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GRIM REAPER MEETS ITS MAKER AND IT IS THE TRUTH. MONSANTO BURNED AT THE STAKE

Posted in community, Genetically Modified Organism, gmo, nature, tagged Monsanto a goner., monsanto doa, monsanto goes down in flames on September 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »

You are Toast Monsanto and May you burn in Hell for all eternity.

Since the beginning Monsanto has been putting out junk science about their exclusive patented Genetically Modified Organisms and the EPA, FDA and every crooked, corrupt, lying, politician world wide enabled them with every rule, regulation, law they could get their grubby little hands on.

Since the beginning Monsanto has has been lying through their GMO teeth about the effects of Roundup and GMO’s on the environment, on our kids, animals that are feed roundup ready corn and maize. They were able to create weapons of mass destruction so monstrous, so insidious, so devastating as to be untouchable, invincible, all powerful. Too big to fail.

There was not a ounce of truth in anything Monsanto said or did as they planted their killing fields in every corner of the world. Monsanto declared war on Nature and with an army of corrupt lying lawmakers, politicians and junkie scientists were given free range to rape and pillage everything in Nature’s path. Monsanto’s kingdom was built on LIES and Ruled Supreme. Until NOW.

Monsanto has met it’s Maker and it is the Truth.
This is the Truth.

The study, led by Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen, was the first ever study to examine the long-term (lifetime) effects of eating GMOs. You may find yourself thinking it is absolutely astonishing that no such studies were ever conducted before GM corn was approved for widespread use by the USDA and FDA, but such is the power of corporate lobbying and corporate greed.

Findings from the study

Here are some of the shocking findings from the study:

• Up to 50% of males and 70% of females suffered premature death.

• Rats that drank trace amounts of Roundup (at levels legally allowed in the water supply) had a 200% to 300% increase in large tumors.

• Rats fed GM corn and traces of Roundup suffered severe organ damage including liver damage and kidney damage.

• The study fed these rats NK603, the Monsanto variety of GM corn that’s grown across North America and widely fed to animals and humans. This is the same corn that’s in your corn-based breakfast cereal, corn tortillas and corn snack chips.

Sources of the study: http://www.naturalnews.com/037249_GMO_study_cancer_tumors_organ_damage.html#ixzz27b08lKsd

Want more Proof? See it with your own eyes.

NOW WHAT?

Do you think you have a right to know what is in your food NOW? Are you going to believe for one second anything Monsanto, FDA, EPA, and corporate junkies tell you about GMO’s NOW? Be the power that drives the final stake into Monsanto’s LYING, CHEATING,CORRUPT heart.

VOTE YES ON PROP 37 CALIFORNIA’S RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT IS IN OUR FOOD NOVEMBER 6, 2012.

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THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR OUR RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT IS IN OUR FOOD BOLDLY GOING WHERE NO LAW HAS GONE BEFORE .

Posted in community, GE, Genetically Modified Organism, GM, gmo, politics, tagged label GMO's, right to know on June 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Now that I have your attention

This is what we are really talking about.

California Secretary of State’s office announced today, June 13, 2012, that the Right to Know initiative to label genetically engineered foods will be on the state’s November ballot. The historic initiative would be the first law in the United States requiring labeling of a wide range of genetically engineered foods.

“All eyes are on California, and the voters of this state will support our right to know what’s in our food when they vote this November,” said Stacy Malkan from the Right to Know campaign”

Now, here is the rest of the story

California Voters to Decide to Label GMO’s.

First in the country Label GMOs Initiative.

If you would like to volunteer or do something go here. Contact Label GMOs I am volunteering to plaster, plant, lawn signs all over SLO. They provide the signs I just have to stick them in the ground. Jeffery Smith, Seeds of Deception, is making the rounds and looking for venues in any town anywhere in California. Also our fearless leader, Pamm Larry is making herself available to talk to any groups or organizations about getting the vote out in November. If you have a venue Jeff and Pamm will be there. Check it out here: Contact Label GMOs.

