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I keep hearing that a company named Monsanto is stealthily working to control the food supply. They have created seeds that produce crops, but which have seeds that do not reproduce new food. Farmers will have to buy seeds from Monsanto every year. Also, many believe they have influenced all three branches of government to a) prevent people from growing food on their own land b) closed down the canneries in LDS storehouses east of the Mississippi. There was even leglislation passed that takes away america’s right to sue Monsanto if there are health problems from their GMO foods. Here is one post on it, but there is a lot more out there.
http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/60857-fda-shutting-down-lds-canneries/ I am NOT a conspiracy theorist, but I AM concerned about this. I heard about the legislation preventing people from growing food and distributing it to other people in their home gardens a couple years ago, but the chatter has gotten louder recently.
So, now this notion of storing a year’s supply of food doesn’t seem so crazy to me if all this is true. Until recently I didn’t like the idea because much of the long-term food I purchased, moved internationally, dedicated space to storing has been thrown out over the years due to moth infestations, spoilage, and other problems. But if all this is true, then there seems to be a movement to control the food supply.
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I also am not a conspiracy theorist, and I immediately discount things that circulate via email. I also have a hard time believing the type of restrictions you describe could ever withstand a legal challenge. I also see it as something that inflames the passions of the hardcore conservative base – and I’m at a saturation point due to a couple of extremists I know who make sure I get all of their crap. Having said that, the effort (by someone) wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
Bottom line: I don’t know about this, so I only can comment in theory.
I’m reading about it on blogs, and there was an official church announcement that they are shutting own the self-canning operations east of the Mississippi. I don’t know a lot about it either, but there appears to be a lot of it out there….it appears to be a slow erosion of our right to grow food or perpetuate crops. I am not a conspiracy theorist either, by the way…. In a way, this justifies the food storage concept that at one time I felt was primarily for the church’s narrow interests to reduce their own welfare budgets. Now I’m not so sure.
Kind of a grey area for me. I have a lot of food storage, but I purchased very little from the Church. I kind of have a thing about organizations that tell you that you need stuff, and then they happily sell you the stuff they say you need.
That said, Monsanto has some rather draconian tactics around these parts for making sure no one is planting unlicensed grain.
Monsanto is just protecting their investment. They’ve spent billions developing GMOs that are pesticide, drought, cold tolerant etc, and patented them, and if people want to use their seed they feel they should pay back some of the cost so they can continue to develop new varieties to feed a planet that continues to have a soring population and less and less land and resources to feed itself. The decision of the church has nothing to do with Monsanto…it was an economic and efficiency decision…it’s cheaper to mass can food and buy it than to can it yourself individually. Just like a garden…it’s cheaper to go to the store than grow your own.
That is the corporate farming/world we live in.
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I’ve just read the Church’s own statement about the rumors and the storehouses, and cwald’s comment is spot-on. That statement even stated directly that it was being issued as a result of rumor-mongerers online. The storehouses and Monsanto are not related in any way. It’s the extremists who always see everything in battle terms and everything as a sign of the apocalypse that are spreading the rumors that they are related.
Old-Timer wrote:I’ve just read the Church’s own statement about the rumors and the storehouses,
Please give us the link.
Here is the link to the Church’s official response to the rumors: “Concern Over Changes to Home Storage Unnecessary”( http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/concern-over-changes-to-home-storage-centers-unnecessary This really cracks me up because my neighbor who is dedicated pot head is always telling me that Monsanto is such a horrible corporation and that they are trying to take over the world. Same neighbor only eats organic for health reasons, but inhales God knows how much smoke a day. Reflexzero wrote:I kind of have a thing about organizations that tell you that you need stuff, and then they happily sell you the stuff they say you need.
Sounds like some religions to me.
Cadence wrote:Reflexzero wrote:I kind of have a thing about organizations that tell you that you need stuff, and then they happily sell you the stuff they say you need.
Sounds like some religions to me.
🙂 Indeed.
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