Live a healthy life just in case it’s a long one!
GMO’s, or Genetically Modified Organisms, what are they?
I grew up working a farm just outside of Lincoln Nebraska. This was a pretty big farm run by two brothers and their individual sons. Together they all shared a huge load of growing Corn, Soybeans, Alfalfa, Oats, while mostly corn and soybeans made up the bulk of these crops. Along side of the produce grown on this farm, the main cash flow came from their feed yard. At this particular feed yard the last I knew of it had grown to hold a capacity of six thousand head of “fat cattle”. What is fat cattle you say!? If you watch the video above you’ll find it interesting to know I stumbled across it some twenty years later.
THIS WAS A HUGE MOMENT FOR ME! I’ll share two personal stories regarding this subject and leave it up to you to do your own research.
I can remember back to even in my early teens, one of my first jobs entailed walking soy bean fields to rid them of specific weeds such as sun flowers, velvet leaf, and volunteer corn, just to name a few. Many of these specific weeds are know as, super weeds and are defined by those that have built up a strong resistance to the various weed killers farmers use. Which led to these most of the time, being removed physically by walking through the individual rows to clean out the bean field. I would say it was fun work as typically groups of the younger kids would get together and clean up a field much quicker.
We would all play games and say stuff like how we are “children of the corn” and tell scary stories and what not. This type of summer work went on for several years, well till I become old enough to be more useful for my uncles portion of the farm. Little did I know this first job would set the tone for a much need health change much later in life.
On this farm, I helped take care of approximately four hundred hogs, one horse, and several hundred acres of irrigated corn and soy beans. It was at one of the soy bean fields that brought my awareness full circle with the help of that video. My uncle drove me to a field one day to get my assessment of how long it would take to clean all the weeds out of it. It didn’t take long as the field was a complete mess, and I told him like a whole week! He laughed and said it would probably take longer, so we are going to “wick” the field instead. Which means to use a special machine that hangs ropes down to a level that their Roundup soaked fibers can be raised and lowed to adjust for height as this machine is pulled through the rows of the bean field.
Close to a week later we took all the necessary equipment up to this field and I dropped off my uncle to do the tractor based work. As I set off to get all the other chores alone, the plan was to meet up at the pub at the end of the day to regroup. I was running late but when I arrived at the pub, I noticed he had more empties of beer around him than normal. So I immediately asked, “what’s going on!?” He told me to wait as he didn’t want to tell the story twice, and we waited for one of his brothers to arrive.
As it turns out my uncle was worried he might of destroyed the entire crop as he struggled keeping the Roundup soaked ropes out of the beans completely. His brother told him quickly though, not to worry. He said, “Those beans can take it”! He then said if he broke the bean stalk then yes, but they can handle getting roundup directly on them. I was young and very ignorant then for sure! Think about it, would you want to eat something that can handle weed poisons and fully trust those chemicals are not in the fruit or vegetable a plant creates.
Research “Roundup ready crops” It truly is an incredible business model, but at what cost does it come? Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup and amongst the research I have done, this ingredient is very toxic and destroys healthy bacteria on contact. The list of its effects is ever-growing and is in oh so many products, way to many to list.
The other very important personal story paints a good picture of how our food is raised, from field to plate. Most people are raised to make beef be their main protein of choice. While I’ll focus on this, keep in mind the same type of practices are used for all animal based proteins, (Factory Farms). No I’m not bashing the consumption of animal based proteins, I’m actually bashing how our food is raised before we eat it. Ya see, if I want to raise a cow for food, it would take me two years to bring a calf up to a proper weight if I raised it in a field where it eats pasture grasses. As for how we did it on the feed yard I worked, we can take a five hundred pound steer or heifer and double their weight in, no not two years, but a mere ninety days! Sound ridiculous? I’ve heard it said that most will sacrifice their health for convenience almost ten times out of ten. Here is just one example.
Do you think there are connections to when we started using Genetically modified products in our food and our decline in health? How much have our medicine cabinets grown in the past forty or so years? How is it that we acquire diseases that causes our food to attack our bodies, (autoimmune)? Is it our food or what’s been done to it?
The same conditions imposed on most of our crops and protein sources, are both directly and indirectly imposed on our Earths water, air and land.
So if we have roundup, just to name one in our bodies and in the essential environmental zones of the only home we have, then how healthy can we ever hope to be?
