"(Genetic engineering) faces our society with problems unprecedented, not only in the history of science, but of life on the Earth. It places in human hands the capacity to redesign living organisms, the products of some three billion years of evolution.... Up to now, living organisms have evolved very slowly, and new forms have had plenty of

chips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were destroyed after a routine analysis found transgenic DNA to be present in the product. The organic corn had been grown on a 7,000-acre farm in Texas, but had been contaminated by cross-pollination from neighboring firms

The other thing that you must never forget, if you want to be a bringer of the dawn, is that it's no use trying to be perfect.

It's actually quite amazing how often it is products of animal origin that cause food-borne illness. Although E. cola 01 57:H7 has occasionally been found in raw apple juice and sprouts, and in water contaminated by cattle waste or infected humans, it's most often found in ground beef. In fact, it's so often a problem in ground beef that the seriou

food destroys vitamins A, B-1, C, K, and E, and forms new and potentially carcinogenic chemical compounds. Plus there is a very real possibility that it could create mutant bacteria and viruses.

This shines an interesting light on Monsanto's corporate slogan-"Doing well by doing good."

Today, the average North American consumes, per day, the rather staggering total of 53 teaspoons of sugar.' This amounts to a five-pound bag of sugar every 10 days for each man, woman, and child.

May all he fed. May all be healed. May all be loved.

Dick Gregory, the human rights activist and devoted vegetarian, has said that when you eat consciously and cleanse your body of toxins and fears, something truly wonderful happens. "You are really at home with Mother Nature and happily at peace with life in Mother Nature's World. You can shout the words of the familiar freedom phrase and they