--- On Fri, 11/25/11, Gayle Ellison <genie...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Gayle Ellison <genie...@gmail.com>
Subject: Gayle, you need to know
To:
Date: Friday, November 25, 2011, 10:20 PM
Guess in the future, I'll get an organic chicken and think it is turkey.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: B C GROVESDate: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:00 PM Subject: Gayle, you need to know To: Gayle
fourth generation Texas farmer, Eric Herm, discussed how the turkey you just ate was probably fed with GMO (genetically modified) corn, and how the emergence of 'frankenfarming' is poisoning delicate ecosystems. He planted some GMO seeds back in 2005-6, but after he noted numerous warning labels on the packages, he began to investigate, and found that the seeds have genes of a pesticide and herbicide in their make up, as well as antibodies, and this is going into the food we eat. In studies with mice that were fed GMO foods, they suffered from spleen damage, liver atrophy, smaller organ growth, and accelerated aging, and for the last 15 years, humans have become guinea pigs in their unwitting consumption of these crops, he said. GMO seeds sold and patented by Monsanto cost $400 a bag, and the company rakes in billions of dollars from their sales, he reported. Four major commodities crops in the US-- corn, cotton, canola, and soybean are now 90% GMO, and alfalfa was recently deregulated, he noted. To get back to healthier foods, the future lies in small organic farms, Herm commented, adding that organic fertilizers outproduced chemical agriculture. GMO seeds don't produce more than conventional seeds, and in a 30-year study, it was found that organic farming outperformed chemical agriculture, he detailed.
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