And remember folks, this is not about the pros or cons of GMOs. So when you hear Monsanto talking about how great GMOs are you don’t have to listen or even respond. Or you could say that’s all well and good but this is not about GMOs this is about my right to know what I am eating. Label it. This is all about OUR RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT IS IN YOUR FOOD.

And labeling GMOs will not cost the taxpayers or the manufacturers one extra red cent. BEWARE OF SCARE TACTICS and know the truth. The interesting thing here is twofold. First, major companies like Kellogg, Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, Heinz, Nestle, Best Foods, Pillsbury, Burger King, MacDonalds, Anheuser-Busch Budweiser, Bud Light, Bud Ice (and) Michelob, Campbells, Seagram Spirits, Mars, Cadbury Schweppes, and “Others Add to a Growing List of Companies Going GE-Free in Europe. Why? Because of labeling. If they want to sell in the EU they have to label GMOs. So, we know for a fact that these companies are already labeling GMOs and doing it here is the States is no big deal and the cost of doing business.

And what is even more significant is that it was the manufacturers who immediately went out and lined up non-gmo products to sell so they could label it non-gmo and sell to the EU and 40 other countries with labeling laws. They got rid of GMOs products because no body would buy it. Monsanto is out of business now not the manufactures.

The only one dead set against labeling GMOs is Monsanto. Because Monsanto is the sole supplier of patented GMOs and knows for a fact that given a choice we will choose non-gmo products. The EU proved that fact. So this is all about denying us our rights. So far it has worked and the EPA and FDA Congress have assisted and cooperated with Monsanto and given them carte blanche over our rights. This labeling law is the game changer. We got them all by the balls and dead to Rights on this one.

Manufacturers are already cancelling their contracts with the major GMO provider and lining up non-gmo products. NO COST TO TAXPAYERS OR CONSUMERS. If you hear industry spokesman say it will cost an extra $500 or $1,000 a year if the labeling law goes into effect you can bloody well laugh in their face and call them a liar because that is a bald faced lie. It never happen anywhere where labeling is the law.

And if you really want to play your Ace in the hole contact Safeway, Ralphs, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Von’s, Spencer’s and let them know you want GMOs labeled. You have to contact them and let them know how you feel because apparently the grocers association is siding with Monsanto and opposing the labeling thing.

Let the grocery stores know that’s dumb because you want products labeled. Customers are the one and only thing grocery stores are concerned with. They don’t give two hoots or a holler about what Monsanto wants because Monsanto doesn’t buy anything. Monsanto sells. So who do you think the grocery stores are more interested in keeping happy and satisfied? You or Monsanto? What is Monsanto going to say to the grocery stores? “If they don’t oppose this labeling law I won’t sell you anymore GMO products?” Contact the stores. Let them know. Label it or else. It’s just that simple folks. And then Vote.

and Everybody that counts wins big time!!!!!

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IT’S OFFICIAL: LABEL GMO’S IT’S OUR RIGHT TO KNOW WILL BE ON THE NOVEMBER 2012 BALLOT

Posted in community, GE, Genetically Modified Organism, GM, gmo, tagged California initiative label gmo, label GMO's on April 25, 2012| 1 Comment »

Several months ago I unsuspectingly walked into a meeting thinking I was signing up to be one of many volunteers in San Luis Obispo to collect signatures for this petition. As it turned out I was the only volunteer from San Luis and one other person from Morro Bay. I thought this will never do. We are going to make history here. Started making some calls and found over 175 other people from Santa Maria to Paso Robles who thought the same thing. These super volunteers took on their communities and just his week, the last week of the campaign, we beat all of our other weekly totals and turned in 1,245 signatures.

I think we all discovered a very important fact here. THE BEST OFFENSE AGAINST A COMPANY THAT HAS MORE MONEY THAN GOD IS AN ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS. You can’t buy volunteers. WE ARE PRICELESS. VOLUNTEERS RULE!!!!!

We got the job done and this initiative will be on the November Ballot!!!!!! We will be the first State in the United States to mandate, by order of the people, that GMO’s be labeled. We made history. But the game is not over yet. There is more history to be made.

Next step, get the vote out. But first, going to be doing a little celebrating.

