For those of you that have so much faith in the FDA.......

xyril

I'm not 100% on board with organic foods but I am slowly working myself there. I have watched the above documentaries and they have definitely made me more compulsive in checking labels (especially the HFCS). It's sites like these that make me appreciate the wealth of information. I will be looking into possibly starting my own garden. I have started to buy locally so it's a start!

Mrs_McFadden

Any government agency that says it's OK for children to go into a store unaccompanied by an adult and buy the morning after pill with no questions asked has no business telling me what is healthy or not.

I really see no point in your statement. You must be at least 17 in order to purchase the morning after pill (I hardly think that is a child's age) any one younger must have a prescription from a doctor, and I believe you can only get those with a parent!

Do some research before posting irrelevancies.

Agreed with Daisy..if I wanted to put in the same type of invective I could of ranted about how I couldn't trust our government since they start wars like petulant toddlers....

Mrs_McFadden

I think Edorice and you would benefit from looking at the situation differently. You said its all about regulation and that the food situation is the way it is because the free market system is run amok. Well I'm not certain that should be the end of your quest for knowledge on the subject.

If you look into the FDA and the revolving door it has with Monsanto for example, the bigger picture should begin to materialize. My view of the situation is this: Its not the free market system run amok that is the problem but the corruption in our government. Large food corporations lobby, pay off politicians and give lucrative jobs to former government officials (every corporation does this actually) . In exchange these government officials, while they are in office in whatever bureaucracy, pass laws that benefit these corporations.

I'm sure I'm telling you nothing new. All I ask is that you see this game for what it is. You said regulation is key but I honestly feel that if you do your research into how the FDA operates you'll find that they are operating in the interest of the big corporations rather than us; you can't just stop at "regulation is the key" and hope they'll save us. We have to save ourselves by understanding their game and voting with our dollars because that, my friends, is the only vote we have that matters.

Heres a place to start!
http://www.naturalnews.com/027527_Monsanto_FDA.html

This is why everything..needs to changed about big business and how they have so much access directly with your government and deep pockets to change anything practically!!!

Re: Dyes and other things:

I just think that we as a culture need to start looking at foods totally differently. I've watched some of those movies, and I didn't even have to, I have been aware of the food issues for a long time just from reading around. I think we need to just get back to teaching our kids what real foods look like skip dyes for most things if not all, just feel like we need to run away full tilt from trusting major corporations with our foods!!
I don't have all of the answers and altering the way you feed your family and yourself is a monumental task if you try to get beyond just 'healthier' and start trying to get to the *truest* purest forms of food that haven't been tainted. It's daunting.