Showing posts with label Yes on Prop 37. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yes on Prop 37. Show all posts
Oct 16, 2012
Bargain Alert! If your vegan and on a budget, or want to eat healthier and you live near a Stater Brothers grocery store...
Earth Balance spread and West Soy milk are both on sale! Earth Balance is 1.99 a tub and West Soy is 1.29 to celebrate Non-GMO
month. If your store ran out, ask for a rain check.
Let's support those companies who do the right thing!
month. If your store ran out, ask for a rain check.
Let's support those companies who do the right thing!
Oct 12, 2012
Halloween is right around the corner. Did you buy Halloween candy yet? Do you know if your favorite candy, the very ones you will buy to pass out to the ghosts and goblins (and keep a bag for yourself) contains GMOs?? Here's a partial list (thanks to Food Babe). It also lists candy that is Non- GMO.
I pledge to only buy from companies that are NON-GMO because they are the only ones who want to do the right thing. How about you?
xo Inge
I pledge to only buy from companies that are NON-GMO because they are the only ones who want to do the right thing. How about you?
xo Inge
Oct 9, 2012
Oct 1, 2012
Sep 30, 2012
I swiped this chart off Food Babe's blog http://foodbabe.com/2012/09/28/do-your-favorite-snack-brands-contain-gmos/
I suggest fresh fruits and vegetables BUT I know we all like something to snack on occasionally, so why not be sure its good for us! And we are showing our support for those companies who are doing the right thing! Earning a living, while selling a product that is good for the environnment and good for us!
xo Inge
Sep 14, 2012
Genetic Roulette Movie
Watch this movie. ITS FREE this week! I just watched it and it will blow your mind! It connects GMOs and the epidemic of illnesses, including Autism http://geneticroulettemovie.com/
Sep 11, 2012
Sep 3, 2012
Aug 31, 2012
How many people really understand the labels on the food we eat? I just learned something quite interesting recently about all the different 'organic' labels. I thought organic meant 'organic' like 100% organic. Wrong! So, you know I am all about getting our genetically modified food aka: gmo food labeled in California. I spend a great deal of my time working , rather volunteering to educate people about this important proposition. Thats how I stumbled onto the label organic wagon.
I try to buy mostly organic because, I thought that was the purest food we can buy, or as they used to call it - 'food' when I was a kid. I read an article in Extraordinary Health magazine that clearly describes all the different organic foods that are sold in the markets.
Here is what I learned:
The USDA established the guidelines of who could display the 'organic' label. In a nutshell, any foods that contain at least 95% organic ingredients can be labeled as such. What? 95%? What about the remaining 5% then? June 9th, 2007 the USDA added 38 non-organic ingredients to the national list: 19 food colorings, two starches, casings for sausages, hops, fish oil, chipotle chili pepper, gelatin, celery powder, dill weed oil, frozen lemon grass, and a sweetener called fructooligosaccharides. Fructoo what? Even though it sounds bad it is a natural fructan sweetner, and acts like fiber.
Those foods which contain 100% organic ingredients are the only ones who can get the '100% USDA Organic' label. There is nothing but organic stuff in it. Period.
It evens gets more complicated. Some organic food is 70% organic and there is a label that shows that, well not really a label but they can say it on the package. Like the chocolate bar shown here.
Last but not least there is the 'natural' word on LOTS of food. I bet you don't know that the word natural is NOT regulated. They do not contain additives or preservatives, however, they CAN contain gmos and can be grown with pesticides. Whenever I see the word 'natural' on anything I want to eat, I put it back.
Now this is the label I want to see on ALL our food. And voting Yes on Prop 37 will get this ball rolling.
I try to buy mostly organic because, I thought that was the purest food we can buy, or as they used to call it - 'food' when I was a kid. I read an article in Extraordinary Health magazine that clearly describes all the different organic foods that are sold in the markets.
