{"id":2040,"date":"2013-04-30T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:25:55","slug":"to-the-barricades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/to-the-barricades\/","title":{"rendered":"To the barricades…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….there are times when I think I could be a revolutionary.\u00a0 Mostly those are times when I hear about the latest outrage perpetrated by chemical giant, Monsanto.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to imagine a more powerful, more destructive company on the planet.\u00a0 Their genetic engineering—all government-sanctioned—and their ability to skirt any real scientific review is without parallel.<\/p>\n

We’ve detailed many times their influence in Washington (and it has made no difference whether a Republican or Democrat is in charge).\u00a0 While other countries have been careful to keep a lid on genetically engineered foods, Monsanto has had free reign with its willing accomplices in the government and universities.<\/p>\n

One of the articles of faith in GMO-land is that genetically modified foods have the same nutritional profile as standard products.<\/p>\n

Well here’s a study that contradicts that.\u00a0 One example:\u00a0 the calcium in genetically-modified corn.\u00a0 Calcium:\u00a0 14 ppm.\u00a0 Regular corn: 6,130 ppm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That’s just calcium.\u00a0 All the good stuff has a similar profile.\u00a0 More critically, so does the bad stuff.<\/p>\n

Read the link and see if you want to join me at the barricade!<\/p>\n

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….there are times when I think I could be a revolutionary.\u00a0 Mostly those are times when I hear about the latest outrage perpetrated by chemical giant, Monsanto. It’s hard to imagine a more powerful, more destructive company on the planet.\u00a0 Their genetic engineering—all government-sanctioned—and their ability to skirt any real scientific review is without parallel. We’ve detailed many times their influence in Washington (and it has made no difference whether a Republican or Democrat is in charge).\u00a0 While other countries have been careful to keep a lid on genetically engineered foods, Monsanto has had free reign with its willing accomplices in the government and universities. One of the articles of faith in GMO-land is that genetically modified foods have the same nutritional profile as standard products. Well here’s a study that contradicts that.\u00a0 One example:\u00a0 the calcium in genetically-modified corn.\u00a0 Calcium:\u00a0 14 ppm.\u00a0 Regular corn: 6,130 ppm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That’s just calcium.\u00a0 All the good stuff has a similar profile.\u00a0 More critically, so does the bad stuff. Read the link and see if you want to join me at the barricade! http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/04\/30\/monsanto-gmo-corn.aspx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,46,27,9,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gmo","category-government","category-health","category-monsanto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}