that patented product.
Regardless of how that case would have come out, the biggest losers may be the people who eat the alarmingly large amount of genetically modified food now being produced in this country. It has been proven century after century in America and elsewhere that the purest form of vegetables and fruits are the ones that come from open pollinated, non-genetically modified, heirloom seeds. There are still many questions out there about GMO foods and the long-term threat they may pose to the health of those who consume them.
This article explains the court case in more detail. Legally speaking, it’s very possible that the Supreme Court made the correct decision in this case. After all, if someone published a book and then someone else made a bunch of copies of that book and sold them, that wouldn’t be right.
But either way, genetically modified foods will continue to be produced and consumed in huge quantities. Are you concerned about this? Do you believe that there are legitimate reasons for trying to halt the production of genetically modified foods, at least until more research is conducted? Hope to hear from you about this.
To any and all who are willing to listen and learn! Check out Dr. Mercolas’ site where he interviews Dr. Don Huber regarding GMO’s. To Mike in SD, please do not be deceived about the so called benefits of the GMO seeds you are growing! Mother nature will have the upper hand. In fact she already has. Here in Canada our farmers are paying in Bank Account Breaking prices for their Canola seed “Over $500.00 a bus. for there seed” And receive a measly $9.00-!0.00 for a bus. when they sell and are forced to pay that year after year. Why was MONSATON allowed to use God’s seed, altar it to accept various chemicals, etc. and the “Patent” it and call it there own! Why didn’t they “Create” their own seed, it might then be Patentable and I could understand them charging for it. Remember Mike, there are NO “Peer Reviewed” studies to prove this type of science is harmless. And yet countless studies proving it is. Deception plays a big part in all of this! You will not read any of this in Farm Journals but it is written in the Top Health Journals of the world. Why do you think Europe is so dead against this science. Do you think they may know something we don’t know. We can’t trust our Gov’ts on this either as Monsanto has X employees in the Gov’t. making sure the Laws and Rules are in place to make Monsanto more money. Please, from our Grandchildren’s place on this planet, let us stop the madness now while we possibly still can!
I think it’s already too late. Like Jim, and Chuck said, When Money Talks, People Listen. If the “Thing” in California is correct, and it sounds about right to me, 6 million (us) TO (their) 46 million “says it all” . And I really liked the comment about “SOYLENT GREEN” ! Thank You!, Guys, but, even on this web site, so few know what’s going on. I’ll be on the train to (Auschwitz or Dachau aka FEMA CAMP #6341), to get indoctrinated, by people with, badges that say (How Smart They Are), so, I will understand, indubitably, that all they want for me, (IS: WHAT IS BEST FOR ME!) and (“GOOD WORK, WILL SET YOU FREE!) L O L, now while I can. I know it doesn’t sound so promising, but believe me, I am a, pessimist, which is, really an optimist (with experience) ! You all have a wonderful “Whatever” day! Take Care and Stay Safe! From: DANIEL E. WRIGHT THERE The king, should be able to read that name, without his glasses! Oh!, and Thank You for reading.
Thank *you* for reading. That comment was filled with book references. ha!
Being from the midwest and living in prime farm country, I have to say that many of the comments in this forum are made out of paranoia due to lack of understanding of genetically modified seeds. These are not “chemically” boosted seeds or seeds that are filled with chemicals. They are seeds that are altered to help with issues that farmers face. The seeds can be made to produce a higher yield (produce more food per plant and per acre). They are made to grow in poor soil or low water environments. They are made to resist certain bugs that can damage or destroy the plants, and so on. Just because you get food from a farmers market does not make it genetically unaltered. Genetically altered materials are all around us. How about meds? Will you boycot these as well? I have a suggestion… the next time you or you family gets sick and becomes ill, figure out a way to use your heirloom seeds to create a remedy and a cure. Pretty much ALL the medicines you will ever take are genetically produced compounds. Do you think its a bad idea to make new meds to prevent or cure disease? Good luck with that…
You live on a farm land and your okay with what Monsanto is doing? Really?… whats your farm’s name?…. the Monsanto corporation like many pharmaceutical corporation care about profit… money doesn’t talk it yells and unfortunately we in this country have been conditioned to listen without asking questions those who question get dismissed as crazy and or paranoid… we didn’t always go to doctors and get meds lots of em can be home remedies…. but since we started the go see the doc trend we now have at least 75percent Americans under medication…. everytime yu take a med for a problem you aren’t fixing it your treating it eventually you’ll need a higher more powerful more expensive doce… I refuse to let a company tell me I have to use a seed that will grow a plant bugs wont even eat how is this safer for me? Profit yu cant heirloom seeds because you have to go out and buy more MANDATORY SEEDS where is the free market it sounds like a monopoly or at least thats the control they want…
If I buy heirloom seeds from you, do I have to pay you every year I grow new plants with seeds from the previous year?
