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We seem to be in one heck of a mess lately.
Today the stock market dropped 358 points.
Ouch!
Make that a double ouch!
Not only were my eyes glazed over as I watched the millions of panicked sellers dumping stocks like it was the end of the world, but I also watched my 401K continuing to erode like one of those levees in the Midwest.
It seems like we have nothing but bad news on the tube every single day.
Today it was $140 a barrel oil. That’s a new record. Come to think of it, everyday seems to be a new record for that one.
Sky-rocketing food. Sky-rocketing gas. I wonder if I can convert my car to run on bananas? There seem to be plenty of those and they’re still cheap.
The only good news being talked about a lot was that North Korea finally released their nuclear declaration.
Hey, who cares if it was only 1 year late, or that it doesn’t include any information on nuclear transfers to Syria or that we still don’t know how many nuclear bombs they really have.
But hey, we’re taking them off the terror watch list and lifting a few sanctions.
Whew! We are in one big pile of…well you know what I mean.
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Ok, so I was watching the CBS Evening News tonight and there was a story about how genetically-altered ingredients are not identified as such in the labels of products we buy at the store. It’s interesting that in Europe, Japan and Australia there are laws mandating this, but not here in the United States.
Why is that?
Do you think it has something to do with the fact that in a national survey over 50% of American’s indicated that they wouldn’t buy products that contained genetically engineered products in them? Maybe manufacturers are afraid we won’t buy their product if it has that on the label.
Ya think? It might make me think twice before I tossed that box into the basket.
So somehow “we” have decided that a law requiring food manufacturers to list bio-engineered ingredients is not needed here. Boy are we lucky. Boy are we smart!
Obviously Europe, Japan and Australia do not know what they are doing but we do. Ya think?
So why aren’t we listing these ingredients? Well guess what?
According to the CBS report, 75% of corn grown today in the U.S. has been genetically altered and nearly all of the soybean products have. In 2001, 68% percent of all soybeans grown in the U.S. were genetically-altered, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
So what does that mean to you and me?
If you are buying anything with soybeans (that includes all you tofu loving eaters) or any type of corn product in the list of ingredients (and this includes corn fructose syrup (one of the most common sweeteners now found in most of our fruit juices, canned fruit and soft drinks to name just a few), chances are pretty good that you are sucking down genetically-altered material.
Yummy.
So should we worry about this? Should we write to our local congressmen and senators requesting a law that requires manufacturers to identify genetically-altered ingredients on the labeling of our food products? Does anybody care?
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