How much does organic food cost? Not as much as conventional food!

The anti-organic 'profits' of doom are rubbing their hands with glee. They are saying that the rise in food prices will stop people from buying organic. That's nonsense!

Most of us don't buy organic because we can afford it - we do it for our health and that of the planet and all that lives on it. This ridiculous myth that organic food buyers are well-off middle class snobs into trendy fad buying is designed to distract potential switchers from the real benefits.

Personally we don't grow our own vegetables because we like a spot of gardening (sometimes therapeutic, often back-breaking) after a hard day's work earning combined salaries that mortgage lenders laugh at. We do it so that we can manage to pay for healthy and safe organic produce.

For a timely reminder of the real cost of conventional foods, and the real benefits of organic, take a look at this excellent article - The Real Cost of Cheap Food by Will Allen.

Having read the article you will probably be more certain than ever that buying organic is the only way.

If not, brace yourselves and read on...

In 2001, the two-year-old son of Mary Leitao, a former lab-technician with a degree in Biology, developed sores on his face and started to complain of "bugs". Mary examined the sores and found bundles of blue, red, black and white 'fibres' protruding from them.

She took her son to several doctors. All of them dismissed the problem and denied that a disease caused the symptoms. Some put it down to an allergy. Others put it down to delusions of parasitosis. The little boy continued to develop sores.

Mary, unable to get help from the medical mainstream, started the Morgellons Research Foundation in 2002. Since then the MRF has been contacted by many thousands of families, from around the world, with members presenting Morgellons Disease symptoms.

Symptoms include "...crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads, fibers, or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin, and/or skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores). In addition to skin manifestations, some sufferers also report fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in visions"

Independent researchers and scientists have taken up the cause because of the sheer numbers of people affected -

"Randy Wymore, a former research director of the MRF and presently Director of the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences' Center for the Investigation of Morgellons Disease, claims that Morgellons patients have masses of dark fibers visible at 60x magnification under the unbroken skin, while unaffected individuals do not.

Wymore sent samples of fibers supplied by Morgellons patients to the Police Crime Lab in Tulsa, Oklahoma for analysis.

A forensic scientist at the Tulsa Police Crime Lab in Oklahoma searched the FBI's national database, but the Morgellons sample did not match any known fiber in the database." More information here

Where does GM/Frankenfood come into this?

I'll cut to the chase. Vitaly Citovsky, a professor of molecular and cell biology at Stony Brook University in New York, is a "...world authority on the genetic modification of cells by Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium causing crown gall disease in plants, that has been widely used in creating genetically modified (GM) plants since the 1980s because of its ability to transfer a piece of its genetic material, the T-DNA on its tumour-inducing (Ti) plasmid to the plant genome"

In other words Agrobacterium is able to transfer its own DNA into plants and has been used in the production of GM foods.

Citovsky and his team took skin biopsy samples from a number of Morgellons Disease patients. They were all found to contain Agrobacterium DNA. Non-sufferers did not contain any Agrobacterium.

The Institute of Science in society (ISIS) issued a press release a few weeks ago - Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection?

The sub-heading is:

Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new epidemic?

Keep it safe - buy organic!

Organic Food Coupons - how to save money by using online, downloadable coupons for discounts on organic products.

Organic Food Research - If you want to look into the studies carried out and being carried out into organic foods then take a look at this article.

Organic Wine - here you can find out how organic wine is made and why drinking it can mean less of a hangover. Wine enthusiasts are turning organic because they want a pure wine that is not produced with synthetic chemicals.

Natural Organic Dog Food - we know that conventionally produced dog food (as well as cat and bird food) is unhealthy in the same way as conventional food is to us. Sometimes though we confuse 'natural' with 'organic'. This article clears up the confusion.

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