Let's Hear It for Organic Corn!

Disclaimer:  actually, I've been off corn for some time.  That's right:  popcorn, polenta, corn chips, corn bread, corn on the cob, and of course anything with high fructose corn syrup in it.  Which can include crackers, salad dressings, fruit juice, you name it.  I carefully read all the ingredients on anything I buy.  Just put being off corn down to an intolerance of some sort.  But, if I were eating it, I'd only pick something specifically labeled "organic" or I'd buy directly from the farmer since it's impossible to tell which is real corn and which is GMO (genetically modified organism) corn.  (There are no laws in this country regarding GMO labeling.  You can guess who lobbied for that!!  The less we know about what we eat, the more money they'll make.)

One of those same big biotech corporations was apparently instrumental in the recent coup of the democratically-elected president of Paraguay because his government would not allow them to bring in GMO seed, move family farms off the land, and install their agri-business health-destroying product with the insecticide built right in.

Unfortunately, GE (genetically engineered) products result in obesity because the body can't handle them.  This seems a no-brainer to me, but there are now valid studies including one showing that fish, rats, pigs, and mice put on weight they can't take off if fed these products.  As well, their organs are altered, they are permanently less able to digest proteins, and their immune systems change.  All life-altering effects.  All of which affect us if we eat this GE grain or anything fed this grain.

It's also a no-brainer to find that what's happening in Paraguay is happening elsewhere.  GMO seed is being pushed on various countries.  GMO corn is now the largest crop in Hawaii.  (Most pineapples got shuffled off to Central America.)  And even if farmers don't plant GMO seed, we all know that the pollen can drift over to their fields. 

Nor is this GE process only happening to corn.  The list goes on:  soy, canola, wheat, sugar, cantaloupes, etc.  (See link below if you want to read them all, except it gets a bit depressing.)  If the seed companies (who also produce herbicides and pesticides) had their way, they'd achieve a monopoly on all seed everywhere.  Not news, really.

But here's the real McCoy in all its glory at our local farm stand.

And here's the link to the study