Well, well. Monsanto is now threating to sue the entire state of Vermont. Vermont wants to regulate food labels so customers can find out which foods have been genetically modified. Of course, Monsanto doesn’t want that. Read about it here.

They’re like a bully on the school playground. Play my way or I’ll beat you up.

Hate Monsanto? Yeah, me too.

Want to read more about Monsanto? You can do that here and here.

Here we go. A more realistic, honest Food Pyramid. Read it and weep, people. This is what the majority of people are putting in their bodies every day. They are also feeding it to their kids.

On another note, we were in a Denny’s restaurant in California. How I wish I had brought my camera in with me. How I wish I was tech savyy enough to realize my husband could have taken a picture of it with his cell phone.

There is a sign hanging in the Bakerfield Denny’s restaurant. It’s right by the till where you pay for your meals. It said something like this:

“The food and ingredients used in this restaurant are known to cause Cancer”.

I’m not sure I can convince my husband to go to another Denny’s just so I can get a picture.

What a great step forward for California! You go!

I need again to end this post with the quote from Alton Brown:

“We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God’s sake feed your children.” —
Alton Brown

Do you hate Monsanto? Yes, me too.  Way back in May of 2008, the magazine Vanity Fair, included a very interesting article about Monsanto. It was worth reading way back then, and it’s worth reading again in 2012. Some things may have changed, in that a large group of farmers is now suing Monsanto (and I say, “You GO, Boys!!”). They need big pockets because Monsanto has literally ruined small farmers when they have dared to file suit.

Another change is the number of people who are now becoming more aware about exactly what this company has been up to over these past years. When I started blogging in 2008, I wrote about Monsanto with a link to this article. It kinda surprises me that 4 years have gone by at this point. That’s a lot of writing – but my dislike for Monsanto has never waned and actually probably increased. At that time, the movement to get the word out about Monsanto was a lot smaller than it is today.

It’s a testament to the different kinds of social media, I think, that have helped this movement grow and grow. Over the last several years, more and more people are realizing the dangers that lurk in our food supply. More and more people are realizing that growing your own food (at least some of it, in season) is an important thing to do. More people are realizing that eating processed food is literally killing us.

Here’s the link again to that May 2008 article. If you haven’t yet read it, go and do so. If you’ve already read it, read it again. Remember, these guys want to rule our seed supply. Never forget that – grow heirloom veggies and save your own seed. (And hope to God you don’t have the neighbouring field planted in Monsanto seed – they even sue for wind drift. Plus, of course, they ruin your seeds.) Here’s a link to previous writings on this site.

Man, I hate Monsanto.