Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:39:33 -0500, you wrote:


> Buying local, fresh, unprocessed foods IS good, no, EXCELLENT....
>BUT the point with demanding labeling has to do with GMOs.  Pat, you still 
>are eating GMO soybeans, and probably wheat too.  

This is not correct.  With all due respect, I probably know
what I am buying or not buying better than you do.  

I am buying specifically NON-GMO soybeans and NON-GMO wheat
from growers who specifically state that their crops are
NON-GMO.  I suppose they could be lying, but I doubt it.
One has to trust occasionally.  

Soybeans:

http://store.yahoo.com/fftosteds-store/higqualnonfo.html

Note that they say "All our Food Soybeans are 100% NON-GMO
and grown, tended, harvested and packaged right here on our
5th generation family farm."

As to the wheat:  

http://www.wheatmontana.com/faq.asp

Note that they say:
'WE DO NOT USE G.M.O. (GENETICALLY MODIFIED) VARIETIES OF
ANY KIND. NO G.M.O.!!'

>We (the public) should be 
>demanding GMO labeling.  The processing is NOT what's putting GMOs on our 
>plates!  Processing is just putting another whole mirid of poisons in our 
>food.:-(

One point of buying/eating non-processed foods (and
preparing them yourself) is, of course, that you CAN get
non-GMO food.  I know what our bread contains:  we grind the
wheat and bake the bread here.  I know what our tofu, tempeh
and soymilk contain:  we make them here.  I know what our
pancakes or muffins contain:  we grind the wheat and make
them here.  Etc.  

There are of course quite a few other reasons to buy
unprocessed foods, but being able to get non-GMO food is
certainly one reason to do it.

I do, of course, favor specifically labeling GMO food as
such, and suggest that you contact your Senators and
Representative in Congress and tell them that you want this.
I've already done so:  unfortunately my two Senators and my
Representative do not agree with me about this (or about
anything else whatsoever).

Pat
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