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LET’S KICK SOME GMO BUTT!!!! Udate November 28, 2011

Posted in announcement, community, GE, Genetically Modified Organism, GM, gmo, tagged Banning GMO's, CA initiative to label GMO's, call to action to label GMO, GMO's., kick GMO butt, label GMO's, latest info on Monsanto 07/07/11, Monsanto Roundup ready, put Monsanto out of business, Roundup on July 8, 2011| 7 Comments »

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

2nd UPDATE

: Our right to know Label GMO’s

THE CALIFORNIA RIGHT TO KNOW GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD ACT Initiative was filed with the California Secretary of State on November 9, 2011. This is a big deal folks and 20 years in the making!!!!! We should have the verified, approved petition back and in our hands and ready for the signature gathering the first week in January 2012.

: Keeping it Fun — Save our Planet. It’s the only one with Chocolate

In the meantime, have had a workshop training on how to gather the signatures. Will be holding other workshops for the over 80 volunteer signature gatherers here in SLO County. I am working with a couple of fantastic Cal Poly groups, Empower Poly and Real Food. The students are such a resource and a delight to work with.

Volunteers are wanting to gather signatures in their neighborhood, community groups, church groups, at farmer markets, from local growers and grocery stores, co-ops and health food stores.

I am working with Transition California with over a 1,000 members on gathering signatures in every transition town in California. This has Transition written all over it. There is a real energy and determination surrounding this campaign and is very exciting.

In the next couple of weeks I will be holding more workshops. I want to concentrate our efforts and hit SLO county in a tidal wave with a sweep that will last 2 weeks starting on Valentines day and ending on the 29th. It’s a leap year.

If anyone is interested in getting involved do sign up at labelgmos.org. There is something for everyone. And if you have never done anything like this before, this is great way to get involved with something that will make a difference. This is grass roots stuff and you can do no wrong.

Everyone could get at least one signature and that one could make all the difference. I encourage you to sign up. It really has a very stimulating effect. And just for fun ask your local grocery store, health food, co-op if they will be supporting the initiative to Label GMO’s. That just gets the buzz going. People start talking and asking when they can sign the petition. It will make our appearance something to look forward to.

O.k. Folks, more info below. Thanks for dropping in for the update. Jeanne

p.s. I made the tee for about $5. Got a shirt at Michaels for $2.50, downloaded the press-on mirror image from the label gmo site, printed it out on my printer then bought the iron on sheets, package of 6, for $8. The printer didn’t pick up good color so I just filed it in with a blue permanent marker. Piece of cake and fun to do.

Reposting an article from NaturalNews on

: BABY THIS IS FOR YOU!!

Monsanto’s Roundup linked to deadly diseases and birth defects, most people have no idea by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer.

Also, I have included at the end of this article the latest action by Label GMO’s.org. to get a California Initiative on the ballot to make labeling of all GMO’s mandatory. All I can say is the time for bitching and moaning about how bad it is, is over. It is time to start turning this thing around.

If you like being in driver’s seat then this is where you need to be. Take this initiative process and drive it home. They (WE) need 800,000 signatures. Sound like a lot of work? It is a lot especially if only a handful of people are doing it all. I encourage you for your own peace of mind and satisfaction to get one name on a petition. And encourage that person to get a name and before you know it there are a million and one names. And a million and one more people who can feel better about themselves because they have made a difference. The power of one. One name at a time is easy and you know and I know you can do that.

p.s. TODAY (AUGUST 20,2011) I ATTENDED A SEED MEETING WITH THE “LABEL GMO” PEOPLE. THEY NEEDED A POINT PERSON TO COLLECT SIGNATURES IN SLO. WELL, ALL FINGERS POINTED AT ME. IT IS TIME TO WALK THE WALK JEANNE GIRL. SO I AM ANNOUNCING I AM THE OFFICIAL CONTACT PERSON IN SLO IF YOU WANT TO SIGN ON TO KICKING SOME GMO BUTT. MY HOPE IS THAT WE CAN PUT SLO ON THE MAP AND GET NATIONAL ATTENTION FOR ALL THINGS GOOD AND GREEN BY COLLECTING THE MOST SIGNATURES.

