Message: 25
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 04:22:01 -0400
From: "Susan Piper" <susanpiper@...>
Subject: Genetically Engineered Food Is Poison


Dear Friends,

In 5 month's time, I have healed myself of cancer with pure organic
non-genetically engineered 100% raw foods.

In doing so, I have found how scarce pure healthy food is in our market.
It is out there, but it is not abundant in the marketplace. And what is
available is in danger of being contaminated by genetic engineering.

Many of our foods already have been: corn, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots-
even organic ones; I regret to say, these foods are no longer safe to eat.
Our digestive systems cannot tolerate them. Over a period of years, our
bodies deteriorate from the consumption of these foods. If our food is in
trouble, then believe me, so are we. Huge American corporations like
Monsanto have bought up 80-90% of all the seed companies in the world, and
are altering them genetically, to make them "pest-free", more colorful,
fatter, etc. only to render them dangerous to life on earth. Right now,
there are hundreds of products on our grocery store shelves that contain
genetically engineered food product.

This is not my "issue of the day", this is the issue of life on this earth.

Our government is backing the biotech industry and turning its back on the
American public. Most European countries are banning genetically
engineered food, but the American government is encouraging it. We must
become active in putting a stop to this endangerment not only of our
species, but to all species on earth.

Conventional medical doctors are not helping us to heal from dread disease.
They are charging us exhorbitant amounts of money just to either poison us
with radiation/chemotherapy or cut us open to remove body parts. For some
of us, this is not an option that we are willing to live or die with. I am
living proof that right now, if we so choose, we can actually heal
ourselves with food - as long as our food is safe. And today we will have
to become active to insure the safety of our food.


Do you realize that it all comes down to the fact that if we can't rely on
our food to be safe, then we are a dead race. It's as simple and as
gigantic as that.


There are many things that we can do to become active:


1) start eating healthier foods, and stop eating junkfood. Junkfood is
filled with GMO's.


2) forward this email to your friends.


3) Your friends, like you, can let the FDA and our corporate leaders know
that we deserve to know what's in our food, and that it's safe to eat, at
http://www.GEFoodAlert.org.


4) email your representative and let him or her know your concerns. If
you've never done it, it's very easy even if you don't know who your
representative is. Go to http://www.house.gov/writerep and you just enter
your zip code and they will let you know who your rep is. Then you just
write the message, click send, and it's done. The representative in my
area, Cynthia McKinney, voted to support the labeling of GMO foods, and I
wrote her thanking her for her support of the public health.


5) ask to see the manager of your grocery store and tell him or her that
you would like to see more 100% organic foods in the store, especially
fresh produce, and ask them not to carry genetically modified food. You'd
be surprised at how responsive they can be. And believe me, if enough of
us start doing this, it will become news, and then everybody will start
doing it. Then we won't have to do it anymore because we will have good
food available in our stores.


6) Support your local healthfoods grocer who carries lots of organic food.
In Atlanta: Return to Eden, Life Grocery, Sevananda, Whole Foods

7) Support raw food cafes in your area. They specialize in creating the
healthiest food possible. The only ones in our area (Atlanta) that I'm
aware of are The Sprout of Life Cafe at Life Grocery in Marietta, and Vegan
Way on LaVista across from Whole Foods. If you know of others, please let
me know. I think there is one in the West End.

8) do not buy canola oil or any products containing canola oil, as it is a
genetically modified food. Ask your grocer to stop carrying food that
contains canola oil. READ LABELS. YOU'D BE SHOCKED TO FIND HOW MANY
PRODUCTS CONTAIN CANOLA OIL.

9) If you own a business, make available to your clients/customers a
brochure educating people about this issue.

10) have a bumper sticker made for your car that says "NO GMO FOODS:
http://www.GEFoodAlert.org". Get people's attention.

11) have a sign made for your yard that says "THIS IS A GMO-FREE ZONE".
Make them curious.

12) talk with people - educate about GMO - most people do not know what it is.

13) put "NO GMO FOODS" at the bottom of every email that you send.

14) and on and on. Use your imagination.


This is a "word of mouth" campaign - so we need your help move the message
along. Please forward this message to the friends, family, and colleagues
that might be concerned about genetically engineered foods.


Thanks.

Susan Ahl Piper
susanpiper@...