GMO Corn Feeds Whole Foods Meat Dept: Ask them to pressure suppliers to stop feeding their pigs, chickens and cattle GMO Corn.

This piece was inspired by the responses I received to the above FB post:

Friend 1 replied:
What is GMO corn?

Friend 2 replied:
Ugh!

Okay so, it must be the free-range meat but the organic is probably still okay, right? Doesn’t the organic feed have to be non-GMO?

Friend 3 replied:
Genetically Modified “O?”… organics?

Friend 1 replied:
Thanks….I would imagine in the future everything would be genetically modified including us. They will grow crops in the winter this way…I would imagine almost any advanced species in the universe would do this…You could make a point we are not ready to do it in a safe way, but it is where we are going…Inside a house 150 years from now almost everything will be modified in some way..It apears we will are heading toward growing most things we use beyond even food.

Benjamin Haffner
GMO: Genetically Modified Organism
Yes, “organic” meat department sacrament is from animals that are fed certified organic feed :0) Most “grass fed” cows and pigs are “finished” with corn: meaning, they are fed corn for the last 6 months of their lives to gain weight. Pigs are omnivores. Cows are not. Cows eat grasses, not grass seeds (corn is a tall grass). Cows are finished on corn to benefit the farmer by taking advantage of the cows’ corn allergy. Since the cow can not fully digest the corn, they gain weight and are worth more at the market. Grass fed cows’ beef is rich in Omega-3s and contains more minerals than corn fed cows’ beef.

In response to Andrew’s comment about the way things are going:
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Food Safety is in Diversity. Developing super stains of plants may be good work for genetic engineers, but needs much more testing time than Monsanto’s marketing department has allotted for in their selling/ROI strategy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault This link is to a seed bank in Norway built a quarter mile into the mountain. This is how we can preserve 500,000 seed samples (the current estimated total of seed varieties in the world) plus two back up samples in three separate vaults; total of 1.5 million seed samples. These are the jewels of the human race. With this cornucopia of seed variety preserved and available, we have many options to exercise if a plant disease, fungus, mold or polluted ground water problem should challenge the one (super) strain agribusiness has adapted their equipment and protocols to. Diversity also benefits the quickly disappearing small farmer because they get to keep their seed from year to year. Monsanto requires farmers to buy new seed from the company every year. Farmers risk being sued by Monsanto if they keep any seed. Also, now that life(seeds) can be patented, Monsanto has enormous control over the world’s food system. This empowers corporate food control and develops an unnecessary vulnerability for our food supply with so much of our food coming from a corporation (80% of the all US Corn and 95% of all US Soy). Monsanto’s corn already kills butterflies and most likely honey bees which are responsible for pollinating all the almond trees in California which represents 85% of the world’s almond market. The current most popular honey bee kept for pollinating these almond trees is battling what’s know as colony collapse disorder.

The short of it is that we need to call for a world wide recall of genetically modified foods to prevent poisoning native DNA pools and return to a local family farming model like when our great grand parents were young.

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/monsanto-will-own-and-control-roughly-95-percent-of-all-soybeans-and-80-percent-of-all-corn-grown-in-the-u-s/

http://westernfarmpress.com/news/California-almond-industry/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/colony-collapse-lives/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder