Sunday, May 1, 2011
When you can't trust Quaker Oats, who in Corporate America CAN you trust?
I write to companies all the time to express my feelings about being poisoned with GMO/GE foods and ingredients, dangerous additives (like aspartame), factory farmed meat/eggs, ad nauseum. They rarely reply with any degree of social responsibility, moral responsibility or actually take responsibility in any way for their behavior. The bigger the business, the more psychotic they are.
What follows is my discourse with Quaker Oats. Read it and weep. Then write to them yourself. Then stop buying anything they make until they clean up their act. OR you can just continue supporting such bad behavior and wonder why the hell you're sick and/or fat and/or ended up with a severely disabling or terminal disease. Either way, it's your choice.
Just remember, the easy way out rarely ever really is.
This is the message I left on their website:
This whole website is a testament to the power of propaganda. You talk endlessly about being green and eco-conservation and healthy food. Yet nowhere do you address one of the burning issues of the day, GMO/GE crops and ingredients. That, apparently, is because you use them extensively. Which means I no longer use anything made by Quaker, because I can't trust you NOT to poison me with GMO/GEs. It is sickening to see this site, knowing that it's ALL BS, but that people will read it and believe this is healthy food. I wish I lived in a country like Australia, where the government won't allow corporate interests (read: greed) to outweigh the health of their people. You HAVE to respect your customers' health THERE, but you DON'T have to HERE, so you DON'T. Shame on you. I've left two comments tonight on your not updated in two years pages. I know they won't be published, but if anyone bothers to read them, you get the message. Clearly, you don't care if you are making y our customers sick, but do you care if your customers STOP being your customers? Maybe not, maybe you think losing one or two is better than having to use only natural and healthy ingredients. My goal is to turn one or two into one or two billion. Maybe if you start feeling the only pain you can feel....loss of money....you'll clean up your act.
This is their reply:
Pamela:
We appreciate you contacting us with your comments and concern about genetically engineered ingredients in Quaker products.
As you may have already read, the safety of Quaker's products is of the utmost importance to us. This is why Quaker U.S. uses only foods that have been declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including foods developed through biotechnology. The FDA has concluded that these foods are the same - and therefore, as safe - as other foods in their nutrition, composition and ability to be used as foods in other products.
Quaker's oats and oatmeal are not developed through biotechnology. In fact, there are no oats developed through biotechnology currently available on the market. While Quaker does not require or exclude the use of these foods, the use of corn, canola and soya developed through food biotechnology is widespread. Currently, there is no system in place in the United States that separates these foods. So, there is a high probability that some of Quaker's products contain foods developed through biotechnology.
Food biotechnology is not a new phenomenon. Since Roman times, plants have been selectively crossbred to develop crops that are tastier, more hearty and more resistant to certain pests and plant diseases than their predecessors. Modern biotechnology provides an ability to transfer desired traits into plants much faster and more selectively. This, in turn, can result in fewer pesticides being used, greater conservation of land and water, better tasting and more nutritional foods and more abundant food supplies to address world hunger.
Quaker will continue to use only foods that are declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, Quaker will use only foods that we believe are safe for our consumers' families.
Thank you, Pamela, for sharing your feedback, and for your interest in our products and company. We hope this information is helpful, and appreciate the chance to respond.
Sharon
Quaker Consumer Relations
A Division of PepsiCo
Ref# 027508509A
We appreciate you contacting us with your comments and concern about genetically engineered ingredients in Quaker products.
As you may have already read, the safety of Quaker's products is of the utmost importance to us. This is why Quaker U.S. uses only foods that have been declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including foods developed through biotechnology. The FDA has concluded that these foods are the same - and therefore, as safe - as other foods in their nutrition, composition and ability to be used as foods in other products.
Quaker's oats and oatmeal are not developed through biotechnology. In fact, there are no oats developed through biotechnology currently available on the market. While Quaker does not require or exclude the use of these foods, the use of corn, canola and soya developed through food biotechnology is widespread. Currently, there is no system in place in the United States that separates these foods. So, there is a high probability that some of Quaker's products contain foods developed through biotechnology.
Food biotechnology is not a new phenomenon. Since Roman times, plants have been selectively crossbred to develop crops that are tastier, more hearty and more resistant to certain pests and plant diseases than their predecessors. Modern biotechnology provides an ability to transfer desired traits into plants much faster and more selectively. This, in turn, can result in fewer pesticides being used, greater conservation of land and water, better tasting and more nutritional foods and more abundant food supplies to address world hunger.
Quaker will continue to use only foods that are declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, Quaker will use only foods that we believe are safe for our consumers' families.
Thank you, Pamela, for sharing your feedback, and for your interest in our products and company. We hope this information is helpful, and appreciate the chance to respond.
Sharon
Quaker Consumer Relations
A Division of PepsiCo
Ref# 027508509A
And this is my reply to that:
You're kidding, right? You're actually relying on information obtained from not only the MOST CORRUPT Federal agency in existence but one that is headed and manned by EX-MONSANTO execs and employees? And you actually expect me to swallow that, hook, line and sinker? PUUULEEEEEEZE.
***The FDA has concluded that these foods are the same - and therefore, as safe - as other foods in their nutrition, composition and ability to be used as foods in other products.***
THIS is what you get when you let the fox guard the hen house. I don't CARE what the FDA has concluded. When you inject insect and shellfish and other animal dna into plant dna, the dna matrix mutates over generations. It does not take long for this mutation to occur. Those mutations cause disease in humans and animals because our bodies are not equipped to metabolize the mutated genetics of these Frankenfoods. This is NOT news, it's been known for some time. The FDA conveniently overlooks that fact along with thousands of other facts when making their determination in favor of Monsanto and other biotech companies.
***Modern biotechnology provides an ability to transfer desired traits into plants much faster and more selectively. This, in turn, can result in fewer pesticides being used, greater conservation of land and water, better tasting and more nutritional foods and more abundant food supplies to address world hunger.***
The second sentence is patently FALSE. A major purpose of Monsanto's GMOs is to create crops that are *Roundup Ready*, so they can spray MORE pesticides on them, creating MORE toxic foods. GMO crops are prone to catastrophic failure, are nutritionally depleted, do not grow conventionally and require purchased elements to force them to grow, dramatically deplete the soil they're grown in, require more...not less...pesticides and are unsafe due to genetic mutations. Our food tastes JUST FINE the way Mother Nature created it. Another major purpose of Monsanto's GMOs is to patent all seeds and end seed saving by farmers, all while placing all end results of catastrophic crop failures on the farmers, which, in turn, REDUCES world food supplies and INCREASES food shortages. Seriously, do you really think anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes learning about why our food supply is so toxic would fall for this reasoning? Even the Sheeple are starting to reject such outright propaganda.
***Quaker will continue to use only foods that are declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, Quaker will use only foods that we believe are safe for our consumers' families.***
These two sentences are mutually exclusive. Together, they are an oxymoron. You cannot have it both ways. So which is it? You're going with the criminally corrupt FDA guidelines OR foods that are safe for your consumer's families? Oh. Wait. I see what you did. You said *foods that WE BELIEVE are safe*. And you believe everything the FDA tells you, rather than science, because it suits your needs. You should just 'fess up to that reason, because the only other explanation is that you're idiotic enough to ACTUALLY believe everything the FDA tells you. The FDA says aspartame is safe, too, so I suggest you all eat as much of that as you can, every day. And when you're all no longer with us long before your *time*, maybe you'll be replaced by people who don't sell out because it's easy and profitable to do so.
Being staffed by Monsanto, it's not hard to see why the FDA sells out American consumers. It's sickening, but it's easy to see why it happens. But what really disgusts me is when other companies use CLEARLY flawed information to justify doing the same thing.
Had you just replied with this sentence: ***Quaker's oats and oatmeal are not developed through biotechnology. In fact, there are no oats developed through biotechnology currently available on the market.*** I would have continued buying your oatmeal. But since you decided to justify your position of using products KNOWN to cause severe health problems in humans AND the animals we eat, I am placing you on my personal boycott list and publishing your response so that others can see exactly just how much Quaker *cares*, and I use that term VERY loosely, about it's customers.
Your corporate attitude is morally corrupt. Should you ever decide to clean it up and do what is right for your customers, I will return to being one. Until then, I will continue exposing this attitude every chance I get. That is my only remaining interest in your products and company.
Pamela De Baun
Friday, April 15, 2011
Essential FREE Tool From Emergency Essentials
With it, you can prepare future orders, enter what you already have and even add in items from grocery stores. It will calculate the calorie requirements for every person in your household. You can enter all the nutritional information from items you already have, not just the item itself. This way you know EXACTLY what gaps you need to fill in.
There's a hard future coming, folks, and the people who are prepared for it are the ones who will suffer the least. Our food is becoming more toxic BY THE DAY as Monsanto infiltrates every nook and cranny of the countries stupid enough (LIKE THE UNITED STATES) to let them in. Eventually, it won't matter, as there is NO containing their GMO/GE crops....in a short time, everything will be contaminated. And THAT means catastrophic crop failures will be the norm, not the exception. Food will be scarce. Understand? FOOD WILL BE SCARCE. Which makes this tool all the more valuable. I'm really happy I found it and I'm happy to pass it along to those wise enough to use it!
Oh, and by the way, I don't work for that company, I'm not an *affiliate* and I don't get any returns on you using this tool. I do, however, get a $10 gift card for posting this review, but I would have done that without the reward because it's a truly good thing I'm passing along. Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Monsanto Strikes Again....This Time A Direct Hit To My City
The former representative for this area, Gene Taylor, said "It ain't going to happen. There's no money for it, there's no will for it and there's no public support for it." I hope he's right. Where I live has NEVER, until Katrina, had major flooding, unless you consider the foot of water that was reportedly in my house for a couple of hours during Camille. The owners never left the house, they just swept out the water and were planting flowers the next day. You can read where I got Gene Taylor's quote here:
The reason I'm concerned ANYWAY is because Monsanto is involved and they will stop at NOTHING to get what they want. People and ecology be damned, they will have their way. They are the anti-christ of corporations and probably the most evil *entity* on earth.
You can read the *Big Picture* facts surrounding the whole gulf oil disaster up to and including their plans to destroy the beauty and ecology of the Gulf Coast here:
http://theintelhub.com/2010/12/11/depopulation-of-the-gulf-ensues-follow-the-money-trail/comment-page-1/#comment-12124
Oh, and kudos to the moron hack, Mark Gelbart, in the comments at the end of the article who said he thinks it's a good idea to depopulate the gulf coast....because New Orleans is below sea level. I'm sure his parents are proud. I wonder if they are Sheeples, too. I should lose my home in Mississippi because PART of a city in the next state over is below sea level. Another fine example of the total, complete and stunning success of the Dumbing Down of America.
http://theintelhub.com/2010/12/11/depopulation-of-the-gulf-ensues-follow-the-money-trail/comment-page-1/#comment-12124
Oh, and kudos to the moron hack, Mark Gelbart, in the comments at the end of the article who said he thinks it's a good idea to depopulate the gulf coast....because New Orleans is below sea level. I'm sure his parents are proud. I wonder if they are Sheeples, too. I should lose my home in Mississippi because PART of a city in the next state over is below sea level. Another fine example of the total, complete and stunning success of the Dumbing Down of America.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Monsanto Is Poisoning Us All
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
http://thecalloftheland.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/latter-day-luther-nails-troubling-thesis-to-gm-farm-food-citadels/
Friday, February 18, 2011
Just Say NO to GMO!!!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
The first two movies are at the beginning of this blog. If you haven't seen them, I STRONGLY URGE you to view them. If you care at all about your future, your children's future, your children's children's future, you will set aside a few hours to educate yourself about the world you REALLY live in. These are the movies that opened my eyes to the fact that my reality check was bouncing every freaking day. Is yours? Find out, or don't, at your peril......
