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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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Brew Crew
True Blue Farmgirl
676 Posts
Molly
Arizona
676 Posts |
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Rebekka Mae
True Blue Farmgirl
965 Posts
Rebekka
Moscow
ID
USA
965 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 18 2008 : 2:16:18 PM
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Gross! I am glad we can buy local meat and meat from the Co-op when we do. I really do feel so cheated by the FDA- I mean really, it is fine to eat cloned animals, genetically modified animals, really?!?
Vote with your dollars, write to the FDA and reject his nonsense- super chickens!!!EWWWW
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2008 : 2:38:36 PM
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Thanks for posting this, one more thing to be horrified about, and I appreciate the information. I live in a rural area, but there is a large organic farmeing contingent here in Maine, so I am lucky to be able to get food that hasn't been redesigned...
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2008 : 2:47:44 PM
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Oh my gosh! Gross Gross Gross! I can't wait until we can grow all our own meat like Miss Wilma does. Until then I am going to strive to buy local meat. I think there is an organic rancher just down the road a bit.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2008 : 2:48:08 PM
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Tina,
UGH! Can you even wrap your head around this. I think people wonder why worry about Genetically altered veggies and fruit.. and then we see where the "slippery slope" leads. it is never about one thing.. it just gets creepier and creepier...and the sad, sad, sad, part is "WHY"?, because you can?, when we start reading about how the genetically altered veggies dont meet the same nutritional requirments as the "normal" stuff, I just don't understand and it frustrates me....It is why we need each other, and need to have this place to "talk" things through.... thanks, I love learning from you!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
http://farmchicksfarm.blogspot.com/
"Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~Michael P. Garafalo
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Kris Sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Kris
Chickamauga
Ga.
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2008 : 7:17:12 PM
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I am so glad i live in a place where we can raise our own food and not have to rely on the FDA or USDA to tell me what I have to eat. I have not had any faith in them for years now. I don't believe any label I read, either, because noone is required to tell us what is really in the food we eat. And I feel sorry for all the poor little choldren that are forced to eat the filth that is put in front of them 5 days a week at schools and told it's 'good for them' It's all just a bunch of lies. And this is just the beginning. Well, it's really been going on for years burt people are becoming more aware of it because of the "real food movement" and more and more people are growing their own food now.
People need to start thinking about where this all going. It's just going to get worse. I don't know what's going on with the NIAS balogna, I haven't heard anything in awhile. But I will not voluntarily put anything into my animals.
I'm glad you brought this up, Tina. It's an eye opener.
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 06:10:14 AM
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Eventually, something will go VERY wrong with this kind of genetic manipulation. There's no way of knowing exactly what will happen or when. But rest assured this is NOT what nature intended.
So, they manipulate a cow's genetic makeup so they'll be less prone to mad cow? So, what, that means they can go back to giving them feed with other cows in it again?
With all of the health issues that people are having already from what they do to our food; is no one learning anything? Or is it just that money takes priority over the health of our nation and world?
This is just sad. Very sad.
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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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 06:22:13 AM
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I agree, Lisa! It is so sad what they are doing to our food supply. Good thing I am on a track to exiting from "their" food supply and working on creating my own food supply! I just wish I could go "thwap" some of these moguls upside the head and say "What are you THINKING?!"
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 06:44:59 AM
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This sure is a push towards going completely organic! I have to admit, I was reading rather quickly and thought the one paragraph started "Talking pigs"!!! So much for speed-reading at 6:30 in the morning!! At any rate, I don't want to eat that food!
Sharon
Farmgirl Sister #74
Life is messy. Wear your apron! |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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acairnsmom
True Blue Farmgirl
1319 Posts
audrey
cheyenne
wy
1319 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 12:32:21 PM
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Aaacckk! This is horrible but not surprising. They've GE a lot of our vegetables so why not our meat too? Just think, we can make a stew with GE meat, GE vegetables, and then the ingredients will probably come from China and you know it'll be the best meal you've ever eaten and so good for you too! 
All the more reason to grow our own!
Audrey
Toto, we're not in Kansas any more! |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 2:17:20 PM
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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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Rebekka Mae
True Blue Farmgirl
965 Posts
Rebekka
Moscow
ID
USA
965 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 2:59:09 PM
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Tina- I can't find the petition- I am sure it is right in front of me but help;) Rebekka
www.bebebella.etsy.com
As a woman I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf |
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LivingWell4You
True Blue Farmgirl
1411 Posts
Karen
Hillsboro
MO
USA
1411 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 3:01:03 PM
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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
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Edited by - LivingWell4You on Sep 19 2008 3:49:27 PM |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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LivingWell4You
True Blue Farmgirl
1411 Posts
Karen
Hillsboro
MO
USA
1411 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 3:30:59 PM
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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 |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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LivingWell4You
True Blue Farmgirl
1411 Posts
Karen
Hillsboro
MO
USA
1411 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 5:22:25 PM
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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 |
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kmbrown
True Blue Farmgirl
459 Posts
Misty
Waynesboro
Pennsylvania
USA
459 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 5:27:46 PM
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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 :-)) |
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deeredawn
True Blue Farmgirl
2306 Posts
Dawn
Cordova
TN
USA
2306 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 6:45:16 PM
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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 |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 05:15:24 AM
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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)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
My Website:
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