Weekly Womens GMO Free News
A weekly Google Hangout for women who want to know what is in their food
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"I'm very excited to be part of Weekly Women GMO Free News and
Information Hangout in conjunction with other passionate female
activists across the nation!
In the fall of 2009 I heard the
term GMO for the first time and my life has never been the same. Out of
anger, frustration, and because I felt betrayed, I co-founded GMO Free
Idaho and started to educate those who are not aware that our food
supply has been genetically altered with foreign DNA by corporations who
are notorious for having a totally lack of respect for humanity and our
planet.
As I travel down this road, I have come to meet many
other activists and passionate consumers who have the same goals in
sight....to see GM foods pushed off our grocery store shelves, and the
corporations responsible for poising our planet and potentially the
human population, put to justice.
GMO Free News and Information
is going to be an excellent resource and a great place for all of us to
learn and grow! It's exciting to watch the women I will be working with
create positive changes in their own communities. This is an opportunity
for us to come together and share our experiences, ideas, interviews,
and calls to action to further assist in the changes we are all
seeking."
"Genetically modified foods have never been human safety tested. As a
person who has suffered from food allergies and digestive disease, I
cannot help but wonder if GM foods are responsible. That's why I believe
consumers have the right to know when they are eating GM foods. The
corporations that create GM seed need to honor consumers by providing
transparency about their practices and when our food contains their
modified ingredients."
"The issues surrounding GMOs are vast.
Cross contamination is by far one of the most disturbing aspects of
genetic modification. 50% of heritage corn varieties in Mexico have
become contaminated with Monsanto's GMO traits and this corporation is
not being held responsible for what I call bioterrorism. Nor are enough
consumers standing up and saying we will NOT tolerate the reduction of
the biodiversity of our food supply. This is partly because most
consumers are not aware of GMOs and partly because the consumers who are
aware do not understand the consequences of such contamination.
In
short, if we do not stop GMO production.....cross contamination, we
will be dependent on only a few varieties of seed, provided by only a
handful of multi-national corporations. In my opinion, GMOs are the
biggest threat to the survival of humanity and our planet.
The
only way to create change is by using our purchasing dollars as a vote.
It it critical that we make this current paradigm obsolete by purchasing
organic, local, grass-fed, and non-GMO foods."
Zen Honeycutt (CA)
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The Dalai Lama said :Western Women will change the world". That time is
now. Women all across America are coming together, speaking out and
causing change through grassroots movements, legislation, ballot
initiatives and reaching out to their neighbors and friends to share
with them about Genetically Modified foods and their health risks.
Every
human needs food and the way it is raised and grown effects every one
of us. In the United States, what we allow or don't allow impacts the
rest of the world.
I am honored every, day to meet other women who care
enough share about GMOs and change the world." -Zen Honeycutt Mom of 3
and Moms Across America founder
Laurie Olson (WA)
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Learning about Genetically Modified Food
is very isolating, especially if you are the only one you know who has ever
heard of it. In March of 2010, I was
fortunate enough to have two friends who helped me along in those first
weeks.
I got on the web, found answers,
more people and groups who connected me to information and solutions. What I found out is that our government is
pushing Genetically Engineered Seeds on other countries in our name. They say that we have been eating them for
years and while that is true, we need to take a good hard look at what it has
done to the people in our country.
No
matter what happens in the political arena we need to remember that we vote
three times a day and we need to think about that every time we go to the
grocery store.
Laurie Olson: Wife, Mom to 3, Volunteer with WA State Tipping Point
Network, GMO Free USA and Label It WA.
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Hippocrates stated, "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
I know firsthand how food is our medicine and can heal. Food is our way to vibrant health, and it is my duty to protect my health, the health of my family, and the food that will provide that.
I believe that the world’s living systems have evolved over millennia into highly organized systems. It is a simplistic and arrogant view to think that we can tinker with the system at this stage of our knowledge and not face serious consequences.
I have never felt as connected to a cause as I have since I began campaigning on the issue of genetically engineered food. Millions of people around the globe are joining together in shedding light on the agenda of the bio-industry. How has labeling, our right to know, come to be perceived as a threat to our economic and political sanctity? I think Godwin Ojo from Africa states it best: "Hunger has become a political tool for manipulating people and nations, a situation which has devastating impacts on the poor..." Why are Mexican peasant farmers on hunger strike protesting the threat of 6 million acres of GM corn being grown on their soil, and what does this have to do with labeling? Apparently everything! Join us as we discuss the many layers of this issue.
Women have an instinct and a power to follow it. We are a force to be reckoned with.
I am a mother of three growing boys and a lover of food.
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Press Release: (February 19)
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GMO Free News and Information Weekly Women Google Hangouts Show To Focus On Washington Food Label Initiative I-522
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Last week, Estes was in the audience at an annual biotechnology industry conference in Chicago, attended by the industry’s power players, Creve Coeur-based Monsanto Co., and its competitors, Bayer, Dow, DuPont, among them.
