Aquaponics USA/World
July 2015 Newsletter
#19
Table of Contents
What Are GMO's?
What is Monsanto?
The US House passed the DARK Act!
There are Traitors to our Food Freedom in the House!
How did our Food System get over taken?
What's the Solution?
The relationship between Obesity and GMO's
A Word from our Editor, Grace Sylke
Last Month, June 2015, I talked about how we bit off a big chunk when we started this Series on Obesity in America. 

Well, we're still chewing on it. This July Newsletter, which focuses exclusively on GMO's, is a humdinger; and it took so long to write that we're barely making our July deadline, which is this last day of the month.

This one was definitely worth the wait. Stay tuned, there's a Part 5 on Obesity in America coming in August, hopefully not on the last day.
Get Links to all of our 2014 Newsletters from our December 2014 Edition. This is also the Newsletter where Obesity in America, Part 1 Starts.
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Here's our June Newsletter, in case you missed it. It's Part 3 of the Obesity in America Series.
Don't miss this important information about how our Fast Food Nation is ruining our health and our longevity. Read about the history of Fast Food, where it's been and where it's going.
Here's our May Newsletter in case you missed it. It's Part 2 of the Obesity in America Series.
Don't miss this important information about High Fructose Corn Syrup. HFCS is in just about everything that's processed and packaged. Beware, it's as bad as alcohol for our livers.
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We declared April to be Food Revolution Month in honor of the Annual Food Revolution Summit sponsored by John and Ocean Robbins. Then we gave the history of Earth Day in Honor of that day, April 22, 2015.
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Obesity in America Part 4
GMO's, The Gift That Big Food Keeps On Giving (While We Keep Getting Bigger)
 
Dear Subscriber:

Big Food has been putting toxins into their food products for years. The addition of MSG was motivated by Big Food's perceived need to enhance the flavor of their products. Aspertame was birthed during the fat and sugar substitute food movement days; and the mistaken belief that GMO's could feed the world brought that scourge onto the planet.

Our original idea for this Newsletter was to give you a detailed look into these three food horrors including Aspertame, MSG and GMO's describing why they are harmful to the body, who created them and where they're hiding in the food chain. But the GMO section was too big to share the stage so there's going to be an Obesity in America Part 5 covering Aspertame and MSG coming in August.

NOTE: Much of the information about Monsanto and GMO's that you see here has been reprinted from our Aquaponics World Page called "Aquaganic".

What are GMO's and from where do they come? 

The GMO story is a long convoluted one; and we can't even begin to pretend to cover it all here; but we can give you an overview. GMO stands for genetically modified organisms; and if that isn't enough to cause you pause, maybe the following will.


 

According to the Non GMO project, a consumer advocate group working to expose the dangers of GMOs, they "are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering, or GE. This relatively new science creates unstable combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and viral genes that cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding methods. Virtually all commercial GMOs are engineered to withstand direct application of herbicide and/or to produce an insecticide. Despite biotech industry promises, none of the GMO traits currently on the market offer increased yield, drought tolerance, enhanced nutrition, or any other consumer benefit. Meanwhile, a growing body of evidence connects GMOs with health problems, environmental damage and violation of farmers' and consumers' rights." (Quote taken from the NON GMO Project website, GMO Facts)
 
 

In close to 50 countries, including Australia, Japan and all the countries in the European Union, there are significant restrictions or even bans on the production and sale of GMOs. A recent study out of France showing huge tumors growing on rats fed GMO corn for their lifetime, which in the case of the females, is a much shorter one caused both Russia and France to ban GMO corn. 




In a mind blowing review, "Food is Power",  of William Engdahl's book entitled  Seeds of Destruction, Stephen Lendman writes this about the beginnings of GMO plants. Most people believe GMOs started with Monsanto; but that is not the case. "Rockefeller Foundation funding was the Gene Revolution's catalyst in 1985 with big aims-to learn if GMO plants were commercially feasible and if so spread them everywhere." (To read the entire review go to the Dandelion Salad Blog) Also, don't miss William Engdahl's book, Seeds of Destruction.


