Mercola.com
October 9, 2012
Over
the past few years, an interesting pattern has emerged, where political
supporters of genetically engineered (GE) foods are feasting on
organics, while promoting unlabeled GE foods for everyone else.
Most recently, Mother Jones1 discussed
how Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney – whose ties to Monsanto go back
to the late 1970′s when GE crops were still in the R&D phase –
reportedly makes sure his own meals are nothing but organic…
According to Peter Alexander of MSN Today:2
“On Romney Air, or Hair Force One – as Reuters’ Steve Holland like to call it – Mitt Romney has his own galley in ‘forward cabin.’ And, while I’ve never been invited up front, sources close to the campaign tell me the shelves are stocked with a wide variety of healthy fare. Kashi cereals, hummus, pita, as well as organic applesauce.
Everything’s organic, I’m told, including the ingredients to Romney’s favorite, peanut butter and honey sandwiches.”
Even more interesting, in a 2002 article3 about
Romney’s wife, Ann, she credits a combination of organic foods and
holistic medicine for turning her health around after she was diagnosed
with multiple sclerosis in 1998. The profile reads in part:
“…She was 49 at the time, and the disease was progressing rapidly, she says, prompting the doctors to put her on steroids, which made her so sick she could barely get out of bed. ‘They were killing me,’ she says of the treatment. ‘You have bone loss; they are so bad for you.’
Mrs. Romney was introduced to several practitioners of holistic medicine, who persuaded her to adopt alternative therapies. She now eats organic foods and very little meat. She practices reflexology and undergoes acupuncture treatments. She credits the lifestyle with turning her health around…
‘Everyone has to find their own way,’ she says. ‘Three years ago I was really, really sick and not able to function at all. A lot of the symptoms are [now] gone…’”
Mrs.
Romney isn’t the only success story in which food played a center role
in beating multiple sclerosis (MS). Last year I posted an article about Dr. Terry Wahls, who reversed MS after seven years of deterioration on the best conventional treatments available, simply by changing her diet.
Wouldn’t
it be a nice change of pace if our agricultural authorities, not to
mention our President, could reach into their hearts and find the
humanity to fight for everyone’s right to eat wholesome food
that doesn’t contain foreign DNA, built-in pesticides, and an inordinate
amount of synthetic chemicals so that diseases such as MS and cancer
could be curtailed before they even get a foothold?
If GE Foods are So Great, Why Won’t the Elite Eat Them?
While
Obama has been a huge supporter of Big Biotech during his term, Romney
is just as “tight” with Monsanto, having actually successfully guided
the company out of lawsuits with Congress in the shameful aftermath of
Agent Orange (a Monsanto creation, which was supposed to be harmless to
everything except vegetation), and heinous chemical dumping incidents in
Missouri and Alabama.4
He’s also in favor putting the “Monsanto rider” provision in the 2012 Farm Bill – a rider that would prevent a federal court from putting in place court-ordered restrictions on a GE crop, even if the approval were fraudulent or involved bribery, among other things.
Unfortunately,
Mitt Romney is just one in a line of politicians who support and
promote GE foods as being just as safe and “natural” as conventional
foods while privately serving up nothing but organic for their own
families. President Obama, as his predecessors George W. Bush and Bill
Clinton, have all reportedly insisted on an organic diet. (READ MORE)