MY HOPE, ALSO, IS THAT ALL THE TERRIFIC AND CONSCIENTIOUS GROUPS OF DEDICATED PEOPLE WORKING INDEPENDENTLY ON PROJECTS THAT ARE ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES CAN BAN TOGETHER FOR a VERY BRIEF AND SHINNING MOMENT TO COLLECTIVELY AND WITHOUT HESITATION, DELIVER a VERY SWIFT, DECISIVE BLOW TO ONE OF THE LARGEST THREATS TO OUR ENVIRONMENT, MONSANTO, THE GRIM REAPER TO ALL LIVING THINGS.

EVERYBODY, MOMS, DADS, STUDENTS, SENIORS, RICH, POOR, FARMERS, COMPUTER NERDS, SAINTS AND SINNERS HAS A STAKE IN THIS INITIATIVE TO LABEL GMO’S. WE ALL EAT FOOD. INITIATIVE DETAILS BELOW. jeanne@holeinthefence.net if you want to leave contact info. thank you, thank you, thank you.

(NaturalNews) A recent report put together by various professors, scholars and researchers affiliated with Earth Open Source, a collaboration group devoted to food issues, cites in great deal the multitude of peer-reviewed scientific studies which show that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (glyphosate), which is applied to many genetically-modified (GM) crops, is responsible for causing birth defects, endocrine disruption, DNA damage, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and cancer — and yet government agencies around the world continue to ignore this crucial information, and withhold it from the public, as they push for its approval or expanded use.

One of the main studies highlighted in the report was published in the August 2010 edition of Chemical Research in Toxicology, and it showed that Roundup causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at levels much lower than those used on agricultural crops. And since Roundup-ready GM crops are designed to tolerate the herbicide, not resist it, they literally absorb Roundup, which is then passed on in much higher levels to humans that eat the tainted crops.

Another study conducted as part of the Argentine government’s research group CONICET found high rates of the same or similar birth defect in humans living near GM soy crops that were routinely sprayed with Roundup, indicating a clear connection between the chemical and human birth defects. More than half of the growing land in Argentina is now dominated by GM soy, which is sprayed with about 53 millions gallons of Roundup every single year.

The authors of the report say that this and the bulk of other independent, indicting evidence against Roundup has been largely ignored by governments, including in the EU where new data requirements will demand that proper investigation into the safety of GMOs is conducted. Rather than rely on industry-funded pseudoscience that claims GMOs are safe, authors say those working for the people must rise to the occasion and take charge in having proper safety evaluations conducted on the safety of Roundup.

“The public … has been kept in the dark by industry and regulators about the ability of glyphosate and Roundup to cause malformations,” write the authors in their summary. “[T]he work of independent scientists who have drawn attention to the herbicide’s teratogenic effects has been ignored, denigrated, or dismissed … They have also contributed to the growing division between independent and industry science, which in turn erodes public trust in the regulatory process.”

Sources for this story include:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/57277946/…

Rather than just put a link up here I have copied their whole page so you can browse. All the links work and take you to their site.

Our Mission

…is quite simply to get foods that contain GMOs (genetically modified organisms) as ingredients labeled so that we can make educated choices about the food we eat. Through our connections and communities, we invite people of all ages and backgrounds to join us and take a stand for the power of our democratic process and […]

The Challenge

It’s easy to feel like we have no power. It’s easy for life to feel hopeless. We are so busy we can’t take time to take a stand on anything to effect change. When we are alone, the only thing we can think is: what can I possibly do about this? The Challenge can be […]

Our Task

Given the challenges, our task is to wake ourselves up and remember the power we hold when we join together. Obviously, we can do nothing alone. Or with only a few. But when large numbers of us come together, we CAN make change. We already have. I am a parent. I learned long ago that […]

Our Mission The Challenge Our Task

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What You Can DO

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead We can do this if we remember that consistent baby steps done by many creates change. This is a Ballot Initiative for California, but it’s really about the whole country. […]

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GMO SERIES PART I OF 5- DO TREES SNEEZE?