The GMO monster was actually born back in 1973 with the development of essential genetic engineering techniques.  GMO manipulation is "based on what's called recombitant DNA (rDNA), and it works by genetically introducing foreign DNA into plants to create genetically modified organisms, but not without risks. London Institute of Science in Society chief biologist, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, explained the dangers because the process is imprecise. 'It is uncontrollable and unreliable, and typically ends up damaging and scrambling the host genome, with entirely unpredictable consequences' that might unleash a deadly unrecallable Andromeda Strain'". (Quote taken from "Food is Power", a Review of Seeds of Destruction by Stephen Lendman)  

 

But all that mattered to the GMO advocates were potentially huge profits. "One project was to map the rice genome. It launched a 17 year effort to spread GMO rice around the world with Rockefeller Foundation money behind it. It spent millions funding 46 worldwide science labs. It also financed the training of hundreds of graduate students and developed an 'elite fraternity' of top scientific researchers at Foundation-backed research institutes. It was a diabolical scheme aiming big-to control the staple food for 2.4 billion people and in the process destroy the biological diversity of over 140,000 developed varieties that can withstand droughts, pests and grow in every imaginable climate." In other words, the goal of this GMO rice project was to replace all the natural rice that had been developed over hundreds, if not thousands of years, with GMO rice. (Quote taken from "Food is Power" a Review of Seeds of Destruction by Stephen Lendman)  

 

Of course, Asia was the target continent and Engdahl's book Seeds of Destruction exposes the "Philippines-based Foundation-funded institute (IRRI). "It had a gene bank with 'every significant rice variety known' that comprised one-fifth of them all. IRRI let agribusiness giants illegally use the seeds for exclusive patented genetic modification so they could introduce them in markets and dominate them by requiring farmers be licensed and forced to pay annual royalty fees." (Quote taken from "Food is Power" a Review of Seeds of Destruction by Stephen Lendman)  

 

By 2000, twenty-seven years after the 1973 development of essential genetic engineering techniques, a successful "Golden Rice" was developed that was Vitamin A enriched. It's marketing scam promised the cure of Vitamin A deficiencies; but no one bothered to explain that 20 lbs. of this shyster rice had to be consumed to get the desired result. Quoting again from Stephen Lendman's article: "Nonetheless, gene revolution backers were ready for their next move: "the consolidation of global control over humankind's food supply" with a new tool to do it-the World Trade Organization (WTO). Corporate giants wrote its rules favoring them at the expense of developing nations shut out."

 

We recently saw that a "Golden Rice 2" has been developed to solve the Vitamin A deficiency found in the original "Golden Rice". Exploring the merits and problems with "Golden Rice 2" specifically is a task for another Newsletter.

 

By this time (2000), several of the world's major chemical companies known unaffectionately as Big Chemi had gotten wind of the huge monetary windfall possible through GMOs. Monsanto was one of those companies, along with DuPont, Sangenta and Cargill. So let's take a close look at the leader of the GMO product and propaganda group-Monsanto.



Monsanto was established in 1901 and it's first product was saccharin. By 1955, Monsanto branched out into the petroleum business and acquired Lion Oil. With this acquisition, it was introduced to the fertilizer business. From there it moved into the agricultural chemical business with one of its leading products, a weed killer called "Round Up", which is known worldwide. 
Recently, it has been shown that "Round Up" is toxic to humans and it's main ingredient, Glyphosate, causes cancer in humans. The French Environment and Energy Minister sent a clear message to Monsanto when she warned garden shops to stop selling it to their customers because it's harmful to humans; and two Swiss supermarket chains announced that they are dropping the product due to health concerns. (See the Christina Sarich article entitled, " French Minister Asks Stores To Stop Selling Round Up" and the Organic Consumers Association Article entitled, " New Study Links Monsanto's Roundup to Cancer") 

Unfortunately, us guinea pigs for the Bio-Tech Companies in the U.S. don't get that kind of protection from our government. In fact we get the shaft (scroll down to section entitled U.S. House of Representatives Gives the People of America the SHAFT)

