Leave My Veggies Alone

6/23/2009

Posted by Patti under Environment

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The Globe & Mail is reporting Monsanto & Dole are wanting to tinker with vegetables, and are undertaking a five year project to do so. The objective is to “improve the nutrition, flavour, colour, texture and aroma of these vegetables,” the companies said.

Leave my veggies alone dudes! When is governments going to wake up to the fact that genetically and chemically messing with our food supply is not only killing our environment but it is killing us? Literally.

As long as huge firms like Monsanto and Dole are allowed to mess with our food, our ability to avoid their impact becomes increasingly imposible. Monsanto produces seeds, so growing your own vegetables to avoid the tinkered with versions will become increasingly impossible.

Farmers currently find themselves locked into buying cycles with Monsanto seeds which requires they buy seed from them each year as they have genetically modified the seeds to only grow for one season. In the past, when nature was allowed to actually function as it was created, one crop could be used to seed the next years crop. Not when Monsanto got through messing with them.

I do my best to avoid processed foods but with companies like these being allowed to tinker with even the most basic of foods like vegetables the ability to avoid the chemical and genetic tinkering diminishes exponentially.

What a screwed up mess!