THE GMO WAR WITHIN THE WAR

I've been having difficulty during this Ukrainian war situation trying to remain objective. Frankly, I hate what the West is doing to, and through, the Ukraine,  and I'm sickened at the degree of the corruption of the Ukrainian puppet governments. Really... there's no other way to qualify the post-Maidan governments other than as puppets. We do not need to re-rehearse here what has transpired already regarding the biolabs, what they were doing, the Azov battalions, and so on.

But one of the things lurking in the background of this unnecessary war - unnecessary because the west is ultimately responsible for bringing it about - is the issue of agriculture and GMOs, genetically modified organisms or food crops.  I've been pointing out for some time that the policies of the Ukraine and of  the Russian Federation are diametrically opposed on the issue, the Ukraine in favor of GMOs, and willing to allow the planting of GMO crops and willing to allow special corporate "privileges" for GMO companies like Mon(ster)santo, now owned by the German chemicals giant Bayer, and Russia, which has basically put a moratorium on GMOs until genuine inter-generational testing can be done. One has only to do a search on this website for my many blogs about the subject.  Indeed, many years ago on the late George Ann Hughes' Byte Show, I mentioned the special privileges that the Ukrainian government had extended to Mon(ster)santo and other GMO corporations, including special port privileges along the Black Sea, including the recently hotly contested port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.

To put the point succinctly, one of the many agendas driving this war is the issue of GMOs, and finally, someone else is taking notice according to this article shared by V.T.:

THE FIGHT OVER LAND AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERED AGRICULTURE

The article pulls no punches and states this thesis with a much-needed clarity and concision. Referring to the reversal of a moratorium on farmland sales in the Ukraine, the article notes that a similar phenomenon is driving the consolidation of farmland into fewer and fewer private hands as is occurring in this country, and then it mentioned the culprit behind the scenes:

An earlier administration in Ukraine had instituted the moratorium in order to halt further privatization of The Commons and small farms, which were being bought up by oligarchs and concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. As documented in a series of critical reports over ten years by the Oakland Institute based in California*,* the moratorium on land sales in Ukraine aimed to prevent the acquisition and consolidation of farmland in the hands of the domestic oligarch class and foreign corporations.

The marketization of farmland is part of a series of policy “reforms” that the International Monetary Fund stipulated as a precondition enabling Ukraine to receive $8 billion in loans from the IMF.

Even amid the pandemic there has been “wide-ranging opposition from the Ukrainian public to reversing that ban, with over 64 percent of the people opposed to the creation of a land market, according to an April 2021 poll.”

Additionally, the IMF loan conditions required that Ukraine must also reverse its ban on genetically engineered crops, and enable private corporations like Monsanto to plant its GMO seeds and spray the fields with Monsanto’s Roundup. In that way, Monsanto hopes to break the boycott by a number of countries in Europe of its genetically engineered corn and soy.

It is the thesis of this essay that agricultural competition over land use between the U.S. and Russia—two gigantic capitalist countries with the most powerful nuclear arsenals in the world—is a neglected but important force driving the war in Ukraine. (Emphasis added)

The article then mentioned the concern behind GMOs, and incidentally, in so doing, reprises the statements of the Russian government in rejecting GMOs until genuine long-term intergenerational  and impact studies can be done:

U.S. agriculture relies on two main inputs: migrant farm labor and the monocropping of genetically engineered corn, soy, and other crops designed to tolerate—and thus be saturated with—Monsanto’s cancer-causing herbicide Roundup. The government’s regulatory process is broken, if it ever worked properly at all: Corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Novartis, BASF and the other pesticide and pharmaceutical manufacturers are allowed to mask the truth about the dangers of their products.

They are facilitated in this by the complicity of federal (and global) regulatory agencies, allowing them to intentionally thwart the Precautionary Principle. Where the introduction of a new product or process whose ultimate effects are disputed or unknown, that product or process should be rejected. We need to support the development of international movements opposing the subservience of government agencies to the giant corporations.

Six years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to seize economic opportunities around the growing of food by opposing genetically engineered agriculture and Monsanto’s Roundup, the world’s most widely used herbicide; he initiated a program to eliminate pesticides and genetically engineered crops from Russia’s fields. The goal was to out-compete the U.S. and Canada as the world’s number one and two grain exporters by going organic, which mattered especially in Europe with its stricter laws regarding the import and planting of GMOs.

