USDA Setting It's GMO Sights on The Sugar Beet
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lesa
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Any product that you buy that lists "sugar" as an ingredient and not "cane sugar" is beet sugar. It is everywhere...
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boggybranch
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WOW...was not aware of that (never gave it much thought, though). Better start reading the labels. Thanks, lesa, for that safety tibbit.lesa said:
Miss_Nessa
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We have a "Sugar" factory here where I live in Colorado. It's in full swing, campaign time right now, and sugar beets are everywhere down there. My brother has worked at the plant for 6 years, I think it's called Western Sugar. I remember last year asking him to bring some sugar to the Lake house we share and he brought me 2 boxes of the coffee size packets!! There were a gajillion sugar packets everywhere once I opened a box. But I didnt get to make the cookies I had planned for that weekend, I didnt have the patience to open enough packets to make a full cup!
Providing that the mice didnt get into my rubbermaid bins, we'll still have enough sugar packets for the upcoming 5-8 seasons!
Providing that the mice didnt get into my rubbermaid bins, we'll still have enough sugar packets for the upcoming 5-8 seasons!
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Those coffee sized sugar packets remind me of when I worked in Kazakhstan. We had a "Tea Lady" who made the coffee, had water for tea, and kept the area neat and tidy. The tradition was to have sugar in a bowl so you could spoon in all you wanted. It was an international group and some people used a lot of sugar in their tea or coffee.
We got in a shipment of sugar in those little sanitary individual packets. The Tea Lady very patiently opened each and every sanitary packet into the community sugar bowl so the sugar could be presented as was customary. Things must be done properly.
We got in a shipment of sugar in those little sanitary individual packets. The Tea Lady very patiently opened each and every sanitary packet into the community sugar bowl so the sugar could be presented as was customary. Things must be done properly.
hoodat
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Very important in some parts of the world to follow tradition in even the smallest things.
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I gave up sugar 3 year ago. Even more glad I did now!
hoodat
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Seems like this is the year for their big push to wipe out organic farming once and for all.boggybranch said:
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The only farm anywhere near me is organic thank goodness 
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I am sad, as I have 1 certified organic farm near me... but I have 6 organic farms they only label themselves 'sustainable' since they can't afford to be organic. I also have 1 farm that is slowly moving its 125 year old business over to sustainable. They got the business from their retired father about 6 years ago... they are letting a few acres at a time rest and rebuild. They allow their dad to farm 200 acres with his damn GMO soybeans and tobacco... but they are spit fires and I can hear they arguing on the phone about how things will 'be from now on!" Its terribly funny....
A lot of people believe if the government says its "ok" then its ok. Really? Seriously? They are there to profit (of course that is not how they explain it to us)... I really wish there was an up rising. But I think a large portion of the American people are stupid. Not that they were born stupid, just we live in a time if someone doesn't care... they don't bother to learn... if they have an opinion, they believe their own opinions to be fact. It makes us a dumb nation.
As my husband says, "If we turn our noses up to everything in the world any longer, we'll be picking birds out by their tail feathers!"
A lot of people believe if the government says its "ok" then its ok. Really? Seriously? They are there to profit (of course that is not how they explain it to us)... I really wish there was an up rising. But I think a large portion of the American people are stupid. Not that they were born stupid, just we live in a time if someone doesn't care... they don't bother to learn... if they have an opinion, they believe their own opinions to be fact. It makes us a dumb nation.
As my husband says, "If we turn our noses up to everything in the world any longer, we'll be picking birds out by their tail feathers!"
