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Tapestry
True Blue Farmgirl
1223 Posts
Cheryl
Wisconsin
USA
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 Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 07:43:33 AM
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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 
http://tapestrysimaginings.blogspot.com/ |
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kpaints
True Blue Farmgirl
1564 Posts
karen
cheney
wa
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Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 09:09:36 AM
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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/ |
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
2164 Posts
Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:18:05 AM
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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
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:28:38 AM
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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
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our blog: www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
2164 Posts
Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:29:43 AM
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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 |
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LivingWell4You
True Blue Farmgirl
1411 Posts
Karen
Hillsboro
MO
USA
1411 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:48:08 AM
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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 |
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deeredawn
True Blue Farmgirl
2306 Posts
Dawn
Cordova
TN
USA
2306 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 5:52:00 PM
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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
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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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 7:46:53 PM
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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
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our blog: www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 7:48:23 PM
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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
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our blog: www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
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Tapestry
True Blue Farmgirl
1223 Posts
Cheryl
Wisconsin
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 11:52:35 PM
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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
Look for rainbows instead of mud puddles
http://tapestrysimaginings.blogspot.com/ |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
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Kris Sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Kris
Chickamauga
Ga.
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:44:05 AM
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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!) |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
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knittingmom
True Blue Farmgirl
665 Posts
AnneMarie
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
665 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:57:56 AM
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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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