My friend Jill Richardson, LaVidaLocavore, has already said it best, but really, guys: is the American public so lemming-like that we will honestly buy the horse manure being served up by the Corn Refiners Association as they petition the FDA to allow “corn sugar” to be used in place of “high fructose corn syrup?”
I want to highlight that the FDA has also approved cloned animals for human consumption, and most recently, GMO salmon. Lest you argue, “the data does not prove, nor indicate compellingly, that GMO foods present a danger to health,” I submit that the entities bankrolling these “foods” have leagues of scientists on the payroll, and that corporations in general do not have human health and wellbeing as their chief directive. Profitability is it.
Broccoli, wild Alaskan salmon – what’s left of it – and non-Monsanto corn do not have an army of well-paid scientists at their beck and call. So I’m asking you today, as someone who cares about not only where your food comes from, but in hope of saving civilization: SAY SOMETHING. Tell everyone you know. Even family and friends who say they do not care. Cheap food is not cheap. Things will not just continue as they always have. The price will be paid – by us, our children and our children’s children.
