Toxic Spills, GMOs, & More

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“hey Eleanor and Lee.”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Spataro

“James . . . a good point to be sure. But as Jefferson said, "The greatest threat to tyranny is an educated populace." Look at what's happening in our schools! The students are not being taught critical thinking skills or how to challenge authority.”

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“can we ban the word ban? - thats what i meant to say”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“Yes, Lee, and I am afraid those same ants are still circling Iran, even though the new PM has been a consistent advocate of peace. Now new legislation is in to continue eco sanctions. Fuckery!”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“Ya, Syria is just more destablization, much like Libya and Iraq.. they will continue to hack at that tree till it falls.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Helena. Ya, Rooftop Revo rock :) Complicity is an important song, especially for us activists... we need to continue to fight back otherwise we are just subsumed by the corporate oligarchs.”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“West VA is what big business has always been just in the dark.”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Spataro

“I think it's sad that the government we pay taxes to to protect us has, in effect, become the patsy "yes man" to the rich.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“Yep, from what I've heard, Nestle is the biggest bottler of water and is buying up all the reserves; this is parallel to the poisioning of water, because if the natural taps of water are poisioned then you gotta go to the corp. scums like Nestle.”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“You mean the corporations who control the Media and Government didn't tell us about them destroying our country?”

★ Spotlighted from Helena Kirby

“What is it going to take to get the zombies to come alive and join the fight? Some bimbo like Brittany Spears or Kim Kardashian to speak out? So many of us are trying and trying but the majority of the population isn't budging from the celebrity bull”

★ Spotlighted from James Marin

“Buy baby formula, buy the water to make the baby formula and buy the medical care for your sick children= win for corporations.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Lee. Yup. And the babies werent getting enough natural nutrients and were developing diseases and in some cases dying from complications.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“Nestle was going door to door dressed in a white lab coat to look legit but they were just salesman selling snake oil. where did i see/read that? Lee did you do an MOC on that? or was it BTS?”

★ Spotlighted from Helena Kirby

“You can't really even get upset with the ones who aren't awake as many of them are simply wrapped up in their day to day struggle with survival, where they don't even have the time of day to spend educating themselves on these issues.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Lee -- Jesus F. Christ. That is so evil. Like, goosestepping, toothbrush mustache evil.”

★ Spotlighted from Helena Kirby

“It's like we have to make it super cool to be an activist...haha :)”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Lee -- leather pants? No, no pants. yes, no pants. OR, fig leaves... old schooool”

★ Spotlighted from Stanley Ulch

“My kids are well aware of current issues though, and sometimes they get into debates with their teachers over the stuff I teach them here at home!!! :) I love it!!!”

★ Spotlighted from Daniel Jackson

“We need a national "Brand" that stands for change, so we can use propaganda to enlighten the masses to their sheepness, and gain some leverage.”

★ Spotlighted from Stanley Ulch

“we also need environments that oromote everyones to stand up and speak! like this one :)”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Rachel @ Eleanor -- yep. nowadays you just talk about the thigns you got -- consumerist gods at the alter -- rather than the things peeps dont got cuz teh powers that be horde them. "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose." D”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“Immortal Tech Revolutionary Vol 2 --- TRUTH”

★ Spotlighted from Helena Kirby

“Yeah, you basically must speak of cars, tits, booty, money and hoes while having your song under 3:30 (three minutes and thirty seconds) to get anywhere NEAR the radio.”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Spataro

“Unfortunately, Lee, the advantage that Lennon and Dylon had was that they played music that the older generations at least tolerated . . . It's unfortunate, but if they won't listen, they won't hear”

★ Spotlighted from Helena Kirby

“@eleanorgoldfield yeah fucking bridges and goddamn Duck Dynasty! WTF!”

★ Spotlighted from Liz Ratcliff

“I just heard that in the WV oil spill, there is another chemical that wasn't disclosed.”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Spataro

“I think you're right, Lee . . . Back to Toxic spills . . .”

★ Spotlighted from James Howard

“I'm a corporate refugee - the a-holes at the top completely believe they've earned every last billion...”

★ Spotlighted from Daniel Jackson

“Regulations are only necessary because of the profit motive for business, Take away thier profit and make all oil companies non profit organizations.”

★ Spotlighted from James Howard

“yes to charters!!!”

