This is really important stuff.

Hello to my 3 readers, and hopefully anyone else who catches wind of this little blog of mine.

I've had something on my mind for a while now... and I would only be doing you harm not to share it. Please be open minded as your read this blog entry as this is something that affects you as well as me.

First and foremost, people often go around mumbling excuses on why they can't bring themselves to purchase organic foods. "It's too expensive" or "It's a hoax" or "There isn't an organic food store close enough to my house to entice me."

I understand that the daily grind can make purchasing the more expensive, further away produce seem like a daunting task...but what the conventional foods/produce are doing to your/our bodies is even more daunting. Even more than that, though, is what these conventional farms are doing to our economy.

GMO's - genetically modified organisms - are in 100% of commercially grown produce and 100% of commercial product (i.e. doritos, edamame, twix, coke, twinkies, lasagna noodles, pasta sauce, etc...). GMO's are injected into produce (two of the most popular victims being corn and soy) to make them resistant to pesticides (which attack the central nervous system) and to make them grow bigger.

That sounds alright... right? Wrong. To make produce (like corn which is used in 75% of commercial product) resistant to those types of things, they inject it with E-coli, antibiotics and other viruses. In turn, you ingest not only the pesticide sprayed on the food (you can't wash off what's been soaked in) but the E-coli (ever wonder how it ends up on spinach?), antibiotics and viruses made to make these things resistant to pesticides.

I happen to find that horrific, disgusting and mind boggling. Why would the government allow such a thing? Why would the FDA ever approve such a thing? How can we consciously feed this to our children? Well, the government is in on it. Clarence Thomas and other congressmen/seats in the White House have worked with corporations like Monsanto which pump these GMO's into all our food.

It gets worse, though. Aside from the THOUSANDS of negative health effects GMO's and pesticides and BPA and High Fructose Corn Syrup (the list goes on and on) have on us - corporations like Monsanto are suing small family farms whose crops get cross-pollinated with their PATENTED GENE for stealing/infringement. And guess what - these corporations are WINNING. They are wiping out the family farm (our only hope at not ingesting GMOs) and doing a disservice to the economy.

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Anyway, Celiac is something I've struggled with now for quite some time. The other day I was thinking about it and it hit me like a rock..... could GMO's be the source of the upward trend in Celiac diagnosis (and other digestive/bowel diseases and disorders)? Turns out I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Scientists/nutritionists have been studying the effects of GMO's and they have found a correlation.

So... we are all allergic to GMO's in a sense. Could I eat gluten if my body hadn't been turned off to it because of the GMO's in the wheat?

I have so much to say and I can't even get it all out. It's so frustrating.

I guess my plea would be PLEASE buy organic for your health and safety. It has nothing to do with the fact that it's organic and everything to do with the fact that it's not modified. Maybe even just take a challenge. Eat for a month 100% organically and see what it does for you. There are SO many terrible things that can happen to your body/health because of GMO's. Please, watch the Future of Food and/or Food Inc. - or read a book about it. Find a way to educate yourselves on these things because they are SOOO bad for us.

I don't even care if I sound crazy or like I'm on a rant. The fact of the matter is that if we really love ourselves and our neighbors as ourselves, we will do whatever it takes to ensure their health and safety, the health and safety of their children, etc etc.