Episode #11 Keeping GMO's Out of Your Food
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2013
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is pioneering today with Uppercadget's own Melissa K. Norris, inspiring your faith and your pioneer route here in the beautiful North Cascade Mountains on KSvU 90.1 Community Radio. |
| 0:16.9 | This is Melissa K. Norris with pioneering today. |
| 0:28.1 | And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about keeping GMO foods out of your kitchen, |
| 0:31.2 | and out of your home, and out of your bodies. |
| 0:39.0 | So I talked about GMOs and explaining what they were on one of our previous episodes. |
| 0:45.0 | If you missed that episode, you can go to Melissa K. Norris.com and you can get that, |
| 0:51.0 | click on the button that says podcast and all of the episodes, you can listen to any of those. |
| 1:00.2 | You can go through there and listen to that one. So if you didn't catch that one or you're not sure, I'm going to give you a quick recap on what GMO foods are, what that means, |
| 1:10.0 | and why we don't want them. So GMO stands for genetically modified organisms. And in reference to our food, has been, scientists have went in and genetically |
| 1:14.6 | modified the food. They have injected either bacteria, viruses, and foreign matter into the |
| 1:23.8 | cell structure of these plants and the food that are not normally there. |
| 1:30.1 | Because of course you wouldn't have bacterian viruses normally in your plants. |
| 1:34.9 | So one of the largest genetically modified companies that are doing this is named and called |
| 1:40.0 | Monsanto. |
| 1:41.6 | Monsanto are the people who invented Agent Orange, which I'm sure you have heard of. |
| 1:47.2 | They are the ones that are responsible for most of the genetically modified corn in our food |
| 1:52.7 | supply that's grown in the United States. Recently in Oregon, they were told to shut down |
| 1:59.7 | a genetically modified wheat that they had been working on. |
| 2:03.7 | They did not, and it was found in a farmer's field because plants will cross-pollinate and grow. |
| 2:10.2 | They don't stay contained in one little field when you plant them. |
| 2:14.1 | So that caused a huge, huge crushing blow to the export wheat that those farmers do in fact |
| 2:22.1 | there's a big lawsuit um going on with all of that you can google and and look and learn all |
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