Now on with the Monsanto story because it gets even more horrifying. In the 1960's and 1970's, Monsanto gained the esteemed reputation of being  a leading producer of Agent Orange, which contained the toxic chemical called dioxin. They produced this chemical for the U.S. Military in Vietnam. By the end of that war, "72 million liters of Agent Orange [were sprayed] on over one million Vietnam civilians and over 100,000 U.S. troops. Within ten years of the end of the war, 9,170 veterans had filed claims for disabilities believed to be caused by Agent Orange." (Quote taken from Wikipedia, Agent Orange)

And now, as a result, no doubt, of their sterling reputation, Monsanto's goal is to produce GMO food for the world. This company realized that they could create GMO seeds that grew plants that were resistant to their weed killer, Round Up-that same Round Up other countries are now banning. 


 

Farmers could buy these GMO seeds and use copious amounts of Round Up to kill their weeds without affecting their plants. Round Up is a Glyphosate. A Glyphosate is a poison, which is extremely deadly for most plants and quite toxic for people especially over time. It not only can get in the human bloodstream; but it can cross the blood barrier and reach our unborn children. A 2012 article published in the Ithika Journal "cites a study performed on average citizens of Berlin, testing whether or not people with no exposure to agriculture such as lawyers, doctors, and journalists had glyphosate in their systems.  Guess what, they did, and had no idea it was in what they had been eating.  Not only did they test positive, but they were found with between 5 and 20 times the "acceptable" limit."
 

Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, cotton, and sorghum, with wheat under development. Roundup Ready crop seeds have become known as "terminator seeds." This is because the crops now produced from Roundup Ready seeds are sterile. Each year, farmers must purchase the most recent strain of seed from Monsanto. This means that farmers cannot reuse their best seed. These franken seeds have been patented by Monsanto; and any cross pollination onto farmer's fields who have not purchased Monsanto seeds gets met with high paid Monsanto lawyers filing lawsuits aimed to destroy the helpless farmer who refused to get with the program.
 

Again from the article, Food is Power: "After Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans were licensed in 1996, 'a once-productive national family farm-based agriculture system [in Argentina, the first guinea pig nation for GMOs] (was turned into) a neo-feudal state system dominated by a handful of powerful, wealthy owners to exploit for profit'. President Menem went along. In less than a decade, he allowed the nation's corn, wheat and cattle diversity to be replaced by corporate-controlled monoculture. It was a Faustian sellout, and it helped Monsanto's stock price hit an all-time high near year end 2007. Argentina had become the world's largest uncontrolled experimental laboratory for GMO' and its people unwitting lab rats."  

The U.S. and it's people are in even worse shape when it comes to GMOs. From 1996 to 2004, an astonishing 106 million acres of GMO crops were planted. This amounted to a staggering 2/3 of all GMO crops planted worldwide.
 

And we wonder why obesity, diabetes, cancer and infertility are on the rise??? The U.S. FDA is right now under the control of an ex-Monsanto Vice President, Michael Taylor, who was appointed our Food Safety (Czar) by President Obama. Do you really think our food is safe? Under Michael Taylor's rule you can bet mandatory labeling of GMOs will never be instituted but a lot of raw milk producers are being raided and even jailed. Guess which area Mr. Taylor oversaw for Monsanto? It was non other than that company's milk industry products specifically it's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, another one of their highly questionable products. 
 

Just to make sure you get the whole picture. When GMOs hit the U.S. market, the FDA, under the influence of Monsanto lobbyists, declared them safe and not materially different from non-genetically modified versions of the same crops. There was no outside testing or scientific research required past what Monsanto and the other GMO pushers claim in their in-house so called scientific research. These products were unleashed into the U.S. and world market place with no required labeling either. So we don't really know when we're eating genetically modified products. Given the sad fact that 88 percent of corn and 94 percent of soybeans grown in America are genetically modified and many processed and packaged foods have these ingredients in them, you can bet you're eating GMOs by the mouth full. 

The House of Representatives takes away our right to demand GMO Labels, which is another way of saying they just gave us the shaft.

Never mind the hand shaped like a gun to our heads. The Government is working hard on killing our 2nd Amendment Rights, too.

I'm feeling about as speechless as the little blond woman in my above cartoon. I had to create a cartoon out of this situation because what happened in our House of Representatives last Thursday, July 23, 2015 was historic, horrific and so sad that I had to bring some levity to it. 

Our U.S. House of Representatives actually voted to deny our States the right to place Demand GMO Labeling Bills on their ballots. What happened to States Rights? What happened to the 10th Amendment that states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"?

What happened to the 275 Representatives who voted for HR1599 on that sad day? The real truth is they aren't our Representatives-they really Represent Big Food and the Big Bio-Tech companies like Monsanto, DuPont, Cargill and Sangenta. That's who really pays them. That's where the money comes from to put them in office and that's how they stay in office. It costs a lot to run a campaign in the new millenium.

So if you want to know "Who Was Really Paid to Bury GMO Labeling via the DARK Act?" just read the linked article by that name on the Food Democracy Now! website. According to their research, "house members who voted to keep the public from knowing what is in their food in the latest land-slide win for Big Food supporters of The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 (known to its critics as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know Act)) were paid three times as much as representatives who voted to give us the right to label or ban GMO foods."

Those traitors to our Food Freedom voted against the will of the people and they know it because we've told them we want our GMO food labeled. "The Center for Food safety says that 93% of Americans want their food labeled if it contains GM ingredients. And that is just one of many surveys showing similar results". (Quote taken from Food Democracy Now article, "Who Was Really Paid to Bury GMO Labeling via the DARK  Act?"
There are Traitors to our Food Freedom in this Room!  Keep reading if you want to know who they are.
According to opensecrets.org, this is where the money trail leads:
  • ...the campaigns of Reps. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Mike Conaway (R-Texas) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), all cosponsors of the legislation (most of whom also sit on the House Agriculture Committee), received six-figure dollar amounts from providers of agricultural services and products - one segment of the agribusiness sector - during the 2014 election cycle. That put them high among the top 20 recipients of funds from the industry.
  • Co-sponsors such as Reps. David Valadao (R-Calif.), Steve Fincher (R-Tenn.), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) aren't on the Agriculture Committee, but nevertheless pulled in six-figure dollar amounts from the crop production and basic processing industry (another part of agribusiness; think Cargill Inc. and the National Corn Growers Association) during the midterm cycle - landing them among the 20 members who received the most from that industry.
  • Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), two original sponsors of the legislation, were the top two current House members receiving the most money from the Grocery Manufacturers Association in 2014. The grocery manufacturers - who have spent $4.1 million lobbying on all issues so far this year, almost as much as they spent in all of 2014 - have lobbied on the bill more than any other organization, mentioning the measure on 14 lobbying reports this year.
If you want to get the entire List of who voted AYE
and who voted NO, go to GovTrack.US. If your Representative voted AYE, he/she just chose the wishes of Big Food over yours. To read the Text of the "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015" go to GovTrack.US.

We knew there was a lot of special interest politics going on in our government; but this revelation just blew the lid off of it. We really aren't a Republic of the people when it comes to food legislation. We're a Fascist State ruled by Big Food in collusion with Government. 

What's so ironic about this is we're the ones buying the products that these Big Food Businesses make. We are allowing them to turn us into sick, fat, sheeple who are being fed GMO's just like the food animals they raise. The animals can't speak for themselves; and now, if our House of Representatives has anything to say about it, neither will we. Big Food is not only turning us into mutants with their GMO concoctions, they are making us mute with their DARK Act. If this bill passes the Senate, we won't be able to demand labeling via our State elections, and all of the products that now carry Non-GMO Labels will have those labels ripped off until the USDA gets around to issuing its rules and regulations that define, verify and certify what's Non-GMO. The last time the USDA was tasked with this kind of project, regarding Organic Food, it took them a decade to get it done. So DARK is absolutely the appropriate name for this Act because the whole issue of GMO's in our grocery stores will be delegated to a complete black out.
So how did our food system get controlled by Big Food the Bio-Techs and the Government in the first place?
There's a revolving door between Big Food, the Bio-Techs and Government--a door that should be SHUT forever. Take Michael Taylor for instance. Michael Taylor has been playing musical doors between Monsanto, the USDA and the FDA for years. After working as Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto, our President brought him into the FDA to be our Food Czar. A new and formal title was created just for him; and on January 13, 2010, he became Deputy Commissioner for Foods. 
What's the Solution? 
The following is a list of the Activist Food Sites:
Get in on the FOOD REVOLUTION and join the FOOD FIGHT! There are several Food Freedom sites that have grown up over the past five to ten years. This isn't a new fight; but if it's new for you, start paying attention. This is our health and the health of our children, our grandchildren and our environment that we're fighting for.