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For the Record – Quick update on GMO rulings 08/13/10 – 06/24/11 HOT DAMN!

Posted in community, GE, Genetically Modified Organism, GM, gmo, tagged court overturns sugar beet ruling, court rulings on monsanto, latest info on Monsanto, Monsanto on August 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Judge Revokes USDA Approval Of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Orders Review

This is by Huffington Press

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21416.cfm

November 13, 2010

This is by Organic Consumer Association.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2010/7279.html

possible new twist in GM debate.

Wikileaks on GMO’s 12/2010

http://www.naturalnews.com/030828_GMOs_Wikileaks.html

US retaliates against those that refuse to switch to GMO’s

Pope pushes GMO’s

http://www.naturalnews.com/030807_the_Pope_GMOs.html

Senate passes S510. Senator from Colorado, “It’s rigged.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidwJ_sgrJs

Senate passes S510 in the dead of night. Not good.

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=6042

Congress sticks it to U.S. farmers with passage of food safety bill that will actually cause fresh p 12/21/10

www.naturalnews.com

Jeffery Smith interview on connection between US and Monsanto. 12/23/10

http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2010/12/23/wikileaks_cables_reveal_us_sought_to

California Judge orders GMO sugar beets destroyed. 12/07/10

http://www.naturalnews.com/030637_GMO_sugar_beets.html#ixzz17PTsJVAm

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030902_GMOs_Australia.html#ixzz19xG51U4i

January 3, 2011

Europe, Japan to cancel grain contracts with Australia due to GMO contamination

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030902_GMOs_Australia.html#ixzz19xG51U4i

January 3, 2011

It just keeps getting better and better.

Watch for the coming collapse of Monsanto (Opinion)

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030896_Monsanto_collapse.html#ixzz19xGq7KUN

Peru keeps it pure. Bans GMO’s for 10 years. 6/25/11
http://www.naturalnews.com/032803_Peru_GMOs.html#ixzz1QD6k1a4H

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How to start a Movement. Just Do It.

Posted in community, diy, GE, Genetically Modified Organism, GM, gmo, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle, tagged starting movements on April 14, 2010| 6 Comments »

Ring-a-ling, Ring-a- ling, Hello?

Just Pick up the phone and dial the number. Send that email. Just do it. The rest will happen. Had my 3-way conference call Friday with Shannon Biggs co-author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots. Shannon Biggs directs the Local Economy project at Global Exchange. As a former senior staffer at the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) she wrote for and edited IFG publications, and was a lecturer on International Relations at San Francisco State University. She holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in economics, empire and post-colonialism.

Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories—over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines—dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.

Drawing on their extensive experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also:

* Lay out strategies for a more successful green movement

Describe how communities have protected their victories from legal and political challenges

Provide key resources for local activists

Ben Price, Projects Director for Community Environmental Defense Fund. Ben leads organizing across Pennsylvania where over 100 communities have adopted Legal Defense Fund-drafted laws. Mission Statement:

“Building sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature.”

“We believe that we are in the midst of an escalating ecological crisis, and that the crisis is the result of decisions made by a relatively few people who run corporations and government. We believe that sustainability will never be achieved by leaving those decisions in the hands of a few – both because of their belief in limitless economic production and because their decisions are made at a distance from the communities experiencing the impact of those decisions. Therefore, we believe that to attain sustainability, a right to local self-government must be asserted that places decisions affecting communities in the hands of those closest to the impacts. That right to local self-government must enable communities to reject unsustainable economic and environmental policies set by state and federal governments, and must enable communities to construct legal frameworks for charting a future towards sustainable energy production, sustainable land development, and sustainable water use, among others. In doing so, communities must challenge and overturn legal doctrines that have been concocted to eliminate their right to self-government, including the doctrines of corporate constitutional rights, preemption, and limitations on local legislative authority. Inseparable from the right to local self-government – and its sole limitation – are the rights of human and natural communities; they are the implicit and enumerated premises on which local self-government must be built.”

