Tag: GMO

Fake Meat: Big Food’s Attempt To Further Industrialize What We Eat

Authored by Vandana Shiva via ConsortiumNews.com,

We need to decolonize our food cultures and our minds of food imperialism…

Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together mechanically and artificially in labs and factories. Food is life. Food holds the contributions of all beings that make the food web, and it holds the potential of maintaining and regenerating the web of life. Food also holds the potential for health and disease, depending on how it was grown and processed. Food is therefore the living currency of the web of life.

As an ancient Upanishad reminds us “Everything is food, everything is something else’s food.”

Good food and real food are the basis of health.

Bad food, industrial food, fake food is the basis of disease.

Hippocrates said “Let food be thy medicine.” In Ayurveda, India’s ancient science of life, food is called “sarvausadha” the medicine that cures all disease.

Industrial food systems have reduced food to a commodity, to “stuff” that can then be constituted in the lab. In the process both the planet’s health and our health has been nearly destroyed.

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Monsanto Slammed With $289 Million Verdict In Historic ‘RoundUp’ Cancer Lawsuit

Via ZeroHedge

A San Francisco Jury awarded $289 million in damages to a former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, who said Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller gave him terminal cancer. The award consists of $40 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.

Johnson’s trial was fast-tracked due to the severe state of his non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system he says was triggered by Roundup and Ranger Pro, a similar glyphosate herbicide that he applied up to 30 times per year. His doctors didn’t think he’d live to live to see the verdict.

Johnson testified that he had been involved in two accidents during his work in which he was doused with the product, the first of which happened in 2012. Two years later, the 46-year-old father of two was diagnosed with lymphoma – which has covered as much as 80% of his body in lesions.

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The Evil Of GMO Foods; It Will Mess You Up!!

We have at least one beloved poster here (SSS) who has no concerns about eating GMO Foods …. and says those who do are pussies. Lol

We have another beloved poster here (Muck About) who thinks genetic modification is a great idea … like modifying human genes so we can breath under water.

This really well written article (complex info explained plainly) should at least give all readers a reason to pause and reconsider.

I already eat zero soy. I never ever eat farmed salmon. I’ve probably reduced corn consumption by 90%. Corn, in some shape or form, is in almost all (processed) foods, so it’s hard to eliminate completely. However, this is the year I’m going to try damned hard to get closer to 100% avoidance.

I know we’ve beaten this topic to death here over the years, so I don’t expect many comments, and that’s OK. Maybe this rehash will cause one or two folk to reconsider what they eat … and thus save them from future health problems, and that will be worth it.

Justremember what I consider the Two Golden Rules Of Good Health.

#1 — You are what you eat.

#2 — You are what you eat ate.

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FOOLED BY GMO LIES

Via Nassim Taleb

Forget Banks – GMOs Are The New “Too Big To Fail’ System

Authored by Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, originally posted at The NY Times,

Before the crisis that started in 2007, both of us believed that the financial system was fragile and unsustainable, contrary to the near ubiquitous analyses at the time.

Now, there is something vastly riskier facing us, with risks that entail the survival of the global ecosystem — not the financial system. This time, the fight is against the current promotion of genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.s.

Our critics held that the financial system was improved thanks to the unwavering progress of science and technology, which had blessed finance with more sophisticated economic insight. But the “tail risks,” or the effect from rare but monstrously consequential events, we held, had been increasing, owing to increasing complexity and globalization. Given that almost nobody was paying attention to the risks, we set ourselves and our clients to be protected from an eventual collapse of the banking system, which subsequently happened to the benefit of those who were prepared.

The fallacies used in the arguments against us at the time were as follows:

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The Dissident Dad – What the F*** Happened to Our Food?

Guest Post by The Dissident Dad

I’m no nutritionist. In fact, as I write this I am probably about 50 pounds overweight, which I guess depending on how you look at it could indeed make me a food expert. But for the most part, I’ve learned as an adult that I have horrible eating habits. I was raised like many other millennials. McDonald’s was a greatly anticipated treat at least once a week, and at home my mother made us tacos, meatloaf, cheese burgers, spaghetti, fried chicken and pork chops. Lots of potatoes, corn and 2% milk in the mornings with my Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Basically, my mom raised us on a diet of death. She didn’t know, of course, that the food industry was controlled by a few large corporations, or that the FDA was completely controlled by the same interests. I remember doing a micro-documentary a few years ago connecting all the power players in D.C. who were in charge of SNAP (food stamps), to Pepsi-Frito Lay, Coke, Nestle and 7-Eleven. My mom, who raised me in the 80s and early 90s, didn’t have the Internet, endless amount of food documentaries, or even the organic boom that has given us healthier options in our grocery stores.

As a parent today, I do have those tools. I have seen those documentaries, and as a father, having this information has transformed teaching my children about food into another responsibility.

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WHEN GMO SPEAKS…..

Jeremy Grantham and his bright folks at GMO, which manages billions, have just updated their 7 year return forecasts for different asset classes. They are predicting a NEGATIVE real return on stocks over the next 7 years, based on current valuations. Jim Cramer and the rest of the CNBC crowd would scoff at this outrageous prediction. Everyone knows stocks for the long run always works. Don’t fight the Fed. We’ve reached a new permanent high.

I take you back in time to yesteryear. It is December 31,1999. The Fed has been lowering interest rates in order to alleviate all of the Y2K impacts to computers and businesses around the world. Your brother in law is day trading Dot.com stocks. The stock market is hitting new highs every day. What could possible go wrong in this new and exciting internet age? Jeremy Grantham and his bright folks at GMO come out with their 10 year return forecast and predict that stocks will provide a NEGATIVE 1.9% real return over the next decade. They are laughed at and scorned. Please see the actual results versus their predictions below.