Monsanto had planned to open its first plant in Russia, but in June 2016 Russia’s State Duma adopted a government bill banning the cultivation and breeding of genetically modified plants and animals, except as used for scientific research purposes. A few weeks later, Putin signed federal law No. 358 prohibiting cultivation of genetically engineered crops. The law also made it illegal to breed genetically engineered animals on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Putin had said he envisioned a future in which Russia would become “the world’s largest supplier of ecologically clean and high-quality organic food.” He called on the country to become completely self-sufficient in food production: “We are not only able to feed ourselves taking into account our lands, water resources; Russia is able to become the largest world supplier of healthful, ecologically clean and high-quality food which the Western producers have long lost, especially given the fact that demand for such products in the world market is steadily growing.”

To put all this more succinctly, if I had my choice, walking into my local supermarket to purchase vegetables, between produce and grain grown in Russia and that grown here, I'd easily pick that grown in Russia. And to his credit, Mr. Putin recognized the essential need for "ecologically clean and high-quality food which the Western producers have long lost..."

The only problem with Mr. Putin's remarks is that they were far too kind. Ecologically clean and high-quality food was not "lost" in the West; it was deliberately killed by a corrupt corporatacracy, by big Agribusiness or, as we call it here on this website, "I.G. Farbensanto", and an equally corrupt and corporately-penetrated Federal bureaucracy, by legal fictions and pseudo-scientific nonsense like the doctrine of "substantial equivalence," a magical doctrine that simultaneously allowed corporations like Mon(ster)santo to bring their GMO seeds and products to market with a minimum of testing, by the argument (for example) that GMO corn looked and tasted like ordinary corn and was therefore "substantially equivalent" and need not therefore go through a laborious testing process, while at the same time allowing them to patent their products, sue farmers whose fields were infested with their products (through no fault of the farmer), and so on. You'll notice the parallel with the actions of Big Pharma during the covid planscamdemic. Indeed, in many cases the corporation names are the same, as the article notes.

For the Russians and their government, this is the issue with GMOs, their long term effects are unknown, and they - wisely adopting the Precautionary Principle - refused to put their population at risk just for the sake of increasing profits:

The 2016 laws were designed to implement Putin’s earlier proposals “to protect the Russian market and consumers from GMO products, as their use could have unforeseen consequences.”

As reported in Farmers Weekly in June 2015, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich announced that Russia would not use GM technology to increase productivity in agriculture. “Russia has chosen a different path. We will not use these technologies,” Dvorkovich said.

As a result of this decision, Russian products will be “some of the cleanest in the world in terms of technology use,” Dvorkovich continued. A bill for a full ban on the cultivation of GM crops is currently making its way through the Duma.

Farmers Weekly continues: “Russian agriculture minister Nikolai Fyodorov also believes Russia must remain a GM-free country. At a meeting of deputies representing rural areas organized by United Russia, he said the government will not ‘poison their citizens.’” United Russia is Russia’s largest political party, holding 2/3 of the seats in the state Dumas. (Emphasis added)

Just the opposite happened in the Ukraine, as it became captive to the almighty dollar, and the corruption that comes with it:

This was a far different response than provided by the government of Ukraine. Despite large protests against GMOs and the foreign corporate land grab, and despite the fact that Ukrainian law had prohibited private sector farmland ownership, Ukraine’s government negotiated a multi-billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund that stipulated a removal of the blocks to GMO production that was “transforming millions of pristine acres into [a] poisoned wasteland. Eco-genocide for profit. Monsanto’s dirty hands are hugely involved.”

Ukraine’s agricultural success is crucial for its economy and ability to reduce its dependence on Russia, the New York TImes explained in May 2014. The Times continued:

““Western interests are pressing for change… As part of (an IMF loan agreement), the country’s government must push through business reforms that” let agribusiness and other corporate sectors operate freely.

In a recent article for The Real Agenda News, Luis R. Miranda takes it a step further: “Big multinationals want to exploit Ukraine’s potential. Especially Europe’s richest farmland.”

In retaliation for Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis back in August 2015, Russia extended its list of countries that it would subject to a food import ban. Far from the sanctions hurting Russia’s economy, as Monsanto and other pesticide-producing corporations expected (and hoped), over the decade Russia succeeded in its plan to become the world’s number one exporter of wheat and other grains. Putin claimed that Russia’s success in that regard was due in part to the preference of much of the world for non-GMO food.

