GMOs or Healthy Babies
"This is the first study to reveal the presence of circulating PAGMF in
women with and without pregnancy, paving the way for a new field in
reproductive toxicology including nutrition and utero-placental
toxicities." When I read this kind of thing I get a little touchy because my wife is a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurse, and I'm like the canary in the coal mine when it comes to toxic substances in food. And I have two children with cerebral palsy that nobody knows how they got that way at birth. I guarantee there a lot of broken kids out there, whether it is acknowledged by politicians or not.
I'm limiting my diet so much I'm feeling like a monk these days. Less like an Italian monk with their Christian Brothers brandy and more like a Tibetan monk on a mountain top. People in my immediate circle are having issues with food too, like in emergency room visits. This is about the last thing I needed to get a roto-tiller going on the little farm plot of my two offspring. Community garden here we come! Well, maybe just for the circle of gluten intolerant and other intolerant friends. No pun intended.
"The curse causeless does not come" is what they say. The study referenced above is talking about what we put in our bodies, in particular GMO food, and what it's doing to fetuses. Remember, Bt toxin is built right into GMO corn to kill the bugs that may try to eat it. If it will kill bugs, what is it doing to fetuses that start out about the same size? Every study that comes out about GMOs just raises a lot of red flags, and in the case of European scientists, show the damaging effects to mammals who eat it.
It's amazing too, how campaign cash can lower the red flags in a hurry. Tens of thousands of dollars are pouring into Jackson County now to defeat the referendum to ban GMOs in the county. Our own legislators, Rep. Esquivel and Rep. Richardson, tout the magnificence of GMOs like pied pipers. I hope they have comparably leathery consciences for the carnage that appears coming. It's a local issue, why does outside money get to influence the outcome? Richardson is a smart guy, why is he running for governor when the voters outside the Rogue Valley don't know him, and why is he supporting the proliferation of toxic foods in the one spot in Oregon that the big biotech company Syngenta craves? Lots of questions that probably won't get answered in this politically correct, litigious, and self-serving climate.
The city of Grants Pass has a slogan on a sign across their main street that says "It's the Climate." I suppose some of our politicians would like to have one in Medford that says, "It's the Climate for Big Business." Well, newsflash, the small farmers were here first. Go get your campaign cash somewhere else if you just have to have another power trip at election time, and keep your noses out of things that you know nothing about, apparently.
There is huge potential in Jackson County to supply food that is free of all the toxins besetting our food supply. This is the only place in the country that has a chance to grow food free of being contaminated by invasive and toxic plant forms. These small farms could grow to very large proportions and employ thousands, to supply a country desperate for clean food for them and their babies. Not to mention the fact that Crater Lake could be supplying plenty of good water for good food for forever, as the other bread-baskets dry up further south.
Just saying. Not only doesn't the local paper connect the dots, they will put the pro-GMO hype in an article about farmers organizing to protect their farms from Syngenta. That Mail Tribune article just flabbergasted me. I doubt very much any Syngenta farmer was there at the organizing meeting of conscious farmers to be interviewed.
The vote on banning GMOs to where they came from will be in May, hence the flood of money from the biotech crowd. They like to grow sugar beets here for the seed, then send the seed around to grow the crops. My farmer friend, John Finley, in Kodiak, Alaska was one of the first, if not the first, organic farmer in Montana once upon a time. Until he heard about the gold mine in Kodiak called king crab. He said that the valley he was in, near Missoula, had been intensely cultivated in beets for twenty years. Now the soil is so depleted it just lays fallow with a few cows wandering around.
Same thing in the Missoula Valley. They called Missoula the 'Garden City' at one time for all the crops, especially beets. There was a large sugar beet processing plant there. Now not much of food value grows out of the ground and the plant is shuttered. Beets seem to have a way of depleting the heck out of an area. Think about how substantial a sugar beet is. That's a lot coming out of the ground to produce such a big organism. Well, there's another red flag for Sal E. and Dennis R. to haul down.
Let me see how to summarize the risks GMOs pose to our area: depletion of the soil maybe irreparably, reduce the local work force through industrial monoculture, cross-breed with organic crops so farmers lose their markets and devastate that thriving industrial sector, contribute to a growing regional and national health problem through toxins and sugar consumption, (when the FDA starts to warn the public about the connection of sugar to cancer, Syngenta will up and leave anyway) cross-contamination of wild plant species, possibly affecting wildlife too, the bee pollinator populations have dropped 70% and the finger is pointing to pesticides sprayed on GMO crops for one.
