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Consumers (Vil)sacked By Big Ag Again, With The Help Of The Whole Foods And Friends
Author : Marianne Conway
By Laura Harrison McBride, editor/publisher of Eating Their Young: How the Greatest Generation Made the Baby Boom Into a Moveable Feast, available on Kindle.
In January, 2011, just in time for the growing season being harvested now, Whole Foods Market (WFM), Organic Valley and Stoneyfield Farms tacitly approved the use of the scourge of the earth, another Roundup Ready crop, in this case Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa. So what? People don’t eat alfalfa, you say.
Horses do.
But people don’t eat horses, not in America, you note. And Roundup is not used in France where horses do enter the food chain in significant numbers.
You are what you eat, just as, the Age of AIDs, you sleep with everyone the person you slept with has slept with. Just so, you eat whatever what you eat has eaten. In America, alfalfa is a great part of the feed of many animals raised for food, both by Big Ag conglomerates and by organic farms.
In her book, Eating Their Young: How the Greatest Generation Made the Baby Boom into a Moveable Feast, author Bryce Webster notes that in 2003, according to the conservative publication National Review, “only
two percent of American farms were organic, hardly a major threat to agribusiness.
With Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley and Stoneyfield Farms capitulating, it would seem that Big Ag has all but won, with the help of Mr. Obama’s hand-picked USDA chief, Tom Vilsack, definitely a disappointment in his catering to Big Ag at the expense of sustainability and any retrenchment from the industrial-strength farm policies of Mr. Bush’s administration.
An article on the Foodfreedom blog notes that WFM, under cover of a mealy-mouthed explanation for a retreat from the front-lines of food sanity, had approved of the USDA’s “conditional deregulation” of Monsanto’s “genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant alfalfa.”
Monsanto, which has been cited more than once for its draconian tactics regarding farmers’ rights to plant whatever they like (click here, here, here and here for examples), can now spread the mutant alfalfa across the land…where those genes will escape through a variety of vectors to contaminate the alfalfa fed to organic animals.
Whether you eat it or breathe it, tinkered-with food is deadly
It is difficult to say which is worse,food-chain contamination, or “massive poisoning of farm workers and destruction of the essential soil food web by the toxic herbicide, Roundup” and the inevitable appearance, in time, of “Roundup-resistant superweeds that will require even more deadly herbicides such as 2,4 D to be sprayed on millions of acres of alfalfa across the U.S.,” according to Foodfreedom.
Plus, “a recent large-scale Swedish study found that spraying Roundup doubles farm workers’ and rural residents’ risk of getting cancer’.”
WFM claimed the high road. It said it expected the USDA to regulate Monsanto, not cheerlead for it.
Many of us are still looking forward to seeing pigs fly…although with genetic engineering, that ludicrous event might not be as far-fetched as expecting your father’s USDA to do the right thing.
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Tags: Monsanto, Whole Foods Market, Stoneyfield, Roundup, USDA, Vilsack, Greatest Generation
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Submitted : 2011-07-13 Word Count : 500 Popularity: 20 Times Viewed: 40
