Re: Food for thought

**Tom Alexander t*@growingedge.com**

One more thing about this whole GMO/Terminator/Corporate Control  
reality that really gets my undies in a bunch...The GMO companies  
fight every local and state labeling law that is proposed by THE  
PEOPLE via ballot measures, because most politicians are in the back  
pocket of the GMO companies and would never go against the wallet  
that feeds them.

In Mendocino county, CA. voters passed overwhelmingly ballot measures  
that not only ban growing GMOs in their county but a strict labeling  
law on products grown elsewhere but sold in the county. Now the GMO  
companies are lobbying in the state legislature to prohibit counties  
from doing just that. Commanding us to bow down before the almighty  
dollar. The reality is if a strict labeling law was put into effect  
nationally, GMOs would die a quick death because polls show a large  
majority of people don't want GMOs in their bodies. So much for the  
"free marketplace."

It is so obvious to most reasonable people that our once great  
country has been bought out lock, stock and barrel by the  
corporations whose only goal is to make the most money anyway they  
can--pollution, cancer or environmental consequences be damned. Then  
they have loyal, deluded and brain washed supporters on these email  
lists spewing their corporate propaganda line supporting their vile  
corporate activities.

I heard a good twist on the old saying, "America -- love it or leave  
it." It is "America -- love it or give it back." The neo-con  
corporatists have stolen our country--I wish and only dream that  
someday they would give it back.

Tom Alexander
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