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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 18 2008 : 2:03:06 PM
(please feel free to delete this if it shouldn't be posted here.)
I found this to be rather interesting:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2OCxB5u2GFxFNyph0jY49OuLhbAD939AQHOA
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| knittingmom |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:57:56 AM
Let's all hear it for Frankenfoods! (just kidding). Can we all say ewwwww.
Cements the fact that I'm going to continue to buy organic, local produce and meats.
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| Alee |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:51:51 AM
Hi Kris!
You bring up some excellent points! We do need to watch what we are feeding the animals as well!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Kris Sherrill |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:44:05 AM
I've been thinking about this for days now and worrying,too. If our food is so bad for us, how much worse is it for our animals? We are what we eat, right? Why would I give my animals this GE and GM feed if we eat the meat and eggs and drink the milk? It's going straight to us what we give them. Unless they are strictly grass fed. If I don't give my goats 16% all grain, I hardly get any milk and I'm just waisting my time. But I was just searching on line for organic feed producers in Ga. and it's SOOOOO expensive!!! I cannot afford it. So I will keep looking for a place that will make it for me and just not put corn in it. I think I will stop feeding my chickens because all the 3-way scratch is is mostly corn, too. And they are slowing down anyway.
When I get the calves weaned in the next few weeks, they will be grass and hay fed only, too.
Also the pigs will be getting only scraps and milk plus the grass in the pasture from now on.
This is just really getting out of hand here. And very annoying, too.
(I hope this is the right site!) |
| Alee |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 05:41:31 AM
Cheryl- That is great! Is your husband organic minded?
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:52:35 PM
I didn't used to be much of an activist but then I met and married my 2nd husband and he is very interested in everything that goes on. Politics, science, health....you name it he and I have discussions about it. Some calm and mutually satisfying. Some with very opposite opinions but even though they can get a bit heated are always done with love and understanding. Since knowing him I've learned who all of my senators and representatives are the how to contact them. They've all had nice emails from me on a variety of issues. I think they'll be hearing from me again soon...laughing. It's so easy to contact and email our politicians these days to let them know our feelings on various issues. You hear of so many medical conditions today. I myself have fibromyalgia and I wonder.....what caused this to happen to me? Was it something I ate over the years? Something in my water supply? Who knows anymore but it's so time for this to dallying with our food supply to stop! (Signed a concerned activist citizen 
Happy farmgirl sister #353
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| Alee |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 7:48:23 PM
PS I wanted to say I have been eating down my stash of MaryJanesFarm foods because we have been sick. Not only do they taste amazing, I felt more full and satisfied and the tastes were much more clean and pleasant than anything else "instant" that I have ever had.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Alee |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 7:46:53 PM
It just makes you cringe when you see commercials for food on TV doesn't it? I don't know about you gals, but it make my stomach knot up! My body doesn't want that garbage in it!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 5:52:00 PM
I keep saying no product, no demand. Stop buying, urge your friends and family to plant a co-op garden. When their bottom line starts to show red, they aint got nothin honey!
Dawn #279
MJ's Heirloom Mavens/Mother Hen
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| LivingWell4You |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:48:08 AM
THIS is how we fight. We gain our strength from each other. How many of us were unaware of the Monsanto issue a year ago? a month ago? a week ago? How many people do you know who still are unaware? This site is our exercise room where we build our muscle. Then we go out to fight the good fight by making our voices heard (like Cheryl and others) and, with care, compassion and concern, educating anyone who will listen. "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." (Did I get that right?)
Local honey has allergy-fighting benefits. Since the bees pollinate the local flowers, the honey contains some of the allergens and allows your body to build up a resistance. We can share our "anti-GE honey" with our community so they will become more resistant to the Big M. Since they only seem to hear in $$$, let your $$$ do the talking when you go shopping.
(Who is this person? Rene, what have your started??? There's an activist inside of me that keeps pushing to get out.)
God bless -
Karen
Farmgirl Sista #311 |
| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:29:43 AM
Here!Here! I second the motion. I pledge to do the same!
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
| Alee |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:28:38 AM
I am more determined than ever before to get out of the conventional food system. Next year the garden is going to produce for me and I am making a vow right now to start shopping organic as much as possible. Even if we have to buy less food (we eat too much anyhow) I am going to make a change for good in our lives!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:18:05 AM
This just sickens me. How do we fight this when these people just can't see the dangerous road they are going down. Disgusting. Mice are such carriers of disease, yeah, I want mice genes in my pork, ugh. I too am going to do what Alee said, exit, stage left, from their food chain.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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| kpaints |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 09:09:36 AM
This is just plain horrifying!! Why mess with Mother Nature? I saw what Monsanto is doing to the corn all over the world by their idiotic ways, imagine what this will do to 'our animals'! It's all about money!!!!! I don't eat any kind of meat, no chicken or pork as I am allergic but that does not mean I don't care about what they are trying to do. If this works they will just go on to ruin something else.
Find your joy and live it. http://cheneybaglady.blogspot.com/ |
| Tapestry |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 07:43:33 AM
I clicked on a link at the bottom that I thought was going to allow me to comment about this on their site. I chose food and clicked GO only to be taken to a page that IE said wasn't found. How convenient....LOL I do see that they say consumers can contact them by mail or phone and they list a number on the page where I clicked GO. I think there should be a rash of phone calls and letters from farm girl sisters. What do you all think?
Happy farmgirl sister #353
Look for rainbows instead of mud puddles
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 05:15:24 AM
Alee, I feel the same way. Maybe we could set up a "thwap line" like in the movie "Airplane" and we could all have our turn at them!