The article continues by noting that GMOs have become a weapon in the USSA's arsenal and that GMO production has been imposed on nations as a result of US "police actions," and summarizes the long battle of Mon(ster)santo to penetrate the Russian market in spite of the positions of Mr. Putin's government.

When one turns to the Ukraine and the recent war, the financial motivations - billions of dollars for IG Farbensanto are at stake - become clearer:

“The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is [sic] helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine,” writes Christina Sarich in Natural Society. “Make no mistake that what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.”

Exposed by the California-based Oakland Institute in 2014, the World Bank and IMF provided a loan of $17 billion to Ukraine.

Hidden from mainstream media exposure in the U.S., the World Bank and IMF loan “has opened up Ukraine to major corporate inroads,” writes Joyce Nelson in The Ecologist. “Loan conditions are forcing the deeply indebted country to open up to GMO crops, and lift the ban on private sector land ownership. U.S. corporations are jubilant at the ‘goldmine’ that awaits them.”

It is worth reading more from this 2014 report in *The Ecologist—*years before Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. The information provided is shocking—and unreported here in the U.S. While some in the U.S. understand that the 2014 political battles in Ukraine were over the expansion of NATO and control over energy pipelines to Europe, there was, and still is, an equally large but hidden global battle over GM grains, land ownership and usage, and “food pipelines.” (Emphases added)

One does not need to go much farther than this to understand the GMO component of the current war; at stake is a basic and fundamental vision of our world, and our food. It was Ludwig Feuerbach, I believe, who made the observation that man is what he eats, and for IG Farbensanto, man is a rough ashlar of DNA - a massa damnata of "raw" genetic material - to be genetically engineered and whipped into better shape, and one way to do so is through genetic manipulations of the food supply. So today's high octane speculation comes in the form of a warning: let us not forget that the monsters like the Baal Gateses at IG Farbensanto have also proposed putting their quackcines into GMOs, i.e., making GMO foods include their injections.  Let us also not forget that the USSA and the Ukraine were caught red-handed doing bio-research in the biolabs concentrating on Slavic peoples, and there is no other way to interpret this than as a form of biowarfare research. So couple it all together: biolabs, biowarfare research, GMOs, quackcines and you end up with quite a few reasons for concern...

... and the Ukraine is once again the test bed for all this corruption, and the USSA is the source of it.

See you on the flip side...

 

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

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  1. eddyminimum on June 11, 2022 at 10:37 am

    Thank you for this informative write up on the land/gmo issue in The Ukraine. Agree with the sentiment completely. I was barely looking at the GMO/land facet, clearly huge; table facet? This war involves gold, energy, pipelines, ports, fracking, nukes, biolabs, mercs, GMO, land consolidation – basically the the continued corporate project of planet dearth. Jesus…

    Curious the platform of the United Russia Party. Copy it, substitute R with A, and make the United America Party.



  2. FiatLux on June 8, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    I’ve always suspected there was a big economic-warfare/geopolitical component Russia’s rejection (or partial rejection?) of GMOs. If Russian agriculture became dependent on GMOs, that would make Russia highly dependent on the likes of I.G. Farbensanto and other powerful Western corporations. Imagine the national security implications of that for Russia.



  3. Integralis on June 7, 2022 at 3:54 pm

    The epic war is on over if we’re going to be run by a “good” AI or an “evil” AI….



  4. Awake on June 7, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    A bit off topic but still relevent to the Ukraine discussion. https://www.henrymakow.com/2022/06/juri-lina-putin-is-nwo-pawn.html



    • Jen on June 7, 2022 at 5:06 pm

      Perhaps search Putin+Royal Arch Freemason??



      • Awake on June 8, 2022 at 9:43 am

        Thank you, interesting indeed.



    • anakephalaiosis on June 8, 2022 at 3:24 am

      After the European wars of religion, the Jesuit double agents rebranded themselves, as Freemasons, to escape reprisal.

      Freemasons are, and have always been, agents of papacy, and so were the founding fathers of the USA.

      Russian fight, against Khazaria, is as old as Russia herself. The war traces back to Scythia fighting Assyria.

      Scythians, who were rebelling Israelites, cut head of Assyrians, to toast skull, and that is Last Supper Holy Grail war.



