Friday, October 1, 2010
winter vegetable
Each week we are to chose a new organic item we have not tried before. Naturally if I run out of local ideas I can consider other organic packaged items.
This week I chose a parsnip. I just was not raised up eating them and they never really felt that interesting to me. I have to tell you they are very good. I boiled it with cabbage, carrott, onion and potato. it had a bite like a radish and texture like turnip. I will deffinately experiment again with this new chosen root vegetable. Remember to peel it first.
Monday, September 27, 2010
consumer beware!
My Herbs
This weeks lessons on nutrition is already blowing me away! We have been asked to view two movie/videos for this week. http://www.food,inc.movie.com/ and http://www.thefutureoffoodvideo.com/
The first movie I had seen before, and must say I was shocked and appalled that people would be so greedy and stupid to jeopardise this planet in such a way for all of man kind. The second made me feel helpless and I cried half way through realising the future impact on our world.
You owe it to yourself, family and friends to view both . I will never look at my food pantry the same again. Especially that this information tells you that you do not have to have it this way. We have a right to know what is in our foods and how it is handled. No one has the right morally to make such critical decisions about your body. Did you know that GMO foods effect antibiotics? I have not had any in the last few years but I have taken medicine and it effects all pharmaceuticals. If you have a child for instance that needs antibiotics for respritory infections, asthma, or other areas, these antibiotics may not be available or work due to modifications that enter products that currently are used to produce your medicine? This is because the products grown that have been modified, have a antibiotic resistance strain so it does not interfere with the chemical engineering of the seed.
Remember that old saying what goes around comes around? Well it has. Salmon that is modified, will NOT be labeled as such because the government thinks it will only confuse the consumer. That's right folks they have decided that we are too stupid to understand what we are eating. See http://www.naturalnews.com/ and www.Washintonpost.com/wp-dy
Here is another kick in the head. There are only 4 seed companies controlling the entire market.
There are only 4 major companies that control the beef market. The projected view of retail in the next 10 years is that only 6 retailers will control the market and only one of them is in America and it is Walmart. We will not have the choices to our food supply and they will be making all the choices for us.
Europe has banned GMO's in products. Round up co. is the Monsanto co. that developed canola seed modification. They have sued several farmers for cross pollination in farmers fields saying the farmers have stolen their seed patten. Apparently we are now responsible for the control of bees, birds, wind, and natural pollination methods. If you as a gardener, are found to have and gmo modification linked to their patten, you too are liabel for law suite as you will be considered thief.
I think the last straw is that seed produced today is being modified to be terminator seed. It produces seed that grows a plant we eat, then in return produces a seed that dies and does not produce. There are 15 pattens of these seeds today. This is so farmers can not save their own seed but are forced to buy from the seed market. 1.4 billion farmers depend on saving their own seed.
Are you now as angry as I am? Think, if the seeds can not reproduce, how long will it be before we have no food. We are just one major disaster away from the original seeds being destroyed that was used to grow the crop the seed was taken from and modified. I do not want to be geneticlly modified nor do I want to eat foods I have no idea what is in them.
Pre world war one our food was organic and clean. No one here on this planet is not effected by how our food comes to us. Please, please take the time to think organic. I personally will be changing my food habits as quickly as I am able.
The first movie I had seen before, and must say I was shocked and appalled that people would be so greedy and stupid to jeopardise this planet in such a way for all of man kind. The second made me feel helpless and I cried half way through realising the future impact on our world.
You owe it to yourself, family and friends to view both . I will never look at my food pantry the same again. Especially that this information tells you that you do not have to have it this way. We have a right to know what is in our foods and how it is handled. No one has the right morally to make such critical decisions about your body. Did you know that GMO foods effect antibiotics? I have not had any in the last few years but I have taken medicine and it effects all pharmaceuticals. If you have a child for instance that needs antibiotics for respritory infections, asthma, or other areas, these antibiotics may not be available or work due to modifications that enter products that currently are used to produce your medicine? This is because the products grown that have been modified, have a antibiotic resistance strain so it does not interfere with the chemical engineering of the seed.
Remember that old saying what goes around comes around? Well it has. Salmon that is modified, will NOT be labeled as such because the government thinks it will only confuse the consumer. That's right folks they have decided that we are too stupid to understand what we are eating. See http://www.naturalnews.com/ and www.Washintonpost.com/wp-dy
Here is another kick in the head. There are only 4 seed companies controlling the entire market.
There are only 4 major companies that control the beef market. The projected view of retail in the next 10 years is that only 6 retailers will control the market and only one of them is in America and it is Walmart. We will not have the choices to our food supply and they will be making all the choices for us.
Europe has banned GMO's in products. Round up co. is the Monsanto co. that developed canola seed modification. They have sued several farmers for cross pollination in farmers fields saying the farmers have stolen their seed patten. Apparently we are now responsible for the control of bees, birds, wind, and natural pollination methods. If you as a gardener, are found to have and gmo modification linked to their patten, you too are liabel for law suite as you will be considered thief.
I think the last straw is that seed produced today is being modified to be terminator seed. It produces seed that grows a plant we eat, then in return produces a seed that dies and does not produce. There are 15 pattens of these seeds today. This is so farmers can not save their own seed but are forced to buy from the seed market. 1.4 billion farmers depend on saving their own seed.
Are you now as angry as I am? Think, if the seeds can not reproduce, how long will it be before we have no food. We are just one major disaster away from the original seeds being destroyed that was used to grow the crop the seed was taken from and modified. I do not want to be geneticlly modified nor do I want to eat foods I have no idea what is in them.
Pre world war one our food was organic and clean. No one here on this planet is not effected by how our food comes to us. Please, please take the time to think organic. I personally will be changing my food habits as quickly as I am able.
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