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One significant aspect of food security is the assuring the safety of commercialized and refined food products, particularly Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's). In the United States, produce companies are not required to label GMO's accordingly however it is estimated that 75% of corn and 85% of our soybean crop is genetically modified.
Recently local groups organized for a protest against the largest GMO's producer in the world, Monsanto. I participated in the protest where many…
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Instead of following a leader on the Internet, I followed a leader in my community. His name is Jared Ginsburg and he is service leader in a mentoring program at Lincoln Middle School in Gainesville. His organization, Greenhouse Ministries, has been working with students at Lincoln for several years. In our training session before our first mentoring session, Jared told us, "this is the trenches where the next generation of poverty will be fought." His words really resonated with me. I, like…
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