Me: I am just an ordinary person in an ordinary community that has for the past 10 years or so been fostering a growing disdain and dislike for GMO’s and their intrusive, invasive, insidious presence in our food chain. As far as I know I am the only person who feels this way. All that is about to change.

I have spearheaded petition drives, writing and calling campaigns, to our State and Federal government to get GMO’s labeled. These were national campaigns. Zero results. Apparently, State and Fed officials have their own agenda. Imagine my surprise. Lesson learned.

Time for a change. After 10 years I get it.

I want results. My son was reading Growing a Green Economy. “Read this.” He said. O.K. I said. Couldn’t put it down. This is a story about changing the way you do things and getting results. It is empowering. It hit a nerve.

Once our Supreme court decided to give Monsanto, AT&T, Blackwater, Walmart, Chevron, Freddie Mac, Wall Street and other such corporations personhood status I got a little worried.

That’s when I contacted Ben and he contacted Shannon and here we are having this three-way conversation. Shannon asked me questions. Are there GMO’s grown in your community? What do the local farmers think of GMO’s? What does the community think about GMO’s? Heck, I don’t know the answer to any of those questions.

So. “Let’s have a meet’ng” with the local farmers, and community members that have a vested interest in a green economy and community and find out what they think and what they need. O.k. I said. O.k. Shannon said, Ben said, fine.

Shannon said she will come and speak to the group. Cover her gas money and a place to stay and she will come and talk. Wow. That’s generous. And that was that. I said I will work on getting the group together and keep in touch by email. She is off to Bolivia this week I believe working on a rice project.

So, that is how the conversation went. I knew nothing going in and learned a lot. Maybe labeling GMO’s is not the way to go. Maybe, banning the production of GMO’s in this community is something we need to look at. I really am not sure where all this is going but I do know the worst of it is over. Getting started is the hardest part.

I have a list of people I am going to contact to get feedback and organizational help from. I am going to contact Melanie Blankenship of Nature’s Touch, Bob Banner of Hope Dance, Elizabeth Johnson of our little seed exchange group, Farmer Bill of Windrose Farms, Hunter Francis, Eric V. pres of a new group of local farmers called CCAN, Kevin Stephen of Huasna Valley Farm and Linnaea and Peter of STEYNBERG gallery.

I am in very good company here. I just contacted Melanie and asked her advise on the idea. We met once. I don’t know if she even really knows who I am. She does a local talk radio show every Saturday. I will wait for an answer. This is how things get started. We are off and running. Thank you both, Shannon and Ben, for your time. Bye for now.

This is good. Made the call, got started and nobody died.

p.s. This just in 04/15/10

Bayer admits GMO contamination is out of Control. ( and yes this is the same company that makes the baby aspirin.)

http://www.naturalnews.com/028585_GMOs_Bayer.html

04/19/10

Mainstream Scientists Finally Admit that GMOs are Environmentally Destructive

By Keith Good, ed.
FarmPolicy.com, April 14, 2010
Straight to the Source

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20631.cfm

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How to Get GMO’s Labeled. One for All. All for One Flash Movement.

Posted in community, diy, filmmaking, Genetically Modified Organism, GM, gmo, politics, worm bins, tagged flash movement, how to make worm tea., label GMO's, labeling GMO's, worm bins on March 31, 2010| Leave a Comment »

My last 6 blogs were about GMO’s. It was a very one sided point of view, mine and about 200 million other people who view GMO’s as a man-made scourge upon the earth not unlike the biblical plague of locust described in Exodus.

I didn’t realize until I looked up the biblical reference to locust how similar the plagues of the bible correspond to the our modern day ‘curses.’ The biblical locust “descended upon the land and ate every living plant and tree.” Humm. Terminator seeds, Frankentrees and Roundup Ready crops created by Monsanto does the same thing. Kills everything it comes in contact with. Geez who needs gods to cast plagues upon the earth when we have man-made curses like Monsanto to do it for us? So, where is our modern day Moses to get us out of this mess? I wish I knew. I am not a particularly religious person but this has me wondering. All this plague stuff has to do with nature and living organisms.

