Allies In The Fight For Clean Foods
Pesticide Action Network
Toxic chemicals have quietly infiltrated every part of our day to day lives and the efforts from our past and current governments to stop them are mediocre at best.
Findings detailing the impacts of these chemicals have been around for a while, but despite this legislation is always five steps behind. We feel it is best to educate ourselves rather than rely on our government to protect our health. But it is easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless as you fall into the online wormholes of what is the latest thing to worry about.
Our advice, pick a couple, or a few, things you can realistically change or swap. A good place to start is foods. To narrow it down Pesticide Action Network each year conduct their own tests on non- organic produce available in UK supermarkets. They then release their findings yearly, in what they call the 'Dirty Dozen.' This is a great place to start out on your organic journey.
Gm Freeze
Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO has been sold as scientific advances in modern agriculture that we 'need'. An answer to world hunger, or necessary to addressing nutrient deficiencies in our populations. But in short the reality is it serves only to make polluting corporations richer, putting small scale farmers out of business while simultaneously wrecking havoc on the land, our health and our wildlife. When profit is a driving factor, we can assume something sinister is a foot. The UK Government is currently relaxing our laws around GM, most recently passing a bill which stipulates that the Secretary of State “must… not apply any test in connection with these requirements which would not otherwise be applicable in relation to any food or feed produced from organisms which are not produced from the application of modern biotechnology” in short, this is a bill that forbids government agencies from requiring any tests on PB-GMOs that aren’t applied to conventional crops.
"The legislation is a gift to biotech companies and a betrayal of the public interest. By discarding oversight and transparency, the UK has positioned itself as an outlier, taking a high-risk gamble with food safety and environmental protection."
The PB in PB-GMOs stands for 'precision bred', but the disingenuous use of the term 'bred' here indicates what we're up against. Genetically modified plants are not bred, their DNA is altered in a lab. The dangers of these alterations are unprecidented so it is astonishing the government can even consider comparing GMO crops to conventional crops in terms of safety.
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