Who Controls Our Food?

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Who Controls Our Food?

JoAnn Guest

Nov 04, 2005 15:00 PST

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By Ken Walter

Who Controls Our Food?

 

60 - 70% of the food in your local grocery store is a genetically

modified product (GMO), yet the general population is unaware of this.

 

 

 

Have you ever compared two pieces of fruit, one organic and one from a

conventional farm? If so, you probably found that the same type of fruit

can taste dramatically different depending on its origins. How can this

be? It’s time to start asking the question – who controls our food?

 

The one who controls the food controls the people. We hear promises of

increased yields, decreased pests, more nutritious and less expensive

food, yet we see increased pests and disease and decreased yields, not

to mention the chemicals that we unknowingly ingest.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Malcolm Devine, a food scientist with Aventis, claims that when a

chemical toxin used to kill insects is spliced with a corn seed, the

corn plant that grows from that seed is not toxic to humans. How can

this be? The processing almost certainly destroys the toxin, he

explains. Almost certainly? The fact is that they do not know for sure.

And logically speaking, how does food become more nutritious after a

pesticide gene becomes part of its structure? As far as the amount of

research put into these scientific experiments, it’s interesting to note

that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency regulations require that safety

studies be supplied by the manufacturer themselves and that no

independent or long term tests need to be carried out.

 

The reasons behind genetically modified foods may seem logical, but why

are these foods not labeled? Sixty to seventy percent of the food in

your local grocery store is a genetically modified product (GMO), yet

the general population is unaware of this. In Europe and in Africa, GMO

foods are labeled because the people demanded to know what they were

eating.

 

 

 

 

When we hear about chemical companies who want to help farmers by

supplying better, more broad-spectrum herbicides and pesticides, we

ought to stop and consider their motivations. Who do you really think

they are promoting these products for? The farmer? No. The consumer? Not

likely. Themselves and their shareholders? You bet! The

short-sightedness of these multinational corporations is based on greed,

profit and quite possibly ultimate control of the foods we eat.

 

 

 

 

Where a chemical company sees a weed as competition for their crops, a

biodynamic farmer sees the weed as a sign of nutrient deficient soil.

The weed actually brings minerals and fixes certain nutrients, says

scientist Dave Hudson. The weeds are necessary so that the soil can

remain strong and vital with life. Unfortunately, the people behind the

multinational companies that promote the wonders of the newly invented

foods have probably never had a relationship with any plot of dirt for

any length of time. If they had, they’d learn how the cycles and ecology

of nature and plant growth work over the seasons and years.

 

 

 

 

As a society we need to do some collective revisions to some of our old

food habits. Doing so will directly affect the level of control that

chemical companies have over our food supply. We need to buy real, whole

foods from local shops that support sustainable agriculture and

organic/biodynamic farming methods.

 

 

 

 

The next time you put food or a supplement in your body with the goal of

improving your health, ask if what you’re ingesting fits into a natural

cycle of creation within the food chain. If you find it doesn’t,

consider whether it will fit into the natural cycles of your own body.

The closer we stay to nature and its cycles, the closer we are to

attaining balance and abundance for the entire planet.

 

Genetically

modifying the food that we eat and the food that we feed our children

takes us farther and farther away from the truth. Adding chemicals to

our food and allowing multinational corporations to decide what goes on

our dinner plates will only lead us down a path where our health and the

health of our planet are compromised. There is no better time than now

to educate and empower yourself. Start asking the right questions. Who

controls your food?

 

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