Eating Organic and Staying Clear of GMO's

     I have a friend who said to me, "All 'organic' means is that the food is dirty and goes bad in three days." To be honest I laughed so hard. Then I explained that non-organic farmers use pesticides and waxes on their food. Her face was priceless. I continued, explaining that farmers also genetically change a fruit or vegetable so that it will grow faster. She asked how they change the genetics. My answer was simple: through harsh chemicals. There is a study where they left an organic corn stalk and a GMO corn stalk outside for a few days, and by the time all the organic corn was all gone not even a third of the GMO corn was gone. If crows who eat roadkill won't eat it, then we definitely should stay away from it. GMO's have been linked to cancer and to infertility. What a lot of people do not realize is that there are no regulations for most of the food industry. If it can be sold they let it through, so we honestly can't even begin to grasp all the chemicals going into our bodies that can have all sorts of side effects like headaches, and sicknesses. She was shocked. Then I talked about the meat industry: the awful living conditions, the animals being stuffed with food that their bodies cannot eat which causes them to get sick, then pumped with antibiotics until they eventually die. With the sicknesses inside their tissues they cut them up and package them and add more preservatives to them. Then people eat them, with all of those chemicals and sicknesses. There are tons of studies actually linking the preservatives and sicknesses in the meats to humans getting sick and even dying from them. I am a vegan, so meat and I are not cool, but please: if you are going to eat meat at least eat organically. If you want to be even better, stay away from beef entirely, because scientists have tested and proven that humans cannot actually digest beef, pork, lamb, and other red meats... That sounds yummy.... NOT! But if you cannot give up your meats, at the very least realize organic is not a joke or a way to get more money from you. It is an honesty-driven thing to help your food be the best it can be, because after all: you are what you eat. 

I hope I didn't offend anyone and I'm sorry this is a book. I hope everyone has an awesome Friday! 

-Megan