GMOs – Welcome

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Originally posted on January 10, 2018

(Written November 2012)

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In 2012, I’d been listening to and reading many findings about health and disease. The Farm Bill that year did not succeed regarding GMO labeling. But continue to alert your Congress people of your desire to have GMO products labeled. As you know, the farm bill was modified and enough of your trusty representatives thought you did not need to know that your food was altered. GMO products, until next time, will remain anonymously stuffed among food we have consumed for decades.

On his Pacifica Radio WBAI show in 2012 around the time I originally wrote this, Dr. Gary Null read the names of people who were either consultants for or employees of Monsanto who worked for or are working for the government in high power positions.

I began reading the book Seeds of Destruction per the encouragement of a friend. I found it online but got a copy anyway so I could mark it and include my own notes. F. William Engdahl, the author produced a remarkable document chronicling the beginning of the path for Monsanto to become the horrific corporation it is. I did not know that former President George Herbert Walker Bush (41) issued an Executive Order that gave Monsanto the foothold into the health of every American and subsequently the encouragement to achieve the same of every human on the planet.

What Can You Do?

Everybody should support the Farm Bill; there is still more work to do. Congress systematically votes it down under the effective pressure of the food processing manufacturing industry. The industry and their lobbyists are telling congressmen that Americans do not know what to think and that less information helps them make decisions easier. Is that true for you? If it is not, support that which improves your health, not what makes money for ConAgra, Monsanto, Cargill, and the like.

Read Seeds of Destruction by F. William Engdahl. Learn by understanding the history of the politics of resources and genetic manipulation and, in my opinion, wrongful use of executive power. The most useful question we need to ask is: can we change this? Can an Executive Order be challenged? Another question is: given that an Executive Order can be challenged, what would it take to successfully launch and accomplish a project such as this?

January 10, 2018

The project to remove organic foods and supplements continues. The organic produce industry is a multi-billion dollar business. Money that the processed food industry and the pharmaceutical industry would gladly acquire. The moves and the means may change but the ends remain the same. Be cautious in your choice of organization. The industries that are the biggest offenders of pollution and violate laws and regulations that exist to protect the public, create organizations that represent what people are attracted to, in name only.

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By Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Originally posted on February 23, 2014

Stop Bill C-18

Bill C-18, the “Agricultural Growth Act” omnibus bill, amending several federal agricultural laws, was introduced in Parliament on December 9, 2013. If passed, it will give multi-national agri-business much more money, power and control while increasing farmers’ costs and reducing farmers’ autonomy and Canadian sovereignty.

The following information about Bill C-18 and its implications, as well as about the NFU’s proposed Farmers Seed Act can be used as a Toolkit to help you organize opposition to the Bill.

http://www.nfu.ca/issue/stop-bill-c-18

Clarify your understanding of key issues related to C-18 by reading “Questions and Answers about Bill C-18.” A pdf download.

Question II by Allison L. Williams Hill

I thought the person who filed a lawsuit against a fast food chain would have validity if it had addressed the quality of the food products. For example, it was revealed that many fast food chain products contain GMOs. Rodale’s 2012 impactful study showed that the Bt toxin, long defended by Monsanto as being destroyed in the abdomen’s acid, showed up in the placental tissue of pregnant women and in their newborns.

Rather the lawsuit was dismissed because the plaintiff had the ability to not eat the product and to control what went into the body. With GMO products, one cannot control what is in the product. And yet, products containing GMOs are not labeled as such.

The rising rate of diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease has led to the possibility of investigating the food industry’s knowledge and intent of creating food products that created addictive behavior.

Who is encouraging this? Is it the citizen groups who have had the experience of being told what is available for them to consume? Is it scientists who have studied the effects of food on the human body and mind? Is it the insurance industry that is paying out for these illnesses? Is it the state government funding Medicare and Medicaid?

The lack of information or the provision of “designed” information about the contents of processed food and its impact on behavior is almost as derisive as lying. The knowledge of what is not healthy is in it and known but not told.

This is a plan: Increase the desire to get more food that, when consumed, has physical consequences (which varies per person) then sell the remedy to solve that problem. That is the back-end sale of the pharmaceutical industry. Along with agriculture, both are monitored by the Food and Drug Administration. The title of this department had never been the Food and Drug Safety Administration.

Is it necessary to investigate whether the food industry was aware of the addictive nature of its product formulas? High fructose corn syrup, the cheapest sweetener, and the most effective substance in turning off the body’s natural system of satiation are considered the major cause of obesity and diabetes II in adults and children in this country.

Is it necessary to investigate the food industry’s knowledge of the impact of advertising on children? I’ve not read Ray Crock’s biography, but Eric Schlosser, the author, discussed Crock’s observations at McDonald’s in his presentation at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. While I walk, I listen to the IIN lectures constantly on an iPod, provided by the school when I did the program online even though I graduated from the program almost 4 years ago. Crock noticed that the money spent increased when children came into the restaurant with adults. In other words, when children came, they made more money.

That intelligence has been applied to commercials for children’s products of all kinds, including processed food. Mr. Schlosser watched children’s programming with his own children and noticed that the same commercials were replayed. He said he wondered why the commercials did not change. He said it increased recall in the child; the information became “imprinted,” by definition means “to fix firmly, as in the mind.” Mr. Schlosser then said the magic word: brainwashing.

Foods advertised to children rarely have their nutritional health at heart. Only a little information is provided, as sound bites in a commercial, or as stamps on the packaging to ensure they cover the adult’s perception of nutritional value to secure the purchase in response to a child’s constant requests.

And it is feasible that millions of advertising dollars were applied without research and just happened to gross billions of dollars in revenue. If that is plausible to you, not only do I have a couple of bridges to sell you, not just one, mind you, but I’ll throw in for free inflammation so you can experience obesity; rheumatoid arthritis; diabetes, hypertension, and name another-prevalent-disease deliciously disguised in a boxed case of baked goods.