It’s still possible to eat non-GMO corn and soybeans.
It sure seems like everybody is out for themselves these days, doesn’t it?
People push and shove to get to the front of the line, they lie and cheat their way to success in the classroom, and they step on co-workers to climb the company ladder. In the business world, many companies do whatever it takes to make the bottom line look good, despite how badly clients, customers and the competition get treated.
But every once in a while, we see a company that puts taking care of people ahead of profits. One of those companies is Clarkson Grain, a corn processing facility just north of the small town of Cerro Gordo in west-central Illinois. This company has decided that no matter how it affects their ability to make money, they’re going to make sure that the grain they accept to produce corn does not include any trace of genetic modification.
And that’s not easy these days under the Obama Administration, which is in bed with a number of GMO companies including Monsanto. Today, 90 percent of America’s corn and soybeans are genetically modified. Ninety percent! You really have to make an effort to eat GMO-free corn and soybeans in today’s world. Fortunately, companies such as Clarkson Grain make it possible.
A company spokesperson said that the demand for non-GMO grain is growing. He said that his company will buy about 25 percent more non-GMO grain next year.
Do you ever check labels to see if you’re consuming GMO foods? It’s a challenge because there are very few requirements to label foods that way in the U.S. Your best bet, if you want to stick with non-GMO foods, is to seek out food labeled that way. How important do you think it is to eat only non-GMO foods? Hope to hear from you.
Mark try my patriot supplys corn i had good results with three corn even using little fertilizer. I think it is called stowells corn or somthing it is am heirloom vareity and also non gmo. I grew it in almost sandy špil.
So, I have a question, everyone. And please don’t look at this like everyone else does. A majority of people look at the GMO stuff from a political/financial point of view, whether they admit it or not. Can we step away from that for a moment, please?
Has anyone thought about where we would be WITOUT gene modification in crops???? Easy, the world would be starving. If farmers were using the same technology that they were twenty or even ten years ago, the world would be starving. Now, I’m not a mathematical genius, nor am I a scientist, but I can do basic math. Think about this: ten years ago, corn was yielding roughly 100-150 bushels to the acre, and the demand was growing. Now the yield is in the neighborhood of 220 bushels to the acre (on the conservative side) and the demand for corn is still more than farmers can produce. You do the math.
Now then, I’m not campaigning for GMO foods AT ALL, all I’m saying is that I see a lot of obvious benefits for GMO; and, on the flip side, a lot of theories that do nothing but scare people onto believing what other people want them to.
Slim, if you read the rest of the comments, it sounds like you have been brainwashed like so many Americans. We don’t need to change what God has provided to have enough; we just need to trust and honor Him.
Rhayma,
I………….am a little lost here. How am I brainwashed……??? Please, I am NOT looking for a fight. I simply want the whole story, and I want to discus this rationally. No ranting and raving.
You aren’t brainwashed, but when you start off by showing how we would be starving without gmo I don’t see what you want to discuss.
Quite honestly, I wanted to express disgust over people using fear to convince other people to buy their product. For example, a friend of mine has cancer, and his wife is now paranoid that everything on earth is going to give her and the rest of her family cancer. Every time she sees some add about something causing cancer, she believes it–regardless of how accurate it is. She is now programed to buy products that other people tell her are “safe” from cancer-causing substances. In light of that, I personally think a lot of people simply scare you into believing what they’re selling is “better”, and it really ticks me off.
I posted my original comment simply to motivate people to think more objectively. After all, unless you’re a highly educated and experienced biochemist, how do you know anything you hear about GMO stuff-related stuff is actually true?
Since our illustrious government insists we use “corn for fuel” for our vehicles we have had a problem. We have a problem of this “frakenfuel” destroying our engines and now we have a problem of this “frankenfood” destroying our bodies. SOLUTION: grow food naturally with heirloom seed and put OIL and GAS back in our vehicles. BOTH will fare much better and we will have enough food for ourselves and to share. Teach 3rd World countries how to grow their own food so they too can become self sustaining and not have to depend on others.