Or do I just need to thank the good Lord for putting those plants on earth to begin with?
Well, Vincent, if you *want* to send me money I won’t complain. :)
But, seriously, no. Of course not. Once you have the seeds in your hands, they are yours. Plant them, eat the veggies, store seeds for next year. Heck, SELL the seeds next year. They are yours to love forever.
GMO foods need to be labeled so consumers can make their own choices as to what food to put in our bodies. Chemically altered food makes an unhealthy choice for humans who care about themselves and all other humans. We should have an American right to choose which foods to boy. I feel sorry for farmers caught in the middle of corporate companies like Monsanto, forcing them to buy their chemically altered seeds to survive in their chosen way of life. Government should support free will of the people, and make GMO labelling mandatory.
We the people, never understand the power at our hands. If we all together stopped buying the product they would not survive. Eat alternatives until they wake up. The problem is we have no one, no organization that can pull the masses together to make this happen. Elections don’t work, Whoever has the most money wins. Any Ideas?
SOYLENT GREEN!!! We are just about there.
You would think eventually people would wake up and see what’s happening, that a lot of the food the eat is GMO. I tend to highly doubt that this will happen until the shit really hits the fan in some drastic way.
Just look at California. A year or so ago they had a proposal on the ballot to label foods that come from GMO as GMO. You would think this would pass easy in California. It did not pass
The money spent (I haven’t verified these numbers) to try and pass the proposal was 6 million. The money spent to defeat it was 46 million.
The state of Washington recently fought a losing battle with I-522 which would require all foods to be labeled as to whether they are GMO. The only solution I can think of is to by local and organic as much as possible, grow your own as much as possible and continue to boycott all the crap sold in grocery stores unless it is local or organic. Last but not least support your local farmers markets.
When our country was founded we had men in office of character; now we have men & women who ARE characters! “American Betrayal” by Diana West traces the sinister elements of our traitorous officials going back 90 years. George Washington said ” Freedom Requires Constant Vigilance”& with the CFR/TC censorship of our news, not to mention the TV “PROGRAMMING” it is difficult to discern what’s right & wrong/true/false . If you don’t read, you will be deceived. Knowing your congress mans voting record will tell you if their words & actions match. The New American magazine is a bi-weekly that posts their voting records 4 x a year. We are “fat Cats” with all our materialistic goods but the “commies” are winning without firing a shot. Will YOU wake up for your children’s sake?
They say that cannabis has not had long term studies done on it in america and that’s why they are hesitant to make it legal , BUT it has been used medicinal for 5000 yrs. There have been no long term studies done on G.M.O BUT THEY ARE WILLING TO PASS LAWS to put this in our food.
Wake up America and learn what Sabotage means.
The big problem I have with this is that the “invention” to which Monsanto owns a patent is alive and aggressively seeking to propogate itself regardless of any property owner’s desire for it to do so (and then Monsanto has the audacity to claim ownership of those sullied crops as well, even though they did not originally start as GMO). I am OK with Monsanto having ownership as long as they likewise assume ownership of a class action lawsuit on behalf of anyone and any beast who consumes nutrients (i.e. everyone and all livestock). A few hundred trillion ought to do the trick. If you are going to have ownership of the product, you should also assume ownership of what that product does (and Monsanto does not).
I would like more information from Tag concerning organic cow shares. I have recently subscribed to Mother Earth Magazine and plan on growing my own fruits and vegetables. I am sickened with what is going on with our government and their total disregard for us. Does anyone know of farmer shares in the eastern lower area of Michigan where I can glean more information? Frank, keep up the good work by spreading the word about Monsanto and their kind.
I wish there was a way to unite the people of our land to somehow put an end to this GMO travisty. Maybe we all need to pray a lot more and ask God to end this nitemare, at least show us how. When I think of my grandchildren having to live in this environment, it sickens me to the core.
