Shocking Food Industry Secrets

[PaulaJoAnne]

This list is the tip of the iceburg

Start on a journey of switching to Traditional Foods,and you will learn it all!

 

[awesomefowl]

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Monsanto is the FDA? I always say that if I were president I would abolish the FDA and USDA, and get rid if mandatory schooling. Good luck with that, I know. :rolleyes

Might as well be.

You would WHAT?! You got my vote!

I'll probably never be pres., as I'm not planning on being a politician. But you get the idea....
I'm planning on being either a farmer/avian vet/opera singer or avian biologist/farmer/opera singer, but i hate to dress up for singing at events.

 

[BlackBart]

How about this bit of News..............

http://healthfreedoms.org/2010/02/1...is-now-being-marketed-as-a-natural-sweetener/

 

[Illia]

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Yup, heard of that one a little while ago. . .

 

[True Grit]

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Increased overseas demand for US farm commodities is to blame

Ethanol too.

Yes and world biodiesel manufacturers (not necessarily US ones at the moment.) , and hedge funds investing in commodities.

 

[Amyable]

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Much like switching 'high fructose corn syrup' to 'corn sugar'. A turd by any other name...

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/more-on-that-forcible-seizure-of-raw-milk-near-edmonton-by-agriculture-ministry-offical-backed-by-police/
Check out his whole site, if you want an eye opener.
ANother food co-op was raided with guns drawn.

Manna Storehouse lost there case, after being raised with a SWAT team, and are planning on going to the Supreme Court.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/corporate-food-tyranny-part-2-of-2/
WOW! FDA sued by FTCLDF, and their request for dismisal was denied!!!!

 

[Amyable]

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"...there’s certainly a right to food freedom. That right is simply so obvious that the framers thought it absurd to write it down."
Absurd, to say the least, that drinkers of raw milk are being treated as coke addicts, and family farms like meth labs. Fight hard, fight now.

 

[BlackBart]

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Much like switching 'high fructose corn syrup' to 'corn sugar'. A turd by any other name...

So very true!

There is a growing movement in Canada to make the government label all foods that contain any GMO product in it. I think it will be a long hard battle but I see there is also one in the USA and from what I read it looks promsing.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-5577&tab=summary

I also read that some Farmers are suing the USDA over Monsanto's GMO Alfalfa.

http://healthfreedoms.org/2010/03/01/farmers-others-sue-usda-over-monsanto-gmo-alfalfa/