Go to the Food Democracy Now! website and SIGN the Petition to STOP H.R. 1599! Our lives depend on it.


The Activist Post activates about a lot of things; but one post Eric Blair wrote in 2010 about a hotly contested Food Bill, Senate Bill S. 510, the "Food Safety Modernization Act" tells the story of what's really happening regarding food legislation in the U.S. 

WARNING! That Bill passed both houses of Congress and became LAW! It also had the word, "Safe" in its title just like the "The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015". 

Oh, and please take note that S.510 was slipped into another Bill (that was guaranteed to pass) in the dead of night during the Christmas season on Sunday, December 19, 2010.


The Food Freedom USA website is taking a stand against the movement in our country to negate our Food Freedom. Their Home page states the following: " It is the Natural Right of the people to be well nourished and consume nutrient dense, GMO free, whole, raw, fresh, unprocessed, locally raised foods and beverages, including water; the right  to save seeds, to grow food, to keep livestock, to access to grazing for cattle, to store water, to use natural medical alternatives, to raise hemp, to make butter, to make cheese, render lard, and the right to consume the foods of our choices according to the traditions of our ancestors."

 
Dr. Rima Laibow, MD and Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III (U.S. Army Retired) have been a hard working duo in the world of Food Freedom for over a decade. Their Natural Solutions Foundation Who We Are page says this: "The Natural Solutions Foundation is predicated on the belief that people own this Republic of ours. Decisions that impact the lives of people must be made through a democratic process in which their voices are heard and counted and, in so far as possible, should be left to the individual to make for him/herself. That is the United States left to us by our Founding Fathers, the United States we believe in and the United States we participate in. We do not warm to the prospect of a United States of America controlled and run through the lies by huge multi-national corporations and deceptive special interests." 



The Organic Consumers Association is a real Take Action site. They have several ways you can join the Food Fight! Go to their website and start making a difference today.


Food First has been operating for 40 years to "support communities and social movements fighting for food justice and food sovereignty around the world. Food First gives you the tools to understand our global food system, and to build your local food movement from the ground up." 

If you've been so activated by what our U.S. House of Representatives just did to our Food Freedom, this is the place to go to get your local food movement off the ground.


The Institute for Responsible Technology is the home of the premiere food activist focusing on GMO's, Jeffrey Smith. Mr. Smith wrote one of the most influential books about GMO's way back in 2003. It's a classic today and was one of the first books to expose the dangers of GMO's to our bodies and our world. 
 
Get informed. Read Jeffrey Smith's book. Check out the Take Action section on the IRT website.


The Seed Freedom website is spreading a counter message to the Monsanto practice of denying their farmer participants from saving their seeds. Here's a quote from the About page on this website: "We are seed savers and seed defenders, farmers and gardeners, practioners of ecological agriculture and participants in fair trade. Our right to save and exchange our open pollinated, non GMO, non patented seed is non alienable. Farmers rights are non negotiable. We will resist every law and technology that attempts to undermine our freedoms, and the freedom of the seed, which is intimately linked to the freedom of Mother Earth. We are committed to preventing Monsanto and other chemical corporations which are seeking to control our Seed Supply through GMOs, patents, and Intellectual Property Rights."

The famous food activist, Vandana Shiva is the center piece and originator of Seed Freedom. She travels the world sharing her views about the importance of preserving diversity and fighting against the take over of our seeds and crops by Monsanto and friends.

These are just a few of the many food freedom websites that have sprung up over the years. Join them and Take Action with them. There's still hope that together, we can save our food, our lives and our world.