Over 30 countries require imports from the US to be labeled and DO Not accept any GMO. Monsanto has taken over Washington and are the ones who make these decisions. If it was safe they would agree to label so the consumer would know what they are feeding their families. Speak up, make yourself heard. There are communties, working with the stores who are now NOT accepting GMO produce.
NINO, THE BIG PICTURE WHEN YOU STUDY IT, HAS MORE TO DO WITH POPULATION CONTROL. THE ILLUMINATI AS THEY ARE CALLED WANT ONE WORLD GOV’T,, CURRENCY, AND PEOPLE POPULATION CONTROL AND MONSANTO IS PART OF THAT..GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD IS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THEIR SCHEME. AS THEY CONTROL THE FOOD , THEY CONTROL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR HEALTH. WITH ALL THE TOXINS THEY PLACE BEFORE US, AND COMBINE THAT WITH ALL THE TOXIN CHEMICALS PLACED IN DRUGS OR SO CALLED MEDICINES..AND WALLAH YOU TOTALLY CONTROL THE MASSES, AND DISEASE PERPETUATES……
I would have to agree with all of you on this issue! The GMO industry is simply trying to take over our planet with their so called “Superior Crops.” I personally don’t trust these people and would rather have GMO production banned and enforced as a crime! Tampering with our hard working citizens food sources is very un-justified. We all need to unite and promote better ways of life. I foresee a “Native Roots Movement” evolving. Revolutions to hault the jet streams (chem. trails) produced by our own military/government. Their apparent accuse for these actions is that the jet streams reflect the incomming rays of the sun and contribute to fighting ‘Global Warming,” which is most defiently an embaresment to our country and to the rest of our planet (universe). These chem. trails have poisoned our natural resources and all of the life which inhabits them. It has made it very difficult for native life forms to sustain life in their natural env. This is all a Communist plot in my mind with Monsanto and GMO industries highly involved with this disgusting and evil movement. Look at Hawaii for example. Studies are revealing the chem trails have greatly negatively impacted this island, due to all of the pollution from chem. trails. We must spread this awareness to the rest of the world. The truth must be heard! Peace be the journey!
I am growing my own, where I can, & getting the rest from local organic producers…………I am past 60, healthy more so now that in earlier years, & scared for what my grandkids will have to deal with when I’m gone. Trying to build an organic legacy……………
I totally agree with the above comment. I wouldn’t trust any genetically altered anything. No wonder people are sick. We grow our own food and enjoy the harvest that God provides. After all, He put everything on this earth for man, not Monsanto or any other agency.
Also because the higher ups in the government ARE the higher ups of Monsanto as well. It makes me sick (no pun intended).
“WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DOING THINGS THE NATURAL WAY” Perfect question . I too, occasionally submit to fast food, usually the chicken joints but never the burger joints. But most times I ask myself “can’t I cook it better and cheaper myself?” And I usually do a drive by!
Over the past several years I have learned to read labels and understand them, planted my own garden and can eat all summer long on it, learned to can, freeze and de-hydrate so can also live all winter long. After many years of searching, purchased a cow on the cow share program and now have raw milk. This same farmer also raises, on grass, beef, pork, chickens, turkey, lamb and goats so all my meat comes from him also. Also has eggs from chickens that scratch in the dirt. He raises all of his own GMO free grains. I make my own noodles from these healthy eggs and churn my own butter from the abundance of cream. Ice Cream in the summer and whipped cream as a treat! People asked me all the time how I can afford to eat organically. By the time you put in the effort to raise your own, the money you save easily pays the slightly higher prices of meat and dairy. Also ask them how much their Dr. charges for an office call and how much they spend on big pharma every year. GOD forbid they calculate how much they spend if they have some kind of “Condition” I am almost 60 and haven’t seen an MD in over 20 years. I have never had an MRI, Cat scan, mammogram or any other “fashionable” test made to make my money exit my wallet. I am on no Meds and have no medical issues. 5′ 5″ and 120. My weight hasn’t fluctuate more than 20 lbs. since HS. And if I need medical advice, I seek it from a Dr. that understands natural healing. (Don’t need Obamacare! Sure can’t find in ANY of the BS that they would cover Alternative medicine.)
I think the saddest part of about where we are at in this madness is the generation growing up today does not have a clue how to take care of themselves. The children are being taught to bo to the FEMA camps. Unbelievable! And I think they are the generation that truly needs to learn some survival skills. But attacking our children is the plan, right?