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This video gives some background history of the Monsanto Company and their history of producing products like “agent orange” and in todays marketplace Roundup

Agent Orange, an herbicide, was produced during the Vietnam war. At the time it was being used it often came in contact with humans and Monsanto told us that it wasn’t harmful to humans. They were wrong.

The video goes on to show how today Monsanto is promoting another herbicide, Roundup and how they are again telling us it’s not harmful to humans.

The attached video does a very good job of explaining in 2 min. what GMO’s Genetically Modified Organisms are and the potential harm they can cause in our food.

This video was originally made to support proposition 37 in California.

Proposition 37 would have mandated that all genetically modified food be labeled as such.

Not that GMO food couldn’t be sold just that they had to be labeled.

As most of you probably already know proposition 37 was defeated in California and therefore genetically modified food does not have to carry a label to inform the consumer that they are purchasing a food that has been modified genetically.

The reason that proposition 37 was to defeated was simply Monsanto and others from the Big Commercial Food and Chemical industry significantly outspent the concerned citizens who were in favor labeling.

It’s another example of the Profit of the Corporation being placed before the wellbeing of the average person.

This video was made by our good friends Eat Local Grown.

Eat local grown this website for an organization that helps people find and support local farmers and support direct  consumer to farmer purchase of food.

I hope in your travels on the web you’ll stop by Eat Local Grown and see what they have to say.

If you want to know more about supporting the fight against genetically modified food stay tuned for my next post in which I’m going to talk about Genetic Roulette.

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This video is a sequece of photo’s I took in June of 2012.

I wanted to share them for all of our friends who have not had a chance to visit us on the farm.

This pasture is across the street from our house and it was a beautiful June day

and I had my point and shoot camera in my pocket.

While I was on my way back to the house

I went by our garden and took a picture of a bed of Kale

and our daughter Julia who was playing with her sister and their friends

The Kale and Julia may seem out of place with pic’s of the cows on pasture

but during the 10 minutes I was taking picture thats what I saw.

Its now a memory of a good day for me.

Tom

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I’m posting this just to give our friends who have not had a change to visit us on the farm

a little flavor of what its like to be here.

TJ often carries a treat like a carrot or apple to offer to any of the cattle.

In this very short video he is feeding an apple to one of our red Devon cows.

Devon are a very gentle and good mothers.

This is helpful because we can get very close and inspect them to make sure they are healthy and ok