  5. anakephalaiosis on June 7, 2022 at 3:16 am

    The Khazarian game plan is, to establish a new “Holy Roman Empire” in the Ukraine, to feudally rule Europe, and the world.

    This is supposed to be accomplished during pandemic chaos, when greater Satan falls, and lesser Satan emigrates to the Ukraine.

    Russia sabotaging the game plan forces Pope Satan, to further rely on the greater Satan, and the empire swap is stalemate.

    Khazarian empires are built on lofty memes, in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

    TRIAL BY FIRE 2 – PINK ELEPHANTS

    Meltdown erupted in panic attack,
    triggered by hellcat in sack,
    and during final battle
    on empty bottle,
    delirium tremens came back.

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/cbu21t8ssa2kqu3/john-barleycorn.mp4



  6. marcos toledo on June 6, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    The main problem is that these fiends knew from the beginning what their poisons would do from the beginning torture-murder is all they lived for. As for making profits from selling these poisons in the long run, it is ultimately stupid for they and their descendants will suffer and die from these actions there is no profit in that.



    • Awake on June 7, 2022 at 8:46 am

      You are correct, however I would like to add a caviet. They are doing this because they know their time is finished (they are leaving) in this realm and consider this more of a spoiler (scorched earth) attack. The intent is to kill all who are not part of the chosen bloodlines. That means at least 95+% of the population is marked for death. We don’t have the proper bloodlines or desire to join the deathcult. I’m sure the GMO foods are tuned directly to the needs of the DNA for bloodline requirements. Would be interesting to see what the copper based bloodline GMO testing looks like.



      • marcos toledo on June 8, 2022 at 7:44 pm

        Agreed their motto is to take the rest of the World to Hell with them.



  7. Barbara on June 6, 2022 at 5:10 pm

    Dr. Farrell you forgot to quote another part from this article

    “On March 27, 2020, Russia’s Minister of Agriculture signed Order #160 that establishes a process for registering genetically engineered (GE) events for feed use “making it possible for those events to be imported after registration.”

    “There was a moment a few years ago when things might have gone differently when, along with the marketing of organic foods, came opposition to the use of synthetic fertilizer and pesticides (part of the definition of what in Europe is meant by what it means to be “organic”). But with Russia now as fully invested in “mainstream” corporate agricultural technology as the U.S., that hope is greatly diminished.”

    It looks like there are tough times ahead for Ukraine and Russia as far as fight against GMO products.

    Also, foreign ownership of land in Ukraine is prohibited by constitution. Details of practices of land purchase in Ukraine are in article in the link.

    https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-agriculture-farmland-economy-/31336984.html



  8. Marduk on June 6, 2022 at 1:39 pm

    The official narratives surroundinding the events in the Ukraine are all a distraction.
    But why now and why the Ukraine?
    No one is talking about the Mckinder World Island and the Bunting Clover Leaf (Oded Yinon) plans for World domination and yes the Belt and Road initiative.
    Whoever controls the Heartland (Ukraine) controls the World Island. Whoever controls the World Island (Asia, Europe and Africa) controls the world.
    Russia and China have already created the Pan-Eurasian Superstate with the help of their closet ally Zionist Israel.
    Israel is key to this plan. They have been stealing technology from the U.S. and funneling it to Russia and China for decades. Look at the Talpiot program and Unit 8200.
    The Rad Group run by Zohar Zisipal provide cyber security to all of North America and European CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE as well as internet site security like Microsoft etc…
    Israel literally has their finger on the kill switch.
    CYBER IS THE REAL DOMAIN OF POWER.
    Israel has millions of Zionist Russians living and working in the high tech sector so when the media says Russia hacked this or that it’s a half lie. It’s always Israel. Look at the Intel Arc chip designed in Israel.
    The Ukraine has been run by Zionist’s for many decades and now it’s time to implement the plan.
    The U.S. does many shady things but they are not interested in sharing or relinquishing power. The WEF along with Kissinger and Associates have been maneuvering to have the U.S. leave the Middle East and Eastern Europe. It has failed so it seems. The U.S. will be building bases in the Ukraine to ensure that they are in control of the World Island.
    CHEERS!!



    • Jen on June 7, 2022 at 4:24 am

      Credit where it’s due, Brendan O’Connell has been talking about all of the above for ten years on his YouTube channel.



