Telling us what to put in our bodies.

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The genetically altered food i= is another issue.

My concern is with the industrial complex - and this is not meant as a

political diatribe but see if this is followable: a new med is reasearched

and developed overseas - and tested and released for use in Europe. USed

there for many years - becomes a staple of treatment there. NOT APPROVED

buy the FDA. IS very cheap in Europe. Is finally released for use in the

US. Pharmaceutical reps spread out around the country to convince Doc's of

the efficacy for this med, TV ads, newspaper ades. Now you are told by the

docs to buy this OTC med (In Europe it was by prescription until recently).

Now YOU buy it. When you go to get it , this product is dominent on shelves

at eye level. Check the ingredients - guafenesin. Recognize it? Cheap old

cough medine. NOw look at the brand being pushed - MUCINEX. Check the

price. Get the picture????

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> Sara,

> This is a scary topic. The whole prospect of GMO corn is even more

> frightening. I happened to tape a show on the Sundance Channel called

> " Monsanto " and it was a documentary made in France about how chemical

> companies have re-engineered our food supply. They interviewed corn growers

> in Mexico who were discovering that their non GMO corn plants were now

> testing out as GMO because of air currents and cross contamination from GMO

> farms in the states. So even if we want to stay away from GMO foods it may

> indeed become impossible. It was an interesting viewpoint from a European

> country hoping to prevent GMO foods in Europe.

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> What a tangled web we weave.

> Sherry

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> The politics of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup is so typical of the

> industrical/political complex. Farmers are subsidized to grow corn, corn

> prices are held low to encourage use., adding corn to food means more corn

> needs to be grown, corn is made into a cheap sweetner and sweetness is

> added to more foods, people like sweet so they buy more, and the circle

> goes

> round.

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> Now if corn were being used as a benign fuel for machines, we would all be

> beter off healthwise. And who wants to enter the discussion of how much

> energy it will take to use corn that way?

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> And all of this - food pollution, air pollution EFFECTS OUR KIDS!

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