These risk factors are all provable in varying degrees. Not like the GMO lobby saying the County would have too hard a time enforcing the ban. 64 other distinct governmental districts around the world don't seem to have a problem doing it. Are we just stupid or something? The only thing we would be stupid in, is to believe the shills that are trying to foist GMOs on us. Remember, there are no scientific studies that say GMOs are good for you, but quite the opposite and more are being performed all the time. Do the right thing folks.
I'm limiting my diet so much I'm feeling like a monk these days. Less like an Italian monk with their Christian Brothers brandy and more like a Tibetan monk on a mountain top. People in my immediate circle are having issues with food too, like in emergency room visits. This is about the last thing I needed to get a roto-tiller going on the little farm plot of my two offspring. Community garden here we come! Well, maybe just for the circle of gluten intolerant and other intolerant friends. No pun intended.
"The curse causeless does not come" is what they say. The study referenced above is talking about what we put in our bodies, in particular GMO food, and what it's doing to fetuses. Remember, Bt toxin is built right into GMO corn to kill the bugs that may try to eat it. If it will kill bugs, what is it doing to fetuses that start out about the same size? Every study that comes out about GMOs just raises a lot of red flags, and in the case of European scientists, show the damaging effects to mammals who eat it.
It's amazing too, how campaign cash can lower the red flags in a hurry. Tens of thousands of dollars are pouring into Jackson County now to defeat the referendum to ban GMOs in the county. Our own legislators, Rep. Esquivel and Rep. Richardson, tout the magnificence of GMOs like pied pipers. I hope they have comparably leathery consciences for the carnage that appears coming. It's a local issue, why does outside money get to influence the outcome? Richardson is a smart guy, why is he running for governor when the voters outside the Rogue Valley don't know him, and why is he supporting the proliferation of toxic foods in the one spot in Oregon that the big biotech company Syngenta craves? Lots of questions that probably won't get answered in this politically correct, litigious, and self-serving climate.
The city of Grants Pass has a slogan on a sign across their main street that says "It's the Climate." I suppose some of our politicians would like to have one in Medford that says, "It's the Climate for Big Business." Well, newsflash, the small farmers were here first. Go get your campaign cash somewhere else if you just have to have another power trip at election time, and keep your noses out of things that you know nothing about, apparently.
There is huge potential in Jackson County to supply food that is free of all the toxins besetting our food supply. This is the only place in the country that has a chance to grow food free of being contaminated by invasive and toxic plant forms. These small farms could grow to very large proportions and employ thousands, to supply a country desperate for clean food for them and their babies. Not to mention the fact that Crater Lake could be supplying plenty of good water for good food for forever, as the other bread-baskets dry up further south.
Just saying. Not only doesn't the local paper connect the dots, they will put the pro-GMO hype in an article about farmers organizing to protect their farms from Syngenta. That Mail Tribune article just flabbergasted me. I doubt very much any Syngenta farmer was there at the organizing meeting of conscious farmers to be interviewed.
The vote on banning GMOs to where they came from will be in May, hence the flood of money from the biotech crowd. They like to grow sugar beets here for the seed, then send the seed around to grow the crops. My farmer friend, John Finley, in Kodiak, Alaska was one of the first, if not the first, organic farmer in Montana once upon a time. Until he heard about the gold mine in Kodiak called king crab. He said that the valley he was in, near Missoula, had been intensely cultivated in beets for twenty years. Now the soil is so depleted it just lays fallow with a few cows wandering around.
Same thing in the Missoula Valley. They called Missoula the 'Garden City' at one time for all the crops, especially beets. There was a large sugar beet processing plant there. Now not much of food value grows out of the ground and the plant is shuttered. Beets seem to have a way of depleting the heck out of an area. Think about how substantial a sugar beet is. That's a lot coming out of the ground to produce such a big organism. Well, there's another red flag for Sal E. and Dennis R. to haul down.
Let me see how to summarize the risks GMOs pose to our area: depletion of the soil maybe irreparably, reduce the local work force through industrial monoculture, cross-breed with organic crops so farmers lose their markets and devastate that thriving industrial sector, contribute to a growing regional and national health problem through toxins and sugar consumption, (when the FDA starts to warn the public about the connection of sugar to cancer, Syngenta will up and leave anyway) cross-contamination of wild plant species, possibly affecting wildlife too, the bee pollinator populations have dropped 70% and the finger is pointing to pesticides sprayed on GMO crops for one.
These risk factors are all provable in varying degrees. Not like the GMO lobby saying the County would have too hard a time enforcing the ban. 64 other distinct governmental districts around the world don't seem to have a problem doing it. Are we just stupid or something? The only thing we would be stupid in, is to believe the shills that are trying to foist GMOs on us. Remember, there are no scientific studies that say GMOs are good for you, but quite the opposite and more are being performed all the time. Do the right thing folks.
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