      • Jen on June 7, 2022 at 4:26 am

        Unless, this is Brendan himself?? In which case, well done Sir!



    • Barbara on June 7, 2022 at 8:12 am

      As far as Israel cyber control of US infrastructure, I have difficulty to believe that USA would forfeit this power to foreigners. Israel may think that way and have a false sense of security, but when time comes there is no doubt in my mind that, if necessary, Israel will be thrown under the bus
      I completely agree with the rest of your comment.



      • Awake on June 7, 2022 at 9:07 am

        From my deep experience in corporate America and having served in the US military…never underestimate the power of greed and stupidity. It’s how the Kazarian Mafia (jews) have stayed in power throughout the ages.



        • Jen on June 7, 2022 at 5:02 pm

          And behind all that……..?? Those who hold power never lose it (that IS the very definition of power), they CONSOLIDATE it until today those ancient families and their agents either own or control everything, or seek too. These are at least proto Roman families? It was said of the Italian Renaissance elites that ‘they do no move’ meaning that they leave no trace in history, no names, no evidence, yet they operate their control from the shadows. As they continue to do today. If we know names they are NOT the ones ultimately in control.



    • Awake on June 7, 2022 at 9:03 am

      Thanks Brendon O’Connell…or someone that likes to read / listen to his work…lol. Always good to have clairity in a conversation. I do agree with his position and we shall see what the end result shall be when all this insanity is done. Funny how the US is going through it’s own Weimar Republic stage of society. Right down to the trannies / homosexuals openly running the government before “H” took over. Will be intersesting to live through seeing how the Night Of The Long Knives plays out in the US. The Germans / Prussians never had the avalibility of the sheer power that the US has at it’s disposal. Nothing is as it seems.



  9. Robert Barricklow on June 6, 2022 at 11:52 am

    Headline reminds me of a book title[non-fiction] I read many moons ago: Gene Wars[early 80s?]. It zeroed in; specifically, on agricultural warfare between geo-political blocks. The actual genetic warfare involved using intelligence agencies and geoengineered insects, seeds, plants, or whatever would destroy the country’s target crop[suspect, due to memory].

    All governments lies.
    And, now it’s beginning to look like most; if not all, are corrupt puppet governments.
    The Ukraine certainly stands out in these times; as the billions pour in to various criminal families, and weapons[including biological]poor into various geo-political locations and agendas.

    Monopolies = inflation, of the worst kind.
    In this case: farm lands[globally].

    “The enclosure of the commons’, was engineered to bring about the end of feudalism?
    Is another enclosure happening; to bring about the enclosure of “ownership”, to create an electronic feudalism, a new rentier society[own nothing; and eventually rent Everything!, including oxygen/CO2?] w/global ambitions?
    To privatize ALL the commons, including sunshine.
    [Where you own nothing, including where the sun don’t shine.]

    Sadly, these large corporations have Absolutely no allegiance to ANY nation state.
    Nor, ANY life form, including human
    They are ALL about ITself.



  10. Doug Bowersox on June 6, 2022 at 8:23 am

    Let’s address a bigger problem than GMO’s. Organic production requires tillage of the soil, a thing that God does not do in nature. Tillage allows excess oxygen in to the soil and burns the organic matter out of it. Also tillage causes massive water and wind erosion. Remember a thing called the “Dust Bowl”. Tillage is Big Problem that leads to gigantic loss of fertility and productivity. Organic production requires tillage to control weeds and some insects. Admittedly, Organic is making tiny advances toward making Never-Till work, but we are certainly not there yet. GMO’s provides the capability to use herbicides that make Never-Till work pretty dog gone well. GMO’s also provide disease and insect protection to the plant requiring massively less insecticide and fungicide use. Farming is a war. Everything is trying to eat at the crop buffet table. EVERYTHING. Try raising a garden and see how easy it is. The birds of the air do not plant, reap or worry because they don’t need to. We farmers feed them.

    The intergenerational studies have not been done on GMO safety so we don’t know. What we do know is that much of mankind will starve with the introduction of all organic production and its massive destruction of productive soils through tillage.

    Maybe glyphosate (Roundup) is carcinogenic but where is the evidence in the farm community that has massive exposure?
    The Pennsylvania Farmer.



