This document discusses issues with food labeling and marketing, as well as harmful chemicals found in some foods and household products. It provides lists of chemicals and ingredients to avoid, such as MSG, GMOs, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors. The document encourages supporting local organic farmers, reading labels, and taking action at the community level to improve food safety and transparency. In summary, it addresses deception in marketing, lists dangerous chemicals and GMOs to avoid, and suggests ways for consumers to make healthier choices.

1. Labelling Lies
Destruction of Public Right to Know
Una St.Clair, Former Regional Director, Cancer Prevention Coalition (Dr. S. Epstein)
Ernest Moniz, BBA – Off Grid Permaculture Organic Farm Developer

2. What are we dealing with here?
1. Confusion - What does that mean?
2. Obfuscation - Hiding the truth and half truths
3. Greenwashing – Marketing as a play on public concern
4. Outright Lies – Protecting corporate profits not public good
Public Must Demand Accountability – Corporations control the labelling
game, with almost no public protection of any consequence.

3. The Worst of Public Manipulation
Most Risky Product Groups
• Food
• Wireless Technology
• Personal Care
• Household Cleaning
• Plastics
What belongs where?
• Class 2B possible to cause cancer
• Endocrine hormone disruption
• Calcium propionate induces ulcers
• Coconut surfactant linked to liver
damage
• Parabens found in breast tumors

4. Focus on Food Labelling
What We Will Address Now
Certified Organic
GMO free
Free Range/Free to Roam
Cage Free
Grass Fed
Pasture Raised
The Twelve Worst GMO products to Avoid
The Twelve Most Contaminated Foods to Avoid
The Twelve Worst Endocrine Disruptors
What To Do Next

6. More and More Excitotoxins in Our Food
• Despite public outcry, processed foods remain loaded with excitotoxins, all of which
have been linked to brain cell death, infertility, problems with sexual development,
violent behaviors, headaches, sleep disorders, seizures and hormonal disorders, rapid
heartbeat, stomach cramps, depression, paranoia. Some effects irreversible.
• Here’s a list of the 6 most dangerous excitotoxins you need to avoid.
1. Aspartame sweetener 2. Domoic Acid in farmed fish 3. Cysteine flavoring
4. Casein to increase protein 5. Calcium/Sodium Propionate in bread 6. MSG

7. The MSG Problem
• Hidden MSG – Although monosodium glutamate is prohibited in organic
food, they can use other forms of FREE GLUTAMIC ACID - such as Yeast
Extract, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Textured Protein.
These chemicals are Excitotoxins and can greatly influence how much you
eat, causing a desire to consume beyond the point of health. Excitotoxins
can compel people to eat without regulation of normal satiation signals.

8. Many People react to monosodium glutamate. What many don’t know, is that more than
40 different ingredients contain the chemical in monosodium glutamate (processed free glutamic acid)
that causes these reactions. Names of ingredients that always contain processed free glutamic acid:
• Glutamic acid (E 620)2
• Glutamate (E 620)
• Monosodium glutamate (E 621)
• Monopotassium glutamate (E 622)
• Calcium glutamate (E 623)
• Monoammonium glutamate (E 624)
• Magnesium glutamate (E 625)
• Natrium glutamate
• Anything “hydrolyzed”
• Any “hydrolyzed protein”
• Calcium caseinate, Sodium caseinate
• Yeast extract, Torula yeast
• Yeast food, Yeast nutrient
• Autolyzed yeast
• Gelatin
• Textured protein
• Whey protein
• Whey protein concentrate
• Whey protein isolate
• Soy protein
• Soy protein concentrate
• Soy protein isolate
• Anything “protein”
• Anything “protein fortified”
• Soy sauce
• Soy sauce extract
• Anything “enzyme modified”
• Anything containing “enzymes”
• Anything “fermented”
• Anything containing “protease”
• Vetsin
• Ajinomoto
• Umami

9. Names of ingredients that often contain or produce processed
free glutamic acid during processing:
• Carrageenan (E 407)
• Bouillon and broth
• Stock
• Any “flavors” or “flavoring”
• Natural flavor
• Maltodextrin
• Oligodextrin
• Citric acid, Citrate (E 330)
Anything “ultra-pasteurized”
Barley malt
Malted barley
Brewer’s yeast
Pectin (E 440)
Malt extract
Seasonings
Glutamic acid found in unadulterated protein does not
cause adverse reactions. To cause adverse reactions, the
glutamic acid must have been processed/manufactured or
come from protein that has been fermented

10. Calcium/Sodium Propionate
Anti-mold/fungal agent in baked goods
• Calcium and sodium propionate have
the potential to permanently damage
your stomach lining by exacerbating
gastritis and inducing severe ulcers.
You should avoid fast-food products
that have a higher ratio of calcium
propionate, such as buns, pastries and
pizza.
• Allergies, eczema, headaches, rashes,
source of heavy metals – not safe for
children/pregnant or lactating women.
• Tests show irritation of mucous
membranes throughout digestive system.
• Linked to a myriad of behavioral changes
in children. A clinical trial revealed that
“irritability, restlessness, inattention and
sleep disturbance in some children may be
caused by this preservative consumed
daily.” These behavioral changes appear to
be reversible when the preservative is
removed from the child’s diet.

