I'm disgusted

[Wifezilla]

Yes corn is almost in everything. Since I have to watch my carbs, I have to read labels. It is amazing how many items contain high fructose corn syrup and/or corn starch. One of the most amazing thing I found was that Del Monte canned diced tomatoes with basil & garlic contains HFCS.
http://www.heartwisefood.com/snosaadditow.html

If you eat at Wendy's, most of their food can be traced to a corn source.
http://www.examiner.com/x-798-Denve...&q=children+of+the+corn&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0

 

[Lunachick]

HFCS it's almost everywhere. It pays to read labels, all you sugary soda drinkers....that's what you're drinking.

 

[country lady]

There was a long article in an old Countryside magazine about genetically engineered seeds and Monsanto, DuPont, and Dow. I gave the magazine away but the 2009 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog, page 77, has "A Letter From An Iraqi Friend" saying the same thing that all of you have said: "IN IRAQ THE GLOBALIZATION AND U.S. OCCUPATION HAVE FINISHED THE WHOLE HEIRLOOM WAY OF LIFE IN IRAQ." Saddam didn't allow his people to use fertilizer because of the chemicals so the food was organic.

Normally, I don't buy tomatoes in the winter but once I did. That cut tomato was in the fridge for a couple of weeks and looked as fresh as the day it was cut. (I normally don't put tomatoes in the fridge either) Evidently, we don't know what is done to the food that we buy. Very scary and disheartening.

 

[geareduplyn]

I have a question. Since WW2 the general population has been eating less and less organically grown foods, Junk food by the bucketful, and now genetically altered food. Why is the average life span getting longer?

 

[eggzettera]

Actually they say that this upcoming generation is going to be the first generation to have a shorter life span. With the onslaught of Juvenile Diabetes & heart disease that HFCS help generate.....

 

[plot_thickens]

It isn't. Last year average lifespan dropped. But the general increase or stability in lifespan is equal BOTH better medical miracles and an increase in diseases. So people may be living longer, but it's with diabetes or horrible allergies or fibromyalgia or tumors or whatever, and have to constantly have medical intervention.

And the gene-spliced seeds are now being traced to health problems, drops in fertility, etc etc. There's a whole swath of India being called the "suicide belt" because traditional farmers who switched to GMOs are going under and suiciding because there's no other choice. And guess who owns the land when it's sold to pay debts?

Prince Charles has gotten involved. He's really concerned about the problems of GMOs have. Can you believe that these things were not tested before they were let into OUR FOOD?

The sad part? It isn't even necessary. Instead of taking fish genes and splicing them into peonies to get what they want, there's a new process of gene-typing all related plants and figuring out what closely-related plant has the qualities they do want, and then breeding them together. This has been done with many Tomatoes, breeding them with native Lypersocum varieties, with great success. It's not any more expensive or longer, but not something the companies want to do because that would make obsolete a lot of really expensive tools.

The sadder part is that existing GMO plants are messing up the typing+breeding process mentioned above.

Makes me angry and sad. I hope that the current decline in human and animal fertility (industrial nations are seeing a reduction of fertile sperm by 30% across the board in all continents) is reduced soon.

 

[Reinbeau]

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Medical care, which of course enhances the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry. But as others have said, it's starting to drop because of the garbage people eat now and their lack of exercise. So many are looking for that magic pill that'll let them eat junk and stay thin

 

[MissPrissy]

Also, we are being preserved from the inside out.

 

[eggzettera]

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but it's true

 

[ksacres]

I love a good train wreck.