    • KSW on June 6, 2022 at 9:28 am

      Hey … hold your horses there son … commercial farmers till the soil and many gardeners do as well because they don’t know any better and have not been taught older, more productive methods of farming-gardening. Tilling is another matter entirely and separate from the issue of harmful chemicals or organic production. What in the world did our ancestors do without Monsanto’s monster chemicals? They were practicing organic farming methods and humanity seems to have flourished despite of having clean organic food. Farmers have gotten duped, paid, pressured and all sorts of things to implement non-organic farming practices and become dependent on the big chemical companies. They’ve forgotten how to integrate farming with animal husbandry to keep their farms productive and in balance – practices that humanity relied on for centuries and centuries and until factory farming practices.

      What caused the dust bowl? Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion. Do you live in Texas or Oklahoma? Those states have the most severe extremes of weather in the entire USA. It wasn’t just tilling alone that caused the dust bowl.

      There is a non-till – no dig method that is highly productive especially when combined with natural fertilizer (compost). Gardening takes a little learning, but it’s not rocket science … Check out Charles Dowding’s site about how to do this on YouTube and you’ll find out that organic production can provide highly abundant yields without all the nasty chemicals:
      https://www.youtube.com/c/CharlesDowding1nodig



    • Awake on June 7, 2022 at 9:33 am

      Sooo….does anyone go and ask the migrant communities how their health is before they use the glyphosate (Roundup) in the fields? My guess is no one cares about those folks enough to check on any of the many long standing health issues caused by the horrible agricultural chemicals used in the US. I’m a cattle rancher in South Texas and I refuse to use any chemicals on my ranch due to the potential contamination to my cattle and the beef produced from those cattle. Also, I know of several row crop farmers that have used chemicals on their farms for many years. They’re families have histories of cancer as well as cancer clusters that many people refuse to admit are caused by the yearly poisoning applied to their fields and around their houses. How about all the farmers / ranches that use diesel to clear their fence lines, so weeds don’t grow. Diesel alone will cause huge health problems and cancers…but hey I cleared my fence line and killed everything that lives on the top soil. My wife and I work our fence line together and cut out the we-satch at least twice per year. All natural is the only way to go and horse / cow manure works best in composting for gardens and crops. It just takes more work, smells like crap and no chemicals.



      • Jen on June 7, 2022 at 5:17 pm

        I find healthy organic compo smells lovely and inoffensive: nature tells our senses when something is bad. Let’s hear it for the healthy crap!! And good luck raising cattle in these mad times!



  11. InfiniteRUs on June 6, 2022 at 8:05 am

    Read a few years ago they can produce GMO bananas that produce and deliver viruses and vaccines just by eating them. Then at the same time you see a great advertising push to promote the health benefits of eating more raw fruits and veggies. Wonder why raw? Now with the global operation underway to reduce the planet’s population what does 1+1 equal?



    • KSW on June 6, 2022 at 9:41 am

      Eat organic foods. Choose organic and cut out a lot of unnecessary and very pricey junk food if you feel the price is too high for your budget. The price of organic bananas in my area is 10 cents higher per pound than non-organic … I’m willing to pay that. Have you ever really calculated the cost of the measly few chips or cookies you get in those huge bags? Have you checked the list of what foods have been genetically modified and which ones aren’t? Not all foods that are not labeled organic are genetically modified – but non-organic have been sprayed with nasty chemicals and perhaps grown in a less desirable conditions.

      GMO food list
      https://www.fda.gov/food/agricultural-biotechnology/gmo-crops-animal-food-and-beyond

      Also … one tip here … if you have a health food chain in your area like Whole Foods, Sprouts, etc., then very often their organic and non-organic chicken is actually the same product. One grower I know that is widely distributed told me (when I was a health food merchandiser for a similar chain) that it costs a lot to have meat (or any food) “certified” as organic and hence the higher cost (because of bureaucracy). So, they cull some of the chicken to have them certified, and the other chicken that were raised in the identical method with the same food, etc. are labeled non-organic and sold at a lesser price. Just make certain they are labeled “no added antibiotics or hormones” and you have a decent product .. if you find one labeled that AND non-gmo feed you’ve got an excellent product. Same with eggs … you want to eat meat and eggs that have had good growing condition, room to move and air to breath, so don’t eat anything that has been raised in a small cage and force fed crap. You are what you eat.



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