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
It's always good to keep an eye on what mainstream *news* is feeding the Sheeple. In this case, it's a perky little discourse on the wonders of adding lithium to our drinking water ostensibly to reduce the suicide rate. Which seems on the face of it to be pretty counterproductive to a NWO plan to reduce the world population. But now that the world population is starting to catch on to these nefarious plans, we're not quite as cooperative as *They* would like us to be. In fact, we're getting downright contrary about our food and water supply being so damned contaminated that it's pretty much either killing us off or shortening our life spans considerably. So how best to combat Sheeples rising up and revolting? Ahhhhh, yes, lithium in the water....now we're all muccchhh calmer and more willing to peacefully accept our fate. Open wide and say baaaaahhhhhhhh.
Watch the first part of this video to see what I mean. They talk about fluoride in the water like that's a good thing when it's been well established for quite some time that fluoride in the water acts as a POISON in the body. Iodine in salt.....salt in and of itself is toxic by way of the processing it goes through, so get off table salt and switch to Himalayan salt, the only salt left that's not going to harm you and get your iodine other ways. These women just chirp right along with misinformation and the *credentials* to back it all up. It's enough to make you gag and hurl.
I'll give 'em the one about tetris, though. Video games do have some good uses, I use them to keep my eye to hand coordination up to functioning levels. When I don't play for a while, nothing is safe from being knocked over, especially if it's something that can spill.
But that is just another part of the problem with mainstream news. They intentionally mix something real in with all the fairy tales so that you'll buy into the fiction. Be aware....and don't believe anything you see on mainstream news until you research it yourself!
Watch the first part of this video to see what I mean. They talk about fluoride in the water like that's a good thing when it's been well established for quite some time that fluoride in the water acts as a POISON in the body. Iodine in salt.....salt in and of itself is toxic by way of the processing it goes through, so get off table salt and switch to Himalayan salt, the only salt left that's not going to harm you and get your iodine other ways. These women just chirp right along with misinformation and the *credentials* to back it all up. It's enough to make you gag and hurl.
I'll give 'em the one about tetris, though. Video games do have some good uses, I use them to keep my eye to hand coordination up to functioning levels. When I don't play for a while, nothing is safe from being knocked over, especially if it's something that can spill.
But that is just another part of the problem with mainstream news. They intentionally mix something real in with all the fairy tales so that you'll buy into the fiction. Be aware....and don't believe anything you see on mainstream news until you research it yourself!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Money As Debt ~ The Death Of America
I've been busy with getting back in my house and working on it and basic survival, actually, but I'm trying to carve out some time to work on and publicize this blog, as I feel the information is very important. America is heading for disaster of epic proportions and that doesn't just affect those living here....the ripple effect will be worldwide. Responsible people who heed these warnings will do two things....1. Do everything in THEIR power to fight those IN power from dragging us kicking and screaming down the path to disaster....if not for themselves then for their children and their children's children and 2. Do everything in their power to protect and insulate themselves and their families as much as possible from the inevitable.
You can stick your head in the sand and say it won't happen. Those will be the Sheeples who are grasshoppers. They will expect the People who are ants to take care of them when winter comes. Do a search for the story of the grasshopper and the ants, if you don't get the allegory. Being an ant, myself, I have to say I'm not inclined to be sympathetic to those who laugh and point at me now and tell me my aluminum hat has slipped.
When the dollar is no longer the reserve standard, life in America is going to explode into a quadrillion shining shards and nothing will ever be the same after that. At least not for a few generations....and that's ONLY if the Dumbing Down of America stops right freaking NOW. Pardon me if I don't hold my breath on that one, lest I turn blue and become Smurfette.
Here's another piece of the information you need and deserve to have:
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