100% Natural Tomato Ketchup. Made in the U.S.A.? The Great Food Conspiracy.

Are there any companies left who's interest is in public safety and not their growing net profits? Greed seems to be the current social/political and economic basis for everything in this world today.

Do we have a rebel, corporate holdout, or just another corporate liar?

For the time being, until we actually find out otherwise, I will give thumbs up ↑ and Kudos to:

Conagra Foods, Inc., PO Box 3768, Dept HUNTS, Omaha, Nebraska 68103, U.S.A.

For free recipes visit: http://www.hunts.com/

The front label reads:

Hunts Tomato Ketchup. 100% Natural. NO: high fructose corn syrup.

This is a good start for the American consumer.

The list of ingredients:

• tomato concentrate made from vine ripened tomatoes,
• sugar,
• distilled vinegar,
• salt,
• less than 2% of (onion powder, garlic powder, natural flavors).

There is no mention as to whether the tomatoes are natural, organic or genetically modified. The flavor is closest to what i remember ketchup having tasted like before the food industry started "creating" their cheaper products with artificial stuff for net profit improvement, in lieu of taste improvement.

There is little doubt that these tasteless (lacking in taste) tomatoes currently sold on the market are produced from genetically modified seeds.

This particular brand (Hunts) has re-captured a small bit of life as we knew it when "natural" meant exactly that. (Perhaps merely a small ray of sunshine and hope before the torrential rains?)

Tomatoes were one of the first vegetable / fruits that was lost to genetic manipulation and the long term effects are yet to be seen in the next few generations. But, let's try to be optimistic.

Genetically altered tomato seeds make it all but impossible, for those of us who enjoy planting and growing our own tomatoes and green peppers at home, to be successful without over fertilization of the plants.

This year i used baby plants from a local seedling retailer. They were "Bonnie" brand and "guaranteed" to produce big red juicy tomatoes. (turned out to be total false advertising)

I bought 4 baby tomato plants and watered them diligently. Three of them never even blossomed. The fourth one i fertilized with miracle grow as instructed. The tomatoes they produced were mutants (see photos attached). They were misshapen and conjoined (what we used to politically incorrectly call Siamese twins in humans) and only 4 of them turned into tomatoes from a plant that was loaded with blossoms.

Without massive fertilization the other 3 plants did not even produce blooms.

These are the characteristics of genetically engineered foods.

They are designed to need excessive fertilization and prohibit people from growing their own foods.

My green pepper plants yielded 2 peppers on one plant and 4 smaller ones of the second plant.

2 plants have not grown more that 12 inches tall. I planted some of them in large pots (as i usually do), in shade, in full sun, and some in the ground. I used varying amounts of fertilizer and those that produced were the ones with the use of excessive fertilizer on them.

Those plants that did produce (both the tomatoes and the peppers) had seeds that were immature, small and obviously will not be able to reproduce new plants in the next spring.

The first evidence of "genetic shifting" within the species itself are abnormal fruits/vegetables; in size, shape, texture and taste. But will this "genetic shifting" producing these mutant peppers/tomatoes be carried into the human body and cause the same "genetic shifts" in humans? Only time will tell.

The goals and objectives of Monsanto and other "evil" food producers have made it clear that their intent was to create and replace "natural" produce with their own version that cannot be grown by anyone except them, and only with the heavy use of fertilizers (that they also produce).

Even their own fertilizers sold to unsuspecting individual growers cannot give enough nourishment to the plants for them to grow and yield vegetables by those of us who have always enjoyed doing so for hundreds of years.

What are the ramifications of all this? It is all about CONTROL. Control by Corporate America over our basic food supplies.

When the ability to grow foods is limited to only a few producers, they can control the market and prices will soar as long as they are unregulated by government, as does every other commodity that is beneficial to man.

For those conspiracy theorists who think that the U.S. Government is vying for a global government you may be not far from actuality. We already have:

• a few banks (too big to fail) controlling and regulating global financing.
• a few wealthy and powerful men controlling governments.
• the likes of Monsanto controlling global food supplies.
• A few wealthy corporations buying up all water rights, state by state.
• and current legislation pending that will prohibit the individual (you, me, Craig's list et al, flea markets and yard/garage and moving sales) from re-selling anything (and everything) that we purchase; because the original manufacturers will retain all rights to anything we buy, when these new laws are enacted by congress. [This measure is to stop consumers from selling what they bought, and ensure that when we as consumers need, or desire to replace what we have bought, we must buy only from the corporate manufacturers that control global commerce].

It seems hard to believe, and too good to be true, that a corporation like Conagra foods, inc., would actually stand up to Monsanto. Only time will tell. Are they the saviors of the free enterprise, protectors of safe foods, or a cunning ally of Monsanto that hides its true intent from the unsuspecting public?

We have been fooled too many times not to look at anything that appears beneficial to humanity; while potentially damaging to higher net profits, with scrutiny and distrust.

Another point to ponder?:

The current trend is for the GOP and the immoral 'moral' majority pushing for legislature to prevent birth control of any type, eliminate the woman's rights to choice, banning all abortions, and trying to ban same sex unions.

What will their stance be a couple of generations from now when it is too late to prevent that inevitable "genetic shifting" in progress in human beings?

Will it be blamed on the "Devil" {their usual scapegoat}, or will they man up and take responsibility? Will we kill off the mutant children? Lock them all up in concentration camps until they all die off, as some conservatives suggest today for the gay community? Or perhaps make a governmental decree that all pregnant women have an ultra sound to determine if the fetus is (mutant)? And then what? Force these women to have these mutated children? House them? Or perhaps the unthinkable alternative - make abortions mandatory?

Enjoy the new flavor of the 100% Natural Hunts Tomato Ketchup while you can; before the effects of those genetically engineered tomatoes start producing similar "?mutant tomato babies?" in humans as well.

by: d.william 06/29/2012