Food Fight

Do you know what you are eating?



This is all true. GMOS are everywhere. And many food companies that appear to be rivals are actually owned by the same company, which makes it hard to separate out true food. (Explained more here: GMO Free USA) But what does one do if one is poor and those cheap, high in GMO foods are all there is??

I wish I knew. I tried to find a way and haven't succeeded yet. Framers Markets are very limited in my area and often the local farmers charge above and beyond my budget when purchased from them directly. If you are like me, in the same boat, doesn't despair if you, like me, end up buying a GMO food or starve to death.

IT WILL GET BETTER!

How? Isn't that what the horrible Monsanto and others want?

Yes that is what they want. However NEVER EVER let that stop you from fighting for more affordable organic food. Never let that stop you from explaining to farmers that if you only have a few bucks to your name, that there has to be a way to buy fresh food from them. Bargain, deal, barter...you get the idea. In my area the only way to get the council to extend the farmers market to more than a few days a year is to get the local growers to understand the need to beg more fresh foods to more people.

Till the fight grows and those that are against GMOS win, there will be too many poor people in my town given money for places like Dollar Tree for food, instead of the farms.

And once again, many foods in stores are all the same....

Sad state of affairs.

Today Greenpeace blocked the entrance to Lumber Liquidators in protest of their involvement with the destruction of the rainforest. I admire the way the police handled it. No arrests. No tear gas. It is the reaction of the people following the media reports that upset me. When one person commented that:

"its sad the way we treat our planet. one day when the trees are all gone and nothing remains but sand we will wonder why we cant breathe. hopefully we can obtain the technological and social standards needed for intergalactic space travel for I fear our races only hope of survival with the continuation of its current practices is to find another planet to suck dry of resources somewhere else. We will pretty much have to become the evil space aliens that run around killing off other planets to sustain their own societies."

another responded with the ever classic answer of idiocy:

"we have more trees now then in the past" followed by another ones comment of: "we have never run out of anything - Plenty to last your lifetime and more to come"

My answer to this is a big NO. The effect trees has on us is more than the number of them. Size, age, type, location on earth, etc all play a big part of our health and well being. If you cut down one big 100 plus year old tree and plant two small ones it will not replace the other. All planting trees does is help repair the damage but it will never replace what was missing. To fix the rainforest we need to stop destroying it! Nothing we plant in Oregon, or Russia, or Hawaii can ever replace the rainforest.

Lumber Liquidators is only a small part of the puzzle. Stopping them will only cause anther rainforest hungry company to take over.

A note on todays peaceful protest. It was wonderful of the community to allow the protest to be peaceful. In my area you attempt any such thing and it will get ugly. If more communities followed the examples of Toano then maybe there will be more public displays of outrage towards the damage to not just the rainforest but beyond.

News link:

Greenpeace protests Lumber Liquidators

About the name

I have had many blogs before. And I had to take a personal hiatus for awhile. The name for this blog, this redo of random thoughts, was one that I choose for deep personal reasons. It is not a reflection of the contents. I will not force my blog to be any one style, nor will I allow the tile to reflect just one part of my soul.