Well, I would have to agree with you about the whole ethanol thing. I’m a farmer, and even I don’t think ethanol is a good product.
Okay here’s some food for thought for you, Slim. All GMO crops are engineered so the they can survive herbicides, as well as to create its own pesticide to kill attacking insects. Have you given any thought as to the effects of these changes in plant DNA will effect you? So if a plant has its DNA changed so that it produces its own pesticide to kill pests, just how will that poison will effect the human body? Studies have been done that has shown that there is a possible link between GMO crops and some rare cancers. Besides most of the world has banned GMO corn and soybean from entering their countries. It is better to error on the side of caution than take a chance with your health.
Question: Have you been vaccinated for Polio? Had a flu shot? It seems to me that’s basically the same thing. If it works on humans, why not on plants?
Hi Slim, I grew up around agriculture and I realize the focus on yields per acre. However, I have two points to make. #1. We must stop using corn (or any food product) to produce gasoline. How much more would that help the food supply? #2. GMO’s (Genetically Modified Organisms) Emphasis on “Living Organisms” that are still alive after food processing is complete. These living organisms are decimating the health of human beings after it is ingested! Our FDA (Food and Drug Administration) who is supposed to protect us from harmful products, receives an average of 6 Billion dollars per year from the companies who make these deadly products. GREED is always on the top of the list rather than health safety!
This is why Chipotle has gone non-GMO in all it’s products. I wrote to Chipotle thanking them for going all non-GMO and stated they are the only restaurant I will visit. I got a very nice response back from them. I was surprised to get any response, but that just shows how responsible Chipotle is and how much they care for their customers.
Last year, I grew in my garden for the first time yellow and white sweet corn. My harvest was bountiful. When the Fourth of July rolled around I had a cook out in the back yard. There was so many family members that there wasn’t going to be enough corn to go around. My wife went to the store and bought some back up corn.
We boiled some, grilled some and saved some for the freezer. We everyone was having a great time. As the trash bags began to fill with paper plates and plastic glasses, I began to notice that there were ears of half eaten corn in the bags. So I went around inquiring about the corn to find out why so much of the store bought corn ended up in the trash. What I discovered was that the corn that I grew was eaten with joy. However, the corn that my wife had bought from the store was starchy and tasteless, no matter how much butter was put on it. I tried an ear of corn that came from the store and I had to agree with those that didn’t like it that it had no taste. I told everyone how much I enjoyed growing my corn and how much they loved eating it. My granddaughter then pipe in, ” Make sure grandma doesn’t buy any more yucky corn from the store any more, grandpa.” That got a big laugh from everyone except grandma, she shot me the dirty look.
I shifted through the kitchen trash and discovered that the corn was genetically engineered. It was bigger than the other corn, resisted drought and insects and weeds. I looked at my wife and she at me. From the look she gave me I understood her that she will never again buy this corn from the store again. In fact she informed me that I had better plant more corn in my garden. So I went out and got my can of http://WWW.SurvivalSeeds4Patriots.com, pulled out my Stowell’s Evergreen Sweet Corn, Beefsteak Tomatoes, Champion Radishes, and Waltham Butternut Winter Squash seeds and started plating. This survival seeds 4 patriots came from Frank Bates company. All hes seeds are non-GMO seeds. I bought the Liberty Seed Vault with over 21 packages of seeds of different vegetables.
Now I can’t plant everything that I had received from Frank, but, I can rotate my crops for the next few years and get great tasting down right delicious vegetables for my family. With the excess my wife and I will can our surplus like we did last year. We had cucumber’s, bell peppers, jalapeno and cayenne peppers, onions, carrots, beets and corn coming out of our ears, if you pardon the pun. The point I am making is this: I stick with the non-gmo food and non-gmo seeds. I could spend 2-3 dollars per packet of seeds from Home Depot, Lowe’s or Ace Hardware store or I can use my Survival Seeds 4 Patriots that i got at a bargain price. Check it out. But grow your own food. It is something you can take great pride and joy in.