Here is what I learned:
The USDA established the guidelines of who could display the 'organic' label. In a nutshell, any foods that contain at least 95% organic ingredients can be labeled as such. What? 95%? What about the remaining 5% then? June 9th, 2007 the USDA added 38 non-organic ingredients to the national list: 19 food colorings, two starches, casings for sausages, hops, fish oil, chipotle chili pepper, gelatin, celery powder, dill weed oil, frozen lemon grass, and a sweetener called fructooligosaccharides. Fructoo what? Even though it sounds bad it is a natural fructan sweetner, and acts like fiber.
Those foods which contain 100% organic ingredients are the only ones who can get the '100% USDA Organic' label. There is nothing but organic stuff in it. Period.
It evens gets more complicated. Some organic food is 70% organic and there is a label that shows that, well not really a label but they can say it on the package. Like the chocolate bar shown here.
Now this is the label I want to see on ALL our food. And voting Yes on Prop 37 will get this ball rolling.
Aug 18, 2012
I have been posting like mad on facebook pages of companies against Prop 37. I am getting emails from them. I am not alone leaving comments to boycott. Please do the same on the Like pages. You do not have to 'Like' them to leave a comment....
I am leaving comments on their twitter sites as well. We have their attention and need to keep the pressure on.
https://www.facebook.com/SilkUS
https://www.facebook.com/kelloggspoptarts
https://www.facebook.com/ricekrispies
https://www.facebook.com/NutriGrain
https://www.facebook.com/frostedflakes
https://www.facebook.com/Kelloggs?ref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/smuckers
https://www.facebook.com/generalmillscareers
https://www.facebook.com/fiberone
https://www.facebook.com/MuirGlen
https://www.facebook.com/nakedjuice?ref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/SilkUS
https://www.facebook.com/kelloggspoptarts
https://www.facebook.com/ricekrispies
https://www.facebook.com/NutriGrain
https://www.facebook.com/frostedflakes
https://www.facebook.com/Kelloggs?ref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/smuckers
https://www.facebook.com/generalmillscareers
https://www.facebook.com/fiberone
https://www.facebook.com/MuirGlen
https://www.facebook.com/nakedjuice?ref=ts
Aug 17, 2012
I had a busy week working on the Prop 37 campaign. Monsanto and its gang members have been busy too. They spent 10 million dollars so far and its only August! They are dead set on the American people not knowing what's in their food. I am just as determined as they are though. Sybborn is my middle name. Graet news though Senator Mark Leno (D) says yes to Ptop 37. Here is a copy of his letter:
Dear Colleagues & Candidates,
I'm writing today to ask that you join me in saying Yes on 37. Please join the CA Democratic Party, the California Labor Federation, the California Nurses Association, UFW, Sierra Club, CALPIRG, Consumer Federation of America, dozens of farmers and doctors, and hundreds of other organizations and businesses in officially endorsing Yes on 37. Yes on 37 is California's Right to Know ballot measure that would label genetically engineered foods. You can endorse Prop 37 right now at http://www.carighttoknow.org/endorsements or simply by replying to this e-mail.
Yes on 37 is based on a pretty simple notion: we have the right to know what's in the food we and our families eat. Food products should have simple labels that tell us if they have been genetically engineered, especially since we don't know these foods to be safe. This "right to know" is a fundamental right and a bedrock American value. It is time for California to join 49 countries that already label genetically engineered foods.
Yes on 37 is part of a massive, rapidly-growing national grassroots movement. Here in California, we've secured the endorsements of several elected officials, including U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Congresswomen Maxine Waters & Judy Chu, Chair of CA Dems Women's Caucus Christine Pelosi, State Assemblymembers Allen, Huber, Monning, Huffman, and Ammiano, and many more.
Please learn more and join us today: http://www.carighttoknow.org/.
Thank you!
Mark Leno
State Senator
I also found an article about one independent study concerning the effects of gmos:
Oh and if you shop at WalMart, they will sell gmo corn in a couple of weeks and of course you won't know, because they don't have to label it!
School is starting soon and in some cities it started last week. Do you know what you are feeding your children?
eat your fruits and veggies! (non-gmo) xo Inge
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