GM Genocide: More Hidden Tragedy Associated with GM Foods

I just found this today and thought I'd share it here, yet another dangerous aspect of GM foods.  The story reminds me of something my husband had shared with me once about the old Shoshone women who used to cry themselves to death, literally, over the loss of their land and their traditions.  This story should shake all of us to our core as well, each of us is vulnerable to the effects of  GM foods and the loss of native food crops. 

The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops | Mail Online

When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian
farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a
scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it's even
WORSE than he feared.

The children were inconsolable.
Mute with shock and fighting back tears, they huddled beside their
mother as friends and neighbours prepared their father's body for
cremation on a blazing bonfire built on the cracked, barren fields near
their home.

As flames consumed the corpse, Ganjanan, 12, and
Kalpana, 14, faced a grim future. While Shankara Mandaukar had hoped
his son and daughter would have a better life under India's economic
boom, they now face working as slave labour for a few pence a day.
Landless and homeless, they will be the lowest of the low. - continue reading

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Super Native Foods - A Critical Replacement to Genetically Modified Foods

My first eZine article on Native Foods is posted.  Keep a watchful eye here and over at Way Beyond Green. We're on the edge of a tremendous surge of new possibilities! It's all very excited and coming together in ways I could not have imagined.   You can also listen in Live every Friday at 11am Pacific as we talk about indigenous concepts and native foods.  Lots getting ready to happen!


Super Native Foods - A Critical Replacement to Genetically Modified Foods

As the prices of food go up we're all forced to reevaluate what we call "value". We haggle quality over quantity trying to squeeze more out of less. But can we afford sacrificing quality nutrition for GMO foods? I believe we can't, especially now and here's why.

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