Right? I’ve given up on store tomatoes, too. If they aren’t in season, I just don’t eat them.
Clarkson also stays out of patent trouble. Imagine patenting something that can break out into the wild and mix in with the wild type! But that’s what we now hear about.
My doctor took me off ALL grains, and that includes corn. I am allowed to eat what I grow as far as corn is concerned.
I feel it is critically important to stay away from GMO foods as they nearly destroyed my digestive system. I would love to know more about this company that has non-GMO foods.
People need to pay attention to what they eat and know the symptoms of GMO interruption of their bodies like heartburn, lack of energy, slow digestive system, constipation, depression, anxiety, and more. I was found to have hypo-thyroidism caused by auto immunity that was more than likely caused by GMO foods in my system. After 6 months of cleansing my liver, healing my digestive system, and eating non-GMO foods, I am now feeling much better!!. My doctor removed ALL grains from my diet as well as canola oil, caffeine, peanuts, soy (both are in the same family), sodas (loaded with GMOs), beans, and other GMO foods. I feel better than I have in a long time as the GMO foods slowly took its toll on me. I hope all your readers will follow this diet and feel better after 6 months. Yes, it takes awhile to heal from it all, but so worth it!!
I’ve been growing my own non-GE vegetables for over 5 years. I got stuck growing GMO plants every year for almost 10 years before breaking that chain. Now, my crops produce 2x’s the vegetables that the GMO. I cross my best producing and stongest plants and each year, my vegetable gardens keep getting more and more productive and beautiful. I’ve gottne a lot more bees to come back to my garden than ever. I’m certain that the GMO plants are causing the decline in the bee poopulation. I’ve been retired from being a Lab Analyst in an Environmenta Laboratory which is what got me out of the GMO rut. I’ve heard about bio-tech industries suiting farmers for “patent infringement”, I’ve always thought that the GMO plants are an invasive type and I would consider their pollen getting into my garden ‘trespassing’. I can prove to anyone that I DO use a lot less chemical fertilizers and absolutely no un-natural pesticides and my yeild is a lot higher than any GMO. I wouldn’t be so quick to blame Obama as it’s been Sen. lamar smith whose been wasting our tax dollars on boi-teck engineering as he’s the one that head’s up the “Science, Space and Technology Committee” in Congress. He’s the one you should be targeting. He also stirs clear of more renewable and more sustainable energies as he’s been bought and paid for by the ‘oil industries’. Besides, playing the “blame game” is getting tiring and this blog is starting to sound like “astro-turg” as opposed to a real “grass roots” movement paid for by congressmen and women who are just anti-Obama. I’d urge anyone to start doing the “right thing” and ignore the blame games going on. Nowadays, it wold take up ALL of my time and more to figure out who is doing what and blaming one person has always been counter productive. Just vote with your dollars instead of wasting time trying to figure out who’s to blame. Anyone can learn how to rotate crops and cross pollinate your own veggies. Try the “Three Sisters” method of growing corn, beans and squash for beginners to see how different plants work together. Monocultures have killed nearly 80% of ALL the agricultural soil in the world today. India has fought back by getting away from GMO crops and went back to all non-GMO and their soil has made a come back. I urger all of you to educate yourselves rather than playing the blame game.
President Obama appointed the X- CEO of Monsanto to be the Head of the FDA…that’s The food and drug administration…..which is supposed to protect us…..yes Obama promotes GMO’s.
I am so impressed with your dr. We need more like him available to us all! Good for you…
It would be helpful to find out who Clarkson grain supplies too. Any intel on that? Also for those who don’t know the initial GMOs contained Round Up Weed Killer. The new crops now contain that and the same chemical used in Agent Orange. Get ready for a really messed up society.
