Washington State Votes to Label GMO Foods
On November 5, residents of Washington State voted on a law to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) foods.
This is a huge win for protecting our consumer rights to know and our health. When large corporations put the profits of their shareholders ahead of the good and well-being of the public they serve there is nobody to police them. The policymakers in state capitals and Washington D.C. get campaign contributions from such large companies. There is really no motivation for them to bite the hand that feeds them! So we are on our own.
However, the people have spoken and this is what we choose. To all know what they are putting in our food that is not how God made these plants that they have altered and I feel that has a large connection to the growing obesity epidemic in our country.
Think about it if you eat food (calories) with less nutrients or foreign genes our body is lacking and we need more food. Thus we eat more of the wrong things and get FAT! When we are fat we are less healthy and need Medication! More companies that support politicians make much more money.
I have always wondered why the regulating body was the FOOD and Drug administration!
That is a discussion for another day. Here is list of the companies who tried to hide the fact that a court of law brought out that tried to supply the fight against you knowing what is in your food:
As of this writing, the list of donors and amount of each company’s donation submitted to the Public Disclosure Commission includes the following, which totals up to $7,222,500. Looks like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestle are the top funders trying to hide their identity. Quite the triangle of authority of junk food producers, and purveyors of chronic disease:
Company Amount donated Company Amount donated Abbott Nutrition 127,459 Bimbo Bakeries USA 94,693 Campbell Soup Co. 265,140 Bruce Foods Corp. 3,006 Cargill Inc. 98,601 Bumble Bee Foods 36,073 Coca-Cola 1,047,332 Bunge North America 94,993 ConAgra Foods 285,281 Clement Pappas & Co. Inc 21,043 Dean Foods 120,245 Clorox Company 12,024 Bush Brothers & Co. 16,233 Flowers Foods 141,288 Del Monte Foods 86,576 Hormel Foods 52,908 General Mills 598,819 J.M. Smucker Co 241,091 Hershey 248,305 Knouse Foods 14,429 Hillshire Brands 97,398 Welch Foods 28,859 Kellogg 221,852 Land O’Lakes 99,803 Moody Dunbar 1,804 McCormick & Co 102,208 Nestle USA 1,052,743 Mondelez Global 144,895 Ocean Spray, Cranberries, Inc. 55,313 Pinnacle Foods Group 120,846 PepsiCo 1,620,899 Rich Products Corp 24,049 Sunny Delight Beverages Co. 21,043 Shearer’s Foods, Inc. 25,251
Yours in Health,