This Farmer’s Perspective on GMOs
by Eric on November 19, 2011

http://www.sonofafarmer.com /

..Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) run rampant like a plague, spreading poisonous genes into food and fiber crops, livestock, wildlife, insects, birds, the soil, and unsuspecting people. We are what we eat, and we are eating toxic unnatural food contrived in laboratories by billion-dollar chemical companies. Ninety percent of American corn, cotton, canola, soybeans, and sugar beets are genetically modified today. Eighty percent of all processed foods on our grocery shelves are made with GM ingredients. Livestock are fed primarily with genetically-modified feed in feed lots and factory farms, and those malnourished, sickened cattle, pigs, and chickens are the chief source of our protein....

More alarming, studies are beginning to suggest the harmful effects of genetically-modified foods on the body and mind, such as higher rates of cancer and diabetes. Neurological disorders such as autism have risen 1200% in children since 1990. Although that rate has not yet been linked directly to GMOs, there is more than enough evidence of the threat they pose to our nation’s health and welfare....

About 50 countries have banned GMOs or required their labeling. Our country has done neither. We are poisoning ourselves. This is a slow, sluggish genocide on the American people. I, like many Americans, have to wonder is the payoff from these chemical companies so tempting that our government would rather poison its own people than provide a simple label?

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For some of us that have known about this "plague" for years this farmer is preaching to the choir, but if this is new to you and/or shows a more urgent call and doesn't get you to thinking about what we are eating for profits sake then I don't understand your views. I urge everyone to read the full article.

I know the wife of a farmer who is a hair stylist and she had told me he had been "losing" his mindset at times and stumbling when he walked. She said he was in his early 50's so it wasn't "old age". I asked her if he had worked around Monsanto seed and she told me he had sold it for years and also used it around the farm. She said she had heard something about it causing neurological issues but they had only been to their family doctor about his problems. I encouraged her to have her husband see a neurologist. I don't know what the outcome was but it would come as no surprise to me if he did have issues from being around the seed and the dust so much.

This is very important! As we all know yesterday when we said thanks for all our blessings the one you can't "buy" is your health and that goes for the 1% too!