The key is to read the labels – for now.

Some of you may have noticed that I’m fairly rabid when it comes to giving our bodies the food we need to keep us healthy, encourage wellness and discourage disease.  The two things that are key to wellness are (1) healthy food and (2) keeping out the toxins and poisons.

It’s such a shame that our food supply has been poisoned by big companies, who think it’s absolutely ok to embed poisons in the genetic material of the basic foods that Americans eat.  While we rarely eat anything that is processed, I still read labels every single time.  These poisons are often hidden and you may not even know it.   What is even more disturbing is that the food producers (i.e. General Mills), chemical companies (Montsanto, Dow and more), and non-organic factory farming operations are lobbying and lobbying HARD to remove labeling and our right to know what is in our food.  The biggest these days?  GMOs.   They truly don’t want you to know what’s in your food.   The interesting thing is that these companies are required to comply with stricter labeling requirements in Europe and in other countries.  Yet they are doing all they can to keep from doing this in the US.  Do they have that much contempt for their U. S. consumer?  Obviously so.

Yesterday, I read the posts of someone who said he was a student at one of the top universities in the country for bio-engineering.  His argument?  That GMO’s are no more harmful than hybridization.  I am NOT a chemistry major nor a genetics major and I know that is not the case. This is really just more evidence that these big corporations are doing all they can to  keep us in the dark about what we are eating.

I’ve just made a trip to the market for a few basics, and took a few photos of labels to share.  This illustrates what you will find on labels and how misleading they can be. They’re far from healthy.

Here is an example of a ‘meal in a can’ for someone in a hurry.  Here’s the adult version and its’ label.  Can someone tell me why they need to add modified corn starch and corn oil into this product?  And of course, it’s all GMO, laced with poison and insecticide.  And the beans are just called ‘prepared’.  How were they prepared?  So many questions!

I was even more shocked when I looked at what parents are feeding their children as a ‘meal in a can’!  There were two mothers there, each with a child in her cart, each buying a cart load of this stuff! It may be hard to read, but the sheer number of ingredients on this can of Chef Boyardee are outrageous.  There is soy protein, textured vegetable protein (what is that) that is made with soy protein concentrate, soybean oil.  And they wonder why children are maturing so early?  There is also corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, modified corn starch among other things.

Here are two labels from two boxes of macaroni and cheese mixes.  Both were in the ‘organic’ section, but there is a big difference.  Again, I apologize for the blurred photography.  A woman was watching me as if I am nuts.