Issue Position: Food Safety/GMO Food/Health

Issue Position

Our food is nutritionally dead and is likely killing us from within! I believe that we either don't know, don't care or don't have the time to investigate everything on a item's ingredient list of which we consume. We do need government involvement in eliminating dangerous additives that most Americans can't comprehend. You can still consume whatever you want, the food just needs to be "fixed', and in my experiences you would never know the difference. There are literally 100's of chemicals added to your food that make it look more pleasing, but not necessarily taste better. In all likelihood it is doing various degrees of damage to our bodies. Let's look at just two - azodiacarbonamide and the more common MSG (monosodium glutamate), both by the way found to cause cancer in rats. Azodiacarbonamide, until recently, was added to Subway's bread, to give it more fluff, it's also found in yoga mats. MSG, found also to cause severe obesity in rats, is not surprisingly still added to almost all forms of junk food. I'm pretty confident that, if you understood and had a choice, you'd ask to hold the MSG and azodiacarbonamide.

The FDA has done an extremely poor job of monitoring ingredients such as those above and Congress has done an even poorer job of keeping abreast of the changes made in the food industry. Maybe even more disturbing is the FDA green lighting nearly all genetically modified foods. With GM foods - the farmer, in conjunction with using harsher pesticides, is able to grow more food faster and cheaper than conventional methods. The trade off is these Frankenstein foods have virtually no nutrients compared to non-GM and those deadly pesticides are introduced into your body and environment. The big winner - Monsanto. Holding most of the GM cards and the patented pesticide poison Roundup. Don't even get me started on their patents on aluminum and barium resistant seeds and plants. Monsantos's monopoly strangle hold is a threat to the health and well being of our country and the people need to be protected by Congress taking action.

Pictured is a corncob test using GMO and organic corns placed side by side in the woods. Note how the squirrels eat mainly the organic corn, only eating the GMO as a last resort. This similar test was shown by a farmer near Chippewa Falls, where a cow was given a choice of each and had similar results. What do animals know that we humans are incapable of figuring out? As a side note, all this farmer's non-GMO corn and others in the region grown traditionally and certified as non-GMO are sent to the west coast for shipment to Japan.

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