It seems the only thing we can really do is grow/raise our own, hunt/fish and buy organic and do our best to convince others that they need to do the same. If their GE food isn't selling, they'll get the message! I don't know how else to be taken seriously. I don't feel like those mucky mucks are actually listening to us.
Misty, I have felt for a long time that the things they do to our food is EXACTLY why there are so many people with some sort of disease now. I find so many people who are suffering from one thing or another, it seems that only the very young appear healthy and even then there are a lot of kids with health issues who should not have ANY. Like Alee had mentioned in another thread - sugar beet growers are being sold Round-Up ready seed so they can just douse their field with Round-Up and not kill their beets. We all know darn well that the beets will absorb that stuff and then be processed into our sugar. Can you just imagine the health consequences of ingesting Round-Up?!
I feel like no one is listening or cares because all they see is $$$. How do we get them to listen? March on Washington? Picket grocery stores and non-organic farms? I feel that we need to do something but I don't know what.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 6:45:16 PM
goodness. This makes the new chapter's purpose all the more crucial. I agree with Lisa (Idaho), this is going to go terribly wrong. We (Gov't, Scientists, Americans etc) have got to stop playing God.... I am almost scared to eat anything anymore. I really do think twice about a lot of stuff (I eat) and have started shopping the perimeter of the store like MJ mentions in her book. this is horrifying. I want it stopped. I want to stop it now...
Dawn #279
MJ's Heirloom Mavens/Mother Hen
http://harvestthymefarm.blogspot.com
"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one!"...Calamity Jane |
| kmbrown |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 5:27:46 PM
Do you ever wonder if any of these "great" ideas are in any way related to the eppedemic of cancer, althzimers, autism, multiple sclerosis and a host of other things that seem to be ever growing diognoses.
Its something I've kinda wondered about....just wondering if anybody else agrees or if anyone has ever read if there is any research going on with this stuff.
Thanks for keeping us posted. This makes hotdogs look like prime-rib. (no offense to the hotdog lovers out there :-)) |
| LivingWell4You |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 5:22:25 PM
Oops, sorry! Maybe I'll just call you "my belle" from now on (Beatles song - if you can remember that far back!). I thought Tina and Michelle came out my fingers. Sometimes they go faster than my brain!
God bless -
Karen
Farmgirl Sista #311 |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 4:08:34 PM
ha..Karen..I have never been called Michelle before..it is actually Tina Michelle..or mostly Tina..Tina Michelle when I was in trouble..he he.
but I go by just plain Tina most of the time.
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| LivingWell4You |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 3:30:59 PM
Thanks, Michelle. I thought I was looking for a document to add my signature to. Since I need to leave a comment, I want to leave a well-thought-out one.
Everyone, you have until November 18, 2008 to post your views.
God bless -
Karen
Farmgirl Sista #311 |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 3:20:58 PM
here is where to petition against this:
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/GEAnimals.htm
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 3:19:34 PM
it is at the very bottom of the article..it is a link to a website where you can sign the petition.
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| LivingWell4You |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 3:01:03 PM
Lisa, thank you, thank you, thank you! I just read the other day that something they fed cows is what caused the mad cow disease. It was because they were putting cow parts in their feed. The cows are vegetarians so what on earth are they doing putting meat by-products in their food for - much less making them cow cannibals? What are they thinking? Can you feel how hard I'm pounding the keys? They just keep slapping band-aids on the problem without looking for the cause. Which is easier - create a genetically-engineered cow that's resistant to mad-cow disease or switch their food to a healthier version? Gee, let me think about that one.................
People have gotten so separated from the source of their food that they don't think about what it consists of. They just pick up a package of chicken (I can't even bring myself to picture in my head what they go through) or lettuce (sprayed so heavily with pesticides that the workers are covered head to foot to "protect" their health - although it's perfectly alright if we eat it!!!) and think they're eating healthy. And that's if they actually prepare their own food. The conventional food we eat today is not the same food our parents - and especially not the same our grandparents ate.
Annika, you are so on target with the bigger/better/faster/more mindset that people have today. We're moving so fast that we aren't acting anymore, we're reacting. Don't have time to think about the consequences, just have to deal with getting through the moment.
Really there are so many factors involved in this. We could talk about how society now expects women to work and 50 years ago it was just the opposite. Because of that, women aren't home to cook, fast food and frozen food is much more common and who has time to do the research. It's easier to just turn off the TV than to listen to anything that might even hint that what we're doing isn't healthy. I have had people tell me "I don't want think about it" when I point out that the hormones given to animals are then given to you when you eat the meat. And I am much calmer talking to them than I am here - this is my venting board.
And now, as soon as I get some addresses, I'm going to start writing some letters. An activist I've never been, but everyone has their tipping point and several things have been tipping me lately. Time to make some noise where it hopefully counts.
God bless -
Karen
Farmgirl Sista #311 |
| Rebekka Mae |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 2:59:09 PM
Tina- I can't find the petition- I am sure it is right in front of me but help;) Rebekka
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf |
| Annika |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 2:17:20 PM
This is revolting! I'm only buying local, from NON GE farming people and growing as much of my own as possible....ewwwww!
I won't even get into the way that food animals are treated in the big factory farms...this is just sad. Forget the fact that even though we are eating the animals, they ARE living creatures and deserve a measure of dignity and decent treatment.
I want heirloom everything...
ICK! And they are not going to tell us a darned thing either unless we make them.
I guess it isn't so much the pigs with mouse genes in them that bugs me, though that is just wrong somehow...what is wrong with plain ol' pigs anyway? If you want to not have pork in your diet or cut down due to the fat or whatever eat less BACON!!! fer cryin' out loud!
Its the not telling us, not giving us fair warning that bothers me. If some people want to eat that, well, fine, but I sure don't.
Annika
Farmgirl sister #13
Mud Hen Queen
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