Is it really that much to ask for our food to be labelled. There are a only a handful of companies responsible for this and it is evident that governments are in their pockets... Maybe people in the UK might want to phone Monsanto and let them know what they think.. 01954 717550... Peeps should also try phoning their supermarket requesting the removal of GM products...

Originally posted by purplemer
Is it really that much to ask for our food to be labelled. There are a only a handful of companies responsible for this and it is evident that governments are in their pockets... Maybe people in the UK might want to phone Monsanto and let them know what they think.. 01954 717550... Peeps should also try phoning their supermarket requesting the removal of GM products...

Thanks for the number Anyone dialing that number should do so from a public phone, I wouldnt advise using your own phone.
Good advice about moaning to the supermarkets too

Well M and S is expensive but you pay for what you get!!!

So they price the plebs out of eating good Food....

I usually use Bury Market for meat and veg ... I use to work on there and I know locally sourced shops.

But its gobsmacking if you just eat at random its like a scene from the Deer Hunter ... Russian Roulette.

Apartame in drinks - Diabetes
in USA Corn Syrup --- obesity - Diabetes .....

God knows what else there doing ....

Thanks all replies its not my news its the Daily Mail but was hidden 3/4 down page

I can assure you,
If the zombie apocalypse does become a reality
I will load as many zombies as I can into a trailer and drive them to the Monsanto Offices.
and release them onto the Monsanto scum

the zombie apocalypse does become

I don't understand how it's legal or even remotely ethical to be able to distribute food to people without labeling the contents. Countless people want to know what they're putting into their own bodies for energy and maintaining of health, and these scumbags are saying no?? In no rational world would that be allowed. Unfortunately our world is border-line insane, and corporations are treated like demi-god overlords to not be contended with.

The politicians are always talking up the virtues of the markets, how markets will determine who wins and who loses

then they sneak gm foods in through the back door because they know if it was clearly labelled that the markets would make sure it failed

people have a right to know where their food comes from

Someone asked once of a spiritual master what his views were on Genetically Engineered Foods. His reply was it wont effect this generation, but in generations to come, a persons flesh will start to disintegrate...... and drop away........

are GM Crops really that bad? Yesterday on Radio 5 Live they had a segment to this and they were discussing GM crops unjustly got a bad name.

I think it boils down to marketing, especially in the UK, 'natural', 'organic' etc has often become synonymous with 'good'.

All the newspaper campaigns run against GM foods before the results of the Farm Scale Evaluation that were released back in 2003.

nanny culture at its finest. Heres an interesting quote.

"Consuming foods containing ingredients from GM crops is no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crop plants modified by conventional plant improvement techniques," the AAAS executive board wrote. "The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the US National Academy of Sciences, the British Royal Society, and every other respected organization that has examined the evidence has come to the same conclusion."

While this is a Daily Mail article, it would not surprise me if there was truth to it. I have developed food intolerances, which are often (but not always) brand related, for example Cadbury and Warburtons products, along with some supermarket own brand like Tesco and Sainsburys make me ill. It would not surprise me if these were the companies using GM poison, regardless of what they publicly declare.

The people behind this need to be strung up, and fed food laced with slow killing poison for the remainder of their days.

Originally posted by GrandStrategy

people have a right to know where their food comes from

We know where the food comes from--massive, monocultured crops that have destroyed the soil and surrounding ecosystems to the point where chemical and genetic manipulation are necessary to keep the system running. I won't even get into the environmental implications of our current food distribution system. Suffice it to say that the way we produce and distribute our food is inherently unnatural, and is therefore unsustainable. The only way to be sure that your food is not only simply safe to eat but also as nutritious as possible is to grow or raise it yourself--a remarkably easy thing to do with just a little effort and attention.

I'm not sure how nuts the garden nazis have become in the UK, but here in the US you can still get away with growing a significant portion of your own food yourself, even in urban areas if you're willing to bend a few rules with the help of your friends and neighbors. I think this is the direction we'll ultimately have to go anyway, so we might as well start now.