Life in all its busyness has kept me off of here for a while. However, in recent weeks I've been seeing more and more often some things that made me feel the need to vent loudly.
One of my boys is now engaged; he & my future daughter-in-law are very health conscious. She is also an educator & supportive of the current effort to persuade corporations such as McDonald's to stop marketing directed at young children. Personally, I've never had any particular beef (pardon the pun) with Ronald McDonald. As the parent of four, I can understand the viewpoint, particularly after having children who preferred Happy Meals offering toys to balanced ones. Personally, I've made an effort to avoid eating at McD's due to diet/health reasons for several years.
This past weekend I happened to drive past the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia on my way to complete an errand while my daughter was at a swim meet. There was a small number (perhaps 15) of people standing out there forming their own "March Against Monsanto" with signs protesting Monsanto's grip on the food chain, ad infinitum.
The thought occurred to me that if these well-intended folks had used the time (presumably a good bit of the day, as I saw them around noon & they appeared to have been out there for quite a while) to instead break some dirt in their yards (or in pots on a patio or porch) and thrown in some tomato, pepper, eggplant, or other edible crop plants into it, they'd have a nice little organic garden to work with and some veggies they WOULD NOT HAVE TO BUY nor worry about what chemicals had touched them!
Just my two cents.
3 comments:
The only problem with that is that most of the seeds that we can buy are all GMO. big brother has already gotten to them. It is not so much that the junk food chains are causing harm as the plants themselves are causing harm. Junk food chains only win if parents let them. My girls thought MC D's was only a food for long road trips when nothing else was available and time was of an essence. They still rarely patronize such places. Planting a garden is very much a way to protest but heed what you plant and where you get it from. There are only about three or four sources that carry non GMO seeds. Organic isn't always better there are no controls on what they call organic. mixing some organics can be toxic as well as what is an organic fertilizer? where does it come from and just because your food says organic where did it come from and what did it mean to the people who grew it. Human waste in some areas is considered organic and acceptable. I don't know about you but that is not ok with me.
I apologize I have been negligent in reading your blog. However I feel the need to comment. Monsanto isn't about non organic it is about genetically modified seed. It is near to impossible to purchase non GMO seed as there is too much cross pollination. Worse it is illegal yes I said illegal to test product and seed for GMO. So starting your own garden for organic purposes....great but the only way to stop Mosanto that I can see is to stop eating all together. Did you know that GMO grain in Europe perforated the intestines of the pigs so that they can not use the casing for sausage. What do you think this stuff is doing to us. It is roundup ready grain. You can't tell me that it stays in the roots. Lets just put a straw in the round up bottle and pass it around.
Ok I'm done with my vent
Sorry looks like I did read it and vent once. Oh well thoughts twice
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