Re: Why Organics are Expensive & Monsanto's GMOs are Cheap to Buy

[Guest guest]

thank you, i posted this to other sites.

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> Why Organics are Expensive & Monsanto's GMOs are Cheap

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> Ever wonder why organic foods are relatively more expensive and sometimes hard

to find, while Monsanto and biotech-derived junk foods are cheap and

omnipresent?

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> It's because of a federal law known as the Farm Bill that uses billions of

dollars of our tax money every year to subsidize factory farms, biotech crops,

and chemical agriculture.

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> The Farm Bill is also a major reason why obesity, diet-related disease and

health care costs are skyrocketing. It's partly why food production is

responsible for more than half of greenhouse gas emissions and farm run-off is

fouling drinking water and creating dead-zones in the ocean.

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> The current Farm Bill is set to expire and be re-written this year. We have an

opportunity now to press Congress to cut corporate welfare and enact agriculture

reforms that would create jobs, clean up the environment, strengthen sustainable

local food systems and make healthy food available to everyone.

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> Take action!

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> http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25416.cfm

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[Guest guest]

If you care about organic tea and sugar in your kombucha, this matters.

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are not real foods and are destroying

our bees and public health.

Also, an additional $1M is being pledged by Mercola.com, Lundberg Family

Farms, Nature's Path and Eden Foods if $1M is raised by 5/26. So far they

have raised $300K in 10 days...every dollar or five counts!

in Seattle

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> Why Organics are Expensive & Monsanto's GMOs are Cheap

>

> Ever wonder why organic foods are relatively more expensive and sometimes

> hard to find, while Monsanto and biotech-derived junk foods are cheap and

> omnipresent?

>

> It's because of a federal law known as the Farm Bill that uses billions of

> dollars of our tax money every year to subsidize factory farms, biotech

> crops, and chemical agriculture.

>

> The Farm Bill is also a major reason why obesity, diet-related disease and

> health care costs are skyrocketing. It's partly why food production is

> responsible for more than half of greenhouse gas emissions and farm run-off

> is fouling drinking water and creating dead-zones in the ocean.

>

> The current Farm Bill is set to expire and be re-written this year. We

> have an opportunity now to press Congress to cut corporate welfare and

> enact agriculture reforms that would create jobs, clean up the environment,

> strengthen sustainable local food systems and make healthy food available

> to everyone.

>

> Take action!

>

> http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25416.cfm

>

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