{"id":34298,"date":"2018-05-16T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34298"},"modified":"2018-05-16T06:50:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:50:16","slug":"why-every-prepper-needs-non-gmo-seeds-in-their-long-term-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34298","title":{"rendered":"Why Every Prepper Needs Non-GMO Seeds in Their Long-Term Supplies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/why-every-prepper-needs-non-gmo-seeds-in-their-long-term-supplies_15052018\/\">Why Every Prepper Needs Non-GMO Seeds in Their Long-Term Supplies<span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45927\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/non-gmo-seeds.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/non-gmo-seeds.jpg 500w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/non-gmo-seeds-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/center>Oftentimes in the interests of economics and financial necessity, people will abandon quality in the interests of price. Nothing could be more telling than the current battle being waged with <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/gmo-labeling-will-congress-keep-us-in-the-dark_08042015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GMO foods and crops<\/a>. The GMO crops are more than simply unhealthy: they have also been the doorway for companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/monsantos-terrible-secrets-are-tumbling-out-as-company-faces-wave-of-cancer-lawsuits_29032017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monsanto<\/a>, Cargill, and others to patent their seeds. The FDA became involved during the Obama years, and raids and prosecutions occurred by charges that the patents on GMO seeds were violated by farmers whose crops showed traces of those patented genes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71hyzMgmFML.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"424\" \/>This is difficult to avoid, as it is almost impossible to prevent bees and\/or wind from spreading pollen from GMO crops to non-GMO farms. There is a definitive work that you can read to find out the dangers from a health perspective and from a corporate perspective (regarding \u201cFrankenstein GMO\u2019s and factory farming). It is entitled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seeds-Deception-Government-Genetically-Engineered\/dp\/0972966587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-amzn-asin=\"0972966587\">Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods<\/a>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Jeffrey M. Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The book was written in 2003 and contains a wealth of knowledge about GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) crops and farming\u2026giving the history behind the corporate movement and explaining how cross-pollinating occurs (as outlined above), giving the corporations \u201cleverage\u201d with which to take down small family farms.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are champions to rely upon that will give us a \u201crallying flag\u201d to regroup and wage this battle, uphill though it may seem. My good friend, Miss Tess Pennington, is one of those champions<strong>: <\/strong>a family woman of faith, honesty, and solid American values based on hard work and true pioneer spirit. She has shown us the way: there are numerous articles available at Ready Nutrition for your perusal on <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/seed-collecting_12102009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seed-saving<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/seed-storage_12102009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seed preservation<\/a> that will be your \u201ccompass rose\u201d to keep the harmful GMO crops from crossing your table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Every Prepper Needs Non-GMO Seeds in Their Long-Term Supplies\u00a0 Oftentimes in the interests of economics and financial necessity, people will abandon quality in the interests of price. Nothing could be more telling than the current battle being waged with GMO foods and crops. The GMO crops are more than simply unhealthy: they have also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12881,20141,13022,650,6787,1166],"class_list":["post-34298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-non-gmo-seeds","tag-organic-seeds","tag-prepping","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34299,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34298\/revisions\/34299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}