Measure 92 - Oregon Labeling - Denied!

11-06-14 - GMO?

In Oregon almost 21 million dollars was spent against a measure that would require food producers to label foods that have been genetically modified.  It was a lot more money than was raised in support of the measure.  I watched the ads, pro and con, and heard the many arguments for and against, but the one argument that stood out against it is the money they said it would cost to have separate labeling just for the state of Oregon.  What doesn’t make sense is that the same companies fighting against it (Monsanto, Dupont, Pepsico, Coca Cola USA, and Kraft foods) are already required to provide separate labeling for virtually every other country on the planet.  The U.S. is one of the only places that does not require it.

8.8 Million was raised in support of Measure 92, but in the end it wasn’t enough.

I know there is a lot of discussion and worry around the use of GMO’s (Genetically Modified Organism) in our food and in some households it surrounds the fear that we are poisoning ourselves from the inside out.  I have not personally done the research, so I cannot emphatically take a stand in either direction.  I only know what I believe, what I see, what I feel in my heart, and for those of you science minded people that’s just not enough.  Sometimes it’s not enough for me either.

Take this on advisement…

Prior to the whirlwind domination of western medicine what kept man alive?  What kept the population growing?  Sure there was death, sickness (sometime on a global scale), but a large proportion decline came with exploration.  Entire races were wiped out by disease when it crossed over the Atlantic ocean with settlers that were not dying from it (Diseases like the plague, chicken pox, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, and whooping cough).

Science says this was likely a difference in the immune systems of the Native American vs. the Settlers.  It was definitely a difference in the lifestyle of the two peoples.

On one hand you had a society of “conquerors” that had gone from continent to continent establishing new lands, and on the other were the native peoples that lived off the purity of the land.  A purity that was instantly contaminated by the presence of outsiders.

I don’t think that modern man fully appreciates the science of indigenous people.  What kept them alive?  It was heart and their connection to the land, to the food they ate, and their oneness with nature.

So why don’t they want us to know what we are eating?  I can only speculate, but at some point it may have a litigious end.  If we live long enough!