Famed international correspondent Price Charlie prefers mad cow disease--and bad architecture--to genetically manufactured foods.

                                                              Say No to GM
Foods!
 

 
Prince Charlie
 


The United Kingdom faces a danger, so obvious yet so subtle that our
citizens might miss the meaning. We are faced with the threat of genetically
modified products that is much more insidious than the mad cow disease we
suffered some years ago. After all, mad cow disease was the direct result of
farmers feeding cows bits and pieces of dead hedgehogs scrapped off the
heavily traveled British roads.  Farmers then added to this road kill a
sprinkling of sheep brains, cattle spines, and goat gonads.  This practice
was a little untidy but not a real cause for alarm. It was only when an
Essex farmer ground up cadavers he had stolen from a local medical school
that mad cow disease entered the mainstream. It was soon obvious to everyone
that cows don't like the taste of people and no amount of alfalfa could
disguise the smell. Cows, after all, have a long history of cannibalism.
Since the time of Napoleon cows have been dining on their dead brothers and
sisters with absolutely no harm to human kind. That institution known as the
Sunday Roast was the direct result of cows being fed mothers and fathers in
a protein pill. 

So the British food supply has been safe, except for the antics of a
somewhat mad Essex farmer. But no more. Monsanto and other companies are
getting ready to dump genetically modified foods on this green and pleasant
land. It is one thing for this land to have ugly architecture; it is
entirely something else to have crops genetically managed in a manner the
Almighty never intended. Look at what just happened in Belgium where ever
chicken had to be slaughtered because they had been contaminated with a
cancer causing chemical. It this not warning enough?

I am an organic farmer in a land where organic farmers are celebrated. Some
consider me odd or old-fashioned because I apply prayer, not chemicals, to
the soil. So be it! I am a God fearing Christian who will argue to his last
breath that changing the genetic code of  brussel sprouts is a sin of the
highest order. Genetically modified food is an evil, a blight on our
Creator. Frankly I am much more willing to risk the dangers associated with
so-called mad cow disease than ever bite into an altered carrot.

So I urge you to be vigilant. Be especially wary of American chemists who
seem too eager to fiddle with God's design. Refuse to purchase products that
don't have the appropriate seal of approval. Let your voice be heard.  We
don't want the next generation of British children to be raised on food that
is unnatural and dangerous. Surely we don't want to risk spawning a nation
of freaks.  

Stop the madness. Say no to GM food!