Anti-GMO campaign in Washington State lost the fight, but the battle is not over -- but check out the DIFFERENCES in ingredients used here in the USA compared to ingredients in the SAME food over in the UK, so it IS possible to have non-GMO ingredients in our food!!! -- Finally a consequence for at least one company engaged in false claims and bribery!!

Washington State Votes to Label GMO Foods

 

November 06, 2013

 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/11/06/washington-gmo-labeling.aspx?e_cid=20131106Z1_PRNL_art_1&utm_source=prmrnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20131106Z1  

 

Story at-a-glance

• On November 5, Washington State voted on a law to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) foods
• To take control of your health, you need to address your diet. Processed foods are one of the primary drivers of chronic disease, so switching from processed foods to natural (ideally organic) whole foods is the first step
• Planting your own “Victory Garden” can go a long way toward healthier eating, and in the long run, it can provide incentive for industry-wide change, and a return to a diet of real food, for everyone, everywhere
• Regardless of the season, where you live, and how much space you have, you can grow your own food. one of the simplest and most inexpensive alternatives is to grow sprouts
• Whatever veggies you have left over you can easily ferment, which will provide you with superior, nutritious foods year-round  

 

GMO labeling initiative 522 seems to have failed, proving once again that corporate money can buy food secrecy

  

Wednesday, November 06, 2013  

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042805_GMO_labeling_initiative_I-522_guerilla_warfare.html#ixzz2jtxUCL8N

 

(NaturalNews) As of this writing, Washington state I-522 looks to have narrowly failed at the ballot box. This link shows election results county by county.

 

At 11:00pm last night, the "no" votes were winning by approximately 55% to 44%. Mail-in votes reportedly have not been counted yet, but unless a radical change appears in the final votes, I-522 will go down in history as yet another example of corporate money buying out the voters through a campaign of lies and deception.

 

The Grocery Manufacturers of America and most of the big-name food companies proved in this campaign that they are willing to operate a criminal conspiracy to cheat, lie and intentionally misinform voters. At stake is their continued way of doing business: SECRECY coupled with consumer ignorance...

 

We also have to realize that the GMO labeling opposition will never play by the rules. They routinely engage in dirty tricks and even criminal behavior in order to achieve their goals at any cost. I am not suggesting that we stoop to their level and start breaking the law to achieve victory, but we do have to take a far more aggressive stance that directly accuses the opposition of mass deception, mass poisoning and causing a potential ecological disaster.

 

See, the problem with the campaigns for GMO labeling so far is that they are too polite. They are run by nice people who play by nice rules. Those are great people to have as friends and neighbors, but they are not the kind of scrapping, no-holds-barred warriors that are needed to defeat such as slithering, slippery enemy.

 

The opposition to GMO labeling is a cabal of mafia-style criminal rogues who continue to achieve their dark victories by breaking all the rules and playing dirty. To beat them at that game, you have to take off the kid gloves and go for their throats.

 

If anybody in the GMO labeling activism world wants to know how to do that, contact me so we can set up a face-to-face meeting. In the mean time, know that I am already working on an asymmetrical P.R. warfare strategy that will be unleashed next year right here on Natural News.

 

Because the real story here -- and I'm not going to fully explain this until later -- is that the very weapons needed to defeat these evil corporations are sitting right there on the shelves of every grocery store across America. They have handed us the tools of their own defeat.

 

This will all be explained in more detail on January 7, 2014 as part of my upcoming breakthrough food science announcement.

 

  

Processed foods contain healthier ingredients in foreign markets than they do in US

Wednesday, November 06, 2013 by: Ethan A. Huff

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042804_processed_foods_healthier_ingredients_foreign_markets.html#ixzz2ju1NzCsc

 

 

"...Many popular processed foods, such as Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Ritz Crackers, McDonald's French fries and Pizza Hut Garlic Cheese Bread, to name just a few, are intentionally formulated much differently here in the U.S. than they are elsewhere. Foreign varieties of these and many other processed foods are generally healthier, contain fewer or no toxic additives and are all-around more appealing from a health standpoint than their American counterparts...

 

"Take Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, for instance. The American version of this popular processed food product contains a laundry list of unhealthy ingredients, including enriched flour, artificial cheese flavors, chemical preservatives and synthetic, petroleum-based dyes like Yellow 5, which has been linked to triggering behavioral problems in children. The U.K. version, on the other hand, known as "Cheesey Pasta," contains simple ingredients like durum wheat semolina, which is much healthier than refined flour, real cheese and natural colors derived from paprika and beta carotene.

 

"You can view a shocking comparison of the two ingredient lists, courtesy of FoodBabe.com, here.

 

"The same goes for McDonald's French fries, which in the U.S. are loaded with hydrogenated oils, synthetic flavoring agents and dangerous chemical preservatives like TBHQ and dimethylpolysiloxane -- this anti-foaming agent, as we previously reported, is a key ingredient in children's Silly Putty. In the U.K., however, McDonald's French fries contain only natural potatoes, salt, a little bit of sugar and non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.

 

"The ingredient list comparison for McDonald's French fries in the U.K. versus the U.S. is available here: http://foodbabe.com.

 

"What about Quaker Oats breakfast cereal? Surely this popular "healthy" food item is limited to simple oats and fruit, right? Wrong. In the U.S., Quaker Oats strawberry flavor oatmeal cereal contains poisonous additives like partially hydrogenated soybean oil, artificial strawberry flavor, Red 40, a slew of chemical preservatives and even more artificial flavoring agents. The U.K. version of this same product, on the other hand, contains no hydrogenated oils, no fake strawberry flavor and actual freeze-dried strawberry pieces.

 

"You can compare the ingredient lists for Quaker Oats cereal yourself here: http://foodbabe.com.

 

"Using banned ingredients that other countries have determined unsafe for human consumption has become a pandemic in this country," explains Food Babe, noting that her investigation led to feelings of "outrage, unfairness, disbelief, and ultimately grief."

 

"The U.S. food corporations are unnecessarily feeding us chemicals -- while leaving out almost all questionable ingredients in our friends' products overseas," she writes..."

 

  

Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.2 billion for making false marketing claims and engaging in kickbacks

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

by: Raw Michelle

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042802_Johnson_&_false_marketing_claims_settlement.html#ixzz2ju3XCj5i