★ Spotlighted from Stanley Ulch

“how can an entity have all the rights of a citizen, yet have limited liability???”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“This all goes back to Citizens United.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Lee -- yes Lee!! You have said that and should keep saying it!! It is a solid idea.”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“But with Citizens United now corporations can pay to have laws made in their behalf.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“Glass Steagal was big. It broke down the firewall between commercial and investment banks! that needs to be repealed. happened in nineties with clinton admin. i beleive”

★ Spotlighted from Stanley Ulch

“yes, you need to reinstate glass steagal”

★ Spotlighted from Daniel Jackson

“We could ban anyone who is within 3 generations of a "public Servant" Illegal to run for office.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“"Russian scientists are calling for a 10-year moratorium on GMOs to thoroughly study their influence on human health, stressing that such examinations are vital." RT.com http://rt.com/news/gmo-ban-russian-scientists-293/”

★ Spotlighted from Stanley Ulch

“I say boycott generaly mills and kelloggs they are moving everything out of NA anyway”

★ Spotlighted from Rachel McDonnell

“well a lot of these products are also certified organic so you know they aren't gmo but yes out of the organic section it would be tough to know. keep fighting to ban gmos!”

★ Spotlighted from Rachel McDonnell

“strong meaning? what do you mean?”

★ Spotlighted from Tyler Ruth

“Can you really call something that was frozen in transit organic though?”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Nyberg

“I am really liking the buycott app it is a really good tool to see who you are buying from and if you agree with their business practices.”

★ Spotlighted from Rachel McDonnell

“yeah USDA certified organic label and then they have some new labels "the no-gmo project" hat is a non-profit trying to get non-gmo companies to label their products with”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“"If USDA certification requires at least 95% of content to be organic, and a GMO ingredient can’t be included in that 5%, then USDA Organic is GMO-free, right? Not always. Depending on the product, sometimes there are tiny loopholes."”

★ Spotlighted from C J

“you can't be organic and gmo - the gmo plants require matching chems to make em happen”

★ Spotlighted from C J

“I was an organic farmer for 30 years - can't use chemicals period - to be "certified"”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“Organic meat cannot have antibiotics or growth hormones in them.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“And there have been disturbing cases where peeps that show Big Agro doing horrendous shit, through cell vids, you can be charged with corporate espionage”

★ Spotlighted from Rachel McDonnell

“well yes so again it comes down to us not enforcing regulations... like food safety and protection against contamination... didn't we solve this problem like 100 years ago?”

★ Spotlighted from Helena Kirby

“They have begun to change the description of GMO's to simply beat around the bush about the truth to consumers....kinda like how Edward Bernays did when he twisted the term Propaganda into Public Relations after the Nazi's gave propaganda a bad rep”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Nyberg

“I just went vegan about a year back not because I didn't want to eat animals it was just an easy way of not getting the extra hormones/anti-biotics I do love animals though.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Josh, I am just citing this article, with author Barry Estabrook, who states that it is happening. I hear you though..”

★ Spotlighted from Daniel Jackson

“Money is still the root of all these problems, kill the fed, end hunger, start over.”

★ Spotlighted from Liz Ratcliff

“Yes money out of politics.”

★ Spotlighted from C J

“pretty much annually - they won't let you have treated lumber fence posts within a certain distance from your fields. it is very strict - it is tate by state. gmo's require the matching chems to make them happen -”

★ Spotlighted from Daniel Jackson

“right @lee must end profit as a motive, and set humanity and civility back at the top of what matters in america.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“"The USDA’s loophole list also includes two far more common ingredients: non-organic cornstarch (which in our opinion is long overdue for removal from the “acceptable” list, considering how many sources of organic cornstarch are now readily avail"”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“I went through about a month of Organic training at Whole Foods before I was hired. You can't even cut a conventional orange on an organic cutting board that is how strict the guidlines are.”

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“grow your own food,eat your own food. dont buy the crap thats in the shops. maybe THEN people will listen that this shit aint ok.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Eleanor -- Yep. There are big corporations which label foods "organic" because it is chic and marketable, and then there are those true organic farmers, like Joshua..”

★ Spotlighted from Taylor Thorington

“@CJ yeah in Upstate NY the organic markets are getting shut down left and right”

★ Spotlighted from Melissa Chitwood

“Think Kashi. They try to come off as a small company, but are a subsidiary of Kellog's”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“Exactly Lee... If you look at the label and it is chemicals listed its not organic or natural. Natural can be real ingredients that were treated with pesticides but Organics have to be natural without pesticides.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

““The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), which has the power to determine what materials can — and cannot — be used in organic production, too often weakens regulations in the face of intense lobbying by corporations" figures”

★ Spotlighted from Tyler Ruth

“you at least make your own coffee...right Lee....”

★ Spotlighted from Stanley Ulch

“Co op in anything is a good idea”

★ Spotlighted from Stanley Ulch

“I am on daily, promoting tawkers, and your MOC on social media lee :)”

★ Spotlighted from Joshua Richoux

“Oh wow ever Tuesday I will be here .”

★ Spotlighted from Helena Kirby

“facebook.com/helena.kirby and facebook.com/georgemorrismusic to check out my band! :)”