For people who want less government in their lives, why are you harping on Obama being in bed with Monsanto? Every advisor to Shrub Bush was either a former CEO of Monsanto or Hallieburton. Now that’s sleeping with the enemy if you ask me. Oh, and Osama Bin Laden was related to the Princes of Saudi Arabia which did not stop Bush Jr. from making kissy-face and holding hands with every visiting Sunni from that neck of the woods. Get real. There are plenty of concerned organizations keeping tabs on these jokers who want to poison us to make a profit. We don’t need the government to now tell us what to eat! Especially a government which depends on a lobby-paid Congress to pass any kind of law these days. FDA, EPA, USDA. are the real culprits to be angry with. Did you know that since field amaranth has become tolerant to Roundup that the USDA has now approved the use of 2,4D (otherwise known as Agent Orange) by soybean farmers as of this year? Many Vietnam vets developed cancer from being sprayed or by making contact with this poison. Also, when sunlight hits 2,4D a single drop turns into dioxin and can poison an entire lake. Google it. Our troubles are just beginning friends.
Paranoid is has a number of errors in the post. The biggest is identifying 2,4D as Agent Orange. 2,4D is one of the most common herbicides used in America. It is an ingredient in most lawn weed killer(just go to your hardware store and start reading labels). Farmers have been using this continuously for decades (I grew up on a farm). crops,, where do you they get the gene?. In virtually all cases, they come from closely related plants. How are they made? By using the same techniques that nature uses to modify plants over the ages. Further, many of the modifications are resistance to plant diseases or pests. I am tired of hearing the hysteria that people create thatpeople create and the lengths they go to (beyond good science) to support their extremist agendsa, like Paranoid.
As for genetically-modifiedcrops
Sir; you are paranoid and wrong in so many ways. Let take one that a lot of Liberals throw about as fact. Osama Bin Laden being related to the Royal Family od Saudi Arabia. This can not be so due to his parents being Yemenis. He was born in Saudi Arabia while his father worked there as a high paid (as opposed to the majority being slave waged) foreign worker.
This would put the rest of your claims into doubt.
Just because it is on the web does not make it fact. Always check the source.
I agree with you Paranoid!
I think they’re all in bed together. Old Man Bush is part of the New World Order group, so is Kissinger so we really can’t trust anyone. These guys are probably not as vicious as those who support u-know-who and the First Hippo.
Because Obama is in bed with Monsanto…Obama appointed the Head of the FDA who is the same guy that was CEO of Monsanto for years. Obama did it ….not Bush LOL same old rhetoric different day.
Um, there seems to be a bit of bad research on your part, Paranoid (by the way, your name suits you perfectly). The chemical known as Agent Orange was actually 2,4 T. That’s ‘T’ as in ‘Tom’. Not ‘D’ as in ‘dog” (I’m not a chemist, but I think chemistry is a bit like English; the letters make a big difference). On the flip side, I agree with you to some extent on your political opinion. Most politicians are simply criminals who were to slick to get caught.
,I can’t wait till the food supply is required to be accurately labeled. But I am growing as much of my own as possible
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Plaeas darken your font so I can actually read my comment as I enter it.
Me too. The corn that I grow is non-GMO and the only corn my doctor will allow me to eat.
Me too, Cynthia et.al.
I turn my chickens loose in the garden plot in winter so they can naturally fertilize it. I also add coffee grounds, broken egg shells and vegetable scraps that the hens don’t like.( Coffee grounds kept my in-house gardenia tree alive last winter…they like acid.) If you don’t have a few hens -I have 3-you should think about getting some. They are fun to watch, can be trained to eat from your hand or sit on your lap and they provide great protein in their eggs. I feed mine flax seed too so the eggs are Omega-3!
I planted Biological Interest corn kernels and they didn’t grow well at all. Anyone have any other brands that I could plant? Thanks.
Cynthia, don’t hold your breath! I’ve been passionately watching/participating on this issue for a few years now and NOTHING good is happening with labeling because it’s in the hands of politicians that could care less about our health. I’m embarrassed to say our Mi. Senator had plenty to do with denying our “right to know”! It’s about education and getting more people involved-to be heard!!!