11. The Very Worst GMO to Avoid
Go Hungry, But Don’t Eat These!
1. Corn
2. Sugar from sugar beets
3. High Fructose Corn Syrup – HFCS
4. Soy and Soy Lecithin
5. Tomatoes
6. Chickens, beef, lamb, goat fed GMO diet
Note – 70% cotton is GMO – use only
organic cotton to protect people, animals,
environment
7. Squash & Zuchini
8. Milk products due to rBGH & GMO
9. Canola Oil plus corn, soybean, cotton
including margarine
10. Papaya from Hawaii
11. Flax
12. Infant formula

12. GMO Corn – Watch Out!
• All Animal Products (Meat, Eggs,
Milk) are HIGH RISK when fed
GMO corn (and other GMO
products such as soya, canola and
alfalfa).
• Includes Beef, Chicken, Eggs,
Lamb, Goat, Fish, Dairy and
more.
• Corn flour.
• Corn Starch.
• Corn syrup.
• Cornmeal.
• Dextrose.
• Dextrin.
• Dextrose.
• Maltodextrin.
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Alcohol/Citric Acid source ingredients

13. Consumers Have No Idea What’s Coming….
• A variety of GM fruits and vegetables are being field-tested, including:
• apple, banana, blueberry, carrot, cranberry, eggplant, grape, grapefruit, lettuce,
onion, pea, pepper, persimmon, pineapple, plum, potato, squash, strawberry, sweet
potato, tomato, watermelon, cantaloupe, rice, and wheat.
• In total, there are over 60 GM foods currently being tested for introduction,
including GM pigs and salmon.
• We need to speak out against GMO and refuse to buy these products now instead
of waiting to push back once new strains have been introduced to the marketplace.
• (SOURCE: Seed World)

14. The Dirty Dozen
Chemically Contaminated Foods
Check EWG for full list of 48 toxic foods
1. Strawberries
2. Spinach
3. Nectarines
4. Apples
5. Peaches
6. Pears
7. Cherries
8. Grapes
9. Celery
10. Tomatoes
11. Sweet Bell Peppers
12. Potatoes

15. What are Endocrine Disruptors?
• There is no end to the tricks that endocrine disruptors can play on our
bodies: increasing production of certain hormones; decreasing production
of others; imitating hormones; turning one hormone into another;
interfering with hormone signaling; telling cells to die prematurely;
competing with essential nutrients; binding to essential hormones;
accumulating in organs that produce hormones, and stimulating cancer cells.
• breast and others cancers to reproductive problems, obesity, early puberty
and heart disease, prostate inflammation,

16. Twelve Worst Hormone Altering Chemicals
1. BPA – lining of cans, receipts, plastic
2. Dioxins – meat, fish, milk, eggs, butter, shampoo
3. Atrazine corn herbicide – buy organic
4. Phthalates – plastic food containers, plastic wrap, kids
toys
5. Perchlorate – drink RO filtered water
6. Fire retardant – use HEPA vacuum filter, avoid bedding,
carpets, upholstery with fire treatment
7. Lead – filter water, eat organic
8. PFC – perfluorinated chemicals – avoid
non-stick pans
9. Organophosphate pesticides – eat organic
10. Glycol ethers – paint, cosmetics, cleaning
products, brake fluid
11. Mercury in fish – eat wild salmon, farmed
trout
12. Arsenic – filter water, eat organic

17. What YOU can do to fix this problem…
• Source locally produced meats, eggs, dairy, veggies and fruits which grow to
organic standards, whether certified or not.
• Creating a strong and vibrant, healthy local food economy is the biggest
single thing YOU can do. This will put more energy and resources into
growing organic local food, thereby protecting the people, environment,
flora, fauna and pollinators of the local area as well as providing more
opportunities for all generations to learn how to live sustainably from
working the land and reaping the benefits.
• Avoid dangerous monocultures and GMO crops & products where possible,
celebrating nature’s wisdom in diversity and polycultures.

18. Putting Knowledge into Local Action
1. Shop at local markets and ask questions
regarding growing and spraying practices.
Choose organically grown when possible.
2. Read labels – avoid excitotoxins, hormone
disruptors and GMO as a first step in store
bought products.
3. Get involved with your food – ask to visit
local farms from which you may purchase
products. Learn how products and animals
you eat are grown.
4. Let your local government know that
you want to see support for local organic
farmers.
5. Let your local food stores know that
you want to buy certified organic and
local wherever possible.
6. Eat Happy! Be supportive of caring
farming practices in agriculture & animal
husbandry.

19. Thanks from Una and Ernest
HighCroft Farm
• Questions ?
• Surprise gifts for coming !
• Sign up sheets for meat orders
(chicken, turkey, lamb, beef)
• Leave email for info on farm events
HighCroft Farm
Sustainable Permaculture Farm and
Heritage Skills Centre
1939 Well Banks Road, Sorrento, BC,
V0E 2W1
Ph. 250.675.5595
www.highcroft-farm.com
www.offgridchick.com