why dont foodies unite? why are top chefs so quiet on GMO foods?

Top Chef Colicchio on GMO and food activism

we love food and one of our few idle time vices is watching some cooking shows on youtube. walmart dominates shows like MasterChef with embedded advertising, and then statements from Gordon Ramsey as pictured above seem to conflict with these corporate take overs of food. we understand that at the end of the day, cash rules everything around me and all but you would think that many of these chef's who really take an active role in insuring heirloom food varities and local farms for seasonal food. elsewhere Ramsey states that Chefs cooking non local, non seasonal food should be fined, and while this is a bit of a nanny state solution, its certainly in the right direction. foodies and chef's have a great interest in fighting back big agra and walmart cornering food production, forcing small farmers out of business with "unbeatable" prices for produce. despite some flurry in a few media outlets that walmart was weighing gmo labels, they responded that it would be too confusing for the poor, stupid consumer to have to think about, so they decided against it. "'Currently there is a proliferation of eco or trust labels out there that are delivering a confusing message to consumers.'He says Wal-Mart wants to be careful about what labels it allows on its products to provide accurate information to consumers while not increasing costs, “We have to decide what are the right labels on the right products."”http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/index.php/2013/02/27/commodity-classic-coveragegmo-labels-not-welcome-at-wal-mart/

also read
 "In the News: Chefs Speak Out Against Fracking, How Did GMO Wheat End Up in Oregon?, Japan and South Korea Ban U.S. Wheat Imports, Ben & Jerry’s Plans to Eliminate GMO Ingredients

 Well-known chefs, Mario Batali and Bill Telepan spoke about the dangers of fracking (specifically within our food system), in Thursday’s New York Daily News. They urged Governor Cuomo — who has been a huge proponent of NY State agriculture — to “serve food, not fracking.”  Chef Batali and Chef Telepan, along with myself and many other chefs, restaurateurs, farmers, brewers, vintners, and other food professionals, have come together to protect our regional foodshed from the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas (fracking) through the campaign, Chefs for the Marcellus.  Please get involved by signing a letter to Governor Cuomo asking him to ban fracking in New York State..."
from ieatgreen.com

or read Forbes ridiculing food activism as new agey, when really the false promises of Monsanto and corporations are the real New Age platitudes for their money making schemes. people seek alternative cures, foods and ways of living not of new age fairy tale hippy love but out of a direct reaction to a toxic system and culture which has skyrocketed cancer and birth defect rates, obesity, and just about every disease you can think of with massive bee colony collapse, plastic oceans visible from space, toxic tap water and the systematic tyranny of every aspect of our lives from denying food labels to calling people who complain about anything that conflicts with business as usual as terrorists.

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