We are what we eat!!!

So just an interesting turn of events over the last 24 hours. I don't know if anyone else put 1,2 and 3 together but here goes. First we have Senate Bill 510 Food Safety Modernization Act. A bill which if left intact and enforced at face value would provide for our food safety by eliminating the ability for farmers to clean and reuse seeds from previously grown crops. A process which worked well for hundreds if not thousands of years. Certainly our parents and grandparents were raised on such seeds. Until that is Monsanto thought it would be safer for all farmers to use their genetically engineered seeds. Engineering that is needed because we spent so many years using the chemicals and pesticides (originally produced by Monsanto) that our ground cannot produce healthy fruits and vegetables. That is unless of course we use Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds made to overcome the chemical poisoning. Healthy???? This bill not only covers our farm grown produce but allows for the government to reach into our own backyards and charge us with a crime if we use our own seeds. Goodbye Heirloom Tomatoes!!!!! This is not just a matter of health but also a matter or freedom.
Number 2  - The US Army today announced that it was embracing healthy foods for their new recruits. Genetically Engineered healthy food I'm sure. The military increasingly believes that producing quality recruits starts at the dinner table during basic training, so it has started a more emphatic effort to change their eating habits. Color-coded labels point the way to healthy items, and drill sergeants stand watch over the chow line, calling out soldiers who don't put enough fruit on their plates. So instead of education they are using color-coding and intimidation. How well do you think that will go over? Will they remain healthy right up until we put their lives in danger in the battlefield. Then what color-coded K-rations? Of course our government thinks its better to wait until our children turn 18 or 19 to teach nutrition rather than start at an early age.
Which brings us to Number 3 - House Republicans have temporarily blocked legislation to feed school meals to thousands more hungry children. Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday to try to amend the $4.5 billion bill, which would give more needy children the opportunity to eat free lunches at school and make those lunches healthier. "It's not about making our children healthy and active," said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee. "We all want to see our children healthy and active. This is about spending and the role of government and the size of government — a debate about whether we're listening to our constituents or not." So it's about the role of government unless of course it involves Monsanto, seeds and the military.
I don't know if anyone else put these 3 stories together or even saw all 3 of these stories but as I said in Blog #1 my mind is a busy place. Health is definitely not on the minds of our lawmakers. Money certainly is. Control certainly is. As I also say don't pay attention to the story pay attention to who the story comes from and what they have to gain. Food is no longer a matter of nutrition its just another way of making money. Nutritional food is not as important as profits, if it were it would be cheaper to eat apples than potato chips. Shirley and I belong to a religion known here in the US as Izunome. It's 3 basic beliefs are Johrei, Appreciation of Art and Beauty and Natural Foods and farming. Our founder, Meishu-Sama, taught natural farming and eating healthy foods over 60 years ago. He once said the day will come when we go into a store, a big modern beautiful store that has every food imaginable, but none of it is edible. Thanks to Monsanto and our Government that day is almost here.