CLEAN UP OUR FOOD SUPPLY!

 I appreciate Michelle Obama's efforts to help get people to eat right, but she is focused only on fighting obesity.
In reality, obesity is only a SYMPTOM of a much greater problem....and that problem is what is added to our food.
Hormones are known to cause weight gain as a side effect. The beef cattle are dosed with hormones to make them grow faster and larger to yield more meat. The dairy cattle are dosed with rBGH to make them give more milk. Poultry are fed hormones to make them lay more eggs and grow bigger, faster.
Then there are the antibiotics which also contribute to weight gain besides being very dangerous because they are leading to more antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Then there's the problem with chemical food additives (which are basically toxins) if you eat processed foods. Many additives are known carcinogenics. What are they doing in our food?

Then of course we know what Monsanto is doing with their genetic modification programs that now own over 90% of the soy and almost 90% of the corn grown in this country, and it's not all used as animal feed...which in itself is also very bad for the health of the animals and the people who consume the products. It's used for feeding people. So vegetarians and vegans are not ALL eating organic soy and corn!

We have to raise everyone's awareness if we want to save the food supply, and that includes Mrs Obama. She has some clout, and it would be great to have her on the side of the people who want the factory farms and food monopolies broken down, and the food supply cleaned up and promote organic farming on a small, humane level.
Taking that step will help to address the problem of obesity...and may also help to address other medical issues that are rampant in our society....like diabetes and countless other ailments and toxicities from artificial food colorings known to cause attacks of childhood asthma ie: FD&C yellow 5 and 6.
Do we really need to consume ethanol and wood preservatives that are added to keep our food fresh for a year or 2? Who has food around for a year? Do we need cereal boxes containing childrens' cereals to be treated with BHT, which has been proven to render male rats sterile?

What are we doing to the next generation? Will they be sterile? 7yr old girls are in puberty, and male fish in lakes getting run-off from farms are becoming feminized and sterile. Is this happening to our little boys too? We won't know until they try to have children someday, and maybe be unable....and it will be too late.

It's our responsibility to make sure we do the best for ourselves and our children and cleaning up the food supply is the first place to start....because we ALL need to eat.