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Pass Me The Genetically Altered Corn Please

Posted in Wellbeing on Feb 25th, 2010

One of the many reasons I love what I do is it gives me an excuse to be a geeky fan and get my photo taken with rock stars, nutrition authors, super food heroes and most recently, two living legends: Michael Schmidt (far right), who was recently acquitted of all charges relating to selling and distributing raw milk and raw milk produect. The dapper gentleman on the left is Percy Schmeiser, who was sued by Monsanto when his canola crops were contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO seeds. There next to me is, author, journalist and my bestest Vanessa Farquharson. And yes, I’ll admit that I got a little star struck with these legends. I met them last weekend at the Your Food, Your Choice: Grounds For Change conference put on by the Canadian Organic Growers where the theme of the day was simply to say no to GMO.

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