You Genetically Altered My What???

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Genetically Altered My What??? While looking at my groceries I lugged into the

house, I started the arduous duty of unloading 8 bags of groceries. When

finally, I came to the bag that held my fresh fruit purchases, I spotted the

familiar sticker on the apples. This time what caught my attention were little

numbers on those stickers. I was curious about them. I had a little time to

spare that day and to seek out and possibly satisfy my curiosity. Once seated at

my trusty computer, I knew I was on a mission to find out the secrets behind

those hard to remove little pieces of sticky paper on my fruit. What I found

eventually amazed me. Those special numbers are telling you if your fruit was

grown by chemical fertilizers, organically grown, or GENETICALLY MODIFIED!

I gasped at the thought of eating ANYTHING genetically modified. Had I had my

head in the sand? Here’s what I learned:

The PLU code has four numbers.

So here is what that fifth number means for you and me:

• Organically grown fruit has the number “9” prefaced to the four digits. For

example, if the PLU number is 4130 for a standard grown apple, (all accepted

fertilizers and fungicides used conventionally) If it was organically grown, it

would read 94130.

• If the fruit is genetically altered (or GE or GMO) it will have an “8”

prefaced to the four digit code. As in 84130.

These genetically altered foods are already in the marketplace main stream and

have been for a number of years. Scientists are using newly found technology to

transfer genes from one species to another. Many scientists are concerned about

the effects, not only on us as humans, but the environment as well.

Twenty years ago the first GM pet was introduced. The Glo fish. Scientists had

given a gold fish a gene from coral. The little fish glowed under ultraviolet

light.

Are these altered animals and foods safe? We do not know yet.

Here’s some info on what happening to our wheat supply that the corporation

Monsanto is pursuing. In promoting its GMO wheat product, Monsanto is

desperately trying to win over a bid to introduce, Round-Up Readies, into

California and ultimately to the world. It is meeting with very hard opposition,

as farmers are directly opposed to this. And well they should be. Digging

further, I found nine countries that have stated adamantly, along with the

European market, they will have none of the GMO wheat we offer.

They are:

• Britain

• Ireland

• Norway

• Japan

• Algeria

• Italy

• Indonesia

• Malaysia

• France

And the list is growing longer with threats to buy from Canada or where

available if pushed to that point.

Interesting - even the livestock do not want it. Here are just a few documented

observations from Kansas to Wisconsin,

* Hogs would not eat their rations, when GMO crops were included in the feed.

* Cattle that broke through an old fence, and had to walk PAST the GMO hybrids,

to get to and feed on, the natural wheat on the other side.

* Of deer mowing down a crop of soy beans, while across the way, not one deer

touched the GMO variety “Round-Up Readies”.

* Raccoons feasted by the dozen on the organic corn, while down the road the GMO

field of corn stood untouched.

Mice will not touch it either, if given a choice.

Okay, maybe that would have some merit for the farmer, so he doesn’t lose his

crops to wildlife. But what about the price our families will pay in the

interest of creating a supercrop resistant to herbacides and pesticides?

The question we have to ask ourselves, What do the animals know

instinctively…….. that we don’t know and have yet to find out?

What can anyone do about it? One thing personally I can do is:

1. Vote with money in the choice of foods that are bought.

2. Ask the grocer to supply his shelves and produce bins with an abundant choice

of organic foods.

3. Voice an opinion against stocking of altered foods when known.(Kraft is one

company that has started to use altered foods or Genetically Altered food in its

products.)

4. Start an awareness group in your area and/or let your neighbors know about

this.

5. Post flyers on a bulletin board at your local grocers, or farmers market with

the owner's permission of course, informing others who come in, of what those

little stickers really are telling us about the fruits and vegetables we buy.

I know I am... I hope you will too.

Knowledge is power!

http://www.foodreference.com/html/artgeneticallymodifiedfoods.html

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I know this is an old post, but I recently saw the 4 digit number prefaced

by a " 3 " ...does anyone know what the three means? Needless to say, I did not

purchase the produce.

TIA,

" I do not ask that Thou should give me some high or noble task. Give me

little hands to fold in mine. Give me little children to point Thy way, over

the strange, sweet path that leads to You. Give me little voices to teach to

pray. Give me shining eyes Thy face to see. The only crown I ask to wear is

this, that I may teach my children. I do not ask that I may stand among the

wise, the worthy, or the great; I only ask that softly, hand in hand my

children and I may enter at the gate. "

-Anonymous

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Genetically Altered My What??? While looking at my groceries I lugged into

the house, I started the arduous duty of unloading 8 bags of groceries. When

finally, I came to the bag that held my fresh fruit purchases, I spotted the

familiar sticker on the apples. This time what caught my attention were

little numbers on those stickers. I was curious about them. I had a little

time to spare that day and to seek out and possibly satisfy my curiosity.

Once seated at my trusty computer, I knew I was on a mission to find out the

secrets behind those hard to remove little pieces of sticky paper on my

fruit. What I found eventually amazed me. Those special numbers are telling

you if your fruit was grown by chemical fertilizers, organically grown, or

GENETICALLY MODIFIED!

I gasped at the thought of eating ANYTHING genetically modified. Had I had

my head in the sand? Here’s what I learned:

The PLU code has four numbers.

So here is what that fifth number means for you and me:

• Organically grown fruit has the number “9” prefaced to the four digits.

For example, if the PLU number is 4130 for a standard grown apple, (all

accepted fertilizers and fungicides used conventionally) If it was

organically grown, it would read 94130.

• If the fruit is genetically altered (or GE or GMO) it will have an “8”

prefaced to the four digit code. As in 84130.

These genetically altered foods are already in the marketplace main stream

and have been for a number of years. Scientists are using newly found

technology to transfer genes from one species to another. Many scientists

are concerned about the effects, not only on us as humans, but the

environment as well.

Twenty years ago the first GM pet was introduced. The Glo fish. Scientists

had given a gold fish a gene from coral. The little fish glowed under

ultraviolet light.

Are these altered animals and foods safe? We do not know yet.