One last resource is a reference book on food. It's The People Power Food Superbook Book 1 by Tony Kelbrat. Mr. Kelbrat has written an entire cadre of these reference books on various topics. This one has a Section on Food Activist Websites. Granted, Mr. Kelbrat, uses a rather broad definition of Food Activist because Monsanto is actually on his list, and when we think of Food Activists we think of folks who are activating against Monsanto but nevertheless, this is a valuable resource.
More About Monsanto and the relationship between Obesity and GMO's.
The U.S. House of Representatives in passing the HR1599 Bill, just gave producers of products containing GMO's the right to put "Natural" on their labels; and Monsanto is actually claiming that their GMO seeds are organic because they only splice organic seeds. How long will it take for the NOSB (National Organic Standards Board) to be hijacked by this corporate giant and declare along with Monsanto that GMOs are organic. That will be the death knoll for the USA Certified Organic Label. 

But what is the relationship between the obesity epidemic and GMO's? If you refer back to our May 2015 Newsletter, which is all about High Fructose Corn Syrup and its contribution to obesity, you'll see that the culprit in HFCS is CORN. 

Here are the sad statistics regarding how far the GMO takeover of our crops has gone. This information is coming right out of the USDA where they use a new word to describe GMO crops. They are calling them HT (Herbicide Tolerant) these days. Do you think it's an accident that just when the heat against GMO's gets to boiling, the USDA simply changes the offending name. And guess which Herbicide the crops are tolerant of. Why it's Monsanto's Round Up, of course, that same herbicide that's being banned in France and other countries because researchers have shown it causes cancer and can built up in the human body. But it's not being banned in the U.S. because Monsanto has a strangle hold on our Government Agency with one of their own, Michael Taylor, sitting in the seat of our Food Safety Czar. Are you ready for the scary news? Here it is:

"Based on USDA survey data, HT [read GMO] soybeans went from 17 percent of U.S. soybean acreage in 1997 to 68 percent in 2001 and 94 percent in 2014 and in 2015. Plantings of HT [read GMO] cotton expanded from about 10 percent of U.S. acreage in 1997 to 56 percent in 2001, 91 percent in 2014, but declined to 89 percent in 2015. The adoption of HT [read GMO] corn, which had been slower in previous years, has accelerated, reaching 89 percent of U.S. corn acreage in 2014 and in 2015." (Quote taken from USDA Article entitled "Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S."

Now where do you think the corn in all of that High Fructose Corn Syrup is coming from? It's coming from those GMO corn fields that now represent nearly 90% of our corn crop. So YES, GMO corn is contributing to obesity, big time. It isn't an accident that just as GMO's came into our food system in the mid nineties, the obesity epidemic began to take off; and once HFCS took over for sugar cane, the obesity epidemic got worse. Here's the chart to prove it.


Graphic accessed from Garma On Health.com

Since the innocent fifties, when family farmers were our food growers and our waistlines were much narrower, the American Food System has experienced a hostile take over by Big Agri, Big Food, Big Chemical and Big Government. With a nod from the government, these companies are allowed to treat the animals they raise and the people they feed, the American people, with ruthless disregard. 

The recent passage of HR1599 by the House of Representatives is exemplary of that. We, the American people will have nothing to say about the GMO's in our food if the Senate follows suit. We are being treated no differently than the poor, pitiful animals that have nothing to say about the deplorable lives they are having to endure under the highly questionable husbandry standards of the Big Agri companies.

Isn't it time for YOU to join the FOOD REVOLUTION. You can access all of our Newsletters here or just go to our Aquaponics USA website to access them under "AP Education". There's a 4 Part Series on the FOOD REVOLUTION to catch you up about this important and necessary movement in the U.S.

Coming in August! Part 5 of Obesity in America.

Don't miss Part 5 of the Series, Obesity in America. This is the longest Series we've written. Part 5 is all about how Aspertame and MSG came into being, what they are, where they are and how terrible they are for our health. See you in August.
There doesn't seem to be a shortage of things to bring to the light of day out of our grossly mismanaged American Food System.

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