High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) - "Brothers" TV Commercial

Two brothers discuss the facts about high fructose corn syrup. The younger brother informs the older brother that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is made from corn, it's nutritionally the same as sugar, and it's just fine in moderation.



Well, Dude.. I mean, you know
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"Two Bites"
"Party"
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HFCS and Your Children's Diet

Search on YouTube for these videos, it will outrage you! Copy the following title exactly and put them in the search box on the top of this page:

(Monsanto Patent for a pig)

(Percy Schmeiser Part 1)

(Shocking World By Monsanto - Must see!!! - Part 1)

(The Future of Food - Introduction)

(Reporters Blow Whistle on FOX News)

Patents by Monsanto

Vandana Shiva talks about the patent of seeds by Monsanto. Dr. Shiva is the mother of environment as Mother Teresa is the mother of humanity. Nuff said, here is an article by David Kemker, Earthkeeper Hero Dr. Vandana Shiva

Let the seed be exhaustless, let it never get exhausted let it bring forth seed next year - peasant prayer.
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Seed monopolies lead to harvest of suicides by Vandana Shiva

Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands

The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?

In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.

Slow Food was right - limit your food to what comes from your region and from real farmers, and slow down to cook it and linger over it with friends and family, and the world begins to change for the better.

And as we face an unprecedented economic crisis, and it is hard to be sure what has value, one thing that always does is food. Which is why the corporations are after absolute control over it. But what obstacles to a complete lock on food do they face? All the people in this country who are "banking" on organic farming and urban gardens and most of all, everyone's deepening pleasure in and increasing involvement with everything about food.

Farmers markets. Local farmers. Real milk. Fresh eggs. Vegetable stands.

Those are things we not only all want, but things we are actively getting involved in, and things we very much need. And where they are truly good, they are growing.

The international financial corporations which have wreaked havoc around the world with astounding nonsensical "solutions" that are destructive of everyone but them, are brothers to the international agribusiness giants (Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc.) which are just as aggressively after their own form of "taking." Just seeds, animals, water, land.

And freedom.

Linn Cohen-Cole
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Make sure to read Linn Cohen-Coles"s "The multiple ways Monsanto is putting normal seeds out of reach"

HR 875

Monsanto and HR 875, Take Two

Just when I was losing faith in the internet as a tool for dialogue and change, along comes Nonny Mouse and C&L with an invite to Monsanto to respond to all this silliness on HR 875. It’s a strange new world, but a welcome one.

As Nonny Mouse has pointed out, Monsanto has nothing to do with HR 875. We aren’t behind it and don’t even have a position on it. You can read about this in detail in our blog. In fact, contrary to rampant, poorly-informed opinion; Monsanto doesn’t consider local agriculture, or even organic agriculture, as a threat to our business. Readers will likely be surprised to learn that many of our customers work small farms. Some are even growing organically (not all our seeds are GM).

HR 875, for those who are understandably lost in the debate, is intended to improve US food safety laws. Given relatively recent incidents involving peanut butter, ground beef and spinach, there are a lot of Americans who think it’s high time. The true tragedy of all this rumor-mongering about HR 875 and its supposed attack on local and organic agriculture is that it has distracted people from the discussion that should be occurring – how can we improve food safety without putting undue burden on small farms and businesses that want to sell and process food locally?

In many ways, this whole HR 875 incident is a pretty good microcosm for the larger debate about the role of biotechnology in agriculture. True dialogue and discussion suffers because of rumor, misinformation and petty bickering. Constructive discourse around agricultural biotechnology pales when compared to the amount of argument. Something like a third of the population is without sufficient food at any given point in time. You would think this would be impetus enough to put aside differences of opinion and chart a course forward, but apparently it’s not.

representative of Monsanto, Mr. Bradley Mitchell

3/14/09: Your Weekly Address

3/14/09: Your Weekly Address