The plagues as they appear in the Bible are:^[4]

(exodus 7 :14–25 ˄) water turned to blood killing all fish and other water life. (Dam)
(exodus 8 :1–8:15 ˄) frogs (Tsifardeah)
(exodus 8 :16–19 ˄) lice or gnats (Kinim)
(exodus 8 :20–30 ˄) beasts or flies^[5] (Arov)
(exodus 9 :1–7 ˄) disease on livestock (Dever) Mad cow?
(exodus 9 :8–12 ˄) unhealable boils (Shkhin)
(exodus 9 :13–35 ˄) hail mixed with fire (Barad)
(exodus 10 :1–20 ˄) locusts (Arbeh)
(exodus 10 :21–29 ˄) darkness (Choshech)
(exodus 11 ˄,12 ˄) death of the first-born of all Egyptian families. (Makat b’chorot)

These references are from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt

It just seems to me the key here is nature. If you want to get someone’s attention just threaten and change the natural order of things. GMO’s have changed the natural order of things. The Egyptian pharaoh was a pretty hard nut to crack. He didn’t ‘get it’ until after the all the fishes in the Nile died all the cows, donkeys and horses died and the scourge of flies, frogs, locust, lice and unhealable boils happened. Not until the death of his own first born did he finally get it.

Our government is a pretty hard nut to crack too. They don’t get it. I mean we are the only country that has not labeled these cursed GMO’S. We have made it a law to Not label GMO’s. That is just crazy talk. I mean really. What is it going to take to get things turned around before someone or something ends up dead? I think having 80% of all our food contaminated with GMO’s is enough of an indicator of where things are going. Cracking the nut in this case is just not worth the effort. By all indications the nut is rotten anyway so why even bother trying to crack it? Our government has had numerous opportunities to do the right thing by at least labeling GMO’s and has ignored every request to do so. So, I think now it’s time to ignore the rotten nuts and get on with picking something better.

Better Nuts worth Cracking

Rather than try to take on the rotten State or Federal government I am going to start this nut cracking business in my own backyard. I can do that by getting an ordinance written here in SLO that requires all GMO’s to be identified on the signage with a red dot at the Point of Purchase. I have talked about the organization Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund who helps people write ordinances. I also told you I would keep you posted as to the process. So far we are off to a bit of a bumpy start. I have been in contact with Ben Price and Shannon Biggs. Ben is working out of headquarters in Pennsylvania and Shannon is the Rep for California.

We have made our introductions. I have made my intentions known and the offer to have a 3 way phone conversation was extended by Ben. That was 3 weeks ago. I have since sent a follow-up email last week to Ben and Shannon indicating I am ready to get started. I am still waiting for a response. In the mean time I have learned we are a charter city, which is a good thing. Also am lining up local organizations I belong to as well as networking with farm organizations I think would be so inclined to back this ordinance.

Community involvement is key to this effort. The more the merrier. I am approaching this as a one for all all for one flash movement. If we could All join forces for just one big push or effort our chances of success are greatly increased.

After we succeed in passing this ordinance as a community we disband and go back to our regularly scheduled events. We can each be doing our own thing but when the need arises we can ban together as One in a Flash. Get the job done and then go back to what we were doing. One thing that really impressed me about CELDF was how they were able to organize at the local level. This local level stuff is very powerful. In fact, in many cases as they have proven, local laws and ordinances trump State and Federal laws .

Maine Town Passes Ordinance Asserting Local Self-Governance and Stripping Corporate Personhood | Press Release

“We do not recognize corporate personhood.” That trumps the Supreme Court ruling. Cities have successfully done this thereby disarming corporate mercenaries and rendering them helpless. Oh Yea that’s the ticket.

There are a lot of issues right now. Had to pick my battles. Getting GMO’s labeled is one. Growing timber bamboo in San Luis Obispo on the Dalidio property another and learning to edit iMovie the last one. I just told you about how I am working on the first one. Timber Bamboo is in the works. Learning to edit is well, it is a learning process. Want to see what I have learned so far? It will leave you laughing….. (so hard for me to post. It is so not perfect. But if I didn’t get it posted today on the full worm moon it was never going to get done.)