"If a goat won't eat it, why should I"
Let’s face it. If we want
something edible, we need to grow it ourselves, or at least deal with companies
that actually care instead of simply saying they do in a public relations
campaign all the while treating their customers like red-headed step children.
Take for example, Grimmway
Farms. This company is the largest grower, producer, and shipper of carrots in
the world. I recently acquired a package of their conventionally grown bagged
whole carrots, so I decided to see if my goats would like them. They are being
raised with no pesticides or GMOs (genetically modified organisms). Well, I may
as well have been holding a skunk in my hand because they would have nothing to
do with them. Fiona was raised on a porch and hand fed for a good portion of
her life. She eats everything out of my hand. Except those carrots… Red is a
good eater also, and will eat just about anything on the ranch. Except those
carrots…
So, I contacted Grimmway.
Here is the question and response:
Question or Comments:
What pesticides do you use
for your conventional bagged carrots? My goats refuse to eat them.
Response:
Thank you for contacting us
with your question. The best I can reply is that potentially we could use any
pesticide approved by the USDA for use on carrots. Products actually used is considered
proprietary information and will vary depending on the needs of each particular
field.
Best regards,
Sherilyn Curti
Consumer Relations
Coordinator
In other words, it’s none
of your business, trust us and the USDA. Yeah, the same USDA that hides GMOs
that are banned in other countries, yet are miraculously declared “safe” in the
good old USA. Hey, the stuff doesn’t even have to be labeled!
So, why is it surprising
that Grimmway would respond that knowing what pesticides are on my carrots is
basically none of my business? Just eat the garbage and shut up. We know what’s
best, and what’s best is our bottom line. Don’t bother us with your insipid
questions.
I checked out What’s On My
Food.org and found that there are typically 26 pesticide residues found by the
USDA pesticide data program on carrots alone. No wonder my goats won’t eat
them. I won’t either. Evidently goats are smarter than humans. They know poison
when they smell it.
I’m done with Grimmway
carrots, and I’m done with big box companies that don’t think we have a right
to know what we are purchasing and putting on the table. Trust them? In a pig’s
eye. Eat your own poison; I’ve had enough, thank you!
Source: http://farmwars.info/?p=9631
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"Squirrels Refuse GM
Genetically Modified Corn Tortilla.avi"
Try it yourself.
Seriously...
Here are some examples:
"Chickens Not Fooled
by GM Crops"
'Chickens refusing to eat
the maize they had been fed has led to the discovery that their feed had been
genetically modified to include a well-known weed and insect killer.
Strilli Oppenheimer’s
indigenous African chickens were refusing to eat the mealies in the chicken
feed bought from a large supplier. Concerned that the birds may be ingesting
genetically modified maize, she had the maize tested.
The results confirmed
Oppenheimer's initial suspicion -- the maize had been genetically engineered to
produce proteins that are toxic to certain insects and weeds.
About her chickens' refusal
to eat their maize, Oppenheimer said: "They're smart."'...
Continued: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/05/chickens-not-fooled-by-gm-crops.aspx
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"The farmer grinned as
he told the visitor, “Watch this!” He called his pigs, which ran frantically
towards him to be fed. But when he scooped out corn and threw it on the ground,
the pigs sniffed it and then looked up at the farmer with confused expectation.
The farmer then scooped corn from another bin and flung it near the pigs, which
ran over and quickly devoured it.
The farmer said, “The first
corn is genetically engineered. They won’t touch it.”
"Jeffrey M. Smith,
author of Seeds of Deception, in an article for The Hippocrates Health
Institute"
More cases can be found on the internet but few farmers willing to share their experience.
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